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Cañon City record., 1898-03-17
Reform Ticket.
THE PRIZES.
First prize-Minnie Weed.
Second prize-Roy Underhill.
Third prize-Leon Woodford.

For the curiosity of our young re-
porters we might explain that the
prizes this week are given according
to the number of items sent in. Miss
Minnie Weed sends in 80 items, Roy
Underhill 81 and Leon Woodford 10.
We are not obliged to award the
prizes entirely according to number
of items, but when all else is equal
the number counts something. Re-
member the prizes given each week
are: First prize, 81; second prize,
50c.; third prize, 25c. Several who
have never received money prizes
have nice lists to their credit on the
dictionary contest. The book, which
is a handsome one, is now here and
can be seen by all who desire.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Mr.. W. ]. Rowley, for several years
a successful salesman in the largest
Denver dry goods houses, has been
employed by Baker & Biggs in their
dry goods department. Mr.. Rowley
came last week and is highly pleased
with the CITY. F1r
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

THE Reform ticket is worthy of the
support of every citizen of Canon;
because it is made up of the best and
most conservative business men of
the city, because the men have been
successful in their own affairs and are
able to give the city good business
service; because not one of the can
didates is politician, and none have
any private axes to grind; because the
ticket is being supported by not only
majority of the voters but by q
great majority of tbs largest tax
payers in the city, and because the
policy of the party is to save ex-
pense and reduce taxation. s5t-
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

If you want to sell or rent your fruit
ranch or city property You ban do SO by
advertising. We will advertise any.
thing you have free OF cost
7la N. T. HAND Il Co.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

MIR. G. D. Milligan, late of Spring
field, Mo-, has rented the Burrage
store room, next to RECORD Office,
which he is having fitted up for a
grocery store.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Mr.. c. A. Biggs has been down in
New Mexico this week attending to
business.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Car load John Deere plows, cuItiva-
tors and implements, just In on cut
freight rates. Will meet rlissouri
river prices. & Hcdee Mer.
Co., Agents.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17
Special Bargains.

New broom brick house, frame barn;
lot IAI1so: nice corner, south front.
nice place. $3.50.
broom frame, south front, only one
block from Court house, 3s II. front.
Only $500
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Persons honestly desiring to pro-
cure home, and who have regular
monthly income, will find it to their
advantage to read the local in our
want column, under the heading, "a
home on the instalment plan" An
opportunity is here presented for any
one who really wants to, to buy a
nice home and pay for it.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

= Plant shade trees in April The
Rocky Mountain nurseries have big
stock of maple, elm, ash, locust, walnut,
poplar, etc. All home grown. You
cant afford toneglect This. loft
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Professor H. E. Smith and Geo. L.
Colgate have arranged to conduct a
normal school in the High school
building for six weeks during the
summer This announcement may be
seen in another column. -Et
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17
Bicycle Meeting.

A meeting of the Canon City Cycle
club will be held Monday night at
Thomas store. The purpose of the
meeting is to. decide on date for the
third annual road race All interested
are requested to attend.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

If it's drugs that you will have,
From a syrup to a salve;
Or you want to buy picture or q
book, ~ gTs fli{
II Camera you desire,
That will do what you require,
Hunter Palmer's is the place for you
to look aIEltsl l-'4
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Member of the Canon City Alumni
association are reminded of the meet
ing appointed next Tuesday evening,
March p, at the home of Miss
Victoria Rudolph. (Signed),f
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

II rgirl is fond of looking just as
- pretty as she can,
+ She mast have her ski. so soft and
q teeth 50 white;
Finest soap must be procured, and a
- Doth powder secured,
Hunter Palmer has the stuff that's
( always right
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Miss Dorothy Weed, formerly with
Mrs. King, is back from Denver and
will have charge of the trimming de-
partment of Mrs. Lewis millinery
parlors.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Since the death of Agent E. E.
Moore the agency of the d. & r. G.
at this. place has been filed by Mr.. S.
B. Sublette and it is generally under
stood about town that he will be the
permanent agent. This is very salts
factory to the business men of Canon.
No man was ever in the employ of the
D. & r. G. system more worthy of
promotion than Mr. Sublette, and no
man has ever been connected with
this station who has more friends in
Canon. After ten years service in
the second place with the very best
satisfaction, it is highly gratifying to
see Mr.. Sublette promoted to the
highest position. 1t is such acts that
make the D. & R. G. great system
and keeps its employees always faith
full.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

The Rocky Mountain nurseries are
now taking in orders for April delivery.
Get your orders in at once to secure
best home grown stock. lO-tf
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

