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La Junta tribune., 1899-04-12
loeA, AND ,ss.osA, ,rsss.
Joys for jewelry.

Buckley & Hart have plenty OF
money to loan on good farms.
c. NJ. Duff, billiards and pool,
fine cigars. In the Plaza block.
Get tickets at the post Office for
the Denver University Glee Club.
]. Johnson, plumbing. Shop
three doors west of Wieland's gro
cery.
A choice lot of American cut
glass just received at Fisher &
Larsen's.
Miss Nora McGlothlin, of Pu-
eblo, is visiting the family of r..
6. Burnett.
For sALE-5oo ewes and Shrop
bucks. Will lamb in May. See
Bomgardner & O'Neil.
! Mrs. ]. G. Gordon left last Sat
urday morning for Eaton, Neb., to
make an extended visit.
Five acres to lease in McCreery's
Gardens; in cantaloupes last year.
Inquire OF Depotmaster Zickafoose.
d. B. Carey, assistant attorney
general Of Colorado, was down
from the capital city last Sunday
for a brief visit at his former
home.
Guy E. Smiths new ice house
east of the mill was completed yes
terday. 1t has storage capacity,
for about sixty tons OF concealed
moisture.
Read the new advertisement OF
the Denver Summer School, Fred
Dick, principal, in another column
OF this issue. This institution is
we'll and favorably known among
the teachers OF our public schools.
Turn us loose among the furni-
ture buyers of the valley. You
can buy first class goods as cheAe
as others sell second hand and IN
ferior goods for at the Valley Fur
niture Company, A. c. Kennedy!
manager.
J.. V. Day, principal of the Man.
zanola schools, was in town last
Friday accompanied by number
of pupils Of the high school OF that
city. The party visited our pub
lie schools and various points of
interest in the county seat. The
tribune acknowledges pleasant
call.
Next Saturday. April 18th, is
Arbor Day in Colorado. Residents
who are building homes in the
more newly settled portions Of
town should remember fhis fact
and make preparations to observe
the day. Nothing adds more to
the beauty of a town than an
abundance Of shade trees.
Mrs. !. E. Walker left Monday
morning for Denver to reside per-!
manently. Mr.. Walkers present
run on the Santa Fe gives him
more layovers in the capital city
than in La Junta, and the change
in residence will give him more
time at home. Mrs. Walker will
be missed by many friends in this
city. @
Among those from a distance
who were called here on account
of the death Of c. B. McKibben
were: Mrs. S. r. McKibbcn, his
aged mother, who is totally blind;
E. H. McKibben, brother; Mrs.
Smith, sister, and D. Posey, =
brother-in-law, all of Belpree.
Kan. H. S. Stutler and Frank
Carlisle accompanied the remains
to Belpree, as representatives Of
the local lodge Of Woodmen.
Two batteries, l and X, Of the.
Sixth United States Artillery,
passed through this city about g
O'Clock last Friday evening on
their way from Fortress Monroe,
Virginia, to Honolulu. H. l. There
are I7o men in each battery, ex-'
La Junta tribune., 1899-04-12
WASH WAISTS.

1t will interest you to see
our grand assortment of
ladies' wash waists, in all
colors, all styles, and all
materials, from soc to- S2.a5
La Junta tribune., 1899-04-12
.KENDALL'S KENDALL'S
T

Apropos of Spring-Our Stock in Singularly Sug-
gestive of the Designs more
lovely, models exquisite, styles more
beautiful.
La Junta tribune., 1899-04-12
SPECIAL SHOE SALE
LADIES' SILK WAISTS.

Ladies' fine black waists at
81. SO, IS. 90 and -----. So. 90
Ladies silk waists in all
colors, handsomely cord
ed in front, plated back Sc. 90
Ladies fine white taffeta
waists at t-------$5.75
La Junta tribune., 1899-04-12
BLACK pETTIcoATs.

Made OF fine Italian cloth,
or mercerized satin, cord
ed or flounced and faced
with canvas, for Saturday
Monday and Tuesday.
La Junta tribune., 1899-04-12
DoMEsTIcs.

