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The Monte Vista journal., 1898-11-05
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THE means for tho production
aud distribution Of the necessities
Of life should be AZ free to the peo-
pie ~ possible. aud no man or cor
poration should stand in the way.
Money aud transportation enter
into both production aud dis
tribution and it is the duty Of tho
government to guard against un-
due monopoly Of money aud rail.
roads.
The following is from the Peo.
pies platform on these questions
Of most vital interest 70 al the
people:
We demand Q national cusreocy. aafs
and sound. Issued by the gsussal govern.
msut only. . full legal tender for sll
dsbta. publsq and private. n 1Sst, equ,ts.
bic and sf6oisat m.nnA of distribution.
direct 70 the people, and through the
lawful disburssmsuts Of the s0vsrnmsat
We demand the fsss and uaesstr,ct<<
coinage os silver snd gold at tbs pr.~snt
Issal ratio II 10 70 I by tho Us,ss.i States
without waiting foe tho oosssus os tor.
sign pstioea
We demand that tho volume os circu.
lstsag medium 10 speedily inersassi u
sn amount sufficient 10 assss ti,s .i~.
naods Il Tie business asd populat,on
q this oouotsy aed 70 restore the just
lsvsi oe psioss q labor sad psodsot,on,
ed thsssby ssaablhh psospssily Tor
ths psopis.
TRANSPORTATION.
Traasposteaioa beins usesss II q.
ohsass it y ssossssry the government
should own and operate the railroads Ia
Ne istsssse d Ne people, - . 100 par.
tissa bas;a. - the sad thae III nay b.
soooedsd The cane tssalnsat 10 ssaas.
poetassoa and tAsa Tyranny I'D political
power sow sssreassd BY the sssss rail.
foad oospoesl.oss, vhIsh ssssh ~ the
iapaieasss U sos ths dsaasseaisa u
~ political sshts sad psssesal HhsstIss
= ~ estissa nsv b daslss1a1 0Ssh
swssesAsV b 70 b sooomp plisksd eeAtl.
ually, u . ososee eoesisteaS With soted
p.bais pstssy.
The Monte Vista journal., 1898-11-05

The Creede Miner is whooping
it up for w. y. Station a. the can.
didate but carefully conceals the
fact that he il also the Mckinley
gold bug republican candidate.
The Monte Vista journal., 1898-11-05

The Eagle aud the dove have
gone to roos. together. The dove
will be a soiled bird when the day
dawns on the morning after elect
ion
The Monte Vista journal., 1898-11-05

"BIRDs Of feather flock togeth.
sr." The eagle aud the dove have
the same plumage and have 0one
to roost together in Wolcott's hon.
coon,
The Monte Vista journal., 1898-11-05

IT 10 easier for man to sacri.
6ce . friend on the political altar
than to sacrifice himself.
The Monte Vista journal., 1898-11-05

TnE loss q tAs dove smblem
wont cost ~ . vote saloag t,m,~s
Who can reed aud think. Il tdtdn't
have - tsalhess, - how.
The Monte Vista journal., 1898-11-05

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The Monte Vista journal., 1898-11-05

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THE FUSION TICKET.
For Governor,
CHAS. S. THOMAS, Dem.
Arapahoe Comfy.
For Lieutenant Governor,
FRANCIS CARNEY, Pop.
Ouray County.
For Treasurer,
JOHN H. FESSLER, 8. Rep.
Garfield County.
For Secretary OF State.
ELMER BECKWITH, Pop.
Boulder County.
For Auditor,
GEO. W. TEMPLE, s. Rep.
Rio Blanca County.
For Attorney General,
D. NJ. CAMPBELL, Pop.
Pueblo County.
For Supt. Of Pub. Instruction,
HELEN NJ. GRENFEL, S. Rep.
Gilpin County.
For Regents, State University
d. M. RICHARDS, Pop.
Arapahoe County.
E.. MORATH, Dem.
Boulder County.
HAROLD THOMPSON. s. Rep.
Ell Paso County.
For Congress. Second District.
JOHN c. BELL. Pop.
Montrose County.
For State Senator,
CLARK w. ROE,
Mineral County.
For Representative,
JOHN II. SHAW,
Rio Grande County.
For County Judge,
o. II. MARYATT,
For County Commissioner.
A. G. BEERE.
For Justice Of the Peace,
JOHN ID. LEWIS. Full Term.
GEORGE SOUTHEY, Short Term.
For Constable.
GEORGE CHANEY.
The Monte Vista journal., 1898-11-05
- Aome First. =

