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Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

c. E. Harvey will post your books and
collect your accounts on reasonable
terms. Call at I4Io Miner street.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

Julius Huilett has been confined to his
bed for several days the past week from
a severe dose of grippe.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

Claud Sachs, editor of the Mining In
vestor of Colorado Springs, was showing a
party of friends the city and our mines
last Sunday and Monday.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

Mrs. H. A. Moore goes to St. Paul,
Minnesota, this week for two weeks
visit with Mr.. Moore's sister and rela-
tives.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

NJ. w. Tanner, a well-kuown mining
man of this city was visitor at Russell
Gulch last week looking after his inter-
ests.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07
A Card Will Do.

A postal card with the names and ad :
dresses of your eastern friends who will |
possibly come West on the low rates in
effect from February IS to April 30, 1903,
is all that is necessary. We will send,
without cost and without delay, inform
alton about rates, train service, baggage,
stop-overs and other things the traveller
wants to know. ] E. Preston, CONNER
cial agent, Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Psul Railway, 1929 18TH Street, Denver.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

Remember my phone number is Black
SI3. c. E. Fish, expressman.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

Look for Jackson's Barber Shop. You
will miss it if you miss it.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

Ben Owen spent sometime in Denver
last week visiting friends and doing some
other things-but we are sure nothing
bad.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

Send in your subscription to the Sift-
ings. 1t will prove of interest to you.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

If it's bilious attack, take Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and
quick recovery is certain. For sale by
]. J. Sherwin Druggist
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

Leave your laundry at Jackson's and it
will get the best attention.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

Say! Have you seen Edwards Bros
new line of fancy dishes2
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07
SHORT -
STORIES

Mothers bread is the best.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

If you wish to sell your property list
it with c. E. Harvey.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

E. Boyd was in Rollinsville last week.
A. Eggers, of this place visited Roll
linsville last week.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-28
Contradictions in National Character: The Late Max OeH

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
There are no countries where you End
such contrasts and contradictions in the
national character as England and France.
win this difference: That the English are
more extremists than the French
is II because their religion does not adj
mt OF purgatory. but only of paradise
ana heil-that is to say, no middle course?
lruiy strange being this EnGIishman,
ana almost most interesting study to the
"hoIe world. a man capable of combining
thousand different persunages, of playing
al! over the world 4 thousand different
parts. of doing in Rome az the Romans do;
extreme III all his acts. Presenting the most
striking contracts. but always guided by
reason and by common sense
Fiery patriot. Yet calmly bearing the
greatest humiliations while awaiting the
propitious moment for taking his innings
in mis- Established Church a most edify-
ing publican crying at the top of his voice
mat he is but IA most miserable sinner"
