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reflects the spirit of American diplomacy
the John Hay kind of open diplomacy,
free from all suggestion of intrigue.
The United States has been sending its
scholars for decades TO foreign courts as
Ministers and Ambassadors. Motley, Low
ell, Andrew d. White and John Hay have
been such men. Their methods of diplo-
macy rave been founded on sincerity
~frankness and courtesy and they have beer
reinforced with the culture that comes
from good breeding and ripe scholarship,
James Bryce is of the same stripe.
Every one who knows anything about
Mr.. Bryce thinks Of him as the author
Of The American Commonwealth" and
The Holy Roman Empire But the real
Mr.. Bryce is more than a scholar. He is an
all around man.
Unassuming, genial, a delightful con-
v~ersationalist, he has mingled with the
plain people as well as with the elect all
his life of 81 years. Fond of athletics. he
is a great mountain climber and has the
distinction OF being the first man TO scale
Mount Ararat.
He has been as much of a traveller as
writer and law lecturer and statesman.
HI has been to Iceland and written on her
Institutions. He knows Poland, Transyl-
vania, western Asia, Asia Minor, Russia
and many remote places thoroughly. He
knows not only their politics but their
typographical characteristics.
Mr.. Bryce used 20 lecture on law at Ok
ford for something like eight months in a
year and then he would go on his jaunts
to out Of the way places and write
about them a~Iterward. He was in western
Asia in 1875. After visiting the fair at
Mini Novgorod he went down the mysteri-
GUS volga and ultimately scaled Mount
Ararat.
The Armenians believed that the snow
capped mountain would never be scaled.
They regarded the peak with religious
veneration. Mr.. Bryce started up the
mountain with several companions and fx
Cossacks.
One by one they turned back and when he
reached the height Of Is, 900 feet he found
himself alone. He kept on and reached the
summit in safety. Two days later he was
presented to the Archimandrite Of Etch-
miadzin as the first man 10 reach the top Of
Massis, the native name for Ararat. The
eyed priest smiled and said:
That canno be. No a has ever been
up there. IL is impossible
Among the varied things that nave Dc
cupied Mr.. Bryce's busy years, four stand
out-his work for Ireland. for the improve
ment Of secondary education. for the better
ment Of labor conditions and for the ale
Walton OF the conditions Of Christians In
Asia Minor.
He was III intimate friend OF Gladstone
and became Under Secretary for Foreign
Affairs in his Cabinet In 1855, . o that he
knows something Of the routine OF d.
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plomscy. He wa enthusiastic for tho
Giadstone Home Rule measure He wa
born In Belfast and reared in Scotland.
n he had a keen sympathy with the
struggles OF Ireland. He gives up the
post Of Secretary for Ireland in the present
Cabinet TO come to Washington.
By nature a student and by profession a
teacher as well as a lawyer, Mr.. Bryce has
assisted almost every development that
has been made In secondary education in
England in recent years. He was one OF
the first to take up the subject Of university
extension which has spread to this and
other countries, and he has never lost his
zeal for it.
In labor matters, 10 President Of the
Board OF Trade, a post which he oocu-
pied for about two years, Mr.. Bryce devoted
much Of his time to the cause Of organized
labor. He has advocated the opening Of
breathing spaces, the shortening Of hours
Of work, and especially public arbitration
Of labor disputes. In speaking recently
on the subject Of ideal homes for working
men. he said:
The idea We should aim at In TO con-
struct 10 industrial centres or garden
cities, with a population Of between $1,000
and 10000, beyond which the residents begin
to lose the benefits Of free access to the
country and fresh air"
Aside from Mr.. Bryce's experience in
statecraft, in the field Of letters, in law,
In active university work for more than
thirty years, in social and educational
betterment, and his wide range Of travel,
IL is the A~mericanism Of the man that has
attracted most attention to him here and
has caused the announcement OF his ap-
pointment to the Washington mission to
be received with approval. He has visited
this country five times and has made long
stays here.
For seventeen years before he came the
first time, in 1870, he had studied
Institutions and he studied the country
intimately during his stay. He vent every
where. He studied our election system
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you are all right; they do not attack people
P~romiscuously. II you let them alone
they viii let you alone.
.1n color the Cherokee bear dog Is either
a dirty black or a brownish brindle. He is
sullen and repulsive to look upon. .
Flghtl They can Outright IN dogs that
1 ever saw. They are so much larger inc
stronger than the ordinary bulldog that
he would not tand a show with one OF them.
In a nutshell. the Cherokee bear dog has the
nose OF the hound, the speed Of the cur,
the grit OF the bulldog and the size OF the
Jolly and Watch were the sons OF Jude.
The hunters OF my section of the state will
never forget a fight that they had.
When puppies jolly n Watch were
to be raised. At the age Of 2 years they
were brought together.
o meeting day they rubbed noses and
growled, but the crack of the masters
whip quieted them. At supper time, when
they, were fed, theygot together and fought
drenched with cold water. The war had
begun.
Far in the night, when every human on
the place was asleep, Jolly and Watch met
and went at each other. Their master had
to go again n part them.
But the mex day when they met In an
old field at some distance from the house
they had il out. They fought for an hour,
covering an acre in their rounds.
Jolly won out. His head was so chewed,
cut and disfigured that he did not look like
himself, but he left Watch b cripple for the
remainder Of his life.
mo q saw the fight, for those old bear
dogs do not make any noise when they fight,
but the field over which they fought was an
object OF curiosity for weeks. Two bulls
could not have torn up the ground more
than Jolly and Watch did.
But when making common cause AGAINST
a bear Jolly and Watch were hard 10 beat.
l believe that II you could have got the bear
to an open field they would have killed him
without thu Aid NJ q u,,n
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FARMING on CITY LOTS.
Health and % Crops Reward Help
Yourself Societies In Philadelphia.

