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The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-18

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The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-18
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Bee Wylsnd for srtesian well
drilling. Monte Vista.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-18

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Oped, 1Oc. Pictures
printed 3 to 3 cents,
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The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-18

Fos SALE. Hay snd work horses
]. ALFRED SIXTH.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-18

Two furnished rooms. enquire 3
blocks south Of Monte Vista Bank.
81. W. WHIrTLKsEY.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-18
=. e. Moody vent to Denver
Mouday night on mining business

John Woods returned Friday
from : three months business trip
70 Nsbsaska.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-18

Absolutely the only
reliable fountain pen
I'm town at Fuller
Drug company.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-18

FRANK A. RUSSELL.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
About County convicts.

"The suggestion made by Judge Forman of St. Clair county" said Walter Stewart A young attorney of Montgomery last night that the probate judges Of the counties of the state and the chairmen of the boards of revenue meet to dis cuss the matter of hiring county con victs to the corporations, is an excellent one.
 ''From an investigation made by sev- eral attorneys of Montgomery we have arrived at the conclusion that the cor porations have an understanding about the employment of the convicts. We have discovered that one corporation will bid for the convicts of this county and an- other for the convicts of that. In this way the price is kept down to the lowest level.
 "The employment of convicts is profit able business, and their hire should net the several counties of the state splen- did income But the truth is that no county has ever received just return for it's labor
 Jefferson and the larger counties of the state are not the chief sufferers. The small counties, who cannot work the con- victs themselves, are certainly up against shell game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27

free breakfast table" simply means that no income tax is to be laid and probably no graded inheritance tax. The election is over and the rich pro- pose now to say how taxes shall be levied. They propose to compel the poor man to make good the national deficit by levying duties on tea and coffee. The issue is distinctly drawn. It is an income tax versus a free break fast table, and the belief is that Payne and Dalzell in the House and Hale and Aldrich in the Senate will bring in verdict satisfactory to the plaintiff.
 There will be a pretense that the duty on coffee is needful in order to promote the coffee industry in our in- sular possessions. We have no insular possessions that would grow coffee ex- cept possibly Porto Rico, and it's cof- fee would not be of the highest grade. The insular possessions would be but an excuse in order to escape from the laying of an income tax, the easiest borne and most just of all taxes Mark the issue and watch the outcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
Salary of the President

Congress has on it's files a bill to increase the pay of the President 10 S100,000 a year. It Is now $50,000 True, the Presidents travelling ex- penses are paid and some of the cse- penses of the house he lives in, but the country is increasing in population and it has also become a world-power, and the presidential office Is incurring new expenditures. The President, in other words, must entertain like a king. Prince Henry of Prussia Is com ing this way soon. The President has no individual interest in Prince Henry, who is a brother of the Kaiser, but still he must be entertained in a hand some manner, and the money comes out of the Presidents pocket. The Presidents wife cannot appear at such entertainments in shirtwaists, and even the Presidents stormcoats would not at the occasion.
 It therefore Is reasonable to increase the Presidents pay. MT. Roosevelt would get none of the increase, but f the bill be passed at the short session MT. Taft would become our first $100,- 900 President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
Stranq Changes Cars.

q have received today a letter from Lewis Strang, the auto driver" said friend of the racer yesterday, fin which strang states that he has abandoned the Renault car, and gone back to the Issotta.
 'In the Issotta Strang broke the world 8 record for a mile, won the Briarcline, Lowell and Savannah road races and came out in front in every event In which he was entered.
 His first change was to the Thomas car, and with that change began his hard luck. In the Grand Priz in Dieppe the car wouldn't start. In the Vanderbilt It broke down before the conclusion of the race. The Renault, too, he has played in hard luck. After leading the A-hour endurance race for 19 hours Strang was forced to retire on account of an accident happening to the machine, this leaving the field open to Robertson, who broke the worlds record. In Birming- ham, while still driving the Renault, strang's partner, Emile Stricker, was killed.>
 ruly and before he could again get on the course 30-odd minutes had ticked away, He was about 34 minutes behind the man who won the race.
 ''Returnin:g to the Issotta Strang will probably draw the smiles of fortune again and we may expect to hear of his winning some other big events"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
He was gentle, but unfortunate; Dishonesty afflicted, but yet honest.
 -Cymbeline.
CentraIIzatiOn of Detective Work