outside that church man who If you
were to take him at his word would sim
ply knock you down right away
In the singular. 4 man upon whose word
you can rely as you would upon a trusty
sword IN the plural, as Il nation-well let
US say. the shrewdest of diplomatists.
AT nome, preaching temperance even to
the forswearing of all drinks but water.
an oau' encouraging the opium trade and
sending missionaries TO convert natives with
the Bible. and getting their country out of
their hands by enforcing among them the
use OF alcoholics
AL nome. condemning a man who hurts
cat to six months Imprisonment, and one
who beats his wife within an inch OF her
me 10 fine of few shillings In Eng
land. Furnishing with Imprisonment the peo-
pie who obstruct the rowdy professions of
the salvation Army; in India. sending to
prison the same salrat!onIsts. who IN their
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iums' as some British cities do is question that will
remalH open for some time although there mll-
hlcpal hospitals for consumptves and patients with
contagious diseases. The only limitations that are
now manifest are marked by the line of the common
sood. ANY enterprise by which the city serve
public interests and its interests better than
Il private corporation is that city may carry
out benefcialy.
Inc uistnction should nevertheless, be adhered
TO as far as may be possible and advisable. The
policy OF municipal ownership cannot be permanent
success unless is promoted in accordance with COM
nonsense rules. There are some projects that the
city cannot manage successfully and others that it
should not manage
Muncipaism will not be success in the United
States if the public allows itself to be deuded by
simmer of mere theory and idealism European
communities may be pleased with municipal bakeries
cheese markets. pet animal stores, farms, quarries,
granaries. rag shops crematores, stove foundries,
planning mills and so But these businesses, and
others of the like beyond the functions of Ameri
can cities, except for the utilization of waste. The
implied law here is that municipal paternasm is
sTcted to public-service enterprises.
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It's Charter to construct reconstruct purchase acquire
or extend. and also to purchase land for the same
According to section l of article l, old pro-
vision, the city may purchase, receive or hold prop
erty for hospitals gasworks 'Or any other purpose
According to the second paragraph of section 26, ar
tcle III, the city may establish and maintain a
sanitary system" The Public Welfare Clause
horizes the city purchase lease within the
limits Of the city elsewhere, any real or personal
property, and to control, manage, Sell lease or
otherwise dispose OF the for such purposes and
considerations they may deem proper for the pub
lie welfare of the city. Other paragraphs more
specific mentioning hospitals water works and SINH
lar properties
If there be any question to the citys power to
and howsoever advisable it should be removed by
further amendments. However lawyers well versed
in municipal law express the view that the city has
broad rights under the amendment
Complete Charter revision Is a necessity, but it is
not so necessary this amendment respecting
the citys authority increase the public debt for
permanent public Improvements. The city
submit bond-issue proposition to the at any
time; consequently. the voters enabled to deter
mine whether important and urgent improvements
shall be made.
Both the city and the voters gain by the amend
ment. The Charter is better than It was, but 1t is
not yet satisfactory The effect Of this one amend
ment well the principle involved, shows plainly
that the Charter must be modernlzed in its entirety.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-28
RECENT COMMENT.
The Theater-Goins Public.

