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The Benson signal., 1917-01-20
HAY AND GRAIN MARKET.
F. o. B. Denver, Carload Price.

F. 0. B. Denver, Carload Price.
Hay.
Buying Prices.
Colorado, upland, per ton.$15.00@16.O0
Nebraska upland, per ton 12.O0@l3.Oo
Second bottom Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton 12.o0@13.00
Timothy, per ton ....... 17.00@l8.OO
Alfalfa, per ton ........ 12.o001S.Oo
South Park, choice, per
ton ................... 17.oo@1SO0
San Luis Valley, per tom. 14.00@15.00
Gunnison Valley, per ton 16.OOWl7.00
Straw. per ton. .......... 1000 500
Grain.
Wheat, ch. MILL, 100 lbs, buying $2.87
Rye, Colo, bulk 100 lbs, buying. 1.8o
Oats, Nebraska, 100 lbs, buying. 1.85
Colorado oats, bulk, buying 49,. 1.85
Corn chop, sack, selling ......... 1.95
Corn in sack, selling ........... 1.92
Bran, Colorado, per 100 lbs, selling l.5O
Flour
The Benson signal., 1917-01-20
Fruit.

Apples Colo., fancy, box .$1.00@3.OO
Pears, Colo, winter; box. 2.50@30O
The Benson signal., 1917-01-20

The Siam government savings bank
has 1880 depositors with $13S,977 to
their credit.
The Benson signal., 1917-01-20
Butter.

Butter.
Creameries, ex 1st grade, lb.. .38@39
Creameries, I'd grade, ID. .34@35
Process ....... ............... "a
Packing stock ............. 27
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Eggs.

Eggs.
Eggs, graded No. l net, F. o. B.
Denver 40
Eggs, graded No. net, F. O.. b.
Denver ...................... 80
Eggs, case count, misc. cases,
less commission ......... 1900
The Benson signal., 1917-01-20
Dressed Poultry.
Live Poultry.

Live Poultry.
The following prices on live poultry
are net F. O. B. Denver:
Hens, lbs. and over, lb. -. Is
Hens, under lbs, lb. ...... 13
Springs, lb. ...l2 @l5
Roosters 06
Turkeys, 10 lbs. or over. 40 @22
Ducks, young ............... A5
Geese IA @15
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
Changes Shoes Hourly.

Arrested at four o'clock in the morn
ing because he had pair of shoes at
tached to his belt, Ernest Cummins,
forty-five, told an interesting story
when arraigned In Magistrate Fugas-
sis court In Pittsburgh. Asked to ex-
plain why he wore a pair of shoes and
carried another pair, Cummins said
he had six toes on each foot and 1t
was necessary for him to change shoes
every hour or else he could not walk.
'Im from Missouri" said the magis-
trate.
''Tll show you," Cummins retorted,
and he did. He had six toes. Then
he showed the magistrate his right
hand. There he had five fingers and a
thumb. His left hand has only four
fingers and thumb, the. regular num-
Der, but one finger was cut off in an
accident.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
The Yankee In Mexico.

Mexican politeness, like Spanish po-
likeness, Is of the perfervid kind. Thus,
one of the flowers of speech which the
law Of courtesy commands Mexican
host to use when he welcomes a guest
is a phrase to the effect that his
humble house" belongs not to him
self at all but wholly to his guest, and
that the latter may do with 1t what he
will.
Once this phrase cost a Mexican
Yankee, who was In Mexico drumming
up business, and. inviting him to his
home, told him that the house and
all its belongings were his.
And the guest took the host at his
word He had his baggage moved
from the hotel to the Mexicans man
sion. proceeded to occupy that man.
SION as his own, and after a few days
had passed generously notified the be-
wildered Mexican gentleman that the
latter might remain in the house for a
reasonable length Of time. couple
OF weeks, perhaps, until he-the Mex
lean gentleman-had found new
dwelling to his liking. And-impossi-
bly,, but it happened-it took legal pro-
ceedings to GUST the Yankee usurper
from the premises of the Mexican ca
ballerO, who may surely be called a
martyr to his national virtue OF civility.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
HIT AND MISS