We ~ homo finders for home seekers. There are tsv
vasts that cannot 6lL City and farm property
d oar books and thsrs some gilt edge bargains
eos some people Farm property . specially: Mako
vV1l savs you money.
j. ALFRED SMITH.
The Monte Vista journal., 1898-11-05

N. II. CHAPMAN.
nHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Once at Weiss.Chapman drug
store, Monte Vista, Colo.
Evening star., 1898-12-17

will yell out next" However this may be,
the effect at the opera is excellent The
house is Very large one, the largest, ! be-
lieve, in South America. 1t has FIVE gal
ierieS, the lower three of which are boxes.
When the curtain is up the men behind the
women in the boxes are practically out of
sight, and from the pit where l sat in my
sixteen-dollar place, / could see above me
the heads of the ladies standing. as IL Were
on the red plush railing of The galleries
There We're hundreds of these busts run
ming tier above tier, making flesh and
blood beauty show far superior to the wax
works of Madame Tussand and we'll worth
coming to the Argentine to see In ad-
dition 10 the ordinary boxes. there is a
special gallery in this theater called the
cazne.a, where ladies can come without
escorts, and in which men are not allowed
Seats there cost from two to five dollars
and is well patronlzed.
The opera at Buenos Ayres is considered
much more a social event than as a
musical entertainment / can't describe the
Importance with which dress is regarded.
In my plain American way L first though
of wearing a black suit, but no. going in full
evening dress. Iput on, howevcr, my steel-pen
coat, but neglected to wear gloves. On en-
terng the house / found every man in the
orchestra except myself wearing white
kids and every man but me had tail silk
hat. Between the acts the men rose to
their feet, ciapped on their hats and then
sauntored to and fro through the house
Some stood at their seats With their opera
glasses to their eyes and stared at the
women regardless whether they knew them
or no., but the greater part walked TO the
entrances of the aisles and stood there in
knots with their hats on and feasted their
eyes upon the women. 1t was a sort of a
cannibal feast, but the paint or enamel on
most of the faces was SO thick that IL
brought no blood TO the surface.
And this brings me to a Buenos Ayres
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it brings good luck and it affords young
girls an opportunity to be well kissed with
out the slightest impropriety.'
'GarcOn, exclaimed the prince, "go out
and fetch branch of miss-lue-toe-uhr'
"A few days before Christmas time and
until after New Year the young girls and
boys, especially those who already dream
of the Incompatible joys of wediock go
out in company to seek the May of the
cold season. 1t is IN the old oak forests
that it grows, the only kind of gui possess
ing any mystic virtues"
And as they wander through the
depths. the fat man interposed, "th,
depths of the mysterious and poetic forests
OF Armorica, where once white-bearded
Druids whispered"
TO the little Druidesses." put in the lit
lie maEager who is extremely "Frenchy''
in his conversation.
But no. Will YOU stop now?" inquired
the nObleman.
''Silence,''
"Attentionr'
The boy who finds the plant of love"
Nv hich is parasite" the fat man whis-
pers.
The boy who first finds the plant is made
KING OF the feast. They carry him in tri-
rmph with his branch of gui back to his
nome The branch is solemnly hung up
above the entrance door. Then all the
young girls pass one by one underneath it.
and are kissed heartily by all the Young
men who are lucky enough to be present
After feast of hot roasted chestnuts and
cold cider, they burn the branch of rnistle-
toe in a pan which they thrust into the
blazing chimney. The ashes are distribut-
ed, to be preserved in little bags, which are
hung round the neck. Often the little bags
are buried in the middle of wheat fields to
bring good crops. 1t is for it's power, also,
that the gui-bough hangs outside all Breton
country taverns, to prevent the drinkers of
their SWin from seeing devils korrigans
and sOrcerers on their way home at night" 3"
Good for the iss-luh-toe- uhr' exclaim-
ed the prince.
'Mss-luh-toe-ayr' corrected the fat man.
Then how would you pronounce 'tele-
phone?'"
In Enslish?"
Yes. in Engishr'
And so they went on until they quite for
got the gui d'amour and all the habits for
eign and domestic, clustering round it. For
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like hay, by carloads. Two, three and four
steamers will load up for England in
single day. one reason is that England has
not near enough mistletoe of her own. The
other is the fact that the French mistletOe,
growing for the most part-it must be ad-
mitted-nOt on oak trees, but on apple pear
and pcplars, is by far the most beautiful
This fs the difference between the French
and English. The English have the Gus
tom and they buy French mistletoe The
French have the mistletoe. but to make
use of it must have the warrant of the
English chic.
The Breton peasantry has been more
faithful 10 the sacred plant of their old
Celtic ancestors. The little dancer of the
Cafe MOnferino knew all about the ven
erable gui, being of the faithful soil her
self
what is that you are singing to us
there%' the Fat man of the orange flower
water began grumbling in a kindly fashion.
He had not heard, being occupied in corr
vfncing one OF the burlesquers that she
knew nothing Of her business.
lie gui d'amOurr' completed the young
lady. mocking at him. Then she began ex-
planning.
According to the French.
'"The gui is valuable for three things-it
u . talisman against the spells of witches,
Evening star., 1898-12-17
Habit Grew on Paris,

