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TVS far cry from airships to Audubon.
but what's the difference. 1t is GER
tainly too hot and humid these days to
have connected thoughts. anyhow.
This little narration has to do with
lady hooking bird, four little hooking
birds. hound dog and a garbage can. all
II which reside at Drummond, out on the
Xenleytown car line.
Mrs. Mocking Birds home is in cedar
tree about fifty feet from the garbage
can, and a couple Of weeks ago four little
ones arrived on schedule time. A couple
of days later. while Mrs. NJ. B. was sit
ting on her nest. conversing with the
youngsters, the hound dog put in an APP
pearance. He was a canine wreck. thin,
detected, unexpected and unrespecting
animal with lop ears, watery eyes and a
tail that tried to hide out of sight. And
he didn't have an idea there was a mock
ing birds nest in the vicinity. much less
have designs upon 1t. What he was after
was the garbage can.
But Mrs. MOcking Bird didn't appear to
realize this. and she made ready for BUSH
ness. She flew back and forth in front Of
the lone hounds nose, chirping exctedly,
and when he didn't take any notice, at
tackled him from the rear, winding up by
1abbing her sharp bill in his back just at
the tender junction of body and tall Six
seconds later the dog was hull down on
the horizon.
A couple of days later, however, he
skunk back, looking as If he hadn't had
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or 3 O'clock in the morning for month
past.
You see, the youngish fellows of to-
as sad dogs, so to speak. And, as gray
hair is generally regarded as sure indi-
cation of perfectly lovely dissipated
life when it makes its appearance on the
head of youngish man, gray hair is
what they want and the more of 1t the
better.
Right here I want to remark that that
current notion that gray hair on the head
of a young man Is generally the sign OF
dissipation is erroneous. I've barbered
some of the hottest dead games that ever
punished their systems by irregular liv-
ing for thirty years at a stretch, and
some of them had no more gray hairs OF
their heads than there are on the wings
of blackbird. II you inherit a tendency
to early grayness you can be q member
of a croQuet social outfit and turn into
your little white bunk every night at 6
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years, and the cark at his heart, has. In
addition. enabled him to pick up the
loveliest bunch OF grayness that ever
happened. AS he enters to grab into his
life has been blighted by a heavy shadow.
Then the women come away from the
theater thinking how common and pro-
sale and ordinary their husbands or
beaus look with their straight black OF
brown hair, and secretly bewailing their
fate in not having been born the daugh-
ter of a lodgekeeper. so that they could
have been .worshiped by a glug with a
cark and the gray hairs.
We'll. the youngish chaps In the audi
ence have rubbered around and found out
how the women dote on the stage lobs
with the phony gray hair. and. wanting
to be in right, of course. they have come
to look upon gray hair as the kink that's
good. almost next to money. There's a
reason or two back of all these little old
things IL you only go about the business
of doping them out"
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The young fellows are as eager for the ap-
pearance of gray hairs in their heads as
the young fellows of that other day used
to be for thick. spread-eagle mustaches.
BARRIERS now have a regular formula for
sort of flAttering some of their real div
Welsh young customers.
"'Oho,' says the barber to the young
chap whose head he Is going over with a
comb. the game Is beginning to tell on
you, hey?
"'Why, what's the natter inquiries
the young fellow, with an idea of what
coming and giving one of those depreca-
tory, Oh-Im- not-so-wicked grins.
oh, nothing says the barber, except
that you've got to turn around and be
good If you don't want to be as gray as a
rat inside of year or so. that's all.
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in evening toys. He is known by all
hands to have copied out nineteen mil
lions of pounds sterling in the Australian
diggin's during his little absence Of two
fond and feverish embrace the beautiful
daughter Of the lodgekeeper-she is let
ting her hands fall idly on the keys In
the London drawing room. thinking
about him-the women in the audience
pipe those gray locks. put there by the
cark that has been gnawing on him while
he's been picking up the nineteen million
pun. and then they chop loose. You've
heard them.
"'Oh, amt he the loveliestr they say.
The pore fellow, how he has suffered
look at those gray hairs" And so on.
That's how they talk in the upper regions
of the house. Down below the women
say: 'Ah, isn't he distangy- looking. and
stuff of that kind.
