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La Junta tribune., 1906-12-29

eassss TO carr really for ~ 6aar. ~
birnderinS. pretty boy. but she e.rss .
whole lot for what he can give her.
You ought 10 see her eyfng my peariA
l could forgive her q LITTLE IL she had
No pearls Of her own To be rich and
grasping Is 50 much worse than to
yearn for what one never has had ]
could break up the match tomorrow by
letting her know I hold the purse
and he's everything"
.She shau't have him. and you shan't
lose him Listen. I've got an idea."
Larry said.
Nanny bent toward him. her brim-
ming eyes shining They talked in
whispers for two minutes. then Larry
rushed away. beaded for the telegraph
Office.
Exactly three weeks later Nanny
Wheat. with Larry In attendance. went
up to the city upon steamer day. The
pair got back late TO Fernbrook and
slipped into the hotel by the side en-
trance wholly unseen But soon there
was inscribed upon the register In Lar
ry's most sprawling hand. MIR. and
Mrs. +. T. O'Tooie-Merrion Mount
Merrion, County Meath. Ireland" And
underneath. in Greek letters, They've
found 1T
What's all that aboutT' Billy said.
coming up and leaning over Larry's
shoulder.
Larry laid hold on him, saying. Get
your Gum and come see As he
dragged Billy toward the main stair
way he added: Don't you get heart
failure. You'n come out all right. II
only you live through II"
Sarah Susan, in wait for Billy, was
easily carried along. As the three en-
tered mammy's private parlor they saw
her standing beside a tall. handsome
fellow. baldish and grayish. TO be sure.
but ruddy and with the happiest merry
eyes. Shameiessly he put his arms
around nanny. not even giving biily
q finger until he had said: Il had to
have her. even II II meant changin' me
name and nation. son. Sure. life was
no life without her. Wish me Joy. lad.
Of me new home and n wife In II"
II do" Billy said heartily. wringing
the tardy hand. Nanny detached her
self from Tim and flung herself upon
Biliy's breast. half sobbing. half laugh
ing out: Wait. son. until you know!
Are you willing to be poor TO make me
happy
Sure" Billy said. giving her n hug.
Sarah Susan bridied. Larry in his
most Innocent fashion began TO ex-
plain. Before he had said nfty words
she wheeled upon nanny:
AS you have beggared your son.
madam. for your whim. understand !
refuse to counfenance your duplicity.
I agree with your late uncle. Such con-
duet is positively immoral
As she spoke she had been stripping
herself Of Biily's ring. q simple anair
of thready gold with q diamond spark
on II. Hut she quite forgot the diamond
pendant at her throat. the circle ot
briliiants about her arm, nTt To nam"
many more jewels resting upoo he~
dressing table. Mnjesticaiiy she tossed
the ring TO Biliy-poor crestfalIen Billy.
who stood At his mothers side.
But when Mrs. O'Toole- Merton drew
his head 10 her breast and patted u m
she had done when he WIS three years
old, he lifted II bravely and smiled up
1t her. saying: 1T hurts. NANNY. but
I'm not going TO cry. And I'm not GO
ing to starve either. Tim VIII sce 10
that
sure Tim said. hugging his new
son Nanny and Larry CONSIDERABLY
looked away.
La Junta tribune., 1906-12-29
SWlD0k DEPARTMENT
coaOUcTgD ~
cREAy FAnlLY JOURNAL Suink EDITOR

every hand the city is showing
marked progress in every respect.
and it will te only 4 matter Of a
short time till Swink will far out
distance some Of the older towns in
the valley.
La Junta tribune., 1906-12-29
Cssoss0o esee clss.

Fifty cents to hear the Colorado
College GIee Club! Yes, and your
nooey back IL it is not worth twice
skak- Good tenor and baso.
La Junta tribune., 1906-12-29

