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Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

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Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16
s,iek to osa cus.ens.

Soose gull pens and drying por-
terz are still used il English lzr
courts and the House Of Lords and
IN the Preach Chamber OF Deyx-ies
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16
Iannisn Travel.

IN year nearly Ie8. 800 persons
Travelled the for<y-seven miles OF rail-
way across the isshmrs-
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

ErH.i-Wiu tad re last uirs. - -
s1-zsc lis mind going Nab
Weren't ECg scsrsdE Egh-l-Ts<. / Szs
2trs1d he Wou9zn'r SO with II
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

Do yoz think WEIkia-s rev boy re-
ss15les rs father In one ~zy. IL >
the biggest baby ! ever saw
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

Some men never discover tfat tAsy
are OF he wrong tack uEta they y:
down OF -
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

he nii5es, tcsacco that grows Is usf
IN the makeup of Bakers B-lihszd -
e<zt cigar Lry o1s and See
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

A reckless -anage-en, rsll never
have a Sreekiess railroad
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

This Is a tough world Even Hsisows
- sa7et-nes hard pressed 70 raise ihs
r5za-
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

Angry Father-Wha; do you mean.
by being engaged to half q dozen men
at once. She-Nothinz.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16
Feet Comfortable Ever sInee.

The worst that can be said as the tVog
Is that he Is a natural kicker
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

=; h-zt. al h1~ 800. a e.Sar yoa rsa
by for 5 cents 4 Naa cz4 the rzxhr
brand Try Euilhes9
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

OF course. 10 girl will admit that Sc
nas been waiting eight years for q chance
to pop the question
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

II you have smoked . Bulihead S-cent
cigar YOU know how good they are. IL
You have not better try oneL
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

The Best Results In Starehing
can Be obtained only BY using Defiance
Starch besides setting on. more for SANE
uoney-no cooking required
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

Feet Comfortable Ever Since
.TsuSerci for years with nv feet. A friend
Recommended ALIENS FOOT-EASE I
used two boxes of the powder. and ny feet
have b->sn entirely comfortable ever slsce-
ALIENS FoOT-EASE is certainly = god
send 70 ne Wm- L Swornstedt. Washing
to1. D. C" Sold By Al Druggists, &c
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16
sn.kea Kin Theussnds.

in India nearly $500 people die
every year As result cs snake rites
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

First P.skpocket-How did you unarak1
20 get OH OF thar crowd7 Second PiekS
rock-t--f went through the peoples
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

Do Ycur Clothes Lock YeIlo~7
Then Use Defiance Starch. is Will keep
then vkite-l5 OK Tor 10 cents
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

The Columbian army az tryzsscn : re-
ported 20 have tsSbande<i One OF Ire
usrr became Ill and the other got lone
some and went home
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16
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trtorf arc Clercstrs-

-HaN-FlF aFl-
Having trl1mphel over 1nlius Ca>-
szr. Ct@Jpafr4 zss eztertainlaEiY ea-
szzed is mak.zE Antauy's is~fal S.fe
pay second Tadie ta the orchestra q
his iovH TIE sIlEea hreecainE zEs
already in p.ace ard the h-idie !ea1y
fur the great general. Whsa Anton
called one eteulr-- hE appointment 70
ea5oE a pima tea Wita her
TIE h5adniT wss Tsspser5eut for tAs
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gbTl~ azzo-uus odufs while q zale ni
perfumes. heary zitA urziz hz*hlsh.
he5ere5 over tae scene q C4sagztrA's >
sF8s seesire conquest
Antony wzs uarrimauia4 ship
z==rk ssgl - arF4se1 AID took n
ne roiHPtnozs setting % 5kis fzsein-
zs3a= tszlu-as Sem
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A11 tne1 W4s sa+a.1E 5l
"a his heart there Bzrres. G zsor.
- hozor allegiance zaG szere5 VOWS.
eaIy TIE mad passion TO possssz her.
And Cleo tae csE-up. ID her eest.
Tae plzk Tea Eas aaf has over xhen
Aatpay. bepIaeT-d ard 1i Al ease.
sssaa=e - lacking seifeaztro. drop
ped his Eapkia- i took = asa-er and
relled bali aay under the tzb.s
Euu--nE agsauf The roo3 uas a
EtIte raj a p-izet pet . tss fam
CTS Eaaa-killer. As antony stored for
rs napkla. the RAJ chzncet 70 slip
s1Ietly underneath the IuEn-sozs liz
EeEis q CleaBalrz' DAINTY skl-tz- zip
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Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16
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Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16


