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The daily sentinel., 1904-01-19
Famous Painting.

The Montana State building at the
world fair will be more than a club
house to the visitors and their friends
from that state. Its walls will be ad-
orned with such profusion of hand
some paintings that it will be a verit.
abe art gallery as well. Edgar S.
Paxson, an artist from Butte. whose
genius has been recognized in the
eastern art centers. will. among other
work, EXHIBIT his famous painting en-
titled Seeking Admission TO Stock
ade. -
This wonderfully realitic painting
tells the story of an Indian family
with the snow piled deep on the earth.
asking admission for the night. The
lights show that the evening is upon
them. and the cold is so apparent that
one feels chilly as he looks on the
picture. The stockade is built high
with a blockhouse on each corner from
with which to shoot Indians in case
of attack.
In the doorway of this stockade
stands trapper dressed in the regu-
lar long fur coat and beaver cap. He
is listening to the Indian who wants
shelter for his souaw papoosse. pinto
pony and dogs. The Indian outfit
consists of ''travoor, made with
two poles spread apart and skins tied
across them. The other end the poles
are crossed over the back of a skinny
pony which drags the ''travoor. " On
this queer drag is placed little Indi-
an child and litter of pups and the
,eaee utensils. Walking is miser-
able squaw half clad in blanket, her
hair rudely braided on each side of
her head. Her face is lined with a
thousand wrinkles and she looks half
starved. Following closely behind is
the wolfish looking mother dog, keep
ing sharp eye on the puppies.
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-19
Panama Canal Question.

Washington, Jan. lS. While the
Panama canal question has been before
the senate on general principals dur
ing the greater part of the present
sesaon. the Panama canal treaty was
not reported until today. 1t had no
sooner been reported favorably to the
senate in executive session than it be-
came the subject of heated cortrover-
sA. Senator Cullom made the report
in favor of the treaty whereupon
Senator Morgan as a member of the
committee at once entered formal
protest against the acceptance of the
report On the ground that when the
committee decided to report the treaty
an amendment was still under consid-
GRAFTON and that he had not had time
to present an amendment looking to
the striking out of articles of the
treaty. in which Panama renounces
her right to participation in the earn
ings of the canal when built.
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-19
Sewerage Contract Let.

The contract for the con-
struction of the sewerage
system at the Teller Insti-
tute has been let to Denver
parties. Garrison and
Fletcher of this city bid on
the job. but the firm repre-
sented by d. J. Tirsway of
Denver under bid the local
firm a few dollars and secur-
ed the contract. which was
between SIG. 900 and s17.00o
Work on the construction
will be started at an early
date.
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-19
BE INDEPENDENT.

Don't ask anyone to do what you
would not like to do yourself. DOM t
put yourself under obligation to him
by asking him to go on your bond.
For a reasonable sum the American
Bonding Company. whom we repre-
sent will become your surety.
M. o. DELAPLAIN.
III S. 4th Grand Junction.
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-19
co s T.

We will have no auctioneer to pay
and can sell you goods nearer to
actual cost on that account.
Remember this holds good until
February Ist. We can meet any
ones prices no matter where you
get them and as usual guarantee
both the price and the quality and
refund your money when not per
fectly satisfactory.
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-19

Gunnison, Jan. Isl. G. Downey
a prominent business man died sud-
denly while romping with his chill
dren last night. He ruptured blood
vessel and internal hemorrhage re-
suited in death.
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-19

Quality is remembered long after
the price is forgotten and that's the
reason Fotografer Dean is remem-
bered by his patrons.
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-19

= heavy snow storm was raging on
Pinon Mesa this aftebrnoon. The in
dications are that snow will fall If the
valley before tomorrow morning.
Attend the ball tonight at the
Turner hall and enjoy yourselves.
Given by the Ladies Auxiliary o. r. @.
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-19

New York. Jan. lS George Fran
els Train died tonight from heart dis
ease at Mills hotel where he has lived
for some years.
Heart disease from which he died.
followed an attack of acute nephritis.
He was 73 year of ages.
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-19

Steve Eddins is here from Montrose
for visit to his family.
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-19
Mrs. Meeker Dead.

Greeley. Jan. Is.-Mrs. N G.
Meeker. one of the Oldest of the Colo
RADIO Pioneers. died here today of old
age.
Mrs. Meeker crossed the plains in the
early days with her husband. N. G.
Meeker. who was killed in the Meek
er massacre. one of the most shocking
tragedies of the frontier. The town
of Meeker was named after him. Mrs.
Meeker had lived in Greeley for u
number of years.
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-19
N@zlRp
Pre- Inventory
Sale.

