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The newspaper., 1906-03-23
oANoUTs1DE OPINION.

A striking example of what in
dustry and boosting will do for a
countryis found in the North Fork
valley. The country is not large
one, but it is greater than many
sections ten times as large. In
the district surrounding Paonia.
for instance, much of the land is
held at 81 900 per acre and real
estate is not dull, even at that fig
ure. That land away up in a
mountain draw. as one might say.
could be made worth such price
seems almost incredible to one not
familiar with the methods used
and the results obtained by farm
ers in that section. There are sew
eral reasons why the North Fork
is great. To begin with, the soil
is rich and fertile, the water sup
ply is adequate and the countryis is
favorably located for fruit raising,
being protected on all sides by the
mountains. Secondly, there is a
sufficient number of people in the
valley to get the best dividends
from each acre ofiand. AS rule,
each man has only a small farm,
averaging from Ave TO twenty
acres. And then they work. In
dustry and perseverance have
transformed the rough profile into
veritable Canaan. The farmer
tends his orchard with the dill
gent care which young lambs re-
ceive at the hands of the shepherd
And last but not least, the people
are boosters. Through 'organiza.
ton and thorough, persistent ad.
vertising they have created de,
mand tor theirIproducts sothat a
market is always assured at prices
higher tifan7can be obtained fol
lr;oducts from other sections, Pa
onia with its population Of 346 and
three newspapers is known and
honored where many towns FIVE
times its size are never known tc
be on the face of the earth. Truly
great is the North Fork, and the
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means is not possessed OF enough
common sense, let alone religion
to be at large. Any father who
would not fill a contributor to his
daughter with lead under such
circumstances is a beast whom to
call cur is to offer gratuitous in
suit to every dog in the land.
Anv mother who would not grieve
her heart out to know that her
daughter had been so exposed is
courtesan at heart and does not
deserve to have ever known the
joys OF motherhood.
We have not the slightest
knowledge what Sort of a sect a
Methodist Protestant church is,
but we hold the opinion that the
Second Pit sburg one is a dis
grace to civilization and the
abiding place of people who
would dishonor the red light dis
trict of their home town.
1t IS with deep regret we notice
the criticism of Bro. Frederick's S
vegetarian ideas in this weeks
Booster. Frederick takes SO
much pleasure in attempting to
regulate the diet of the entire
population that it really grieves
us to veanyone throw obstacles
in his way. Fred gets as much
joy out Of an attempt TO 'wean a
man from beefsteak and wed him
to bran mash as does the Dutch
man from his pretzels and beer.
He never does any harm with his
nonsense, therefore why Should
the Booster wallop him with COM
parisons which are said to be
odious. 1t is part OF this
editors religion to try to make
every son and daughter of Adam
happier, therefore we encourage
Fred to give us some more re-
ceipts how to rub peanut butter on
cedar post an dmake the post
a palatable article of diet. Fred
is missing SO many of the good
things of this life that is is a cruel
editor who will try to take away
any of his remaining joy.
The newspaper., 1906-03-23
PHIL. STEVENS BUTTS r7s Il IN.

PHIL. STEVENS BUTTS IN.
Out Of the agitation that has
been going on over grating in the
county business indications are
that something will be doing soon
that will shake things up. Phil
Stevens, of the Hotchkiss Times,
comes out over his own signature
this week and promises series
of articles that will cause some
people to sit up and take notice.
Under the head of The First and
Least" he writes and prints the
following in their last issue. We
reprint SO that his charges may
be givenlthe circulation they de-
serve if true. and rest pretty easy
that they are or he would not
make them: fi
/ ask E. M. Gets, chairman of
the board OF County Commission
ers, to explain the transaction
whereby new wheels were pur-
chased for the grader for this dis
trict. Mr.. Gets, notice the next
few lines and correct me If | am
wrong:
When it was found and reported
to the commissioners that the
running gears of the grader had
been SO badly worn that the boxes
were turning inside the hub did
or did not Mr.. A. d. Ashbaugh
quote price on set Of wheels
which included the freight1 And
was not this price something like
$l1.98 lower than the price you
charged the county when. you
secured the wheels and refused
the offer made by Mr.. Ashbaugh ?