Fine percales at sBc, Ioc,
I2Hc and d----------- I5c
Unbleached sheeting "a
Wlde at I5C
Fine unbleached muslin,
worth &c, for ----- ---- o5c
Fine calicoes, all standard
goods, at o5c
Fine dress ginghams SI5c,
Ioc and 1855 ---I2Hc
Sheets, torn and ironed,
eox8I inches, bleached- soc
Same, unbleached 45c
Pillow cases, 36x42 IN --I2Hc
Pillow cases, 36x45 in-- I5c
Pillow case muslin Ioc
Lonsdale cambria Ioc
La Junta tribune., 1899-04-12
BLACK DRESS GOODS.

Black crepons, the popular
weave for skirts, at soc,
65c, SI.oo and --- 81. 2 S
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-09
SPECKLED CIGAR WRAPPERS.
New Version of How the Spots Are
Produced on Real Sumatra
Leaf.

Some of the tobacco imported from
Sumatra for making the wrappers of
cigars has a curious speckled appear
ance. In the minds of certain buyers
this marking is evidence that the cigar
has Sumatra wrapper. Such is not
always the case, for the artful manu-
facturer has learned how to spot Amer
lean tobacco artificially, and he occa-
sionally does so in so clever manner
that the uninitiated customer never
suspects the trick.
Sumatra is a Dutch possession, and
the spotting of the tobacco raised in
that island has been made the subject
of investigation by Prof. Beyerinck, of
the Amsterdam Academy of Sciences.
This learned man presented to the
academy few weeks ago a paper in
which he set forth the results of his
inquiry. He described a living, fluid
contagion," which he declares is the
cause of the disease. This disorder,
also known as the mosaic disease of to-
bacco leaves, may be inoculated into
healthy plants by injecting into the
stem, near bud, sap pressed from in
fected plants. The active virus passes
completely through the pores of very
dense porcelain, and can even penetrat
INTO agar by diffusion; therefore it can
rot be a ''contagium fixum" in the usual
sense, but it must be fluid. Out of the
tobacco plant it cannot be made to null
tiply; but in the dividing tissues of the
leaf-rudiments and the meristems of
the buds it multiplies freely and over
a great extent. y very small drop of
the porcelain filtrate can render all
the leaves of the infected plant entire
ly covered with spots, and the sap of
these leaves would be sufficient for the
contagion of an unlimited number of
healthy plants.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-09
TEMPERANCE TIDINGS.

One-idead men have controlled the
thought forces in every age of the
world. They generate an irresistible
white heat.-The Issue.
The brewers who were so patriotic
at the outbreak of the war are now kick
ing vigorously against the additional
war tax on beer. Their patriotism was
only on the foam after all.-The Cor
ierstone.
Eight counties in Georgia have gone
dry since August 1. The last to fall in
line are Thomas and Brooks counties,
where previous efforts to ouAaw the
saloon have failed on account of the
heavy wet vote in the larger towns.
There has been more American boys
an the army ruined by rum since the be-
ginning of the Spanish war than there
will be Cubans and other heathens of
our new dominions saved by American
missionaries in the next ten years.
State Leader. (Mo.).
Granger county, O., prohibits the
jale of liquor and there is not saloon
n the county. Recently the sheriff of
that county brought prisoner to the
.)enitentiary at Columbus. He told re-
porter of the State Journal that he was
erving his second term as sheriff and
this man was the first he had brought to
he penitentiary. He attributed this re-
markable fact to the absence of saloons
n the county.-Lever
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-09
A Great FaIIacy.

