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Tombstone epitaph., 1915-10-10
The Doctors
 Sacrifice GERALD RALPH AMOS
lcopyrigh,. 1915. by W. c. Chapman.)

Everybody wondered when middle aged Doctor Hicks, a widower with a small son. became engaged to the rich Miss Louise Soutar of the Manor. But the story of the breaking of of their engagement was less of a wonder and more of a scandal Some blamed the Soutars and some the doctor. but all were agreed that he was a fool to let people know so much about his business.
 The diphtheria epidemic in the vil- lage was not serious, but there were more than a score of cases. Mrs. Soutar's son Leonard, Louise's broth CT. was one of the first. and the doc tors son Frank one of the last And there wasn't any antitoxin. The state board, which supplied it. had been held up by some sort of crank injunc- tion. However. antitoxin was not considered necessary at first. The cases were doing very well without it.
 All except that of Leonard Soutar and Frank Hicks. The doctor want ed antitoxin badly. and he had just enough for one injection in his tube. People got to know that, and that was the doctors cardinal error.
 Mrs. Soutar and her daughter were panic-stricken over the possibility of Leonard's death. When the doctor an. nounced that he intended to use the remedy only as a last resource. for whichever of the two boys needed it most, the situation became critical. At Leonard's bedside Mrs. Soutar went down on her knees.
 He's dying. doctor. My boy s dying" she sobbed. You must save his life"
 The doctor raised his head My son is worse," he answered.
 But you must save Leonard, ten you He is all l have-my only son. cried the distracted woman.
 My boy is my only child" an swered Hicks. Tt is a matter of sim pie medical duty. shall give the an
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Colorado,

Colorado.
 The Newton mill. Idaho Springs. is working three shifts.
 The Gem property. 'aaho Springs. is being worked by ten sets of leasers, all shipping.
 A new tungsten discovery is re- por,ed from Lee Hill. a few miles from Boulder.
 Great activity is reported at Ward camp. The new Humboldt mill will be in operation in short time.
 Work will soon start on the Big Casino, Lake City district. under a comprehensive plan of development.
 The Livingston shaft in Boulder county has been newly equipped to handle 100 tons each eight-hour shift.
 The deepest mining which is now done in the Cripple Creek district is on the twentieth level of the Gold sn Cycle.
 The Carnotite Reduction Company has been incorporated to operate in Montrose county. The capit,I is 1900. .Oo0.
 Frank Ricci's recent shipp ent from he Santiago mine. George .own. was ,f about the usual sl30 gade. There were two carloads.
 The Primos Minjlg and Milling Company is installing a carload of ,ew machinery op its tungsten prop ,rty at Lakewood
 Dredge No. recently exposed sev- sral new veins il Muggins gulch on he Swan river. and miners are said % be considera ply excited there lbouts.
 A very rich budy of ore has been discovered in tn, north end of the 1,300-foot level of the Cresson at Grip pie Greek. The value of the ore body Is approximated at s50o.000.
 Twenty-Five men a.e employed on the Bwigocogh propert5 fin the Twin Lakes district, part of .hem doing active mining and the others operating the new ten-stamp mill which hac been put in first-class condition.
 Da--td Davidson and associates, lear- ing on the King solomon mine in Sum- init county. are loading out their eleventh car of ore. They have had returns of $i02 per ton from previous shipments. and the current car is ex. pected to be a record-breaker.
 In the tungsten district of Boulder county there is unusual activity. The price of the 55 per cent concentrate has risen in a few months from $5.40 to S2s per unit of twenty pounds. The market in the East, where tugsten acid is used in manufacturing special grades of steel.
 Alleging that he has been crippled for life, William F. Morris. a Denver University student, has filed suit for sl0,000 damages against George w Twombley in the District Court He charges that Twombley was guilty of carelessness in handling his automo. bile and thus caused the accident which crippled him.
 With a mighty crash the big tra. ton engine belonging to l. N. Pepper shot through the bridge across Cedar creek, near the Montrose dairy farm two miles north of Montrose. Three hours later, at o'clock. the mangled and lifeless forms of D. J. Schambach and Fred Smith were taken from the wreckage.
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INA InnMT |I|I THE NY
 
GOOD COW STALL AND FLOOR
Dairy Building Should Be Constructed With Aim to Keep Cows Dry and
 Clean as Possible.