In Ashbaugh's offer he would pay
the freight. Did you or the
county pay the freight on the set
OF wheels secured through your
Also. Mr.. Gets, was there not
protest made at the meeting of
the commissioners against turn
ing down Mr., Ashbaugh's prop
osition and substituting your Of
fer in its stead? Did not Ross
Wilmot say that the whole prop
osition would appear in an un-
favorable light before the people
il you were insistent on purchas-
ing these wheels through your
house7 Did you not over rule
his proper protest and carry the
whole thing through g
Mr.. Gets. in your private busi-
ness if you had a purchasing agent
who was interested in certain
mandatory of supplies. would
you feel like letting him supply
from that ,manufactory supplies
and necessities for your business
without closest scrutiny of his
bills and comparison with the
prices of other manufacturers
And if you were in position
where such scrutiny by you would
be impossible would you not feel
that to avoid the taint OF suspicion,
he1should buy from other manu-
facturers than the plant he is in
terested in? Would you not feel
that in a way he was morally
bound SO to dor The law of this
state is not clear about county
officers selling supplies to the
county. but is not the law Of NOR
ality and the common law OF right
and wrong crystal clear on the
subject?
Since those wheels we're bought
Mr.. Gets has ceased selling to
the county-at least his firm name
is never seen on any of the bills
rendered. Why1 Not from any
change of heart but probably be-
cause his bonding company re-
fused to longer run the risk of
him being indicted. IS
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Winchester Cldb Whiskey.
"It hits m. .,,ot -

'It hits the spot"
This famous whiskey for many
years has lain within slaves of
oak, longing to touch the lips of
man. Guaranteed to be II years
old. JAMES SMITH, Sole Agent.
The newspaper., 1906-03-23
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS.

like putting in print:
Pretty young lady members Of
the Second Methodist Protestant
church in Pittsburg, Pa, have hit
upon a lnoval plan for raising $500
to pay off a church debt. They
are receiving donations in their
silk stockings-and the contribu-
tors are allowed to personally
place the donation therein. And
they do say there are dozens of
old tight6sts in Pittsburg now
contributing to the church who
were never known to loosen up
before.
From reading the above we
judge that the Pittsburg gospel
mill needs money. We CLEAN the
additional opinion that with such
inducements as the "pretty young
ladies" have hit upon they should
be able to pull the society out of
the hole in short order. In our
minds eye we can See the old
bald headed geezers falling over
one another to get next to par
ticularly attractive stocking-or
we might say a particularly at
tractive stocking wearer. We
never got a chance at a game
like that but we Imagine we could
play it and we know laundering
we'll we should try if we ever got
the chance. This impresses US
with the idea that it is good that
we are not in Pittsburg. We
would sure go broke against a
deal like that.
We have in the past thirty
years Observed several different
schemes laid by churches and
other societies for raising the
wind but we do not think we
have ever run across one that
offered so certain results. This
as Soapy Smith would express it
is "cinch."
But laying aside the joking,
where the devil are such things as
this going to end. Back in 1894.
we think it was, gang of Ep-
worth Leaguers in New York,
raised COB of money by the
process of selling the females at
a sort of fair. the candidates for
sale being hidden by a curtain
with the exception of the lower
limbs which were barred for the
occasion, how high the papers
did not state. We thought that
was going the limit, but we be;
lieve the Pittsburg Methodists
have them called and then some.
In the New York case the ante
was 25 Gents with SO cent limit.
With the superior inducements
offered by the Pretty Young
Pittsburg Ladies" we should pre-
sune that a dollar to play and
two and half to try and help
your hand would be about as
cheap as could be expected.
The writer has no religion to
speak of and is not endcavoring
to become exposed and catch it.,
but he tries to retain a little re-
spect for every branch of super
stition that smooths the earthly
path of mortal man. AT the same
time he feels like saying a few
things calculated to discourage
Just such acts of indecency as are
contemplated by this and other
like forms of raising money tor
alleged sacred purposes.
