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called Honda to this town; and at
some times of year. after sufficient
rain has fallen, It is said to do so. Just
now the condition OF the river bed is
admitted on all hands to be discour.
aging. and growing worse. The 600
miles that can sometimes be made in
seven days by steamers that draw
three feet OF water may now take half
as many weeks. or even more. From
Honda to Bogota II is some days on
muleback over a mountain trail.
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why is the editor in such good
splrits?' asked the stenographer.
THE office boy has announced that
there are four poets without" replied
the reporter.
"Is that why he is happy?"
ayes, they are without poetry"
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Keep Your Eye

On the sunny San Luis valley. for It
Is going TO be a winner this year. You
will have full information from time
TO time In these columns.
The Colorado Bureau OF Immigra.
ton, GIG Majestic Building. Denver,
Colorado.
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Positively Brutal.

she-"Just see how much your little
wife loves you. She made this cake
for you all by herself"
He-"Yes, darling. and now II you
will eat II all by yourself | shall pos
sess undIsputable proof Of your dc.
Notien."
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Naggsby-Dld you see the May Pole
dance? Waggsby-Good gracious, no!
Toward the last thought Il wobbled
little, but wasn't so drunk as to think
Il daneedl
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viii have Defiance Starch. not alone
because they get one-thlrd more for
the same money, but also because Of
superior quality.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-07-01

Don't you know that Defiance
Starch besides being absolutely sup0-
rlor TO any other, is put up 16 ounces
In package and sells at same price
as Bounce packages Of other klndsf
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she never kisses mel! Never mind.
Your turn will come In due ume. You
know every dog has his day
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After ALL" remarked the parson. ~
pays 10 be good" I'm not quite sure
OF that" replied the lawyer. You Ret
only y for tying a knot. while | get so
for untying IT,"
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-07-01

The secret OF the popularity Of Baxter'i
"Bullhead" 5-cent cigar is revealed In one
word-"Quality."
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-07-01

The mhdest tobacco that grows Is used
IN the makeup OF Bakers Bullhead 5
cent cigar. Try one and see.
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Nell-I don't care for fair weather
friends BeIle-No. ia rather have a
rain beau.
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Clara--Does Harry help you with the
hOusecleanng? Harrlet-Well. he hangs
the pictures crooked and does the grumb-
ling
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% Your Feet Ache and Burnt
Shake into your shoes. Aliens Foot.
Ease, a powder for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Swollen. Hot, Sweating Feet. Corns
and Bunions. At all Druggists and
Shoe Stores, csc Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen s. Olmsted. Leroy, N. Y.
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A scientist says that the older a man
grows the smaller his b.am becomes.
This may explain why sixteen-year-
old boy knows 30 much more than his
father
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PEACE IS RESTORED.
Warning Factions in Colombia Will
Fight No Longer.
re rnlnation Of Hostilltiea II Of Par.
ttcular Interest to u ON Account
Of Pending Caaal Me-
YOtiAtIoNE.