And the duck on the stage with the
powdered side-hemp goes through the
rest of it with the pose of a man whose
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leave for Observation-Disclosures
I'm eight minutes" replied the infor-
Ynatiop man uyoor ily

leave for Neutrality-suspicious.
I'm eight minutes" replied the anfor-
nation man. YEARLY.
So the fat person. who had just returned
from Mosquitoes-by -the-sea, dumped over
to the ticket office and bought transporta-
ton back again. The next day the fat
mans bureau chief got letter signed by
an eminent Observation-Disclosures physi-
cian-who Is also principal stakeholder In
the main hotel down thereto the effect
that said fat person was suffering from
nervous prostration and couldn't possibly
be permitted to return to Washington for
at least thirty days.
Oh, nerve! Oh, JOY!
4
THERE was real sour person In the
crowd that watched Capt. Baldwin
take his little airship up for twenty
minute flight last Wednesday evening.
This pessimist watched the flight. lis
tened to the wild yells of enthusiasm,
saw the crowd rush madly forward to
shake Baldwin and his engineer, Curtiss,
by the hand. and then pulled a copy of
The Evening Star out Of his pocket.
II note" he said, grouchily. SO that
quite bunch OF folks could hear, that
Count Zeppelin made an ascension In
Germany this morning in an airship as
long as the Congressional Limited. took
up a dozen or so with him. sailed few
hundred miles. stayed up a day or two
and returned in good order. Somehow. i
can't work up any enthusiasm over this
performance"
= And with a couple of hundred scows
and stares directed at his unfeeling back
the gloomy crouch. without any other
glance at the Baldwin craft, made tracks
for the homeward bound cars.
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anything to eat in the meanwhile. and the
same performance was repeated although

anything to eat in the meanwhile, and the
same performance was repeated. although
the hound didn't run so far this time.
And the next day he was back again.
This time Mrs. Mocking Bird evidently
thought 1t was the time for heroic meas
ures. She landed on the hounds back.
dug her claws in his short hair and set to
work with her bill. In about a minute
that dog was yelping like a coyote and
circling like merry-go-round. But the
bird held on, clawing and pecking all the
time. and finally the animal Strengthened
out and started on run for life. This
time the bird stayed with him, and lots of
the Drummond folks who had seen the
previous performances and had been on
the lookout for this watched the fast
travelling pair disappear over hill in the
dim distance.
About half an hour later Mrs. Mocking
Bird returned, somewhat blown and dis
heveled. but as businesslike as you please.
And the hound hasn't come back yet
Folks out at Drummond figure that Mrs.
NJ. B. rode the dog as far as Frederick,
Md.
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NW1ELL. guess I'll just run over to re-
=" publican national headquarters and
Gig a couple of columns of conversation
out of that Hitchcock. man." said the po-
litical reporters of the New York papers
when, after much wandering. Frank
Hitchcock finally anchored here for a
brief spell last week.
Then the political reporters guessed
again.
The lordliest political writers of the
New York press chaps who have been at
the talk-gouging game for yahs and yahs,
SO to speak found that they were on the
rocks, so to speak again, when they went
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his head. In those days men used ten
bottles of hair dye where one is used now
adays. Men with a natural tendency to
premature grayness used to have their
locks daubed dark or black every couple
of months. But that's all switched now.
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HERE is a citizen
Of the District OF
of Columbia, a
man of more than
average good be-
havior. who is going
a b ut declaring
that he Is firmly re-
solved upon two
things, n a m e l v,
that he will meyer
again in any cir
cumstances Wis 1 t
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UEER thing how
how ideas about
hair change" OBJ
served a quite eld-
erly boss barber.
Il can remember
when a man Of
thirty-five or so
w ould have a
crouch for a week
after his barber
discovered three or
four gray hairs in
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ELL, well. IL the
women aren't turn
ing time backward,
or themselves back
ward, or getting the
reverse English on
the age thing, or
something.
1t is of a verify,
yes. You just ought
to see the girlish lit
tie things of forty
five and fifty and
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aver at Fort Myer the other day,
~ when Capt. Baldwin was advertised
to fly his new dirigible, but didn't, there
were about a million photographers. pro-
fessional and amateur, waiting round to
snap the various Interesting features of
the performance. And they were all poking
fun at an extremely peculiar-looking citi-
zen-who must have heard their sarcastic
remarks If he had even half an ear-but
who didn't pay a bit OF attention.