LATER-0n account of the Junior
entertainment this meeting will be
postponed until the following Mon
day night. h-lA
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17
N. T. HAND & co.
,. W. Booking,

HOUSE PAINTER AND PAPER HAMMER.
Any one desiring work done In this
line, can leave word at 523 Har-
rison Ave, or by postal card.
Shop bet. 9th and 7th, Main st.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

FURNISHED HOUSE-for rent. No. 99
Main street. between 9th and 10th. eff
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

A heavy span of horses for sale. En-
uuire at b. f. Stages shoe shop.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Mr.. Milton W. Scott, an architect
of much experience, is here from
Waco, Texas, and has formed part
nership with Mr.. Jim NJ. Hodges, with
offices in the Harding block. lfii
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

T. p. Cline has uine acres of well
cultivated fruit land Most of his trees
are young but will bear abundantiy
this year and add greatly to his finances.
He has all inviting little home and an
Interesting family of three. He lives
on Cottonwood avenue.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Perhaps as fine a tract of land as will
be found in Frutmere is that of b. f.
Wyatt's. 1t contains eight and one
half acres and is set to six year old
apple, peach and pear trees. Small
fruits, consisting of grapes, currants,
gooseberries, blacxberries, and straw
berries, yield abundantly, and is usually
one of the most profitable crops.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Tuesday night several members of
the Degree of Honor conspired to-
gether in a surprise on Mrs. R. B.
Thompson, the event being her
twenty-ninth birthday. The COM
pany remained till late, the evening
passing most pleasantly.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Tuesday afternoon NJ. S. Evans was
moving his household effects to small
house recently erected on the rear of
his one and half acre tract of land.
Early III the spring Mr.. Evans will
erect six room frame dwelling. His
land is set to young fruit trees of a
choice variety He has a desirable
location and valuable piece of
property.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Mr. and Mrs. g. F. Waits came TO
Canon City last November from Silver
Cliff and purchased of F. A. Reynolds
one acre of fruit land. The property
has been generally improved, and Mr..
Waits is now building a four room
pressed brick cottage, 2Sx29 feet. Few
residents of Fruitmere are more indus
trious than Mr.. Watts, and none are
more hopeful for the future advance
ment of his locality.
Cañon City record., 1898-03-17

Mr.. H. 7. ~Gravestock is treating
his orchard with Woodbury's blight
cure. 1t is hoped that this remedy
VIII prove efectual, as it would be a
great boon to fruit growers, as many
orchards in our beautiful valley are
suffering greatly from the blight.
The times., 1898-11-27
s,o.I.tnn,s Latest Book.

Perhaps the most uncertain thing In
modern fiction is the character and
quality of a new book by Frank r.
Stockton. This writer, whose genial &C.
centricities of the pen have kept his
readers In a state of mild amusement
for the last twenty-five years, has not
exactly written himself out, but he seems
TO have passed the point of possible
surprise After the 'Rudder Grange
stories came a lot of delightful fairy
tales, two or three pieces of juvenile iic-
tion and that immortal conundrum,
THE Lady or the Tiger?" Then followed
two or three inimitable studies of negro
character. q thoroughly characteristic
tale OF adventure in the Lecks-Aleshine
affair, and some unique puzzle plots in
THE Wreck of the Thomas Hyke' and
"A Christmas Wreck" After all this
versatility Mr.. Stockton seems to have
settled down to describing the vagaries
of what may be called ordinary uncom-
mon people-persons whose course is err
ratio. but not quite so erratic as that of
A comet Such were the characters of
..The Squirrel Inn 1.-THE Girl at Cob
hurst" and "The Late Mrs. Null" Such
are the people TO whom We are intro
The times., 1898-11-27
q 14lj.i ] ~ ~ ) t|[:|f1 !