The President asks Congress to or ganize bureau of criminal investiga- tion. Into such a bureau he proposes to concentrate all the sleuths of the various departments. Chief Willde is an officer of the treasury department, and it is his duty to guard the person of the President as we'll as to ferret out counterfeiters and moonshiners. The postoff1ce also has sleuths, and so has the Attorney General.
 The proposition before Congress Is to place all detective work in the hands of a bureau to be controlled by the Attorney General The country would be divided into four districts, each to be in charge of deputy chief, subject of course to the bureau head at Wash ington.
 Efforts at consolidation are not by any means new. Whenever they have been put out they have encountered political opposition from one depart ment or another and nothing has been accomplished. And yet it is claimed that consolidation would lead to in- creased economy and efficiency.
 Coming as it does at the heel of an administration that has aroused bitter opposition 1t is not probable that the pending proposition can be made law at the short session. It may, however, later on. It is academic at present
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27

the selection there of landing place. Until this is accomplished successfully the aeroplane remains a scientific toy, Of no utility whatever as a practical aid to human enterprise. That this test will soon be applied is not to be doubted, and there is no warrant for impatience. It must be remembered that the soaring ma chine is a product of only the past two or three years; indeed as far as the pub lie in concerned it has been the growth of less than one year. It has been evi- dent from the beginning tha. success de- bends in this effort upon the operator as much as upon the machine. Thus. Wilbur Wright may be regarded as the most skilled of living avators. Until he has mastered the art of aerial navigation the practical" demonstrations that arc to prove whether man is to fly at will must wait As soon as he has brought his apparatus to perfection and has ae- qmred the birds sense of balance-and this outcome may not now be questioned he will doubtless be followed by many others, and another half decade may wit hess the evolution of new class of public servitors. men capable of guiding Geroplanes safely from point to point even as now there are chauffeurs who can handle hlgh-speed road engines without mishap. Aeroplane schools will be es- tablished, and there will be need of a new ocde of rules to govern the navigation of the air
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
How Rumor Spreads.

"There was current an interesting re- port on the street some days ago. stated a man who is a valuable source of news, 'to the effect that the body of John |. Taylor which will be exhumed by the coroner Sunday. was no longer inferred in the Mt. Pinson territory.
 "This rumor reached Dr. Frank G. Grace, the medical adviser of the coroner, and he made a nasty investigation The body had not been removed from its lone- ly place of burial.
 "It is strange how these rumors can get abroad l remember when Frank Duncan, the highwayman who vas finally executed, was confined in the county iail' that some one talephoned Chief Wier that he had heard that Duncan had escaped. There were several officers in the chief office at the time, and all of them grabbed their guns and started on the run for the county jail When they Gr- rived on the scene everything was quiet.
 'When a thing is apt to occur, ana when it's occurrence would cause 10 slr- prise. it is easy enough for the scandal monger to spread a report And report catches like wildfre.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
Decrease In Failures

From the October panic of 1907 down to the approach of last summer there were many failures in all branches of trade and industry in all parts of the country. Tn the summer season of this year the number of fail ures began to be lessened, and this movement has gone steadily on until the commercial agencies are now able to report decreases in nearly all lines of trade. Not only were there fewer failures in November, but their liabili- ties were much smaller. An improve ment was reported alike in trading and in manufacturing failures.
 The effects of the 1907 panic are passing away, and all merchants and all manufacturers begin to feel that improved conditions are near at hand arc, in fact, coming right along steadily. The movement may be slow. but 1t is well maintained and Is thor oughly sound. The indications point to steady recuperation throughout the coming year to be accelerated perhaps in the last half of it by good crops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
THE HooKLESs WAIST.
Its inventor Is Entitled to High Rank
 Among Public Benefactors.

