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La Junta tribune., 1900-09-12

FOR THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.
We will for one week make special prices
on Boys and Childrens Clothing. We
will give Cash Discount Of Twenty
five per Cent on Boys and Children's
Suits. We will give you chance to dress
your boy up for school for very little money
La Junta tribune., 1900-09-12
LOCAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS.
Trade at Dalton's pharmacy.
School books, Palace Drug

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4 School books, Palace Drug
Store.
Stationery aud school supplies,
Palace Drug Store.
\ DR.. c. r. Hubbell, dentist, Cen
trail block, La Junta, Colo.
For rent, for sale and furnished
room cards for sale at this Office.
Walter Florer, Of Oklahoma, 10
the guest of his uncle, DR. Frank
Finney.
i Walter Green, OF Rocky Ford.
has taken charge of E. ]. Lewis
tract in North La Junta.
4 The agricultural association Of
Horse Greek will trip the light
fantastic next Friday night.
"Gem Flour" best in the market.
Every sack guaranteed or money
refunded.-La Junta Milling Co.
/ Lawrence Uric takes Carl
Wenberg.s place at the hospital
during the latter's absence in
Sweden.
i Newman H. Lewis left this
week for Boulder, where he will
enter the state university for the
coming year.
j They are twenty-five patients At
the railroad hospital in this city at
the present time, the largest num-
Der in twelve years.
4 Miss Alice Kendall returned last
Saturday from Glen Park, where
she has been enjoying the noun
tain breezes for month past.
Mrs o. ]. Blakesly returned last
Saturday morning from Painted
Post, N. Y, where she has been
spending the summer school va
cation.
Mrs. George Mackie and dasgh-.
ter. Jeanette, left yesterday morn
ing for Prices Corners, Ontario, to
visit relatives. They expect to be
absent about one month.
| The Santa Fe railroad company
is to equip its cars with its own
electric lights. Those now in use
are owned by an electric company
to whom is paid a royalty.
Shropshire Rams for Sale.
Rams are well bred and climated;
will guarantee them sree Of scab.
Ranch on Adobe Creek, miles
from Las Animas.- P. H. Sweet
man.
| Carl Weinberg, Of the railroad
hospital, left Monday night for an
extended visit to his old home in
Sweden. He will spend Christ
mas at home and return to La
Junta early next year.
| The TRIBUNE force is indebted
to H. b. Fetz, of the Holbrook
country. for several large juicy
watermelons, which occupied
reserved seat for brief season in
our sanctum sanctorum one day
last week.
4 La Junta was visited by soak
ing rain Monday night, and the
residents of this burg contemplate
getting up a purse and buying the
weather clerk leather medal for
his kindness and consideration.
He deserves it.
One Of the horses purchased by
the city for the ERE department
has been laid up for . month past
with distemper, but is now on
duty agsin, and has not forgotten
any Of the tricks taught him by
Chief Wonderly and Assistant
Chief Perkins. He il Johnnie on
the spot at the ringing of the
gong.
il The ladies Of the Presbyterian
church have gained the promise of
. lecture On Honolulu. Japan and
China. TO Be given by Dr.. Colt
man - soon - the opera house
La Junta tribune., 1900-09-12
FlNNEYS PHARMACY and Supplies Complete

Dalton's pharmacy for drugs.
School books. Palace Drug
Store.
For school supplies, go to the
Palace Drug Store.
For school supplies, 60 to the
Palace Drug Store.
For fresh bread, pies or cakes go
to Fishers postoffice news stand.
For RENT. - Two furnished
rooms; Ration avenue.-Mrs. L.
w. Gilbert.
Each package of Putnam Fade
less Dye colors either silk, wool or
cotton perfectly at one boiling.
Sold by Walter ]. Kemper.
Miss Jessie Thompson, of Rocky
Ford, is attending the commercial
college, taking complete course
in stenography and typewriting.
w. A. Lewis, who graduated
from the state normal last year, is
teaching school at Silver Plume,
and orders the TRIBUNE sent to
that address.
