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La Junta tribune., 1908-06-27

joy unconfined exhibited by Miss
Cook on her arrival home is any
criterion.
John G. Dodds. of Seattle. Wash.
is visiting his mother, Mrs. Melissa
Dodds. of the Fairmount country.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Kincaid arriv-
ed home last Tuesday morning from
a brief honeymoon sojourn at
Beulah.
To TRADE The House that Hug.
gins built for horses. Come and see
me- B. F. Huggins. Carson avenue
and Tenth street.
Anyone wishing surveying,
draughting. or any kind of civil or
mining engineering done, call on A..
c. Norton, 32l Ration avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Bauer took in
the sights of the capital city Satur-
day and Sunday. returning home on
the evening of the latter day.
Mrs. l.. E. Sears, accompanied by
her daughter. Mrs. S. A. Mcdonald
and son. left Thursday morning for
Olympia. Wash. where they will be
the guests during the next four
months, of Mrs. Sears sister, Mrs.
Hattie Bradshaw.
William A. Wilson, a popular
Santa Fe fireman between this city
and Denver. and Miss Anna John
son. were married in Denver a few
days ago. and are now making
their home in La Junta. The bride
is sister of Mrs. Jordan Wheeler.
Zella X. Brunk, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John NJ. Brunk, died at
the home of her parents in East
Holbrook last Sunday. aged about
five years. The funeral took place
the following day from the church
in Che-aw, the interment occurring
in the church cemetery.
Miss Harriet Nancolas, of Por-
terville. Calf, in renewing her sub
scription to the great family jour
nal, writes: Il always read the
TRIBUNE with a great deal of inter-
est and am glad to know the little
city. which to me will always be
home. is growing and enjoying its
usual prosperity. am.at last learn
ing to like this country and have q
splendid position here"
La Junta tribune., 1908-06-27
LOCAL AND PERSONAL rEms.
Fireworks at Fernsel's.
Trade with H. G. Todd.


All kinds of fireworks at Fernsel's.
Livery and transfer; Barr & Rose;
phone Junta 80.
Mrs. Ralph Coon was on the sick
list several days this week.
For RENT Six room house; North
. La Junta. Phone black 1905.
Ladies and gents bootblack par
lor, 18 West First street. Poor
Fred" proprietor.
FOR RENT -Storeroom at No. 5
East Third street; $50 per month.
Inquire of E. W. Pierce.
Mrs. Joseph Posi- and son. Joseph,
Jr., expect to leave next week for
Beulah to spend the summer.
Mayhew House Furnishing Co.,
undertakers and emhalmers. Phone.
East "A; night phone. Junta A.
William Wakefield left last We'd
nesday for Canton. Kan. to make
an extended visit with relatives.
M. E. Bradish left this week for
Routt county and will spend the
summer in that undeveloped en-
pire.
The time has come to use ice and
the only ice to use is artificial ice.
Phone 522 red. La Junta Ice Com
pany.
For RENT-Five room house, cor
ner Carson and Sixth; five room
house. Ala First street. Inquire of
r. C. lnge.
John l.. Wiler and daughter, Miss
Hazel, who have been ENJOYING a
weeks visit in Colorado Springs,
Manitou and Denver, returned home
last Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin L. Dodds, of
Chicago. arrived in La Junta yester-
dav for an extended visit with rela-
tives. Mr.. Dodds holds a respon-
sible position in Chicago in the big
retail store Of Marshall Field.
Miss Clarice Cook, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. I. J. Cook, arrived
home last Monday morning from
Oberlin College. after an absence of
nine long months. which must have
seemed like nine long years. il the
La Junta tribune., 1908-06-27
ChiAdren's O1sfos-ds

We place very special reduced price all
Misses and chdrens Oxfords. all styles. colors and
kinds sizes from to 2. $500 quality 81 As: Sl.75
kind $780, sl5O kind Ills; $l.35 kind Csc; sl.25
kind 95c: 81 90 kind 75c.
For the little tots show very pretty Sandals
and Slippers, sizes to 5. desirable coors. See them
at from 75c and up.
The Washington herald., 1908-06-21
A Bad Boys Memoirs.

