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pendix, however, and n . part of tho tent
evidently intsrpolAtad by Prof. Batss. The
reader II made soq,aintsd With The newly
accepted conclusion that, asearly - $500 BIC.
when tho Kings Of the Twelfth Dynasty were
reigning In Egypt. and when the Phnnicians
were unknown, II, indeed, they as yet existed
as q distinct ofYslioot Of the primeval Semitic
stock, Crete was q land Of fourishins COM
munities, and was about to become. II II
had not become already, considerable
sea power. dim tradition Of this fact
had evidently come down to Thucydides.
At the far distant date just mentioned
Crete formed the link between eastern
Europe and the African continent. and
into the island from Mbya came an influx
OF settlers who were soon amalgamated
with the native Cretans. There was also
an influx OF peoples from the North, 20 that
by The beginning OF the second millennium
before our era Crete was already the seat
Of mixed population. Phrygian. az we'll
az Iibyan, elements were blended with the
original Cretan stock. Only in the eastern
corner OF he island was there no admixture,
and the pureblooded natives of this region
were distinguished in later times as 1true
Cretans" eocret ahs -,
Without following Prof. Ea'es in de'ail
through his appendix and the additions
he seem, TO have made to DR.. Her "nergs
text, we may say that the C''e an, claim
q distinct place 10 the history of civil!za-
tion by The invention Of tho f1rst' ma hod
OF writing hat was ever prac ised in Euro?e
Two me bod. OF writing. indeed, we're led
in the island perhaps as far back as In no
third millennium before our era. One OF
these was mode OF pic IRE writing IN
which cvcry word was repre- .en'ed by q
hieroglyph. This sy, en- appears 10 have
been used by tlie original inhali ans The
o her was no. entirely Of native origin. II
consisted Of linear signs, Of which eoch
probably demo ed>a syllable. and, el horch
some Of these may have been indigenous,
the system was cert ainly improved aud
supplemented by symbols borrowed fiom
Libya and Egypt. The steps in the de-
vclopment OF hi, wri ing and its ossible
influence upon The origin Of he Phtnncnn
alphabet arc as yet i'm. .crfcc ly UNDER
stood. II is no., indeed. denied that he
earliest Greek alphabet, which can hardly
he older than about aO0-sOO B. c.. is modi-
fcation Of the Phrnic!an alphabet-.he
Greeks had the letters Cadmus gave-lit
as further investigations are continued it
will probably be discovered that The Pha-
nician alphabet itself owes much 10 tho
Cretan script. :
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3 Readers Of Mr.. Payne's work will re-
member that he pronounces Columbus mot
properly Q discoverer." This paradoxical
assertion is based on the following ground:
1T was entirely with the expectation Of
crossing this sea 1.-The sea west OF the
Ibsrisn PENINSULA and reaching India
from Spain that Columbus concerned him.
self Nothing was further from his pur-
, poee than mere discovery. He was inspired
4 by the hope Of reaching that famous land
OF gold, pearls and spices which was now
moro than ever attracting the attention
Of Europe. He wanted no new world; and,
n he had been told the fact that Western
Asia Is really about three-fourths Of the
eertha latitude from Spain. and that the
westward voyager would have to encounter
ON his way q vast continent stretching
nearly from pole to pole impassable at the
north and passable only with peril and
dihiculty at the south. and mainly in
habited by irreclaimable savages, he would
probably have abandoned his design"
This Is doubtless true, for the genius Of
Columbus. though eminently speculative,
was coupled with the commercial instinct.
. and was always retained a. nearly ss
might be within the region Of practical
bility. But while We would not deny that
Columbus wanted no new worlds" it Ia
not true that he died in ignorance OF the
fact that he had discovered one. Mr..
Charming points out in a footnote to page
Is that Columbus stated In a letter that
ON his third voyage. in l4es. he had found
another world, but, unfortunately for his
chance Of attaching his name to the new
continent, this letter was not printed until
1905 two years after his death. On the
other hand, the third letter Of Amerious
vespucius announcing Il have found
continent In that southern part the Latin
vsrsion Of which letter was expressly en-
titled AsndHs Novus,' . New World-was
widely known In Europe from 1908.
& II was the geographer. Martin Waldsee-
muller, who, unaware Of the fact that Co.
lumbus entered the estuary Of the Orinoco
and discovered the South American main
land In llos, whereas, Vespucius did not
reach 1t until i49o, suggested that the New
world, having been found" by Americus,
.ahould be named in his honor America,
zsose than one edition OF the book containing
thls suggestion was printed In 1907, the
ltsAr before the letter containing the claim
~ Columbus was printed Thus 1t was
@Aat the idea Of naming the New Woric.
