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The daily sentinel., 1900-09-10
OUR PLATFORM.
THE JUDICIAL CONVENTION,

Whatever be the merits Of the
tactional fight which has caused
the intense bitterness which exists
in the judicial district, the rank and
file Of the voters are confronted
with the fact that the strife has
split the party wide open. The
claims of either candidate are not
nearly so great as are the claims
for harmony and mutual action
Of the party itself. All cannot
be lost, because two rival can
didates have engendered bitter
hostility between sections of the
party.
For the office which has always
been regarded as non>partisan, a
desperate scramble has been made.
So bitter has the fight been that
the standard OF the office has been
lowered and the ermine of the
judiciary become as rag in the
dust.
Democracy is being weighed in
the balance throughout Colorado
this year and if found wanting,
will loose the prestige gained by
being the party Of silver. There
never should have been such a
struggle to hold or gain judicial
power. That office should be lifted
out OF party politics SO high that
word politicians could never, even
by the most determined effort drag
it down to the mire of cheap ward
heeling strife.
The very free and untramelled
manner with which men meet
throughout the western country,
where no social or political dis
tinction weighs, in holding dis>
course together, is partly responsi>
BILE for the freedom with which
men discuss their relationship with
officials, oftimes boastingly, and
to the cheapening ofthe high Office
held.
The Sentinel hopes for the good
of the party that some compromise
will be made to blot out the record
OF the Montrose convention and
that a united party ean work in
union in the support Of some one
OF the candidates in the recent
struggle.
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A show has been holding forth in the
Watson building for the past few days
that ia a terror to evil doers. Some sort
Of human being is advertised as snake
eater, and the way he handles the rep
tiles is simply disgusting. He will put
the snakes in his mouth, bite them and
let them bite him, and perform all sorts
Of cold blooded antics. The ordinary
individual has enough experience with
snakes 10 Telluride, and has no occasion
to visit this outfit, which should have
been started out OF town. 1t is said
that there are also several tropical fe-
males with the show who can go through
the sinuous movements OF the hoochee
coochee dance in a manner that makes
the snakes look like buggy whips.
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The Examiner is parti cularly FORUM
ate in possessing member on its stah
who is frequently remembered by one Of
the fair sex at Grand junction. Conse-
quently we have been indulging in de-
licious assor tment OF fruits for some time
and it looks as though it would be a
steady thing until the fruit plays out.
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The question will be asked fre>
quently this week, chow does your
fruit crop compare with former
years?" The answer is larger than
ever before in the valleys history.
The daily sentinel., 1900-09-10

The public schools Of Grand
Junction opened most auspiciously
this morning. No higher stand
ard of school excellence will be
found in Colorado than in the
schools Of this city.
The daily sentinel., 1900-09-10

Frank Shores known here among mu-
sicians as the "musical maniac" OF Grand
Junction, assisted the Delta band dur
ing the Labor day celebration. Evident
ly the altitude didn't have the effect up
on his blowing that we hoped for as he
succeeded in drowning the music Of a
dozen large brass horns with apparently
az much ease as when we heard him last
summer playing clarionet with Mobiles at
a small place about ten miles below his
home.
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lis up to Grand Junction. Let
the quality OF our reception to our
visitors and guests be the most
cordial,
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Grand junction will be in holiday
dress next week and thousands OF people
will be there. Pomona has dealt lavish
ly with the valley OF the Grand this sea-
son, and prosperous people can celebrate
in befitting manner.
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Next week. September II, II and ID,
Grand Junction will celebrate her annu-
al festival of Peach Day. Owing to the
fact that they have had bounteful crops
Of all kinds of fruit in the valley this
year, and we know it to be so, every lover
Of fruit fresh from the trees will be as
sured Of getting all they can carry off.
You should be there.
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THE
ADAMS
PHARMACY
Successor to Mitchell Drug Coz
ALWAYS ON HAND.