puh
One of the most sensible notions Of the
philanthropists has had a tryout this year
which promises several good results for the
future city dweller who cannot manage to
get back to the soil in the usual manner
The notion referred to Ia the cultivation
of the vacant lots which are more or less
plentiful in all towns. In Philadelphia
Help Yourself societies we're formed for the
purpose OF arranging the matter.
According to Maxwell's Tdlismdn. more
than a thousand families in this one city
earned last summer about as good wages
working small allotments Of land as the
average laborer earns working under a boss
fully twice as long hours. As an instance,
one family consisting Of a mother and three
children under IL made application for
a garden in the spring Of 1904.
They were wholly lacking in knowledge
Of garden work, and the mother was in
very poor health. But what they lost in
produce the first season by reason of these
facts they gained in health, pleasure and
experience. Feeling fully repaid for time
and labor spent in the garden, they were
not only ready and willing when the season
of 1905 opened, but anxious to enter upon
the work ON their little farm, which was
scarcely half an acre in size.
Besides supplying themselves with fresh
vegetables during the summer months and
putting by for winter IL bushels of potatoes,
is quart jars of tomatoes. 7 quart jars of
beets, 10 quart Jars OF string beans, s quart
Jars of lima beans, 8 pint jars Of corn and 9
quart lars Of peas, they sold in the ~neighbor-
1000 produce to the value of $l12.07. 1t is
safe TO say that they realized fully $500.
If improvement in health, increase OF
strength and value of knowledge gained be
added, this sum should be fully doubled
and they didn't earn a cent less when they
worked daily OF account OF the garden.
They simply added $500 to their yearly in
come.
The editor of the TdIismdn thinks that
waste land ought to be had for the mere
asking, as it is yielding the present owners
nothing except an increase in value and will
continue to yield them nothing until labor
is set TO work upon it. 1t will be needed for
building operations ONE day, but in the
meantime why not set the DOR u unemployed
city dwellers TO work upon it and let them
nave what they make?
Old men past work in the shops but still
compelled TO be breadwinners find such
work well within their powers while half
grown boys and girls too frail for the strenu-
GUS life in the shop and factory find in these
fields the pure air, the warm sun and the
quietude coupled with light manual effort
thatar so needfulin the building Of physical,
moral and mental manhood and woman
hood.
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wood rats, Treasury.

FROM the EldorddO Republican.
The Kansas wood rat Is small, no larger
than q common rat. but his ambition and
aequisitiveness are Unsuitable. His one
insane desire seems 20 be TO increase the size
Of his pile OF sticks. The neighboring field
IN placed under tribute. First OF all the nearby
sticks are gathered into the pile, Then, as
fnrtber awav from home for more stiekS
And in this huge pile OF sticks he stores his
winter supply OF nuts.
Many a time. when we we're enjoying farm
life by living mostly on sorghum and corn
bread, buttermilk and Missouri dried apples,
have we gone TO the woods with the other
nssts Of q wood rat.
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JAMES BRYCE'S VARIED WORK.
NEW BRITISH AMBASSADORAMAN
OF MANY ACTIVITIES.