THE LATEST AUTHORIZED FOR
TRAET or GENERAL ANTONY
exertion, Cleopatra arose Eziestically
ard zasped-
SIP
Anr0uy. much chzgrsne6. zne <on-
eging ooaId merely stznneF his
apology
When the scandal got izto the nsws-
papers. he decides. the best way cut Of
II was TO narry the girl Owing to
having a wife OF his OWE. this could
70. be, and he did the nsx worst
thing
Bat. anyhow. this Is true ard here
tosore imprinted story Of how Cleo
pafra coerced Artony- One cannot
always rely on history keeri-z the
record straight
6 6
infztuztion Is liking her with her
store clothes and hIg=h roses On: lore
Is liking her with her hair In curl
papers No trouble to diagnose the
tro affections after having said Z
wIEl' ara She has wilted
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16
COUPON.

pass-- @as- 1r s3 IN tszz c-zs= v-A -
49, 49, azsaHssa 80 L. E-- . -
80 rrre sazapie s~ssss 81 s-s1s-s.os tss
dsrsf stsaet semess-
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16
Defiance Starch

should Be IN every household, none 30 good,
besides or more for 10 cents than any
other brad Of cold water starch
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-01-16

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AEa tha4a H4s sa4a41E 9a
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06
Wants, !GHaas, F.rsaIs, l.s.,E...

For Sale-Milk COW. Apply here
For Sale Furniture chear-Apply
54S Grand Avenue.
Furnished rooms for light house,
keeping. Apply at Second and Grand.
For Rent Furnished house; mod
ern conveniences; five rooms. Apply
here.
wanted-Girl for general house,
work. Apply to Mrs. A. G. Newton.
06l Main street.
Wanted-Girl for general house
work; good wages to competent per-
son; small family. Apply 1103 Main.
For Salo Cheap-Complete set oak
bar fixtures good condition. Address
Farmers & Merchants Bank, Delta.
Colo
For sale-Ten acres land, mile
city limits: house and household
goods; horse and stock hay. Inquire
322 Hill st.
For Sale Three horses. harness
and wagon with household goods of
four room house-Address box 2l5 for
particulars.
For rent-A four room cottage
with bath, nice large rooms and in
good order. Enquire of J. G. Plank,
$40 Chipeta.
Wanted-Six ladies or gentlemen
to work on salary in Mesa county.
Call at 517 Pitkin avenue for details
Hours to G D IN.
Lost-A silver Waltham watch in
the closet of the Canon Block. with
an ancient fob att ,chod. Finder
please return to this office.
For Tolstoi's Works. %
volumes, including The Resurrection.
new Scribner's edition. A rare
chance for fine bargain. This office.
Found-On Nov. Both. short grey
oyercoat on 9TH street between Main
and the Fruit Growers association.
Owner can have by applying to this
office and paying cost OF this ad.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06
WHAT MAY BE BOTH.


A boy and girl; A belle-boy.
A Chinese song and dance. Hop
Sing.
Men dead, but not repaired: Some
Widows.
A poet maid as well as born: A
poetess.
Lost and won at the same moment;
A battle.
Done with teeth or without: Gum
chewing.
Fragile and not in firm: Old peo-
pies teeth.
A security and an insecurity: A
lean on a building.
Prospective tow and expected heal;
A fiaxseed poultice.
Stopping and going at the same
time: Hotel guests.
In a final account and continued
story; Added interest.
A mile around and only a yard in
side: A graveyard fence.
A well-founded and groundless ter,
ror: An approaching cyclone.
A religious influence and cn infu.
ence without religion; a sinner-cure.
A confirmed and unsupported ru.
NOR: One his landlady can't get rid
of.
Level-headed yet stuck on himself:
A Washington postage stamp on a let.
ter.
Putting on airs and putting off
heirs: A healthy, wealthy. old bache-
lor.
A profane and an innocent expires.
sion; The expression of dem-ure
eyes.
Extraordinary and common: The
half-hour editions of the afternoon
papers.
Greatly longed for. yet directly CON
trary to ones inclination: Rising
from a sick bed.-Tom Fullery in Chi.
cago Record-Herald.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06
MEMORY HARD TO BEAT.
colored "Auntie's" Claim That Was
Almost the Limit.