ALWAYS ON HAND.
We carry lotions to cure your
chapped hands. The best and
most reliable article to be found.
And after you have the chapped
hands cured you can do much to
keep them soft and smooth by
using pure soaps. We carry an
elegrnt line of toilet articles.
The daily sentinel., 1900-09-10

From the San Miguel Examiner.
The Telluride ball team leaves Mon
day morning for Grand Junction to take
part in the ball games Of the Peach Day
celebration.
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For Sale Cheap.

room house, modern. Fine location.
Terms easy.
Ramey Bros, Agents.
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Maloney thought he was larger
than his party. Many men have
fallen because of such delusion.
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Their, but also those grandfather
and great-grandfather A woman is. at
the most, responsible for the debts of
her husband.
When two Cinnamon meet, they
shake hands-that is to say, each
shakes and squeezes his own hands and
covers his head If the meeting is after
long parting, after the handshaking
is over the friends rub shoulders until
they are tired. Instead of inquiring aft
er one another's health it is etiquette to
ask: Have you eaten your rice? Where
are you going? What is your business
there? What did YOU pay for your
shoes? How old are you?"
| Men wear long petticoats and carry
fans. While women carry canes.
Playing at ball and kite flying are
the pastimes of graybeards, and the
children look on with folded arms.
When a Chinaman wishes visitor to
| dine with him, he does not ask him to
do so; he reserves that polteness as a
means of intimating to visitor that
| his company is not desired: of course,
the hint is taken, and the invitation is
politely declined.
RicHSmen, always can get any number
of servants, and yet they pay them no
wages. The common people have to
pay their servants highly. and even
| then find them hard to get The reason
| is that the servant of the rich man can
| make more than triple the ordinary
wages in perquisites.
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States, either at home or abroad. No
less than Sd agricultural experiment
stations have sent pictures illustrating
American methods and their happy re-
Suits and the outcome is a most inter-
esting and valuable collection of photo
graphic pictures. The cotton exhibition,
for instance. is made up of between 600
and 700 specimens of choice lint cotton
furnished by American growers. One
feature that is proving a novelty to
foreigners is a full sized cotton plant
covered with bolls. The tobacco indus
try has been similarly treated, and the
exhibit is the finest ever made by this
country. No les;r than 1000 specimens
of the fragrant weed are to be seen,
these being accompanied by an ex-
haustive Photographic display of the
different processes of cultivation and
manufacture.
The part which the American cereal
plays in the exhibition is no insignfi-
cant one. The grain specimens now be-
ing gazed on at Paris is all carefully
put up in glass jars one foot in
height and five inches in diameter.
These assorted grains look very spick
and span in their long rows, and con-
stitute an exhibition of which the Amer
lean farmer may well be proud. Our
official government exhibit in the mat
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Scenes In and About the City Of Cream
and Gold.' Where the Great Fair
Is Now Going On.