Colombian's reported conclusion Of
peace is full of interest to the Uni
ted States. 1t is on general princi.
pies pleasing to know that our south.
ern neighbor has reached the end OF
a struggle which was tedious and dis
astrous in the extreme. 1t is q re-
lief to be rid of the necessity OF
keeping guard over our interests at
Panama and occasionally intervening
in their behalf with force and arms.
There have been complaints made
against such intervention, by both
parties to the conflict on the isthmus,
largely, if not entirely, unfoundcd.
The treaty rights of the United
States to intervene for the protection
of it's property and the maintenance
of free traffic on the railroads cannot
be disputed. 1t may we'll be tina:
such Intervention hampered the bel
ligercnt activities of one or both CT
the parties. But if so their quarrel
was with the treaty, and not with
our enforcement of it's provisions.
Certainly the government, now that
it has won the day, must realize that
it is far better to have the railroad
and it's terminals in good order and
in operation than it would have been
but for United States intervention.
The establishment of peace is thus
welcome as a vindication of Ameri-
can action.
Another highly important consider
alton is that the return of peacA will
expedite a definite settlement OF the
canal question. Being rid of the in
surrection, the Bogota government
can apply itself to that question
without distraction. 1t is high time
for it to do so to a practical purpose,
says the New York Tribune. There
has already been too much delay and
too much backing and filing. For
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(8Qo1 Hero Who Has Just written on Inc
South African War;
the British were far from being bad
Shots"
The comparative immunity of the
Beers from harm De Wet constantly
and most fervently attributes to the
interposition of God.
If any reader he says, lis t"
know how it was I kept out of the
enemy's hands can only answer, al
though l may not be understood.
that ascribe it to nothing else than
this-it was Gods will that should
not fall into their hands. Let those
who rejoice at my miraculous es-
capes give all the praise to God"
Nevertheless the book teens with
accounts of military ad other strate-
gies by which De Wet outwitted his
pursuers.
Frequently he recounts cases of
desertion and panic among his own
men when his entreaties and SIAM
boxing were all of no avail. De
Wet pays q tribute to Gen. Cronjc
for his bravery, but declares he lost
| at Paardebcrg only on account of his
fatal obstinacy in failing to leave the
| lager as he was advised to do by
Gen. Botha and by the writer him
! self. Regarding his own forces, Dc
| Wet writes:
1T was far easier to fight against
! the great English army than against
| treachery among my own people, and
an iron will was required to fight
against both. Once, if only'our or
ders had been carried out little
more strictly, and if only the mos:
elementary rules of strategy had
been observed in our efforts to break
| the British lines of communica ton,
| Lord Roberts and his thousand of
troops would have found themselves
shut up IN Pretoria, where they would
have persisted of hunger. 1t was not
the skill of their chief
| that saved them"
OF the block houses De Wet is
frankly contemptuous. 'The block
house policy" he says, might equally
we'll have been called the policy of
the blockhead." The so-called war
again women and the misuse of the
white flag by the British are de-
nounced by the Boer general who
says:
'That such direct and indirect MUIR
der should have been committed
against defenseless women and chill
dren is thing should have staked
my head could never have happened in
a war waged by the civilized English
nation, and yet it happened"
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USES BITTER WORDS.
In His War Book De Wet Scores
Boer and Briton.
Declares That Treachery OF BurgheRs
Saved England from Ruin-Says
Providence Saved Him and
His Soldiers.

