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tournament Wnlcn is 10 Ue
held in this city July 3rd and 4th:
GENERAL RULES
No. 1.-The tournament will be
held under direction of the tour
nament committee.
No. 2-All entries must be made
by 8 o'clock on July 3rd.
No. 3-The tournament track
shall be $50 feet in length and 20
feet wide and securely guarded to
prevent intrusion of spectators.
No. 4-The judges shall be Sc
lected at meeting of the captains
of the teams entered, at 8 a. m. on
July Bird, one judge for each team
entered, and said judges shall Sc
lect time-keepers, measure the
track and report all decisions to
tournament committee.
No. 5-Hose cart "Erastus"
shall be used.
No. 6-None but regularly or
ganized companies will be allowed
to enter teams, and all members OF
each team shall have been active
members of the company to which
the team pertains, not later than
the regular meeting previous to
the tournament.
No. These rules shall not be
changed after publication and the
committee is charged with their
Interpolation.
No. S-Cascadens Automatic
signal will be used in starting all
teams.
No. 9-The order of starting
will be decided at the meeting OF
of the captains by drawing lots in
presence of the judges.
No. lO-The judges are empow-
cred to make such rules as are not
provided for in these rules and
regulations.
No. 1l-There must be at least
two entries for each race.
No. l2-All teams can enter all
races at their option.
RULES FOR WET TEST
No. Each team shall consist
of not more than eleven men, and
none other shall take position on
the ropes or apparatus. All teams
shall start from the score at the
words to be given by the officer in
charge.
No. 2-TEe distance shall be
$50 feet with hose cart carrying
25O feet hose in one continuous line.
No. 3-The distance to be run
shall be 400 feet to hydrant, con-
meet with three full threads reel
off 200 feet hose, break coupling
and attach pipe, hose puller to
start pulling hose at line 40 feet
from hydrant, time to be measured
from the dropping of the signal
until water comes through pipe.
RULES FOR sTRAIGHTAwAY
No. Each team shall consist
of not more than eleven men, and
none others shall take position on
ropes or apparatus. All teams shall
start from the score at the words
given by the officer in charge.
No. 2-The distance shall be $50
feet with hose cart carrying 25O
feet of hose.
No. 3-Time shall be measured
from the dropping of the signal
until the wheels Of the hose cart
strike the score.
RULES FOR HOOK 4 LADDER
No. distance to run 800 feet
or the usual run on the Central
track.
No. 2-Raise "a foot ladder,
climber to start on the bottom
rung.
No. 3-Time to be measured
from the dropping of the signal
until the climber grasps top rung.
No. 4-Teams to consist of not
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The finest oranges grown can be had
at the Hawley Nero. Co.
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Full line Of fishing tackle at Rapins.
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FOR SALE

The DeCour property, situated in
Leavenworth gulch. Apply at this Office
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For Rent.

4-room house. Apply TO Mrs. Agnes
McCallister.
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FOR RENT

FOR RENT.
The Clark residence will be for rent
June 18th. M. b. Hyndman.
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Fine California cabbage at the Haw-
ley Mdse. company's store.
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Rules and Regulations.

The following rules have been printed
in pamphlet form and will govern the
firemen's tournament which is to be
held in this city July 3rd and 4th:
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Talar Mnhpatu
nf Dtunrrr
By PROF. WI. NORMAN GUTHRIE.
University of CHICAGO.
University OF Chlcsfo-

