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The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08
FARMER LJIIlIIGRANTS.
Some of Our Citizens Make Good
Farmers-But Poor City DweIIers.

Many of our Italian immigrants are
good farmers, after their fashion OF
laborious intensive cultivation. They
are wretchedly poor, but they are chill
dren of the soil and where they occa-
sionally do get into the same con-
genial occupation in this country they
make good farmers and eventually
good citizens.
The greater part Of the immigrants.
in fact, now pouring into the country
are better qualified for agricultural
and horticultural pursuits than for
any others. These pursuits were theirs
in their European homes, and but for
certain difficulties they would natural
ly resort to than here. The trouble Is,
there is nc @Iy ready, as a general
thing, to or1vr them employment, in
groups, on the land; and Transports
ton to the land is more or less expen-
sve. On the other hand, there are al
ways contractors ready to engage them
for railroad, mining and similar em-
pigments in the seaboard States, and
sometimes in other States; more often
they simply settle down in the big and
already congested cities. They take
what they can get; and. more espe-
cially, what will be most likely to en-
able them to enjoy the continued COM
partnership of their fellow immigrants.
The newcomer breads the isolation
which will usually be his lot If he ac-
cepts employment on a farm.
Under the far-sighted plan of the
men who are colonizing some Western
areas, particularly in California and
New Mexico, all these difficulties are
avoided. Groups of agriculturists Of
the same nationality are brought to-
gether, and invited to become owners
of small tracts, sold to them on easy
terms Ten acres of good land, so OBJ
tainable-and the price of which he
can usually pay in labor for others
is very attractive proposition to tho
average immigrant. especially when,
in his new home, he may be sur
rounded by others of his own race.
| The plan has been already demon
strated to be very profitable to the
! promoters also.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08

Teddy was about to be ten years old.
In view of this interesting event Ted
ly's mother had ordered some ice
cream and cakes ond other dalnties,
and Teddy was told 10 invite his little
friends to u birthday party. The even
ing Of the celebration came around,
and all the goodies were waiting to be
enjoyed. Teddy and his mother were
also waiting.
Suddenly the youngster said:
Mother, don't you think it's time to
eat the ice-cream and cake now?'
NO, indeed. my son." she replied,
we must wait until your friends are
here"
well, to tell you the truth, mother"
began Teddy, 81 just thought that for
once in my life I'd like to have enough
goodies. so l guess we better begin
now, cause l didn't invite anyone"
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08

the civilized West. who would no
longer rest the wick upon the edge of
the receptacle for the oil. to pass it
through the brass arrangement which
lie called the burner, and 10 provide
it with screw in order that it might
be raised or lowered, and the essentials
of the modern oil lamp were as
sembled.
While we have the sea-shell, the
lamp of primitive man of over COCO
years ago, it would be interesting to
know what kind of oil was burned.
The olive tree produces the illuminat-
ing oil of the model Orient, and al
though in other parts of the world
the fat of animals was used, the
unchanginS customs of the East lead
us to infer that olive oil was also then
employed. The wick was doubtless II
twist of the cotton which grows wild
along the shores of lie Tisris and the
uphrates.-Engineerin News.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08