Police Magistrates A H. Whitten
went TO Denver Sunday on business
matters
DIR. Stubs of La Junta was MOTTO
ed on the streets Of our city last
Saturday.
Miss Bessie De Fore. of La Junta,
was the guest of Miss Cecil Berry.
Thursday.
Mrs. C. 5. Cushatt was among the
Swink residents who spent Saturday
in La Junta-
Ross Wilkins went TO La Junta
Saturday to spend Christmas with
his parents
C. j. Kenna. of Sugar City, was
in the city Saturday shaking hands
with friends
Mrs. Lee Dowdell and Mrs. John
Farrell drove down To La Junta Sat
urday TO visit friends.
w. l.. Simpson, of tine Postal Tele-
graph Company, at La Junta. was
Swink visitor Saturday.
DIR. Brown, is looking after the
patients Of DIR. Ragsdale in La Junta.
during the latter's illness.
F. E. Clayton and son Roy left last
Sunday for Purcell. Ok. where they
will make their future home.
Mrs. Cushman. Of LAS Animas.
arrived in Swink Thursday afternoon
on a visit to Mrs. J. v. Yeoman.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
T. Ferguson who has been very i'll
with pneumonia is greatly improved.
After so long a time the glass for
the Eddleman block arrived and the
work Of setting was commenced last
Friday.
Port Beeman, of La Junta. was in
Swink Saturday making some repairs
on the gasoline lighting system in
the Club.
CT. Evans was in Rocky Ford
Thursday where he went on business
matters pertaining to the factory At
this point.
Mis Indy Lilly. bookkeeper for
Kintner & Potter. went to Pueblo
Sunday to spend the holidays with
her parents.
Mr.. Hoffman arrived home Thurs
day afternoon from points west OF
this city where he had been transac-
ing business.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Boyer are the
proud parents Of ten pound girl
which arrived at their home Christ
mas morning.
Herbert Santee. the seven year old
son Of I. S. Santee. and the misfor-
tune TO sustain a fracture Of the
right arm last Monday.
Mrs. E. Powars, mother OF Joe
Powars. Of the SWIM To Snsite Com
pany, left last Saturday for Colorado
Springs to spend the holidays.
Orville Baldridge and Kenny
Wood, Of La Junta were in the city
Saturday attending to some prelim-
inaries incident to the boxing contest
in the evening.
Postmaster Kintner. has again re-
turned to Swink after being confined
in the City Hospital 1t La Junta for
the second time in the last week or
two, and his many friends hope that
his recovery is permanent this time.
Two Japs were held up between
the factory and the depot Wednes-
day evening and relieved Of their
surplus cash, by two unknown in
dividuals. The officers have but .
slight clew to work on, but are max
ing every effort to apprehend the
footpads.
Marshal Chown received his pa
pers last week as State Humane Off
Ger. Mr.. Chowan was formerly
humane officer in precinct No. 3. but
since becoming q resident of this
city was appointed as state officer.
Mr. Chown is a fair and impartial
officer and We are glad to know Of
his appointment
Ed worley. Robert Nillman, J. N.
Mccoy and Mr.. Stickles were quite
badly burned Wednesday by an ex-
plosion in the lime kiln, Wednesday.
All were severely burned around the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
oyster Kipq DetbroDed

Western States, where enterprise is a hustler
and innovations are welcomed instead Of being
fought, are to receive at least once a day, and
perhaps twice, all the important news of the
world The system, it is said, is being installed
in Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota, and within
six months will be in vogue wherever telephones
are used in the rural districts. Not only this,
but every schoolhouse will be connected, and
while the service is being transmitted recess
will be had after which the teacher will impart
to her pupils the news of the forenoon The
farmers will have an added advantage, for they
will get the news twice day-at noon and at Z
O'Clock in the evening. At first it was thought
this would injure the circulation of newspapers,
but the reverse is proving true. The appetite for
news grows by what II feeds on, and as the tele-
phone operator can give in twenty-mnute talk
only mere bulletin of the news, the daily OF
weekly paper with the particulars is eagerly wait
ed for The most notable result Of the news
service says the manager of rural telephone
line, is the increase in subscribers, and our mer
chants note a corresponding increase in telephone
orders for goods TO be sent by the rural mail car
rer. while the farmers visits to town have be
come less frequent and are now seldom made
when he is not going 10 market with his pro
duce'"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
BY PHOEBE FORREST

with long accounts of her troubles. If she goes
out with young man, you may be sure that you
will not hear about it from her. To Judge from
her manner and conversation, you would think
that she didn't know any young men, but some
day you will wake up to find that she has reg
ular court.
You will also be surprised to learn that dances
are an every day occurrence with her. and also
that she goes to the theatre several times week.
You will mentally compare this reticence of Jen-
MES with the loquaciousness of $ellie, who
rushes over to tell you call about it" every time
she goes anywhere, no matter how trivial the
matter may be. Nellie is anxious that you should
know she has been out, but it doesn't make any
difference to Jennie whether anybody knows it
or not.
She never seems to consider that her affairs
are at all interesting to anybody but herself,
and so when the conversation seems to be getting
near topics that concern her alone, she adroitly
service just as soon as it is done.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
The Secret Of opularity