He was short and thin and antique
looking, and his camera didn't appear to
be bigger than a good sized doughnut-
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and was mostly lens at that. NOR was ne
interested in the airship. the airsnip
house or anything connected with Inc Dig
event of the day. He was taking views
from the heights of Fort Myer-bird's-eye
and otherwise-and the other all there
PHOTOGRAPHERS simply had mt and
nearly choked to death laughing at the
idea of body trying to take those mist
yelled scenes with lone by one camera,
as one of them called 1t. To make II even
more ridiculous. this little thin person
had a telescope about as long as the mast
Of racing sloop. and each time, after he
had his tripod fixed. he would level the
telescope across the top of the camera,
parallel with the lens. take long sight,
and then press the bulb that operated the
shutter. He was the joke OF the after
noon all right.
The next day somebody told me who he
was. 1 won't mention names. but he is one
of the most. If not the most. famous anna
teur photographers in the United States.
His efforts have taken prizes all over this
country and in Europe, and his soft and
deep effects" in photography. as they say
in the vernaclllar Of the art, are the ad-
miration and despair of everybody who
ever took picture.
This Is just another sample OF that YOU
never-can-tell thing, don't you think?
A FAT male person in one Of the govern
1 y ment departments landed back in the
city from a months vacation on one Of
those scorcherino days last week. He
crawled out OF his parlor car at the Union
station. perspired his way down the plat
form to the bureau OF Information and
whispered, over his wilted collar:
'Say, what time does the next train
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hard on ladies at this stage of the Jour-
ney. But 1t doesn't feaZe them. They go
to it all the same. They may go at 1t
limping. some of them. but they are
bound and determined to keep up with
the parade. and they do it..
They hate to let so. They can't and
they won't let go. Which accounts for it.
as / saw that, walking behind the women
never know whether they're just taking
little parade from Miss Phinnish's School
for Hoydens on Riverside drive. or
whether they're-oh. we'll. whether they
are not from that school. Yes, and the
ruffians who haven't anything much else
to do are gambling on this game now
too.
Bet you two bones she's over forty
you'll hear one Of them say. the two Of
them walking behind some summary prin-
cess-dressed creature who Is about f1f-
teen feet in front of them
You're on" says the other. I'm say
ing she's between twenty-five and thirty
Then they hasten their steps. and take
a peek under the lacey headgear of the
one they're betting on and the loser pays
up right away.
Generally. let's whisper. she's over
forty, and the simpeton who takes the
young end of 1t has to learn that through
costly experience.
A MOTHER thing about the mystifying
\ sex here in New York: They're max
ing up now with the express and DELHI
crate purpose and intention of letting
folks know that they're made up. Queer
fad. that one, too. Ell? That is to say,
they're Just daubing the rouge and enamel
on as to make 1t perfectly palpable
that they're daubers a-purpose. Makeup
is fashionable. The more made up you
are. it seems to he the case now in New
York, the more of a hit you're supposed
to be. The peachy- skinned woman with
the natural skin of peach is no longer
in vogue at this end of the line. The
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IDST ever hear,

IDST ever hear.
f a ir re a d e r. Of
gravity electrici-
ty?" No? Well. nei-
Their did I until the
other day. when I
was told. in deep
est. darkest conf
dence - so far as
names and places
are concerned-of a
man who is work
ing in an impro-
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HEN, too. there's
the fellow who pre-
tends to think, or
tries to make him.
self believe that he
thinks, that all of
us people that go
away for summer
va C a t % n 8 are
crazy.
You know him.
