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The daily sentinel., 1904-10-07
EDITORIAL
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"As further sop to this crimin-
al organization they placed upon
their ticket as a presidential
Burns, mine owner. who has the
unenviable distinction of having
sacrificed the friends and associ-
ates of lifetime to give support,
aid and comfort to the most law
less and murderous body of men
ever organized in times of peace
in this country
James F. Burns, equally with W.
5. Stratton, laid the foundation of
Cripple Creeks greatness. His in
terests run into millions. Does it
seem likely that one in his position
would be anxious to turn over the
region in which his interests are locat-
ed to the teuder meroies of unrestrain-
ed cut-throats.
Each of the gentlemen mentioned
has legions of friends, and whether
democI ats or republicans they will
resent the senseless reflections cast
upon them. So far as 'Our Joe" is
concerned, while the idea of his plot
ting with the emissaries of dark
lantern organization may be greeted
with howl of merriment. yet in
dignation inevitably follows.
1t pays to tell the truth and be
fair and clean. oven in politics.
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The LATEST man | ever know?
Well" said Mr.. Stoggleby, Il am in
clined to think that that was man
knew once named Rinleton-Jackson
Rif1et m-WhO was considerable of a
playe. on the cOrnct, but who didn't
very often play one because he was
too dun lazy TO blow it.
''Eut finally he hit on plan that
let him play all he wanted to without
taki!g the. trouble to blow: all he
had to do was to manipulate the keys.
He had tank !uilt that he Used
to pump full of compressed air and
which had a pipe leading from it up
back Of his head and around in front
of it with an opening that fitted into
tho mouthpiece of his cornet. which
he was thus enabled to hold in the
usual position for playing and to play
upon without blowing himself.
He had valve in the tank which
he used 10 operate with his foot, and
so supply the needed air. And when
he'd filed up his tank he'd sit there
and play, till his air gave out. with
the greatest enjoyment. except when
he was too lazy to press the valve
with his foot.
Yes, | think that Jackson Rihieton
was the LATEST man | ever knew. But
he didn't always remain so.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-15
Minstrel Makes Discovery.

George H. Primrose, the minstrel
likes big dogs, but detests small ones
Il especially detest,' said Mr.. Prim-
rose, "your tiny, white, toy poodle. ]
found out last week. though, that the
toy poodle has its use.
Il was passing the house OF friend
wien l found this out. The coiored
cUachman stood on the piazza, clean
ing the windows with long-handled
mop. A curious noise accompanied
the cleaning, and | stopped.
John l said. what kind of mop
are you using there?'
Hit am de missus' toy poodle,
tied to de end oh dis pole John an.
ewered with grin. De missus done
toIe me to wash de poodle, an Sc
ah m a-killin' two birds wiz one stone
-washin' de poodle an de winders at
de same time. sab.
John said I. you are wise man.
No one but you ever put poodle to
good use before
And as l walked away the dog S
shrieks rang in my ears musically.'
The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-15
Hands on the Wall

moved to make room for hands.
Two or three packs OF cards are
used each evening. and now instead
of being thrown away the big hands
are outlined in court cards. while the
gaps in between are filled in with
spots. The entire wall is filled in,
and notable hands. carefully labeled,
are now posted on the ceiling. Not
a square inch of tn. wall plastering
is now visible, and il makes a singu-
larly appropriate dcCorartiun.
The cards are SO placed as to shed
the dust as much as possible, but
they cannot be fastened down firmly,
and the problem Of cleaning the place
was the despair Of the caretaker until
the owner Of th. fiat IIpged up large
bicycle air pump. with a line OF heX-
ible rubber tubing such as is used to
extend the shutter radius on cameras.
Now the air is forced under the cards
and by creating d dyaurht through the
window, the dust is taken up.-New
York Press.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-15

One of the oldest card rooms in the
city is in a bachelor fiat up town. 1t
is the resort Of half dozen poker
players, who gather about the green
covered table almost every evening
and play a five-cent ante game.
Originally the walls were decorated
with few cheap sporting prints of
the old English style and a set OF
poker pictures. One night royal
flush came out and the five cards
were tackled upon the wall to com
memOrate the event. A few weeks
later a snyen-dOllar pot went to a man
with pair of deuces and the nerve
to bluff, and for contrast and as a
warning the pair of two spots was
placed alongside the royal hand. From
time to time other hands were SINH
larly posted until they began to en-
croach upon the prints. One night
when three players each held four Of
kind, a print was taken down to
make room for the hands. and the
next evening all the prints were re-
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Use Few Island Words

