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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1908-12-12
Landslide Threatens railroad.

A whole mountain located near PAIL
SADIE, in Nevada, has been set in mo-
ton by blasting on the line Of the
Western Pacific railroad. Every avail
able section man in the employ Of the
Southern Pacific Company has been
set to work trying to save the new
tunnel recently completed at . cost
of $4,000 It 10 believed that the
company will be compelled to abau-
don the tunnel and make another
route around the hill. Only . few
hundred feet south the Western Pa
cific recently completed . similar tun-
mel. The heavy blasting done in Dor
ing this tunnel apparently has shat.
tered the whole mountain and Il 70
moving.
The Washington herald., 1908-01-19
CUPID IS AGAIN BACK IN
SEVERAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS

rolls. He must. It's thought. have come
IN under an assumed name or else he
used one OF his NEUROLOGICAL fancy terms.
The principals viii probably get down a
classical dictionary from the shelf. and
IF Aphr0dite OF Eros is found among the
GiHney names on the class rolls the kid s
feathers are likely To be pulled and his
bow and arrows TO be C0nfscated and
locked up in the principals desk.
The trouble with catching the annoying
boy is that he seems to skip around from
school to school They thought that he
was q Harlem product when evidences
of his presence turned up on the lower
East Side. Where next? The teachers.
especially the women teachers. all over
the city are in a panic Of apprehension
or perhaps one should say a panic Of ex-
pectation. Wherever he begins his nefari-
Gus target practice over again he Is likely
20 find the young women so unneryed by
the strain Of suspense that they viii fail
easy victims.
One very bad feature Of the affair has
been that this afliction Of one teacher
generally meant that another was taken
at the same time. At the very first the
young women teachers troubles involved
young men outside OF the department Of
educati0n's employ. But since then. the
cases have been attacking teachers in
pairs with fatal precision Now, when
ever the principal sees a young man sup
posed TO drill commercial arithmetic and
physical geography picking Off the petals
of an expensive hothOuse daisy during
recess and murmurins "she Is m, she
Is M n" in low tones, he looks
around In the ranks Of the women teach
ers, sure 70 find another sad-eyed per
son. and the mates OF the daisy.
The Washington herald., 1908-01-19
HISTORIC BOTTLE OF BRANDY.
New Yorker Discovers Liquor over
Century I'm Age.

Subtle scents suggesting the sunlit Vine
yards Of France. from which it is sup
posed 10 have come $50 years ago. hang
in lingering affection about the neck Of a
bottle of brandy which has Just been
brought 20 light by r. W. Dryden. OF
New York City. while raussckng the
garret Of his ancestors. The bottle was
found IN a box of selected pine which
had been PUT together with scrtws and
elabOTately sealed
The receptacle bore the stencil marks
ON its lld. Lewis N. COWles Esq. Baiti-
more. Nd, l757" When the cover was re-
moved the bottle, which holds about q
quart. wes found wrapped IN newspapers
bearing the date Of February g. 1854
There was an old-fashioneI label with a
red border on it on which 8. was set
forth that the contents was "old French
brandy Of 175I Presented TO the sanitary
fair Of H. J. De Psyster."
The bottle had been purchased by q
relative or Mr. Dryden al the fair which
was organized 10 raise funds FOR soldiers
wounded In the civil war The cork was
surmounred by a Cocllade Of pink ribbon.
and around the neck was n band Of q teen
fringe. which low descending, sWep- the
bottles aged breast.
Mr. Dryden took the box 90 the cafe OF
Emil Struever. In New York. where II
was placed In the window for exhibition.
Several offers have been made for tile
bottle. but the highest $3.50 has been rs-
fused. the owner declaring that he would
not think Of dlsposiug Of such an heir
loom.
Mr. Dryden has not yet decided whether
he Will sample the brandy.
The Washington herald., 1908-01-19
WOMAN FROM MARS
WHAT SHE FOUND WORTHY OF NOTICE
ON EARTH VISIT

