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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

whose name has escaped him, but who had a g ood job in liv'ry stable in Tokyo befure he was sint on a mission to tn American people to see what he cud git, wint into an all-night resthrant an demanded his threaty rights, which ar-re that tn waiter was to tuck his napkin into his collar an tn bartinder must play, Nippon, tn Gloryous,' on a mouth organ. Onforchinitely, tn pro- prietor iv tn place, man be tn name iv Scully, got hold iv copy of tn threaty with Sweden with tn sad re- suit that he gave tn subjick iv tn wrong threaty rights. He hit him over tn head with a bung-starter. There's some relief in tn situation tonight, based on tn raypoort that tn Prisidint has sint an apology an has ordhered out tn army to subjoo Scully.' "Th
 Impror held a meetin' iv tn Elder Statesmen tonight to discuss sindin' a fleet to San Francisco to punish tn neglect iv threaty rights iv tn Jap'nese be sthreet car conductor who wud- dent let a subjick iv tn McAdoo ride on tn Thirty-first sthreet line with an Ogden Avnoo thransfer dated August, eighteen hundred an sivinty-two.' 'Th' Prisidint has ordhered tn arrest an imprisonmint iv a dentist in AL bany who hurt Jap'nese whose tooth
 he was fillin'. He has rayquisted tn McAdoo to give us another chance be- fure layin' waste our land.' 'Followin' tn advice iv tn Jap'nese ambassadure fir poor young Japs to marry rich American girls, Jap'nese combyna- tion theological student an cook ap- piled fir tn hand iv tn daughter iv tn boordin' house keeper where he was employed He was able to limp to tn Jap'nese Consuls house, where he made complaint to tn Impror. who
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, and fat-roofed It had a wall about it.,
 and this wall was higher than the great wall of China It was over f1fty-five feet high, and the towers, which were found at regular intervals upon the wall, were
 many feet righer. The walls were used
 for defense and for a barracks to con-
 tain the army as well. In them were stalls for 300 war elephants, 4OO0 war
 horses, and storage places sufficient to
 supply all with food There were quarters
 in the walls for a larger army than the
 United States had at the breaking out of
 the Spanish war, and this wall. as have
 said, was over twenty miles long.
 Old Carthage had a forum, market
 place and magnificent public buildings 1
 had an artificial harbor, which the French
 have restored, in miniature, and this was so arranged that the entrance could be | shut tip by chains at night. The door | leadinf into 1t was only sixty feet wide,
 but this admitted the ships to two ports,
 so connected that the vessels could sail from one to the other.
 Old Carthage was city of fine houses and civilized people It was a city which
 owned quantities of gold and precious
 stones, and one whose jewelry, as may be
 seen in the museum which stands on It's
 site, was equal to any sold in our best
 stores today.
 Roman Carthage. r. The Carthage I have described was ut terly destroyed 146 B. C., and 1t was al-
 most a half century beroe another city began to rise on its ruins. This was the Carthage fostered by Julius Caesar and Augustus, which in time became the Roman capital of North Africa, and which
 once almost rivaled Rome Itself. That
 Carthage was @ city of theatres, the re-
 mains of which still stand on the ruins
 of the old Phoencan city. It was city of gladiatorial shows where Christians were eaten by lions, gored to death by wild bulls and slaughtered by gladiators. | On the hill of the museum 1 saw the ] tombs of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas, l two young women who were killed in 1 the arena, which I describe farther on. Later still, when Rome was converted, | Carthage became the chief Christian city
 of Africa, while still holding its place as
 one of the great ports of the world. Here | St. Augustine studied and preached, and near here St. Cyprian, the martyr, was
 they made Carthage their capital and it
 remained great until the seventh century, when the Mohammadan Arabs came in I and destroyed 1t.
 Since then Carthage has been quarry | for the artistic building material of all | the palaces along the Mediterranean sea. | In tho great mosque of Santa Sophia, at | Constantinople I saw marble columns | which came from here: many of the | wonders of architectural Rome originated | in Carthage and shiploads of It's ruins l have gone to Palermo and other Italian
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bought the location of this greatest city of antiquity at a somewhat similar price, According to tradition, she told the na- tives that she only wanted patch of land big enough to be inclosed in bull s hide and they made a contract of sale on those terms. But Queen Dido cut the bull $ hide into leather shoestrlngs and, tying them together, took in what seemed to the natives all out of doors. The tract ran around a beautiful harbor, inclosing the whole peninsula between the lake and the seah It was gently sloping, with lit tie hill here and there and with great rocky mountains in sight In the rear The land itself was exceedingy rich, and the country about it produced so abundantly that it was for centuries one of the granaries of the world.