word and indulge in the most prurent cTcumlocutions. Get rid OF false
That is the real. cure for the divorce evil. The great danger
in not answering questions of sex is that if they are not answered OPEN
ly they will be answered secretly and perhaps wrongly. The great poets
have all recognized this truth. The attitude of George Meredith, Rob
et Browning and Henrik Ibsen is: Look at this matter squarely in
the face"
An ideal treatment of the question is seen in the poetry of William
Morris and in the fairy tales. At the dawn of literature there seems to
have been al innocent. chndhke treatment of ii, without any thought
of wrong. There was never in Eden any eavesdropping Satan. as Milton
wickedy thinks.
Christianity formerly held a paradoxical position on marriage.
While regarding it as a holy sacrament the church also considered that
marriage was a concession to poor human nature and that religious peo-
pie should not marry. AS a consequence Of this attempt to smother SEX
uaity there was an outbreak of il. The dramas of Wagner and some of
the writings of lola and Tolstoi are manifestations O. this reaction.
Some of the lower types of animal life sacrifice their own lives in
reproduction. From this we learn that marriage is not for happiness,
but for sacrifice. Because marriage is for sacrifice it finally results in
happiness. He who goes in for happiness as the primary factor in mar
riage will not find it.
Biology also teaches us that marriage should be a union of strength,
not of weakness. But we are coming to realize this, we are coming more
and more to oppose juvenile marriages.
We also learn that marriage is for the benefit of the race, the off
spring. Woe to us if we forget this. He who has children should want
them to be better than himself. One of the chief advantages of mar
riage is that it develops foresight in the individual. Most of us are will
ing to trust to luck for ourselves but none of us want to trust to luck
for Our families. No two people are properly married until they have
suffered together,
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feet away, and she said: Me hus-
band!' and then she tainted and
grabbed me around the neck, and |
couldn't get her loose. She Just froze
to me like a person drowning, and that
husband of hers, who had come up on
the last car, hunting for his wife. who
had elopeG, pulled a long blue gun and
told me he would give me five min
utes to pray, and then he would kill
me and throw my body down in the
crater, to sizzle.
Il told him ] could pay up enough
ahead in three minutes, and he could
take all ! had if he would loosen up
his wife, and bring her TO, and take
her away, and let me die all alone. and
let the buzzards eat me, uncooked. He
took the bet. pulled her arms away
from my throat, took my money and
coat, brought her to, and said he was
going to throw her into ne crater. but
! told him she had certainly been good
to me, and if he would spare her life,
and take her away in the cars. he
could have my watch and scarfpin. and
he took them. and they went to the
cars.
"She looked back at me with the sad.
dest face | ever saw and said: %,
Sir, 1t is all a terrible dream, and I
will see you in Naples, and explain
ALL and now, by Christmas, | want TO
go back to town and find her. and res
cue her from that jealous husband"
and dad got up and We started for the
car.
The man and his wife went down on
the car ahead of lis, and dad wouldn't
believe they were regular bunko people,
who play that game every day on some
old sucker, but the man that runs the
car told me so.
/ can be responsible for dad in every
thing except the women he meets.
When it ome to women. your little
Hennery don't know the game at all
Yours. IN
HENNERY.
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THE PARTY OF NEGATION.
Stand Patters Are Those Who Stand
in the Way of National
Progress.

The faction of the republicans who
call themselves "stand-patters' have
little to be proud of in that term. When
the late Senator Hanna issued his orders
to the party to stand pat" and prevent
revision OF the tariff that fosters the
trusts, it was an acknowledgment that
the republican party was in league with
the corporations. AS far as the tariff
is concerned. the republicans still stand
pat. and the greater faction of the party
declares the tariff must not be disturbed.
while the administration faction all de-
clare they are ardent protectionists. Be
tween the stand-patter and the protec-
zionist there is no great gulf fixed, 50 far
they have both united. there is a plain
ly marked path from one faction to the
other and at each end the guide board
has the legend taken from the repub-
lican national platform, which reads.
Protection which guards and dewitt
ops our industries is a cardinal policy
of the republican party. The measure
of protection should Away at least
equal the difference in the/ st of pro-
duction at home and abros
To stand pat, thereto means to
stand in the way of progrl Protection
means the same, and those who declare
for it are the incarnation of negation.
They decline to take from the trusts and
corporations even part of the power they
gave them to plumber the people.
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COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

