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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

and conduct of mis- office for more
than two years. His last report was
made on May .. 1903, and statement
was made regarding lumber on hand
in July that year.
What do the people think of this?
How doessit strike the average tax
payer?
In looking over the records in the
city clerks office this morning sever
all items OF the bills of the street
commissioner were taken, as follows:
May bill In 1905 for commissioner S
services, 81 days at 50 per day, 3s3;
extra time, $2025. The council then
refused to pay the extra time. but in
July, on motion OF Alderman Rivers.
the extra claim was allowed by a vote
of to 3, the finance committee vot-
ing nay.
The June bill was presented for $sU
and was cut to SIS. The July bill
was for 26 days, SIS and IS for extra
time.
Mr.. Dupraw's report made in May
two years ago shows that he had nine
men working 95 days ut cost OF
$3.50 and himself 3s1.l5. a total of
S271.15. The street sprinkler team
worked on streets and alleys 81 days
at 81 per day, $s4. and five days
sprinkling streets during the month
of April. John Dupraw, city
street supervisor.
Monthly reports are rendered by the
city treasurer. city clerk, water su
perintendent, police magistrate, attor'
ney and marshal but none for two
years by the street commissioner.
The street commissioners bills
show that John Doe and Peter Roe
worked SO many days during the
month.
The council has required no report
as to the amount Of material pur
chased, where purchased. at wha,
price, where and when used, or as to
material on hand and where to be
found. The people will expect the
council hereafter to attach more i'm
portance to an official who Is month
ly purchasing and using great guam
titles OF material and employing labor
at will.
The wages paid, where actual sery
ice has been rendered. are not exces
sive. but the taxpayers want to know
about the conduct Of this ONCE. They
want the council to require the com
missioner to be little more specific
and to render report each month OF
what has been done, where the work
was done and what 1t cost. daily
report could be rendered as we'll to
the city clerk for delivery to the
chairman of the streets and alleys
committee.
The people OF Durango have suf
fered the results of lax business
methods In municipal AFFAIRS long
enough and will demand a change
The street commissioner usually
goes in after the council is In session
and sits down and writes out his
bills from vestpocket book. Does
the chairman or any member Of the
street and alley committee know any
thing about the correctness of these
bills?
Why should not the city council ad.
vertise annually for bids for supply
ing hay and grain for the ensuing
year? The government experiences
no dificulty in securing such bids
around Durango for such supplies and
subsistence
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10
Peculiar oisa ppearanes

J. d. RunyaD Of Butlerville, o.. laid
the peculiar disappearance of his pain
full symptoms Of indigestion and bill
BUSINESS to DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
He says: They are a perfect rem.
edy. for dizziness. sour stomach, head.
ache. constipation. etc" Guaranteed
at g. e. Tiffany, Jr.'s drug store;
price csc.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10
COUNCIL SHOULD REQUIRE
REPORTS FROM coMMiss ssIoNER

The street commissioner has not
been required by the city council to
render report Of his expenditures
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

Word comes from Mancos that the
creamery there Is unable to supply
any but the home demand, and it
taxes the plant to do that. They say
a creamery at Durango will in no way
interfere with the creamery there, be
cause they could not hope to supply
Durango anyhow.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

The upbuilding of the rural schools
of La Plata county is one Of the grand
est policies the whole public may
wish for. Tney ought to be made 80
good that only the Durango High
school will make it necessary for ru
raj scholars to come to Durango.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

The passenger leaving for the east
this morning was stopped by burn
ed bridge on Florida mesa this side
OF the river. The train came back. a
crew was sent ont to replace the
bridge and the train proceeded east
at o'clock this afternoon.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

The sawmill of the New Mexico
Lumber company at Edith was de
stroyed by ire Saturday morning
The commissary, containing a S25. 900
stock, was also destroyed: also the
boarding house, ONCE and other build
ings. and about 100000 feet OF lum
ber. The loss is estimated at $780,
900, with $4,000 insurance. The fire
is supposed to have started from
spark dropped into the sawdust. 1t is
said there were two watchmen. but
the flames had gotten beyond control
when they were discovered. Fifteen
lumber cars belonging TO the ID. 4 X.
G. were also destroyed. II. NJ. Biggs
is president OF this company The
company also has another mill at III
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