postage stamps, and cash, instead of
the seeds he has been sending out
since he came to Congress. The read
ing of these letters again plunged the
House in disorder and confusion.
PITY THE POOR FARMER.
Mr.. Gaines, of Tennessee, endeav-
ored to be heard above the noise and
confusion. As he sat down, by COM
mand of the Chair, he managed to say
that the bill was loaded with all kinds
of appropriations to take care of and
suppress the mouth and foot disease,
hollow horn, and hollow TAIL but took
away from the farmer the few seeds
that he every year looked forward
to receiving.
This new outburst of eloquence on
the part of Mr.. Gaines threw the
House into conclusive laughter.
When the members had partially re-
covered their composure Mr.. Gaines
rushed down the aisle, carrying mass
of manuscript in both hands, holding 1t
aloft, shouting that he had hundrs q
of letters from farmers favorinG free
seeds.
As chairman Wadsworth reached ont
his hand for them. Mr.. Gaines laid
them on desk and began pulli-g from
the bunch various documents. 1t
developed that among these hun
dreds" of letters there were an unusu-
ally large portion of bills of various
sorts and other pub. docs" that had
no relevancy to the seed question.
Again the members shrieked and
gathered in the aisle, forcing the
chairman to resort to every parlia-
mentary expedient to secure order.
When the bill came up for a vote
the free seeds were continued by a
vote of 1873 to 50. A fight for the abol-
ishment of the free seed practice will
continue, for it is believed that the
sending out of the packages are of no
practical benefit to the farming classes
of the country, and it is safe to say
that next years bill will find the APP
preparation for these seeds omitted
when it comes from the committee
and the probabilities are that by that
time a majority of the members of the
House will support the committee.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08

After threatening TO call members
by name II they did not obey, the band
of agriculturists, shouting and yelling
for the free-seeds loot quieted down,
and AIR. Cooks was enabled to proceed.
SEEDS VERSUS BATTLESHIPS.
Free seeds found another doughty
champion in South Trimble. of Ken
lucky. Mr.. Trimble asserted that the
seed dealers of the country We're
instigating the newspapers to fight
free seeds. Real farmers wanted these
seeds, but kid-gloye farmers who
run the oranges did not need them
and did not want them. If this was
graft, he said, it was the only kind
of which every one of the I0.OO0.0OO
people Of the country got a piece.
Advocating economy in other direc-
lions, Mr.. Trimble suggested less ex-
penditure on battle ships "If we stay
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08
LAMPS or LATE BABYLoNIAN AND PERSIAN PERIODS.

rams head. the lighted end of the wick
projecting from its mouth After the
discovery of the hole for the wick. it
was an easy step to cover the entire
lamp, with the exception of an opening
in the center to receive the oil Thus
the lamp of classical times originated.
Another interesting example from Bis
mya is an extremely large marble
lamp, oval in shape and with vertical
walls. The snout for its wick is Il
deep groove extending out about .
inches, and with its support from be-
meath it resembles the handle of Il mod
ern dish. This lamp held about two
quarts of oil, and, us it was found in
the ruins of the temple, its unusual
size suggests that in the Babylonian
temple, as in the synagogues of later
era, and in some churches, even to the
present day, a light was Kept perpct-
ualy burning.
Previous to 1000 B. c. the lamps, as
well as most dishes ana household cf-
fects, were of stone; after that time
objects of burned clay began to APP
pear. Before that date lamps We're
found only in the ruins of the temple;
later clay lamps were found in the
dwelling houses of the people. OF the
latter a variety OF shapes have APP
peared. Some are triangular, the shape
suggested by the conch: one is min
iature boat; others of n later period
are Identical in shape and size with
those of Rome and Greece. The lamp
of these nations was undoubtedly Dor
rowed from the older civilization of
Babylonia. The common clay lamp
of Persia and of the time of Haroun
er Raschid assumed IL round form
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08

at home, mind our own business, let
oth.r people alone, we shan't need
battle ship any more than a burglar
ncal4 jimmy and dark lantern"
shuutal Mr.. Trimble. This sentiment,
norEthtanding the speaker was a
trlfa mixed in his metaphor, met with
prolonged applause from the gallant
band OF free-sccdcrs.
Mt Lillcy, of Connecticut, read let
tiers from his constituents, some asking
for Shropshire sheep, Durham bulls,
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08
THE LAMPS EVOLUTION.
EXCAVATIONS OF ANCIENT CIT
les SHOW IT OYER SIX
THOUSAND YEARS OLD.
Originally was a Conch Shell and
Twist of Cotton-Mestern Ingen-
uity Devised the Brass Burner
and Regulator.
By EDGAR JAMES BANKS. Phi. D.