Mountain Climber. Besides Statesman,
Scholar and AuthOr-A Diplomat Of
tho American school american Cues
lions Discussed I'm HIS Famous BOOK.
In sending James Bryce to this country
as Ambassador Great Britain has selected
the foreigner who knows the American
people and their institutions best. In
England he Is known Familiarity as the
English Yankee. Mr.. Bryce has not only
told q great many thousands OF Americans
lots Of things they lever knsw about them
selves but also unfolded TO Englishmen
the real American character and more
than any other individual now living he
has contributed to develop the good feeling
that exists between the two countries.
For the first time since England has sent
Ministers and Ambassadors to the United
States she has chosen n representative
of the highest distinction. There has been
a little reluctance to name Mr.. Bryce
because OF the loss his appointment would
mean to the English Cabinet.
Never before has a man been taken
from the Cabinet TO become Ambassador
here and 1t is said that only once or twice
in English history has a Cabinet Minister
been selected for a diplomatic Office any
where. Previous Representatives here have
been excellent men for the most part, but
no man OF the intellectual qualities and
literary and political achievements of
James Bryce has ever represented England
in the United States.
Mr.. Bryce has not had diplomatic ex-
p~erience except as Under Foreign Secretary
with Mr.. Gladstone. II he had been an
American he would probably have had a
diplomatic post many years ago. He is
a the type Of American diplomats and
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Lovers. wireless Messages.

r TOW LNN LOWuUW IEUWW NFWT.
A young telegraph operator and a young
lady, also a telegraph operator. in Paris. In
love with each other. established a system OF
wireless telegraphy which was carried on
time. He lived on the Avenue Victor Hugo,
she on the Boulevard Edgar ouinet. about
three miles away.
on his balcony he put up a pole. from
which messages were despatched TO the
pole on her house. But before long IN o1icial
stationed at the wireless post on the Eiiei
wireless service OF the State, and inspectors
some days later arrived at the homes OF the
lovers and carried away the offending APP
paratus. with q warning that II the offence
were renewed IL would entail q heavy hne.
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An Equine Patriarch.

From The NeWcdsIe ChronicIs.
There has been recorded in England the
phenomenal case OF a horse living 70 be 90
years old. The Paris rapers. however. report
one in the French capital having reached the
patriarchal age Of a.. The animal is q mare
pony bred In Brittany. but passing the whole
OF her adult life in Paris.
She has been twenty-six. years in the pos
session Of her last owner, who used the animal
thea tres. He retired six years ago. ape sne
old pony went with him Into suburbs@ srIlpffL-
man he has made proyJsIor FOR the old h9rse
~ ske out a oomfortable old age Independents
of his own life.
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Oh Lle DChJ LYDts DcIWCtn redBOUH size is
kept by Andy Hoss, a mountaineer who
lives on the headwaters OF Hanging Dog
Creek, in Cherokee county. She weighs
about eighty pounds and is all bone and
good muscle.
-She brought forth a litter Of puppies
last summer. There were seven Of the
little fellows and we did not care to keep
more thar four of them, so we told Andy
to drown the other three.
-Now, with an ordinary dog drowning
her puppies is an easy task, but not so with
one Of those old bear fighters. julie and all
Of her kind have gone far from home to de-
liver themselves OF offspring. They are
so close to the mountains IN the wild
creatures that roam there that they do not
trust mankind.
Therefore. following the custom of her
ancestors, old julie went back into a great
thicket at the foot OF a little mountain and
deposited her young in an old log. About
once or twice a day she would 90 to the
house for food, but did not stay long.
'One day she was induced TO go in the
barn. where she wa kept until Andy's boy
and a farm hand could go and steal away
the three condemned puppies and drown
them. On being turned out julie set out
on q u for her den and On finding that
some OF her little ones had been carried away
she followed the trail Of the boys to the creek
and plunged into the water, where she found
the dead puppies.
Frantic with grief, the old dog turned
and ran back TO the house, but after circling
there for a few minutes she returned to her
bed in the log and took up the trail OF the
boys again, and that time followed them TO
the field where they were at work and at
tackled them savagely, biting each several
times before they could beat her al.
1T II dangerous to NEEDLE with the or
spring OF one Of those old dogs. I would
just about az o o try to take a lions cub
as 70 take one Of their puppies.
Julie never has bad anything to do with
those young fellows since. She does not
trust them. and on the slightest provoca-
ton she would tear them in pieces.
Unless you have incurred their disfavor
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Fate Of Afghan Robber Ghief.

a From me LddD's Realm.
Upon the summit OF the pass 5000 feet
above sea level A~bdurrahman erected q Gag
staR. from this be suspended an iron cage,
and In the cage he placed the robber chisf-
where he left him.
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A Correct Definition.