 Great Business City.
 As I drove out to Carthage today I saw several American windmills on great tow CTS of steel, agitating the air inhabited by the ghosts of the old Carthaginians. The Windmlls came from Chicago, and the city on whose site they now stand once ranked far greater than Chicago does now It was the chief business centre pt the old world, and it had its captains of industry and trust magnates just as Chi cago has. Pounded by Dido 27S7 years be- fore Christ, it was prominent when Attn ems was young, and long before Rome hau begun to be.
 The Carthaginians had their colonies throughout the known world. They owned the greater part of Sicily and many other Mediterranean islands, and had large set dement's on the Spanish peninsula. More than two thousand years before Bartholo- mew Diaz or Vasco da Cana started out to explore Africa, Hanno, the Carthagin- ian, had sailed out of the Strait of Gibral- tar with sixty ships and something like 5000 men, He had made his way down around the west coast of this continent to the gulf of Guinea, and had brought back stories of ebony negroes, mighty ele- plants and gorillas. For centuries there after many of his tales were thought to be lies, but they have since been proved to be true The Carthaginians established colonies on the west coast of Africa. They sent their ships to Great Britain and they had commercial centres everywhere. They were among the richest people of the world and about the best traders. They carried on business as close corporation. They did not allow foreigners to deal with their colonies, and such as dared do so were captured and drowned. As time went on. they sent caravans across the Sahara to the Soudan and over the desert to the valley of the Nile.
 Carthage In B. c. 500.
 Living before me as write Is a picture of old Carthage as 1t was recently repro duced by a French antiquarian. The city was of vast extent and its character was somewhat like that of the great oriental capitals of today. Its buildings were white
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Copyright 1907, by Frank c. carpenter)
 Tunis, 1907. \ HAVE spent the whole of today among
 the ruins of Carthage The French 4 have been excavating there, and are making many discoveries. The ruins lie on the shore of the Mediterranean sea beyond the lake on which Tunis is situ- ated, and cover some thousands of acres. The center of old Carthage was about twelve miles from this city, and the Phoenician capital reached even to Tunis itself The city had wall twenty-three miles long to defend that part of 1t which was back from the sea- and it Is said to have had more than a million inhabl- tants in the height of it's glory. When It was destroyed, after it's long war with Rome, it contained more than seven hum dred thosand people, and during that war it furnished armies of enormous size When Hannibal went from Spain to in wade Italy he took 5000 men and forty elephants with him over the Pyrenees and the Alps; and during the first Punlc war a fleet started out from Carthage with $50 ships of a capacity of 15O,0J0 troops Each of the ships had an Iron beak to ram the boats of the enemy, and the sailors were the best of the then world.
 That was during the closing days of Car thage the mighty. A short time later the Romans destroyed it and plowed up the ground upon which it stood. Later still they founded a city upon it's site, and made it their capital of Africa, and 1t was for a long time the third city of the world
 Farther on in this letter l shall tell you how the ruins of Roman Carthage are still to be seen here.
 Far more interesting to me is Carthage the mighty, that famous city which was favored by Juno, Jupiter's henpecking wife, and founded by Dido, the Jewish princess of Tyre. Dido's husband had been assassinated by her own brother. Pygmalon, and Dido had fled and come to this part of North Africa. Like that other JeWess of fiction, Jessca old Shy locks daughter, she did not go away empty handed. but loaded her ship with the treasures of the royal palaces of her self and brother and took enough people along with her to start new empire
 Queen Ddo's Bargain.
 When she first set foot on African soil Queen Dido bought some land of the na- tives and by real estate trick obtained this big tract upon which Carthage stood for a song. When our forefathers pur- chased the site of New Hork or the ln- dians .he price was peck of glass beads and brass buttons; it Is said that all Chi- cago was once offered for pair of old boots. and that the ground upon which Melbourne. one of the richest cities or Australia now stands was sold Tor two old wooden blankets. The thr1ty Duo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
SandWiched!