affairs by reckoning up the number of persons
you have seen SO engaged.
1t follows a natural result from her ability
to keep secret that shen ever gossips. This is
a rare quality in a woman, and in itself alone is
capable of making her popular.
She never invites a friend to luncheon for the
purpose of discussing with her the latest scandal
in their set, nor the why's and wherefores OF Eth
eFs broken engagement; nor does she ever go to
call upon friend for the purpose of finding out
things
She never repeats unpleasant remarks made
by one of her friends about mutual ac-
uuantance, nor remembers the unkind things
that may be said about herself by some one who
is envious of her popularity. She puts such
things from her in order that they may be for
gotten as soon as possible. She forces herself al
ways to think the best that she can of people,
and so she never has anything but good to say
about them
' LONG ON TACT.
Tact seems to be second nature to her. She
never says a wrong thing, and she always seems
TO know Just what is the right thing to say at
anv particular moment. If you tired and
irritable, she is ready with the remark most cal
| culated to soothe you under the circumstances
| if you have had death in the family, instead Of
handing out a lot of time-worn platitudes, she
| Invariably finds something new and really COM
forting to say.
never makes seemingly artless slips in reference
to things which she knows you want kept quiet.
She Il the most generous person imaginable.
Her nurse and her wardrobe are always at your
service, and if you happen to want something
that she hasn't got, she will go to all sorts of
trouble in order to procure it for you. If she
cannot borrow it from some other friend for you,
she win st down and make it. No sacrifice is
| ever too great to make for you; in fact, it is a
Measure to be able to do something for you.
When you go out, she never allows you to spend
a cent assuring you all the time that "it really
;s her treat this time" For your part, you can
not remember the time when it wasn't "her
treat" Whenever you call at her home you
will generally find that you are not the only
for she has so much company that it seems some
times as il she were keeping open house Peo-
DIE always have a good time there, and so they
come often
tain YOU with nor the latest bit of rag-time to
nlay and sing for you. She is always happy and
her own sunny good humor is SO contagious that
Il does one good TO be near her.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

IL was hop night At Major Lauderdae's quar-.
ters the ladies' were dressed and waiting at the
stroke Of nine; but the major was still strug.
Cling with his toilet, and 80, evidently, was the
colonel who had not yet arrived.
"Did you say he was handsome?" inquired Mrs
Lsuderdale's guest, as she directed critical
glance over her shoulder at the voluminous mass
of pale blue drapery which trailed behind her
Handsome? Wait till you seel'
"And believe you said you didn't think he
would be apt TO marryT
"Did II" The hostess hesitated. "Y-e-s, I
believe did say something of the sort"
well, so much the BETTER" declared Miss
Stewart. "a grapple with indifference is a spur
to ones ambition"
step was heard approaching. Mrs. Lauder
dale laid her finger on her lips
A moment later the colonel was parrying
shaft of wit bearing upon military promptitude
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

She knows that your own personal thoughts,
doings and sayings of much greater interest
to you than those of other people, and SO she
leads you on to talk of yourself. She realizes
that everybody has to let off Steam once in
awhile, and so she constitutes herself recep-
tacle for steam, This apparently absorbing in
terest in your affair is one of the main reasons
for her popularity.
But if she were not able to keep secret, she
would not be popular. You may tell her all you
want to, knowing that it will be perfectly safe.
She can keep her own counsel, so it stands to
reason that she can keep yours.
Everybody tells her things, but nobody learns
anything from her.
You will also be surprised to learn that dances
so much, and yet never refer to her knowledge
in any way The only way in which you can
tell that she is strongbox for secrets is by see
ing other people engaged in apparently jconfden-
tial conversation with her. and you can gauge
the extent of her knowledge of your neighbors'
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
ODD FACTS