Il IS on earth. but in Mars a man can
earn a good deal more food than he needs
With a couple Of hours work a day. as Il
is so easy there 10 earn food
When / talk TO my husband on these
matters he tells me I don't understand,
and ] suppose Il must be 50. For in
stance, We were out the other day, and [
saw a large fat man get out Of carriage
and walk along the street as II be were
the king Of kings. in Mars when people
get fat and ugly ike that we do not let
them walk i'm the principal streets, as We
consider they are setting bad example
10 the younger people by setting up dis
eased condition as a thing 10 be hOnOred.
But my husband told me that the fat
man was a duke, and people all made
room for him because he did not have 10
work the same as others did
] have not been able yet to quite under
stand what a duke is; but my husband
told me that this duke can eat all ths
food he wants without any trouble IT all.
/ said If that was the case I thought he
ought to 90 and get food for all the peO-
pie vino are hungry, but my husband
only laughed a that and said that this
was a free world. and If a man didn't
want 10 give any OF his surplus to anv-
body else IL would be wrong 10 make him
do So J told him that such a thing could
hardly happen IN Mars, though If Il did
the hungry people would Of course 90
and take what food they wanted from
him Ny husband said that was very
wicked thing to do. So IL IS clear he
must be right when be says ] don't Un-
deTstand.
Ny husband said the rights OF property
were sacred. and ] think he meant that Il
1 have got a lot Of food 10 waste rather
than give il away it would be wicked for
people 10 make ne do otherwise So
said I supposed that II the duke lived on
this island Of Britain. and owned all the
food In the place. and there were millions
o. ether people on the island who WeTs
all hungry. he would be quite right IN let
ting them starve if be thought 1T 70 do
So and that It would be very WRONG u
the hungry people 10 object TO sthfve.
especially II the duke had inherited The
island from his father Ny husband said,
however. thai I was talking nonsense. as
IN that case the millions would be fools
i they allowed themselves and their chill
dyen TO staTve under the circumstances.
So Il is very evident I don understand.
The rights Of property are sacred as long
as the property is divided up among sew
eral people. But as soon as all the prop
erty il acquired by one man, who refuses
20 give any OF it up the sacredness els
appears. In Mars the things that are
sacred Nth Us are sacred all the timci
but cn earth u seems To be so different.
II one man who has nothing steals from
several men who have too much. lie IS
guilty OF sin; but Il everybody has moth
ing aEd enc man has everything. it IS ths
one man who has everything who Is C0n--
for It very promptly In Mars We have
no such thing as sin. and ] think my
people should be rather glad a g 1t seems
a very worrying thing 10 understand,
The Washington herald., 1908-01-19

10 twenty days after burial the relatives
and other persons. both male and female,
sang dirges over the grave, and oaciques
Of the neighboring territory came 10 do
honor 70 the deceased.
"The family divided the property among
the strangers, who recited dirges and
songs commemorative OF .he important
events in the life of the dead man, telling
of the battles he had fought and OF . her
worthy deeds, the mOrtuaTy songs being
accompanied by the dances"
In conducting his researches. DR..
Fewkes gathered number OF interest
ing legends of the early peoples. He was
also able 10 draw many conclusions from
the examination % considerably over a
thousand idols. stories, utensils, cere-
mOnial objects &c. representing the early
culture Of the Inland
The Washington herald., 1908-01-19

