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The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29
Ayers Pitts Increase tho activity OF
tho liver. and thus aid recovery.

Colorado is rapidly becoming
recognized ~ ~ winter resort, IA
well NJ one of the finest places in
the world 10 spend n summer.
TIL" ,ranH.con'in-n,.l lines Of rail
road have recognized tho winter
advantages which the stat. offers
10 tourists. aud have fixed ~ win
,er.'nuriHt rat" 81 so per cent OF
the regular fnr. Ia Colorado com.
mon points.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29
Robert q. Breckenridge
For REPRESENTATIVE

Breckenridge is cmlncntly peoples representative
having qualities which place him IN the confidence and
esteem of everyone and having ability successfully
champion the rights of his constituents No citizen is
loyal to his home and country-uone more agyrcs-
sively public spirlted-than Mr. Breckenridge He has
served term the legislature the satisfaction
of those who elected HIM ne is thoroughly .'onto the
ropes which takes several terms understand
and learn
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29

A special meeting Of the town
council WAS held IN the town hall
Monday night for tn. purpose OF
considering the license for tn.
bowling nlI-y. The gathering.
seeme,! Ia take III. form IT Nh in.
diginH'iou meeting: there VIVA no,
y quorum Of tn. council pr...n,
aud no votes wer- taken.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29

W Il. Fnrrnr hal quite nr"rious
attack of neuralgia Of the heart in
the barber char "Wednesday lie
has been subject Ia sneh atinckr
Tor 'h" past year,
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29

The general health nl the Sol.
dicrs Home u very good aud there
nrc no patients in bcd ni the hos
pitnl. They must have II good
doctor or else ARE having good luck
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29
William Monroe
FoR CLERK AND RECORDER

Monroe has proved To be good county officer
thorough and impartial. HIS opponent Mr. Chisholm,
has had the Office and elected 10 the legislature as
representative. When the popnIs party in the county
not in majority and Chisholm could get no further
Office through them he went into the fold the enemy
the democratic pnrtyand asks the people To give
HIM another Job.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29
Gsv. peabody In Monte Vista.

iii- Excellency. the governor,
arrived ou Mondays tram and
made n brief visit to the people of
Mont. Vista. With him were NJ
q. Koolrutf. register Of the state
lsud board, Warden Cleghorn,
Surveyor Of Customs Fitchhxndy
aud Land Appraiser Curry.
The governor and party were
met by the reception committee
composed Of Z. q. Carpenter. l.
Is. Sylvester. ". y. Station. +. l..
Eyersol. and John Macarthur
aud conducted to the home OF Mr.
Carpenter To await the arrival oi
carriages which took them To the
Soldiers home. Her. the COVER.
nor mxfl.> talk to the old soldiers
Discussing National and state
issues. After lunch nj ia" Home
the party returned to town and
tn. governor made Il n poiut u
meet ~ many citizens IA po~~ibl'
aud to answer any questions which
might be asked.
Tn. governor and friends went
10 Del Norts IN the afternoon
wh.r. n short speech was made Il
tn. citixsns. TIL. governor tool
the evening train back to Denver
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29

~

THE Republican county ticket
from top 10 bottom is com
posed of men who deserve your
ballots and your support. The
ticket is not composed of all Gle
ments, nor Is II represented by
men of any other principles thpn
those advocated by Theodore
Roosevelt.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29

Walter Stewart, Of Center, left
Monday evening for Missouri
wher. his mother il very i'll.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29
A. }. Weiss
FoE SHERIFF

Mr. Weiss has served the people well Ms sheriff aud
has never had question raised the which
he has conducted the office position full OF po.sblli
ties for dishonest and II boodler He deserves re
election.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29
prssbysseiaa Church.

Morning Worship II o'clock
theme, "rhe Rejected S'on.,"
evening 1880, Turn y. To the
stronghold ye prisoners II hope"
Sunday school meets At 10 n. N.
Siceel ii.ilmnh SupL Junior I'm.
dr.vor 3p. III. Senior En,lrsvor
645 =. IN. Everybody welcome.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29

G.org" Lewis aud family were
visiting IN Monte Vista lr-' Sstur.
day nnl Sunday
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29

Bert Tut,l. returned To Monte
Vista Monday after All nbsencr Of
over n year
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29

Th" Misses l.otti- and Lucy
Blackmore came home Sunday
morning from Denver.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29

A. N. Collins III Creed. has
been in Monte Vista this week
buying heavy horses for his trans.
Ter business.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29
K EPUBLICAN
COUNTY
TICKET