While it is more pleasant to work in fine barns, it is not necessary to have them in order to get good results. but items under this head are quite nee essary for getting the best returns. With the comfort of the animal in view. our buildings should be con structed with the aim to keep the COWS as dry and clean as possible. Cement floors built with about the same thick ness as sidewalks and so constru3t- ed as to offer good drainage arc the most servicesble. says a writer "a West. ern Farmer. They should contain a gutter IS to 20 inches w:de and seven
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you in owning a Babcock milk tester and test the product of each COW.
 6. Discard the animals which have failed at the end of the year to pay for their keep.
 2. Breed your COWS to purebred registered dairy bull from a family having large and profitable produc ton of butter fat.
 6. Raise well the heifer calves from cows, which for one or more genera tions have made large and profitable productions of milk and butter fat.
 g. Breed heifers to drop tteir first calves at twenty-four to thirty months of age. Give COWS six to eight weeks rest between lactation periods
 10. Join a dairy cattle breeders as soc.ation. It will help you keep post ed and in touch with the best and most modern ways of managing you dairy herd.
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Rhode Islands Last Hanalna.

The last execution in Rhode Island took place in 1s45. One John Gordon was hanged for the murder of Amasa Sprague on December 31, 1s43- The doubts were so strong that a move ment was set on foot to abolish cap ital punishment. Thomas R. Hazard Shepherd Tom) was the leader in this movement. His labors and writ ing were finally successful. and on Feb ruary II. 1852, the general assembly passed the act abolishing hanging in this state. On several occasions since. notably few years ago. unsuccess- full attempts have been made to re- establish hanging for the crime of murder. But the sentiment of Rhode Island is strongly against it.-Newark Mercury.
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with an auger and a pipe inserted in the hole. A furnace body in the form of a U-shaped hood with open bottom and open end is placed against the stump and covered with earth so as to be almost airtight. thus serving to con centrate and localize the heat gener ated within the furnace. which is placed over the burning fcgots used to kindle the fire.
 As the fire burns the flames extend into the auger hole. and hy adjusting the damper in the furnace chimney a draft Is produced that causes the fire
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Arizona.