Any church that will recognize
it or permit 1t deserves to be ex-
communicated from the branch to
which it belongs. Any pastor
.,k .,,o,,i 4 ;oo,,It Deitv nv Dreach-
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whereas the politician, whoahoud especially
study TIE way IN which II ruled the MsditSE.
ranean world, would be disposed TO treat
the imperial regime more favorably. "The
standpoint from which the diverse obServa-
tons were made not being the same, each
observer ~peroeives but half Of the truth:
q restore the truth to It's entirety IL BE-
hoovts one to bring the observations to-
gether, and complete them. one by the
other"
Our e~ssayist's belief Ia that In p~rincipIe
Tacitus would not rave refused TO recognize
that equity requires the n viewpoint 10
be supplemented by the other. Indeed.
whatever be his hatred OF the Ceears per-
sonally he does not conceal the fact that
of themselves or under the inspiration Of
prudent counsellors they had done. both
wise and useful things. He accorded ample
Justice to the government OF Tiberius
during the first nine years, those early days
OF Tiberius which Seneca regarded ss
almost a golden age. He mentions with
approval some wise measures OF Claudius:
he applauds the FIRST five years even OF
Nero, the so-called QtiNQueRRtun NeroRis,
and acknowledges Ehe merit OF certain
Neronian laws which in his own time were
still in vigorous operation. 1T 10 not
then" as M. Boissier says, quite fair to
aIlege that Tncitus and the historians OF
his school ignored the good done by Tiberius
and his successors; the only thing is that
in their capacity Of moralists they are more
interested in the crimes committed by
those princes and leave the services they
rendered somewhat too much in the shade
It is equally true that politicians ARE
tempted to have syes only for those SER
vices, and without denying the public
servants c-rimes-crimes only too well
misunderstanding are Involuntary led
10 draw a veil over them and TO white
them down. There il no doubt that
between the one verdict and the other
there is no express contradiction OF. radical
opposition. and that it is possible to COM
bine them. M. Boissier, for his part, con-
fesses that IL a choice must be made he
would prefer to range himself with those
who incline toward a moralist like Tacitus
than toward the historian who writes as q
statesman. Tacitas, at least, has the
merit Of being unwilling TO admit that
there are any special privileges for heads
Of the State and politicians; that they have
a right TO more indulgence than others,
and that the laws Of ordinary morality
are not made for everybody. which Is, at
bottom, the thought Of those who pardon
the Csesars." NJ. w. n:
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For readers OF Tacitus the fact'taat at
last tongues we're lOosened is the most
important outcome OF the long era Of in
ternal peace, order and equity which tegan
with the accession OF Nerva and which Glib
bon has gIorifed as the Age of the Anto-
Mines Less than two years after DOM
tian's death, Tacitus, having scarcely laid
down his consulate, during which he, had
been more than ever involved in public
affairs, published his earliest historical
composition. What reasons led him. while
remaining an orator, TO become an historian
he nowhere states; but our French essayist
thinks that they may easily be guessed.
Apparently he had a natural taste for his
tory, and that he cultivated it is certain,
for Sallust and Livy are often initiated
in hi, writings. That he also studied other
historians, ever then less known and now
lost, may be- Inferred from the fact that he
mentions one Of them, Sisenna, by name.
II il be true that in the Dialogue" his own
ideas are put into the mouth OF MESSIAH
ID may be that he early conceived the idea
Of combining historical studies with his
everyday labors, for in that book special
praise il bestowed on the orator Julius
Seotmdus, who. while making n great name
at the bar, found time to write autobiography
Of An important man Of his time.
M. Boissier discerns another and more
potent cause for the impulse which during
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he must have sympathizsd wiz. those who
we're favorable to women, ssnce b took
his own wife with him when he left Rome
after his prEtorship.