Mischief Just comes sprUW1ing out Of me
The above is the frank expression Of
Tommy. the hero OF Tommy Brown; A
Bad Boys Memoirs by Aitken Murray.
and not since the advent OF ''Peck's Bad
Boy has such a collection Of boyish
pranks. exhilarating and full Of uproari-
Gus merriment. been put into a book by
any author: and. as II 70 violate the or
binary conception Of racial proclivities for
humor. the writer seems to be an Eng
iishman. or. at any rate. the scenes are
laid in the Foggy Isle. that fact being
established by the general atmosphere,
names. and incidents. without mentioning
names.
The book is full Of that spontaneous
humOr, innocent rascelity, resource of
mischief. pathetic instinct which springs
from the efTervescence of youth and the
irrepressible desire OF the healthy boy s
mind for something doing" II IS the
same spirit which animated Tom Sawyer
and his compeers, transplanted to another
cline. The list of stories are extremely
amusing, and the collection is capable Of
furnishing hours Of wholesome enjoyment,
for Mr. Murray has treated his subject
with a true insight into boyish character
and with the true spirit of humor
The Baby and the Coal Cellar" Hog
many and the Highland Gentleman. %
The Political Meeting" 'Ziffranrs Cir
Gus" and Aunt Jane" are irresistibly
funny, and the growth Of proper manly
feeling is exemplihed in The Walking
Match" when the hero allows his COM
rade, Pudden Smith, to win the gold
watch. which that urchin had set his
heart on for a present for his father.
(New York: r. +. Fenno & Coz
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The Chapernn.

The latest story by those indefatigabls
writer's. c. y. and A. NJ Williamson. who
have made automobile yarns their special
~. is The Chaperon." and though there
is a motor in It. it is a motor boat The
story deals with the fortunes Of TWO Eng
lish girls who are making their own Nv
ing in London. when the uncle Of one OF
them dies and leaves her motor boat
The boat is in Holland. and as the girls
are about due for n vacation. they go over
TO look az f. They find il at Amsterdam,
and. through some misunderstanding. they
find their boat has already been hired by
a rich young American. He offers 10 take
them with him on a mOtor-boat tour Of
Holland. and when they object because
they are alone he hires a chaperOn for
the trip introducing her as his aunt.
Lady McNairne. Of Scotland Then they
take with them a young Dutchman, Van
Brederode. The story follows the for
tunes Of this party through the main
waterways OF Holland. Of course. there
are two separate love stories. and the
progress Of these is lightened by descrip-
tions Of the Holland towns they pass
through and Holland customs Every
thing turns out satisfactorily when the
voyage is completed even II the motor
boat is chased through a Dutch canal by
the furious husband OF the supposed Lady
McNairne. The story is delightfully."- ro-
mantle and interesting. CNew York: Tho
Mcclure Company
The Washington herald., 1908-06-21
Storie. of ODeraa

Elizabeth N. Wheelock has performed a
praiseworthy task in her Stories Of Wag-
ner Operas Told for Children" with the
avowed purpose OF putting into simple
yet poetic form the group OF Teutonic
epics used by the great composer for the
purpose Of expressing his musical genius.
The work naturally takes position with
Charles and Mary Lambs Stories from
Shakespeare, d" and II a suggestion may be
pardoned IN the face OF so good a work.
the talented woman might carry the chain
Of ideas 10 logical and enjoyable con-
clusion by treating In a like manner the
French chSnsons and romances dealing
with the deeds OF the Paladins Of Charlie
magne, with Roland and oliver al their
head. Her success in the present instance
would certainly warrant such a thing: in
fact. she seems amply endowed inte.lectu-
ally SO 90 treat the epics OF all nations.
thus creating a complete series.
The stories are presented in poetic.
clear and sparkling form, affording inf
mite enjoyment and information TO juve-
niles, as well as convenience 70 adults
who are debarred either by lack Of time
OF inclination from perusing the tales in a
more diffuse form. They constitute a con-
crete libretto Of the plots, being of great
convenience TO those who have been en-
Joying for years the Wagne-ian musical
plays without a clear idea OF what the
whole thing is about. There Is beyond
doubt large number Of people who have
been doing so, but certainly the easy &C
Quisiuon OF such a work as this leaves no
futher excuse for such delinquency.
The book embraces The Master Singers
Of Nuremberg" The Flying Dutchman, 90
'Lohengrin." The Rhinegold.' 'Sieg-
fried" and The Dusk tTwihghD Of the
Gods" indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merriu
Company
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The CITY of DELIGHT.