We will take invoice February Ist
We find our stock is somewhat
larger than it should be for this
season of the year being about
three times as valuable as was ever
kept by any jeweler heretofore and
more that it is profitable to keep in
a town of this size we propose to
cut it down by letting you have any
article in onr store at practically
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-19

Pays. Wise men
do not SOW dol
lars to the wind.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

No charge is made for the enter
tainment, but at the close of the per-
formance cloth is opened on which
the villagers throw money, according
to their means. AS each coin is
thrown. one of the actors calls out the
name of the donor and wishes a
blessing on his or her head. Natur-
ally, that stimulates generosity.
Then, too, there are dances and
concerts in the moonlight, arranged by
bands of young men who correspond,
somewhat, to the waits on Christ
mas Eve. They choose leader, who
trains them carefully in dancing and
in singing interminable songs, usually
taken from those great Indian epics,
the "Ramayana" and the "Mahabar-
alta" After they are perfect, they
parade the village, dancing and sing
ing, on some moonlight night. Their
great aim is to attract the admiration
of the girls; and they are just as vain
as any of the amateur actors of west
ern civilization.
There are cock-fights and bull
fights and ram-fghts, fortune tellers
and astrologers, wrestling matches
and games which closely resemble
cricket, football and quarter-staff The
Villagers OL OOutneTn lnuld are Keen
sportsmen, who never lose a chance of
hunting hogs, deer, elephants, and
even tigers. The poorest dweller in
the forest and mountain villages,
where game is plentiful, owns a dog
and a spear.
There are no Drawer hunters than
some of these poor peasants. Many
of them will face a man-eating tiger
with nothing but a spear or a bow,
and slay him or be slain.
II have seen an Indian villager actu-
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

Hon. Cyrus A. Goodspeed lay back
comfortably on the quarter deck of the
United States gunboat Burlington. The
sea was as blue as only Southern
seas can be. Away off on the horizon
trade wind clouds lay like great balls
of cotton. 1t was very hot. Straight
ahead, looming up like a mirage, was
a mountain range, its base indistinct
in opalescent vapors.
Mr.. Goodspeed looked over at the
captain, who was reclining in a second
chair, his feet on the rail. How soon
will we get there, Captain?" he asked.
"In an hour or so now. Anxious to
arrive?"
We'll, yes, may say I am; but not
so much on my account as my wife, s. "
The captain raised his eyebrows in
Interrogation. The free and inde-
pendent Republic of San Jose is a
queer place for Mrs. GoodSpeed to
want you to settle down in," he said.
"Of course, as the American minister,
you'll be in all that's doing, but even
then you won't find it very entertain
ing, I'm afraid"
shoulders, took out his cigar case, Of
fered the captain a perfecto and took
one himself. "Well," he remarked, as
soon as his cigar commenced to draw
satisfactorily, Il don't mind telling
you that l won't stay here more than
month or so. It's the honor of be-
ing a diplomat I'm down for, and not
the pay. can make more out of my
coal business in two months than the
oil a
year."
Mr.. Goodspeed smiled. Back in
Bucksport 1 used to be too busy SELL
ing coal and wood to think of much
else, and I'd be there yet If 1t wasn't
for my wife. She and Mrs. Haswith
sort of run things where we live. IL
one gives a party the other tries to go
her one better by giving something
little sweller, and there's no use de-
nying it, Mrs. Haswith has always
been mite in the lead, because her
husband-he's dead now-used to be
Lieutenant Governor. Now the coal
business is all right, at any rate, it's
good enough for me, but there are
some people who think Lieutenant
Governors job Is a little more hlgn
class than what / make my bread ana
butter in. Mrs. Haswith worked II tor
all it was worth.
MY WlIe Is an dIlpltlouS "oA.seii,
and playing second fiddle got on ner
nerves. One day she said to me, Cy-
rus, you've got to go into polltlcs.
Politics. ! answered: I'm no more
fitted for politics than Jersey cali.
Besides, I've got my coal business 10
attend to-
Il mean every word / say. Ihat
Haswith woman makes me sick put
ting on airs because her husband was
IN politics. At that last tea she gave
she had people all the way down from
Augusta who used 10 know her hus-
band, when he was at the capitol
there
4 can get people from an over the
state / answered. You want 20 send
Invitations 10 every man On the coal
trade, I'm a member Of the associa-
ton aud / know them all
Il saw ia made a mistake the Sec
ond ] stoppea speaking by the way my
wife shifted. There's no special use
i0 30 into an she had % say on the
subject. ~ the Coal Dealers Assoeia-
iou had heard n ia have been fired
from membership. We'll 40 cut things
fhori 30 you know Nhaf mY wife
made me oo7 J. who don't rnfs fNo
cents one way oF fhe other about poiir
nss' te long ~ thsy eont monkey Hith
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