A letter making inquiry of Colonel
Edwards, chief Of the bureau of in
sular affairs, war department, as to
words grated into the English Ian
guage on account of the American
occupation of the Philippines was
turned over to Captain Taylor. who is
an excellent Spanish scholar and is
getting up the history of the Philip
pines from the public documents cap
tured from the FilipinOs. He made a
reply which indicated that not so
many words come over from the Phil
ippines, although thousands of United
States soldiers have spent years in
the islands. Probably the Tagalog
language and the language of the
different tribes do not impress the
Americans who go to the Philippines.
Spanish is the chief language of
the Philippines, and by the acquisi-
tion of Florida, New Mexico, Texas
and California the United States ac
quired about all of the Spanish terms
needed in the English language to
convey the meaning of various places
The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-15
What Cured Lazy Man

THAT tank blew NJ one day when
Jackson had put double charge into
il to save himself the trouble of Charg-
ing it so often. and blew Mr.. RitilotOn
across his room ami through the door
out into the hall ana broke his left
arm and damaged him otherwise. and
laid him up for QGit' a long time;
and when he got cut again he was
quite another man
Whether in that long enforced idle
ness he had stored up enough energy
to give him start or what, don't
know: but certain il is that after his
arm healed and he got out again he
was another man, aS gn-ahead and en-
ergetic as he had been lazy before:
for he's still living; and to see him
now you wouldn't think he had ever
had lazy bone in his body,
Nov that was queer case, wasn't
it? 1t surely was. ! have heard of
good many simple things and of
good many odd things. serving finally
to spur some apparently hopeIessly
lazy man on to cndcavCr, but Jackson
Riffieton's is the only case | ever
heard Of in which a man was thus
transformed my the explosion of
compressed air tank built to help a
lazy man play the 'CTn't.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-15

and objects. The English language
does not apparently acquire many
words from savaGery. 1t would be
pretty hard to nam, any words in
the English language that were ac-
quired from the Indians of North
America save the names Of places.
No one knows how many dialects
and different languages are spoken in
the Philippine Islands General An
drew Burt, who spent several years in
the Philippines AMI served in mpor
tant positions, said that Oftentmes he
occupied one point with troops where
one language was spoken, while three
miles away totally different Ian
guage was spoken, differing apparent
ly more than the languages Of differ
ent Indian tribes in this country. The
acquisition of any of these tribal Ian
guages outside Of the Tagalog was
almost impossible and useless. 1t is
apparent that whatever else the Phil
ippines contribute they will not en-
rich or enlarge the American Ian
guage.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-15
Used Philosophy In Fishing.

Herbert Spencer once won curious
wager He was staying for fishing
holiday in the house of Sir Francis
Powell. the president of the Scottish
academy, and while angling for trout
he happened to drop his eye glasses
into deep pool Of the river. In the
evening he related his misadventure
TO his host and the guests, and said
that he was prepared to bet that he
would recover the pince-nez from the
bottom of the pool. His friends de-
clared that this was an impossible
feat but Herbert Spencer still offered
to make the bet. His challenge was
accepted by one of the visitors. Upon
the following morning Spencer re-
turned to the house with the missing
eglasses. He had fastened a strong
magnet on the end of his fishing line
and fshed for the glasses until 1t
came into contact with their steel
rims.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-15

and bickered like a fame" Twice It
was within half an inch of the breast
bone. twice il drew blood from the
right arm. once it scared the cheek.
Silvera was fast weakening. HIS
breath came in gasps: each success
sive lunge was slower. each parry
more wild Der.rg smiled and lunged.
The Spaniard dropped to both knees
and thrust upward with all his force.
1t was "Tancred's blow long barred
in honorable dueling. There was
shivering, splintering ring and his ra-
pier fell in fragments, broken against
the Americans hit. For moment
Dering hung poised, his weapon
drawn TX ready to dart through the
heart of the covering wretch before
him. Then he said '>Faugh!' spat in
disgust and turned toward Hardy. Es-
cobedo stepped forward. launched a
string OF vituperative Spanish and
tweaked S.lvera's beard. The gentle
man, still on his knees, seemed glad
to be alive.
At the moment there was a rustic
in the underground and Rosa villa
real came flying, love and fear in her
dark eyes. her red lips pale. She
passed Dering like fawn and threw
herself headlong upon the neck OF the
Spaniard.
Would they murder him, my love,
my darling she cried. Then, jerk
ing herself upright, she pointed a
small, quivering foretinger at Dering,
and hissed:
"Gringo. assassin. go!'
Say. old man" Hardy asked, as the
cab rolled toward the city, where on
earth did you learn that parry?"
Dering stared vacantly out OF the
window.
Finally, after a very long pause. he
asked: What was that you sald!
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The Rosary Of Years.