In his book, entitled "Three Years
War;" Gen. De Wet, the noted Boer
commander, uses vigorous language
in referring to the results of the con-
test with Great Britain. In one pass
age he says:
Had not so many of our burghers
proved false to their own colors,
England, as the great Bismarck fore
told, would have found her grave in
South Africa"
The book is dedicated by the Boec
general ITO my fellow subjects OF
the British empire" 1t is %. perhaps
the most remarkable book by the
most remarkable leader that any re-
cent war has produced. The concise,
simply told tale of the extraordinary
campaign is marked throughout with
the stamp of truth. The badness of
the narrative only serves to bring
into strong relief the fiery passages
in which strong man literally
blurts out his soul in pathetic regret
or bitter denunciation.
In thus taking the public into his
confiden": De Wet loses nothing Of
the glamour with which his exploits
in the .ield surround him. In CRITICS.
ing he spares no one; Boer and Brit
on come equally under the lash. Dc
Wet declares that, whatever the Eng
lish people may have to say in dis
credit of Gen. Butler, he had to oper.
ate against stronger positions than
any other British general.
Throughout the work the Boer
general has but slight praise for
Lord Roberts, and little more for
Lord Kitchener. Gen. Knox is al
most the only British general who
seems to have struck De Wet as a
commander with real military genius.
OF Tommy Atkins" he has many
kindly words to say, and declares
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nation was entitled to pursue beyond
the boundaries of its territorial seas
ship of another nation guilty of il
legal action within these waters, was
untenable.
The arbitrator declared that the
jurisdiction of the state could not ex-
tend beyond its territorial waters ex-
cept by special treaty. The seizure
and confscation of the C. II. White
and the Imprisonment of it's crew was,
therefore, illegal, and Russia was con-
demned to pay the c. H. White 32,444,
with interest at six per cent.
The case of the James Hamiltok
Lewis is governed by the same de-
cision, while in the case of the Cape
Horn Pigeon, Prof. Asser, in fixing the
damages of $3.50 and the interest at
six per cent. held that the general
principle that damages should include
the prospective profits of which the
victim had been deprived applied equal
ly to international litigation.
In the case of the Kate and Anna the
arbitrator decided that the captain
could have continued seal hunting, ana
that, therefore, Russia was not re-
sponsible for the prospective profits.
Both the James Hamilton Lewis aoG
Kate and Anna are given six per cent.
interest on the amount awarded.
The dispute was the subject of pro-
tracted negotiations, resulting in ar
agreement in 1900 between Count
Lamsdorf, acting minister of foreign
affairs of Russia, and Herbert H. D
Pierce, United States charge daft
flares of St. Petersburg, designating
Prof. Asser, a member of the counci:
of state of the Netherlands, an arbi
| traitor
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years past the Colombian government
has professed to be eager for the
United States to purchase and COM
plete the unfinished ditch of the
French company. This country has
been given to understand that every
facility will be offered it for the
prompt completion of the canal on
the most liberal terms. But now
that it is ready and eager to begin
the work, Colombia seems inclined
to temporize and to ask impossible
conditions. There does not seem t"
be the slightest justification for the
reported attempt to increase the
rental price. 1t is understood that
Colombia was willing to accept a GER
tain price year or two ago, when it
was not certain that the United
States would want to build at Pana-
ma. Nothing has occurred since then
to make the concession more valua-
BILE. AS for Colombia's reluctance to
grant to this country complete and
permanent control of the strip of
land containing the canal, her own
conduct and condition demonstrate
it's unrcasonableness. 1t would be
simply intolerable to have the canal
exposed to the disturbances which
for months past have beset the Pan
anna railroad.
The terms proposed by the United
States are not only reasonable, they
are generous to Colombia. 1t is for
Colombia to accept them or reject
them. Whichever she does she should
do thoughtfully and advisedly, for
the decision is one fraught with it,
calculable Importance to her future,
but she should. and indeed must, do
it promptly. The United States must
not be kept waiting like party to all
old-fashioned New England horse
trade. For the Panama route, as our
Colombian friends should remember,
is not the only one. There is an
other at Nicaragua, which has some
advantages over that at Panama, and
which we can have for the asking.
The president is as fully authorized
to accept and adopt it as he is to
conclude arrangements with Colom-
bia, and if he should do so that would
mean an ending of the Panama canal.
Whichever route this country adopts
will thenceforth be the only one.
Colombia cannot afford to run anv
unnecessary risk of being left in the
lurch forever.
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PRESIDENTS Choice for Proposed Portfolio
of Commerce.
was for several months stenographer
to the president, and was then ap-
pointed executive clerk, which posi-
ton he held until the beginning of Mr..
McKinley's second term, when he was
made private secretary.
While in Washington Mr.. Cortelyou
improved his spare time in the study
of the law, and, in 1895, was graduated
from the Georgetown University Law
school. The following year he took
postgraduate course in the Columbian
university.
Mr.. Cortelyou was born in New York
city July 26, 1862. He was educated
in public and private schools, and is
graduate of the Hampstead q. ~ in
stitute, and of the state normal school
at Westfeld, Mass. He holds the de-
gree of LII. B. from Georgetown uni
versity, and the degree of IL. NJ. from
Columbia university. He was for a
while law reporter in New York, and
then was principal of preparatory
schools in the same city from 1885 to
1889. In the latter part of 1889 he be-
gan his career as private secretary,
having served in this capacity with the
post Office inspector at New York, the
surveyor of the port of New York, and
the fourth assistant postmaster gen.
eral. In November. 1895, he was ap-
pointed stenographer to the presi-
dent; in February, 1896, executive
clerk; in July, 1898, assistant secretary,
and in April, 1900, upon the resigna-
ton of John Addison Porter, on ac-
count of ilI-health, Mr.. Cortelyou was
made full secretary.
This is a modest and thoroughly
American career. Having had not
more than an average prepare ton for
his LIES work, Mr.. Cortelyou has in
variably done the small things that he
found to do so we'll that he has been
called to do greater things.
During the four and half years that
Cortelyou served the late President
Mckinley, first as assistant private
secretary and later as private secre-
tary, he developed remarkable trait
of memory.
As assistant secretary it was part of
Mr.. Cortelyou's duty when the presi-
dent was travelling to see the reporters
from the various newspapers and to
furnish them the particulars of the
chief executives plans and movements.
Hundreds of reporters throughout the
country thus became personally &C
quainted with Mr.. Cortelyou, who not
only remembered their faces in con-
nection with the newspapers which
they represented, but in the great ma
jority of cases remembered the per-
sonal names of the intcrviewcrs them
selves
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UNIQUE FOOD TEST.
It IL Vow Being Conaaetea ~ wash
inSton Under the DlFeetion =
Prof. II. w. WILEY.