If the tariff is let alone the trusts
don't much care about the Investigations
they are undergoing.
Anyhow, the ''stand-patters''
gave their game away when they dis
played such fright al the presidents
threat to call them,-Binghamton On.
w
Mr.. Taft may keynote at the Ohio
convention, but all the samey, Mr.. Shaw
had GRATED first, before a Methodist Sun
day school out in observation-disclosures
Argus.
There is no reason why the gov
eminent should have the privilege of
buying in the cheapest market when
that privilege is refused to the citizen.
N. Y. Mail.
The republican party has been
PROMISING before election since 1888 to
reduce the tariff, but still continues to
stand pat with even higher rates than
then prevailed.
How will republican postmasters
employ their time if they are not al
lowed 10 do political work? They win
have to fall back upon their old amuse-
ment of reading the postal cards.
IF the women really val 10 drive
Senator Smoot out of the senate, they
should begin early bombarding their
senators with letters three terltug to use
their influence against them il their de-
mands are not needed. Remember that
petitions, however n~umerously signed,
have but little effect.
Senator Burrows. Of Michigan,
q member of the finance committee OF
that body, is the latest stand-patter to
elaborate his theory that the tariff
schedules are sacred. In an interview
In Washington a few days ago he said:
'eThe tariff, as some one has said, is
like a spiders web; touch a single
thread and the whole fabric trembles.
We cannot touch the tariff without af-
fecting business. Every one waits to
zee what will be done. Merchants buy
no more than is absolutely necessary to
meet their immediate wants until the
question Is settled. Y do not
think any republican advocates general
revision Of the tariff.s
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Dad was afraid they were going to
charge the prayers in the bill for push
ing him up, but | told dad that these
people expected every time they went
up to the top that it would be their
last trip, as they knew that some day
the volcano would open in a new place
and swallow them whole, with all the
tourists. Then he gave them a dollar
apiece to pray for him, and wanted to
go back down the mountain and let
Chicago lady told dad to brace up and
she would protect him, and so the
guides gave q few more, pushes, and We
were op top of the volcano, and dad
collapsed and had to be brought 10
with smelling salts and whisky that
the woman carried in her pistol pocket,
Gee, but it was worth all the trou-
BILE to get up the mountain, to see the
sight that opened up, The hole in the
mountain filled with boiling stuff vas
worth the price of admission, and the
roaring of the boiling stuff, and the
explosions way down cellar, and the
flying stones, the smoke going into the
air for a mile. like the burning of an
oil well, the red-hot lava finding crew
ices to leak through, and flowing down
the side Of the mountain in streams
like hot maple sirup, made a scene
that caused us to take off our hats and
FL o~1x Ih1 ynal arl thnt tha th;,,u
hadn't overlooked enough to hurt us.
But I could see dad was scared, cause
when | wanted him to go around the
| edge of the crater with me, and see
points of view, and see where the hot
ashes years ago rolled down and cov-
| cred Pompeii and Herculaneum. he
baked and said he had seen all he
wanted to, and If he could stay alive
until the next car went down the noun
tain. they could all have his interest
in Vesuvius, and be darned to them.
but he said if | wanted to go around
looking for trouble, he would stay
there under a big rock, with the Chi
cago lady. and wait for me to come
back. She said she knew dad was all
tired out, and needed rest. and she
would stay with him, and keep him
cheered up; so | left them and went off
with one Of the dagoes, to slide down
hill on some flowing lava. and pick up
specimens.
Well, sir, | wish | could get along
some way without telling the rest OF
this sad story, but if | am going te
be a historian l have got to tell the
whole blame thing.
When | left dad and the Chicago
woman she had produced a lunch from
somewhere about her person, and g
small bottle, and they were eating ant
drinking, and dad was laughing more
natural than I had seen him laugh
since we run over the old woman will
the automobile at Nice, and she wa!
smiling on dad just as though she wa
his sweetheart. CAS- / went around tn,
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The Bad Boy and His Dad Climb We
suvius-A Chicago Lady Joins the
Party and Causes Trouble.

BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.
Ex-Governor OF Wisconsin, Former Pub
Usher of Peck's Sun. Author Of
"Peck's Bad Boy" Etc.)
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Again the sound of horses hoofs
beneath the window. and low-toned, re-
bukeful, yet almost imploring remon-
STRANGE. A darkey's voice surely.
CANT 20 keep him still?" it asked,
and Benton crept TO the open window
and peered down into the dim depths
below, and then came the soft hail
in tones BE- felt sure he knew-Black
Dan's-Dan whom he had heard sing
ing and doing chores about the sheds
and gardens for days past: "Fo' Cawd,
Marse Benton, Z you doan come quick
dis horse'Tl spite de whole business"
Then another voice-a mere whisper,
half drowned by the sweep Of the wind
in the trees-Pomp's %quavering tenor.
"Yo doan need fotch nawthin.' Marse
Benton. We've got eyerythin' hyuh."
Then came a sudden scurry withodt,
for midway to the barn a soft, low
whistle sounded, and almost instantly
Benton heard the sound Of hoofs again.
They were hurriedly leading a horse
or two horses-away. A lantern swung
impatiently at the corner Of the barn.
Somebody was surely signaling.
Almost instantly the lantern dis
appeared. and there were five minutes
of silence. Then, as he knelt and
watched and waited and all was still
without and his darkey aides-de-camI
made no further hail, suddenly he
heard the creak behind him OF a dool
cautiously opening, and, looking ovel
his shoulder in the dim ghostly light
sitting through the balustrade from thu
floor below, he was able to discern {
tall, slender form coming noiselessly
cautiously, straight to his now wide
open door. Resale beyond a doubt
and she believed him gone!
Go then he must! Athlete that h
| had been, ever since boyhood, it wa
no trick at all to swing, even one
handed, so thick a rod. His heav.
gauntlet was already on, and, just as Ii
reached forth to grasp the iron, hi
practiced ear caught the stealthy trea'
OF spurred boots on the path below
coming from the back gate-the wa,
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THE PARTY is IN DANCER.
Division Between Revisionists and
Stand-Patters Menaces the
Republicans.

The republican party is the most per-
feet, in discipline and in clan. of all the
political machines the Anglo-SaxOn has
created either in the old world or the
new. Its zeal is almost fanaticism and is
altogether irresistible, says the Wash
ington Post. Assuming to have all the
conscience and all the patriotism OF
the land, it has never hesitated to con-
fuse right and wrong when it thoughtlt
to be best for the material interests
of the partg TO do SO. Hence it is the
G. o. P.
1t believes in paternalism and it be-
lieves in the privilege. 1t made a satrapy
of each of the II states, and yet, in the
name of states rights, it seated a man
in the chair at Washington who had been
defeated for that great place. 1t created
rag money, and made a legal tender of
and yet it has long posed as the sound
money party; and to this day our cur
rency system is asleeping volcano simply
because the republican party let's 81 dare
not" wait on 81 would"
This party is about 50 years of age.
IS it at its zenith? Perhaps. Will it 10Y
begin to decline? That depends. One
thing. however, is certain-it intendsto
survive the democratic party. But is
there any democratic party? 1t is doubt
full.
When the democratic party was beaten
in 1864, 1868 and 1872 it was yet formid-
albeit yet believed something, it was
coherent in preachments and cohesive in
tactics. But now there are more sorts OF
democracy in America than there are
religions in Christendom, and it would
poster all the tongues of Babel to define
the innumerable vagaries and mischiev-
Gus heresies the party calls its prin-
ciples.
And herein is the danger that thrc as
ems and may destroy the rer
party. This is a representati) 40
or would be if men We
Gov. La Toilette
very nature Of
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New use for EIsrtricitv.