From the New York Times.
 At o'clock tea in a handsome Fifth avenue home the one man present sat between two very talkative young girls.
 Thef piled him with talk and talk until his brain was we'll nigh reeling with sur foit of both when merciful matron came to the rescue:
 Come with me-" she said q want you to know some more of these lovely girls here'
 ''Oh. you can't take him., said both girls at once, we've just made a sand wich here with him between us"
 "A sandwich-with the tongue on the outside,' said the sandwiched young man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

<<~ID ye go to see LII Jdps "hiii
 } they were here?" asked MT
 O Dooley.
 q did not" said MT. Hennessy.
 "Nor l." said MT. Dooley l was afraid to. They're divvle " sinsi- tive people, thim Japs. LOOK cross eyed at thim, an they're into yeer hair. I stayed away firm tn stock wards whin me frind, Gin'ral Armour was showin' Gin'ral Kroky some raie slaughter. I didn't dare to go down there fir fear I'd involve this fair land iv ours in war. Supposin' tn naughty little fellow was to see me grinnin' at him? A smile don't seem tn same thing to an Oryental that 1t Is to us Cowcassians. He might think l was insultin' him. Look at that fellow maxim faces at me- says he. He am | makin' faces at ye,' says tn Mayor. That's tn way he always looks. 'Ihln he must have his face planed down. says Kroky. If he don't I'll appeal to tn McAdoo an he'll divastate this boasted raypublic iv ye'ers, he says, firm sea to sea- he says.
 Well, what's to be done about it? >I can't change me face, an there's no legal way iv raymovin' it. Tn Prisidint writes to tn Gov'nor, tn Gov'nor re- quests tn Sheriff, tn Sheriff speaks to tn Mayor. tn Mayor desires tn Chief iv Polls, tlii, Chief iv Polls ordhers tn polisman on tn beat an tn polisman on tn beat commands me to take me alarmin' visage out iv tn public view. Suppose I'd go down to see me counsel, Barrister Hogan. He tells me that undher tn rights guaranteed to me be tn Constitution. which Gawd deind
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The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20

w. G. McAfee returned from
Pueblo last night with bride,
Miss Margaret Heron of Marlin,
Colorado, sister Of the former
wife of Mr.. McAfee. The event
was surprise to the many
friends of Mr.. McAfee and as
the news reached town in the af-
ternoon they prepared to give
the happy couple royal welcome
when No. 2 arrived at IL o clock,
but the train was late and the
welcome did not materialize, but
all the friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
McAfee extend the heartiest con-
gratulations and wishes for a flu
ture full of happiness and pros
perity. Las Animas Leader.
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20

Samuel Stadler, swi 6 33-41.
John Stadler, SET 6-33-41.
John w. Davis, sw4 4-31-43.
John w. Plotner, swf 4-32-43.
Wendall Clawson, sw4 7-33-42.
William COUNSEL, set 80 -31-41.
Joseph A. Good, ne4 31-30-43.
Monhime Capansky, e4ne3, WI
SET 35 34-49, Benola, Okla.
Sylvester C. Haynes, Nash
vile, Kans., sch 25- SLAP.
Fred F. Green, Cleo, Okla.
sw4 12-33-43.
Carl Woke, Stonington, Colo,
sch 17-31-42.
Allen Andrew Frost, Peculiar,
Mo-, set 35-31-43.
Wilson Harlan, Bronson, Kans.
sci 26 31-42.
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20
Telephone

James Schultz, an employee of
the Colorado Telephone company,
came down from Lamar on Tues
day and installed the new 20-line
bell signal switchboard on
Wednesday. This is the switch
board which was ordered the
first of the year and seems to be
an improvement over the board
which has been in use.
The Springfeld-Lamar Tele-
phone Co. contemplates issuing a
new directory in the near future.
When an outsider uses a toll
line from your phone, ask CEN
tral the amount due and collect
for it, for it will be charged to
you.
The service over the Kenton
line seems to be improving and
it is to be hoped that 1T will soon
be giving as satisfactory service
as the other lines.
Quite a good deal of annoyance
was caused subscribers Wednes-
day during the time the new
switchboard was being put in.
If you have used a toll line,
please pay central before the
end of the month, as it will save
much trouble and annoyance.
Doctor Emerson installed a tel
ephone in his residence on South
Main street today.
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20