Prof. Wiley, the chemist Of the agri.
cultural department, began running
. government boarding house the
other day. The IL young men who
have agreed to submit to experiment
to determine the effect of chemically
treated foods all arrived at the de-
partment promptly at 1880 o'clock in
the morning. Every ounce Of food
and drink they took was carefully
measured, and the same system will
be followed during the whole six
months of the experiment.
For week or two they will be given
only the best and most nutritious food,
so as to determine the action of differ
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HAS, BRIGHT FUTURE
George B. cortelyou, Private Secre-
tary to the President.
His Success Should BE an Inspiration
to Ambitious Young Anne ricans
May Become 4 Cabinet
' @r ,s'r Member.

The intimation has come from Wash
ington that George B. Cortelyou may
become a member of the presidents
cabinet. Those who know the man
best believe that he is worthy of such
an honor, and capable ct filling such
q position. In the United States to-
day there are few more interesting
men than George b. Cortelyou, the
secretary to the president. Intellec-
tual, energetic, dignifed, and court
eous, this man seemed endowed by ma
ture and fitted by training to perform
the duties and meet the emergencies
of his particular work. 2v@.... -
The position of secretary to the pres
ident of the United States is an arduous
one. In the rendering of its multi
tudinous services, it calls for the bust
ness qualifications of methodical and
systematic clerk, in the performance
of the daily routine of official work,
and the finesse of a practical diplomat
in meeting and satisfactorily adjust
ing situations between the president
and an assorted public, each individual
of which believes himself entitled to
portion of the time and interest of
the chief executive.
Mr.. Cortelyou worked his way to his
present high position through sheer
ability and determination. He is still
young man, 40 years of age, and his
success may be regarded as an indica-
ton of still more progressive and
brilliant career in the future. He be-
gan as Il stenographer, and, as court
reporter, was considered one of the
most rapid and accurate in the coun-
try. In 1891 he became private secre-
tary to the fourth assistant post
master general. Toward the close of
the Cleveland administration he was
transferred to the white house. He
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ship is composed of bank presidents
and managers and the heads of great
financial institutions of New York.
Boston, Chicago, and other large cit
les, together with the most prominen!
officials of the United States treas.
ury department.
The association held it's annual
meeting for 1902 at New Orleans, e
short time ago, and elected Mr.. Cald.
we'll Hardy it's president for the en-
suing year. Mr.. Hardy is one of the
leading fnanciers of Norfolk, Va.
where he is president of the Norfolk
national bank. He is a native CT
North Carolina, a former resident OF
Brooklyn, and a graduate in the sci
ence of banking from the institutions
Of Wall street. Mr.. Hardy has been
connected with the Norfolk national
bank since 1885, when, upon its or
oanization, he was installed as its
~ Shier.
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WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH.
iouA to Succeed BurrOws ~
United States Senator. :