Occasionally you pay a doctor for
a prescription, but much more cheer
fully fol- telling you there is nothing
the matter with you.
Kind of cold plunge one takes be-
cause the bathroom won't heat up
Is not the kind the plunger boasts
about.
In an automobile age poetry wanes,
they say. In an automobile age no
body has time to write poetry.
Advice pleads ably, but Habit con-
tinues to smile at it, unconcernedly.
Out in the country vice is sickly
plant. A rural atmosphere isn't good
for 1t.
Love Is an illusion, says a New Jer-
sey preacher. So Is much that makes
life worth living.
Look before you leap, though 1t is
a foolish nature that wants to leap
when the walking is good.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
Sure! High Heels
Cause Corns But
Who Cares Now

You reckless men and women who
are pestered with corns and who have
at least once a week invited an awful
death from lockjaw or blood poison
are now told by Cincinnati authority
to use a drug called freezone, which
the moment a few drops are applied
to any corn or callus the soreness is re
lieved and soon the entire corn or cal
lus, root and all, lifts off with the FIN
gers.
Freezone dries the moment it is ap-
piled, and simply shrivels the corn or cal
lus without infaming or even irritating
the surrounding tissue or skin. A small
bottle of freezone will cost very little
at any of the drug stores, but will posi-
lively rid ones feet of every hard or
soft corn or hardened callus. If your
druggist hasn't any freezone he can get
it at any wholesale drug house for you
ADV.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
Worlds Oldest Museum.

The museum In the city of Nara, the
former capital of Japan, Is said to be
the Oldest In the world. ALI the ex-
hiblts. too, are equally ancient, or
rather more so, for, since its founda-
don In A. d. 756, no addition has been
made to its collection!
DIR. Otto Kummel, who tells us about
the queer old museum. Is one of the
few Europeans who have been per-
mItted to visit it. It's doors are opened
only once year, when special COM
mittee inspects the collection. The
museum contains about three thousand
articles, which are said to be the most
beautiful specimens of decorative work
ever done by the human hand. Where
the greater part of these treasures
came from, nobody knows. Some came
from China, others from Korea. but
most Of them appear to have been
brought from a greater distance. They
have been in their present home for
more than eleven centuries, so 1t Is
no wonder that their origin 10 I'M
known i-Chattebox.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
Lot of Professor Is Hard,
College Survey DiscIoses.

the of the more prominent eastern
colleges has been conducting survey
Of itself. 1t finds the students living
in magnificent dormitories and palatial
fraternity houses, some of which are
heavily endowed, going to classes in
their own automobiles and possessing
more changes of raiment than Samson
lost by his ill-advised bet to the Phil
istine youths.
The survey was pleasant until 1t
looked into the homes of the professors.
There 1t found scholars of Greek and
Latin, profound teachers of physics,
cranking up clothes wringers at put
ting bluing in the family washtubs.
The average pay of professors In
this particular college Is considered
high, but 1t Is less than a good bar
tender can command. The unctuous
head walter at fashionable restau-
rant makes considerably more.
The professor Is another man with
=. vhito collar.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
Ten ear-0Id Girl Original
Of Indian Head on Pennies
Used for Nearly a Century

In 1885 the government of the
United States, made an offer of $1,000
for the most acceptable design to be
placed upon the new cent coin soon
to be issued. Some Indian chiefs
Travelled from the Northwest to
Washington to visit the Great Father.
Andrew Jackson occupied the execu-
tive chair and Martin Van Buren, was
vice president. These Indians jour-
neyed to Philadelphia to inspect the
mint, whose chief engraver was James
Barton Longacre, who invited them to
his house, where, to celebrate the
event, n distinguished company was as
sembled to welcome them.
The engravers daughter, Sarah,
aged ten, greatly enjoyed the visit or
her fathers guests, and during the
evening, to please her, one of the
chiefs took his feathered helmet and
war-bonnet and placed it on her head.
In the company was an artist, who
Immediately sketched her and handed
the picture to her father. Mr.. Long
acre, knowing of the competition for
likeness to go upon the cent
projected, under the inspiration of
the hour, resolved to contend for the
prize offered by the government. To
his delight the officials accepted it,
and the face of his daughter appeared
upon the coin, which was circulated
about the nation for nearly century.
1t is said that there were more than
100 competitors for the prize.
Savage and civilized life was thus
intermingled in the American face and
the dian headgear. The face of
Sarah Longacre has gone into more
hands, more pockets, more homes, more
stores, more banks, more schools; yes,
more churches than any other coin In
the United States, If not In the world.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
Promises That May Be Broken
By LAURA IEAN LIBBEY