Eight thousand miners are on strike in the -Morenci district.
 The Johnson district near Benson is livening up. The Arizona-Mich ichigan property is installing a new hoist for sinking vertical shaft, and the Key stone property win be shipping with in sixty days.
 The Bisbee Ore reports the Warren district to be in the highest state of activity in its history.
 The daily tonnage O: the Inspfra- tion mill at Miami has been largely increased by the addition Of two ad. ditional sections of crushing ma chinery.
 An electrical plant is planned near Rye fin the Payson district for operat- ing electrical furnaces for the treat. ment of ores which have been handi- capped by lack of transportation fa- cilities.
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 titoxin to the one who is most in need Jf it."
 He went away. At home, his own boy was in the critical stage of the disease. Gossip had it that he was dying. Hardly had he entered his door before the telephones got busy. Mrs. Soutar heard that Frank Hicks was to receive the drug.
 She left the nurse at her sons bed side and hurried with her daughter to the doctors house. The two women entered without ceremony and found Robert Hicks at his sons bedside. The boy was delirious. Upon a table beside him stood little phial contain ing some clear, water-like fluid. The doctor had a hypodermic syringe in his hand. Mrs. Soutar grasped him by the wrist
 Tell him, Louise!" she gasped. "Teil him."
 If you dare-if you dare, Robert, sobbed Louise. "our engagement IS broken"
 That makes no dfnerence, an swered the doctor gravely. This boy is more in need of it than the other. That is all l can see"
 He dipped the hypodermic into his phial. and the mother. darting for ward, knocked both phial and hypo- dermic from the table, sending them rolling into a corner. The phial cracked and emptied its contents upon the floor.
 At least. if you won't save my son your own shall die," cried Mrs. Sou tar in fury. Come Louise."
 The two women swept out of the room, out of the house, and home, to find that Leonard was better.
 By nightfalI he was out of danger 1t the same hour Frank Hicks lay dead in his fathers house.
 There was no other doctor in the village. Doctor Hicks continued tc attend the Soutar boy until he wal ronvaIescent. Then he ceased tc come. He sent his bill iE the regular way. but he was never seen at tho eoutar home again. The gossips said however. that there had been a pain ful scene before he left for the lasl tfme, and that Hicks had refused th< Vomen's pitifal pies for forgiveness
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burned and their COWS poisoned and no gypsies have been sent to jail for their crimes. It does not take long for farmers who have tasted of the vengeance Of the gypsies they have dehed to spread the news that the swarthy tricksters mean what they say when they make threats.
 The average farmer is helpless against fire. and. therefore. the aver age. good-natured Yankee farmer meets a gypsy's terms in a horse trade rather than incur a greater loss by having some of his valuable prop erty burned to the ground. This may seem weak on the part Of the Yan- kee farmer. but the farmer knows the evil-eyed, dark-skinned parasites will not impose upon him two years in sue cession, and so he trades a fairly good horse for brokendown nag. saves his stock and crops. and takes par ticular pains in the future to dodge the chicken-stealing tribesmen.
 While gypsies are too cautious. as general rule. to steal horses. especially in western communities where men would give them chase. they handle horses stolen by gang. sters in New York. Philadelphia, Bos- ton, Chicago. St. Louis and other large cities in which nags disappear mys- teriously, of which no trace can ever be found.
 It was after the passage of the Mann act by congress and the break ing up of the methods of interstate traffic in women which brought about the passage of the law. that the gyp- sies were haled into the trade by clever procurers in the large cities. who assured them of big profits. Gypsies. as has been said. acknowl. edge no country In their religion. which is a religion of hate. they have no word for God, soul, or heaven. They have their own king, whom they elect yearly at a seaport in Spain. This king Is supposed to be inducted into office by the sacrifice of two white babies. In recent years. the gypsies have found 1t safer to forego the actual sacrifice of the babies. but year. ly two white babies are stolen from the enemy" appear at the coronation, and are adopted by the king
