Cañon City record., 1897-07-01
!: :TAe State Press

A woman's character, says writer
is likened unto postage stamps. One
black mark ruins it. Mans like treas
ury note; no matter how many stains
it has, it will pass at par. When a
woman falls from grace her character
is generally ruined forever. On the
other hand 2 man may straighten up
again. All of which is too true-but
being true does not make it right
Alamosa Journal.
A piano in Kentucky town fell
down the other day and killed young
man who was playing a Wagnerian
selection on it. That piano was imbued
with high tone OF retributiye justice
May Its strings never grow rusty
Goidfeld Times.
One way to become popular is to get
your name on the program of some
swell affair, and then fail to appear
The committee will abuse you, but the
bored audience will love you for not
appearing Bill Cochran made happy
hit at Aiamosa recently by telling a lie
about having lost the manuscript for
his speech at Embargo the day before.
The guests were bored to death by Hol-
brook who preceded Bill, and the CRATE
look Bin received was worth more than
ten rounds Of ,.4pplans se-Del Norte
Enquirer
The publisher of a newspaper has
one thing to sell and one thing TO rent
lie has the newspapers to sell and the
space IN his columns TO rent. Can any
one inform us why he should be ex-
pected to give away either one or the
Journal
One day a minister called on Horace
t;reeley TO get subscription for TEN
perance society. MIR. Greeley, | want
to get a subscription from you for this
society TO prevent people from going TO
not give you cent. There are not
half enough people going to he'll now"
Horace had evidently been looking over
his delinquent subscription list.-Ex
Matt Adams is now in the Canon City
penitentiary and VIII be known as No.
1904. Canon City IS getting good
many handsome men up there-and
there are more who are getting things
EE2ax--is.e llss Lip To Canon. Pueblo
Jhieftaip. =
With ole horse of the Democratic
team pulling in the direction of free
trade. another towards protection, still
a third in favor of free silver and q
fourth headed for the gold standard.
the Jacksonian band wagon does not
seem TO be making much progress
Montrose Herald.
IL is astonishing how much some
men can accomplish on paper or with
their mouths. Debs' great scheme to
colonize 10000 moneyless men has
already doubled in size as the weather
approaches the boiling point. The
widest dreams of a Kansas townsite
boomer fades into insignihcance along
side of this modern plan to capture a
whole state, offices and all.-Puehlo
Mail.
Who was it that said that prohibition
did not prohibit? Police Magistrate
jeff Stephenson was present at the
meeting of the city council on Monday
night and told the council that since
prohibition had come into force that
the police court business had not
amounted to 50 per year. The city
council thereupon decided TO close up
the police court.-Fort Collins Express
The Colorado Horticulture Fair was
not success last year principally
because the people of Denver had other
things of more seeming consequence to
look after. Consequently those from
the outside who took exhibits and com
peted for the premiums went without
the premiums after they were awarded
The wide.awake people Of Canon City
are now moving in the matter and art
urging that the fair be held NJ thai
place this year, as the best and only
means of getting it on its feet again
We second the idea, as those OF ou'
people who take an interest in th'
institution had rather go to Canon Cit!
than to Denver.-G Grand Junction News
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