As for the women who had played politi-
cal part, and OF whom Tacitus has to speak
In his work, he paints them by preference
IN action, and they are therefore very life
like. SIN Messalina he let's W. see into
what frenxies a can be swept who
has gratiHed all her ~fancies, who In sated
with ordinary pleasures and who risks all
TO find one she does not know. To this
figure he opposed that Of Agrippina, as little
scrupulous as the other, but using her beauty
only In. the service Of her wealth or her
ambition In the twelfth book Of the
'Annals' he tells US that she led the Empire
with a mans hand; and yet she is q woman
still for she ruins herself by her o~Xigencies
and her vanity. showing herself as greedy
Of external distinctions as Of the reality
OF power. Then, again, when Popp@a en-
counters Nero he IA the v~sinest, most sus-
ceptible Of princes, a real spoiled child. Per-
ceiving that the timid Octavis has wesried
him with her affectionAte solicitude, Popp@a
endesvors 20 rule him by disdsin. She
rails at him for the nj Of his senti-
ments, his i~nfatuation for q freed slave,
his obedience to his mothers wishes; she Is
constantly holding up to him as a contrast
the handsome Ohio, one Of the kings OF
fashion, 30 elegant, so distinguished in his
manners, so lavish in HIS largesses; she
does not conceal her regret at having left
him, and threatens to return Our essayist
deems IL probable that Nero, despite his
passion for Popp@a, did not submit to
these taunts without some wrath, and that
he sometimes retaliated. 1T was no doubt
in one Of these outbursts OF his uncon-
trollable nature, some day when she was
beaping reproaches upon him, that he muir
dered her with a kick" II is certain that
these pictures, though realistic, are those
Of an observer who has gone about in the
world, who has not acquired all mis- knowl-
edge OF man from books, but has beheld him
close, and TO whom the study OF men and
women whom he has seen with his own eyes
has given a better comprehension Of those
he meets in history.
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DAILY LIFE AT YILDIz PAbACE.
sultan's Fmv0rite Quarters-Eais 'F00dncsa
for Animals His work aad Play.
From the London stoNdGrd

FROM the LONDON 6l0HQQTQs
The Palace OF YIldiz stands on the TOP Of
a hill and Il surrounded by a thick wall. IL Is
almost a misnomer to call Il a palace. asSYil.
dig" comprises a number of very modest look.
ing whitewashed villas and kiosks. any. one
OF which IL more like q private residence
than the home Of a sovereign. The study in
which Abdul Hamid' paases q third of.hts life
Is furnished with a simplicity amounting
almost TO poverty On the big writing Stabls
lie the papers and documents Of the day only.
which are carried on as soon as they have been
attend ed to. The rule is that nothing should
remain more than twenty-four hours on hat
table, and there IL no waste paper basket,
His favorite room is his library. or libraries,
OF which he has four. The first Imperial L.
brary was founded by Sultan Ahmed III. Ons
OF them 10 devoted exclusively to works on
Turkey and the Ottoman domtntons. In all
languages. IL contains q strange collection OF
manuscripts OF books which have never been
published. that were bought up in order to
prevent their circulation Another section d Is
composed Of works in Turkish, Arabic, and
Persian. and these are kept in the best order.
as the librarians can read the titles and cats-
logue them regularly. which they are incapable
OF doing with foreign productions.
The Sultan's day begins early. In summsr
at 5 and winter at o he rises. and II the weather
is fine goes Immediately into thepark. This
is extensive and laid out In alleys and ltttls
AOEeStc'W A@Acot AOsS
Of which has an Island In the middle. Onthis
big pond his Majesty generally embarks in .
edlQue. or boat. which he rows himself. or In
either a small steam or electric launch. and
repairs to the island to visit his pets. These
are OF all sorts-stags. roedeer, gszdles.
rare goats and sheep and birds OF every
land. They are all tame and are said to be
very fond OF their royal master.
At 10 o'clock the Sultan returns to his
room and takes a rugal breakfast. He 10
served by the head butler, 0sman En- endi. who
tastes each dish before handing 1t to his
master. and nobody else is present. unless il
be, rarely. some Of the children. After break
fast an hour or so Is spent in the library.
where the illustrated books are most used.
