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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06
Expfess and Baggage

Telephone your orders to Black Gag
and they will receive prompt attention.
John TRYrHAIL.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

A game has been arranged between
the girls team and Arvada to be played
next month.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

The game between I. S. H. S. and Ar
vada H. S. played at Arvada Saturday
evening Dec. goth. resulted in victory
for the High School. The score being
~ to I9. A return game will be played
in the Gym Jan. 18TH 1906.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

The game with d. U. has been pos
poned until February.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

Room played room game of baske
ball last Thursday afternoon, the score
resulting 40 to in favor OF room 7.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

The ladies of the Degree OF Honor will
give a ten-cent tea next Thursday after
noon and evening at the hor,e of one OF
the members.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06
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High School Notes.

The Plummer reading contest which
will be held in the High School Assem-.
bly, room the evening Of Jan. 18th 1906
will it is hoped, arouse the interest of
ever been attempted before. The de
cision Of the judges will be made on
correct pronunciation. A beautiful
gold medal with l. S. H. S. monogram
will be presented by Mrs. Emma Plum
mer of this city to the person making
the highest number Of individual points.
The class securingthe highest number Of
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

WASrED-Bids to run tunueI 100 feet
further. Now in 1870 feet or better run.
mel 4x6H. Yellow quartz. Everything
furnished. Board &Io.oo per month.
FREp ROE,
Daisy Roe group. Forks Greek, Colo
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

Hauling and express, Curnow, the ice
man, phone Black 633.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

Darrow & Sharp. Colorado repre-
sentatives of the high grade Rriukerhof
piano, are making special prices for the
holidays. Write for free catalogues.
Sag, 18th St
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

Calvary Episcopal ehu,ch iuild will
meet next Wednesday. January 10, at the
home of Mrs Thos. Hoodward on Viz
ginia street.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

For any disease of the skin We can
recommend Chamberlain's Salve. It
relieves the itching and burning sensa-
ton instantly and soon effects a cure.
This salve is also invaluable for sore
nipples.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

Your choice of best pianos at q saving
of {Ioo. Terms to suit.
THE DARRow & SHARP Music Co.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

G. W. Dutton. Notary Public, Siftings-
News Office.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

M EDITION DE rontspiece
III is an sx lo photograph platinum pnnt)
Of Schreyvosers painting Of the heroine.
Several illustrations in mulh-color. tint and enl-
bossed Plate and deckle-edse paper. Each
copy numbered edition limited to 500. Bound
in genuine Indian smoked-tanned buckskin (very
rare), cover by Schreyvogel Size ex 10
inches, boxed. Price s. net, posta &c zoe
REGULAR EDITION, printed from same
plates, on nice paper, slightly smaller margins.
one plate in full color. bound in cloth. Pnce
$l.5O.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06
By Herbert Myrick

m FOREWORD Fiction and fact to
vi portray real Ife and action during the
formative period Of one Of the most in
,esestins sections Of the west The universal
language Of brush. pencil and camera to illus
tra.e. ra.he, than many words to describe, those
exciting times. Supplementary portraits Of per-
sons. and paragraphs Of incidents. to throw
side light. upon the feelings. motives and deeds
Of the men and women Of that creative era.
In a word, the drama Of life in the new west
Chare. Schreyvosd. Edward v. .Demins & Henry angel
also by many photographs and numerous human document,
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

d. E. WYKoFF,
PRESIDENT of Said Company.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

ce of Tenderfoot in the Days Of Custer
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-06

Committee
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01
The Chinese Clerk.

ChiDese merchants and clerks are
il evidence wherever trade is carried
on in Hongkong. writes Edwin Wild
man in the Chautauquan for February.
The great banking houses employ Chi
nese money changers. interest clerks
end schroffs. No white man can com
pete in methods of lightning calcula-
ton with the Oriental The long,
slim fingers of the Chinaman, gliding
over the beads of the abacus. is a
sight to inspire admiration. With the
agility and accuracy of a piano player
the Chinese accountant will perform
problems of arithmetic that are as
founding. The most complicated sums
IN banking are computed with the
ease professional pianist might rem
Ger the simplest melody. Counter
felt money is the order, rather than
the unusual, in China; the whole coun-
Try is full of it. But the Chinese
schroff will detect by touch a spurious
coin or bill. as it passes through his
fingers or glidss across his palm. He
can count a pile of dollars, running
them over his hand with such rapidity
that the eye of the onlooker is unable
to distinguish anything but an unin-
terrupted stream of silver. The in
tegrity of the Chinese clerk is well
known. He is the accountant, cashier
and middle man.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01
Locks No Longer There.