But In case you
don't lets further
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Of The Star

SPECIAL C0frtsIOh1thct OF Tue star:
Z. NEW YORK. August :, 19OS
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you Washington owners of dogs
imagine that you are having a hard
time OF 1t because the dog-catcher' 8
wagons prowl around the Washington
streets even at night on the hunt for I'M
muzzled dogs. But Washington dog own
ers are not getting one-half the hard deal
that the New York criminals. who have
the audacity to possess dogs are having
dished out to them for theirs
Over here the cops are shooting dogs
in the streets by the hundreds. Not stray
ours, understand, but splendid, costly
htgh-grade dogs. Not dogs. either, that
are without tags. please understand
again. but dogs that have had their IL
censes paid since they were old enough
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woman who is frankly and markedly and
even uproariously made up is the top
crest rider on the wave of fashion. The
enamel looks az If it had been slapped on
with man-o'-war whitehead brush, and
the rouge is fingered on in round. san
culinary dabs like the areas of cerise ON
the cheeks Of little 1O-cent dolls
The queer part of this strangely de-
cadent thing is that girls and women with
naturally beautiful skins-skins that need
not even the touch of powder-have gone
in for this thing of making their faces up
according to the new freakish fashion.
It's the rage. and they're doing it for
that reason. Take a walk in the shopping
district any afternoon and you'll see lit
orally hundreds of women who'd be pref
ty without the slightest artificial make
up-see them made up as If they were just
ready to pounce on to the extravaganza
stage with the front-row line of show
girls.
1t becomes increasingly difficult to fig
ure on the kinks Of New York women.
The old handicapping systems won't do
any longer. that's certain. They've got
to be considered henceforth from new
angles. If somebody would only rise UP
and show us the new angles from which
to view them.
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The flying machine will be completed In
a couple Of months. and then the inventor
intends, he says, to take the car down to
the White Lot and make public trial.
Let's all be there.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-10-07
PACKARD PLEDGED
ON PRIMARY LAW
WILL WORK FOR SUCH MEASURE
Stands Ready to Make Written State
ment At Any Time.

E. K. Packard. republican candi-
date for representative from Weld
county. called at the Tribune office
this morning in response to the let
ter sent out Tuesday evening. asking
all legislative candidates from this
county to pledge their support for a
direct primary election law.
While MIR. Packard had no written
statement prepared on his attitude
in the matter. he assured the editor
that he was heartily in sympathy
with the movement. and stood ready
to make written pledge at any time
to work for such primary law as
would be best suited to the needs OF
Colorado.
He stated that he had been con-
sidering for the past four years some
Improvement over the present con-
vention system for nominating can
didates. and after listening to the
lecture on primary election law. by
|. N. Stevens Thursday evening, he
found that the idea upon which the
State Primary league is now at work
coincided 30 closely with the idea that
he had himself evolved, that fs was
ready to do his best to bring about
the results. He said he had himself
attended state conventions the past
few years and had sat utterly dis
Eusted with the ms:SSo'- employed.
and helpless to remedy these.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-10-07
CLAIMANTS FOUND
FOR MARKSESTATE
CASE MAY BE REoPENED SOON
Alleged Nephews and Nieces Of MUIR.
dered Man.

Will an estate that has once been
turned over to the state for lack of
heirs be turned back, in case said
heirs appear and prove their claims
to the property?
1t is nice legal point, but Attor-
ney j. G. Ewing thinks that the
money will be refunded in the Marks
case If relationship can be proved,
although 1t is said to be the first
proceeding Of the kind instituted in
the county. The estate in question
is that of Frank Marks, and amounts
to $1,400. Marks was murdered
over year ago in his lonely cabin.
six miles west of Greeley, leaving, as
far as it was known. no heirs, al
though he had two brothers de-
ceased. Recently iat.crs Rave
reached Mr.. Ewing from an attorney
in Ohio, presenting the claims OF
twelve heirs, all children of the
Marks brothers. The claimants are
Dora Marks Muraski, Mary Marks
Hotkiewicz, Anthony Marks, Thos
Marks, Victor Marks, Regina Mark:
Wehowski, Dora Marks ZausZnei
owski, Hattie NJ. Cichy, Mary NJ
koza, Saloma Marks, Roma Marks
Leon Marks. They are all residents
of Ohio except the last three, wht
live in Europe.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-10-07
I. n. STEVENs AND ELLIS MERE.
NTH AT OPERA HOUSE.
WENT AFTER OLD PARTIES
b9r. eevens Said Five Men Named
CaA0ida'cs on Both Tickets Mt
Asecent Conventions. eau.
Gus Rule in Legislature
Abominable Prac-
tice.

A fairly good sized audience, COM
posed largely of women, greeted /.
N. ctesens and Miss Meredith, speak
ers at the Greeley opera house
Thureday evening, discussing direct
primary election law.