By EDGAR JAMES BANKS, Phi. D.
The Oriental lamp is the same now
as it always has bccn-a simple dish
of clay, stone, bronze or glass, filed
with oil; Its wick Is 4 rag or twist of
cotton, one end of which is immersed
in oil and the other rests over the edge
of the dish TO be lighted. This was
the lamp not only Of ancient Babylonia
and Egypt, but also of the Hebrews,
Greeks, Romans. and all other early
peoples Even to this day it is the COM
mon lamp Of MesopOtamla. In Saint
Sophia, the great mosque of CONSTANT
nople, there is no other method of IL
Elimination.
The first artificial light with which
primitive man frightened the dark
ness of night was the camp fire. the
same fire with which he slightly
roasted his meat and warmed his
naked body. At just what age the
idea of lighting by other means first
occurred to him Is no longer known,
but the excavations at the BabylOnlan
mound, Bismya, the ruin of the oldest
known city in the world. have shown
that 1t was in the very long ago, per-
haps thousands Of years before 1900
Il. c,
During the excavations far beneath
temple which was constructed at
that remote date, among the ruins of
earlier ages, there was found a large
conch shell about S inches in length.
Its exterior had been worn smooth by
constant handling, and section at its
opening and half O. Its elongated
valve had been cut away SO that 1t
formed a deep dish terminating in u
long snout. In Its interior were slight
traces of a thin, black deposit. AT
first the use for which this dish was
intended was puzzling; 1t was weeks
later when 1t suddenly occurred to me
that this sea-shell was the primitive
lamp, the ancestor Of the great family
of lamps.
Some time later. while excavating
at higher level in the temple refuse
heap, where the priests of 1900 u. Z.
threw the broken and discarded
utensils of the temp service, there
appeared among the dozens of baskets
full of polished and cut stone several
triangular objects which resembled
the conch shell In shape. One of ala
baster was entire; others We're fraE
mentary, yet their original forms could
he restored. They We're the lamps
which came into vogue after the conCh
had passed away, or when it became
so scarce that 1t was no longer en-
ploycd, and stone was substituted In
Its place. Although the conch was dis
carded, its triangular form remained,
even to the natural snout for the sup
port Of the wick. which was repro
duced in the stone.
To the early BabylonianI the pure,
almost transparent alabaster lamp was
perfcct in shape; the next Stcp in the
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08
FAMOUS VIRGINIA HOME.
W8ODLARN MANSION, PART OF
WASHLNGTON'S ESTATE, NOV
CHANCES HANDS.
A Gift from the First President to
His Adopted Daughter-PIaywrig
Paul Kester Disposes of Manor to
Princeton Woman.

Another change of owners has come
to Woodlawn Mansion, that historic
property having been bought by Miss
Elizabeth NJ. Sharp, of Princeton, N. j.,
from Paul Kester, who dramatized
When Knighthood Was in Flower"
and other plays.
Woodlawn Mansion was the home of
Lawrence Lewis, son OF Betty Wash
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08

do you think mans importance is
measured by his pocketbook?
Certainly not" answered Senator
Sorghum. "A pocketbook couldn't hold
enough to amount to anything. It's
the bank book that counts. Washing
ton Sr,I.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08

Mrs. Ferguson.-George, dear. how
do you like my new hat?
Mr.. Ferguson.-Do you want my real
opinion of it, Laura?
Mrs. Ferguson.-No, l don't, you
mean thing,
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08

The most expensive fish in the fish
markets of the United States Is tho
English sole which retails for about
sixty cents per pound.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08

There are now one million pension,
ers on the pension rolls of the United
States.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08

The number of cameras made in the
United States last year was 100000,
worth about $20,OOO.OOO. A gener-
alton ago a camera was an unusual
object.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08

The highest mountain in Colorado
is Massive, 14,424, and the next is
Ebert, 14,421. Pixies Peak is 14,1OS
feet high and there are twenty noun
tains In Colorado higher than this.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-08

