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La Junta tribune., 1902-06-28
sons soes tocAl ,ress.
Trade at the Palace drug store.

| See Bowen tor your summer
suits.
For monuments and tombstones
see John T. Russell.
4 Three packages OF rolled oats.
75c. at Pegram's grocery.
! Bowen has no apprentices work
ing-all experienced men.
i Ladies wrappers. best made,
$500 and 81. so. at Hawkins.
\ Pasture for horses; good fence;
running water. -. A. Dodds.
4 For fresh bread. pies or cakes 60
to Fishers postofiice news stand.
i Buckley g. Hart have list OF
"bargains" 10 homes. Look NJ
them.
\ The Armour brand bicycle
stockings at IS cents, are the best.
at Hawkins.
! Stark & Co. have a big line Of
new and secondhand stoves they
are selling cheap.
You get eighteen years exper-
renee when you buy suit OF
Bowen, the tailor.
| Harry Wiier and wife. of airing
ton. have been visiting friends in
town for several days.
"Gem Flour" best in the market.
Every sack guaranteed or money
refunded.-La Iunta Milling Co.
| p. A. Peterson leaves on July
Ist for Fremont, Ne, to visit rels
tives and friends for about ten
days.
| Honey, per rack roc; six loaves
home made bread, 25c; fancy old
potatoes. per 100 pounds, SI.7S
at Pegram's grocery.
John S. Potter left Tuesday
night on No. for Detroit, Mich.
where he will make an extended
visit with relatives and friends.
Miss Lillian Spane who has
been the guests OF relatives and
friends for some time in Pueblo,
returned home Wednesday night.
Miss Francis Robinson who hss S
been the guest OF Miss Nellie
Forster, in Kansas City for some
time, returned home Friday morn.
ing.
I Frank Hill and Ed Daimler
have been engaged to play ball
with the Ration club on July 4th.
5th and 9th, in a series OF games
with the Las Vegas team.
Il The Fourth OF July committee
has made arrangements with the
Santa Fe, whereby freight train
No. 81. on the night OF July 4th,
will carry passengers between La
Junta and Manzanola.
u DIR. Coltman has again been in
vited to deliver the opening ser
mon at the Glen Park Chautauqua
on Sunday, July 9th. and with the
approval OF the session of the
Presbyterian church he has &C.
cepted the invitation.
William Frame, who used to be
a CLERK in the Office OF Superinten-
dent OF Motive Power Henderson,
but who was transferred to that Of
Mechanical Superintendent Tay-
lor at La unta. Colo, several
months ago, is in Topeka for a
few days visit.-T opeka Journal.
Preaching at the Baptist church
tomorrow, both morning and even
ing, by the pastor, Rev. S. r.
Wood. Subject. II a. m, "a
Cordial Invitation" Evening,
7:45 p M, ChiIdren's Day Exer-
cisss. An interesting programme
Of music and recitations will be
rendered by the Sunday school
scholars. Everybody welcome.
/ V. l.. Snyder was tried before
| Justice Burns last Wednesday on
a charge of attempting to beat Ed
Chestnut out of board bill. the
La Junta tribune., 1902-06-28
Fourth Of July Programme.

The committee on arrangements
completed the programme for the
Fourth of July celebration at a
meeting held Thursday evening
The committee has succeeded in
raising about S8oc, and has found
ways and means TO expend every
cent OF that amount. The festivi-
ties will open at sunrise with a
salute OF 100 guns in charge OF
Colonel Reed. The parade will
take place at 1890 a. NJ. Mar
shal of the Day. Colonel r. G.
Dalton; assistant marshal, Colonel
Jerry Shaw. Public speaking in
the park at the conclusion Of the
parade, followed by the barbecue
dinner.
In the afternoon the field sports
will take place on Granada street,
between Santa Fe and Colorado
avenues, from to 1 o'clock. Bal
leon ascension and parachute
jump on the circus grounds, south
Of town. at 4 p. m. The celebra-
tion will conclude with a grand
display OF fireworks in the evening
At the same place. The prizes
offered are as follows:
Best decorated float .---$ S 90
Best comic float s 90
Best decorated carriage - S 90
Best lodge turn ont, showing
greatest number Of men in
line 5 90
Best costume in Philippine
militia 2 SO
Team pulling contest t----- 10 90
100 yard race. for men, FIRST
Prize-------------- S 90
Second prize ! 50
100 yard race. boys under IS,
6rst prize 90
Second prize 90
Sack race. first prize. 5 50
Second prize 90
Potatoe race 4 50
Three legged race 90
Kid race. little tots. FIRST prize
box Of candy;second some
peanuts.
The sports will conclude wish'a !
basket ball game in the court
house park between the R0cky
Ford and Ia Jnnta teams. Prise.
$500.
La Junta tribune., 1902-06-28
on e...,. !. T.-..