Mr.. Sibley of Pennsylvania was
making speech in the house about
the rate bill when Ollie James of Ken
lucky broke in with fierce inter
ruption. Mr.. James is the baldest
man in the house, excepting Mr.. Sib-
ley, and Mr.. Sibley is the baldest man
in the house except Mr.. James. o;
sunny days persons who sit behind
them have to wear binders. Mr..
James kept plaguing Mr. Sibley until
both became excited. The verbal duel
waxed hotter and hotter until Sibley,
striding into the aisle and shaking
his finger at James. cried furiously:
Sir, you can not shake your CORY
locks at mel" Mr.. James saw at
once that this was true. He suffered
ami sat down.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01
LOVES THE MOTHER WEST

:.avc lived too long with my Mother
West
ro care for the eastern land
Fur l drew life's milk from her mighty
breast:
She taught me to creep and stand;
Az my baby eyes looked out and saw
Her spaces serene and vast,
For God carved deeply. the soul to awe.
'Nhen the mold OF our west he cast.
Plains that merge in limitless plain.
Mountain on mountain hurled.
In mite leagues of an Infinite main.
For giants a giant world.
T'iese / have loved since my heart was
young.
md ever paid them toll.
Aud their praise breathed with lisp
ing tongue.
FOR they were my life and soul.
A., hid my face on her great. warm
Ard l loved right well my Mother West.
II Q east has mountains. / hear them say,
Gut the mountains are only hills
w e hiliocks that children might use in
And plains that hillock frills;
Ara the ocean Is only stage affect,
Or so II seemeth to me;
Bat what would you have or what ex
of gulf from Plcihc scar
T . a tiny world and I've sometimes felt
That Its people grew tiny. too
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01
APPEAL FOR HORSES
OFFICIAL INSPECTION NEEDED
Abuse Altogether Too common-oId
Horses overworked-They Suffer
keenly When III Treated.

No one will question that, were the
spirit of Christianity universally en-
bodied in everyday living, all oppres-
sion Of the weak and all cruelty to the
lower animals would disappear New
ertheless, 1t is a fact that, while we
nnd In Proverbs the general statement
that the righteous man regardeth his
beast" there is not in the New Testa-
ment any special teaching or injunc-
ton on the subject, and 1t is only COM
paratively recently that 1t has come to
be thought worthy of attention and or
ganized effort, directed to the preven-
tion of the constant and shocking
cruelty which for centuries had gone
on unheeded. AT an earlier period than
the beginning of our era, the great
teacher. Buddha, in his command
ments to his disciples. laid down the
principle that all life was sacred, and
that the rule of kindness was to be ex-
tended to its lowest manifestation.
While We are yet, as a people, far
In the rear of this position. much has
been done through societies for the
prevention of cruelty to animals and
for the regulation of vivisection to put
a stop to the worst of the suffering
which was so common in former
years. The brutal abuse of overbur-
dened animals in the public streets is
no longer seen, but a great deal still
goes on painful to the sensibilities of
the observant and of a nature that
should be prohibited. Horses that
ought to have been retired from active
service long ago, or put out of exist
ence painlessly are propped up be-
tween the thills of dilapidated carts
and forced to totter along the streets
with loads far out of proportion to their
strength poor blind animals. with all
the apprehension and distress that
human being would experience simi-
larly situated, are driven about in the
crowded tnoroughfares, regardless of
the dumb agony they must experience,
and 1t is not uncommon to see drivers
of vehicles lash their horses furiously
without justification or to any good
purpose, in a way that makes one wish
the outraged animals could kick their
assailants off the boxes. 1t is not nee
essary to accept the doubtless some
what fanciful estimate of Seton
Thompson in regard to the quite hui
man intelligence and susceptibilities of
the lower animals in order to believe
that they suffer keenly, realize when
they are well or ill-kept resent cruelty
and injustice, and respond to friendli-
ness and kindness.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01
Dwarf Trees and Giant Results.