The City of Delight is the latest semi
religious novel by Miss Elizabeth Miller.
the author Of The Yoke" and Saul of
Tarsus." The present story deals with
the siege and the fan Of Jerusalem dur
Ing the half century following the cruel
fixion of Jesus Christ The Emperor
Titus did all he could to fulfill Christ's
prophecy of destruction. The characters
include some of the early Christian men
and women who had been privileged to
know Christ while He was on earth.
There is love story in the book. but II
Is not allowed to interfere with the main
thread Of the story, which has real his
torical interest. II is plain that the au-
thor has made a careful study OF the
place and the times she describes so
vividly. This is by far the most preten-
tious and the best work that Hiss Miller
has accomplished, and It is a novel that
Is sure to be read with interest by church
people and admired for the reverence and
dignity with which its theme is treated
indianapolis: The Bobbs-Mer-in Coz
The Washington herald., 1908-06-21
The Yellow Face.

THE Yellow Face" by Fred NJ. White
is a thriller without any Interrogation
point after 1t. From the time when sus-
picion first enters the heros mind as 70
shifty movements and inadequately ex-
planned sounds which take place in the
residence OF the ward OF his sweetheart
to the rounding up Of a subtle and most
degenerate criminal the story is tense. Il
abounds in plot and counterplot, hatched
in the very eyes Of the opposition parties
with such realism as 10 so confuse the
reader that he finds himself trying 10
swim out without being able TO do il. The
events in this tale are the outcome of
crime committed years before the story
opens IN the mines OF Mexico and how
the tangle Is unraveled, thread by thread
and the blame eventually placed upon the
proper party makes a sensational rO-
nance surrounded with the detective ele-
meut. or course, right finally prevails,
and the hero comes into his own after
various wild escapades and morrow es-
capes. The story cannot boast Of any
thing in particular outside Of its pace and
continuous interest. New York: r. F.
Fenno & Coz
The Washington herald., 1908-06-21
The Widnrr

The Widow: To Say Nothing OF the
Nan" is a book Of clever dialogue and
FUN Favored with smartness. by Helen
Rowland, whose Reflections Of Bach
elor" is one Of the readable features OF
The Washington Herald. The widow
dominates the book. which tells a good
story. a love story OF sorts. and. Of
course. II there is a story there has 70 be
a man. The bachelor is Mr.. Travers. and
the various chapters OF the narrative are
made Up Of conversations between them
Tie first conversation IS in a canoe. and
there the widow tells her swain that she
has picked out just tie very wife for him.
She leases him 70 her hearts content
until just as they are at the end OF their
voyage.
Some day" said the bachelor as be swung the
canoe shorevard with vigorous dip Of the paddle
I'm going TO show you who's master. I'm going
% maul YOU and then--"
BE sorry." laughed the widow
'Of course assented the bachelor But Ia be
s0uier-if / didn't"
Miss Rowland might have had a larger
sale for her book and have been well
within the truth II she had given II a sub
title such as Lessons in the Gentle Art
Of Filtration" for that is what II IS
There never was such an adroit past mas
ter IN the art OF flirting as the widow.
and the clever way In which she hooks
her bachelor fish, plays him up and down
the stream OF life. and finally lands him.
gasping but admiring. on the bank is
good to read. There is lot Of clever.
healthy fun and more than little keen
insight into human nature In this H:de
book (New York: The Dodge Publishing
COmDany)
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Truth.

Magma est veritas" is evidently the
motto Of Col. John Alexander Joyce. the
well-known lawyer and author, OF Wash
ington. whose poetry is much better
known than his law. Col Joyce has
written many BOOKS, including mOno-
graphs on Edgar Allan Poe and Oliver
! Goldsmith. not TO forget his Personal
| Recollections Of Shakespeare" and sew
eral volumes OF poems Once too, he
wrote book called Bullets Of Truth, -
and now he comes before his public once
more, this distinguished soldier and popu-
lar litterateur, with a modest little vol
ume called Truth"
Col Joyce would be the last to claim
that the fair lady Truth can be dragged
up from the bottom Of the well, where
she is supposed TO reside. and compressed
between the covers Of any one book, and
ali that he has attempted Is to set forth
in epigrammatic phrase some portions
of the truth as he sees them And lest
one should think that the truth he has
here set down. nakedly, without attempt
at elucidation. letting the lady, indeed.
| speak for herself, might possibly be
doubted, he lends US. in his short preface.
this assurances:
There mort short witty. wise. various deh1 I.
and independent sayings in this rare volume ar-
ranged into one. two and three line sentences than
have ever been uttered in ancient modern times
from the brain Of any other author.
That is. of course, that Col. Joyce. we
take it, does not claim that these delphic
utterances Of his all emanate from his
brain. Even the unlettered reader will
| be likely to think that some Of these
truths" he has run across before: some
OF them as maxims, written in copper
plate script at the top page Of the copy
books, and others. perhaps less epigram-
matically phrased. in the pages OF various
authors from Tacitus TO Emerson. Some
of them are undoubted truths, such as
] God is salvation Labor is happiness. -
Knowledge is success" Prudence is
prosperity" Others are truisms, and still
others are open to question. which truth
seldom is. One can earnestly believe the
author when he declares, II believe IN
God and myself" but when he says, "A
The Washington herald., 1908-06-21
A Busy Revenne Cutter.
From the Seattle Tines