Habit Grew on Paris.
The Parisians know nothing of these old
traditions and these holy customs All
their lives they have seen the parasitic
plant luxuriatiIg in the woods Of the en-
virons, by the river, in the apple, pear,
poplar and oak trees, where it hangs like
great birds nests. 1t was the English and
Americans in Paris who began to have it
gathered for them a few years ago. They
paid the small boys of the suburbs to shin
up the trees and cut it.
me Parisians looked on 1t as harmless
Ans!o-Saxon mania. Now they find the
plant and custom are their own They
nave been robbed again by the "perfidioos
Albion To make up for lost time. thew
put mlstletce up by the bushel They dec
crate their salons with it. as if II uere
molly. They wear il in their button holes
and corsages. They wear it in their hair,
Anc as il has brought with it a vague and
lll-detincd idea Of kissing, it becomes the
source of many jest and galIantrv and
all extremely French.
Ihe other afternoon, as ! was walking I'D
the Avenue of the Champs EIysees with
smart young Partisan. we met Par
isleune of the smart set" the wife OF one
of his best friends. She had a big bunch
OF Inistletoe pinned to her corsage "Ah.
madame" said the Frenchman. as he
looked unutterable things, how cruel you
are to pin it so low down. Now. If YOU
only had 1t in your hair!'
She looked few unutterable things in
turn. And if l only had 1t in nv hair?"
she asked, as she smiled slowly, puckertng
her rosebud mouth and showing two out.
raceous dimples.
IF you had it in your hair you would be
underneath the mistletoe; and you know
the privilege 1t givesr'
Would not that give too general a priy-
nege she asked, Ito please your
Difference in Ways.
30 he went his way delighted Then,
selZea with a sudden scruple, he explained
to me al length that all such light talk was
but the foolish badnage in which the
French love to indulge themselves. I told
him knew it. Now there is inst the dif
ference" ne said between us and the Eng
hsh. We talk about things that we would
not do. The English do things that thav
Will not talk about Why. it is notorious
tEat.they kiss every one they meet beneath
the mistletoe. That is the reason that thew
buy 1t by the boat load from usp'
French woman whom ! know is send
ing hef pretty little daughter to one Of
those newfashoned Paris day schools
Where the boys and girls are taught to
work and play together. in the English
fashion.
Mamma" she said the other day. when
she came home, there is naughty little
English boy at our school"
Yes. cherie.''
hold 1T over me and kiss me"'
, You must run away from him. said
mamma.
But" replied the little demoiselle, Sup
pose that he should not run after me?''
The French mamma is now looking for an
old-fashioned convent school, where the
cult of the English mistletoe will never pen
citrate. STERLING HEII ,IC
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l u III l. ] + T. | \
BGenos Ayres!
High life in the
Paris OF South Amer
ica, Where million
aires are thicker
than blacKberries in
dog days and honey
i p p e Il hciresses
swarm Ike bees in
m d 5 Il N m e T. We
may see Il out driv-
ing IN the park at
Palermo or meet il
every erDoaD a,,
Evening star., 1898-12-17
He Couldn't Miss That.