The Peoples Bank of Milan was started in
1866 with capital of $40. II now possesses
a pad-up capital of half a millionl
Buenos Ayres has now 1015, 900 people, and is
therefore much the largest town south of the
equator.
An average of TAP persons visit the reading
room of the British Museum daily,
The Anti-Cigarette League, founded in 1901,
has 40, 900 members pledged to abstain from to-
bacco till they are twenty-one years old.
Montreux and Meran are famous for their
grape-cure treatment The patient eats two
pounds of the fruit daily.
The greatest Alpine avalanche was that which
in 1927 swept away the town of Bel and killed
nearly ninety persons
Billiards was brought into fashion by Louis
XIV of France in the seventeenth century, be-
cause his doctor ordered him to take exercise af-
ter his meals.
A falcon has flown from Teneritfe to Andalusia,
750 miles, in sixteen hours.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

t&EE3fN as one has TOR painting or music. They
dstRlSU seem to consider that it is something
with which you endowed at birth,
and not something which may be acquired.
II they would take the trouble to study a
popular person, they would probably discover
that the reason why he or she is popular lies
not so much in the character as in the method
OF the person concerned.
do not mean by this that certain traits of
character are not necessary to popularity. but
rather that these traits of character are of
KIND to be acquired by steady practice by the
establishment of habits For instance if Won
want to become of obliging disposition, all
you have to do in order to acquire this trait is
TO form the habit of doing things for other peo.
pie, and of always wanting to do what other
people want done.
consequently, if you wish to become popular.
all you have to do is to study carefully the char
acter of some popular person of your acouaint
ance, and then form the habit of acting as IL
you possessed these same traits. In time the
haoit thus formed will result in your really pos
sessing these same traits.
Suppose you decide that your friend Jennie is
the most popular person you know Then YOU
Will apply yourself to the study of Jennie's
character, and discover what it is that makes
her so popular.
The first thing that you will notice is that she
is always so obfging. She never seems to want
the crowd want to do, and she is always going
out OF her way to do things for people.
She never forces herself upon people however
II she thinks that her services will be acceptable
she renders them, but she is not such a seeker
after popularity that she forces them in order
to put people under obligations to her.
BY such method, she would probably secure
invitations to dinner or to visit, but she would
succeed in making people dislike her rather thar
like her. People can be grateful, but they object
most strenuously to being worked. 1t is only
when her services are unobtrusive that they
have the most desirable return.
NO OBLIGATIONS.
She never refers 10 what she has done nor il
any way reminds her friends that they are under
obligations TO her. Shs-never comes around e
borrow your long silk gloves gently insinuatnI
that you ought TO lend them in return for hei
kindness last week in lending you her whit,
shoes On the contrary she seems to forget
service just as soon as 1t is done.
She never talks about herself. nor worries yor
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

onel, as yellow CLEAN shot out from under the
languid lids.
It was not with mind at peace with itself
that Mrs. Lauderdale entered upon the festivi-
ties Of the evening; but il anything can stamp
upon and utterly rout dependency, it is Terpsi-
chore la West Point. Once launched in the
gddy whirl her solicitude plunged and went
down like skif in heavy sea, and it was
not until two hours later that il again rose to the
surface
Midnight, and all's WE'LL" whispered the
colonel to Mrs. Iauderdale, as he passed out Of
the crowded supper room with his captive on his
arm.
The words were reassurng; but there was an
unwonted flush on the colonels brow, which did
not escape the keen eye of the little conspirator
Was it champagne? was it the cup of the
sorceress2
There was bravado in the colonels manner
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
How Old is That Eos

A simple method of finding out the age OF an
eag is by means of the air space which Is sit
uated towards the broad end Of the she'll II the
egg Is held up between the hands before light
in dark room, the air space can be easily dis
cerned. In perfectly fresh egg the air space
q very small. but as age increases it extends, UNI
til when the egg is three weeks old, the air
space Is about sixth Of the entire eggspace.
With practice, the age can be told to within
twenty -four hours
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

an expedient to keep up the courage of his friend
as well as his own; but his tone was not in ac-
cord with his inward convictions; in fact he
acknowledged to himself that he was put to it,"
Thus far he hattered himself, he had managed
the affair with great adroitness. He had skirt
ed innumerable delicious perils, acquitting him
self in manner at once honorable and efica-
cious; but now he felt himself to be in the po-
sition of a man who has played his last card. But
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
Vegetarian Diseases