The Chronicle is always pleased
to give exact information concern
ing any subject brought to its at
tention, and therefore gladly an
swers query by G. II. Webb, who
asks literal Interpretation of a
head appearing in this paper last
week-"Chameleon Bill" For the
benefit of Mr.. Webb and others we
append the following, taken from a
standard dictionary:
"Chameleon-An Arboreal old
world lizard that can change color
either on irritation or to resemble
surrounding objects, by means of
contractile pigment bearing cells.
An American lizard that has
the power of changing its colors."
The connection is now clear, is
it not?
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Now It's Religion.

The Chronicle likes to fight fair
and has little or no use for the man
who resorts to subterfuge or decep-
tion to accomplish certain ends,
political or otherwise. Senator
Reed Smoot, of Utah, recently Wis
tied this section of Colorado, and
that occasion was grasped by the
desperate gang of malcontents who
infest this county to cast reflections
upon the honor, integrity and re-
ligion of many citizens. The editor
of The Chronicle does not claim to
be in close communion with any
church or sect; each individual is
entitled to his or her belief and
that belief should be recognized
and respected. But The Chronicle
does object to the fragrant lies made
public by the Braiden- Molletta
gang, as regarding the editor of
this paper, following the visit of
Senator Smoot. Personally we
know nothing of this gentleman.
but regard him as public official
entitled to the highest esteem and
consideration. We believe him to
be a gentleman in every sense of
the word, and record IA most EN-
phatic kick at being falsely quoted
or Intentionally misrepresented.
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SUMMONS.

STATE OF COLORADO.
COUNTY OF CONEJOS,
In the County Court
Robert b. Wallace, plaintiff.
versus s,>,,,>
David Beekman and S'+ioNS'
Mary l.. Chase. defendants.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO,
To David Bcekman and Mary l.. Chase
the defendants above named. GREETING:
You are hereby required to appear in
named plaintiff, in the County Court of
CouejoS County. State of Colorado and
answer the complaint therein within
twenty days after the service hereof. il
of this County, or by publication. within
thirty days after the service hereof, exclu-
sive of the day of service: or judgment by
default Will be taken against you accOi ding
of the complaint in the above entitled ac-
tion he not served with this summons. or
If the service hereof he made out of this
State. then ten days additional to the time
answer will be allowed before the taking of
Judgment by default as aforesaid.
The said action is brought to quiet the
title to the East Half OF the South. east
Thirty-six csi) North of Range Nine 90, Il.
n. NJ NJ. in Coneios County. Colorado. and
for costs of suit. as will more fully appear
from the com ipl;iint in said action to which
hereto attached.
And YOU are hereby notified that IL YOU
fail to appear. and to answer the said com
plnint ms above required the said plaintiff
for in the complaint.
Given under my hand as Clerk Of said
Court at Concjos in said County. this 18th
day of July. y. D. 1906
[SEAI.l CHARLES NJ. SAMPSON.
Clerk of the County Court.
First publication Aug. 3. Last. Aug. 2i 4 Oi.
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We have heard that Bill Eeles
expects to be in possession of Mol
letta's law (?) library by the first
of January. AS Bill has no use for
junk, we would suggest that he
turn the collection over to the Ala
mosa public library, if that institu-
ton will accept it. If not, give it
to Stuart; he'll take any old thing.
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SUMMONS.
STATE OF COLORADO. Is
COUNTY OF CONEJOS,

STATE OF COLORADO. -.
COUNTY OF CONEJOS, 80
In the County Count.
Robert b. Wallace. plaintiff.
versus .,,-,..,....
j. Wesley Angel and F'4i'i'NH'
Mary l.. Chase, defendants.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
To ]. Wesley Angel and Mary l.. Chase
the defendants above named. GREETING:
You are hereby required to appear in an
action brought against you by the above
named plaintiff. in the County Court of
Coneios County. State of Colorado and an
swer the com nplnint therein within twenty
days after the service hereof, if served
County, or by publication within thirty
days after the service hereof. exclusive If
the day of service: or judgment by default
will be taken against you according to the
prayer of the complaint: and if n copy of
the com plaint i'll the above entitled action
he not served with this summons or If the
service hereof be made out of this State
then ten days additional to the time here
swer will bc allowed before the taking of
judgment by default ns aforesaid.
The said action is brought to quiet the
title to the West Half VI the south east
Thirty six $50. North of Range Nine (9l f.
y. NJ. NJ, in Concjos County. Colorado and
for costs OF suit, as will more fully uppear
from the complaint in said action to which
hereto attached
And you are hereby notified that il you
fail to appear. and to answer the said com
Dlniut ns above required the said Diaiutiff
for in the complaint.
Given under my hand as Clerk of said
County Court at onoics in said County,
this 18th day OF July X u; 1906;
Clerk of the County Court.
First publication Aug. g. Last. Aug. "a. 1896.