lovely girl in question had been adj
miring the young man, declaring him
to be the noblest looking man she
had met. She declared roguishly
that If she ever married she hoped her
husband would be a man of that type.
The attraction seemed mutual.
After a few calls, the young man
left the city abruptly, writing Their that
she would never see him again, for the
reason that he was beginning to care
for her. The same mail bag brought
me letter from the young man, in
which he poured out his life's story.
He said he had fallen deeply in love
with the girl to whom l had intro
duced him. But as marriage was out
Of the question with him, it was best
that they should part. He wrote me
of a sweetheart whom he had had in
his early youth. The girl had taken
severe cold, because he had kept her
too long at the gate saying good night.
They were betrothed. Their marriage
was soon to take place. On her
deathbed she had enacted promise of
him that he would never marry. The
pledge was given under the intense ex-
element of the moment. 1t gripped
him with its hold during all his after
life. He feared a blight would fall
upon him If he broke his promise. He
had had no warning that he was to
meet and love another In the after
years.
A promise where there is no tie is
better broken than kept when it is of
the kind cited. People should be care
full as to the promises they make.
And they should think them over, first,
judiciously.
Copyright. 1917)
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
Poultry Pointers
INSTRUMENTATION,

Poultry love the out-of-doors. Turn
and they will gain in vigor.
Some fowls are more thrifty than
others, and it pays to sort out, pick
over and work up the flock.
The mistake is too often made of
wintering more hens than the quarters
profitable than hens, provided their
house is large enough to accommodate
them without crowding.
Success is a thing of many details.
Not one of these small matters can be
left out or neglected and the fowls not
suffer for 1t.
Feed according to age. Young birds
use the food given them In making
flesh and size of body. Grown-up hens
take 1t for egg production; while old
ones are more apt to turn everything
to fat.
Alfalfa meal helps fill the winter
eggbasket; 1t takes the place Of green
food to a large extent, and is very rich
in protein.
Vigor and excess Of flesh do not go
together with poultry. We want good,
strong. thrifty chicks later these come
only from breeding stock not too fat.
There are egg breeds and meat
breeds, but none that excel in both.
While the beginner need not neces-
sarily be an expert, he must be more or
less expert to succeed.
Have a system. Having everything
convenient is saving of labor and
preventive of discouragements.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
NO MORE WEAK KIDNEYS,
BACKACHE, RHEUMATISM
New Specific Soon to be Breugt,k
to town, Says Letter:

/Dear Mr.. Editor:-Just lately, am
told and beg to inform your readers,
that the famous DIR. Pierce, of whose
medicines and Surgical Institution in
Buffalo, New York, we have heard for
years, has added to his popularity by
asserting to put before the American
people, 0An-Uric." This prescription
is adapted especially for kidney COM
plants and diseases arising from dis
orders of the kidneys and bladder, such
as backache, weak back, rheumatism,
dropsy, congestion of the kidneys, in
flammation of the bladder, scalding
urine and urinary troubles. The ply
scians and specialists at DR.. Pierce's
great Institution have thoroughly tested
this prescription and have been with
one accord successful in Graduating
these troubles, and in most cases abso-
lutely curing the diseased kidneys.
Patients having once used vAn-Urio"
at the Institution have repeatedly sent
back for more. Such a demand has
been created that Doctor Pierce has
decided to put vAn-Uric" in the drug
stores of this country, in a ready-to-
use form. 1t will be their own fault
if the public does not take advantage
of this wonderful remedy.
/ know of one or two leading drug
gists here who have managed to pro-
cure supply of Van Uric" fo- their
anxious customers In and around this
locality.
/ have used cAn-UricD and believe
1t to be the greatest of kidney medi-
cines and l have tried many. A few
doses will convince, feel certain.
A FIRM REIIEyER
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24