From the Seattle Tines
The work OF the Thetis is the most
exacting OF any that is assigned 10 the
vessels OF that service, and involves
cruises among the ice foes OF the arctic.
visiting the various government stations
which are Isolated from one years end
10 the other. excepting when the stanch
cutter makes her visits in the open sea-
son. Some OF the remote stations will
see and hear from the outside for the
first time in two years when the Thetis
visits them this year. Last season the
vessel was caught in a jam OF ice which
almost completely demolished her rudder,
and. with the season so far advanced,
made ii injudiciOus not 10 say danger
Gus. to tarry longer with winter impend-
ing. The Thetis VIII make for the arctic
the moment conditions permit her 70
penetrate the fee fields. and will II pos
sible, make a VISIT 10 every government
and private station in the North. This
accomplished, and when the trials and
tribulationS OF the whalers. always found
20 exist. have been adjusted. the vessel
will leave the arctic and return far
enough south 70 join In the patrol OF
the seal islands with the other vessels to
be detailed specially for that service.
The Washington herald., 1908-06-21
The Under Groove.

Arthur Stringer, whose stories OF ad-
venture have a well-deserved vogue. keeps
up his reputation as a writer OF most en-
tertaining fiction in a collection Of short
stories called THE Under Groove" They
are supposedly told by a man who has
devoted his life to high-class crime. He
has Just come from the West with his
partner. and his divided the "swag'' on
their last coup and now is looking for
adventure 'on his own" It comes thick
and fast There are eight adventures in
the book, OF each Of which the narrator
Is the most prominent actor. even If he
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million mice cannot kill one cat, one
feels that here is a truth that needs
demonstration. Sometimes. too, our au-
thor is not quite consistent, as when on
one page he advises us to Answer a fool
with words Of folly" and on the next
page declares that THE best answer to a
fool is silence"
Some Of the aphorisms, perhaps, suffer
from lack Of explanation. as, for instance.
"Singed cats and men live long lives, ."
which is cryptic, 10 say the least. The
book is divided into sections. In the first
section the aphorisms run one TO a line
In section two they run over. and some
times for added measure rhyme. as Hope
and Joy without alloy are best for every
girl and boy" and It's not in nature or in
law to stop a womans wagging jaw, ="
which may be truth. even If It Is ungal-
liant In section three the utterances run
10 three lines, the rhymes mostly disap-
pear, and the inspiration Of the philos-
ophy OF the past IS evident For instance,
Col. Joyce tells US "Of the innumerable
millions OF human beings VINO have died
and gone 10 dust not one has ever re-
turned 10 tell the story Of the great be-
yond," which is a self-evident truth that
was, perhaps, better related by old Omar
when he wrote:
Not one returns 20 tell US Of the Road
Which 10 discover must travel too
But, on the whole, wherever II is
CLEANED, there Is a world Of truth" con-
tanned between the covers Of Col. Joyce S
book. Said Cowper:
AT Truth is precious If not all divine
Ard what dilates the por-re must needs rufno.
And IL this is truth as we'll as poetry,
there should be much refining and uplift-
Ing influence in this little volue. Chicago:
The Reagan Printing HOuse)
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is not the hero. For a full-hedged crook.
it is remarkable how little crime he COM
mits, his spirit of adventure and a taste
for gallantry leading OF into honest by
paths at every turn. Thus we have ''The
Adventure Of the Third Arm" 1.-The Ad-
venture OF the Unknown Door," THE Ad-
venture of the Black Company" THE
Adventure Of the Private Wire" THE
Adventure Of the Emerald Pendant"
The Adventure Of the Travis Coup" and
THE Adventure Of the Beginning Of the
End
One might wonder that a man given up
TO criminal practices and able in an
emergency TO open the burglar-proof safe
OF a Broadway bank at midnight. with
the banks president and the bank presi-
dents daughter to help him. should pos
sess such an education as the narrator
Of these stories evidently has. But that
Is all solved in the end; for these stories.
separate though they are, are all con-
nected in a way, and the same thread
Of love tale runs through the mystery
for there is a mystery which offers a
most satisfactory. II unusual solution to
the stories. The book Is decidedly read
able; light reading, but with many a
thrill and no cessation Of the interest.
The book is illustrated (New York: The
Mcclure Company
The Washington herald., 1908-06-21
The DiSsOIvinG Circle.