ally wrestle with tiger" said a ma
tive missionary who has travelled
widely in Southern India. 1.-THE left
hand of the man was in the mouth of
the tiger, and the right leg of the
beast was round the back of the man,
while the man, with his right hand,
was lifting the upper jaw of the tiger.
The tiger tried his best to extricate his
upper jaw, but the man held on grimly
until another hunter came up with his
gun and shot the beast"
The Hindoo Village school.
Every Indian village has it's school,
and the lot of the pupils is a hard one.
Let no American boy complain Of his
school hours. The Hindoo youngster
goes to school at o'clock in the morn
ing, works at his lessons for a couple
of hours, and then goes home to
breakfast. He goes back to school
at 8, studies until noon, has two hours
for the midday meal, and then works
until in the evening. His home
lessons" take him an hour each even
ing, and he has to bring a note to
school next morning to show that he
actually spent that time over them.
There are no long vacations, but sim
gle holidays are frequent. They are
given on all the Hindoo festivals,
which are numerous. at the new moon
and the full moon. and whenever a
new boy enters the school. The pun
ishments given to the boys are very
severe, and even barbarous. Some
times they are hung up by the hands,
or forced to stand for hours on one leg.
Hindoo schoolboys are mischievous,
like scholoboys all the world over.
Their favorite trick Is to hide th0rns
in the palm-ieaf mat on which their
teacher is wont to take his afternoon
nap.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

done. But / had my letter finished
and was In hurry to mail 1t, so
got out Of back door and started to
our rooms.
Julia was looking out Of a window
as / came up. She had hold of a
newspaper so fresh from the press
that it smelled sticky. Cyrus A.
GoOdspeed; she called out before
had fairly stuck my head inside. "were
you carry 10 vote FOR that BirdsfOot
MANI I've just been reading all about
" IN the paper. They've got an extra
out
After all. there are some things a
mans wife says 20 him al times that
don't concern anyone else "a Bit soll-
~ down, N wag ~ the effect that "a
ruined my chances in politics When
she'd lefl me ~ sort ~ digest n nll
ihe doorbeu rang nnd BirdefoOi came
ln. q hurried around 80 thank you
he said before ! could gei g word in
c1geWayH,
NN0w, even n guila di9n'f lks the
Bay hsa Ygtsd. I c9ulaD't bs rude 70
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20
By WILLIAM THORP.

able.
ne potters are a simple, meek folk.
Ihey never quarrel, and do not even
insist on payment for their goods if the
customer DULLES them. LAS simple as
potter" and "As mild as a potter"
are common sayings. 1t is curious how
every mans character in India seems
70 be determined by his OCCUPATION.
Brlcklayers are always active and en-
ersetlc; swineherds lazy and immoral.
snoefnakers poor, ignorant and de-
splsed; goldsmiths clever and plausible
rogues; and blacksmiths gossips of the
nrst water. Carpenters have usually a
turn Tor poetry, and many of the great
est poets Of India have come from
their class.
The Village Poet.
But the village does not reply upon
such amateur talent. 1t always sun
ports professional poet of its own.
toelry IS lngralned in the Hindoo ma
ture. Even the school boys are taught
10 reclte and compose poems before
lhey can spell words of three syllabIes,
and the very beggars solicit aims with
harps in their hands and songs upon
their lips
Like most poets elsewhere, the viii
lage bard Is usually a poor man; but
he is never in actual need. When he
1 wants meal, he bitches up his Pc
gasus and goes to some rich villager-
goldsmith or bazaar-man-with a
| new poem in praise of the patron 8
wife or house. He is always rewarded
with as much food as he can eat, and,
perhaps, few annaS as well. He
mas no trouble with publishers, no
weary waiting to see his books in
print. Whenever anything happens in
the village, he is always on hand with
rev appropriate verses, and always
welcome.
There is much rivalry and jealousy
among neighboring villages as to the
merits of their respective poets. and
at certain festivals during the year
they assemble together for a literary
tournament. Every Hindoo rajah or
''zamindar" (rich land owner) keeps
his own laureate, to whom he some
times give large estates and the rents
or taxes of whole villages. Alto
gether, the poets lines are cast in
pleasant places in India.
A Sample of HindOO Poetry.
These village bards let their fancy
run riot in d bewildering maze of
Oriental imagery and there is no limit
to their capacity for flattery. This is
the kind of poem they compose for the
rustic Romeo who wants to charm the
ear of his well-beloved:
80 Lali! Thou art sweeter than the
honey and more graceful than the
deer: 1 faint and die for thy love
20, thou dove! o, thou swan! In
still waters see thy face, in the night
wind through the feathery bamboos
hear thy voice. and the gloom of my
thoughts goes from me.
Thy words are as drops of honey,
and thy voice is as the voice of the
'kuil (the Indian nightingale). When
thou walkest before me, thou art
beautiful as the spreading peacock.
30 Lali! o beloved Thy forehead
is as the new moon, and thy face like
the rising sun for glory!"
So the lovesick swain goes on for
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20
The Real Life of the HindOO
round In as Hundreds of Never Been Visited by
europeans s-Queer Morkings Of the Rule Of caste =