Vote for these candidates who
were nominated for their ability
and worth aud not AS pretenders
and anything for office" DO no,
think 1t is incumbent upon you to
put national bankers into the
county Offices because they are
nice men and don't need the posi-
tions. Don, vote for the social-
isis ON the degenerate ticket inst
because they are being used IA n
drawing card TO catch your votes
for the balance of the ticket who
may run better by the trading
process at the expense of those
social democrat candidates. Don't
vote the democratic ticket Just be.
cause Mnupin Is Il democrat aud ~
Nissourian
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29

NJ. T. Powell aud Wif. rrtnruo,
"Wednesday from their tf,p tu 81
Lnuis
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29
Charles c. Cummings
FoE TREASURER

MIR. Cummings Is well qualified for the position. i,
good pennan md accountant and is pleasant deal
with His opponent expects to be elected by the aid of
Carol Buck who after faIng the Republican
nomination. "doubccross",.' his friends and threw bis
support to the Democratic candidate, the promise
deputy ship Buck deputy Treasurer under Station
and treasurer for the succeeding aud could bad
the nomination this # he hadn't wanted run the
party Now he repays the favors he has received by
ing the Republican ticket mk Ind friends who would
have stayed with HIM to the last but they will scarcely sup
port HIM for he would doubt desert them too in
case Of personal interest or petty revenge
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29
Frank c. Spencer
FoE SUPERINTENDENT

Mr. Spencer has had the advantage of advanced cdu.
cation aud capable of bringing school instruction 10
high point of excellence. lie has laugh, the higher
branches in the large colleges the East and takes pleas
in school work. for winch he is especially fitted
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29

Ell l.unb.ck aud wife left for
the east Monday evening.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29
w. J. Clark
w. w. Wilson

Mr. Clark is the best commissioner the county ever
had When member of the hoard he does things for the
benefit Of the people
Nj Wilson is the chocc OF the West end and is highly
recommended by those who know hun
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29
Alden Bassett

Judge liasscit is accredited with being far aud impnr.
tia and enjoys the respect and confidence of the legal fra
,ern,y and the people who have had cause before him
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1904-10-29

Miss Jessie ihomn- ru'rftaiusr
a pnrty OF friends Thursday even
ing.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19
Mountains of Queer Stuff

One of the legends of the Isthmus
of Panama, where the great canal is to
be built, is to the effect that some
where in the interior of the forests,
which extend south from the settled
portion of the isthmus, there is hid
den mountain of pure gold. This is,
in all probability, myth, but it is be-
lieved by many on the isthmus, and
no white man has ever penetrated to
the regions where the golden noun
tain is supposed to rear its shining
head.
If the existence Of a mountain of
gold is more than doubtful, there do
exist mountains composed of ma
terial which can easily be turned into
gold Our own Iron Mountain in
Missouri is more than 1000 feet high
and is an almost solid mass of iron
ore.
The celebrated cliffs of Dover on.
the English shore of the British
Channel are simply hills, or small
mountains of chalk, and while ago
it was reported mountain of borax
had been discovered in Mexico.
Stromboli, that island volcano which
is called "the Lighthouse of the Med
iterranean," may fairly be called a
mountain of sulphur This volcano
has been intermittingly active as far
back as we have any account of it, and
has sent forth sulphur until the sides
of the mountain are largely composed
of that substance, and the island on
which it stands is one mass of sui
phur.
Ships go to the island and the side of
the mountains scraped away and load
ed into their holds, the cavity made in
the volcano being filled UP again by
the steady overflow Of sulphur from
the crater. Thus this mountain forms
the worlds chief source of sulphur
supply.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19
}. The patient had died for lack of

late. The patient had died for lack of
help.
If the young doctor beat his breast
and wept for his wicked forgetfu1ness.
how do you suppose the poor sorcerer
felt?
"Oh, why was I ever born a sor-
cerer? he cried. "Why could l not
have learned some honest trader"
But it was all in vain. The patient
stayed dead and the pocketbook had
to lie on the road. inviting a fresh
victim.
1t was a poor, bent, half-b1ind old
widow who came along this time.
She had bag over her shoulder, into
which she put sticks and bits of coal
that she found, for she was very, very
poor.
She picked the pocketbook up and
counted the money with trembling
hands and voice
"Alas!" she said, "some poor soul
has lost all this terrible lot Of money.
How wretched and miserable the un-
fortunate one must be now, looking
for it,"
So, poor as she was, she hobbled
home and raked and scraped enough
money together to put an advertise
ment into the paper, bidding the loser
call for it.
She hid the pocketbook away care
fully, and waited day after day. No
one ever came. But" said she st
does not belong to me-" So she never
touched it and it is hidden away to-
day where it was then. And that,
when you come to consider it, is about
the best thing that could happen to it.
JULIUS MULLER.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19
Fishing With an Ice Pick.