and under some preteXt or other Mr.. Grif-
fiths was ordered 70 the after deckhouse
He thought Of the coflns, but there was
nothing to do but obey orders. He told a
/ Chinese boy 20 get a lantern and go along
with him.
GrifithS entered the deckhouse before
the arrival Of the boy with the light II
was intensely dark, but the officer was
surprised 10 note fragrance I'm the air
as IL OF burning joss sticks When the
boy with the lantern finally entered the
poop. lighting up the compartment. MIR
Griffiths uttered a cry Of dismav and
started forward on a run. There. among
the COffius, he said. he had seen live hu-
man forms. sitting CrOss-legged in cir
Gle, as If in performance Of some strange
ritual Mr. Grifhth's teeth chartered al
the way to the bridge. where ne tried q
explain that the deckhouse was haunted
a place full Of ghosts.
Capt Watson smiled and sent quar-
termaster forward 20 investigate The
quartermaster. Chinaman. returned
with the information that some of HIS
countrvu1pn had assembled in tho poor
In recognition Of a certain feast. The cap
tain smiled and told the quartermaster tc
'iN'i Alit tllFii bdfh no LfltiT quarters. MT
/ Griffiths went Of watch soon afterward
but the gTevsOme experience Of that
night kept him I'm faded spirits for days
A subsequent period Of calm was some
what reassuring. but in the Mediter-
Tanean speeding toward Algiers. another
incident singled Mr. Grifiths out as its
victim. lie had just turned in after an
early morning watch. tired and anxious "a
get to sleep Somehow he grew nervous
and could not sleep for q time At IN
teTvals he heard weird cries outside the
port above his head. The port was closed
because it had been raining Suddenly the
cries rose TO a shril climax and some
thing crashed against the port light. Grff-
fiths leaped from his bunk frightened
but all was still on board and he finally
turned in again to spend a sleepless few
hours
of course, # was one Of these wild birds
that fly around at night explained First
Officer Stevenson when he heard OF The
matter. Mr.. Grifiths seemed hardly sat
isiied with this solution
Then followed the stormy Atlantic, a
Wild area beset by gales, cresting seas
that crashed aboard the cargo boat end
lessly. Day after day she struggled on
through adverse gales. It was a trying
time for all on board, but the third officer
seemed especially hard hit Weary
watches on deck were followed at times
by sleepless periods I'm his berth. simply
the result Of nervousness. the other Off
GERS said.
To Griffiths 1t seemed that everywhere
he looked he saw a Sfinning skull or
other grewsome thing. Every roll Of the
ship seemed accompanied by the rattle OF
bones. Very often he was sent to the
deckhouse to see whether the six collins
had become dislodged by the pIunging OF
the vessel These visits as the vessel
labored on seemed climax OF the whole
ghastly affair. and when the steamship
arrived al Boston Mr.. Grifith> found with
JOY that he was to return to London
that he had been transferred.
He was rather glad to leave us re-
marked Mr.. Stevenson. II really think
that Griffiths believed the ship was
baupfad
The Washington herald., 1908-01-19

munerative business connection and de-
cline every precious gift in whatsoever
form and howsoever inspired.
But when there came along the forlorn
faculty OF a practically ruined institution
Of learning In his own State. nearly every
particle OF the property OF which had
been destroyed by the war without funds
and without hope. asking If he would be
its president, he said Yes. Thus Gen.
Lee became a college president of the
institution at Lexington, Va, now bearing
the name of Washington and Lee Uni
versty. He began his work there with
the declaration that he had a seif-im-
posed task which he must accomplish; he
had led the young men Of the South TO
battle; he had seen many of them fall
under his standard. he would devote the
rest OF his lifo to training the young
men Of the South To do their duty In life.
And the young men of the South focked
TO his college and gave him dutiful re
speet and affection scarcely less than that
which warmed and nerved the ill-clad
half-starved veterans IN the trenches
around Rlchmond-nerved them to hold
at bay through all the last winter Of the
war. countless legions Of Grant Boys at
Washington College during the few years
Gen. Lee was at its head have been as
proud that he was their preceptor as the
veterans Of his army that he was their
commander.
Among students Of the art OF war. as
we'll as among the foremost military
scientists Of experience in Europe, admi-
ration for Gen. Lee has been greater
than for any other American soldier
Won Moltke. the consummate German
warrior, esteemed Lee as the greatest Of
American commanders. The distinguished
Lord WolseIey, who had not only studied
every detail Of Gen. Lees campaigns, but
had been with him in camp and field. had
seen him I'm the calm Of the bivouac and
in the red blaze of battle, declared him
the greatest man he ever beheld. and Of
all soldiers the greatest genius.
Naturally the English have admired
Gen. Lee. He was descended from lus-
trous line Of English knights and gentle
men. and. despite the fact that his imme-
diate ancestors. including Light Horse
Harry" Of the Revolution. had powerfully
resisted British despotsm, Brlt0ns have
been glad TO claim him OF their blood
and kind. Typical Of the admiration
abroad. which came in rare tokens from
all over the world, was the gift before
his death Of a translation Of Homers
'Uiad" by Philip Stanhope Worsley. an
eminent English scholar On the 1y-leaf
was written. "TO Gen Lee. the most
stainless Of living commanders. and, ex-
cept i'm fortune, the greatest, this volume
is presented with the writer's earnest
sympathy and respectful admiration"
In a few weeks the State Of Virginia
will place in Stauary Hall OF the Capitol
at Washington the images Of the great
victor OF the Revolution and Of the great
vanquished Of the civil war-George
Washington and Robert Edward Lea
reproduction OF Houdo1's statue OF the
former and a new sculpture OF the latter
by Valentine. the Richmond artist
TO-mOTrow-Cement Users Conven-
tiOn.
The Washington herald., 1908-01-19
No Doubt OF His Fate.