C. II. McVey, the Hibernian
oil expert, arrived in town Thus
day morning from Boulder TO
look after his interests hereabouts.
He says that the derrick Of the
Oiero Oil aud Gas Company was
completed Wednesday and that
drilling will be in active operation
not later than next Monday morn
ing. The Manzanola Oil and Gas
Company. of which Mr.. Mcvey is
also superintendent, will com
mence drilling as soon as the
tools arrive The derrick is com.
pleted and is located Just west oi
the town The company has also
purchased an engine. and as soon
as the tools arrive, will commence
boring Tor oil. This company has
full paid up capital stock oi
SIS. 900. and will probably be the
first TO demonstrate whether or not
basin OF oil underlies the great
Arkansas Valley.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02
MunIcipallzlna lndustrles.

The Italian government is favoring
the municipalization of public utilities
on the principle already adopted
largely and successfully in Milan. The
schedule of services that may be
municipalized embraces water, light
ing, tramways, buses, baths, ware
houses, abattoirs, markets, bakeries.
electric power derived from rivers.
bill-sticking, the conveyance of COT
fins to cemeteries and the establish
ment of night refugees for the desti-
tute.
No service may be municipalized
without a referendum. If the pro-
posal is rejected it cannot be brought
forward again for three years. Com
pulsory powers are given TO buy any
private company's works after the
expiration of five years from the time
of the original concession. EMPLOYEES
may be given a share of municipal
lied industries
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02
IN BEAUTIFUL PARIS

tai, you VIM do your best to seat your.
self on one Of the iron chairs of the
Acacias from 4 to o'clock OF the
afternoon. The morning groups be.
meath the trees are those of high so
ciety. These grandes danes and their
daughters do not have their photo
graphs In the shop windows, as the
custom is in London; the are not
known by face TO the mass OF
Parisians.
The afternoon parade in carriages
is very much dress parade of fem
mime celebrities, very different cate
CORY. In the dust of gold and falling
locust blossoms the equipages of this
half-high world parade slowly with a
gracious dignity through the fair
length of the acacias.
1t is the half world-the demi.
monde-so wilfully and so persistently
misunderstood by Anglo-Saxons. In
truth, II comprises all that is great
and interesting of the femininity OF
Paris apart from the monde of high
society.
There rides in her landau Brandes,
surnamed "Beaute Troublante," a
great actress of the Theatre Francois.
Behind her you will see Margaret Du
rand, directrice of The Fronde daily
newspaper.
Here comes Jeanne Granier of the
Varieties, the wittiest woman in her
conversation, just as is "Gyp," who
has passed her, with her pen. There
goes "Marni," another femme de let
tres, and Severine, another journalist,
Madame de Thebes, strong-faced and
massive, sits like an old Roman in
his chariot.
And who else? EmilieDne d'Alen,
son, both plump and statuesque. who
began life as a milliner's apprentice
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

The girl listened quietly. So uulet'
" that the old listeners hands clasp
ed and unclasped themselves nervous
". But at last she was talking
Just a year ago" she said q girl
met a man who didn't belong in the
society that was her natural element.
AT first his indifference piqued her.
She had not known many men who
we're Indifferent to her. We might
call her an edition de luxe Life had
been very good to her-at least she
thought so until she met the man.
After she knew him she found out
Just how empty the old, gay, smart
life was. She wanted to live his
strong, vigorous life, to bring to him
what he lacked warmth, intimacy,
womans love-but she couldn't I'M
aslked-and so her prayer was that
he might not know"
Down here they met again-and
parted. He held her fingers and said
goodbye to her. She was billowy
chiffon, lace and perfumed silk to
him-nothing more He thought she
couldn't stand life's battle, that bare
walls would crush her spirit, and so
he left her--to live it out as best she
could-with hooking and laughter
and despair"
: The girl got to her feet and stood
looking out over the darkening land
scape. When she turned the man
stood beside her.
He made no attempt to defend him
self. but his eyes chung to hers.
You don't deserve me-" she said,
severely.
NO." humbly.
Nor this" She put her white
aRns about his throat.
"T'n be dorgorn eff you amt a-cry-
in" said the old man, soft-like, to
himself.
They turned.
Heart of the leaping river. purple
dusk of the hills and peace in an old
mans soul.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02
HOW TO KEEP YOUNG.
Women Have Long Been Interested In
the Ironorfanf BRAZILIAN

