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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-10-17
COLO.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER II, 1908.

). SATURDAY, OCTOBER
Mr. and Mrs. John Hoskins have re-
turned from five months trip to Eng
land.
Mrs. N. H. Brown returned Sunday
from . protracted visit in the east with
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Weinberger were
early morning passengers for Denver
Tuesday.
J. c. Studevant was called to the
valley on mining business last Monday
A. H. Roller went to Denver Tuesday
for days visit and to transact min
ing business.
Ralph Knowles packed his grip Mon
day morning for short trip to Dem
yer and Golden.
w. E. Renshaw registered as a
passenger for the big city on the early
train Monday morning.
A leaky steam pipe put lower Fif-
teenth avenue out of commission most
of the day Wednesday.
Jonn Sherwin was over from Boulder
university this week for a day or two
visit with the home folks.
Bob Oxley departed Monday morning
for Denver where he will enter the en-
ploy of his uncle, Merit Owen.
Deputy Postmaster C. A. King was
called to Denver last Monday, not on
government business, but private affairs.
Miss Opal .Oxley departed Tuesday
morning for Greeley where she will
visit for time with her mother, broth
ers and sisters.
Mrs. Hewitt, of Blue Rapids, Kan
sas, has been in town several days look
ing after the mining interests of her
father, the late Dr. Crafts.
Large congregations are attending
the Methodist church in the evening
while fair audiences GO in the morn.
ing. The music is very fine at all the
services.
Dan Witter was over from the Evan.
ranch on Bear Creek Tuesday, and de
ciares that he will try and get bacl
again In time t. vote in Idaho SPRING
at-thespag election.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Roberts, tw,
Children and Miss Welty, have beel
guests Of Ire family of Mayor Robert
for severa days, returning to thei
home at Denver Tuesday afternoon.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Sunny
side Lutheran church will meet, upo
invitation of Mrs. Claus Anderson, il
the parlOrs Of the church Thursday eve
ming October 22. Refreshments will b,
served.
AldermancStraub has this week mad
4 much needed improvement in his liv
cry stable, installing concrete floor
and modern wagon washing appliances
This puts the establishment in the from
rank and. as for conveniences, secon
to none.
Charles P. Shields, formerly a mem
ber of the hardware company of Shield
and company. predecessor of the Idah
Springs Hardware company. has bee
spending several days in the city, re
newmg old friendships and having j;
good time.
An cid fashioned dance will be give
in the Yankee hill section at the g.
tunnel on Wednesday evening the 2ls
and that there will be genuine fun goe
without saying. There will be speak
ing, refreshments and a general goo
social time.
There will be a republican rally a
Freeland to be held in the school hous
on the evening of Friday the 23d inst
There wih be good speaking by candi
dates andshhers and appetizing refresh
ments will be served. The citizens o
of Freeiand and surrounding sectio,
will receive q most hearty welcome.
Sneak thieves broke into the building
at the Little Nsttie mine some tim,
during Thursdey night and carried
IL Il.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20

14th inst, demonstrated that the spirit
of his party is still favorable to green
backism. He contended that the sover-
eign right to issue and circulate money
belongs alone to the Government and
that Congress ought never to relinquish
that right or extend it to another. SEN
ator Clay also declared, that the poo
pie prefer paper money and that there
was no raid on the treasury now to
have the money redeemed in gold. 4"
His contention was that treasury notes
and government bonds should not be
made redeemable in gold; and that if
our paper currency is made legal ten
der for the payment of debts, possessing
and enjoying all the functions of money,
then, it will not depreciate in value.
These are the same views that were
held by the Greenback party which was
so freely endorsed by the Democracy
some thirty years ago. In other words.
the Democratic leaders, at least many
of them, are the advocates of Fiat
money" They held in 1896 that the
simple stamp of the Government on a
silver dollar would maintain it's parity
with gold, no matter if our minis were
opened to the free and unlimited coin
age of the silver of the world. In view
of that folly, it is not surprising
that they now contend that an ire
deemable paper currency will be as good
as gold and silver. Senator Clay en-
phasized his adherence to the doctrine
of fiat money by saying:
Talk about fiat money, all of the
paper money we have today, except the
gold certificates, is fiat money to a
large extent-your national note is
based upon the bonds of the United
States; and while they are redeemable
in gold, no one will contend that we
have the gold to redeem them"
The Democratic party is not now and
never has been the champion of Sound
money" 1t has never been able to
present an intelligent currency system;
and the country has never had a stable
currency of its creation.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20
The Home of tie kindergarten.