The Lounger, in Putnams.
 To Hoboken belongs the greatest in- ventor of the age; for smokeless powder and noiseless guns are as nothing to the hookless waist' A boon to women, you say. Not at all; boon to men, for it is men who have to hook the waists of their wives and sometimes of their sisters and their aunts. For some occult reason the hooks on woman's waist are so tiny that it is not only hard to see them but almost impossible to hook them. No soon- CT is one hooked than the other flies open The eyes are usually made of a bit of thread which snaps at the slightest touch, and woe betide the man when this happens. When he mumbles words "un- fit to print" his wife says she doesn't see what he is making such a fuss about. If my arms were only little longer" she adds, 'I could do it myself" Then she puts her arms behind her and squirms her fingers up and down her backbone, but to no purpose. ''Men are so clumsy" she snaps q will call the cook. She can do it without any fuss" So the cook is called from the pudding, and in trice the trick is done. Every hook falls into place when she touches it, and what is more it stays there. In the meantime the husband has fled; but when his wife comes down stairs she tells him that there must be something the matter with his eyes-that there is nothing in the world so easy as to hook a waist. So positive is she on this point that he begins to think he must be "chump," and goes to his pipe for comfort But this is all to be changed with the hookless waist All the woman has to do is to put her hands behind her, pull string and the thing is done. Do you wonder that I put the inventor of this device above the in- ventors of smokeless powder and noiseless
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
FILING UP DEFICITS.
Trend of National Expenditures Is to
 Spend More Than Income.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 At what point is the increase of ma tional expenditures over and above the increase of population and wealth going to stop? There was a time when the government could not spend what it did not get. The modern invention of na- ments can mortage the property of gen. erations unborn. But will they pay the interest on previous borrowings Is it likely this can continue indefinitely?.
 A considerable portion of all that German earns he has to surrender to his government. Still, he is less taxed than some other people, and Chancellor von Buelow has just told him that he ought to be willing to pay more taxes in order to provide Germany with a bigger fleet. It is proposed to increase taxation in Germany $125,00O,000 That is more than g on every man, woman, and child, where a large part of the work ing population get less than $1 a day, and where workingmen have had to re- udGe llcli touSulupAlOH Ol dhilhai lood within the last few years. During the previous generation this had increased decidedly, but the German workman must give up the meat he has been getting used to.
 The chancellor of the British ex- chequer has just announced that expendi- lures to which the government is com- mitted will exceed the income $10000,000 and new taxes must be levied. The cost of the army and navy has been increas- ing fast, and it is proposed to add an- other $30,0O0, GOO to the navy, to spend an equal amount in relieving the unemploy- ed. and to disburse $35,OOo,OOO a year, to begin with, for old-age pensions. It is proposed to get $20 900 more out of in- comes, much of which will come out of people of small means, as much more the rent paid by dwellers in towns, and get the $5,0O0OO0 more out of the inheri- tance and s25, ,0O0, GOO more out of the liquor trade
 Our own government is moving In the some direction. There will be a deficit on the present schedule of expenditures un- til new taxes are laid, and the chief rea- son for new taxes will be the Philippines, the army we have had since the Spanish war, and the determination to have the biggest navy in the world with the possible execution of England
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
COYOTES KILLING GAME.
Deer and Grouse Their Prey in West
 ern Colorado.

From the Denver Republican.
 Coyotes in such large numbers that they threaten to destroy all of the deer and other game in the vicinity of Hot Sulphur Springs are reported by Frank C. Stanley, who yesterday appealed to both the state Bureau of Child and An imal Protection and the State Game and Fish Commission for their support in presenting a bill to the coming legisla- ture to provide a bounty on coyotes throughout Colorado. These state depart ments have agreed to cooperate to se- cure such a bill.
 During a recent heavy snow the coy otes dragged down and killed thirteen helpless deer within ten miles of Hot Sul- phur Springs" said MT. Stanley, land lawns stand no chance at all with, the ravenous brutes. On every side can be seen feathers of grouse and sage hens which tells the story of slaughter, and although there are pheasants in almost every other part of the state the coyotes have completely cleaned them out in our county. They have been great many beaver near Hot Sulphur Springs and these have been unmolested by the set tiers, but they are being killed by the score. Unless some reward for killing coyotes is offered there will soon be no game left in that section. of the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Christmas Trade In District.

Business seems to have been very good, indeed, everywhere during the Christmas holidays: both in the cities and In the cointrv," said a purcha sing agent for one of the larger coal companies or the state yesterday.
 Tn Jenei son and the adjoining counties business at the commissaries was eXecp- tionally good. and in seveial instances the stock nut in the commissaries for the Christmas trade was practically eX- hausted. The miners seemed to have had plenty of money and a great portion or the goods bought were paid for with ready cash. It must also be taken into consideration that a number of the work CTS in the coal fields came to Birming- ham to buy their Christmas presents.
 "These facts, it seems to me, are sig nhcant that good times are upon us Most of the miners, in Jefferson county especially have gotten back to work ana are again on their feet financially. The outlook for the coming year appears bright"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
Notre pame,s Captain.

"Guard Scanlon, captain of the basket ball team of Notre Dame university" '" said a member of the Birmingham Ath- letic club yesterday, lis a brother of Pitcher Scanlon of the Brooklyn team of the National league.
 "The young Scanlon, too, Is a great baseball player, and after his college ca- reer, will no doubt represent some team of the big league.
 "Pitcher Scanlon is graduate of Notre Dame and while at that college was cap tain of the basketball. football and base ball teams of that institution in one year.
 "The temptation to young graduates to step out into the world of athletics, and earn a splendid salary, when in the busi- ness world his salary to begin with would be comparatively small, has proved too great in many instances and this ac- counts for the fact that the baseball world is becoming more and more filled with college men,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT HIS IDEAS OF
 CONSTRUCTION RATHER THAN DESTRUCTION

TN these Christmas times, when this is
 the last Sunday in the old year. it is
 well that all of us should look upon the bright side of life.
 It is true that arrests were made on Christmas Day. and that crimes were committed, and that the usual casualties occurred.
 One can get up figures and statistics to prove almost anything. One can likewise go out in search of trouble and find it. One can find almost anything he diligent- ly searches for. He can find small game or big game. He might have to go to Africa to find lions and elephants, as Roosevelt proposes to do.
 But Roosevelt is making a pleasure trip of his African tour. He likes such things: and he proposes to bring back with him the products of his hunt and in- stall the same in the National museum in Washington that American youth and American citizens of all ages might see and acquire knowledge of the animals of the world.
 And that reminds me of the fact that there is a fund of something like $500 on deposit with MT. W. w. Crawford, presi- dent of the American Trust and Savings bank. as treasurer, of the Boys Zoolos-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
UNDER FATAL SPELL.
Nineteen of the Managers of the St
 Louis Worlds Fair Dead.