1t is reported that the Rocky
Ford fair association had to pay
two and one quarter cents each
for all the melons given away on
Watermelon day. In previous
years they have been donated.
c. P. Marshall and wife, Of
Garden City, were the guests OF
their son, Roadmaster Marshall,
over Sunday. They witnessed the
Rocky Ford festivities last week
and returned home Monday morn
ling.
| A special convocation OF Pales-
tine Commandery, No. az, Knight
Templars, was held at Masonic
hall last Saturday night to meet
Gen. ]. P. S. Goblin, lieutenant
governor of Pennsylvania, who is
lSisiting his nephew, w. B. Goblin.
Of Rocky Ford. Quite a number
of Masons came down from Rocky
Ford and very pleasant evening
was spent by the brethern.
John J. Murphy has succeeded
Andrew ~. Dunlap as general
yard maeer at this point. Mr..
Murphy comes from Denver,
where he ahas been officiating as
night yard master for the Colo
RADIO and Southern. Mr.. Dunlap
returns to the middle division at
Newton, where he was formerly
located. John Gleason is acting
as night yard master at present.
Charles M. Riden, brakeman
on the afternoon passenger, had
his left wrist broken at Rocky
Ford last Saturday evening. The
brakeman was standing on the
steps of the rear car as the train
was leaving Rocky Ford, when a
belated passenger who desired to
get off the train ran into him,
throwing Riden with great force
to the depot platform. The in
jured man is at the hospital.
L. M. Campbell, of Horse
Greek, attended the republican
senatorial convention at Las Ami
mas Monday, and was an inter-
ested spectator of the proceedings
throughout. Mr.. Campbell is a
candidate for the democratic
nomination for state senator, and
very cbliging offered to break the
dead lock in the republican con-
vention by entering the race as a
dark horse. He finally received
one vote in one Of the numerous
ballots taken.
The second annual exhibit Of
the North La Junta Suburban
Society will be held on the E. l..
Lewis tract in North La Junta on
Thnrsday, September a7th.
Everybody is invited to bring ex-
The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1900-12-20
NORMAL SCHOOL VICTIMS.
FIve More Bodies of the UHfsrtHnHtes
FOund at the Foot of the
F1rc Escape.

Dunkirk. n. v, Dec. Bodies OF
Ave more victims Of the Normal school
fire were recovered yesterday, max
ing six that have been taken from the
ruins. Those found yesterday were
charred beyond recognition, as was
the one previously recovered. Work
men. while removing debris, found the
five bodies ~ the foot Of a Gre escape.
They were piled ncros@ each other and
burned bcyon recognition.
A ring on the finger of one of the
bodies gives hope that IL may he
identified. but there is nothing by
which the others can possibly br dis
tinRuishsd. u ls proposed that all bc
buried in one grave and that IL be
marked by one monument. TO be
placed In the Frcdonia cemetery In
memory of the victims.
District Attorney Greene and Cor.
oner Hood viii begin a rigid inycEti'
gntion st once. which will inquire into
oil matters connected with the struc,
ture of the building and the fire.
The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1900-12-20
A WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings Of q
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News Of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FIFTr-sIxrH CONGRESS.

Forty-iive pension bills were passed
Ia the United States senate on the
Iith and the ship subsidy bill was
discussed, The appointment OF George
Won |. Nyer, of Massachusetts,, 20 be
ambassador extraordinary aud min
lister plenipotentiary Of the United
States TO Italy was received from the
president In the house n resolution
waa passed to investigate the alleged
fatal hszlng Of Cadet IiooS at West
Point. Discussion Of the war revenue
reduction law was begun.
The United States senate transacted
no business OF importance on the 18th,
The house devoted the day TO the Wash
Ington centennial celebration.