How often we hear the remark that
we leave intoxicating liquors alone
ihey will not harm us! There was
never a greater mistake. Drink will
1ot let us alone. AS long as saloons
exist everyone is in danger, in one way
)r another, from their deadly influence.
One day man was cutting thistles out
~ the road. Another, passing by,
asked him why he was cutting those
thistles, remarking: ''They are not
on your lot" NO" replied the other,
they are not on my lot now, but if left,
the seed will ripen, and the wind will
blow it to my lot, and then will have
crop of thistles." So with the cause
OF intemperance. So long as saloons
exist there is danger Of this thistle en-
tering our homes, or of our loved ones
IN some way being injured by them.
We are not to wait until our own has
been injured, but to do at all times all
that we can to save the fallen, and to
make the way safe for those who shall
follow Rev. j n. Hallock, D. ..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-09
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Russia's export of eggs exceeds 1,5OO,4
100000 year.
Frost has a variety of effects upon
different products. Under the same i'm
fuence eggs will burst, apples contract
and potatoes turn black
The utilization of grain elevator
waste for sheep and cattle food has
given rise to a new industry in the
northwest. The waste brings seven doll
lars a ton.
The whirling winds of Arabia some
times excavate sand pits to the depth of
1000 feet, the rim usually being three.
times that depth in diameter. sand
pit thus made may be entirely obliter-
ated in few hours, and another exca-
walton within a short distance of it.
The Lick observatory has done won-
ders in photographing nebulae, the sun
and its corona. The party from this
observatory was most successful in it's
observation of the suns eclipse in India
last January. 1t was 4scertained clear
~ that the sun spots are due to solar
activity, and that the earth only inter-
cepts one-half a millionth part of the
heat radiated by the sun.
Steel rails now figure as the cheapest
finished product in wrought iron or
steel. A good lesson in the finances Of
modern industry is also afforded by
them. To establish a steel rail works,
an expenditure of 100000 is required
before a single rail can be turned out.
The steel is made to conform to an accu-
rate chemical composition-the most
accurate in the ordinary range of tech
meal operations. i
Mushroom juice is a sure cure
against snake poison, according to VI.
PhisaliX's statement before the Paris
Academic des Sciences. He has found
that all mushrooms possess a substance
which acts as an antitoxin against SER
penis. Unfortunately his preparation
possesses toxic qualities of its own,
which he has been unable to eliminate
entirely. The patient, however, will
have the satisfaction of knowing that it
is not from snakebite that he dies.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-09

been put to some beneficial and COM
mendable purpose; lives are wrecked
that otherwise might have been saved
and made blessing to the world; fam
lilies are blighted that otherwise might
have been ornaments in society; hence
out of it comes evil, and only evil. Why,
then, continue such custom? If it be
essential to express good fellowship, let
it be expressed in some other way. Or
if we must treat our friends, associates
and chance acquaintance to some
thing, let US treat them to something
that least will not be ruinous to them,
to their families and to society. We
ought to make men better, not worse.
1t may be that we think we individually
have personal right to take an occa-
sional glass of strong drink; but that
cannot eXculpate us from the woe pro-
nounced upon him that "giveth his
neighbor drink, that putteth thy bottle
to him and maketh him drunken also"
We may claim the right to take risks
for Observation-Disclosures right - but
we have no right to thrust like
risks upon others; and every body
knows that the custom of treating is
not only risk, but an open door to
ruin, desolation and death.
Well might this railroad man already
referred to say that This treating bust
ness has got to stop" Wisely has he
organized nontreating society among
the agents concentrating in Chicago.
Wisely does he propose to push it until
it has a chapter in every large city
from Maine to California. Cheering
is the success with which it is meeting
Five thousand buttons and cards were
issued within the first few days; 10000
more were ordered; and up to the pres
ent time the demand has exceeded the
supply. Surely the time seems to be
ripe for the movement. Why, then, not
push it? Assuredly every lover of hui
mainly ought to lend a helping hand.
And why stop with railroad menu Why
not include every business man, pro-
fessional man, social man, young man,
men of every class where treating pre-.
walls and the curse of excessive drink
extends? Who can say anything
against movement of this kind? Do
away with the custom of treating, and
more than half of the present drunk
enness will cease. Who, then, will speak
and act for it? viii you?-Rev. NJ. E.
Durham, d. d., in Christian Work
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-09
STORIES FOR CHILDREN.
There should BE Variety, But the Old
FavOrites Bear Frequent
Repetition.

When one speaks of telling stories to
the little people, prose narratives seem
to be commonly understood, and as
commonly used, but there is no mistake
greater than to suppose that children
are not susceptible to the charms Of
poetry.
They care more for poetry, on the
contrary, than the majority of grown
people, whether for the melody, the
rhythm, the rhymes, the short lines,
the simplicity and picturesqueness of
expression, or for all these reasons to-
gether, which makes it a thing pleas
antly different from common speech
Goethe advised that every child should
see pretty picture and hear beauti-
full poem every day, and if we would
not Danish the charm of poetry from
mature life it behooves us to follow his
advice and subject the child to its in
fuence at the time of greatest suscepti-
bility.
We must beware, however, of giving
a one-sided development by combining
ourselves too much to one branch of
literature; we must include in our
repertory some well-selected myths,
fairy stories which are pure and spirit
ual in tone, and a fable now and then.
Nature stories, hero tales, animal anec-
dotes, occasional narratives about
good, wholesome children, neither
prigs nor infant villains, plenty of fine
poetry, as has been said, and, for the
older ones of the family, legends, allie
gories and historic happenings. A
large stock of stories is not essential
for little children. They feel as Bull
wer said, the beauty and the holiness
that dwell in the customary and the
old; and they are well pleased-and it
is best that it should be so-with bear
ing the same old favorites repeated
again and again, in song or in story,
from their mothers lips.-Nora Archi-
bald Smith, in Ladies' Home Journal.
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TOBACCO INTOXICATIoN.
A Discussion of the Effects of the
Weed Upon the Eyesight-
Cases in Point.