 St. Louis Dispatch to the New York
 American.
 And a director of the St. Louis World 8 Fair"
 Preceding the words, which, because or their frequency in print, have become fa- miliar to newspaper readers, usually ap- pears the dead mans name, with some reference to his vocation, such as mil lionaire banker millionaire brewer "capitalist." "fnancier" prominent insur- ance man." society leader" or prom inent member of the St. Louis bar" And following the stereoptyped phrase is stated the cause of death, which in some cases is natural and in other cases is suicide.
 A few days ago Francis D. Hirschberg, prominent insurance man, the social ar bitter of St. Louis, and a director of the St. Louis Worlds Fair" was shot to death in his home, sS1S Lindell boulevard.
 The Worlds Fair directorate death list, revised from the most recent reports, now numbers 19. Several were shot to death. Several died under mysterious circum- stances Several died as the result of &C., cidents. At least one was shocked to death by quotations on a stock ticker. And, of course, number of the others died from natural causes.
 The fact that four years after the great 4oia purchase 19 of the directors of that ex- position are dead has led persons in New York, Chicago and other cities to sus- pect that the Sts Louis Worlds Fair di- rectorate was an honorable body, con sisting of the bulk of the city's import ant population. But such suspicion is not founded upon fact The board of directors of the Louisiana Purchase exposition CWorlds Fair) was the active head of the exposition, and only about 90 St. Louisans were membeps of it.
 The life insurance carried by the 19 di- rectors was approximately S,75OOOo. Of this amount about $1 100000 went to the widow of James l.. Blair, who, in addi- tion to being a director of the fair, was its general counsel, and who died under mysterious circumstances" The insur- ance company which so far has suffered most through the death of St. Louis Worlds Fair directors is the New York Life which was compelled by the courts to pay to Blair's widow $75,OOO.
 The exposition was formally opened April 30. 1904 and formally closed De- cember 1 of that year. Death, in seem- ingly merciless spirit. did not wait until the close of the exposition to begin break ing the ranks of the board of directors, but snatched several of these men even before the opening. And at least two of the several directors who did not live to see the exposition died naturally.
 At least two of the several directors who did not live to see the exposition open died unnaturally. They were Isaac w. Morton and William J. Lemp, ST.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-27
VAGARIES OF HUMAN BELIEFS,

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
 society in this city which claims to be studying theosophy after the teachings of Madam Blavatsky figures rather largely in the public eye be- cause of certain charges brought, though they are vehemently denied. To most persons of ordinary ways of think ing the Blavatsky philosophy seems absurd, and those who hold its tSnets are looked upon as hardly sane. VBut it is idle to ignore that throughout re- corded history there have been many peculiar and varied beliefs held un- der the name of religion or a philoso- phy with a religious bearing. Many of them belle the name of religion as most of us understand 1t, but the facts must not be ignored.
 The earliest religious literature was, generally speaking, devoted to the ex- ploitation of two phases of thinking. There were a few religions which were universal in their scope, but most of them were merely territorial. Men thought of their own gods as ruling certain section, while others had do- mains of their own. It was this feel ing which unframed fanatical passions and which made of religion a mockery. In these days there are almost as many religions as ever, but most of them lay claim to universality.
 The progress which theosophy has
 
 liar psychological attributes of the hu- man mind. It's rise was in the east, and there 1t has had the greatest fol- lowing, because the Oriental is nat urally a sub bjective creature. His mind to him Kingdom is and he lives in filth and squalor contented because ma terial things are to him of minor or of no importance. The man who can spend almost all of his life in specula- tive contemplation is apt to believe al- most anything, since there seem to be no bounds set to the human imagina- tion Those who believe in reincarna- tion, in Karma, In transmigration, in unlimited telephathy, in physical as well as thought transference have ar rived at such conclusions through methods which are satisfactory to themselves. For the most part such tenets are of a kind that can neither be proved nor disproved by mere logic; relying on experience the devotees claim to have perfect demonstration.
 It is idle to attempt to argue with those who have reached this stage of thought, but 1t does seem wise to warn all who, with that little knowledge which is so dangerous, undertake the study of such things that nothing in this world Is easier than self-deception, and that the human mind has firmly held to a thousand contrary beliefs.