Bent Co. Democrat: Dan Nal
10y and family who have been
making their home in Alberta
county, Canada, for couple of
years returned a few days ago.
Dan is out gathering cattle for
shipment. james Malloy on
Monday shipped 25 cars of cattle
to Kansas City. Mr.. Malloy is
one of the old time cattle men of
southern Colorado, and has been
engaged in the business for many
years, but he has decided to go
out of the business and will ship
all his cattle to market.
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20
Always Stauncll
And True

The Denver Republican has al
ways avoided the fallaciea and
.knaveries Of yellow journalism,
and its steadily increasing Circula-
ton proves conclusivcly that its
policy OF telling the plain Truth
without cxaggcration or nlisrepre-
scntation. standing fast for the
Right, is heartily approved with
growing force by the intelligent
Public to which it appeals.
To read it is liberal Education,
and the citizen who goes without
it does positive harm to himself,
to his family, and to the commu-
nifty.
In no other way can the invest
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for that is all The Republican
costs any subscriber-bring such
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which is both Power and Pleasure.
Information, instruction and en-
tcrtainnent fill its columns and it
leaves I good taste in the mouth
Of the reader.
1t stands for Law and Order in
the State-for Peace, Prosperity
and Happiness il the Home.
Ii you are not already enrolled
among its splendid list of Patrons
send on your subscription and give
It fair trial at rs cents per month
FOR Daily and Sunday.
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HOMESTEAD FILINGS
BEING REVIVED

Prowers Co. News: Tuesday
was homeseeker's excursion day
on the railroads and there was a
considerable increase of seekers
over those of the last two months.
These people drop off at the va
rious stations, look over the lands
that they contemplate settling on
and then proceed to make filings,
either at the various county seats
or by coming direct to the local
U. S. Land Office at Lamar.
The advance homeseeking ex-
cursionists tell US that there will
be regular on-rush a little later.
Investigation has proven that
free. homes are not obtalnable
elsewhere in desirable climates
with such excellent school facill-
ties and the commodities offered
by this section. The possibilities
developed by recent soil tests are
reassuring and convincing.
People from Iowa, Illinois and
the other prairie states are recall
ing experiences of parents and
grandparents, as related to them,
of the early history in settling
those states and comparing the
conditions which show up so IA
orably for southeastern Colorado.
Taken all in all southeastern
Colorado certainly is the Mecca
of the West for landseekers who
expect to make homes on the
public domain. Three and half
million acres, mostly prairie
lands, are still open for home
stead entry in the Lamar land
office district. Come to think of
it, that is good deal of land and
will make 160 acre farms for a
good many families.
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20

Three Statesmen wanted for our
new Railroad, County and State
Survey map of Colorado. Just
off the press and absolutely new.
Towns and railroad stations
are fully indexed with location.
population and many other
special features. Splendid op-
portunity for energetic men.
Rand, McNally & Co.,
Chicago. III.
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20
GleaningS and Comment.

Rev. J. V. Watson of Musko-
gee, Indian Territory is visiting
his brother, G. A, and other
friends in Lamar. Mr.. Watson
occupied the pulpit of the M. E.
church at both morning and
evening services last Sunday. -
Lamar Sparks.
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CONTEST NOTICE.

Department Of tn" !r'erior
United States Lana o lice at Lanlar Colorado
Aug. II. 1871.
A suilic ent contest affidavit having been filed
In this Office by Mary A, Mactcy, contestant
against homestead entry No $50. made Janu
arv o, lH o, for lots g. q, II. l2 section q, Town
ship ~ south, Range II. W. 6.h p. NJ by Charles
T.. johnston contestcc. In which it is alleged
that the said Charles l.. Johnston has been ab-
sent from said land for more Than a year AMI
has made no improvements during that time.
and tnat said absence is not due to nayal or
army service, said pai ties are hereby notified
to appear, respond and offer evidence touching
said allegation at 10 O'Clock m. on Oct, 18th.
1907, before the Register and Receiver mt the
United states Land Onicc in Lamar, Colorado,
The said contestant having in proper ailida-
Wit filed August II, 1907. set forth fncts which
show that after due diligence personal service
of this notice can not he made it il hereby or
d red and directed that such notice be givcn
by due and proper publication.
C. FRosT LIGuErT,
DIST pub aug 23) Receiver.
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NOTICE or ApPLiCATION I
STATE LANDS.