duced in the authors latest book THE
Associate Hermits."
In the title of this work there is a
peculiarly Stockton-esque favor-a flavor
reminiscent of THE Floating Prince"
''The Bee Man of Orn" and other fasci-
something good in the phrase. A story
about associate hermits can hardly fail
10 interest. And IL is worthy of its name.
1t is decidedly the best thing of its type
that Mr.. Stockton has done.
1t would be hardly fair to take the
kernel out of the nut by sketching the
plot of this book-there is not much of a
plot-because much of The interest de-
pends on the situations There Is in the
first chapter an elderly married couple,
who. instead of sending their daughter
and her husband on wedding trip,
obligingly take that trip for them, leaving
the young couple in possession of the
paternal mansion. That is the opening
gun of the campaign, and the shot tells.
The reader at once surmises that on such
a remarkable wedding trip as this odd
things must happen. They do.
Mr.. Stockton then proceeds to stir into
his cOncoction, in his own naive and mat
ter-of-course way, charming young girl,
pereerinating athletic bishop, a nice
young man and one not so nice, three
guides two male and one female, wise
young NOIudU Will II perpetual IlON vi
conversation, a hotel proprietor in a
wheeled chair, and several other people.
Then he sets the mixture In camp in the
woods to stew, and the result is tooth
some. The characters are well defined,
the dialogue bright and the plot well con-
structed. One of the associate hermits-
the female guide-is named Mrs. PerlSen-
pine and as good a bit of work as any
in the book is the speech in which that
lady tells of the effect which being
hermit and studying her own nature has
had on her. She says:
II most takes my breath away to think how
high-hanlod | am. Before ! knowed myself
couldn't have been that way to my skin.
There didn't use 10 be any individdlety about me.
You might take quart OF huckleberries and ask
yourself what it particular bout any one
Of them huckleberries- -'ceptin il might be green,
and it's long time since ] was that way-and
you'd know jst as much about that huckleberry
as | knowed about myself Now it's different.
It's Just the as II there was only one huek-
leberry in quart box and it amt no trouble
to see all around that.
Altogether The Associate Hermits' Is
warranted to furnish considerable enter
tainment TO the public.-tNew' York:
Harper q Bros.)
The times., 1898-11-27
\ Poor Little Girl.

She never ran with hoop nor blew
Soap bubbles out of a pipe. nor knew
In all her days what world OF fun
1t was 10 scamper and jump aud nun;
She was born TO wealth and q house OF pride,
And must be proper and dignihed.
Dear little girl! I am sad for you;
They have ilched your world of its roscate hue;
They have robbed the sweets of y5uT childish play.
And stolen your years and your dreams away;
And You are little girl more,
Poor little MARTYR in pinlforc.
/ frankly own would shrink 10 face
Your accusing eyes at ile throne OF grace;
] tremble To think what the king may meie
To the cuprit couchci al the Judgment seat,
Who has taken child that was made 10 sing,
And stiti@d the song and deceived the King!
Joseph Dana Miller. in the Criterion.
The times., 1898-11-27
New Books Received.

1.-The Hero of Erie" (oliver Hazard Per-
ry) BY James Barnes (New York;
d. Appleton & Co. 81
"a Champion in the Seventies" By
Edith A Barnett. Chicago: II. S.
Stone & Coz
Bob, Son of Battle" BY Alfred olli-
want. New York: Doubleday X Nc
Clure Company. I.25)
I'm the Shadow of the Three BY
Blanche Lotus Tottenham. (Phila-
delphia: ]. B. Lippincott Company.
80 cents)
II Am the King" BY Sheppard Stevens.
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co. sl.25)
"An Independent Daughter" By Amy
E. Blanchard. philadelphia: j. B.
Lippincott Company. N25)
Historical Tales Russian). BY Charles
Morris Philadelphia: J. B. Lippin-
colt Company. Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop)
Historical Tales" China and Japan.
BY Charles Norris philadelphia: j.
B. Lippincott Company. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop0
Classics for the Million" By Henry
Grey. (New York: G. P. Putnam S
Sons)
"The Boy Mineral Collectors" BY Jay
G. Kelley, NJ f. philadelphia: j. 3.
Lippincott Company. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop)
Baby Folk By Maud Humphrey and
Elizabeth S. Tucker. (New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Company. Wash
ington: William Ballantyne & Sons.)
THE Story of Beautiful Porto Rico" BY
c. H. Rector. Chicago: Laird & Lee.
sL25)
..Bijli the Dancer" BY James Blythe
Patton. Boston: l.. C. Page G Coz
1.-THE Gentle Art of Pleasing" By Eliza
beth Glover New York: The Baker
& Taylor Company. Washington: w
H Lowdermilk.)
'rwixt You and Me-" BY Grace Lt
Baron. Boston: Little, Brown 6
Coz
The times., 1898-11-27
THE 1lNFs MAsHlN@:ToN sjfNENY NoNEAlBk, ~ 1871