down because political complications
would mean smaller dividends. Today
the, Parisians are saying that foreign
pilgrims are going to leave $780, 100000
in their capital before the exposition
closes, and even though this gigantic
figure is not realized the money chests
of monsieur will be enormously enrich
ed.
An exposition on plan so extensive,
embracing all the countries of the world,
naturally makes it impossible for the
exposition managers to recognize indi-
viduals. 1t is matter of nations only.
The individual exhibitor has been merg-
ed in his national exhibit. More than
SO different countries are now taking
part in the exposition; in fact, the par
ticipation on the part of the different
foreign powers has proved surprisingly
liberal. 1t is well known what extraor-
binary eclat the French government it,
self has given to the scheme, that body
having practically fathered the enter
prise from it's first conception.
Each country participating in the ex-
position has national building or a
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as money and ingenuity could do. and
from the point of view of comfort and
convenience it is generally conceded by
impartial critics-which, of course, are
not always easy to find-that there is
no building on the grounds that COM
pares with 1t. It must not be supposed
however, that in this building will be
found all of the exhibits sent over by
our republic. According to the CLASH
fication of exhibits into IS different gen.
eral groups. regardless Of national dis
tinctions, the United States exhibits
are, of course, distributed in many diff
ferent buildings.
Some of the state exhibitions are
showing themselves to be especially at
tractiVe and valuable. Frenchmen are
beginning to find out that they are not
the only people who can make wine.
They have been smacking their lips
over our California clarets and confess
ing with a good natured shrug that
they might be worse. You cannot get a
Frenchman to praise any wine made out
side of his own country. Then. too.
Mile. Paris is learning just what de-
lightful things can be made of Amer
lean corn--stuff she had thought that
was only fit to be fed to chickens. She
has been sinking her pretty white teeth
into corn mullins and corn dodgers and
has vowed them delicious. Then Euro
peans are looking wide eyed at the
fruit that has been sent over from
America. Every week the Californian
exhibit, for instance, is to receive a
fresh supply of perishable fruits. Deli
cious peaches, grapes, plums, apricots,
figs and other deicacies of the orchard
and garden from the golden west are
now making the mouth of young Paris
water, and at the same time showing
the world in general just what can be
grown in the new world.
Speaking of fruit naturally leads to
the extraordinary agricultural exhibit
made by America at this fair. Our
farm exhibit at Paris excels anything
ever before attempted by the United
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| come TO look upon the great exposition
as mere frolic of the Parisians. The
great globe, the Eiffel tower and the
Ferris wheels they regard as freaks,
and not as triumphs of engineering in
| genuity. A frolic this fair never was.
This exposition is nothing but huge
and brilliant business speculation, and
one, too, that promises to reap rich
harvest for the investors interested.
France is not so enthusiastically inclined
that she considers it her duty to spend
six months enlightening the world as to
this same old worlds progress in the
arts and sciences and get nothing for
her pains. Monsieur loves art, but he
also loves his francs, and it will be
found that the exposition will prove one
of the most carefully engineered spec
ulative schemes of the end Of the CEN
fury
So today everything in France is play
| ing second fiddle to the exposition. Mu-
nicipal fetes have been given up be-
cause the money was needed for spec
ltacles at the great fair that was to do
| France proud. Rumors of war have
been laughed down because such things
might affect the foreign attendance.
! Revolutionary sheets have quieted
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ter of grains is model grain elevator
and other models of machinery connect
ed with the great grain and flour indus
try of this productive new world of
ours. American corn is shown on the
ear on framed panels.
An important display is that of the
meat industry as carried on in America.
All the large packing houses have been
granted space, and there are interesting
models showing all the different opera
tions of a modern packing house. Here
one can see just how the active and
lvociferous hog of the stockyards is
turned into smoked ham and steers
from the western ranches transformed
into succulent canned goods. Then
there are displays of American coal and
coaling methods, of American minerals
in general. with a model gold mine in
full working order, forest and fishery
exhibits showing the wealth of our
country in that direction, and other
things too numerous to mention The
American newspaper and the American
educational system, even, is explained
by very concrete methods. Nor must
American art be forgotten. Although
ours is country still in it's youth and
not possessing boarded accumulations
of art works of past centuries. the
showing made by American artists is a
very creditable one. Selections have
been carefully made, and representative
pictures are now hanging in Paris. But
it, is not for our convases and busts
that we shall attract the attention of
the world 1t is rather by that wonder
full display of machinery, including ev-
erything from locomotive to sewing
machine needle, and by the gorgeous
display of our agricultural products
that we shall cause the eyes of the Eu-
ropean to open in wonder.
In the meanwhile the ''bloodless
struggle of the nations,'' as the great
exposition has been called, is going on.
Side by side the great countries of the
world are ranged up in their great COM
lpetitive examination. and, though COM
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The PARIS EXPOSITION AND ITS OPENING

on the right is being used as waiting
and reception room for ladies. The CEN
trail parlor or reception room has been
set apart as a place Of rest and recrea-
ton for both men and women. The sec
ond story of the pavilion has been given
over to individual states, and here, too,
the visitor from the land of pie can
register and find out the wherea bouts of
his friends from home. The story above
this, again. just at present is place of
much hustle and business, for it is here
that the different officials have their
offices, the commissioner general and
his staff making their headquarters on
this floor. There is fourth floor, and
this, like the second, is devoted to indi-
vidual states. In this building the
American suffering from temporary
nostalgia will find good cure for any
qualms of Inconsistencies, for here he
can talk to his American friends, read
American newspapers, hire American
guides, dictate letters to American ste
inographers, change his American money
and drafts and even solace his weary
body with a good draft of American ice
water. From to 6 every afternoon the
American financier with large interests
at home can inspect the New York and
Chicago stock market quotations for
the day and even consult ticker" of
his own. The American chamber of
commerce has also opened little office
in this building, and here the American
merchant abroad can secure reliable in
formation regarding commercial mat
tiers in Paris and impartial information
as to Paris firms and business houses.
No pains have been spared to make
/. this American pavilion as comfortable
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headquarters for its citizens. These
different pavilions are each supposed to
represent some particular phase in the
life of the country for which it stands.
The country which is taking most in
terest in the exposition outside of
France itself is, of course, our own
United States. 1t is this country's eX-
hibits, too. that most interest Amer
leans. Both the federal and state gov
ernments have been liberal in their APP
preparations. For months past Com
! missioner Peck has been bending every
effort toward making the American ex-
hlbit one creditable to his country. He
not only succeeded in interesting an eX-
| ceptional number of Americans in the
exhibits and arousing a new enthusiasm
III the fair in general, but also secured
an additional grant of space, so that
now, with the exception of France and
Russia, America has more space than
any other country. More than 1000
| American exhibitors. in fact. have
| found space at the exposition in the va
rious buildings. So the American Cit
izen who goes to Paris this summer will
look about him with justifiable pride,
for everywhere he will see chat his
country has not Jagged behind in this
bloodless international struggle for SUI
premacy. He will be able to take a spe-
cial delight in the national pavilion of
his country, rising with it's domelil<e eff
feet 200 feet above the river Seine. 1t
stands on the Quai dOrsay, among the
buildings of the other great powers, and
its site is one of the best locations in
the grounds. The uppermost tip of the
American building is fittingly crowned
| by a large eagle with outstretched
wings. Another equally American fea-
| ture will be the two elevators which
will whiz up and down inside this big
structure. The building itself is square,
with large central dome and rotunda.
| On three sides of the rotunda open fair
sized rooms, one of which-that on the
left of the main entrance-is being used
! as lounging room for men, while that
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HAPPENINGS IN CHINA.