America was evolved. at first slowly, then
'mcrs rapidly. The islands, however, disoov-
esed by Columbus continued to be spoken
u for many years as IL they formed part
a. the Indies Mr.. Claiming, who directs
laetntion 70 the significance Of this fact,
also rscalls in q footnote (page 4o) that the
AAAe Ansrics vas not appliea 70 beth.
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DisEraclnS . Respected Name.
From Tit-Bifs .

After recent bank holiday In London
on" OF the police eonrts the next morning
had among lts drunk and dlsorderly" pris-
oners man who said he was William Shake.
speare.
Is that your real name. asked the Judge,
or lust yonr nom Dc Rncrre?~ well. ~our
honor" replied the prisoper, 1T is true that
| was rot cbristered william Shakespeare. ;.
but You see. [ hated TO bring dishonor and
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.of splendof And tixtny, whjoA 49, noW
after three hundred ysalu have pssssd away
fairly 'stasgers belief." 8i s,s y
Under such circumstances the problem
OF clothing and housing younger sons oi
the nobility and gentry and giving them
start In life was becoming moro dihicult
every year. so long, however. 40 the
war with Spain continued. gentlemen.
volunteers' found fame and fortune on the
decks Of the privateer or Of the moro regular
warship or In helping the Dutch to make
good their Independence. E;izAbeth's sue
!cessor stopped those outlets for energy
by making peace with Spain. James l.
had no sympathy with the Dutch, and by
tho treaty concluded with the Madrid Gov
erninent In 1904 1t was agreed that tho war
between the two Powers should come to
an end. Tho immediate eject on ooloniza-
tion 10 brought out forcibly by Mr. Chan
ming Undoubtedly It never occurred
to Philip III. Of Spain that the gentlemen
volunteers. deprived Of their own occupa-
tion, would throng tho decks OF the Eng
hsh emigrant ships bound to the Now World.
Yet 90 1t was. foI among tho early comers
to Virginia We find George Percy. the
younger brother Of the Duke OF North
umberland, and Francis John and Nathan
lei West, ninth, twelfth and thirteenth
children Of the second Lord dc Il War;.
Penelope West. their sister, married Her
bort Pelham, and among her sixteen children
were tho first treasurer Of Harvard Col-
lego and tho second wife Of John Belling-
ham, Governor OF Massachusetts,. In .
footnots Mr.. Charming expresses tho
opinion that historical writer's have been
altogether too promo TO draw . hard-and-
fast line Of demarcation between tho set
tiers Of tho Southern colonies and those
who founded colonies north of the fortieth
parallel. 1t is sometimes said that the
Northern colonists came to the Now World
for conscience sake, while tho Southern
planters sought wealth alone; but no such
generalization can truthfully be made.
Moreover. 1t is oftentimes the custom to
point out some mysterious difference be-
tween the Virginian and the New Eng
lander which can be expressed by the words
cavalier and Puritan the latter term,
whom thus used, signifying q social. con-
dition below that of the cavalier Mr..
Charming insists that no such characterize
ton il possible. He reminds us that II
there was one person In England who pos
sessed those distinctions Of blood which
no King could give, that man was John
Hampden. His cousin. Oliver Cromwell,
was nephew Of Sir Oliver Cromwell, who
was ono of the members Of the Virginia
Company, and was closely related to Sir
Thomas Smythe. the head Of that corpora
ton. Isaac johnson, son-in-law OF the
Earl Of Lincoln. was ono Of the first victims
Of tho inhospitable climate Of Boston, whore
az Sir George Yeardley. Governor Of vir-
ginia, was the son Of . merchant tailor
and hrst cousin TO John Harvard's step
fathor,s
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Mr.. Claiming will be. found more strictly
accurate than Is Mr.. Payne. Mr.. Payne
seems to think that the line Of demaroation
was actually drawn. He says, correctly
enough, that the only difficulty experienced
by Pope Alexander vi. in confirming to
the Spanish soverei gns tho fruits. Of tho
enterprise Of Columbus and other navi-
gators in their service arose from the grants
which had been previously made to the
Portuguese. -The explorations Of these
rival discoverers Ithe Portugussel had al
ready covered much Of the ocean to the
west Of the island groups Of the teastern
and even the middlel Atlantic: and to avert
future disputes the Pops invested the
Spanish monarch with all land lying be-
yond meridian line to be drawn hundred
leagues to the west OF tho Azores and the
Cape Verde Islands. This saving Of Portu-
gueee rights appeared to the King Of Portu-
gal insufficient; and by tho Treaty Of Torde-
sillas. ratified between the two Crowns on
the 7th day Of June. 1894, the meridian Of
demarcation was removed TO O. point so
leagues west Of the Cape Verde Islands.