Since 1896 the worlds annual pro.
duction of gold has doubled.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-22
EMBROIDERED LINEN SHOES

A distinctly pretty innovation is TO
be found in the embroidered white
linen shoes which have been lately in
troduced to accord with the embroid-
cry linen frocks that are being worn.
These shoes are very comfortable and
clean easily. Paris shoemakers prom
Use them in shades of gray. tan and
dark colors, too, which should earn
them further debt of gratitude, as
embroidered linen shoes to match the
color of the frock sound decidedly chic
as well as novel.
Apropos of colored shoes, 1 did not
realize how seductive they may he
made to look until encountered them
the other day at a weekend party.
which included two small American
girls and their no less up-to-date
''momma." One girl appeared at break
fast with a. white grass lawn of Rue
de Ia PaiX simplicity, dark purple
shoes and kid belt to match, which
were afterward flanked by a
sunshade en- suite for the lawn. This
damsels sister displayed little chaus
sures of dark red similarly equipped
as to the other detail, and the effect
was most enviably complete, as a mas
culine item of the house party made
haste to assure us.-London Sketch.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-22
THE BOON OF HALF HOLIDAYS

Bishop Warren Of Denver was prais-
ing in Philadelphia the Saturday half
holiday. Suddenly he laughed
Il remem ber," he said, lone very hot
day in New York, visiting the office of
a friend of mine a wholesale coffee
merchant.
Il was weak and liStless with the
heat. Everyone on the street was pale
and dropping and dispirited. People
felt generally that instead of trying
to work they should be taking nap
in the draught of an electric fan.
But in my friends office all was
hustle, hustle and enthusiasm. On fire
with zeal, the clerks ran hither and
yon or bent over great ledgers with
the absorption a young lady gives to
a good novel.
Il clapped my friend OH the shoulder.
Jack, said |. 1t must be pleasant
and profitable to have an office corps
so full of energy and enthusiasm as
this
"'Well,' said Jack, awkwardly, it's
not that exactly. Today, you see, is
a half holiday and they are getting
ready to go home.'"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-22

then Gets angry because I am not q
mindreader.
High on the list Of qualifications for
a stenographer | should write the word
tact one must learn to edit as one
goes too
"A man was debating to me one day
and his English was something un-
earthly, but I managed to correct his
mistakes as / went along, and when
handed him the completed letter ho
read 1t with a beaming face and said
7 am pretty good Dictator, amt II
There is the man who expects you
to know the exact distance of the sun
from the earth and the number OF cubic
inches in the Washington monument.
But the man who Is still more annoy
ing is the one who, taking it for granted
that you know absolutely nothing, be-
gins a shorthand dctatlon something
like this washington, d. C., August
3C, 1905. Mr. John Dawson, D-a-w-s-o-n, II,
ESQUIRE New Castle C-a-s-t-l-e, Pa.
Have you got that| Upon being as
sured that have, he goes on:
az am in receipt of your letter
your favor--take out "letter"-of the
23d inst.--talxe out instant" and sub
stitute "ultimo"--and in reply would
saw and so on ad ininltum ad nau-
seam not giving me credit for knowing
CROUCH to spell Jones'"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-22
NON-PhRTISAN PLATFORM