Gather apples and pears two years
after planting the trees? exclaimg a
writer in the February Garden Maga.
zine. Impossible. you say! Not at all
| have done it, others do It, and so
ray you. OF course, the large or.
chard trees commonly seen take five
or six years to reach fruiti1g age, but
by planting dwarf-trailed trees the
seemingly impossible may be obtain.
ed. The owner of very snail gar.
den need not despair of enjo ying lus-
cious pears and juicy apples from his
own trees either. Let him plant
lwarfs, they occupy so little room
that even the average city plo. would
easily accommodate score.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01
INsvRA NcE OF oLDEN TINE

At the October meeting of the In
surance Society of New York Morris
p. Stevens, lecturer on insurance in.
the University of New York, gave an
interesting review of the earliest
forms of insurance. Life insurance
lays claim to perhaps greater an
tiquity than marine insurance.
In a paper written by NJ. N. Adler
before the Institute of Actuaries in
1864 he mentions a Latin inscription
on a marble slab found at Lanuvium,
on ancient town in Latium. short
distance from Rome, bearing date dur
ing the reign of Emperor Hadrian,
A. d. 117-12S, which inscription shows
that a club had been formed osten-
sibly for the worship of Diana, in real
ity it was to provide a sum at the
Geath of each member for his burial.
II required an entrance fee and month
~ payments and whoever omitted pay
ment for certain number of months
had no claim on the society for his
funeral rights.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01

Honey. which is described as "one
of natures best foods" is the sub
ject of a report by the Ontario depart
ment of agriculture. In this 1t is
pointed out that 1t is only within the
past few centuries that sugar has be-
come known, and only within the las.
gene ration that refined sugars have
become so low in price that they may
be commonly used in the poorest fami-
lies. Formerly honey was the princi-
pal bweet, and 1t was highly valued
3,00b years before the first sugar re-
finery was built. "It would add great
ly to the health of the present genera
tion," it is declared, "if honey could
be at least partially restored to its
former place as a common article of
diet"
Excessive use of sugar brings in its
train long list of ills. When sugar
is taken into the stomach 1t cannot
be sssimilated until first changed by
digestion into grape sugar. Only too
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01
NATIVES or SOUTH AFRICA

A traveller in South Africa gives
some interesting incidents about the
women there. The mother gives her
infant four or five hot baths a day,
considering 1t necessary for the health
and growth of the child. After the
bath the baby is rubbed with sort
OF paint prepared by mixing soft
clay with oil. Its toilet completed.
it is fed and placed on its mat by
the fire to sleep.
"A mother does not leave her young
child in her kraal when she goes out
to gather wood. fetch water or work
her farm. but carries It on her back
in sling. which. by the way. is made
ty the man of the household. The
habies' principal food, as soon as
they have learned to drink from n
gourd, is the whey which their
Mothers draw from the clabbered
milk prepared in great quantities for
the men of the household.
You must not fancy that the wom-
en- think of themselves in preparing
the food for the family. A woman's
taste is of too little Importance. In
deed think such thing is not
known to exist. Food is prepared for
the husband and his friends accord
ing to his orders, and II there should
be anything left over, then the wom-
en- and girls may eat 1t in another
part of their little hut If not, they
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01
HONEY A VALUABLE rood

often the overtaxed stomach falls
properly to perform this digestion. and
then come sour stomach and various
phases of Indigestion and dyspepsia.
lE the laboratory of the hive the
honey has been fully prepared by the
bees for prompt assimilation without
;axing either the stomach or the kid
neys, so that in eating honey the
digestive machinery is saved work
and health is maintained.
Moreover. the same report says
that "in many cases 1t will be real
economy to lessen the butter bill by
letting honey in part take its place.
One pound of honey will go as far as
pound of butter. and II both articles
be of the same quality the honey will
cost the less. Honey is strongly rec
commended for children. while for per-
sens of all ages pleasant and whole
some drink is called German honey
tea" This is made by pouring tea
cupfuf of hot water on from one to
two teaspoonfuls of honey
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01