Senator Hanna (O.l advocated In the
United States senate on the 18th the
passage of the subsidy bin az neces-
sary 10 the development Of the Amer
lean merchant marine. The Hay
Pauncciote treaty was amended 80 as
20 provide for American defense OF the
Nicaragua canal. In the house bills
were introduced to fiS the ratio Of con
Rressmen. making the total member
ship ISL. mud authorizing the president
10 detail army officers az military In
structors In public schools. \ resoln
tinn was adopted for a holiday recess
firm Friday. December 81. to Thurs
day. January ?, 1901 The war revenue
reduction bill was discussed.
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apparently brimminp, The Auberia
thought they had nl the mouths they
could feed and MI the cares they
could compass consistent with the
ambition, which they we're not yet
prepared 10 rellnguish, OF owning thsir
house, when the very next day after
the family eouReil knock came at
their humble door and Madame An-
bert opened II on an old man. who
asked II Jean Aubert lived there.
II come TO see him from Canada"
said he.
IL was three o'clock In the after.
noon, but Madame Auberi made the
visitor comfortable by the Are. lie
was old and poorly dressed, aud had
with him a shabby carpethaR.
"You know mc?" ne asked. aE he
took on his coat and prepared 20
make himself at home. "No7 All,
Jean remember. His father my old
nslghbor-frien'-up IN Chateau.
grand"
Madame Aubert wen, about her
work. tbs little huberts resumed
their play, the elder children came
stamping In from school. The ques.
tions they ali entertained In respect
full hilenee about the stranger who
sat DOING by their hre-who waa he3
Had he come 10 Htay7 What should
they do with him?-waitcd TN Jean
should come.
That evening they all sat up and
listened 20 the finc old story OF the
Boy Who Went 10 Seek His Fortune
or was Il the Prodigal Son? II was
told In French, with many gestures
and much dramatic effeet-and Pierre
Demarest. Its hero and narrator. was
assisted by the smiles and tears and
enthusiastic applause Of all the Au-
berts. from Jean Aubert down.
In the seignory in Canada where
the Auberts lived the Dcmnrezts had
been their neighbors. Old Dcmarest
had been father 10 Jeans father,
and Pierre Demnrest had been his
dearest friend but Pierre had chosen
20 wander, and while young Anbert
settled and married and became a
farmer on the land adjoining old De
marest's, Pierre went west and dis
appeared. No word came from him,
and except In AubeTt's stories TO his
children of the friendship he and
Pierre had had together In the days
when Aubert was a stranger and
Father ! marest had taken him In,
the very memory OF Pierre DcmareSt
seemed TO have died. Gone so yearsl
Ills audience gathered that he had
frat drifted beyond the pale of civil
iza,ion in company with a party Of
railroad engineers; that he had been
guide and hunter in the Rocky
mountains; that he had had some ex-
perience In mining. and that he had
been 10 Alaska. He talked Of In.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The total number Of persons wht
entered the Paris exposition grounds
was Is.i3020i
To continue the war IN South NJ
rica the British house Of commons
voted ss0.e00,Ooo.
The state department at Washing
ton has been notified By the British
government that the Filipino Iunta
Is not In Hong Kong.
nitchervr reported that DE Wet's
forces were near Rcddershurg and
were rasiiy cvadiny elosc pursuit
The BoerH held up a military train
near Viaklaatgr and captured ian
horses
In the British house Sir Robert T.
Reid suggested making terms with
the Beers, declaring the war was I'm
periling the existence Of the empire.
The foreign enyoys at rekinE have
all signed the modified compact, on
which negotiations win be conducted.
In the past year only II divorces
were granted In Canada, and In the
a2 years since confederation only 27i
have been granted.
Robbery. murder and deeds Of vio-
lenee. following the discharge Of thou.
sands Of exposition employees, baflled
the police Of Paris,
The isocrs were said to have taken
Barbcrton. killing several British Of
fcerE.
The Swiss republic has elected Et.
nest Brenner. Of Baslc. president
Near fiokow n crowd rushing to the
dde of Chinese boat capsized II and
200 perfnns were drowned
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CHARGED TO HIS FIRST LOVE.