 Some of the gypsies are men of magnificent physique. and the battles fought for the great honor of being dubbed king" would make the aver. age censored prize fight appear like child's play.
 The gypsies travelling the United States and now seen camping along the roads are no better educated than the gypsies who travel the European countries. The gypsy literature is preserved chiefly by word of mouth, mothers and fathers teaching their young the gypsy traditions. and those traditions are kept as fresh as are | the Mother Goose tales of more en. frightened people. The gypsy is not devoted in any way to the arts Oc- casionally, however. great musician arises from the gypsy tribes Occa. sionaliy. too. the gypsies turn out an intellectual light. such as Gypsy" Smith. the evangelist. who Is a pure. blood gypsy. and did not sleep in a bed until he was twelve years old.
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He could forgive the loss of his son better than that of his case" said the villagers.
 For two years Hicks and the wom- en only bowed when they passed. Then Mrs Soutar fell i'll of the incur able disease that was to result in her death. Hicks again became a con stant visitor at the home. but strictly in his professional capacity. The Sou tars were the last of the old families of the town; their lives were exceed ingly lonely and exceedingly quiet All their old associates were dead. except the doctor. who had come to the place in youth. thirty years before, and even then the old traditions had largely ceased. and the stories of the lives Of the first settlers had been forgotten. His friendship with the Soutars had come about through a sister of Mrs. Soutar. a maiden lady. who had been a constant visitor at his home when his wife lived. But she had died al most at the same time as Mrs. Hicks. and no link remained between the families.
 A few nights before her death the old woman called the doctor to her bedside. Brokenly she told him that she had no one else in whom to con- fide. Then she told him her story.
 It concerned her dead sister Years before. in girlhood, she ha1 ss.rered a great wrong. She Lad gone away; her child. a boy. mad been born in a remote place and left in the founding hospital there. Afterward she had him removed to a town nearer. where, in the guise of an interested visitor. she could see him occasional ly. But the boy had been adopted, and. in accordance with the rules of the institution, she was refused all information as to his whereabouts.
 T want you to find my sisters boy and care for him, doctor she raid. There is a little money-a private hoard. devoted to this purpose. And nobody must know. Even in death shrink from the shame that would follow her"
 Hicks promised. and the dying wom- an closed her eyes in peace. She passed away a few days later. happy in Hicks assurance that he had al. ready traced the child.
 It was the day after the funeral that Louise sent for the doctor and told him the identical story. '1 never knew" she said, until the night before my mothers death. She was rambling. then. but picked up enough of the story to understand, and to realize your ohivalrous nature in accepting the quest. But. when the child is found. it must be my task to provide for him. He may have grown up an uncouth. iiliterate man. That task must be mine"
 The doctor laid his hand on her shoulder.
 Il want to tell you first" he said that 1 have not faitered in my faith to you l love you, as I have always loved you. Will you be my wife, Lou. ise?"
 She looked at him earnestly. T love you she said But the shadow of your boys death must ever lie be tween us. I cannot marry you"
 'If should show you that this lies at nobody's door but mine-?" he asked.
 You cannot. If it had not been for us. Frank would have lived" The doctor placed his hands upon her arms and held her firmly.
 Listen. Louise" he said Frank was tha. boy-adopted by my wife and me to shield the dead woman from discovery. and to enable her t6 meet him I never had a child"
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rapidly to eat hole through the stump. The pipe section is gradually fed into the enlarging cavity After the fire is well started. the furnace may be removed. earth banked about the pipe section. and the stump left to its fate while the worker proceeds to kindie the blaze for the next stump.
 The device is the invention of Sam ue. F Zyssef of Thomas. Ore.
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HiohIsnd 6aopipe.