Oncc OF the state Board of Land Commits
sioncrs.
Denver, Colorado, July 25th, 1907
Notice is hereby given that ID. II. liough-
ton, whose postoi'!cc address is Point Rocks,
Kansas, has made application No. 1902 t" lease
the following described School lands, situate
in Bnca County, Colorado, to-wt:
NJ. and Lots |. ., 3, and in Section 10,
Township 35 South, Range I3 West.
No other applications to lease the above de
scribed land VIII be considered after Angus,
23th, 1907.
JOHN +. VIVIAN,
Register state Board Land Commissioners.
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Homestead Filings.

William Rourk, ne4 20-32-41.
John w. Suhler, nw3 7-3l-41.
James Ketcham, nei 24-32-42.
James A. Gleason, sw4 7-31-
al.
Jacob E. Dillinger, nw4 a 81
Al.
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20
Nothing Like Them

Ask to see our fine selection of
Parker Lucky Curve Fountain
Pens when in town. They are
the very thing to give a friend.
All prices. Guaranteed.
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO LEASE
STATE LANDS.
Onice of the State Board of Land
Commissioners.

Olice OF the State Hoard OF Land
Commissioners.
Denver, Colorado, Aug l0th 1907.
Notice is hereby given that j. S. TASTY
whose postonice address is Lamar, Colorado,
has made application No. +O63 to lease for
mining purposes the following described school
lands. situate in Baca county, Colorado, to- wit:
Lots s. 6, II, Il, 20, 81 and - in Section lG, Twp
"a 5 Il. so W.
No other application to lease the above dcs-
scrib d land Will be considered after September
18th, 1907.
JOHN F. VIVIAN,
Register State Board Land = ommis.
list pub aug 2'l -ioncIs.
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Depart cnt OF the Interior,
United States Land Oillcc,
Lnmar. Colorado.

LnmAr, COVfHd0.
July, 10th, 1907.
Notice is hereby given that, as directed by the
Commissioner of the General Land Office. under
the provisions OF the act Of Congress approved
June 27. 1906 "a Stats, hl1l, we will offer at
public snlc to the highest bidder, at 10 O'Clock a
NJ. on the 2nth day of August. next, Al this
onlcc, the following tract of land: NWl,, See
~, Township ~ -, Range 10 W, 9th P.M
Any persons claiming adversely the above
described lands are advised To file their claims
or objections on or before the time destgna ted
Cor sac.
JoHG A. WILLIAMS,
Register.
c. FIRST LiGGErT,
Receiver.
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20
County Officers

Clerk and Recorder. Geo. Erwin Konkel
Treasurer. Herbert E. Homsher
Judge. Elmer L. Alexander
Sheriff .......E Ernest P. Mcfarland
Assessor. or................E Edward Emerson
Sup't. of Schools ,......N. Conner Jones
Surveyor G. Greathouse
Commissioners-C. II. Davis, V. M.
Shannon and l.. McAdam.
Health Officer. DR.. T. f. M!liigan
Clerk of District Court NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
.........................E Eugene M. Whitaker
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20
Some Facts Concerning
Baca County,.
AS BIG AS n STATE

the
- 1t is 81 miles long from
south,
square mile The S
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20
Schools and Churches
The County Seat

Springfield the county seat pleasantly located about two miles
1t
barber real office, hotel and
residences NJ Wa lodge and band that larger town
well be bank building and livery barn nearing
completion local telephone which connects with
miles of the county
building telephone
railway miles
Lamar
of the be reached radi
ate fromth county seat.
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20
CLIMATE

exceptionally heathu benettng especially those
the dry climate and the abund
cool nights which follow the
and experience for himself
Rocky Mountains
foothills too far to be cyclone
The climate mild; seldom
usually
the other than grazing on the
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20
TOPOGRAPHY

IORCGKHkH1
The part county rough containing mine
with abundance Of cedar
supplies and fence posts for seersa
the homesteader free The hills and tim
gradually the rolling prairie of the central of
covered with the round and the east
part 8 generally quite level prairie.
The Springfield herald., 1907-09-20
PUBLIC LAND SALE.

Register state Board Land Commissioner
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-06-12

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