Mr.. Stevens rubbed it into the two
big parties in this state pretty hard,
on the present convention system.
He 9eAted that five men in this state
at the recent conventions named ev-
cry candidate on the state tickets.
Thre1 men named the republican
ticho9 and two men named the dem
ocr1fic ticket.
nder the present system, he said.
w. oaw splendid citizens of Colo
yo6D thrown bodily out of conven-
tfuQe by the political ringsters, be-
canse these men were opposed to the
methods Of the ring politicians.
With direct primary election
law such things would be impossible,
a. the people would say right at the
primaries who should be the candi-
dates for office, from the lowest to
tAe highest.
In local conventions, he said. we
wuald see. year after year, practic-
an the same delegates naming the
ttJ&ets for which the people were to
vG1. In state conventions-citin
tkXs two recent ones-the ticket
w0&ad be published in the Denver
neV VDpapers several days before the
csntIpnt ion, and the list was seldom
chan.& Y. at tha convention. and sup
posed Intelligent men would trave
the length of the state to ratify wha'
the bosses in Denver had already de-
cided before the convention.
BY the same system and by the
caucus rule of the parties. twenty,
six members of the legislature could
name United States senator; TWEEN
ty-siX purchased legislators.
Mr. Stevens urged that the people
pledge their candidates for the state
senate and legislature, that IL elected
they would not abide by the caucus
rule, but would vote for the candi-
date for United States senator favor
ed by their respective communities.
Under caucus rule the legislature as
whole had but little to do with the
election of senator, because. by
resolution of the convention. con-
trollei by the bosses, caucus rule was
forced upon them.
Miss Meredith. who spoke first.
told of the work Of the women or
Colorado In trying to secure direct
primary election law for Colorado.
and how the bosses had turned 1t
down every time.
In the Fifteenth General Assembly
Senator Clayton of Greeley intro
duced such law. but the best that
the bosses would permit was that the
bill was reported out and printed. II
was never allowed to come to vote
OF the legislature.
ACain, in the Sixteenth General
Assembly, Mr.. CLAYTON introduced
another bill. but this was not even
allowed to be printed.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-10-07
AT NORMAL SCHOOL
THINGS ARE BUSY
NOTES FROM THE MUSEUMS
Many Matters of Interest Coming W
Right Along.

Up at the Normal school things
keep busy and the various museums
have come in for share OF public in
terest this week. The additions
made are as follows:
A fine new case has just been add
ed to the museum of Mammals ant
Birds. in which is placed an excel
lent mount of male and female
California rough-legged hawk, in
cluding four young. These are rare
specimens and are mounted in the
| finest nest that has ever been Sc
cured in the United States. Taxi
dermist Adams will soon make sew
eral other mounts in this department
that will be equally attractive.
The Pedagogical museum is at
tracing great deal OF interest.
About two-thirds of the catalogins
has been done, which means that
| 500 carus have already been writ
ten There are to be found now
practically all of the modern text
books that are used in the nrst
eight grades. And. with these, Is
quite complete representation OF
the text books that were used fifty
years ago and up to the present time
There are two values in the use OF
the old text books-they are useful
for the student who wishes to study
the development of pedagogy ana
they also have historical value. An
other feature which has been added
to this museum is the toy and amuse-
ment department. Five large cases
are now practically full of games and
amusements which are useful in the
kindergarten and lower grades.
great many of these games and
amusements have an educational
value, and at the same time aford
amusement for the social hour,
which is held in the lower grades of
the training school about once
week. This pedagogical museum en-
ables school boards and teachers
throughout the neighboring schools
to examine and select the best ana
most up-to-date in school text books,
games and amusements, school fur-
niture, etc.
Six new cases have been added to
the library for displaying eXhiblts
relative to library work and books;
publishing, all forms
of illustrations, printing, colored pro
cesses, half-tone work, etc A splen-
did exhibit has just been secured
showing the different stages or pook-
binding, from the unfolded sheet 10
the decorated volume complete.
set of Elliott: Birds of North Amer
lea. which supplements Audobon's
large work in the library. has just
been added: also Il set of Gould IS
Humming Birds. in six volumes, with
every specie ..fe size. colored ana
we'll produced.