Henry Tyrren in July September Forum.
Ono swallow does not mako a summer Is thea-
group OF thcaters, to be taken gen
the ucuatng of the great
going public" What singular faulty Is that,
short-sghted managers and unthinking scribes
which makes them patronzngy refer to the aforesaid
great theatergong public it"-as though they
studying vagares circus elephant
fngs Of a captive whale
There many publics there theaters. Each
these little publcs is liable change its mind as
the changes its bill The continuous
Ing quality OF Darling Of the Gods be trum-
plant demonstration of Mr. David Beascos genius
wants pseudo-Japanese melodrama. The popularity of
Mr.. Bluebeard" at the Knickerbocker proves
that all Manhattan is mad for Londonmade spectacular
pantomme than the unabatng success OF Everyman"
the Garden and elsewhere shows the town to be
deeply, physically, morbidly religious.
Now. 1t is sefevdent proposition that whereas mil
lion people stay nightly from given perform
sand crowd into the theater wherein hit
scored. Therefore unequvocal failure is thousand
times more significant than apparent alleged
consider the New York playgong public
whole, must base judgment upon what
that public unanimously rejects, rather upon
what interested parties would believe has by
detachments accepted.
The is that the present prosperty
with its neglect of IDEALS its
careless tasting Of whatever along its Impotence
austerity in form. is golden harvesttime for
mercenary theatrical SPECTATORS Here is the opportunity
for the changers rush into the temple
cation will speedily follow but meanwhile many quick
fortune made by fosng spurious and inferior theatrical
goods upon generous undscriminang public that pays
for the best The play player that New York au-
dience in such period. be induced for
must be very bad indeed
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convinced of the virtue Of all the women OF
his family and among his friends.
Voltairian to the backbone, he will tell
you quite seriously that every newspaper
article is paid for and none is independent.
Yet he constantly quotes the one he pat
ronizes as an absolutely competent author
ity He hates officials and makes fun OF
bureaucracy and funCtionaries: yet he re-
spectfulIy takes off his hat when he buys
a few stamps of the clerk in 4 pOst-offce.
Above all. free-thinker. but who always
allows his children to be brought up in the
Catholic Church most scrupGlousiy and re-
ligiously-
He will maintain that jistic is rotten. that
magistrates are ilI-paid and therefore not
independent; yet you will him refuse
to shake the hand not only OF a man who
has been condemned. but of the one who
has simply been accused and then acquitted.
This is, perhaps, the worst feature of his
Characteristic absence of moral courage,
or OF the courage Of his opinions.
He makes fun OF the nobility and all
titled people. but manages to let their visit
ing cards be well in view in the hall when
his wife IS at home
He advocates disarmament and follows
regiment with the pleasure OF a scEoOlboy.
He speaks OF republican sim Su.ity and
austerity and sneers at decorations; set
there is not one Frenchman that does not
wear in his buttOnhole one decoration or
another.
There may be one. but I am not ac-
Guainted with him. For him Kings and En-
perors are the equivalents OF tyrants.
When one OF them comes to visit him he
will stand for hours on the same spot In
the hope of catching a glimpse OF him.
And it is those contrasts and contradict
tons that prevent foreigners from having
proper knowledge OF the English and the
French. unless they have lived with them q
long time.
Copyright, 1909 by W. P Hearst Great Britain
Rights Reserved
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-28
A German Impression of America: Count Won Polenz