From Pearson's Weekly.
Ethei-"'They say that when De Broke
proposed TO Carrie she tossed up coin to
decide whether or not she would accept
him.
Maud-"And the coin said nor
Ethel-"She never knew Lord De Broke
caught the eoin when 1t was in the air and
rushed out with It."
Evening star., 1898-12-17

who sends the ma
tional news of t h e
day from Washing
ton to a windy city
newspaper-the gen
eral row over the eX-
tension of the Chi
cago street railway
franchise had been
up for discussion
the newspapers out
there fell into t h e
traps set by a sad
Evening star., 1898-12-17

ISTLETOE is The
latest thing in Paris.
Already C / u b m e n
wear it in their but
tonhoIes and ladies
pin it in their cor
sages. This is what
it is TO be quite Eng
lish - in the French
conception.
"Au gui," this is
the Breton word for
mistletoe. They hawk
1t around the streets.
They sell it in the
Evening star., 1898-12-17

my part, as I walked home, l could not but
reflect on the GOd-fearing Breton tavern
Keepers who hang out boughs of sacred
mistletoe to prevent their customers from
seeing devils, sorcerers and korrigans on
their way home at night. The last thing
the old faithful minded topper does is to
stare at the bough of "unalterabe holy
green before he rolls along the ghostly
stretches of the wntry forest road The
English say "A good wine needs no bush ="
Was it not a bush of mistletoe that Shake
speare meant?
Evening star., 1898-12-17

lot of brilliant reportorial fakirs about ten
or dozen years ago. L meet one or the
othef of these eX-reportorial fakirs every
once in a while. They're ali doing we'll
They've all won out Several of 'em are
theatrical managers, and others of the lot
are press agents for theatrical outfits; and
IN these capacities they are congenialiy
placed, IN so far as their joyous indulgence
IN the riotousness of their lurid i'm ina
tons is concerned. They all just happened
to drift into Chicago around the period
say, from 1886 to 1899, and they all got en-
ployment on the various newspapers of
chicago, which We're all more or less high
in the standard and tone of their local news
before these ingenious and incorrigible
fakirs happened into the town And it
wasn't the fault of the newspapers or of
the owners thereof, that Chicago and all of
the desmesnes adjacent thereto were so
teFflncaliy taxed during the period to which
l refer. The newspapers couldn't help it,
Iheir spetlbinders turned in such corking
Whoppers, with such a wealth of detail in
every case, that-well, the frankly named
Liars Club OF Chicago, finding itself over
topped and outdOne to a StandStill just
voted to go out of existence at the time
when the reportorial taking of Chicago
was at its zenith.
For instance
Evening star., 1898-12-17
Magazine Ways.
Prom Puck.