type, and the only negroes In the story
who are at all likeable are the familiar
old nanny and uncle of the. type
which Mr.. Page portrays so we'll The
author knows nothing whatever the
educa led negro. and naturally he says
nothing of this class in any OF h:s bocks.
The strong point of RED Rock" and it
is very strong, is its description of the
beauty and pathos of the life crushed out
by the war, the bravery and chivalry of
the men, the sweet sraciousnessA Of the
women. Blair Cary is one of the most
lovable heroines Mr.. Page ever drew.
She is "Meh Lady" redrawn in more def
mite lines. DR.. Cary, her father is
Col. Carter without the colonel's ire
sponsible follies. The hero of the book is
the dashing. reckless, lovabe Stevenson
Allen, though he does not marry Blair.
but, instead, pretty Northern girl,
sort of secondary heroine. Reading of
the sufferings of these high-natured and
generous people under rulers who did
not understand them or their customs,
one feels for them the passionate sympa-
thy of the author himself. When Mr..
Page tells of the old doctor, walkint, 10
visit the patients whom he will not ask
for pay: of Steve Allen and Jacqueiin
Gray pluclkily taking up the fight for a
living on their ruined farms; of Blair
Cary bending over the preserve kettle In
secret that she may earn a little money
to relieve her burdened father one feels
that TO such a people the South was in
deed country to be defended as
fatherland. These were women worth
fighting for; these men We're worth
starvation, toll and suffering. 1t is prob
able that Mr.. Pages latest book will do
more than anything in receHt literature
to bring the North and the South to-
gether The faults of the book come
from the same source as its strength. II
the author Were not intensely loyal to
his own class, he could not picture them
with such power and pathos; If he were
not mere tribal singer he would take a
broader view Red Rock is the most
ambitious work he has yet done, and in
some ways the most interesting, although
artistically il does not equal 'Marse
Chan" .Meh Lady" or ''Unc' Edin-
burghs Drowndin'." (New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Ballyn-
tyne'S( af..+
The times., 1898-11-27
Serenauc.

Who is it sings the gypsies' song tonight
Deep in the linden shade, beyond the light
My easement filings!
Can it be Death who sings? All no. not he,
For he IS old
His voice is like the murmur OF the sea
When light grows cold.
Who is it sings once more, once more again
The gypsy song?
Song of the open road the starry plain
Estranged long
"cOme to the woods, come, for the woods are
green,
The sweet airs blow,
The hawthorn bougfrs the forest boes between
Are white as snow
The wet leaves stir; the dim trees dream again
OF vanished springs;
Out in the night. out in the slow, soft rain,
My lost youth sings.
-Rosamund Marriott Watson, in Christmas Har-
psr's
The times., 1898-11-27

any one who Is Interested in the history
Of the West Others may find the book
somewhat dry. Western pioneer life-the
richest, most picturesque and thrilling
romance of our connry's history-ap-
pears in this book like an orange. squeez-
ed dry of all the dramatic and romantic
elements, and reduced to the juiceless
structure OF the fruit. Perhaps this was
unavoidable in the condensation of much
history into few pages; and perhaps 1t
is only the lack of perspective, common
to writer's who have lived too near the
stories which they tell However, the
book is worth reading as the story OF a
great and wonderful development in our
country's life. (New York: ID. Appleton
& Coz
The times., 1898-11-27
CURRENT VERSE.
A BalIad of Mnnlln BAY.

Your threats how vain Corregiaor;@
Your rampired batteries. feared more;
Your frownng guard at 4anilaa gate as
When our Captain went before.
Lights out Into the unknown gloom
From the windy. giimmcfing. wide ses.room.
Challenging fate in that dark strait
We dared the hidden Doom a.
But the death in the deep swokc not then;
Mine and torpedo they spoke not thcn;
From the heights that loOned on passing line
The thunders broke not then.
Safe through the perilous dark sped
Quiet each ship the quiet dead
Till the guns OF FL Fraile roared-too late,
And the steel prows forged ahead
Mute each ship as the mute mouth grave,
4 ghost leyiathan cle1ying the wave;
But deep in it. heart the great fires throb.
Tie Travelling engines iave,
The ponderous pisions urge like fate,
Tie red-tlroat furnaces roar elate,
And the sweating stokers staEger and swoon
In heat more fierce than hate.
So through tie dask We stole way
Past the grim warders and into tho bay.
P1st halibuyo. and past SllHIs
And came At the break OF DAY
Where strong Cavite stood to oppose
Where, from sheen of silver aud rose,
A thronging OF masts soaring of towers
The beautiful city arose.
How fine and fair But the shining air
lin a thousand .hattering thundcr- there
Flapped and reoled- For the fighting foe
We had caught him in hi iair
Surprised, unready. his groud ships lay
Idly al anchor in BAkor Bay
Unready. surprised, but p-oudiy bold,
Which the SpIniaTds way.
Then socn on his pride the dread doom fell,
Rcd doOm-for the ruin of shot and shell
Lit every vomiting. bursting hulk
With. crimson reeE Of hell.
But to the brave though beaten. hail!
All hail 10 them that oar, and fail,
To the dauntless boat that charged our feet
And sank in the iron hail!
Manila Bayi Manila Bay.
How proud the song our lips today!
4 brave old song Of the true and strong
And the Will that las is way;
OF the blood that told in the DAYS Of Drake
When the fight was good for the fgiiting's sake!
For the blood thar fdthered Farragut
Is the blood that fIthered Blake;
And the pride OF the blood viii not be undone
While wars in the wofId and fight to he won.
For the master now. the master Of old,
Is the man behind the gum
The dominant blood that dsuuts the foe.
That laughs at odd, and leap to the blow
1t is Dewey's glory today j. Nelson's
\ hundred years sgo.
Charles G. ID. Roberts IN Christmas iIarper's.
The times., 1898-11-27
Ere Christ, the Flower OF Virtue.
BIoomed.