ALMOST the Limit.
In the days of Barnum, an old
"auntie" lived in East Tennessee who
was reputed to be of great age Like
all of her kind she was extremely
proud of the distinction, and never
underestimated her age in the least
She had outgrown that weakness de-
cades past.
Barnum heard of her, and conclud-
ing that If she was as old as rumor
made her she would be a valuable ac-
QUESTION to his show, he sent an agent
down to make an investigation. She
caught the direction of the wind very
promptly. and was prepared for any
test question that might be asked.
Gradually the agent led up to the
crucial interrogatory. and at last
said:
"Aunty, do you remember George
Washington"
Does l recomember George Wash
ington? wy laws-a-massy. Mistuh.
reckon l does. orter. orient I? Fer
l done nussed him. We played to-
gether evy day when he was a III
chile"
We'll, do you remember anything
about the Revolutionary WARP"
"Gway. chilei Yes, indeed does.
Honey stood dar lots err times, an
seed de bullets nyin' around, thick
er'n rain drops"
"Yes-well. how about the fall of
the Roman empire? Do you recollect
anything about that?"
THE old woman took good. long
breath. In fact, it amounted to a
sigh. She reflected for few mo-
ments, and said:
De fact is. Honey, was purity
young den, an | doesn't have a very
extinct recommembrance bout dat:
but I does member, now dat you
speaks of hit. dat | did heah de white
folks tell about hearing somepn
drap."
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06
THE CLEVER WOMAN.

What is a really clever woman?
A clever woman is one who always
makes the best of any situation.
A clever woman is one who looketh
well after the ways of her household
A clever woman is one who under
takes nothing that she does not under
stand.
A clever woman is one who makes
the other woman think herself the
cleverest.
A clever woman is one whose ability
is never unpleasantly felt by the rest
of the world.
A clever woman is the woman that
every man should want for a guide,
counselor and friend.
A clever woman is one who is mis-.
tress of tact and knows how to make
the social wheels run smoothly.
A clever woman is one who acts like
hot water on tea-she brings the
sweetness and strength out of every
body else
A clever woman is one who acknowl-
edges her neighbors right to live, who
doesn't believe that she alone is the
motive power of the world.-Ex-
change.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06
COTTON PIcKINes.


'Pearances am mighty deceebin. Er
muel doan' look as If he could heel
mcah dan he can heah.
AK de sun, an he toll yer dere's
lots oh white men achln' ter borrer
de black mans skin ter go fishin' in.
In order ter make poplar hit, err
coon song mus be sumhn er culled
person would be ershamed ter fadder.
Dah's heaps OBJ potry about de sun
ny Souf. but doans furget dat an UNI
breller an a pair OBJ gums orter go wild
hit
De blin'est culled fault finder orter
be able ter see dis blessin': He doan'
hab ter waste er potahhouse steak on
er black eye.
Nebber look on de dark side. Er
black Venus may not 'zactly rank wild
dc fair SEX" but den she kin blush
widout gibben herself away.
Use hopln nah culled brudders will
learn figures at leas' ter de point OBJ
proclaim dat er cipher in the right
place counts fur err heap noah dan
lie hull interpretation table in de
wrong one.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06
KNEW HE WAS RELIGIOUS.
Help Judged Andrew Carnegie by His
"ReelIsious" Music.