The following additional prize
have been offered for the log rolling
John Morlock will give go-cart to
the best baby in Durango. William
Rogers will give the winner of the
two-handed saving contest box of
cigars, Luther Frary will give a
years subscription TO the Denver
Post in the cnopping contest.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

Al reference to the body OF man
being found down the river. Marshal
Wickltne recalled an incident yester-
day. He and Glen Russell were
standing on the Animas bridge one
day during the high water in June
and Mr. Wickline said he saw hand
1t appeared like the body was rolling
over and the outstretched hand Just
showed above the surface. He point
ed to II and told Glen to look, but by
the time he looked 1t had disappeared
Mr.. Wickline was positive IL was
hand, and now that Il body was found
IL is likely It was the hand OF that
man that he saw, II may have come
from far up in the mountains. Maybe
some miner VINO had been caught In
a snowslide.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

Welcome to Durango. You are
away from the sand-carrying wind
and unbearable heat and can take ;
drink of water fresh from the crys
taline granitic sands of the Floridi
river. flowing from the majestic Need
les mountains. where crystal lake.
rest in volcanic craters whose depth
are not known.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

James Doyle will place his brother
Fred at the head Of his big gold min
ing enterprise ON the East Mancos
Tell Fred 10 figure out II mill tha'
will earn money. Try roast on .he
heavy sulphides, even II coal costs s.
per ton and then go to the stamps,
plates aud vanners 1t will give II
better result than anybody mas had
over there as yet.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

Henry Ambold's country team. TN
xjous yesterday evening to go home.
pulled the lines out of Mr. Ambold's
hands and ran amuck with one of
Uncle Sans mail boxes at the corner
OF the Strater. breaking the box into
many pieces.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

Lookout, the old-time famous claim
of The Gold Tunnel 4 Railway com.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

]. f. Elmer, following the business
idea of the age. trading with Indians
at Shiprock. was at Graden's today
buying about the last to go by wagon.
He will ship from Pennington to
Businesses OF the Indian country here.
after, but he will buy in Durango.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

Anyone contemplating a trip to the
Portland exposition will find 1t to
their advantage to get an appointment
as delegate to the National Irriga-
ton Congress, which convenes on the
2lst of August Durango is asked to
send Ave delegates. President Camp
Of the board of trade has the appoint
ing. and those desiring an appoint,
ment should see him.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

County Commissioners Logan and
Charlton returned last night from an
inspection of the wagon road from
Needleton up TO the mines, They
thought with little improvement the
road would do for this year, and next
season they will probably improve IT.
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The Cruel "Ranqe."

There would appear to be no season
Of the year in which calamity in some
form does not lie In wait for cattle
left to shift for themselves on the
great plains. In winter they slowly
perish from long-continued cold and
lack of food. In the spring storms
destroy the young and the less endur-
ing OF the older stock. Later they
perish from summer and autumnal
droughts. The indications are that
the range steer Is going out OF exist
ence in a similarly perverse way.
With him goes the cowboy, the most
picturesque figure OF an immature
Western civilization He gave US
some fine types. Did not Roosevelt
himself develop from cowboy2
But even Roosevelt today condemns
the range system, with its wasteful
use Of land and its necessary mono
poles, as we'll as it's cruelties, So It
will not be long ere the spectacle OF
cattle perishing in thousands as the
result of a heartless system will have
become a thing of the past. The
western stockman" will have be-
come a farmer.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
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WHY EYESlGHT FAILS
INFERIOR ARTIFICIAL LIGHT FIRE.
QUENTlY THE CAUSE:

n!uninants OF the Past, One and All,
With It's Clear, Unwsverinx, Yet Soft
Flame Cannot Hurs tho Eyes.
New York, June 20-No one can go
into our schools or meet a group Of
children on the street without noticing
how large number Of them wear
spectacles. The proportion seems to
increase yearly, and there are many
more who ought to wear glasses. The
experience of one teacher might be du-
plicated by the score. She knew Alice
was inattentive and she thought she
was unusually stupid. She said so
to the principal and sent note to
the mother, requesting that the child
be helped ut home if she wished her
to keep up with her c!ass. One day
after a blackboard explanation, the
teacher called upon the child and found
that she had not seen what had been
written. She was kept after school
and by dint of much sympathetic ques-
tioning Miss C. found that Alice had
never been able to see what was put
on the board and that her head had
ached so often and so hard that she
frequently failed to hear what was
said.
Such a condition may be caused by
lack of proper food, but in our Ameri-
can homes it is usually due to the poor
quality of the artificial light. The yel-
low, insufficient light of the ordinary
kerosene lamp, with its smoky CHM
ney, is about rs bad for the eyes as
can be imagined. The Pickering light
from a coal gas jet is but little better,
and even the electric light, brilliant
as it usually is, has an unsteadiness
due to variations in power, and glare
peculiarly trying to the delicate nerves
of sight. The comparatively new IL
luminant acetylene gas produces as
nearly perfect an artificial light as has
yet been found. 1t gives clear white,
unwavering light, very brilliant, yet
perfectly soft, and so nearly like the
rays of the sun that even colors ap-
pear as in daylight.
Fortunately, acetylene is very easily
and cheaply produced, and the simple
apparatus necessary can be purchased
and installed in any home at very
moderate cost, and the acetylene can
be piped to convenient points in the
house where a light is needed. 1t is
then lighted and extiDguished and used
exactly like common city gas.
Acetylene is rapidly coming into
common use in homes, churches,
schools and institutions Of all kinds,
and it is reasonable to expect that as
its use in the home increases, there
will be fewer defective eyes, particu-
larly among children. Poor eyesight
and the many ills resulting therefrom
will undoubtedly be much reduced by
the use Of this new illuminant.
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services to American Journalism can

services to American journalism can
never be fully appreciated!
A few survive in retirement. Col.
onel Mcclure, the friend and agent OF
Lincoln, who was the Philadelphia
Times, lives on in a green old age in
a comfortable official berth. Horace
White still writes, but always imper-
sonally. Field-Marchal Murat Hal
stead writes an occasional brilliant let
ter, but the Cincinnati Gazette, which
was his work alone, is now hyphenat-
ed, and editorially speaking anony-
nous.
But Watterson survives. and his per-
sonality is the more distinctive be-
cause his wit is yet as keen, his in
vective as maddening, and his humor
as generous as Of yore; because he
stands up above the dead-level of i'm
personal journalism to-day like some
lone mountain peak, casting its shad-
ows upon the plain. A remarkable per-
sonality, an extraordinary human de-
velopment. a surviving primus inter
pares. No American who can read
but is familiar with his brilliant, orig
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m DEATH As IN LIFE.
Bodies In Cemetery Grouped Accord
ina to RELIGIOUS Affiliations.

Bodies In Cemetery Grouped Accord.
ing to Religious Affiliations.
An ancient custom still prevailing
in many old burial grounds was de.
scribed recently by Richmond gen.
tleman who has been interested In
tracing family. records.
when my wife and I were in Y"
he said, 1--WE had occasion to visit the
graveyards of the quaint little town,
many Of my wife's people being buried
in the neighborhcod. It struck me as
queer, finding similar names in all
three graveyards. Scattered here and
there, they were, but always alike.
II puzzled over it for a long time,
and finally asked the sexton. He was
an old, old man, and remembered
away back to the beginnings Of things.
I can tell you,' he said, wagging his
gray head solemnly. 1T was custom
ary in old times to divide the families
according to their religious beliefs. If
q husband and wife were Methodist
and Baptist in life, after death the
husbands grave was placed near some
Methodist brother, while the wife's
body went hunting her Baptist sisters.
In that way the families were scat
tered hither and yon, and the same
name occurred, perhaps, five or six
times in one graveyard Lewiston
Journal.
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or elsewhere-which is most of the
time-he can be found in serene philo-
sophie retirement at Mansfield. There
his legion of friends troop to visit
him.
Sitting calmly to-day in his cottage
at Vevey, Switzerland, Colonel Wat
terson writes his monumental work
on Lincoln in picturesque polysyllables.
snd looks back over one Of the most
remarkable careers in America-cer-
tainly the most kaleidoscope. He alone
survives that group Of knights OF the
quill who made American Journalism.
Gone is Horace Greeley who boxed
the political compass, to die of disap-
pointment-the man who personally
nodded more opinions on greater
variety Of subjects than any man. of
the nineteenth century. Gone Gree
ley's longtime associate, and later pol
itical enemy and professional rival,
the brilliant Henry J. Raymond. The
tomb has closed over the elder James
Gordon Bennett, who made the news
end Of the modern newspaper; on the
unmerciful Manton Marble, long Wat
terson's close political ally; on Will
bur F. Story, who was never so happy
as when telegraph tolls mounted up,
who boasted that he always had
burglar on the Chicago Times staff
to break safes and get exclusive official
reports, whose sarcastic pen drew
blood at every stroke, and whose pa
per died with him; on Joseph Medill,
the maker Of the Chicago Tribune,
that pride of American Journalism
thousand miles from Park Row; on
Thurlow Weed, Of Albany, the great
est political strategist of his age.
Alas, no more is the gray head OF
Charles A. Dana seen against the
dingy window-panes Of the second
story Of The Sun ofice-the man who
made quality supersede bulk and whose
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Ni1lN.TS FOR THEI
( 3HOUSEkEEPER, 4
E5SSN RAIn 30S
As@SS
Useful Hints.