Ere Christ. the Flower Of virtue Lloomsd,
On Mary's breast the blossom lay.
Twas on still and golden day
Some glamour not Of earth WAS there
When Mary knelt alone TO pray
That she The Child might worthy bear.
Her loving bosom helving fast
With pure emotion, soft she cried,
Nor saw the angel as ne passed,
Nor felt the angel At her side.
e..
Awake! Arise. And oh, Rejoice.
For unto you a Lord i born.
Hearst not the chanting HeayeH-yoice.
The harp, and The Tc=ounJing hoTn:"
The star leads on. the shepherds rise
From midnight vigil, solemn, still.
With crock upraised. with 'Fap;uTed eyes,
They follow over vale and hill.
They follow till the angel--tar
Doth stay. and looking down they see
A humble shed where cattle are,
Wherein they enter, euriously.
When 10, mother and a Child ..
Pallid she lay, IS lilies lie
Upon an altar. They. most mild,
knelt down before the Mystery
Abou. the mothers youthful head,
About the Babes, the golden ring
A glow inefable did shed
Upon the shepherds worshippjEg.
''what marvel" said they. that our Lord
Doth come as humhle-bom as We,
As stark. as poor," And they adored
And yearned for him uR-pcIk4hly.
With JOY they fingered At his feet
Then to the wondering tucks Telurned-
But oh, the honeward way was sweet
And their glad eyes with visions burned
Thus came the King. Divine ard Doomed.
Unto His own; and thu, We say
Ere Christ, the Flower OF virtue. hloOmed,
On hary's breast the Blossom lay.
And for that she the Things bright
Bore, with saint humility
So beautiful upon the height
Should woman's feet forever be.
Louise Morgan sill, in Christmas HzgpeEs.
The times., 1898-11-27
A Song of Praises.
OFrom the Independent.l

(From the independently
n have found these lines on the back OF note
received by Mr. Whittier in March, 1890, and
they were probably composed at about that time,
The poem was never finished or printed, and the
manuscript is in the almost illesible style OF
his first rough drafts, and have been compelled
to guess at one two Of the words
Boston. Mass. SAMUEL I. PICKARD.l
For the land that gave me birth;
For my native home and hearth,
For the change and overturning
OF the times of my soiourning;
For the world-step forward taken;
For an evil way fo-saken;
For cruel law abolished;
For idol shrines demolished;
For the tools OF peaceful labor
Wrought from broken gun and sabcT;
For the slave-chain rent asunder
And by free feet trodden under;
For the truth defeating error;
For the love that casts out terror;
For the truer, clearer vision
OF humanity's great mission;
For all that man upraises,
l sing this song OF praises.
John G. Whittier.
The times., 1898-11-27
Recent Fjctiou

"Antigone and Other Portraits of Wom-
en- by Paul Bourget, is a series Of
sketches. six in number, translated for
American circulation by William Mar
chant. The author says of them that
they are human silhouettes-faces of
women seen for a week, day. an hour,
the romance of whose lives l OWNED (or
The times., 1898-11-27
LITERARY NOTES

John Kendrick Bangs has written an
article for the New York Times on He
roes' Rights" This has nothing 20 do
with the Spanish-American war. though
something might be said in that connec-
tion; it concerns the rights of heroes in
fiction. The topic has been neglected by
most thoughtful persons thus far, and
no one could be better fitted to discuss it
than Mr.. Bangs.
The times., 1898-11-27
Ill Remember Yen.

II remember you, it must be only
As this spent, lightning shattered cloud see
Remembers yon high star, divinely lonely,
The namesake of a god, and bright he
II l remember yOri-so loved, so hated
Why it were better that the graye-roze grew
Between (where yen hurt dove means, un'
mated
Forever more-ii | remember You.
Sarah Piatt, in the December Century.