THE Dissolving Circle" by VIII Lilli-
bridge. is mostly a story OF those seeking
conjugal separation in Sioux Falls. S.
Oak. with a single strong and somewhat
peculiar character dominating the whole
in the person of man who is not i'm
PEELED by the same motives nor controlled
by the same feelings as his companions
n the drama The author evidently in
tended the book 20 have for its chief ele-
ment the soul Of cities" and especially
the soul Of Sioux Falls. for In his fore
word he says.
- distinctly as individuals cities have pcrsonal-
ties Cay, careless, defiant. diguhed sorlid sombcs.
phegmatic. nervous. restless up and down the gamur
they 60. mirroring as the surface OF A sluggish
stream. the face Of the chance observer the pre-
dominating characteristic Of those VINO live within
their limits Probably not IN the United
States Is another city Of equal size well known.
Likewise, without volitiOn her part. she (SiouX
Falls "a made the OF an endless social drama
the battle ground upon which giant domestic prob
lem Is daily fought. Again b. is the inevitable
manifest. Whether for good OF evil the denouCmcnt.
It is her virtues already cataoged and not her
faults. which invite the reality. Meanwhile toll
Grant indifferent. the citv. the State Of whose
character she Is the personifcation sits I'm udg
ment. Unm0yed as the broul-red jasper beds upon
which she Is built. she observes and Is silent. Verify,
shc a. personality among personalities, CITY un-
Ike any other earth-Sioux Falls South Dakota.
Aside from the ideas conveyed in the
| prelude. the book is a simple love story,
with a series Of interesting happenings,
most OF them. and especially the scenes
at the opening Of the story. treated In a
rather bizarre manner. The characters,
except one. arise 10 no great heights Of
moral grandeur, several Of them sinking
! to the depths Of what is ordinarily termed
| "orncryness." The chief moral lesson
seems 10 be the illustration Of the leaveu-
/ ing influence exerted by one great. albeit
! eccentric soul, on mass OF sOrdid con-
/ sttuents, or at its best a collection OF
! commonplace. This picture Of life in the
| West II drawn with even a comparative
| degree Of eXactness, should give the peo-
/ pie Of the East an interesting insight into
| an existence Of which their daily life
could afford no conception, while furnish
| ing some reading moments somewhat out
/ Of the beaten track; for however repel-
| liant the atmosphere. IL is a story Of real
men and women. under very extraOrdi-
nary conditions. (New York: Dodd, Mead
l G- Col
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ELSEWHERE.

cannot tell but somewhere in the elsewhere
There is rest for every soul that sighs.
And far beyond the precincts Of the graveyard
There is 4 cline where ever diesl
Else. why should we have al these lingering long
inCs
For some immortal region Ear away.
That constantly come wildly pleading. thronGnS.
To fret the frantic passion Of this clay
billion years before these sorrows
We lived In other regions. glorious and grand.
And many billion bright to-mOrrOws
Shall yet enthrill in another land!
Washington. D. u JOHN A. JOYCE.
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Sworn on.

From uhr5trntad BitA
She-How did that anti-alcoholic tablet
act that I put secretly into your tea the
other day?
Ho-Fine! I haven't touched drop
since
She-What-of whisky7
Ho-No-of tea
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is Just now
niniscent Of an interesting period in
er literary career. the days when THE
.2tes Ajar'' was a new book. That was
airty years ago, and the publication Of
the latter with its protest against the
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sends Dedicatory Poem.

Another thing OF striking intimate IN
terest among the Sumner books is a first
edition Of James Thompson's Spring
Cthe famous Seasons" were first pub
Hshed separately. presented by the auth
or TO his beloved Miss Young. and con-
tanning In his own hand on the hy-leaf
and inside cover n love letter and dedi-
catory poem. Here is the poem:
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idea conveyed in the orthodox heaven
OF those days created something
OF a sensation. Now" says Mrs. Phelps,
who expects after death to stand in a
row with musical ghosts around a
throne2 Who anticipates a white robe,
and a palm branch and a hymn book?''
II ''The Gates Atar" were to appear to-
day as a new publication, she asserts.
th9 book would scarcely excite remark
This change of popular sentiment is noted
in a series OF articles which is being pub
lished in Harper's Bazaar by Mrs. Phelps
IN which the venerable author gives her
present theories upon Immortality and the
future life.