The result was to put Portugal in possess
sion Of the enormous region now included
in the empire Of BRAZIL Obviously. the
reader Of this passage would conclude
that the line authorised to be drawn by
Pope Alexander VI WAs Actu1QE dsAwn.
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Greece led to internal confusion and DOW
erful fermentation, out Of which In time
were evolved the -lmightly' Acheans.
First in importance among Transforming
inhuenoes-Dr. Hertzberg says nothing
specific about the influence which has been
attributed to the Hittitee, or to that which,
in view Of the latest discoveries, IL ascribed
with moro reason to the Cretans-he places
those that wero exercised by the highly
civilized countries Of the East (appar1ntly
only the valleys Of the Euphrates and Nile
are contemplated), innuenoes that reached
tho Greeks mainly through the Phosnicians.
These bold seamen, who, during tho four
teenth century B. c., began the coloniza-
ton Of Cyprus, had, as early a tho first
half OF the thirteenth century B. c., disoov-
cred the islands of the .Cgean Sea and
recognized their value for the trade and
industry OF their own rich and four
ishing cities. among which. for q consid-
cradle period. Sidon played the first ,ole
In ther advance toward the mainland Of
Greece and the Peloponnese, the date Of
which u fixed by DR.. Hcrtzberg at about
100 3. c.. they Arss took possession OF small
islands near the coast, but afterward
planted several notable stations on the
continent. It is not disputed that. for
perhaps century, the Phenicians exer-
ctsed powerful influence upon the httoral
Greeks, and 1t is beyond question that they
left behind them considerable traces in the
traditions and mythology Of the inhabitant.
OF Hellas. To them, up to the date Of the
discoveries recently made In Crete, the
Achsan or % called Mycenaan, civiliza-
tton. exsmphhed st Troy. Tiryns and Ny
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of the native races Of North America, and
the dislocation Of the social organization
Of European countries, notably Of England.
from which In turn flowed the first great
wave OF Z ,glish colonial and commercial
expansion. The effects Of this increase In
the circulating medium were earliest felt
in Spain; 1t was the middle Of the sixteenth
century before they were especially
noticeable in England. Then, - Elizabeth's
reign progressed there was seen an ever
increasing display Of luxury In the mansions
Of the rich and an increasing amount Of
misery In the homes Of the poor" Mr..
Claiming proceeds to state, what to many
OF his readers will be surprising fact. that
the opening years Of the seventeenth CEN
tvry found English landowners In receipt
OF the largest income from their acres that
they have ever received "The Verney
Memoirs tell US that one estate in Bucking-
harnshire : let for more pounds sterling In
1880 than 1t did in 1870 although the pur-
chasing power Of the pound sterling In
1880 was about four times what 1t was In
1870 At the same time. however, the
scale of living had undergone 90 great q
chars Z that the mode Of life Of their grand
fathers and grandmothers seemed to the
subjects Of Elizabeth and James I. to savor
OF the days Of barbarian. Castles hoar with
are which bad sheltered manorial fam
ily for centuries, gave place to Elizabethan
mar sions which were provided with such
hewfangled convenienoes as chimneys
and glass windows. Rugs and carpets
linen sheets and eilken toublets were beoom-
ing fashionable, and wore very expensive
Lady Verney gives the price Of her best
sheets In ie40 as eight pounds at time
when ten pounds would purchase good
horse. The growing oceanic commerce
brought wealth 10 the merchants and the
shopmen, but It caused ever increasing
expenditures on the part Of the aristotracy.
Ths last yes1s Of Elizabeth saw IN outbutst.
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KING OR PRESIDENT.

The Globe Democrat, which Is a
good newspaper. but which Is not
noted for the wisdom or %profundity
Of It's editorial columns, says that it
will be many decades before the
dreams OF Norwegians come true and
the people shall have a government
OF the people, for the people and by the
people.
What the Globe-D Democrat doubt
less meant was that it would be a
long time before a president would be
chosen as a ruler rather than a king.