Some reckon their age by years.
Some reckon their life by art
But some tell their days by the flow o.
their tears,
And their life by the moans Of :heIr
heart.
The dials of earth may show
The length, not tie depth, of years:
Few or many they come-few or many
But our time is best measured by tears
All, not by the silver gray
That creeps through the sunny hair,
And not by the scenes that we pass on
our way
And not by the burrows the finger Of
care
On the forehead and face have made,
Not so do We count our years:
Not by the sun of the earth-but the
shade
OF our souls, and the fall of our tears
For the young are sometimes old,
Though their brow be bright and fair:
While their blood beats warm, their heart
lies cold
Ger them the springtime-but winter is
there.
And the old are ofttimes young
When their hair is thin and white;
And they sing in age as in youth they
And they laugh. for their cross was
Light.
A thousand Of Joys may foam
On the pillows of all the years:
But never the foam brings the brave bark
home:
It reaches the haven through tears
Father RYAN,
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marrying him; that she hated him
Don Tomaso'' only.
At half past nine that night, return
ing slowly to quarters and dreaming
Of settling in Havana with a .cvely
Spanish wife, Dering was confronted
by the politeful Silvera, who asked
permission to stroll with him. Grant
ed
Your gloves, senor." the Spaniard
said, pointedly. ARE OF the color of
your hair. which is the color of your
courage, which is yellow
Next instant he staggered back
with broad red mark on his cheek,
bowed, and said:
THE senor will give satisfaction
when?'
Nov! Any time!"
A friend OF Silvera's called in half
| an hour and was referred to Corporal
Francis Hardy, also Virginiac. A
meeting was arranged for at sunrise
next morning, at a spot five miles
from the city, on the beach, The af
fair was conducted, of course, with
the utmost secrecy. Dering and his
friend reached the spot just at day
light. Silvera and his second, Scbas-
tian Escobedo, arrived within ten
minutes. The men bowed with pune
tilliousness and stripped to their
shirt-s!eeves. The rapiers were meas
ured and the principals placed facing
each other. Escobedo called, En-
por6ef' and tba S,,o1 hapap
Dering found at once that he was
engaged with swordsman OF the
first class. The Spanard was as act
i've as cat, had wrist of steel, and
there was look in his black eyes
which meant murder. Confident of
his skill, Derfng sent his steel against
Silvera's blade with clash. Then
the battle was on in earnest Lunge,
parry and riposte, feint, guard and
lunse followed incessantly The click
ing of the rapiers dozen yards away
would have sounded like the rattle of
castanets. Neither man altered his po-
sition or gave back an inch. Escobedo
bowed to Hardy. smiled and said:
PLAINLY it is a battle Ioutrance"
Hardy, young hand at such work.
did not answer. His soul was In the
fray.
Suddenly Dering stepped in half
foot, changed from carte to tierce,
half-cut. disengaged and lunged with
the speed of light. Silvera parried,
but insufticiently. A feck OF blood
showed through the shirt above his
ribs Escobedo struck down the
swords swords.
1T is nothing-nothing!" Silvera
said, pantingly. 1T is to the death, is
it not?"
ITO the death!" Dering said, grim
ly.
Escobedo. Struggling his shoulders,
stepped back and once more the
blades rasped along each other. Into
the Americans eyes there came now
lust OF battle and the desire to slay.
He pressed his foeman steadily back.
Around the slender form with the
spot of red upon it his blade "writhed
The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-15
SENATOR HANNA GENEROUs.
Kissed Mary Little Girls and Paid
for the Privilege.