"Reeliqious" Music.
1t is a fact not generally known that
Andrew Carnegie has the organ
played every morning in his Fifth
avenue mansion when he is in New
York This practice of the ironmas-
ter has given his servants the impress
sion that their master is church
going Christian, more especially as he
insists on his help-who. by the way.
are all Scotch-soing to church every
Sunday.
This belief of the Carnegie servants
gave a newspaper man great deal of
work and led to his being rebuked by
Mr.. Carl Schurz, neighbor of Mr.. Car
negie, recently. The library giver has
been reported as saying that he had
ceased to pray twenty years ago, and
the scribe was sent out to ascertain
Mr.. Carnegie's religious proclivities IL
possible. Mr. Carnegie himself was
away.
Sure he goes to church." said the
man who answered the reporters ring.
He's a Draw releegIous man, he is,
and will have nae one aroond him who
isn't a guild Chreestian.''
How do you know he goes to
church?' said the scribe.
Isn't that enoo' for us? Who'd
doot it when he thinks so muckle o.
releegion that he has releeglous music
before breakfast every day."
When Mr.. Schurz was asked II he
ever saw his neighbor going to church
he looked the reporter over sharply
for minute, and said;
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06

Some men would rather fight than
eat, but they want to be pretty sure
that the odds are on their side.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06

It takes a girls little hand to start
big squeeze.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06

The plain truth and plain women
are a good deal alike. as far as their
popularity with the men is concerned
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06

One of the very best investments a
man can make with his money is not
to lend It.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06

All the worlds a stage, and there
are few people who haven't a sneak
ing wish to hog the center"
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06
MERE OPINION.

Adam and Eve never went to horse
shows. People were not proud of their
clothes in those days.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06

No woman has red enough hair to
call it so.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06

It's funny how much coal small
furnace can use up when it can't
wen be made to burn.-New York
Dress
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06

1t seems as If some people marry
Just to get even with those to whom
they have been giving wedding pres
ents.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

A widow is awful knowing to know
so little.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06

AK de sun. an he toll yer dere's
lots oh white men achin' ter borrel
de black mans skin ter go fishin' in.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1904-12-06

One of the evidences of the flight
of time is to be found in the fact that
girls who had yellow hair when per
oxide was fashionable are now singing
lullabies to their unsuspecting grand
children.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10
him would run for the O'shaughnes-

him would run for the O'Shaughnes-
seys.
Until the New York, Baltimore,
Washington, Atlantic City and other
pool rooms got. wise to the game the
outlaw owners had a guileless little
way with them Of getting the money
by the simple process of elimination
They'd enter about a dozen horses in
a race, one of them so good as to stand
out as a legitimate even money or 8
to shot
The rooms would chalk the house
odds up against that field, with even
money, say, against the good one, and
pencil-your compassionate prices for
the remaining Holsters. The commits
sloners of the owners would take the
house odds against the one they had
picked out to win, always choosing one
at Is to 1 or better. and then the own
er or the good one would scratch the
natural favorite out.
This was like stealing the rug out
OF baby carriage, and the owners
used to be ashamed to take the money
until the pool room people quit laying
any house odds against outlaw races
The runaway dodge was worked by
an owner at Iron Hill once for one of
the biggest outlaw killings on record.
He owned an old mare that really be-
Ionged to another generation when the
fouF-milers were looked upon as the
only horse goods.
This mare, during her legitimate
days, had once run two miles at ton
speed to false break at the Latonia
track, and then, after all that had been
taken out of her, she had lined up at
the post and won the mile and quar-
ter race in a gallop. She was one OF
the gO-all-day kind, with more speed
In her tough old carcass after she'd
breezed a few miles in runaway than
when first taken to the barrier.
Her runaway performance at La
tonfa had long been forgotten by the
time the old mare turned up, looking
froWsy, tucked up and poor, at Iron
Hill. But her owner hadn't forgotten
1t.
He put her in with the commonest
kind Of field for her first appearance
at Iron Hill. They We're, except for the
mare, such utterly cold bred dogs that
the layers had to make the mare an
to favorite in the field of fourteen,
scraggy~ and dry as she looked.
THE boy on her gave her a furtive
dig in the ribs with his spurs when
they got to the post, and away went
the old mare in a licketty-split run
away that lasted seven circuits of the
track. Then she Gained down and
faced the barrier.
The bookrnakers, meanwhile, while
she was running away. were offering
any old thing you wanted against the
runaway favorite, and the fact that
she was running away was flashed to
the pool rooms, causing the pool room
people to boost her price from to
to 20 and 80 to 1, or anything that
the room patrons asked for.
Then, after her seven circuits of the
track at runaway speed, the old mare
wing danced out in front Of her field
and led them home like a bell COW
picking the quick way at milking
time"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10
No GENTLEMAN EVER
COUGHS IN TIE PRESENCE .
OFIH1S KING g."
rus FACE WAS ALMOST
PURPLE WITH THE SUPPPQESSE