the one grand passion of mans life
has come to him. But as to marriage,
that Is denied him, because he Is bound
by an old promise not to wed.
Some men consider promises to be
like glass, easily broken. Other men
believed them to be sacred. An in
stance of this kind made a great i'm
preston upon my mind. A young man
whom 1 knew asked me for an intro
duction to a beautiful girl friend. I
was secretly delighted because the
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24

decided to try bottle of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. 1t worked
from the first bottle, SO 1 took a second
and third, also bottle of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Blood Purifier, and now am
lust as we'll as any other woman. ad-
wise every woman, single or married,
who is troubled with any of the afore-
said ailments, to try your wonderful
Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier
and l am sure they will help her to get
rid of her troubles as they did me" =
Mrs. ELSIE J. VAN DER SANDE, 26 No.
York St, Paterson, N. ].
Write the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
Co., (confidentiaD Lynn. Mass, If you
need special advice.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
ORIGIN OF FAMILIAR PHRASE
How Swinging Round the Circle"
Gained Its Place in Ameri-
can Politics.

"As / go round the circle" uttered
by President Johnson in a speech in
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1866, was the origin
OF the familiar phrase of today, Saving
ing round the CIRCLE" as applied to the
campaign tours of presidents. 1t was
David Locke, the Petroleum V. Nasty
OF the Toledo Blade, who converted
the words of Johnson into the "Swing-
ing Around the Circle" slogan.
Andrew Johnson was in many re-
spects a remarkable man, born and
reared In illlteracy. President john
sons state papers are said to be
among the ablest executive documents
now on file at Washington. "Yet,"
says Il. II. Burton in his life of John
Sherman, "Johnson's first message to
congress, in December, 1865. was writ
ten by George Bancroft, and the origi-
nal manuscript is at the Library of
Congress.
1t was on August "a. 1866, that Presi-
dent Johnson, with Secretary Seward.
General Grant and Admiral Farragut,
left Washington fora tour through the
middle western states.
The ostensible object of the trip was
n participation In the dedication of a
monument to Stephen A. Douglas at
Chicago on September 6.
But the outing was plainly an cleo
tioneering movement on the part of
the president. for the purpose of max
ing votes for my policy" in the COM
ing fall election.
At all the principal cities along the
route through Pennsylvania, New York
and Ohio, the president was received
by a majority Of those present at the
different outdoor receptions, with the
respect due his office.
2 If the president, in his speeches, had
shown some degree Of moderation and
dignity In his language. the history of
this notable presidential journey would
not have been written In words of de-
nunciation.
But Mr.. Johnson did not try to con-
ceal either his prejudice or his tenn
per. From New York to- st. Louis the
president petulantly showed his oppo-
sition to the prevailing tone of public
opinion throughout the northern states
at the time, banded epithets with the
crowd, and "exalted himself at every
opportunity" Secretary Seward also
made some speeches. But Grant and
Farragut, although frequently called
for, did not utter a word. Grant was
said to be thoroughly disguised with
the president and rode in other cars
when he could do so.
81 felt" said Grant afterward, shat
1t was like listening to a man at his
own funeral"
Although President johnson made
many speeches, 1t was said that not
even once did he pronounce the name
OF "Lincoln" In this entire trip. At
Cleveland, on September 3, the presi-
dent did say that he twas placed on a
ticket with distinguished individual,
who Is now no more"
In the same speech occurred his ref
erence to the "circle."
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24

rides away, Sne
shouldn't allow
the conviction to
settle in her mind
that she possesses
no attraction for
him. 1t may be
that she has too
much attraction
and the man fees
for safety lest he
should In a mo-
ment of enthusi-
asm ask her to be
his wife. If he
is q man of honor,
he knows love and
marriage should
be the outcome of
all courtship. He
may realize that
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
Facts in Figures.
Yale university has 1886 liv-