CSoIuI f1lutSs 'stz.s-s
Brush pie crust with cream to in-5
sure rich brown color.
A new method of blanching almonds
is to soak them over night in cold
water.
Watch the nap in sweeping a carpet,
in order to bring the design out to-
advantage.
The milk of beef loaf or farci can
be replaced by tomato sauce or catsup
for change.
Whip cream in q pitcher. 1t Whips
more quickly than in an open bowl
with less spatter.
Some babies are partial to warm
water and others to cold; if one is res
fused Try the other.
A few drops of kerosene added to the
starch makes ironing easier and lends
q gloss to the linen.
Roast bird with the breast down
the greater part Of the time; the flesh
will then remain more juicy.
Outer leaves of lettuce, which are
not attractive for salad, can be boiled
Oh steamed and served as greens.
Mayonnaise dressing is less tiresome
to make when beaten with 4 rotary
egg beater instead Of stirred with
spoon.
Hot water and soap generally re-
moye grease spots. If fixed by long
standing, use ether, ch!oroform or
naphtha.
Flies hate the odor of kerosene, It
is said,. and if the outside of a screen
door be rubbed with the oil, the open
ing of the door will not be followed by
al inrush Of the winged pests.
Baking powder tins should not lie
recklessly thrown away. They are I
useful in number of ways, as for
example, moulding small jeliies,
creams or rice desserts.
The appearance Of meat pie crusts,
and in fact almost any pastry. is much
improved by brushing with mixture
made by beating the, yolk of an egg
in two tablespoonfuls Of milk.
Perhaps it is not generally known
that leftovers from gelatine dish
can be remoulded. The jelly should
be warmed just enough to melt,
poured into a mould, and placed on
ice. X
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French as She Speaks It.

fFenCn do orc SPSANo ~
She had asked permission to use
the telephone while her mother tran
sacted her business with the head OF
the Office. A caller was an interested
listener to the one-sided conversa-
ltion until, just as the talk grew in
teresting, she began to speak in
Erench.
/! What was that girl saying?" de-
manded the caller of the bookkeeper,
after the two women had left the
ohice. "You speak French"
"That is just the trouble" was the
laughing answer. II speak French !;
that girl merely thinks she does.
could not understand one word in
ten"
."Then how do you suppose the
other girl UNDERSTOOD"
"She understood it because they
both studied under the same teacher
There is more bad French taught in
the fashionable finishing schools In
this city than any one save a French
man can realize. She used words
never heard before, and yet I could
have told what she was trying to
say."-New York Press.
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NERVOUSNESS AND
WEAKNESS CURED
BY PE.Ru.hA.