There is farmer out in Wyoming
who lived almost entirely last winter
on the contents of unique refriger-
ator presented to him by nature
He lives near small brook which is
part of large stream not far off. A
big school of salmon trout came up
in the brook and were cut off from
returning to the river by the freezing
of the small connecting stream. Then
came an unusually cold wave, and
the brook was frozen solid, the hun
dreds of salmon trout being caked up
in the ice
During the winter the farmer had
only to go down to the brook, chop
hole in the ice and pick out few
of the frozen fish, using them as he
needed them for his meals.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19

thing then, you may be sure, if he
could have destroyed his magic
ipocketbook. But sorcery has its limi-
tations like every other business; and
when once a sorcerer has turned
something loose on the world, he has
no more power over it.
However, a little thief cannot be-
come big one without arousing envy
So one night he was attacked by a
bigger thief, who knocked him down
and grasped his pocketbook.
The second thief hastily emptied it,
and then threw it away; for his only
experience with pocketbooks was with
the usual kind that, once emptied, stay
empty.
The pocketbook lay in the mud all
that night. Early next morning an
excellent but poverty stricken young
doctor came along in a great hurry.
He was on his way to patient who
was extremely ILL., He spied the
pocketbook and picked it up. The
sight of the money-of course it had
filled itself again the moment it was
empty-amazed him so much that he
forgot all about his patient and stop
ped and counted the bills over and
over again.
eve must celebrate this little" he
said So he went into the tavern and
invited his friends to drink a bottle
of wine with him.
An hour passed before he thought
of his patient again. Then, conscience
stricken, he ran as fast as he could go
to the house of the sick man. He ran
so fast that the pocketbook flew out
of his pocket and he never knew it.
But, run as he would, he was too
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19

no harm to rest a day. | am man
of money now and can afford it."
If you have ever tried day of rest
when you were not really entitled to
| it, you will know how depressing it
seems to work the next day; and so it
was with the inventor. Indeed, it was
SO depressing that he didn't work at
all.
But he continued to eat and smoke,
and soon his digestion troubled him
SO much that he decided to travel for
his health, and he left the poor inven-
ton covered with dust in the attic.
One day, fat and we'll dressed, he
sat in hotel groaning and grumbling.
Dear me-" he said, what a dismal
world this is. The service is wretched
in all the hotels, and the food is never
what it should be, and the weather is
so disappointingp
He was so disgusted that he got up
and walked out.
On the way he dropped the magic
lpocketbook in the road without know
ing it.
He did not discover it until he had
walked long distance; and although
he returned over his route and search
ed every inch, he could not find it.
There he was, without cent in the
world.
He could not even have found shell
ter that night if he had not, luckily,
still possessed the key to the old at
tic. Soon he was snug in bed there,
listening to the rain pattering on the
roof as it had done so often before he
was rich.
The next day he found himself
forced to go back to his old diet of
bread and milk; and before long he
was not only thin again, but, strange
to say, it made him feel happy instead
of sad to see all his nice fat disappear.
II have never felt so WE'LL" he said
to himself, "since I left the attic"
He felt so we'll and joyful that he
went to work at his great invention
just as if nothing had ever happened.
And before long he had finished it,
and the world found out all at once
that it had been waiting for just that
thing.
In the meantime the pocketbook
had been picked up by a poor man
who had a nagging wife. The thing
she t1agged. him the most about was
money. So, when he found the pocket
book, his first thought was, 'At last
I shall be able to satisfy her"
He hurried home and took all the
money out and gave it to her. The
next morning she nudged him before
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19
lylight and said in her naggiest

daylight and said in her naggiest
voice:
"Are you sure that you gave me all
the money!"
Yes, am" said the man sulkily.
i don't believe you," said she. And
with that she got up to look; and, of
course, sure enough, the pocketbook
was full again. So she nagged him
most terribly, till he couldn't sleep
any longer and got up, growing:
Il wish that | had never found the
old pocketbook."
Still he gave his wife all the money
she wanted from that time on. And
she moved into a new house and then
into another new one, and then into
another that was still newer and big
ger, till the man hardly knew where
he lived. And he never could find
quiet corner for himself, because the
house, big as it was, was always full
of company. And nights when he
came home, he was pretty sure to hurt
himself in the dark against some piece
Of new furniture. So one night when
he knocked his most pet shin against
particularly sharp piece of new fur
nlture, he went away and drowned
himself.
When they found his body, thief
who happened to be there spied the
pocketbook and stole it.
Thank heaven" said the sorcerer,
who had been watching the course of
his magic pocketbook. Thank
heaven! It will give himia chance to
become honest"
But the thief said to himself:
Capital at lastl Now can launch
out and do things on a large scale
with no fear of jail always before my
eyes"
He opened magnificent offices in the
financial district. They were full of
steel vaults and silver-plated inkstands
and brass ratings; and he sat in the
midst of the splendor with his hair
neatly cut and parted in the mid
die, and brand new silk necktie on
each day.
Up to that time the thief had been
only small one, stealing little here
and there, andSneVer much from any
one persony for he feared Jail too
much. But now he became thief by
wholesale, and he did not even have
to break into peoples houses to steal,
for they used to bring. him their
things. They were charmed by the
sign and the silver and the brass And
he always stole everything they had,
because he was very thorough.
The sorcerer would have given any
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19
A Book Infinite.