In the Medical News, DR.. Albert B.
Hale, of Chicago, has an article I'M
der the above caption, of which the fol-
lowing is an extract:
I'm studying the effects of tobacco
l have found not only that one must
consider its general irritating proper
ties when absorbed, but that one must
reckon with its local action when suf-
ficiently long applied. l have not the
space to discuss the physiologic or local
effect of acute tobacco poisoning such
US is seen in children learning to smoke
or when chewing tobacco has been acct
dentally swallowed or when a tobacco
poultice has been too successfully APP
piled; nor can l dwell on the more
chronic disturbances produced on the
heart or stomach by the tobacco habit.
will speak entirely of its effect on the
eyes as local irritant or as a sys-
temic poison causing amblyopia or
optic neuritis."
DR.. Hale gives detailed and scientific
account of man % years old who had
had trouble with his eyes three years.
The odor of tobacco was noticed and
the dust could be seen on his clothing
and in his hair. The eyes were red and
swollen and swimming in tears. The
condition could be due to nothing but
the constant irritation of tobacco dust.
This is an occupation disease and can
but be treated by inducing the patient
to find other work.
The condition known as tobacco am
blyopia is quite different Many men in
Germany and England deny the occur
renee of such tobacco poisoning, and
claim that there must always be alcohol
associated with tobacco in order to
cause neuritis. DIR. Wood, of Chicago,
and DR.. De Scheveinitz, of Philadelphia,
have pointed out the error in their ar
gument. Latest researches leave no
doubt that tobacco neuritis is a true in
fammatory process.
Cases on the border line are not hard
to find. Workers in tobacco often com
plain of poor vision, but in them irrita-
ton from the dust and unhealthy sur
roundings are factors, while in nearly
al SdSSS VI SuCu dlHDlg Opld Ill puDIlc
and private practice there is a history
of tobacco combined with alcohol.
A merchant So years old began to
smoke at 26, using Egyptian cigarettes.
He used them for several years when,
after a sickness, he ceased smoking for
five years. He then began on cigars,
used them for several years, then
ceased again for five years; for the last
ten years he has smoked constantly.
Has never used liquors, has been active
in out of door sports. Has worn glasses
for near-sightedness. In May, 1897, his
sight began to fail, first for distance;
then near objects seemed dim and
cloudy; by October his business was
entirely given up. Vision in the right
eye was almost lost, and for the left
was greatly diminished. No treatment
was given; the tobacco was stopped.
By January he could read and write,
and since then has been able to resume
his business. Proving his failure of
vision to have been due to the toxic eff
feet of tobacco.-Union Signal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-09
THE CUSTOM OF TREATING.
This SO-Called Good Fellowship
Leads to Excessive Drinking
and to Drunkenness.

A prominent railroad man says:
"The men of our profession know every
Tom, Dick and Harry from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. We go into place to
get a drink, and before we can leave
we have had half dozen or more drinks
that we have had to cake as treat, or
join in as a treat to others" The con-
sequence is that they get full" wsdh-
out previous intent, simply out of good
fellowship, and others get full" with
them for like reason. This good fell
lowship, therefore, leads to excessive
drinking and drunkenness all around.
Nor can this be avoided as long as treat
ing is recognized as the expression of
courteous treatment and good will
among friends and chance acquaint-
ances. Every railroad man feels that,
so long as the custom prevails, he can
not maintain his standing among his
boon companions and business aSso-
ciates without following it. To refuse
to stand treat" would belittle him in
the eyes of his fellows, make him APP
pear small and stingy, whereas railroad
men are among tie most generous men
in the world, and justly pride them
selges on their large-hearted generosi-
ty. Nothing hurts generous man like
a charge of meanness and stinginess.
What is thus true of railroad men is
true of men, more or less, in the va
rious ranks of business and of social
life. From the country men go to the
village or city and get full" solely be-
cause they have met acquaintance
there with whom they have passed the
compliment of good will too frequent
ly. Had they drank only as their per-
sonal inclination prompted, they would
have returned home comparatively
sober, if not wholly so. In the city,
after the days work is ended, men go
downtown" for recreation or shop
ping, with no thought or purpose of
carousal and before midnight are
beastly drunk, fighting crazy or maud
lin foolish-all as the fruitage of the
treating custom. Young men every
where are led into habits of drink
through this method of induction, and
even boys find this the entrance door
into the wider fields of dissipation.
Three things result: Money is worse
than wasted that otherwise might have
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-09