The Highland bagpipe is louder than any other. probably because it was originally designed to cheer the clans men when they were fighting. In tho hands of skilled performer it's strains carry about six miles. and under spe ciaiiy favorable conditions as far as ten miles. The duke of Sutherland owns a bagpipe which figured m the battle of Prestonpans and must there fore be nearly two hundred years old yet it can be heard distance of eight miles
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FIRE REMOVES THE sTUMPs
Invention Of Oregon Man That Does the Work in . Thoroughly sys-
 tematie Manner.

A stump burner that e.ll consume the green and unseasoned wood of fresh stumps. destroy the woody fiber just below the surface of the ground and even convert the larger roots into ashes has been put to successful tests in Oregon
 A hole ts first bored into the stump
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For the Silo.

Short, immature corn should be al lowed to stand until nearly dry betcrt putting into the silo. That is, the leaves should be nearly dry; the stall should be pretty well filled with sap If this corn is put in while too green 1t may make sour silage.
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 been charged with having been active in the so-called white slave" trade. There is direct evidence against some of the American tribes. showing that hundreds of the swarthy wanderers have lured away young white girls from towns. villages and farms. and sold them into captivity Moreover. there is evidence that the gypsies have sold their wives and daughters into captivity. indicating that the morals of the gypsies are degenerating.
 American communities which have become aware Of the dangerous white slave practices of the gypsies are look Ing upon the horse-trading. fortune telling. thieving gypsies with more suspicion than usual at this time.
 They are warning young girls to keep away from the camps where formerly they went to have their for. tunes told. warning householders to keep gypsy women out of their homes, and warning constables to keep a sharp lookout for the men who prom ise servant girls chances for good JUS III lue idISH CllleS-
 The gypsy has thrived for many years in the United States. where he is still somewhat of curiosity. His glib tongue. his skill in handling horses. his persistence and his trick cry have enabled him to accumulate much money. which he stores in banks. Picturesque, untidy. fortune telling gypsy women have ably as- sisted their lords in accommodating money. for they have a decided facul- ty for coaxing silver pieces from the pockets of superstitious women, who firmly believe the gypsies have the power of foretelling events.
 Gypsies have never gone through the crucible which makes Americans out of foeigners. They have stead fly, as a race. refused to become Amer icans. First and last they are gyp- sies and highly proud of their Romany extraction. They seldom marry out. side of their own race. and. with but few exceptions, they refuse to identify themselves with any nation. The gypsies now travelling the highways of England may be travelling the New England States next year; the gypsies who have made France their travel ing ground the past decade may make their camps this summer in Ohio and Indiana, while the Austrian gypsies may choose Michigan and Illinois. or Missouri and Kansas for their next op.rations. In whatever country they are found the habits and customs of the gypsies are the same.
 Gypsies, here today and there to- morrow. have operated in the rural districts very much in the same man. ner that the black-band organizations have operated in New York. Chicago. Pittsburgh and the coal regions of the United States In order to make farm CTS agree to their terms in horse trades, gypsies have boldly stated that, if their terms are not accepted. they will burn down barns, poison stock, or burn haystacks. They have boldly stated. and they still so state to dwellers in rural communities, that. if persons appear against them in court. the vengeance of the tribe will be visited upon such persons
 There have been farmers who have defed the threatening gypsies, and such farmrs have had their barns
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Idea, for keeoiuo MIX Cool.

4 springhouse or a refrigerator i the ideal thing for keeping milk cool but million of pounds of good butter are made every year with no better equipment than a tank for the cani tilled with . pump from . well.
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Repair Leaking Feat.

If a ccw has . little hole in tns side of her teat, through which tho milk sqrirts, wait tin she is dry. ther scrape the edges of the hole till I bleeds and sew together. Take ou tho stitches when it heals.
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TO GET BETTER DAIRY COWS
Breeders' Association Keeps One In Touch With Best and Modern
 Ways Of Managing Herd.

1. Treat COWS gently and avoid ex- citement.
 2. Be regular in time of milking. 3. Keep stables clean. wellligkted and ventilated.
 1. Weigh the milk of each COW at milking time.
 5. Get your neighbcr to share with
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Experience often provides a lot of raw material for unnecessary conver- sation-
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WESTER N MINING NEWS IN BRIEF
IN B R 1 E E

Western Newspaper Union News Service
 Metal Prices. Spelter, St. Louis. $13.1O. Copper. electrolytic, SIS. Lead, New York. s4.50. Bar silver. s0.i9B.
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\ HE picturesque gypsy is
 finding his road harder than usual, his earnings much less, and his camping grounds more difficult to obtain. The department of justice of the United States. through its agents, has
 placed a stigma upon the gypsies who travel the highways and byways of
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-04-08
weldon NJ. E. Church Notes.

An excellent congregation Sunday
evening in spite of the absence of the
delegation that went to Van Vert.
The pastor was much pleased to see
new faces in the services. The Cos
bel Team report a great services at
Van Vert where they organized a
team of forty-nine men. We all re-
joice in the good work and hope to
have the Van Vert team with us in
the near future.
Rev. P. T. Butler will be with us
Wednesday night, April 18th, to give
his lecture, 1.-THE Ball Game" Rev.
Butler used this lecture in his Chau-
tauqua work. All who have heard
him speak know that the lecture will
be one that you will want to hear. His
wife will be with us and sing at that
service.
Roads and weather are good
enough now that they afford no ex-
cuse for non-attendance at Sunday
school. Will you try to be present
next Sunday.
There will be preaching at Hebron
next Sunday afternoon at three p. m.
Let the friends there try to be pres
ent.
+! The Humeston Gospel Team ex-
poets to be with us Sunday night for
the eight o'clock service You will
want to be present.