for the Privilege.
The late Senator Hanna sat in a
special car, delayed at the railroad
station in Napoleon. Ohio. Some Of
the townsfolk found out that he was
there, AMI they visited the station.
Among the callers were two little
girls about - years old. They climb
ed up to the car and one OF them
asked: BE you Mr.. Hanna?"
That's what ! am. little one
will you please give me one OF
your pictures?"
Hanna ordered the porter to bring
out ore of his Autographs.
Here is my picture, and kiss be-
sides" And. suiting the action to the
word, he Kissed both of the little girls
square on their mouths. and in pay
ment handed them each quarter.
And it was worth it, he nodded.
Five minutes later little girls came
marching down the hill toward the
station in blocks of five and ten and
battaliOnS.
Hanna was panic stricken.
The two little girls have spread
the news of the kisses and the quar-.
ters through the town. said Col. Her
rick, "and they are coming to claim
them"
Herrck was right for Hanna spent
the next hour distributing quarters
and kisses.
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Come back
NV little lads. come back
MY little maids. with starched frocks;
Ny lads my maids. come back!
The poplar trees are black
Against the keen. lone. throbbins sky;
The tang Of the old box
Fills the clear dusk from wall to wall
And the dews fan
Come back,
| watch. | cry:
Leave the rude wharf the mart;
Come back
Else | shall break my heart.
Am | forgot:
NV DAYS as they were not
The warm. sweet. grooming tunes:
The Sunday afternoons.
Wrought but for you:
The larkspurs growing tall.
You wrea thed In pink and blue.
Within your praycr-books small;
The cupboards carved both in and out
With curious prickly vine
And smelling far and fine;
The pictures in a row,
OF folk you did not know;
The toys, the games, the shrill; gay rout
The lanterns. that at hour for bed,
A charmed, but homely red.
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His Source Of tnspjratjon.

On Ibsen's table beside the inkstand
was a small tray. It's contents were
extraordinary - some little wooden
carved Swiss bears, diminutive black
devil, small cats, dogs and rabbits
made of copper, one of which was
playing a violin. What are those
funny little things?" ventured to ask.
Il never write single line of any of
my dramas unless that tray and its
occupants are before me on the table
| could not write without them. IT
may seem strange-perhaps it is-but
I cannot write without them" he re-
peated. Why I use them is my cwu
secret"
The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-15
That Other Side Of Jordan.

H. the other side o. Jordan may be
bright as bright kin he,
NJ l amt a-fautin' this old world, she
bright enough fer me!
owe got to be swimmer when you
strike that Jasper sea.
Yonder, on the other side of Jordan!
make no doubt the country is a country
out O. sight,
IN all them fields O livin green an
rivers o delight;
.U l jest amt in no hurry fer to rise an
take my flight
Yonder, on the other side Of Jordan!
now the time they're havin' in the
sweet old hy-an'- by.
st set the stars to danCin' in the blue
bend the sky:
-l I'm jest no good at i'yin'-an' an
gels got to fly
Ionder, on the other side o Jordan!
no matter what the trouble an no
matter where | roam,
S world to me is SWeeter than its
sweetest honeyComb,
70 ! never shall resign it til they holler
Come on homcH-
Yonder. on the other SIDE o JordaD'
Atlanta Constitution.
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Tells Profession by Profile.

little Tommy was paying visit to
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin. old friends OF
n is parents. The young man required
a Eood deal of amusing, and his host
and hostess were somewhat at loss
t the latter bethought her of the por-
tilt album, which they went through
trgether with much industry and at
I ton to detail as to the past, pres
out and probable future lives of the
pc sons represented. Toward the end
Of he book were two of those astound-
iuT profiles, cut out of black paper, in
" Itch our orefathcrs-strange people
- delighted.
Those" said Mrs. Franklin, ARE
my father and mother"
OH" said Tommy. Then he hesi-
tated, and scrutiniZed them more thor
onghly. II s'pose,' he said, they was
chimney-sweeps, wasn't they?'
The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-15