Miss Sadie Robinson, Rand street,
Maiden, Mass, writes:
"Peruna was recommended to me about
a year ago as an excellent remedy for the
troubles peculiar to our sex, and as found
that all that was said Of this medicine was
true, I am pleased to endorse it.
"I beaan to use tt about seue,,
months ago for areakness and nerc-
business, caused from, ocerWorE and
sLeepLess7,ess, and found that II, a
fe,c days began to grop strong, my
appetite Increased and I began to
sleep better, consequently my nerv-
business passed G,rGy and the aceGk-
ness In the pelutc organs, soon dts
1ppeared and I hare been tcetk
and strong ever since"
Address DR.. S. B. Hartman, President
of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
O., for free medical advice. All cores
pondence strictly confidential.
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FOOD IN SERMONS.
Feed the Dominic Right and the Sermons
Are Brilliant.

| A conscientious, hard-working and
eminently successful clergyman writes:
ri am glad to bear testimony to the
pleasure and increased measure OF
deficiency and health that have come to
.me from adopting Grape-Nuts food as
bne of my articles Of diet.
| "For several years was much dis
tressed during the early part of each
day by indigestion. My breakfast.
usually consisting Of oatmeal, milk and
eggs, seemed to turn sour ard failed
Ito digest. After dinner the headache
and other symptoms following the
breakfast would wear away, only to re-
turn, however, next morning.
! "Having heard of Grape-Nuts food, I
finally concluded to give it fair trial.
4 quit the use Of oatmeal and eggs, and
made my breakfasts Of Grape-NutS,
cream, toast and Postum. The result
was surprising in improved health and
total absence Of the distress that had,
for so long a time, followed the morn
ing meal. Ny digestion became
once luOCe Satisfactorily, \hS ASaoNSoSS
ceased, and the old feeling OF energy
returned. Since that time, four years
ago, I have always had Grape-Nuts
food on my breakfast table.
II was delighted to find also. that
whereas before I began to use Grape
Nuts food I was quite nervous and be-
came easily wearied in the work of
preparing sermons and in study, q
marked improvement m this respect re-
suited from the change in my diet. I
am convinced that Grape-Nuts food
produced this result and helped me to 4
sturdy condition of mental and physical
strength.
81 have known several persons who
were formerly troubled as was. and
who have been helped us I have been,
by the use Of Grape-Nuts food, on my
recommendation. among whom may be
mentioned the Rev. -, now mis-
sionary to China Name given by
Postum Company. Battle Greek, Mich.
'There's q reason
Read the little book, "The Road to
Meliville," in each pkg. -
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Kidney Pills I told
the readers Of this
paper that they had
relieved me Of kid
ney trouble, dis
posed Of a lame
back with pain
across my loins and
beneath the shoul-
der blades. During
the interval which
has elapsed I have
had occasion to re-
sort to Doan's Kid
ney Pills when I
noticed warnings Of
an attack. On each
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-06-22

and every occasion the results obtained
were just as satisfactory as when the
pills were first brought to my notice.
I just as emphatically endorse the
preparation to-day as did over two
years ago."
Foster -Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. T.,
proprietors. For sale by all druggists,
price so cents per box.
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Real Hioh-Heeled Shoes.

In an English museum is pair OF
Queen Elizabeth's riding boots or bus
kins, the heels of which, it is Of in
terest to note, are three inches high.
However, three-inch heel must have
been ease and comfort to walk in COM
pared with a "chopine." This ex.
traordinary invention, by which ladies'
endeavored in the sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries to add cubits to their.
stature, was kind Of stilt made OF
wood and leather, and was sometimes
as much as twelve inches high! The
wearer had then to be assisted to
keep her balance when walking either
by servants or gallant cavaliers. It
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NERVY.

"Myrtilla," said the old gentle
man, sharply, that young man you
had in the parlor last night Is dull
Of comprehension. All ! had to do
was cough when the other chaps re-
NAMED too late and they would take
the hint and depart. Did this one
say anything when I coughed last
night?"
eyes," replied the beautiful daugh'
ter; "he said the next time he called
he was going to bring you a bottle
of cough syrup.'-Detroit Tribune.
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inal, phrase-making style Of compost
ton; no editor but reads the Courier
Journal daily when Watterson Is at
the helm; no other man whose daily
editorial opinion is sent out: by the
press associations. And this man, still
we'll on the safe side Of seventy, has
been for almost fifty years a distinct
force in American affairs; long before
the Civil War broke out he was con-
sidered a coming man. No State owns
him; no pent-up Blue Grass Common
wealth contracts his powers. he Is
an American whose words are read as
regularly In Cape Nome as in Louis
Vile; who has friend wherever floats
the Star Spangled Banner above an
American citizen.-Booklovers' Maga'
zine.