An American and an Anglo-Indian
were watching a "dhoby" laboriously
washing clothes at the 'fuller's
ground of an Indian village.
THAT man." said the Anglo-Indian
10 his friend, represents the antithesis
of your social system. He has been
a washer of clothes for a thousand
years. He will wash clothes for an
other thousand years. He is bound
down by the rigid laws of caste, and
he can't rise in the world even If he
1y-ishes-which he Doesn't"
But don't such men ever leave
their villages and try to get out of
their groove? Aren't the boys am
bitious?" asked the American, who re-
rnembered how every Yankee lad as
pires to become President.
mo" was the response. "This is
the Land of No Ambition. Men work
hard, but without any expectation or
desire of ever being better off than
their fathers were. AS you see this
village to-day, so it was a thousand
years ago, and so its inhabitants
were"
Everybody has heard of caste in
India, but few foreigners realize what
caste really means. The village
sweeper, who always belongs to the
pariah classes, may not even enter the
-.
He dare not go to the public we'll for
drink lest he contaminate it. If he
is thirsty, he must stand afar off and
wall dolefully until somebody takes
pity on him and brings water to him
from the we'll or from one of the
houses.
The village has a highly-organized
social life, and in many ways it is dis
tinctly socialistic. The "dhoby," the
he horhov. Aa eI, l.
er, the sweeper and other laborers and
artisans are all public servants. Each
receives so much per annum from
each villager, the sum usually varying
according to the wealth Of the indi-
vidual.
Laundry Bills Unheard of.
Nobody dreams of paying laundry
bills. He pays the equivalent of IL
cents a year to the washerman, and
gives him a handful of food now and
again, besides other perquistes at we'd
dings, births, and other festivals. This
seems small pay for a years washing;
but the "dhoby" has another valuable
privilege. He and his family can wear
the clothes given them to wash, and
nobody dreams of obJecting. Thus they
are always gafly clad-one week in the
borrowed plumes of Ram Lal, the next
in those of Jhaman Singh.
Everything goes on in the village as
it has gone on for a thousand years or
more. There are many remote villages
in India in which no European has ever
set foot, and in few of them are white
men seen from one years end to the
other.
The potter makes his pots as he did
in the days of Omar Khayyam. His
simple machine has remained unal-
tered for two thousand years, and he
has not the slightest desire to improve
it. What was good enough for his an
cestors is good enough for him. He
cheerfully shapes his bail of clay on
clumsy wooden wheel by tedious labor
into forms of exquisite beauty, for If
his tools are poor his skill is remark
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

are born. They must choose strictly
within their own class in their own
village, or in one of the villages close
by. But, indeed, the choice is usually
made for them. In some cases it is
made by their parents in their infancy.
AS d rule, the choice is cheerfully ac-
cepted and the marriage is a happy
one.
''We grow up to think that such an
one belongs to us" an Indian village
girl explained to an English woman
known to the writer. I'VE take the
relationship as you take your brothers
and your sisters. You do not choose
them; but you do not, therefore, hate
them"
The Indian BarnstOrmer
The village is not without it's
amusements. They are cheap and
plentiful, and life need never be dull.
There are no travelling circuses; but
in the summer, after the harvests are
garnered and the hardest work of the
year is DONE an itinerant dramatic
company is pretty sure to visit the viii
layers. The worst of American BARN
stormers would disown professional
kinship with these half-naked, ill-fed,
oil-smeared ThespianS; but often their
acting has great force and pathos. The
repertoire gives them little trouble,
and there are no royalties to pay, for
ninety-nine out of a hundred of these
companies perform only the two fam
Gus classical dramas, 'Harishandra"
and 'Markanda." The villagers know
the stories by heart, but they weep
for the twentieth time over the sor-
rows of Queen Chandramadi, Hindoo
Niobe, and watch with bated breath
the struggle between silva and the
Angel of Death for the beautiful young
Markanda.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