This Is probably tue, but when it
comes to a government OF the people,
for the people and by the people, we
might just as well admit that with the
possible exception Of New Zealand,
which owes allegiance TO a monarchy,
Norway already fares better than any
country IN the face of the earth.
1t will make small difference
whether Norway chooses a king or
a president, the people will rule. Nor
way is essentially democratic. II she
gets tired of the rule Of a king she
will GUST him and choose another as
she has done within the past few
weeks. In Norway not only are the
Legislators directly responsible to the
people but the king Is responsible to
the legislators.
In other countries besides Norway
1t Is just a fiction with which we delude
ourselves that the king exercises any
arbitrary power over the people. If II
can be said that the king can do no
wrong, It merely means that he can
do nothing without the consent Of the
government. In all the highly civilized
countries of Europe. the king Is mere.
ly an executive. Even In Germany
the most autocratic of the limited
constitutional monarchies, the emper
or has less power than the president
OF the French republic--a country
that despite It's form of government Il
not half as well governed as Germany
Or Norway or Holland.
It's pretty well established that the
people OF any nation enjoy Just about
that measure Of liberty for which they
are fitted and that a king is just as
much the servant Of a free people as
Is a president.
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society editor who insists or leyyiug
blackmnil before full fellowship Is
granted. This Is just the length 10
which New York society led herself,
But before this was done the gentle
men, the worthy ones. had sought
the slums and the settlements rather
than be found In such company and
the vulgar and the %parvenues had
raced to the front.
We live rapidly In this country and
the climax OF the ridiculous has almost
been reached In this race for social
preference, for the right TO be brand.
ed "An American Aristocrat," a who's
Who" a member Of the Smart Set"
There begins to be a rebound from
this sort OF vulgar pretense and more
Of a tendency TO recognize real worth
instead OF wealth and cheaply pur
chased pretcnsions. New York has
had her lesson and the tendency will
probably be more rapid there. Other
cities of the nation may have to be
similarly Inundated unless they learn
from the experience Of the Empire
city,
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The other, You can't rely On any OF
them; they are hair full OF lies and
halt full OF Congregations. and every.
body knows It, 80 nobody's fooled"
Last tail, during the trouble with
the miners at Cripple Creek, the cor
respondents or eastern newspapers NJ
Denver, Colorado Springs and other
places did the state an Infinite amount
of harm by similar exaggerations. by
representing that the disturbances
were ten times as bad as they actu'
ally where, and It will be a long time
before Colorado can recover from
that reputation.
The Denver newspapers are chiefly
responsible for these misreprcschta-
lions. Competition is 80 keen that
they try to do each othcr IN scarlet
display lines aud avaegcrations. III
tGough ! believe that a sc''pJs. con
servatiye newspaper, printing nothing
but true and useful information, would
be cordially supported by the public
and could do much to set Denver and
other cities OF Colorado In their proper
light before the world.
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A LAS g DISGRACE.

Either the law against Sunday
closing should be enforced or the pre-.
tense Of closing should not be kept
up. or what use is it to keep the front
doors of saloons closed If the back
doors are wide open. Complaint was
made to The Optic, that Vincent Trud.
er's saloon did a lively business all
day yesterday. The back door was
open and hundreds Of people were
served. At times during the day the
sidewalk, near the gate In the fence
that opens the way to the back door.
vas so much crowded as to render
passing almost impossible. Ladies'
made complaint about the number OF
drunken men In that part of the town
yesterday. This Is disgraceful. The
officers r reminded that the law
against keeping business houses open
Sundays. has been declared to be In
force in this county. 1t Is said that
another saloon also was kept open
yesterday. but there Is no doubt in
the case of Truder's place.
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closed strong and higher , showing
quite a reversal of form from Sat-
urday's weak closing. It may be that
the break in the wheat market due
to a more favorable weather for the
spring wheat crop did much to change
the tone. New York advices are that
the short interests were the principal
buyers, but it was evident from the
action of the market that Saturdays
selling of stocks fell into strong hands.
1t looks somewhat like a scalping mar
ket. We are between seasons and the
crop situation is likely to play ar
active part in the price making.
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WHERE CURTIS MISSED IT.