Content IS they've still to the gold god
And maddened his Will to do
For the soul needs depth and the soul
needs height
And 1t needs the spaces of God.
Ana II smaller grows when II ceaseless
goes
Where Mammon doth hold the rod.
But here we are taught by our Mother
West
That the soul is all and vain is the rest.
Unto him who was born where the world
Is great
The duty is clear and stern
To stand n s the heir to gods estate
Nor e'er TO the petty turn.
He dare not walk with the shoddy crowd
Whose lives are hollow pretense
Whose clamor, See mel forever Is loud.
Whom glitter of gold contents;
For the mountains murmur, stand
straight and tall"
And, the wide plains whisper. BE
broad"
And the ocean niutters. BE not the small
Whom only the small applaud"
And he who doth turn from these regal
things
To the folly and sham OF life
Shall never stand with the uncrownec
kings
who capture the prize OF strife.
Az, thanklcss heir Is he. at best.
To our mother of mothers. the grer
broad West.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01

Marine insurance was a regular
business during the Roman empire,
icing started in the form of loans on
oargoes for which varied rate OF in
terest was charged according to the
hazard. In explaining the origin of
the term underwriters" he said Ahat
when ship was about to set out
upon n voyage from England, 1t was
the custom to pass around at Lloyds
paper upon which was written des-
cription of the vessel and its cargo,
with the name of the master and the
character of the crew and the voyage
contemplated. Those of the mer-
chants and others present desiring to
become insurers would write thsre-
under their names, together with the
amount which each was willing to
take or be liable for as an insurer.
When the total amount of inSur.
ance desired had been underwritsen
the contract was complete. The term
underwriters as now applied to in
surers, ,arose by reason of this custom
OF Lloyds.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01
A WIND-FALL FOR AVWTIE

20 auntie," she said. 81 think you
dropped this" And she held out the
bill
Auntie gave a wlstful look at the
green bit of current specie, but shook
her head decidedly:
mo, chile; no. chile" she affirmed
with much politeness, dat warn't
mine. nohow. l didn't drop dat, chile"
II reckon you didn't know It," per-
sisted the girl, struggling more with
the Boston terrier than with the fib.
but you dropped it just the same"
and pushing the bill into auntie's hand
she allowed the impatient dog to lead
her a run the turn of the path.
The old colored woman stared in a
dazed fashion at her hand for full
half-minute. Then she turned slowly
toward sympathetic woman on
locker:
"Fo' de Lawd, DID need dat mon
ey. An He done sent dat chile. like
an angel to pick 1t up for mo. I
reck'n. New York Press.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01

She got wearily up from the Central
park bench and shambled aimlessly
westward toward the Mall. She was
an old colored woman with patched
habiliments kept in place by strings
and pins. But there was a certain
dignity in her face which those who
knew life could scarcely miss.
Even the Gibson girl giving her Bos-
ton terrier its morning exercise, who
did not know life, must have seen
something of this dignity. for she paus-
ed to look after the weary figure. Then
impulsively her daintily gloved hand
went into her chatelaine bag and
brought out a dollar bill.
Despite the protests of the willful
terrier the girl turned and followed the
old woman; but as she came abreast of
her her half-outstretched hand drop
ped.
"She might feel insulted." she muir
INJURED to herself, catching sight of the
patrician dignity again. Then she
touched the colored woman on the
arm.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01

must satisfy their hunger with whey
or fruits, for which the men are
known to care little.
The meals for the men usually
consist OF several courses of which
hoiled or broiled meat or fish is the
first; then follow vegetables of sew
eral varieties. fruits, the clabber of
which / have spoken and a sort of
hasty pudding, made of corn meal
with coarse brown sugar sprinkled
over 1t. Cooking is one of the many
duties performed by the women and
most of 1t is done in the same ves-
sci, an iron pot. with a second pct OF
the same size fitted over 1t as cover.
In these clumsy vessels they manage
10 do very creditable cooking. Besides
toiling their meats, vegetables and
puddings. they manage to steam loaf
Of bread.
Their houses or husband each
woman has one-are circular in shape.
They are 30 low that she can sand
erect only in the center. The Zulu
woman keeps 1t remarkably clean.
considering the fact that not only she
and her family abide in it. but that
when night comes the goats, logs,
calves and chickens come in and
sleep in their respective corners. The
Coor that people and animals creep
through is only about two and one
half feet high"
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01
RHE UMATIC PAINS
Disappear When Or. Williams Pink
Pills Purify the Blood and
Heal lnfiamed Tissues.