The japanese have the most perfect
Kindergarten system In the world. In
fact, they originated this method of in
structing by entertainment instead Of
By punishment inflicted. Their play ap-
1afatus for such purpose is elaborate,
but all Of it is adapted to the infant
mind, which it is designed at once to
amuss and to inform. The little. ones
OF Japan even become somewhat inter
ested in mathematics by seeing and
feeling what a pretty thing a cone, a
sphere or a cylinder is when cut cut
OF wood with lathe. They make out
lines Of solid figures out OF straw, with
green peas to hold the joints together,
and for the instruction Of the blind fat
BLOCKS are provided with the japanese
characters raised upon them.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20
WATER RIGHTS lNvloLATE.
Springs and Well. In Palestine Are
Protected by Severe Laws.

Water IS the most precious thing In
Palestine. and the laws which pr, t.ct
springs and wells are very severe.
Nest of the wells are artificial. Rich
men at very great expense have chs
elcd basins and reservoirs out Of the
rocks to receive the flow from springs.
AID in many places Wi - 10 springs
coC!d be found they have drilled
through the limestone hundred feet
1,.d sometimes twice that distance TO
tn2 az @sian BASIN
No3e but very rich sheiks caii afford
sGch an expenditure. Nevertheless.
they have not only been the creates
bHDCf&Ctors CT their fellow men. but
those who have sunk wells and built
fountains have erected monuments to
Their fame i.:ore caduring than palaces
or tCm.lo; or shafts of granite.
The t,mule OF Solomon has vanished
forever. L.; Chg r~O's when he walked
up with masonry ana filed with water
SIN rCu1iu. TIC wells that Abraham
and Jcccb d, He'd in the rock as acts
OF piCty IS well rs power are as i'm.
Tortal &s their names and viii live for
ever as lonY rs men feel thirst
According 70 just custom CT the
country. water rights could never be
forfeited. No main who owned well
mi"ht rCfcsc his ue!shbOr water for
his family or his 1ocks. but the lord
cof the spring was inviolate. No cred
itor or enemy could take his water
rights away from him. To injure or
dl up Il well was an objectionable
crime Whom the -philiSfineS throw,
earth and stones into the well of Abra
ham. they Intended to challenge him
to war of determination. These Gus
toms and regulations remain today
Chicago Record Herald.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20

Funny size OF DyiBE often Treated
OF In Literature.

oonny see OF DYING often Treated
OF In Literature.
Death" said a publisher, has been
treated humorously in our literature
often Indeed ] am quite sure that a
collection OF many thick volumes might
be MADE under the title Of Deaths
Funny side Thomas Heed was one
of our best writer's OF this sort Of
verse. Don't you remember his ballad
on the young sailor who died heart
broken over his girls unfaithP The
last stanEa ives,
His death. which happened in his berth,
At forty odd bsfell;
They went and told the sexton. and
The sexton toHed the bell.
Hood did another ballad on the SUBJ
ject Of soldier who lost both legs in
battle. who was in consequence Tilted
by his sweetheart and who then hung
himself. Now, that is rather tragic, is
1t not? 1t has a bizarre but none the
less poignant tragic note. Guy de
Maupassant indeed once handled al
most this same situation, but he ham
died it from the opposite viewpoint,
and don't you remember how he mar
rated the first, the crucial, meeting Of
the lovers after Ben Battles double
amputationf
But when he called on Nellie Gray
She made him quite a soon,
And when shs saw his wooden legs
Began to take them on.
This treatment drove Ben to de-
spair:
80 round his melancholy neck
rope he did entWine
And for the second time in life
Enlisted in the line.
And there he hung till he was dead
AS any nail IN town; :
For. though despair had cut him UP.
1t could not cut him down
There is a tremendous literature OF
humorous epitaphs. There must be,
fancy, 10000 Of these, but two of them
are all can recall. The first goes:
Here LES the body Of mild Maria; y.
She went one day to start the fire,
But the wood was green,
So she used kerosene
And now she's where the fuel is drier.
The other is grimmer:
Life Ia a lie, and all things show Il; >
thought go once, and now know It
Then there are songs on the side
splitting aspects Of death, some Of
which have caused tender hearted la-
dies to double up with mirth. Johnny
Jones and bis Sister Sue is one such
song, and 1 bet that six people out of
ten In America know 1t by heart
Yes" the publisher concluded, "un-
der the title Of Deaths Funny Side an
anthology Of many. many volumes
could be made. The anthology should
be bound in black pigskin, with grin
ming skulls and crossbones fooled In
gold on it-"-Philadelphia Record. =
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20
1T STILL LIVES.

The passion of the Democratic party
for an unsound or deprecated currency
still lives. The discussion of the AL
drich currency bill in the Senate of the
United States develops the desire of the
Democracy for an unsound currency.
A substitute measure has been intro
duced by Senator Bailey, of Texas,
which some of our Democratic contem-
poraries declare contains suggestions
that are more Objectionable than free
silver and that are tainted with the
worst form of greenbackism.
Senator Clay. of Georgia, in debating
the Aldrich bill in the Senate on the
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20
A UNIQUE DORMITORY.
One That Ii Owned by the University
of the South.