Not ForEet--Body FrOEea stig
when Found.

Omaha. Neb.. Dec. IA worid-Her.
aid special from Grand Island, Ncb.,
says:
u, NJ. Hansen, ~ years old. who's,
folks reside four miles east OF this
city. and are wcll-to-do farmers. wns
found dead in the back yard nt tine
residence C! neighbor yesterday
morning. On his person was found a
card written on both sides as fo lows:
"'I have never forgotten my first
love. She Is most 20 blame ior this
False love Is what caused mc 10 do
thia: but will be better Oft Good
night, and take good care of your.
selves. Your ron
"Besidc the dead man lay 4 cup ron
tanning enough unused stryehnine 30
kill 40 men. lie was lying on his back,
neatly Dire ssed. and frozen stu when
fuund Yesterday morninl
The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1900-12-20
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.
sreminKiy staple Acts Ofttines
DriaH Happiness 60 Others
and Ourssbvsa.

We must not allow ourselves 10 for
get the true meaning OF the Christian
spirit II viii bring happiness to us
just in proportion as We bring happi'
ness 70 others. To some the day will
this year bring other than happy
thoughts or memories. Sorrows are
harder TO bear on festal days than at
any other time. But no sorrow should
crush the Christian spirit from our
hearts. II is not in the amount that
we do. or are able 60 do, that we
shall find Happiness for ourselves and
for others. The simplest pleasures
and acts ofttimes make the hszrts
OF others 20 overflow with happisess.
To fail TO do something beea1se you
feel that you cannot do much is
wrong. What seems ever 90 trifiing
10 you may make some little heart
sing all day long, which but for you
might pass the day without q note of
happiness.
Let us not disturb the Christian trs-
d.tions. ft is a duty TO ourselves to
HtFH huiH AAN ne hhAshN bhs Ss"NAs
And we can only do this by tanning
into fame the Smoulderiug cmbers Of
the Christmas spirit which Is In every
one Of us. God implanted II there.
II was good that We should have IL,
or He would not have given it TO Us.
In childhood the fire burned brightly
enough within us; In old age the light
Of Christmas will reflect our faces and
our natures. but In the meantime we
must keep the spirit alive. 80 that
II may glow the warmer and softer
In old age. Let us have an old-time
merry Christmas this year-a real.
old-iashioned happy one, Let us make
everybody forget ;hs. there IL say-
thing In the world but good-fellow-
ship and happy laughter. To the
sick let us bring forgetfulness of pain;
20 the sorrowful the sweet balm of
happy smile: TO the aged, loving
thoughts of consideration; to the
poor, suggestion OF the greater ma
terial blessings which are ours. Then,
as we bring light 10 other eyes. color
10 other cheeks. happiness TO other
hearts, we shall be happy ourselves.
The Christmas spirit will keep alive
within as.- The Young Woman.
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dianH and bears with a familiarity
that made the Aubert boys hearts
burn within them. But he dwelt
with most particularly upon his
home coming.
81 think see my home before I
de-" he saIa. IL come 10 Chateau
grand. take my bag and walk down
the road--two milcs--to my old home.
No one know me. My father dead,
my mother dead. my brother selim
Aay no room for me. He not care.
He say he think me dead. Why not
me write 10 many years? My broth
er Leonard live In ChEteau-grand. l
no 10 him. ! walk back ali the way
TO his house. He have big, good
house. He woman scowl at me--sol
and say; You ole man, you poor,
you come TO live on ua. you go way
They give me no supper. take my
bag and think OF my frien' Aubert.
I go again into the country. ] come
20 my fricn' Aubert's house. He dead,
too, but his son Just like him. Glad
10 see me fore he knew me. Give me
supper. When he And out who am,
he seize my hand, he laugh. he cry,
be say; Ny fathers frscn'i' cry.
too. ] stay two weeks with him and
his brother on next farm. They very
kind to me. ] say; Where your
brother Jean? lie little boy. when /
leave home They aay: He In the
states, In Harwichtown, New Hamp-
shire. He work In mills. DO wciI.