William Alden Smith, Of Grand
Rapids, Mich, is q candidate from his
state in place of Julius Caesar Bur
rows, whose term expires March 3,
1905. The death of Senator Mcmillan
worked q revolution in that states
politics, and, in the overturning, For
mer Secretary of War Alger came to
the surface and Burrows went under.
Smith is the Fidus Achates of Alger.
William Smith is IN able young
man of the self-made brand SO common
in American political life. Like half
dozen other statesmen he began his
business career backing other peoples
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(Chief Chemist Of United States Depart.
ment Of Agriculture.)
ent substances in the case of each man.
After this preliminary training the
~ free boarders, who are all clerks in
the department, will be divided into
two squads, who will take their meals
at separate tables. At one table the
food will all be prepared with adulter-
ants, coloring matter and preventative
compounds. This is to be known as
the poison squad, and they will be fed
in this way for period of holt n month,
when the tables will be turned literally
and the other half dozen young men
will become the poison squad and the
first six will rccuperate on the fat OF
the land.
There is a secret connected with all
this which even the young men who are
being experimental rpon will not be
able to penetrate. One clerk will be fed
throughout with adulterated food and
one will be given nothing but pure
food, but the greatest care is to be
taken so that no one will know the
identity of these men except the chs
list in charge so as to avoid cny etf1 IT'S
on the body as the result of mere
Imagination.
The clerks who are to be the subject
Of this extraordinary experiment are
delighted at the chance of securing
their table board for six months absO-
lutely free of cost to themselves, espe-
cially as they know that Prof. Wiley
and several attending physicians will
see to it that there are no dangerous
| or fatal results.
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Market Women Are Tricky.

A favorite trick of Alsatian market
woman is to- place six Or eight eggs in
a small basket, and to declare that
those arc all the absolutely fresh ones
they have. The victim buys them,
thinking that if the woman were dis
honest she would have offered moro
"fresh eggs" Afterward the market
woman takes six more out of larger
basket which is carefully covered
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UNITED STATES WINS.
Dutch Jurist Decides Russia Must ray
Damage for Illegal Seizurs
Of Sealing Ships. ~

Prof. Asser, the Dutch jurist, who
has been arbitAting the claims Of
American sealers for the~seizure of
their vessels by the Russian govern
ment about ten years ago, has delivered
his award in favor of the United States.
He appraises the damages in the case
of the American schooner G. H. White
at $50, 444, in the case of the James
Hamilton Lewis at $2s,5ss, the Kate
and Anna at $1,4ss, and the Cape Horn
Pigeon at $3s,750.
In giving his reasons for the award
Prof. Asser held that the schooner
C. II. White was seized outside Russian
territorial waters. and that the Rus
sian ccntcntion that warship of one
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Democrat Who Has Recently Been Elect
ed Governor of Rhode Island)
1888. 1s9O-91. DR.. Garvin's plurality 10
greater than the majorities received
by all the other democratic governors
while candidates for their six terms.
Honest John" w. Davis, of Pawtucket,
however, had a majority of one branch
CT the general assembly with him (the
housed, while DR.. Garvin will have only
a very strong working force, as the
legislature is republican by % on joint
ballot and the house is republican by
four votes.
DR.. Garvin is Vermonter by parent
age, reared in Tennessee and North
Carolina, where his father, an Amherst
graduate, taught in two colleges.
Young Lucius was graduated from Am
herst in 1862 and Immediately enlisted
in company E, Fifty-first Massachu-
sets, remaining until his company
was mustered out. He then entered
the Harvard medical school, from
which he was graduated in 1867. At
first republican, he supported Tilden
in 1876 and has fought under the DEM
ocratic banner ever since.
He entered Rhode Island politics in
1858, when he was elected to the gen.
eral assembly and, with the exception
of two years, has served continuously
ir one branch OF the other OF that
tody.
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FOURTH OF HIS KIND.
1aA Had Hut Three Demo.
cratic Predecessor.

Lucius F. c. Garvin, governor-elect.
will be the fourth democrat to occupy
the chief executive Office in Rhode
Island since 1907. Three other demo.
cratic governors have served terms as
follows: Gov. Allen, 1S50-51-52-53;
William Sprague (dem-conservative).
1SGO-61; Honest John" w. Davis, 1887.