There is young German teacher in
the West who thinks city children
are easier to teach than country chill
dren, in spite of the fact that most
of our great men have come from the
rural districts.
One day she spent an hour in de-
fning several words. Among them
was the word infinite" After her
long explanation she asked finally:
Nov, who can give me a sentence
with the word infinite in it, and ex-
plain why?"
A small boys hand went up. At a
nod from the teacher he arose, holding
up a paper book, and said:
This book is infinite, because it is
unbounded"
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19
Russia leather.

Russia leather.
But it was most ingenious bit of
sorcery for all that; and the sorcerer
said to himself that at last it was
something useful; for it had the prop
erty of being always full of money, no
matter how much might be taken out
of it. So it was no wonder that the
sorcerer thought that it was useful
He waited that evening till the
young inventor had gone out; then he
jumped on his automobile broomstick
whisked across into the attic and laid
the pocketbook on the table among
the pieces of invention and dry bread
And in it he left a note saying that a
well-wisher had sent it to help the
great invention along.
Then the sorcerer retired to his
room rubbing his hands, and watched
to see what would happen. He felt
sure that now the invention would
be finished in a jiffy.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19
Funny Letter Stations

Among the curious postofices of
the world the queerest is the one on
Staten Island, off Cape Horn, the
southernmost point of the American
continent.
There, on an iron spindle driven
into black and barren rock, is a
small barrel with an opening cut in
one side. Sailing ships bound to the
west By the stormy cape lie to when
they sight this rock, if the weather
will permit, and, sending boat ashore,
deposit in the barrel letters written
by the sailors to their dear ones at
home or by the captain to his agent
or owner, telling him that so far the
voyage has gone we'll.
The next ship that comes along
bound to the east sends boat ashore
and takes the letters found in the
barrel and mails them at the first
port the ship makes.
Thus the east bound ships take the
west bound ships mail and forward
it, and the west bound ships do the
same for the east bound vessels.
Another singular post office is in
Lake Wabigoon, Canada. At the side
of the channel used by the steamers
crossing the lake is set up a. post
reaching just above the water.
On top of it box is nailed and into
the box the passing steamer drops
the mail for a village lying on the
neighboring shore. A canoe puts out
from the shore after the steamer has
passed and takes the mail to the land,
leaving in its place a bundle Of mail,
which the steamer picks up on its re-
turn trip.
In some parts of the west where, as
yet, there are few inhabitants, hollow
trees on roads traversed by the post
man serve as letter boxes.
The farmers journey from miles
away to drop their letters there for
the postman to take up as he travels
between the nearest towns and to
gather from the tree post office the
letters which he has left on his pre-
vious trip.
In Switzerland, on top of a noun
tain 10000 feet high, there is a wood
en- letter box where postman, who
is fine climber, makes daily col
lection and daily deposit of mail
for the mountaineers.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19

When the young inventor found the
pocketbook he jumped with JOY, and
then, patting his invention, he said:
Nov you shall be finished at
once!"
But first he decided to go out to
get something to eat And presently
he returned with an armful of good
things, including jam and pickles. He
even had a pocketful of cigars.
Now / will work like a good one"
he said, "as soon as | have eaten"
But alas! eating and smoking are
not always good for work; and be-
fore he knew it, the inventor was
lying asleep in his chair, with his legs
sprawled out and his fingers still
clutching a cigar.
The next day he did not feel at all
well; he had not been accustomed to
goodies and cigars, and they did not
agree with him.
However," thought he, ct will do
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19
Alaskan Popcorn.

Talk about strange food" said a
recently returned prospector from
Fort Wrangel, "out in Alaska it's
stranger than it looks. 1 came. near
being taken in.
I'D just come into town when |
passed down one of the small streets
of the settlement. An Indian had
opened store there, and was selling
all sorts of delicacies, from American
candy to fried seal blubber. I saw
a heap of white balls piled up inside
that reused my appetite.
How much for the popcorn?
asked.
Without a smile the Indian took
a quarter from me and handed mc
over one of the white balls. When
got outside I saw it was caked grass
hoppers, but it required a second look
to notice the difference"