socks and found attached to one of
them a slip of paper with these words:
81 am a young lady of 20 and would
like to correspond with a bachelor
with a view to matrimony," Name and
address were given. The bachelor
wrote and in few days got this letter:
Mamma was married 20 years ago.
The merchant you bought those socks
from evidently did not advertise or he
would have sold them long ago. Nam
ma handed me your letter and said
possibly might suit you. l am IS years
old "
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-09
IRON IN EGGS.
An Ingenious Frenchman Feeds II
to His Hens-Medicine in
Hen Fruit.

There is scarcely any branch in which
medicine has not advanced in the last
20 years, but in no one branch has more
improvement been shown than in the
compromising and putting together of
drugs. No more is the unwilling pa
tent made to swallow large doses of
nauseating medicine, for sugar-coated
pills, capsules and waters have come
into use, and patients can now take the
most vile-tasting medicines without
any discomfort. Now comes along a
Frenchman with still more ingenious
plan which opens up to pharmacy I'M
bounded possibilities of going still fur
Their ahead.
On account of the difficulty of as
Stimulating iron as a medicine,
French druggist has sought to intro
duce it in a digestible way by what he
terms ferruginous eggs.
Hens can digest iron easily, while
rendering it back through the albumen
of their eggs in a form that is easily di-
gested by the weaker stomachs of man
kind. A salt of iron is given to the
hens with grains of wheat. a dozen of
these indicated grains of wheat a day
makes the hens, after three or four
days, lay eggs which are very rich in
iron already digested.
The Frenchman is experimenting
further with other drugs, and it is not
without the bounds of possibility that
we shall shortly be able to take all our
r,edi cine in the form of eUUS -Na1v Or-
leans TimesDemocrat
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-09
GLIMPSE AT STORE LIFE.
to Those of a Small Com
munity.

ut would surprise an outsider to
know how much a great retail store re-
sembles a town." remarked a clerk in
such an establishment, reports the New
Orleans Times-Democrat. 1T has all
the familiar characters of a small COM
munity and all of its gossip, its circles
and inner circles, and its class distinc-
tions. In a modern department house
you will find certain social leaders and.
their regulation system of satellites, all
fully developed. There will be one
group that goes in for frivolity, and an
other group that goes in for literature
and art, and people who are plotting
and scheming to get into this set or
that, just as they do in the outer world.
1t is very quaint and amusing. One EN-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-09

surety for executors, administrators,
guardians and trustees, watch those
records. Employees of legal advertis-
ing mediums pour over them to get the
names of attorneys. appointees of the
court, and seek them to solicit the ad-
vertising that must be done under the
law. But strangest of all to seek that
source of information is the maker of
grave stones. Yes, an agent is at work
in that direction, and it is related that
lie gets considerable business. He
makes note of the attorney and admin
istrator, the names of the widow or be-
reaved husband or children, and in due
time seeks them and solicits their trade.
With his catalogue of his business he
shows what can be furnished to perpet-
uate the memory of the loved one who
has paid the debt of nature.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-09
HUSTLING TIMES.
Ople Who Keep a Lookout After
Those Gone Before Are
Kept Busy.

Few persons probably realize how
mbch business is transacted in connec-
tidp with those who have ceased to do
buAiness and have gone to their final
resi- 1t would seem the proper thing
tina Nirvana should come with death,
SO gar as business with the dead person
is concerned. But it is not so, and never
has been. Yet in these modern times
of competition and the evolving of
schemes to make money, says the Gin
citnati Enquirer, death sets in motion
machinery of business that awaits the
visit CT the pale rider to give it impetus.
The records of the probate court are
the,source of information for the agents
of various enterprises. The solicitors
of bond companies, ready to become