Here's a wood-cut that has lost its tag"
"Well-label it Hitherto Unpublished
Portrait of Dewey and print 1t"
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Q. files II Gars de BretaEnc,
Noici le jour
Daller cueillr. par la campagne,
I 4. ,,17i H. rD,nr
lie gUi d amour

II led TO q deal of informing conversation.
Without dOubl the cult OF the mistletoe and
its VoneratiCn as a luck bringer are a part
and parcel Of the Breton peasant life. but
the important industry Of gathering il is
nearly all to supply the demand of Eng
land. If you Were at this moment say, at
Saint-Maio or HarieUr You would see the
ports Of those antique cities covered with
mountains of mistletoe. II is brought in,
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ARGENTINE SOCIETY
The Nabobs Of Buenos Ayres Are a
Very Lively Lot.
LAVISH FORTUNES At THE RACES
Rather Go Hungry Than Miss Co.
ing to the Opera.
COURTING AND MARRYING
AVISH FORTUNES At THE RACES
COURTING AND MARRYING

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
copyrighted 1898, 10y Frank c. Carpenterl
BUENOS AYRES, November %. 1898
Evening star., 1898-12-17

she bowed. She actually did. / tipped my
nat in return, carefully hiding the bald spot
"hlch my wife says Is coming there.
At the Opera.
Even more swell than the races or Paler-
mo is the Italian opera. Buenos Ayres is a
theaterSoing city. 1t has twenty-six such
houses of amusement, upon which its peo-
pie spend in the neighhorhood of two mil
uon dollars year. The most expensive
and most fashionable of all is the opera
"hefe the boxes for the season cost a
thousand silver dollars and upward and
where SOM of the greatest singers of the
world take part. The boxes are usually
,tken Tor the season. and an Argentine
swell would rather sell mis- shirt and wear a
dlckey than give up his part in a box at the
opera. The orchestra or pit is next in price
tc the boxes. A seat here costs sixteen, sill
Yer dollars night, or Il little more than
five dollars in gold. General entrance is
two dollars gold and the seats in the pea
nut gallery are IS low as twenty-five cents
During my last night at the opera the
ltallan star TomagnO sang IN Wilhelm
Tel, but the house interested me even
moe than the singing. There were
should say. at least 5000 people present
and every man and woman in the boxes and
IN the orchestra was in full dress There
was NOT a man in business suit eXcept in
the top galleries. The ladies were without
bonhets ana most of them had on lOw-neck
gowns, with arms bare, except when coy
cred with long white gloves The dressrs
were tar better and more costly than those
you see at White House reception They
were better made and, / am told, most of
the costumes used by rich Argentine ladies
come from Paris. There were jcwe.s every
where. There was, ! venture. good half
peck : diamonds On the female part Of
the audience. Diamonds rs big as the end
of my little finger hung from the lobeS of
pink ears, clusters Of diamond flowers
nestled in beds of lace upon yoluptuous
hosoms. and combs set with diamonds fast
cned the WSll-groomei tTvSSes of Argen-
tine beauties on the crowns IS their shapely
heads TIL re were pearls a. rus a. marrow
fat peas. necklaces Of then i.inad at The
center with a great ruby o. an emerald
There were sapphires and G,.Ils and gold
aiorG-
How the Girls Look.
Many of the women were irelty. repre-
senting many compeX,oI.s and kinds of
features as you will see at the metropolitan
Opera in New York. ! could not notice a
predominance of the Spanish type. So
many Of the rich Argentine families have
intermarried with the foreigners that their
women are as cosmopolitan in their ap-
pearance as our own. Some of Them We're
homely, and not a few. / regret to say.
owed much of their good looks to their
make-up. Powder ana paint are artistically
used in BuenoS Ayres, and there is no capi-
tai OF the world where the professional
halrdTesSer and face enameler has d bet
ter custom. / have been told that the
idfls!dn hardresSers and euamclers have
their regular clientele of rich women, who
come 10 be made uD before they start for
thelr DRIVE in the park or for an oDera or
evening party. On opera nights You have
to engage your enameler beforehand, or
wait in the ante-room for hours before he
Evening star., 1898-12-17
Training for the Event.