" that if we abjure animal food we
- shall Danish disease. But how comes
fESSsI it that vegetarian animals are them
selves afflicted with a multitude Of
diseases? Cattle, pigs sheep, and poultry are
extremely susceptible to tuberculosis. Perhaps
it is a gift to them from man, but vegetarian
ism does not prevent or cure it,
Cattle are afflicted with tape-worm, which
they get through eating the little eggs which
nestle in the grass. Sheep and cattle are in
tested by hydatids, and often transfer them to
their owners.
Black quarter is a horrid disease that carries
off myriads of cattle. Swine fever, pleuro-
penumonia, foot-and-mouth disease, cowpox,
diphtheria are other diseases which the herbi-
vora cannot avoid.
Vegetables themselves do not escape. Wee
wills, mites, and many other parasites prey upon
them. and infect them with disease. Rye is at
tackled by ergot, wheat by darnel; and II hui
man being eats either, this is what he gets-heat
in the throat, headache, giddness, staggering
gait defective sight, convulsons, delirium and
very often death.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26


of the bivalve monarch is thus explained; Instead
of going over to the docks on the Hudson River
TO buy oysters nowadays, the big hotel and res
taurant managers simply ring up the oyster plant
err on the telephone and order oysters direct, or
rye the order to the oyster agent, who telegraphs
It TO the planter. Then the oysters arrive by
railroad train. That, they say, puts the oyster
barge business "in bad" and forces many of the
old,time barge captains TO the wall The tele-
phones have wiped out the middle man or jobber.
Consequently many of the old wholesalers have
been driven out of business, and instead of twenty
or thirty oyster barges lined up along the North
River piers, there are now two or three at the
foot of Bloomfield street.
Another sociological or economic effect of the
telephone is noted by the Boston Herald as fol.
lows:
Even the rural mail carrier is in measure an
tieipated By the telephone in many country dis
triets. Now the farmers on the circuit in the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

tN{f32fA1 OuiB, WuluH Will take place In the
~nzaaAD course of few weeks, the lad will be
presented with a model of miniature railroad
system. This will be the present of an Ameri
can, and as far as possible the train will be an
accurate reproduction of one of the newest trains
travelling between New York and Chicago, repre-
senting the latest type of American design
lhe lad is immensely interested in mechanics
OF all kinds and especially in railroading, and
his talents in this direction attracted the atten
tion of G. B. Crane of Chicago, who is indebt-
ed to the boys family for some unusual hospi
tallty, In acknowledging this it occurred to
Mr. Crane to make the boy a present of min.
iature railroad train. He had this made after
some considerable trouble and it has Just been
shipped to the lads home. 1t is complete in
every detail and the tracks will be laid about
the garden surrounding the family mansion.
The engine will be operated and controlled in
exactly the same manner as one built for real
work so that the boy will get some valuable
experience as well as fun out of his new toy.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

while Mrs Lauderdale eyed him furtivey,
dering what he thought of the superb creature
with whom he was to play his little comedy. How
bewtching she looked as she leaned on the
back of the majors great chair, her magnificent
arms brought into striking relief against the dark
plush of the cushions She looked the allpotent
enchantress, from the coil of her tawny locks to
the graceful outlines of her showy figure. "That's
what they call latent fire." soliloquized the col
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
Presented With a Train

the occasion of the celebration of the
twelfth anniversary OF the birth of
the Crown Prince Boris of Saxe.Co-
burg, which will take place in the
course of few weeks, the lad will be
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
A Waste Of Good Fellows

~AVING Just meen for while in South
ampton Water, says an English wrl-
ter, have been immensely, struck
IE.g{s5l by the waste of good fellows that goes
WdE2D on among yachts / mean the idle
steam yachts that lie up here and in other hsr-
bors waiting on their owners caprice The
Yacht claims the services of the best kind Of
open-air man, and then for several months in
ready to 20 off and fulfil his fine destiny OF
braving the elements. he has for the most part
TO hang about IDLY waiting for orders and pol
ishinq brass; and even when the owner comes
aboard there may be nothing more to do than
crawl around the coast from one safe mooring
to another. / have such respect for the level
eyed, bronzed men who follow the sea that to
think about these loafers makes me tired.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

He "oyster king" of New York city has
just been put out of business" and
has lost his monopoly of the trade be-
cause of the telephone, says the Elec-
trical World. The connection between
.. - .mo.A auJ 4bo banI,,..nfou
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

EOPLE sometimes talk about popular
ity as if it were gift, talent, such
as one has for painting or music. They
seem to consider that it is something
with which ,rn,, nrn nrdoruoI a. h;.4L
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

you're just the man TO do
it." Mrs Lauderdale declared, with an
emphasis which de6ed contradiction.
~ Upon what hypothesis do you base
your concluSonY Colonel Keith in