is a French engineer who seriously
ounces his invention OF a suit Of cleo
.lothing, with fine wire woven in The
! and a storage battery. BY means
8 invention he afirms that the body
be kept at a comfortable tempera-
ture In the coolest weather. There is no
apparent reason why we should stop
with this. Little II any current
would be needed to produce a light such
as persons on the vaudeville stage dis
play. Thus every pedestrian at night
would become a walking lamppost. with
electric force enough to shock an inebri-
ate who might wish to cling to him, II
would be practicable, too, for an Ameri-
can inventor to connect the current with
roller skates, thus allowing every man
to be his own trolley car. Philadelphia
Ledger.
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pened to you?" said |, as | rushed up
to him.
That AuIan has happened to me,
that is ALL laid dad, as he took a
swallow of water out of a canteen one
of the dagoes had.
Tell me about it, dad said |, try.
ing to keep from laughing, when ! say
that he was not hurt.
Say. let this be a lesson to YOU"
said dad, "and don't you steer another
woman to me on this trip. Do yoa
know you Hadn't more shan got arqya1d
that big rock when she said she was
tired and was going to faint, for the
altitude was too high for her. and ]
tried to soothe her, and she did look
pale, and, by gosh, , thought she was 60
ing to die on my hands, and ! would have
to carry her corpse down the mountain.
] heard a scuf1ing on the rocks, and
she looked up and saw Q man not ten
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Copyright. 1895, by Joseph b. Bowles)
Naples, Italy.-Seignor re Grocerino:
| guess that will make you stand with
u hitching for a little while. Say.
| am getting so full of dead languages,
and foreign palaver, that | shall have
to have an operation on my tongue
when | get home before l can speel the
United States language again SO you
can make head or tail of it. You see,
| don't stay long enough in a country
to acquire its language, but get a few
words into my system, so now my
English is so mixed with French
words, Italian garlic and German
throat trouble that | cannot under
stand myself unless I look in a glass
and watch the motions of my lips.
Dad has not picked up a word of any
foreign language, and says he should
consider himself a traitor TO his coun-
try if he tried to talk anything but
English. He did get so he could order
a glass of beer by holding up his fin
ger and saying "ein." but he found
later that just holding up his finger
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AND SHE WAS sTRoK1Ne HIS HAIR

crater, a couple Of blocks away, |
looked back and dad had laid his head
in her lap, and she was stroking his
hair.
Well, | picked up specimens,S
the soles off my shoes wadingA
lava, and took in the volcano fro
sides. and after an hour | wentS ~v-..
to where dad and the woman were
lunching, but the woman was gone,
and dad acted Is though he had been
hit by an express train. his eyes were
wild, his collar was gone, his pocket
book was on the ground, empty, his
coat was gone, his scarfpin had dis
appeared and the $11 watch he bought
when he was robbed the other time was
missing, and dads tongue was run out.
and he was yelling for water. i
thought he had been trying to drink
some lava.
Dad, what in the world has hap
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fit.
E' to ' nahe gu grs->

thy standpatters and revisionIsrs. Unlor-
tqnately there is an inextricable confu-
siSn in the commingling of the paternal-
lists and the individualists of the G. o. P.
Secretary Taft is a ~revisionist, but he
would run Uncle Sans hand into that
railroad mess up to the elbow. Senator
Hale is a standpatter, but it is quite like
ly that he would prefer that intelligent
selfishness, without government inter
meddling, have a urn at the railroads.
There is Sam McCall-but who yer
saw the ideal triumph?
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One of the greatest
faults of the present at
titude toward marital
questions is false mod
esty. Even the news
papers. which seeming
ly have no regard Tor
the rights OF privacy,
avoid any suggestive
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1905-12-16
THE BIG REDNIEN BALL.

The Redmen We're in full panoply
of war paint. feathers and all last
night. the occasion of their annual
masquerade ball. social event that
has been a feature of each succeed
ing year for many years past and
to which the eyes of hundreds turn
with many anticipations of pleas
ure.
The masquerade was held at the
Park opera house. as has been the
custom for a number of years and
the scene presented when the mas
queraders were in full sway in the
grand march was an inspiring one.
The tableaux, which is always Il
feature of the annual masquerade
was very well received and carried
out by the participants in most ex-
cellent style. The successful prize
winners were Mrs. George Whitney.
of Salida. for the ladies'. she being
costumed in a handsome black gown
representing midnight" Bert Hayes
in his presentation of a sailor" was
the prize winner for the gentlemen
and Mr. VIM. Bursche. in his inn
personation of Poor Lou" easily won
the Redmens prize for the character
more nearly conveying the costume Of
of a genuine Indian.
The dance was well attended and
everything was conducted in the most
orderly manner possible. The com
mittee having the event in charge
were three old war horses in the line
of committee work, h. A. Jacobs
Charles II. Petrie and j. c. Myers.
That they did their work we'll, was
attested by hte general satisfaction
of all present with the masquerade,