Have wife aud children say; I
no to SEE him. spen' Christmas with
him. II he glad 20 ace me- Not see
my brothers any iao-s. They 'frsid
] coat them money. I rot trouble
them."
Jean Aubert grasped the old man.
hand.
I'VE are truly glad TO see you," said
he. @we are not 40 well of 40 we
we're, because we ntruggle hard to
buy this house. The little children
want the air. Ny woman like q COW
and chickens. Ny girl here, Della.
want little room--a parlor--for her
heaux. We work hard all together
Tor the pay. But we see our friends.
II yeu'il take what we esq give you.
you are kindly welcome, Many times
I've heard my father tell how kind
your father was to him. And tho
children here viii like TO hear soms
more shout your life"
In the days that followed the farm.
LILY made good Jeans welcome. and
both by word and act caused their
old vt6itof 10 feel At home. Their ma.
tive Ffe1nh poiiteuess. united with
real kindllness Of heart, concealed Tho
inconvenience which bis presence
caused them. and In truth. except for
the fact that the family divisnr had
slready seemed as hig ~ II could
well be. xnd that n IN always prob
lem hos 20 pat "A psrsons 10 AIe<p IN
IN tsdA Fissrs wss very Htsis
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frien' Aul little hoy. you 9faA ss
see me, u como 10 Try ygui Tom
many chi. good chif'rwn, little
honse, work lrd TO pay for iA You
give me what you got. you make rae
feel al home. hear the little chli'rsS
whisper bout their Christmas. They
not look cross ut me and wish me 80
away. see what Robert draw--ef
Santa Claus that look like me an
what be bring him. hear the chiirsn
say this house their Christmas pres
ent. I give 10 TO thrmi You say the
mortgage thousand dollars. give
you 5000. give you brothers same.
Because you kind to me. ! stranger
and you took me I'M" aud into Jeans
amtonished hand Pierre thrust .
cheek for that amazing sum.
"Ard now 40 away" said she oie
fellow; tonight. right now. ] stay
two weeks. | an my frien's. They
know me whet como nRain--remsm-
Der OF Pier You pay your mort
gage. he =
And in spite of tIsaip1cmonstrancss,
as II he would not burden them with
having TO express their gratitude or
did not care 60 see them try. he then
and there, before that wonderful
evening was half over, girded on the
old coat. seized his faded bag and
trudgsd Oft menfully In the moon
light. vanishing as suddenly as nc
came. 9
shall not try TO describe the ems
tions that possessed the Aubert ssm-
iIy on that never-to-bo-forgotteH
Christmas night and during the sue.
eeeding week. The older ones walked
in dream, doubling whether that
precious piece Of paper which was to
set them securely on the plane OF In
dependence might not be worthless.
until word came from New York that
Il was genuine and Jean might gss
81, 900 for II amy day. Which he did,,
1900 one-doilar bills, and Eat up All
night with his wife counting it over
and trying TO realize the magnitude
Of his good fortune.
"The fact is. SIR" he said next day
when he went TO discharge the mort
gage, my wife and never saw so
much money before In all our hvsa+
We wanted to sort Of take IL In. 80
we kept it oil by us over night. Put
the rest Of II In the bank? Well, no
sir. You see We feel richer TO have
the real money right by us. And
maybe We shall use some of Il TO fix
up the house. My girl. she set ON
having some parlor furniture, and my
wife. she want piazza on the front"
Kate NJ. Cone, In Springfield tMsSsNl
Republican.
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MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


nr. r. A. Merrihsld. aged rs. at .
hospital in ~. Louis. DIR. Merriseld
wsz a charter member Of the G.. A. IL.
post OF Macon. During the civil war
he was a surgeon In the Army OF tina
Potomac, having enlisted with an II.
linois regiment.