Women Have Long Been Interested In
the Important Problem.
The problem of how to keep young,
or to keep from looking old, has en-
gagged the thoughts of both men and
women ever since tho world began.
Women especially have shown a deep
interest in the vexatious matter, for
their influence with men has always
depended much on physical freshness
and beauty. Numerous writer's have
contributed their views as to defying
the riddle Of the ravages of time. The
latest well-5nown writer to discourse
on the familiar theme is Max O'Rell.
Without giving a recipe for the pres
ervation Of beauty, M. Blouet drops
many useful hints as to the causes
which lead to the unnaturally early
disappearance of youth in some peo-
pie Bad temper and lack of humor
are, in his opinion, the two greatest
enemies of youth and beauty. Max
O'Rell thinks that with the aid of a
sense of humor and good temper a
woman can be young and beautiful
until so, After so he can offer no ad-
vice on the subject.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02
saaasta Lonn in Harn.ss

Senior Sagasta, so long SPANS
prime minister, and well entitled to
be called her grand old man" is
now nearly so years old. He began
his career as a newspaper reporter.
At intervals since he went into poll
tics he has resumed his original oc-
cupation as a newspaper correspond
ent, but his country has had too ur-
gent need of his services to allow him
to follow his favorite occupation for
any great length of time. To him.
quite as much as to the queen regent,
belongs the credit of having preserved
the Spanish throne from overthrow ,r
troublous times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02
An Old Mans Diversion.
BY SARA LINDSAY COLEMAN.

BY SARA LINDSAY COLEMAN.
Copyright. 1902, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
The sun hung low in the west, and
a breeze from the river stirred the
vines that climbed on the Miller's
porch.
1t was always very quite there late
afternoons, and the Miller, an old
man, sat there after the days hard
work was done and watched the
night settle down.
One afternoon, his reverie was
broken into by the sound of voices.
He looked out to see a man and a
woman walking slowly past his home.
Both were young. The girl was
more than pretty-her charm trans
cended beauty. 1t caught the old
mans eye just as it turned heads on
crowded city pavements. A faint frag-
rance fioated by with her, and as the
old man leaned from his sheltering
vines the sun glinted and rippled on
her bright brown hair.
"Tain't material to be as goodloolin'
as that n jes as big as fairy" he
said under his breath like.
"Courtin' couples jes materially take
to water
The two had crossed a foot bridge
and stepped over the rocks to settle
on the large one which projected into
the river.
Il wonder, naow," the old man com.
muned with himself, "ef l should go
in? Hits mighty pleasant out here.
I'll jes Civ EN- warnin'." He coughed
"a cough that wouldn't have startled
a mouse.
A moment later he coughed again
and vigorously pulled at his old pipe
Then he settled back in his chair,
his nostrils twitching with contempt.
"Jes books" he muttered. "An'
she be lookin' like a apple blossom
leanin' back thar with them good fer
nothin leetle hans clasped loose
like"
The sunset gates unbarred to let
the day through, and the good fer
"nothin' leetle hans" were lifted to
meet the clasp of stronger ones above
her as she sprang to her feet and
turned toward the west
"Jes books" he muttered again, as
snatches of their talk fioated to him.
After they passed he got up and
knocked the ashes from his pipe.
Hit pears to me-" he said reflec-
lively, that city fellers be degener-
atm a-talkin' books ter a gal like
that"
Gosh, Marier," said the Miller the
next afternoon, "ef them young folks
don beat all! Back agin m talkin'
bout picters! Pears like they've
come a considerable step ter talk
picters!"
''Tain't likely" said the old man
as he sat on his porch the third after.
noon, and looked anxiously up the
road, that they'll come agin. low
they air a-visitin up at the mill Presi-
dents. l heerd party war up thar"
His eyes searched the road that
wound from the river to the hill, and
he sighed with satisfaction as he sat
back in his chair, for the airy white
figure on the brow OF the hill sill
houetted against the enkindled clouds
was The Leetle Apple Blossom.
The days rounded through per-
fumed dawns alive with birds, and
middays of shadows and quiet winds
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