from the Philadelphia Public Ledger
Some weeks ago the wife OF Judge
Blank, Of San Francisco, lost her cook,
and. since she had no other resource,
she rolled up her sleeves and for week
provided such meals as the judge had
not enjoyed since those happy days when
the Blanks did not keep a cook. The
judges delight was so great that. by
way Of appTeciative acknowledgment. he
presented Mrs. Blank with a beautiful
erimine cloak
Quite naturally the incident was a good
deal noised about among the social ac-
quaintances of the Blanks. and a spirit
Of envious emulation was developed in
certain quarters. It was in this mood
that Mrs. Danvers reeited the story 70
her husband.
What do I get. Harry" she asked.
IL I viii 90 the cooking for a week.
Well said Mr. Danvers, at the end
OF a week, my dear, yOuu get one u
those long crepe wells"
The Washington herald., 1908-01-19
Ont of Their Deuth.

The two brothers we're being enter
tanned by one who was anxious to avail
himself Of their financial acumen. But,
as III luck would have it, the talk veered
to other things
do you Ike Omar Khayyana? -
thoughtlessly asked the host trying to
make conversation.
It was the elder brother who plunged
heroicalIy into the breach.
Pretty we'll" he said. but prefer
Chianti."
Nothing more was said till the Eek
stems were on their way home.
Jimmy" said Abe. bitterly, breaking
a painful silence, why carn't yer leave
thingtl ath yer don't underthtanth 20
me? omar Khayyam amt wine, yer
cuckoo; It's a cheesei"
The Washington herald., 1908-01-19

/ have been on earth only a little while
but I am so much afraid I am beginning
already to offend so many people by
laughing at your funny ways. Ny hus-
band read 10 me out Of a newspaper the
other day what he called leading arti-
Gle When I asked him what was the
good Of II. he said that it was written
to educate the people 10 a sense Of their
political responsibility, says London
Piek-Me-Up.
And then ! asked him to read a lead
ing article out of another paper. and he
said he would do so to please me. And
I am really telling you the truth when
7 say that the second papers views were
quite opposite 20 those Of the first I do
not Ike TO laugh when my husband is
by, because Il hurts his feelings so much,
and in Mars We do not believe in hurt
ing those who are inferior 70 Us. But II
did really seem TO me so funny that two
people should set out to educate other
people. and that one should say that a
think was black and the other should
say the same thing was white. In Mars
we never let people educate other people
til they have first Of all agreed TO teach
the same thing. After all. only one state
ment can be true. as far as understand
It.
OF course, in Mars we don't have these
funny sheets Of paper with what you call
news" printed on it. Everybody has a
sort OF pocket receiver. and II you are
passing the news Office you Just call in
and have your receiver charged up with
all the latest news, and then as you walk
along the street or sit under the trees
you put the receiver TO your ear, and il
tells you everything OF course, AT times
there Is no news at ali. but ! see il is
different here on earth, as there seems
20 be always something happening Cn
the other hand, when We have really ex-
citing news in Mars IL IS scattered over
every city by a series OF megaphones
placed at the street corners. The mega
phones are controlled from one central
Office, and everybody feels obliged to
listen, especially as everybody has a
vote
On EARTH as far as 1 can make L out
a man may have vote and still decline
to be educated" BY the newspapers OF
any other agency. II he cannot read
and in Mars a number Of educated people
cannot read-he has nobody 70 educate
him except the man who comes down tC
ask for votes. ] think myself it Is fright
fully amusing, as, Of course, the unedu-
Gated man can only hear one side of the
question in this way; and In Mars We
should put a man in a lunatic asylum
VINO wanted to vote with only a flimsy
basis Of knowledge like that
another thing that amuses me very
much on earth is the way the papers tel
the public that from time 10 time there
are 50 many people who have not enough
food 20 eat Instead Of going out anC
voting food at once for the hungry ones
the papers spend all their time In quarrel
ing with each other as 10 whose fault 4
is that there ara SO many hungry people
IL is very funuy-at least sometimes
think il IS not perhaps quite 50 funny
after All In Mars IL a man hasn't got
enough food 20 eat ne comes down to tn.
central government Office and explains
why. or II he can't explain. the govern
ment office finds out I don't know how
The Washington herald., 1908-01-19
THE DEGENERATE FOX.
Present Day Animal Lacks Stamina
of the OId-fashiOned One.