VIM. II. Curtis .lmpartlally "roasts"
the Denver newspaper. Even the
great Mr.. Curtis IL sometimes mis-.
taken. Probably, however. In his es-
innate Of the yellowness OF the Den
yer periodical he doesn't err very
much. However, he IL pretty for from
the mark when he makes Denver and
Colorado the victims OF the news
papers. The newspapers are the vic.
tins Of the kind Of pretence and hol
lowness and downright corruption for
which Colorado Is noted. The news
papers couldn't II they tried point Col.
orado conditions In colors too dark
or red MS II happens. or course 1t
may not be good for colorado to have
Its dirty linen washed before the pub.
lie OF the United States as a result OF
the industry OF the special correspon-
dents whom Mr.. Curtis excorlates.
But when Mr.. Curtis says the evil
conditions and the regrettable hap.
penings In Colorado are 81 greatly
magnified as to give the state a bad
name 1t doesn't deserve, he shows that
ug uiItbVll Hu5 DtCH u NiS'ith. IlC was
cornered, while In Denver. by astute
citizens who were anxious to prevent
Colorado from getting the treatment
Il deserved from Mr.. Curtis, his eyes
were filled with Colorado dust, and
he was induced to make a scape goat
OF the newspaper and the special cor
respondent. Colorado had gotten an
awfully bad name some way and Mr..
Curtis was sure to explain It. There
are about two grains Of what In his
chaff about the newspapers. They're
bad enough In all conscience. But
they are ahead Of the state, more hon.
est than state politics. more friendly
To the preservation OF law and order
than the courts. The Denver after.
noon papers are the y%ellowest and
most unreliable In the United States,
but considering the avidity Of the
people Of Colorado and quite a mum.
Der OF our New Mexico people to read
the imaginative impossible stuff the
papers print. It Is a wonder they aren't
worse.
Following Ia q part OF Mr.. Curtis
roast on the newspapers:
Denver has a bad reputation among
the people Of the East--a reputation
for sensations, for extravagances. poll.
teal conspiracies and corruption, dra.
matte marriages and divorces. which
IL u%ndeserved and Is due to the yellow
journals which are printed In this
city and to the efforts CT irrcsnon.
sitle correspondents to make a living
Everything Is magnified as much as
possible: everything Is treated IN the
superlative degree.
Denver Is the victim OF exaggera.
ton. II you will read the headlines
In the newspapers any day you will
recognize what | mean. IL somebody
falls Into an ordinary ditch he is re.
presented as plunging headlong into
a bottomless chasm; II some servant
girl receives a legacy OF a few thous.
and dollars from an uncle up In the
mountains she Is described as the
heiress Of millions. Everything that
happens, no matter how trivial or
commonplace. Is magnified into a sen.
sation under the mistaken idea that
the public Ia easily ucceisel, wheL as
a matter Of fact the nows, ,ape,s them.
se.' e3 arc rae v".r'.t. - their own
prry. iications. A vary suaa who
tsnds the news stand at a hotel a..
marked:
sOne pnner's n, At about ns had ne
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1t remained for a millionaire bank
or who came over from Europe a few
years ago in the steerage 10 kick
down stairs the representative of the
New York society editors society who
tried to blackmail. About all the rest
Of the Four Hundred seem to have
up cheerfully.
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New York Summary.

New York, July 24.-Estimated
brotherhood of Railway Telegrap-
lists gross earnings for July will be
under $157, 900. Seventeen roads for
second week July show average grossi
income 1877 per cent. Increase I'M
loans in bank statement probably due
to syndicate operations. Twelve in
dustrials decrease LOS per cent. Twen-
ty active railroads decrease 1.21R.
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ICE CREAM DELIVERED PROMPTLY
From J A. N. I'LL 10 y. N.
80 CTS II quart, packed Ia ice, delivered by bicycle.
Gall an Eifh0r Phone.
GIBSON ca SEITZ

Is an ideal place for them, There null
berry trees flourish and the Usage
orange'tree grows luXuriantly without
irrigation, The industry should be
given a fair trial In New Mexico.
only three months OF the year Is re.
quired TO raise silk worms and the In.
dustry Is so easy and pleasant that
women and children a carry II on.
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a4IMARkETJ
EWEW-

The following New York stock quotations
were received by Levy Bros, members en-
cagO Board Of Trade), rooms 2 and 3, Crockett
block, Colorado Phone 30. Las Vegas Phone
$40, over their own private wires from New
York, Chicago and Colorado springs; corre-
York and Chicago, members New York Stock
Exchange and Chicago Board OF Trade, and
VIM. A. Otis Sco., Bankers aud i'roksrs Colo
RADIO springs.