Of him for ballots. We voted as we
were seated: those of us In the front
seats first. and so on; each one walking
up In turn and putting his vote, writ
ten on a piece Of white paper, into the
hox.
"As said. WAS busy Things down
at the Office had taken a turn for the
better and / could see a chance 20
make some money for a change. So /
didn't pay much attention one way or
the othed what wac going on until !
saw different men looking at me and
nOddlng: then ] knew Il was my turn
10 vote. A piece Of blank paper was
before me on my desk and picked up
a pen, dipped u in the instnnd ami
commenced nlbbliDg the end ~ the
penhOlder. Jones Or BlrdefOOfT
thought which did ) promise Julia
"a vote f0Fw hY that fime every one
was stretching ihoiT neeks around and
some were falhlnR iu DEAF and 1umb
ianRusRe AZ We, which ! d0uf Unafr-
stand. The speaker Rgf up from tlis
chair end SAD The H.einbefs hafs ~
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20
| Charitable People.

Chur1taDle PeOples
The villagers are the most charitable
of people. They take the keenest
pleasure in giving aims to the secular
beggars and religious mendicants who
swarm all over India. Every village
maintains q "chatiram," or public inn,
at which all comers receive free board
and lodging. Charity is ungrudgings
it is privilege to give, not an unpleas-
ant obligation. The beggar does not
cringe or implore. "Give, and acquire
merit" he imperiously demands. He
is doing you a favor by helping you
on the path to salvation, and he thinks
you ought to be much obliged to him.
The village government is presided
over by the "munsif." a kind of JUS
tice of the Peace appointed by the
British government, and by the village
accountant, whose Office is hereditary.
1t does not matter whether the latter
has head for figures. so long as he
is the son of his father. These two
officials are apt to be petty tyrants,
who seize every opportunity f4r
graft"
But their powers are circumscribed
by the "panchayet," or court of arbi-
tration, which is composed Of village
elders elected by the inhabitants. This
patriarchal tribunal decides all fam
lily disputes and most of the petty civil
and criminal cases. Does man fall
to pay his debts, or beat his wife, or
neglect to support his mother, or ma
liciously damage an enemy's property.
or sneer at another mans gods, he has
to reckon with the ''panchayet. Di-
vorces are granted by that court with
a celerity and nonchalance unequalled
even in South Dakota.
Copyright, 1904, by William Thorp.)
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20
HuInanity's Weak Spot.

There are more deaths directly due
eases combined. They are humanity's
weak spot-the breeding-place Of con-
sumption. When the slightest symp-
tom of trouble is felt in the lungs you
should begin the use Of DIR. Boschee's s
German Syrup at once. 1t is made
especially to soothe, heal and
strengthen the lungs, throat and bron-
chial tubes. German Syrup is a
never-failing remedy for consumption.
Trial bottle, 2s: big bottle, rs; at all
druggists. Knights Pharmacy.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

IL was my Office in BuckspOrt and not
South or Central America / wanted TO
20 to. So ! thanked him. but said ]
couldn't really consider such propo-
sition. Julia broke In and said just
as sweetly as possible that was rath-
er overcome with the criticisms had
received for voting as my conscience
dictated, that we appreciated all that
Mr. BirdsfoOt had said, and that II he
could get me appointed minister some
where we would never forget his kind
ness. ] was 80 sort Of bewildered with
the change things had taken that /
couldn't say q word, and after some
more talk about nothing az ali Birds
foot left.
"'How could YOU be- foolish enough 70
throw away a chance of berOninE
minister. cyrufT Julia said, Don't
you know that n you gct your appoint
fnent Neli be- way ahead ~ Mrs Has
nlfhT ! kept quiet. because there
didn't seem mueh chance that The mln-
iFfcr BUSINESS NeNi8 pan out.
''Ihs Legislature edt9Wbea the week