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
1t has become a habit in Germany to
admire and try to initiate everything Amer
lean, though It Is obvious that It would ba
absolutely insane to try to transplant
American institutions and customs here.
That the people of America, with their
democratic Constitution. have developed
more freedom of action, more independence,
moral, social and political, is evident, but
1t would be just as wrong to expect Europe
TO adopt American customs as to force our
customs upon America.
Both have their Justification in the mere
local circumstances and are a natural out
come of these.
1t is one thing to drop all prejudice
against people which acts. thinks and
feels differently from ourselves and quite
another to expect that We Germans should
endeavor to lose our individuality In fool
ishly initiating foreign nation, no matter
how successful or how prosperous and pow
erful.
There Is, besides. absolutely no reason
Whatever 10 admire America in everything.
Americas position toward US in the fu-
ture depends entirely upon ourselves, and
II some OF US are inclined to think that a
war between the two nations must come
some time, this is one more reason why
we should study the character of our pos
sible enemy.
both sides of the Atlantic. sincerely hope
that this war may never come, but tina.
We may knit the ties OF the present friend
ship closer every day.
No nation in the world has SO forced itself
ahead in every possible line of endeavor
as the American. and with no nation in
the world has Germany closer or more fire.
quent and extensive communication than
with the American people.
No two nations IN the world can teach
one another more than the German and
the American. and still 1 doubt II any un-
derstand the character OF one another less
than these two.
As child will always inherit traits from
and resemble its parents. SO the Yankee
cannot entirely shake OF his European
origin.
The best qualities in the American people
have their roots in the oak forests Of Ger
many. the fertile marshes and grain fields
Of Scandinavia, the villages of England and
Ireland and the highlands OF Scotland, but
40 years long battle with nature from
the Atlantic to the Pacific has put its pc
culiar stamp upon the character of the
American people
1t Is in the New World exactly as in the
Old; on the broad foundation of the soil
society has been built up.
To the country you must look for the
true marrow Of the people: the village
school is the kindergarten of the race.
The Americans originally were a nation
of farmers and planters before they became
merchants. manufacturers and bankers.
AT the beginning OF the Twentieth Century
we flnd the American nation a people with
very pronounced characteristics.
The people, as whole, is thoroughly
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zeal might create religious difficulties among
nation that he has subdued.
Worshiping his old monarchy. devoted to
his old institutions. on all tours before the
House of Lords, yet so ravenous for justice
and liberty that he would be ready again
today to demolish both monarchy and Con-
stitution. as he did in the Seventeenth Cen
fury. II his liberty ran the least danger
The greatest partisan of monarchy in the
world and the freest and best of repub-
leans. he posse sses the virtues that are in
dispensable to the prosperity OF a nation-re-
spect Of the law and respect Of power clear
~ manifested. Refusing to submit to des-
potism in any shape form. he himself
keeps in order and discipline ali his paid
guides and governors from his sovereign
down to the most humble official. to whom
he says:
Remember that pay you and that.
therefore you are the servants. and not the
masters Of the people.
And the Frenchman. that man who hum
bugs the world with his jokes at the ex-
pense of matrimony. who wants you al
ways to take him for "a jolly dog" even
bit Of "a devil of fellow and who
in reality IS a steady. hOme-loving. home
abiding man, who shakes In his boots at
the sound Of his wifes voice-who pretends
to be cynical. almost stOn e-hearted and
''-'1 ''''~' ~ AFRis SIiilt SuuBI VI
ply sneeZe sends for the doctor and pre-
pares himself not to survive that child an
hour
a man who insists on living under a
Republic and has not In him an ounce of
what should go toward making a republi-
can Very sceptical, who declares that you
now meet no more honest people in the
world. but who makes an exception in favor
OF all his friends and acquaintances
Who Will tell YOU that all husbands are
deceived. but who, In petto, ia perfectly
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ambition for all Of her children that It stin
seems to me that her like is not to be seen
in these latter days.
That the women Of her day were superior
in the qualities that 90 to make up blessed
womanhood and motherhood seems indis-
putable. In the first place they were
wholly unselfish and self-sacrificins for
their families.
I do not claim that there arc no women
Of the present day Who would not do as
they did. but 1 do claim that their proto-
types are not numerous.
We have only to contrast the conditions
OF to-day with those of quarter OF a GEN.
fury ago to realize the difference in the
facilities for accomplishing anything in
those days and the present era.
Electricity and the ingenuity Of men have
lifted many of the burdens of domestic life
from the shoulders of women.
Imagine the contrast of the White House
with its up-to-date improvements and the
modern methods of conducting It as the
home OF the Presidents family and Its con-
dtion when Abigail Adams had to have the
family washing dried in the East Room
and wrote such gloomy letters about her
domestic trials while she was its mistress.
All along the line. from the first home in
the land to the humble cottage in the far
West, domestic work has been made easy;
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-28
Women of the Oden Times: Mrs. John A. Logan.