their full income, always at the front,
women impossible outside Of Paris.
To the frequenters of the Avenue
of the Acacias it is great diversion
to point out these charming creatures
and retail the latest gossip of them.
To be able to lift ones hat every min.
ute and receive a smiling nod in
recognition is the height of chic.
Indeed, one hears strange stories,
laughable, incredible, of what men
will do to receive such mods and
smiles. Thus, one Partisan subscribed
to box at the x theater that he
might come to know its lovely star.
He knows her now and what it profits
him is this-he has a right to lift his
hat to her.
Another has been Tending" money
for six months to an old swell in re.
turn for a dozen off-hand presenta.
tons, all made at restaurants and
good for the purpose of the Bots
only.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02
HE WAS SCARED WHITE.
Strange Effect of Terror on the Negro
Cook of Ship.

Strange Effect of Terror on the Negro
Cook of Ship.
Fear of death in the midst of
storm which threatened to send the
schooner Fred A. Small to the bottom
is said to have changed Herm Blanco,
full-blooded negro, into white man.
The change lasted three days. Then,
so the story goes, Blancos natural
color asserted itself once more, and
he resumed his place on shipboard as
man of ebony.
Il had heard of a negro turning
white from fright" said Captain Z. r.
Thompson of the Small, but it wa
tle first time ever saw such trans
formation. Ordinarily Blanco is as
black as night, but while the storm
lasted he was almost as white as
snow"
In a wrecked condition the schooner
came into port yesterday, and was
towed to drydock. Three weeks ago
sic left valparaiso with a cargo of
wood, birds, and monkeys. Six days
later she ran into a severe storm. For
four days and nights her crew was
kept on deck. On the nth day top
mast and bowsprit WEI by the board.
All this time Blanco, the cook, is said
to have grown whittier and whiter.-
New York Mail and Express.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

"The pity O hit, the pity O. hit" he
moaned. The Leetle Apple Blossom
loves him, Lord, she loves him-an'
he's jes tumbled into bed O. roses
with the dew on EN-. Somethin' is
a-keepin' back the words, though, m
the leetle gal ies has ter wait But
when her lips trimble n she laffs,
low like, Lord, want ter git my ole
hans on him.
Time had been reckoned from the
afternoon that the young people came
into the Mtller's life, it was now
counted from the day that they went
out of it,
Two evenin's." he would say,
"three-four."
The lonely little house by the river;
the pathos of the quiet figure whose
face wore always a look of strained
expectancy, whose eyes were on the
hill
One afternoon shadow fell on the
Miller's porch.
TITS me-" said his near neighbor,
sitting on the step, and putting down
a white bowl she carried.
BE you expectin' company"
Silence. Men have such refugees.
The mills a-grindin, well, amt it?"
Silence.
"Tain't good fer men ter live
alone" the neighbor sprang to her
feet angrily.
BE you disgruntled?" she asked.
81 be. grimly.
"Then I'll jes take myself n my
boneset home"
The old man reached out and took
the boneset.
"Swallowin' war better n ex-
plainin'," he told himself feebly.
Anything war better N explainin'."
But there came an afternoon
laughing heart of the river, opal mist
of the hills, and joy in an old mans
soul. She was coming-she was com
ing.
She came slowly, and as she neared
the river the Miller saw that she was
alone, and that detection was in every
curve of her sweet young body.
She crossed the bridge, sat down on
the rock and leaned her chin on her
hand.
The Miller watched her longingly.
AS one comforts a child whose hand
is sore. he would have comforted her.
Lost in reverie, she failed to see the
young vigorous figure that swung
down the hill.
The Miller saw it. He knew it well,
and as it turned as if TO mount the
hill, he rose from his chair and
shouted:
Hi, there!" And again, "Hi
therel"
you be ole fool, Leander Ship.
man" he painted, as he sank back into
his chair. "A dorgorn fool
In spite of the fact, he chuckled
gleefully.
The man having turned and seen
the white, still girl on the rock, ran
down the decline. crossed the bridge
at bound and sank down beside her
His words came with a rush. II
seemed he feared he might not say
them If he stopped
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