Altogether there are some 10000 volumes. At
l o'clock punctually his Majesty retires to
his bedroom for a siesta. while one Of the
eunuchs or a picked man OF the Albanian
Guard stands outside the door.
This is really the best rest he gets. as no
often works late into the night, and then goes
tired to bed. The siesta lasts an hour and n
half. when he Is softly walked. and az half past
, repairs to the study for the labosS Of Sta:-.
Here he works unin~terruptedly. often tia
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the StiainE .reIgssof Dohitian had driven
TacitOA to the seoret inditinE OF history.
II Is plain enough that nothing can have
be0n more spAinfui 10 the people Of hat
melancholy tfoeh than the spectacle OF
the greatest crimes being contaminated
without resistance and almost with the
general ASCENT. All was accepted without
a murmur; no one dared utter a word OF
-remonstrance. either in public or oven
among friends: the spy had suppressed
friendship, All that was heard in the
silence was the batteries OF n quaking
Senate and the laudations Of mercenary
poets: and as by III luck those poets, Status
and Martial more especially were men OF
talent. il might be feared that their voices,
having deceived contemporaries. would
also mislead posterity." To inform pos
terity OF the tnth only history can be
counted on. a. is well understood by the
Chinese, who for centuries a encouraged
the official oensors to keep a faithful record
OF events by the assurance that IL snail not
be published until after the advent OF a
new dynasty. presumably hostile TO that
which IL supplahts. is II not history
asks Nj. Bolster. which truly may be
described as the conscience Of humanity
He finds il. therefore. permissible 70 believe
that it was during the reign OF Domitian
that T~acitus. amid his saddened and solitary
reflections. finally determined to write a
history which should contain. as he tells
us. -the memory OF past servitude and the
testimony Of present happiness What,
then. he originally contemplated was a
work that should bring out the contrast
between Dofnitian and his hoped for sue
oessor. Eventually. however. he with
drew present happiness from his pro-
gramme. peroeiving that it would be no
easy matter to speak with perfect freedom
even Of Nerva and Trajan and that it was
not worth while to repeat the younger
Pliny's "~Panegyric.- x reserve" he says,
that task for my old age" which. IL is
suggested. may have been a polite way Of
~renounoing it,. There remained past
servitude. but, obviously, had he confined
himself to relating the crimes Of Domitian,
the book would have been a mere pamphlet.
To give the work greater scope Tacitus
decided TO 60 back to the death of Nero
and to include in his narrative Vespasian
and Titus as well az Domitian.
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ENGLAND'S NEW UNIVERSITIES.
Significant Developments In the North
and the Midlands.

ana inc MIuhehubs
Most Americans II asked to name the
universities Of England would promptly
respond with Oxford and Cambridge, more
hesitatingly add London and perhaps Dur
ham, and there the roll call would ccasei
says the Outlook. '..'.
Yet not half would have been told. Bir-
mingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Shelf
field and Leeds, all established within
the last siE years. must now be included
to make the tale complete. 90. o.
1t is significant that all OF these new
iedged universities are found In the north
and the Midlands, within = radius et Afty
miles. This location is the necessary out
como Of the shifting OF the centre Of power
and Energy in England from the agricultural
south to the industrial north. .F
The practical note Is dominant In, all
these twentieth century foundations. The
ideal OF Birmi ngham is not the ideal Of
Oxford. They are practically technical
schools for the brain working professions.
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VIZ.

Did Tacitus himself. "a a matter Of fact.
feel any detestatiOn Of the Empire, con-
sidered AZ a system OF government and
distinguished from the personal character
Of a particular occupant Of tho principate?
Our author denies that at any period NJ
his life Tacitus was a republican in the
sense now attached TO the word. Not only
had he speedily obtained public functions
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v

When Tacitus returned TO Rome in A. d.
os the political situation had become much
worse. At the outset OF his principate
Domitian had tried to contain himself