Prof. August waldauer. director Of
Beethoven conservatory OF music, and
a musician and composer of national
reputation, at Sc. Louis hospital Hs
had been III about u week. suffering
from an abscess on his back. He was
more than rs years old.
Edward beaumont, of Hartviile. lie
was born In England In 1918. and wit
messed the coronation of Queen Vic
tOFla. DrcesssG located In Wright
county from Tennessee IA the COS, and
WIS appointed by Gov. Fletcher TO re-
organize Wright county after the civil
war.
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TRADE.

An interesting textile exposition la
IA be held 10 Atlanta, Ca, In 1903.
For cotton seed In ita naturai state.
the export demand, though uuimpor-
tant, has shown sfeady decrease dur
ing the past six years.
We have surpassed France In the
production OF articles needed by the
outsiae world as well rs those required
~ our own peopds.
DuFinr the last century the balance
Of trade has been on the side Of the
untted ssntes with greater frequency
than In any ether ccnntry-
The imports Of shis republic 10 1900
were nearly two-thirds as mSeh %
thrse pf Great Britain, while Of the end
of the eektury fhey are less than one.
third. Az ~ same time our exports
hare Increased shrse times ~ rapidly
% those Of Great nrlfain.
There II . popular Impression that
~ Frsneh suspsm ell ofhers IN sup
plyiax th<ir own necssxities and fur
nl1htnx thnfr own juxufies. bus ngnres
6hew Inst their dspeSdesce upon for
azru notfonz Aas been Increasing with
~ ysnrs. md thst the baiares ct trade
- - IGEuu1y Ana1nst thoms
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trouble. lis sst for the mcai part
by the Gre. quiet and eontent In the
evening when they were all at hofne
he told stories and talked with dean
about old tines. The children ceassd
TO he shy before him. Robert fur
lively drew his picture--cn a shingie,
as many o brother artist has been
driven by stress Of circumstances TO
do. lie was nahn of medium size
and much weather-beaten--s study In
brown, with q kcen old face, little
gold rings in his ears, bright eyes
and small. strong hands. He wss old
but not feeble, he was silent, but not
stupid. and after his own fashion
seemed cheerful and Rt ease. Robert
finished him, and after a moments
contemplation added a beard. q fur
cap, and trimmed his old coat with
fur; rounded his waist line up e Bit
and put on a belt, and the=., the fancy
growing, represented him as sur
rounded with various articles suited
20 u q holiday ambitions of che young
AubertR--for instance, paint box
and heaps of drawing paper labeled
Robert" watch and chain such as
Della hankersd after. and q bicycle
for Henri.
In spite of the quietus Papa Aubert
had put upon Christmas. the children
could not help planning for some sort
Of celebration. They could at least
have tree 20 look at; sprueea were
TO he had for the cutting on the hill
that oyerbhadowcd the village, The
little boys would get one. Robert
should make n paper angel for the
top. They would color egg shells for
ornaments, and Mamms Aubert prom
ised them a cake and snow ice-eream.
"And we viii say" they declared,
and II wa1 a piece Of philosophy
worthy Of older hesds, eve viii say,
when the time comes 10 take on the
presents, that this house 10 our pres-
ent."
What was that? Did old Demarsst
ehuckle, or merely cough In bis sleep?
They thought be was doEing, as, with
six heads in a bunch, they whispered
their pans In the corner on the other
side of the fire. II they only could have
seen wha; was written inside that
rusty old envelope Of man! Has any
body imagined how u must feel TO be
Santa Ciaus7 II 1t IL true that IL 10
more blessed 10 give than TO receive.
and that. whatever the joys Of posses
sion. generosity feels better than
gratitude, st. Nick must be the hap
pisst bsing In the universe. And Pierre
Demarcst was planning TO be the Au-
berts 81. Nicholas.
The day before Christmas he but
toned on his Goa, and trudged over to
the village,
- buy some little things for you
young ones" he said 10 Nine. AuberL