The great ambition of a Chinaman is
to have fine coffin and an imposing
funeral.
Lovemaking is begun after marriage,
this being considered not only saving
of time, but security against the
bride being carried off by rival sutton.
In fact, men do not even see their wives
before marriage, and as it is not regard
ed as decorous to have been ever so lit
tie acquainted beforehand, a man sell
dom marries a girl from his own town
and never one of his own kin or name.
Bachelors are not the pets of society in
China, but are looked on with suspicion
even by members of their own family.
A girl depends entirely on her hus-
band for fame and fortunes and is new
err considered otherwise than as an hon.
ored guest in her fathers house, being
neither responsible for the family debts
nor sharing its wealth.
A son, on the other hand, depends on
his parents and on himself, and is not
only responsible for the debts of his IA
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ample OF this passion for ornateness.
Happily always accompanying this in
the Partisan is q redeeming sense of
what is truly artistic and in good taste.
The Place de la Concorde entrance,
looming up in all its magnificence, is
standing invitation for the stranger to
pay his franc and enter in to inspect the
even more wondrous sights beyond that
magic gate. The new Alexandrine
bridge over the Seine is yet another eX
preston of the Gallo love for the dec
oratiye. This graceful single span cob
web of steel bridging the river is to
Paris what the Brooklyn bridge is to
Greater New York. When it was built,
an effort was made to break away from
the traditional Partisan method of max
ing bridge. Most of the capitals
bridges are elaborate and ornate things,
with buttresses and made of stone and
ornamented with great sculptured fig
ures the size of giants. So the Pari-
slams said that the Alexandrine bridge
should be simple and light and graceful.
But they could not resist the temptation
to put two great. square marble col
umns at each end Then each one of
these figures had to be surmounted by
a symbolical figure, and these again had
to be duly gilded. Then few more fig
ures had to be added to the base of
each, and then the bridge itself divided
into spaces and each space embellished
with some statue of bronze or iron, to
say nothing of rows of most ornate can
delabra representing groups of chill
dren. All of which goes to bear out the
fact that the Frenchman insists on
identifying everything about his beau
tiful Pars-indeed, in this very fact lies
a solution of the mystery of the pres
ent day charm of this siren of cities.
Even the big smokestack standing near
the palace of electricity is an example
of the irrepressible artistic instinct of
the Partisan. This huge chimney is 260
feet high and is the largest smokestack
in the world. But, think you, is it a
great, grimy tube pouring a cloud of
blackness up to the heavens? Not bit
of it. 1t is an airy looking tower, with
it's periphery made gorgeous with vari-
ously colored bricks arranged to form
the most pleasing figures and designs.
1t has become a fixed tradition to
look upon the Partisan as a pleasure
seeker pure and simple and upon Paris
as a city of pleasure. Never was great
er mistake made. Paris is first and
foremost a manufacturing city, great
center of factories and frugal minded
people, with only it's superficial upper
crust of frivolity. Some people have
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ten that one can get such liberal edu-
cation in two weeks. The great wheel
shaped city on the Seine has made ev-
cry preparation possible, or at least is
now busy making them, fos the recep-
lion and entertainment of ner expected
guests. Outside of the exposition
grounds, with their new parks and gar
dens and the innumerable large and
beautiful structures which have gone
up there, new hotels, new apartments,
new railways new shops, new streets
and new prices have been made over
everything there is holiday air. and
over everything that magician of mod
. ern science. the electrician, has woven his
web Of alluring lights. Everywhere
there is to be seen the Gallo love for
tinsel and display. The monumental
gate of entrance to the grounds. from
The Place de la Concorde is a good ex-