Yale university has 1876 nv-
ing graduates.
Congressional library, Wash
ington, contains 2,451,974 vol
umeS.
Pennsylvania has 1904, 794 pu-
pills and 1927 teachers In pub
lie schools.
Minnesota mines employ 49,
600 persons and pay in wages
$12,0OO,000 yearly.
White pine valued at $260,000,-
900 is being destroyed in the
United States by rust.
American manufacturers since
outbreak of European war have
built 30 branch plants in Canada
at a cost of $15,000000.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24

nave made me well
and healthy. Some
time ago l felt SO
run down, had pains
in my back and side,
was very irregular,
tired, nervous, had
such b ad dreams,
did not feel like eat
ing and had short
breath. l read your
advertisement in
the newspapers and
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
No Rood.

He-If, as they say, ladies' looks
are all our books, won't you let
yours be my teachers?
She-Sorry, but they are already
supplied with pupils.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24

1 know that the grass the leaves, will not
tell;
I'm sure the wind, precious rover,
VIII carry his secret so safely and well
That no being shall ever discover
One little word of the many that fell
From the eager lips of my lover.
Because q man suns himself In a
woman's presence, then smiles and
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
Loss by Floods In United States.

GUSs Uy TIu0us Ut OHIItu otdtcS.
During the year 1915 the losses due
to food waters throughout the United
States aggregated nearly twenty -one
million dollars. OF this amount more
than half was sustained by the agri-
cultural interests of the country.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
Her Boast.

"She's always Dragging about her
husband"
"What does she say2"
"She says he's the biggest chumD in
town."-Detroit Free Press.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24
WOMAN NOW IN
Perfect HEALTH
What Came From Reading
"a Pinkham Adver-
tisement.

Paterson, N. ID thank you for
the Lydia E. Pinkham remedies as they
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-24

A FIRM BELIEVES.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-03-02
LAW OF OBEDIENCE
By Ebert Hubbard


The first item in the common-sense creed
is obedience.
Do your work with your whole heart.
Revolt is sometimes necessary, but the
man who mixes revolt and obedience is DOOM
ed to disappoint himself and everybody with
whom he has dealings. To flavor WORK with
protest is to fail absolutely.
When you revolt, why revolt-climb, get
out, hike, defy-tell everybody and everything
to go to hades! That disposes of the case.
You thus separate yourslf entirely from those
you have served-no one misunderstands you
YOU have declared yourself.
But to pretend to obey, and yet carry in
your heart the spirit of revolt, is to do half
hearted, slipshod work.
If revolt and obedience are equal, your
engine will stop on the center and You benefit
nobody, not even yourself.
The spirit of obedience is the control
ling impulse of tie receptive mind and the
lospitable heart.
There are boats that mind the helm and
boats that do not. Those that don't get holes
in them sooner or later.
To keep off the rocks, obey the rudder.
One who does not know how to receive
is not fitted to issue them But he
who knows how to execute orders is prepar-
ing the way to give them, and better still-to
have them obeyed.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-03-02
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION UNDESIRED

The subscriptions to the stock of the twelve
Federal farm loan banks have closed. Nine
million dollars was the total amount to be sub
scribed and the public has taken only $4,000.
The balance will be subscribed by the gocern-
ment. The Rural Credits Board, in announc-
ing the result of the offering of their securi-
ties, intinates no disappointment that the peo-
pie of the country have not put up the money
for the farm loan banks. On the contrary,
the board has discouraged public participation
i'll the enterprise. In Baltimore, for instance,
where a branch bank is to be located, a finan-
cier suggested that the entire capital of the
branch be u%nderwritten by local investors, but
the Board said nay. Public participation in
the financing of the banks implies, of course,
public participation in their management-and
that is just what the trainers of the rural
credits law did not want. The administration
of government in the United States in these
days of the new freedom is to be classified as
IA close corporation matter. None but ode
serving Democrats" are to be put in charge of
public enterprises; and the people generally
are to be kept in the dark about what is 60
ing on.