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Race suicide and the decrease In the
number of children born to American par
ents are questions that are Just now occu-
plying the public attention.
A recent article by writer in a monthly
magazine contrasts the large families Of
the early days Of the Republic with the
small ones Of the present day. with a mas
terful pen.
This portrayal Of the experiences Of the
patient women of the olden times. when
women not only bore many children but
were overburdened with the toll and care
necessary to bring them up. is graphic in
its correctness.
The picture is so true that I keenly ap-
precated 1t. being myself the eldest Of
thirteen.
In the retrospective 1t seems to me In
credible that any woman could have had
the endurance and have accomplished what
our mother did for her large family in a
country primitive in every sense Of the
word in those days.
Yet she performed her duties so faithfully
and with such marked ability that the re-
membrance of her achievements has been
rebuke to me all the long years since her
untimely death.
She filed her mission with such exalted
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-28
MUNICIPAL TENDENCIES.

With some confidence most Of US may hope that
municipasm. municipal paternasm, will not reach
In the United States that extreme which it has at
tanned in many cities Of Europe The breeding of
rabbits the farming Of sheep. marketgardenng, the
operation of fsh-markets clothes-mendng and other
odd small avocations and pursuits have become func-
tons of transatlantic municipalities.
Here we satisfied with engaging in enterprises
which strictly within the pale of public utility.
The general aim In the United States is to confne
municipasm within wel-defined sphere and not let
it encroach upon the domain Of private endeavor,
less, as is sometimes the case public and private
service consistent and dependent one upon the
other.
Only when embarkaton in the commercial field
proper is necessary for the maintenance of the
nicpal plant for the welfare Of the public. a
large part Of the population, to the advantage OF
solid. worthy local interests is this encroachment
considered permissible. Public opinion seems to be
more sound in America in making such distinctions.
than it is in Europe, where distinctions seem to
be made
Municipalities have invaded the commercial field
by supplying water and gas to citizens Yet both
terprises entirely, even in their commercial
pect, public service. In the future cities will
provide electric light and power from generating
plants erected for lighting streets and public places
They will and either operate supervise street
railway, street-Duiung ana streetcleanlng systems,
garbage and refuse collection and disposal plants
appurtenances and other projects for affordng ac-
commodations and convenences to the citizens They
will, in all public affairs, be Independent of private
contractors
Frequently the distinction between public service
and commercial service is exaggerated. Some mu-
inequalities, when arranging for plants for electric
streetghting have hestated at furnishing light and
power to private consumers believing that the mu-
ncipal government should not compete with private
effort. officials who assume this attitude deserve
commentator for their scruples; but what do they
say Of large monopones, over which cities have no
control?
Municipal paternalism has limitations in its prac-
teal application. whether American cities will or
should conduct pawnsho0s saloons and inebriate asy
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, The German who forms his opinion of
| America and Americans from the canards
| Of our newspapers. who chronicle nothing
| but strikes. lynchings kidnapings OF mil
| i.onaires or train robberies. knows really
| nothing about the true American in whose
| character chivalry and good nature are
very prominent.
He is by no means the cold, heartIess and
calculating business man or the brutal ego
| tist that many OF US imag CINE.
| He has really many other interests than
the hUrt for the almighty dollar. and has
| under his rough surface very often a heart
| of gold. though he IN most cases seems to
! be ashamed of It.
Here In Germany We praise the patriotic
| citizen: in America patriotism Is taken a.
| a matter Of course.
party who did not put love OF the coun-
try at the very top o. is programme could
| not be imagined in America.
Patriotism covers rything. even the ma
tioDal shortcomings.
1T is America, consequently It Is good and
cannot be beaten" is the belief and motto
OF every Yankee from boyhood to old age.
If a newborn baby should make its entry
Into the world singing Yankee Doodle" it
would cause no surprise.
The American Is chivalrous to fault and
shows this in his treatment OF women under
all circumstances.
He does not put her on a pedestal and
praise her as an angel or divine being: he
has too much common sense for that; but
he does not treat her as a chattel or mako
a household drudge OF her.
He gives her perfect freedom. he treats
her as a friend. an equal. morally superior
to himself though physically weaker, and
he considers 1t his first duty to protect her
from insult and abuse under all circura-
stances.
He does not insult her by staring at her
In cars or ogling her in the street. and a
Nasher would certainly very soon find him.
self ornamenting a lamppost, dangling from
the end OF a rope, but Washers are not
known In America
But the character Of the Yankee has also
many dark sides. most prominent among
which is the lack OF moral sense, which
makes it appear quite natural to him that
the party in power uses every opportunity
to rob the people who put 1t in power.
He sees no danger in the rapidly increasing
corruption and he allows the laws of his
country TO be trampied upon and ridiculed
by the rich and powerful.
In no other country in the world Is It true
that small thieves are hanged. while the big
ones are honored.
1t is to be hoped. though. that his many
good qualities may finally prevail and in
time make the land of unlimited possfbili-
ties an ideal worth initiating in everything.
but at the present time admirers OF Amer.
lea should use little common sense and
judgment before they advise their country
men to transform themselves into a likeness
OF the American nation in everything with-
out exception.
Copyright. 1903. by W. r. Hearst drea; Brio
ain rights reserved