why, professor, I wasn't aware that
you went in for athletics to this extent"
Il don't ordinarily, but (bifD I've got to
(bing) discharge our cook next week
(bang)."
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Pat-"If wan af US gets there late and
the other isn't there, how will he know IL
the other wan has been there and gone or
If he didn't come YETI"
Mike-"Weu atsiy fit thot. If Oi get
there furrst I'll make chalk mark on the
sidewalk, and If You get there furrst youH
rub 1t out"
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Fashionable People Have Taken Up
Mistletoe as a Fad.
BECAUSE IT IS SO VERY ENGLISH
Peasants Have Some Pretty Super
stitions About 1t.
HOW THE CUSTOM GREW

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
PARIS December 10. 1S9
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markets. 1t has become the petted guest
of Paris exclaims a fashionable writer
THE darling little branch. forever green
with its pretty, white berries, iris-hued
like pearls, enameling with their milky
gaze all the unchanging green that wraps
them round. 1t is not the pale green of
northern seas, with deep-sea eyes, but the
unalterabIe holy green of the supreme
speranza-hOpe."
But you must not say "gui.'' which is too
common and too French, but ''mistletoe,' -
because the fashion comes from England.
Ii is true there is more mistletoe in north
ern France than anywhere else in the
world 1t has been always called the
farmers pest. 1t is true that mistletoe
grows in the Paris bois and in the ample
pear ard oak trees by the river. 1t is true
that Normandy and Brittany supply all
England with the darling little iris-hued
sperauza," but, then, Parisans will not
know anything until it has been properly
brought to their notice. They have just
discovered mIstetOe.
Last evening. about half an hour past
midnight, 1 was sitting in the Cafe Mon
fcriIO, just beside the Opera. We had Sc
cured corner table in that section nightly
p&trOniZed-as IL they owned it-by group
of theatrical managers, dancers of the
opera and small stars of the burlesGue
stage. They talk so much that they for
get 20 drink their drinks. The dancers take
hot mix. two theatrical directors take
balloons If beer; the third takes orange
flower water; one of the burlesquers pre-
fers curacao; while both of the others have
a tiny glass of CggnaC. An amiable young
prince who cutivates their company,
orders up a formidable whisky Soda" for
he is extremely English.
Evening star., 1898-12-17
What to Call 1t.

They were talking about mlstletoe and its
pronunciation. 'AIiss-luh-toa-ay," said the
fat man, and II is a serious thing to con-
tradict him. he is excitable. That is the
reason h takes orange flower. ''Mss-luh-
toe-uh," said the young prince, firmly,
looking at him with calm. steadfast eyes.
Il am Of Britanny," said the fair dancer
OF the opera. and the old Breton gui will
do for ms There is a song used to
Eiu
Evening star., 1898-12-17
Remarkable Yarns Have Been Worked
Off on Guileless Chicago
BY CONSCIENCELESS REPORTERS
In Every Case the Story Was
Swallowed With Avidity
GIGANTIC PREVARICATORS
Written for The Evening Star.

TT ehelSe ehieass,% said A d q o~ nan m
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Chicago's Famous Duel.

'Then there was that famous fake about
the duel in one of the parks on Chicagos
South Side. An ingenious young man, who
afterward married famous prima donna,
performed that one. He was also a night
police reporter and for some time previous
to the preparation OF his star fake he had
been suffering from ennui because he had
Evening star., 1898-12-17
An Ingenious Device,

Copyright. 1898. Life Publishing Company. }
Evening star., 1898-12-17

''The gui is valuable for three things-it
u . talisman against the spells of witches,