Rheumatism is disease of the blood,
caused by the failure of the body to cast
off certain poisons. External applica-
tions are of use only i'll securing tempo
rary relief from pain-the cure for
rheumatism lies i'll purifying and en-
riching the blood.
Mrs. Frederick Brown, of 40 Sumpter
street, Sandy Hill, n. Y, was a sufferer
from infiammatory rheumatism from
the time she was sixteen. She says
'It first appeared in my knee joints,
then in my hips and waist 1t became
regular thing that 1 would be laid ur
all winter. The rheumatism affected
mostly my hands, hips, feet and
shoulders. My hands were all puffed
up and my feet became deformed. j
lost my appetite, couldn't sleep and
sometimes L was compelled to cry out,
the pain was so intense.
For several winters ] was under the
DOCTORS care and while his medicine re.
lieved the pain for Il little while there
seemed no prospect for n permanent
cure. / was confined to my bed off and
on, for weeks at a time. My limbs
swelled dreadfully aS times and l was
reduced almost to nothing
{" In the spring of 1904. upon the ad-
vice of friend. / began to use Dr.
Williams Pink Pills. At that fime I
wasn't able to do anything AID could
barely eat enough to keep alive. / felt
a change for the better ill about month.
l began to eat heartily and l Suffered
less pain. OF course / kept on the
treatment, using care i'll my diet, and
i'll about three months 1 was cured. 1
am entirely well today and do all my
own work.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills cured Mrs.
Brown by driving the rheumatic poisons
out of her blood. But you must get the
genuine DR.. Williams Pink Pills, sold
by all druggists and by che DIR. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01
peDDlER KEPT HIS CUSTOMER.
Farmer Evidently Was One Of ThosD
Born to Be GuIied.

Born to Be Gulled.
Congressman Nicholas Longworth
was discussing an Industrial stock
that had proved worthless.
Il have, confess" he said. mo
patience with people who invest their
money in such transparent frauds.
They are as gullible as the Transvaal
farmer.
This farmer had bought his stock
and his household necessities from a
certain peddler for ten years. At the
end of the time he came to the con
ciusion that the peddler had been
cheating him-that the various addi-
tons and multipllcations involved in
their business transactions had been
wrongly done.
sc the farmer on his next visit
to Pretoria bought a ready reckoner.
he studied the volume carefully and
was now convinced that his fears
We're true. Neither in addition. sub
traction nor multiplication had the
peddler used him justly. Beyond
doubt he was short a good deal of
money.
me- HtAt tht pNNuACA eoAiNp
the farmer said:
''I will deal with you no more
why not?' the peddler asked.
Because you have been cheating
me. have bought ready reckoner
and it is plain you have used me in a
cishonorable way
Let's see your ready reckoner,
the peddler said. suspiciously.
''The book was brought to him. he
glanced at it then handed 1t back
with sneer of contempt.
:" This is last years ready reckon.
cr,' he said. It's no good for this
year.
Why. you're right said the farm
er. 4 never thought of that
"Ana he bought a heavy bill of
goods.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01
The Old Rrocade.

In black oak chest all caryen.
we found 1t laid.
Still family sweet of lavender.
An old brocade.
with that perfume came vision.
A garden fair.
Inclosed by great yew hedges:
A lady there.
Is culllng fresh blown lavender.
Alsinging goes
Up and down the alleys green
A human rose.
The sun glints her auburn hair
And brightens. too.
The silver buckles that adorn
Each little shoe.
Her kerchlef and her elbow sleeves
Are cobweb lace;
He: gown. 1t is our old brocade.
Worn with grace.
Nethinks | hear Its soft froufrou,
md see the sheen
OF Its dainty pink mossrose buds.
Their leaves soft green.
On a ground OF palest shell pink,
In garlands laid:
But long dead the Rose who wore IT.
The old brocade.
M. S. Brereton. in A Celtic Christmas
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01

The enormous crops of our Northern
Grown Pedigree Seeds on our seed farms
the past year compel us to issue spe-
cial catalogue called
sALzER's BARGAIN SEED BOOK
This is brim full of bargain seeds at bar
gain prices.
SEND THIS NOTICE TO-DAY.
and receive free sufficient seed to grow 5
tons of grass on your lot or farm this
summer and our great Bargain Seed Book
with its wonderful surprises and great
bargains in seeds at bargain prices
Remit DC and we add a package of Cos
mos, the most. fashionable, serviceable,
beautiful annual flower.
John A. Salzer Seed Co., Lock Draw
er W., La Crosse, Wis.
The theory that discretion is the pct
ter part of valor is comforting to the
chiclen-hearted.