stroke Of apoplexy If he contained him
self longer l demonstrated with him.
why don't you laugh right out, your
lordship?" said I. "Otherwise you may
have a stroke"
"Ah, Chronos!" said he, with a gasp
ing chuckle, would that I might, but
it may not be. Rule seven Of How to
Be a Gentleman in Ten Lessons now
running in the Gentleman's Home
Journal, distinctly says that mirth over
the misfOrtunes Of others is bad form,
unless the unfortunate leads in the
laughter, and judging from sundry
words that have just been waited up
the stairs to me from Lord Mulliga-
tawny he has not yet struck that note
Of leadership. I'll die before I'll even
grin"
The extent Of his sacrifice in this
particular case may be best imagined
when 1 say that for five days after it
was a grave question as to whether or
not Chesterfield should be operated
upon for appendicitis, so racked was
his side by his suppressed laughter.
The regard of Chesterfield for his
son amounted almost to a passion.
When he was not studying to perfect
himself in the gentle art Of good man
ners he was doing all that might be
done to bring his son into a realization
of what society required of a gentle
man. The lad was an eager student of
the science in which his father was q
recognized master, and liked nothing
better than getting up problems in eti-
quette for his lordship to solve. One
of these posers was put in my pres
ence.
Suppose, dad" said the young man,
that 1 were dining at the palace with
the king and the French ambassador
and should suddenly find myself chok-
ing because the pit Of a prune stuck
In my throat. What should 1 do, cough
or WHAT"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10

X y - - y q }1-n-0-U
genious bunch as a piece of work pro-
ceedlng from the BOBBY hatch.
you've heard a lot, of course, about
the marvellous Intelligence Of those old
outlaw hOrseS-how good old Bitten.
Tor example, used to rubber for a flash
at the price against him on the wav to
the post, so that he'd know what was
expected Of him. Oh, those outside.
the-pale ponies knew their stall mess
numbers, all right, and any little old
tmng that they could do to boost the
fortunes of their owners along they
did willingly and in cheerful spirit.
You may believe it or not. but
blamed if I didn't know an outlaw
owner, at Wheeling, who had one Of
his speedy and good-natured old plugs
trained to stimulate lameness in his
Warm-up gallops and on his way to
the post.
Before sending the horse out to
warm up before a race, the owner 'ud
give the old chap a tap on the prom
that the horse was to pretend was to
the bad, and then the deep old crab
would limp out on to the track and
make out as II 1t was all he could do
even to put that foot on the ground
He'd hObble around in his workout
IKE a castaway dog that has had q
paw stepped on by percheron hitched
10 a brewery wagon, and the SYM
pathetic bunch on the stand would
give the bothered-looking owner the
brute yell and shout at him that he
ought to be ashamed of himself to
start a horse in that pitiable condition.
Then the STEWARDSHIP be it from
me to say that they were in on the
dough- cut-would hold a little con-
sultation as to the condition of the
horse, and end by announcing that it
was too late to have the horse
scratched, and that he'd have to go to
the post and do the best he could, bum
prop or not.
Meanwhile, of course, the horses
price in the ring would have scared
to write-yOur own-t ticket proportions,
and the money would all be got down
in the city poolrOoms on the second
line of betting, after the skates odds
had gone skyscraping.
TO give the thing the proper air Of
Verlsimilitude, the crafty old sprinter
would hObble to the post for the line
up on three legs, just as he had
warmed up. But when the flag fell he
would shin to the front on four legs
as good as a horse ever stood on. and
proceed to make his field look like
busted bagful Of last years Seeding
onions that have TAKEN root and
Sprouted in the cellar.
Even then, the swell old four-1egged
sport wouldn't queer the gag by walk
ing back to the paddock on sound feet
He'd no sooner breeze first under the
wire than he'd begin to favor that
phony bum hoof again, and he'd limp
back to the paddock as If In addition