The Democratic state platform and
the county non-partisan platform are
twin eXponents of civic righteousness.
They are essentially alike in character.
The same spirit inspires and the same
purpose actuates them.
Together they constitute declara-
ton of independence from Southern
Pacific desrotism and defiance of the
power that backs that despotism.
The two platforms should be studied
together by every voter in Los Angeles
county and then be tackled up in every
home, side by side, for ready reference
during the political campaign.
The non-partisan county platform,
s The Herald said of the state plat
form, is ideal. Its arraignment of the
railway despot recalls the arrangement
of the British monarch il the immortal
declaration formulated at Philadelphia
in 1776. II serves notice that the people
of Los Angeles county Will submit no
longe to corporate tyranny that is as
irksome to this community as was the
tyranny of Britain 1870 years ago.
The platform gives notice that the
people Of this county will no longer
tolerate the naming of public officials
''by a railroad foreman 1t demands,
instead that the hired men in public
places b. replaced by representatives
Of the people" And it challenges to the
contest the political machine which
operates solely "for its own aggrandize-
ment and to crush individual rights,
with the ultimate purpose of absorbing
the earnings and properties of the whole
people"
The patent device for manipulating
elections. which The Herald denounced
early and often, is properly character
lied in the platform. I'VE denounce the
present devices of the Southern Pacific
and its confederated corporations to
pervert the public voice through the
present infamous system Of election
laws and the tricky voting machines. -
The "old reliable voting machine that
was employed successfully for many
years was tricky enough without the
patent appliance.
The platform points out the way in
which the Southern Pacific uses it's
political tools in aiding it to escape just
taxation and in helping it to evade
other obligations, The laws made in
the Interest of that corporation whereby
1.-THE county of Los Angeles is not
allowed to construct public roads, is
noted as one of the hagrant results of
present conditions. The absence of
good public roads brings grist to the
S. p. mill
But, as intima at the outset the
platform should be carefully studied,
from top to bottom, by every voter in
Los Angeles county. No honest voter
who gives it thoughtful consideration
can fail to be impressed by his moral
obligation TO support the non-partisan
platform ana the ticket which will rep
resent 1t at the polls.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-22
DESPERATE MAcHINE TACTICS

The railroad machine has become SO
desperate that It is resorting to the
dogmatic measure of notifying all those
nominees on the Venice ticket who have
been nominated on the non-partisan
ticket that they must at once with
draw their names from the non-partisan
ticket, or they will be removed from
the Venice ticket. and thereafter be
debarred from the smiles and the
offulgence Of Walter Parker and the
Southern Pacific railroad.
Think of that, you citizens of Los
Angeles county, who have fondly i'm
agined that the railroad machine was
a campaign bugaboo a bogey of DEM
ocratic manufacture!
The machine openly declares that the
people of this county have no right to
butt into politics.; that the machine has
already nominated candidates that
must be accepted by "the peasantry"
on pain of being cut off from the royal
favor.
The Herald believes that no man OH
the non-partisan ticket, who is also
on the Venice ticket, will withdraw
from the non-partisan and Democratic
nominations at the command of the
Southern Pacific machine. They are be-
lieved to be free and independent citi-
zens, who were only nominated by the
machine in order that the weak nom
nations might be carried through.
Does anybody in Los Angeles county
presume to say that such men as
BILLY" Hammel, Keyes, ct al, will
refuse the nominations at the behest
of Walter Parker? Not just yet.
But the developments indicate that
the machine is on the run. 1t is fright
ened within an inch of it's life, and is
in dire and desperate straits. 1t pro-
poses now to lay the machine lash over
the good men who have accepted the
non-partisan nominations, in a vain
effort to stay the tide that is running
against it.
Keep your eye skinned, citizens! If
any man on both the Venice and non
partisan tickets shall withdraw from
the latter, spot him! He will convict
himself of wearing a railroad collar,
and will be doubly damned on election
day. The Herald does not apprehend
any response to Walter Parker's orders,
but these be hilarious and gala times
for the people, and it is just as we'll
to watch the sinuous outgivings and
misgivings of the expiring railroad ring.
We've got them going,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-22

The lady managers of the Los An
geles Orphans home, at Alpine and
Yale streets, are calling upon their
friends and all good citizens to con-
tribute to the help of that institution.
This is one of the oldest and best chari-
ties in the city. Its state aid is small.
having never been increa sed since the
early days. During the past year the
home has been taxed to it's utmost to
meet the added and unexpected burden
of orphans from San Francisco, and fol-.
that purpose and for much needed re
pairs its funds have been heavily re-
duced Orphan boys and girls appeal
to the sympathy and love of every good
father and mother, and there should be
a large and generous response to this
cry from the hearts of Gods homeless
little tots.