fetal name, would have dreamy, old
world air
For fifteen minutes yesterday after
noon on a terrace in the far end of
this sylvan promenade l sat in com
pany with a group of the latter, sons
of family, young and middle-aged do
nothings on a moderate allowance
Their sole and absorbing aim in life
is being well dressed, to dine nightly
in the smartest of smart restaurants
and pass the next day telling all about
it. In particular who dined there, at
what tables. and who sat at which
are the great topics.
"De Dion and the Comte de la
W were in the corner with the
Comtesse and the two c. girls from
London"
Why is young " advertising
himself with Otero? She had that
blonde girl with her again last night.
The three sat at the large. window,
close to Lame and The Alibi.'
wonder what it means?"
mo, you are mistaken for once, my
htaA AUliOns LIANT NoAiiG WIN OlQ
q and dined alone with him. The
Abb was with another party, Eng
lish or Americans, and she was with
Lame five minutes, begging for per
mission to present them"
So they correct and complete each
other, piling up mass of gossip
whose one merit is that it is not quite
second hand and whose one fault is
that it is not quite first hand. They
do not know a 1.-THE of the highly adj
vertised folk whom they follow with
such interest.
Summer mornings in these high
class solitudes is almost perfect. On
each side of the great avenue of the
Acacias extend dark-shaded alleys.
In these days when bicycling has
become the inheritance of the unlovely
and when the great arteries of the
Bots are redolent of gasoline, you
might pass through the great park
and find it common; but it possesses
still, not only hooks, but whole long
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02
Pair Of jacks Won s5.oon.

A poker game was played in the
Butte Hotel at Butte, Mont, within
the past week in which four promin.
emit business men were engaged. The
ante was $25 and a jackpot was
opened with four in. Brown opened
for 500 with pair of jacks.
Two players dropped out, but Jones
remained and played back for $500.
Brown raised it to $500 before the
draw and then called for three cards.
Jones drew one. Brown passed, and
Jones, who had about $4,000 in front
of him, tapped his opponent for all he
had, amounting to 1924. Brown was
satisfied that Jones was blufing and
called him, and pulled down S394S on
his pair of jacks. Jones had drawn
to a bobtail flush end missed it.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

He thought of them by day and
dreamed of them at night
Little personal traits of the girls
reached out to him like caresses. Her
quick way of leaning forward as she
talked, the movements of her slender
hands, her laugh with it's ripping run
of mirth, the lift of her chin.
From a long-gone summer he re-
voked a memory that fingered like a
subtle aroma in his heart-a memory
and grave. He had dwelt with Soil.
tude, it had taught him many things,
and as their light talk drifted on and
on he grieved that the thoughts of
their hearts were never uttered.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

came near making herself the next
Duehesse Dues, and is now a robust
and joyous professional beauty; Cleo
de Merode, hiding her ears with CLOS.
sy tresses; Lame de Pougy, known for
her beauty, her toilettes, her suicides
and her extraordinary novel, written
by another person; Re1ane, the most
Parisienne of all actresses;
Anna Held; Angelo Heraud,
Otero, called the beautiful;
Polaire, who has the smallest waist
In Paris; and a hundred others, all
supremely elegant, the pride and joy
of great dressmakers. pillars of Pa.
risian restaurants, all living up to
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

A president of the United States
IL at a great disadvantage when re-
siding in a small town. His Official
position loses all of its dignity when
he is brought into comparison with
the town constable.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

1t is reported that the Egyptian
sphinx is rapidly decaying owing to
altering climatic conditions due to the
irrigation Of recent years. Can the Sc
crat of the sphinx be out at last? Has
1t ell these centuries been trying to
gasp the single worl "irrigate"7
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

When w. K Vanderbilt was told
that Gates thought of executing a
coup to gain control of the New York
Central Railroad he said "Pooh!'
Will Mr.. Vanderbilt please explain
whether that is his idea of Gates or
of the proposed coup?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

William N. Guthrie. the Chicago
university lecturer who declares that
modern newspapers are more shock
ing than Byron's Don Juan" evident
iy has been reading the beauty hints
in the magazine sections.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

Piemakers In New York have
struck. Just here is where the public
calls halt. We can get along with
out coal or meat, we can manage to
have our freight undelivered, but we
must have pie.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

to the fternoons-wonderfu after
moons in which the sun, big and blood
red, slipped slowly down the sky;
golden afternoons, for the man and
the maid came always to the rocks
in the river.
The two had become the central
point of the old mans consciousness.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

america has the best guns says
Gefman annual. II is lucky for the
editor of the annual that Herr Krupp
is not empowered to punish people for
leze majesty.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

Francis A, Palmer of New York, an
other rich man, has started In to
build colleges. It will presently come
to pass that college building will be
another of the overcrowded profes.
sions.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

The Boston man who wants di.
yorce because his wife is under the
control OF certain eyil-minded per
sons has established a valuable pre-
cedent for the total abolition of dress.
makers.