Present Day Animal Lacks Stamina
of the OId-fashiOned One.
This week II has been noted as an Incl
dent of quite unusual interest that tho
Cheshire hounds have hunted "a bill fox.
one of thet Old-fashi0ned sort" Sports
men" viii presumably think the Cheshire
Hunt in luck The "old-fashioned fox is
n rarity nowadays: his successor is G.
degenerate, without the size, or the wild
ness, or the swiftness, or the stamina to
lead hounds far across country. The
modern fox does not break covert at the
first note Of a hound, and when he IS
hustled into the open his first concern is
"A culvert or another sheltering spinney.
saws the Manchester Guardian The con-
sequence is short Tuhs and very iTTegu-
lar sport. more disturbance Of game
coverts than owners appreciate, and an
irritation Of hounds that leads 10 slack
ness and degeneration in the pack. This
is attributed TO the slow disappearance Of
the race Of big foxes, the English grey
hound fox. that made the traditions Of
fox-huuting. AS the English fox has
disappeared. attempts have been made TO
keep hunt COverts supplied by importing
foxes from the continent. There are big
foxes stiil IN Norway and Belgium, but
the importers have gone largely 70
France and Germany. and have brought
over many pug foxes. small-siZed animals
with too great O love for life under
ground ever 20 lead hounds far across
country The methods OF the importers
are bad for the physical well-belng Of
the foxes The animals. as a rule, are
packed IN boxes, sent 10 a recognized
London market. and there kept Ia cellars
until a customer sends FOR them. In their
confinement they develop all manner Of
troubles, especially mango, and when they
are freed they go into English cOverts
20 contaminate the few healthy fox fam
lilies that remain
The Washington herald., 1908-01-19
WHERE LOVERS MEET.
Maid at Subway Station Waits for
signal from Car.

eAEnaA rum NaAs
Every evening promptly at o'clock the
junior clerk in a lower Broadway house
closes his desk, hurries TO the subway
and secures a seat in the first car OF a
Broadway express train. on the side near
est the station. This is a comparatively
simple matter for him 10 do, as at that
hour there are not many passengers az
the southern terminal
A few minutes after o'clock every
evening a tTim-l0oking young woman
leaves her typewTitinE desk in the vicinity
Of Broadway and Fourteenth street ard
leisUreiy wends MS way 20 the subway
station, where she takes Up a position at
the upper end Of the platform and watches
the lights Of approaching trains The
green and red OF LenOX avenue do not
interest her; neither do the white and red
Of the Dyckman street expresses; she
waits for the TWO reds Of the Kingsbridge
specials. And as the train slows down
her eyes seek q certain seat IN the first
car. Usually It is occupied by the junior
clerk IN the lower Broadway commission
house: sometimes he fails to connect with
that particular seat, but is 20 be found
in the immediate vicinity waving a news
paper or beating a tattoo on the window.
says the New York Tribune.
The train is filled by this tine with the
hordes from the bridge and intermediate
stations below that 10 South Ferry; but
that matters not 10 the waiting maid on
the platform. She sees the signal. boards
the car. and pushes her way 20 the space
occupied by the junior clerk who. with a
great show Of politeness, arises, doffs his
hat and proffers the seat 10 the maid,
who promptly sits down much 10 the
disgust Of several women In the immedl-
ate vicinity who have been breeding cOrns
on their hands by holding on to the
straps,
Then the junior clerk leans over the
fluffy haired typewriter and they discuss
the many social events Of the Kings
bridge section and plan for summer OUT
ings all the way 10 the end of the road.
Sometimes q man with more manners
than bralns-as estimated in these degen-
crate days-fOTfeits his seat next the girl
in order that the junior clerk may con-
verse with her at HIS ease. But such
persons are few and far between.