When Thomas Derins- Mainwarins
Of Virginia. aged % and fairly well
off. went to Paris on visit of leisure
and pleasure, he met so many Eng
ishmen who called themselves
Smith-Brown or Brown-Jones that he
calmly cut out his hyphen and called
himself Dering. II was the family
name anyhow. the Mainwaring tag
having been tackled on with golden
hammer. and he did not feel any the
worse fer shortening his signature.
In Paris he foresathcrcd with Gull
lanme Henri Francois Ste. Marie
d'Auvergne, who had name enough
for both OF them. Henri, as he pre-
ferred to be called, was graduate
Of the Eco!e Polytechnique, sort of
Frenchifed equivalent to the Aneri-
can West Point, and, having money
and desire to be easy. had bought
himself out Of the army through one
of those processes peculiar TO the re-
public of Rochefort.
Among other pleasures to which
Henri with the superfuity of title in
ducted his Virginian friend was a
sale d'armes. The master of the place
was a wary cool old sworder,' who
had served his time in Africa, in Chi
Ia and in vain endeayOr to stem
the outward rush of Uhlans from be-
yond the Rhine. By the looks of him
he might, too. have served some of
his time in the saleys; but he knew
his business, which was fencing. and
he took an epecial fancy TO Dering.
"Ah!' he would say, smirking vii
! lainously and sending in a high thrust
in carte that f1ickered past the ear
like snakes tongue, lit is you, mon
sieur, who have the true fencing
form-not too tall, not too broad
and the eye and the wrist. After all
that is 1.-THE eye and the wrist.
The riposte with simple disengage!
Touche! Bon! Bon!'
Dering learned most of the illnesses
of a fine art, won first hOnors in a
great assault" fought a trifling duel
or two and took ship at Havre.
La Gascogne' reached New York
on the 25th of April. 1898, and Dering
found the town wild with excitement.
Congress had in effect declared war
against Spain. His country had aris-
en- like a slumbering giant and yawn-
ed and stretched its arms. All of the
male Derings had fought under the
crimson flag of the confederacy, and
that was one of the reasons why the
present representative of the line hur-
ried home as fast as a train could
carry him and joined the first regi-
ment which was sent out. 1t is true
that this regiment got no further
than Florida, but that was only be-
cause the fun was over too soon. It
is true also that part of it was sent
to Havana when hostilities closed, and
Dering was among the lucky ones.
There he did provost duty in town
which needed provosting badly for
few days, and then simmered down
into flatness.
Rosa Villareal, daughter Of a Span
\ ish merchant, walking around and
around the plaza while the band play
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Cry of Old House

Went fickerinE from shed to shed,
The fasots cTuntllnE spicy. good,
Brought in from lh' great wood.
The f:. rk thai held r,uI AL about
The wind that would not rO?-
Com" back, my women and my men,
And take them all again
Come back
Come up the SIN accustomed, wisttul
lands,
The poplar haunted lands.
You need not call,
For ! shall know.
And light the candles tall,
Set wine and loaf arrow.
Come back,
Tulatch the door.
And fan upon my heart once more.
For shall comfort yUI. oh lad;
Oh. daughter, l shall make you wholly
glad
The wreck, the wrong,
The unavailing thronr-
The sting. the smart
Shall be they NIT,
Forgot. forgot,
Come back.
And fall upon my heart
-Lizette Woodwork Reese. In the At
lartc.
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Compensation.

And If have not that I most desire,
Why storm at Fate and weep her firm
decree
What seems most fair. that which l most
admire.
Perhaps were fairer still. unganed by
me
II others have of beauty, wealth, or
power.
And perchance lack riches such rs
these.
St..l h.Gdjn evils lurk within their bower
For every comfort brings its own DIS
ease.
freely given.
It should not turn TO gall within my
heart.
No low. IL truly lost though freely given
My love IS of mNself the better part:
For have that which has no other man
MY life. like his, may freely bless or
Sarah Palmer Byrnes.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-15
GOVERNMENT TAGS ITS FISH.
Object S to Identify and Keep Track
Of the EinnY Tribe.

Object S to Identify and Keep Track
of the Emmy Tribe.
TIL United States fish commission
has contracted the small boys habit
of tagging fishes. Metal tags are fas-
tened Ia marine fishes, which are let
loose in the ocean with the idea OF
identifying them in case they are
caught at any future time.
Thc Tag, which is light and made
of copper, is securely fastened by a
wire passed through a fin near its
junction with the body. No two tags
are alike, each having its own mark
ings Fifteen hundred cod were thus
duly tagged and released last spring
on the New England coast. The OBJ
ject Of the tagging is to ascertain the
rate at which a cod grows, the fire.
quency of its spawning and the ex.
tent Of its travel in the ocean.
The same experiment is being tried
this year with young salmon, arti-
ficially hatchcd, for the rivers of the
Pacihr coast The fishes are finger
lings, about three inches long In
this way it is expected that the age at
which the salmon comes from the
sea to spawn will be ascertained; also
the rate of growth, and the percentage
of fry that attain maturity. The ex'
pertinent is an interesting one. and
has an obvious bearing on fish culture
problems.