One That Ii Owned by the University
of the South.
Dean Hoffman was noted for char
liable impulses, which his large income
allowed him to indulge in. Some years
ago the dean invested heavily in land
in small southern town which was
then enjoying boom" period. Among
the deans other investments was q
beautiful little hotel, exQuisitely ap-
pointed and perfect in every detail
After awhile the ''boom" fell through,
and the little hotel became a losing in
vestment
At this time the chancellor Of the
University of the South, an old friend
of Dean Hoffman, was on a hunting
trip with him In the mountains of
North Carolina
I'VE are badly in need of a dormitory
down at Suwanee." said the chancel-
lor
yes" said Hoffman and sat think
Ing for moment We'll. you can have
the hotel building down at B" nam
ing the town. you can take 1t to
pieces and move it to Suwanse. It
ought to make a pretty little dormi-
tory"
The chancellor was greatly pleased
and made all the arrangements 10
move the hotel, when, to his astopish-
msnt, the citizens of the town obtained
an injunction against its removal on
the grounds that the hotel in q way
was public property and that to re
move it would leave the town without
any hotel accommodations. A legal
hght followed, but the university won
out In the end. SO the University OF
the South revels in the luxury OF the
most unique dormitorv in the world
New York Times.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20
A Matter of Principle.

Why is It" says the girl. that In
giving an account of an accident they
always give the age of the person in
jured? l can see the sense of their
talking about blends and brunettes. n
mustache or full beard If it is man
or red green or blue gown II it is a
woman. for that is q means OF identifi-
cation for acquaintance and friends
who may be interested. They don't
even put the age in the death notices
now, but If you meet with an accident
out it comes In all the papers in town
But they will never publish mine.
have it on my mind every time | cross
the street, and when there is Il particu-
larly bad crowd say to myself. Now,
remember, if you are run over here. no
matter how badly hurt. you are to re-
member never TO tell your age. Its \
matter of principle" - New Yor.l
Times
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20
Tie CLUMSY MAN.

You Can Ncvc- II S1-c OF What T-is
Next Break VIII he.
10 great vir,ue about the really
cluiasyrI-an is that be never exhausts
his capabilities. When you think that
the bedrock is reached, there Is still a
lower depth. IL Il detrimental relative
should exist, the clumsy man asks aft
er his hcalth with great particularly
and VIII not be satisfied until he re-
ccives full and detailed reply. Should
there be any incident In your past
which everybody has generously agreed
to forget it is the clumsy man who
SEXES the one, the Inevitable opportu.
nifty, when the club is at It's fullest and
says loudly: Somebody was talking
the other day about that unfortunate
little affair of yours in 80. Now tell
mew
When on meeting him you say casu-
ually and with no desire for informa-
ton. How are your he insists on Civ
Ing you complete data. ard he is as full
Of small complaints as a refractory
pauper. 1t is only fair to add that he
will ask affectionately after the colds
of yesteryear. and his favorite locale
for this is at the corner of q drafty
street. He might be subsidized by in.
tiuenza or he might get a commission
on sore threats from his eagerness to
pin you into the most dangerous posi-
ton that can be discovered.
One desires an adequate amount Of
sympathy I'm distress, but our man al
ways goes a little beyond this point
You are growing thin. and he says that
you are wasting away to a shadow.
You are growing stout, and he tells an
unamusing anscdote about apoplexy.
He can be more critical than q hair
dresser II occasion gives the least ex-
cuse.-Philadelphia Ledger
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20
500 Reward, 100.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
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Catarrh being constitutional disease, re-
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is work. The propr.etors have so much
faith in it's curative powers that they offer
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fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address f. J. CHENEY & CO.,
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Sold by all Druggists, Zoe.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20
The Rhsa Investigation.
(Staunton Leader.)

With all the evidence in and the argu-
ment concluded in the Rhea inquisition,
comes the statement that Judge Rhea
will be favored in the committee report
to the General Assembly and his ap-
pointment by the Governor as a men,
Der of the State Corporation Commission
will be confirmed. A minority report is
to be rendered, it is said. but The major
ity will give Judge Rhea an unblemish-
ed character. Thus another farcical in
vestigation will pass into the history of
Virginia politics, with party whitewash
smeared over the filth which was expos
ed IN many places, despite the efforts of
so-callcd Democratic leaders" to pre-
vent 1t. Those of the unbiased and
non-partisau people of Richmond and
the State at large. who have followed
the investigation closely-the rank and
file of the Democratic party-are unde-
niably of the opinion that Rhea
Is not a fit man for the high posi-
ton to which Governor Swanson would
elevate him. Attorney Bullitt, accord
ing to the words of Richmond's fairest
and most unbiased newspaper, The
Journal, stood just across the aisle
within three feet of the accused man,
and directing bis open left hand to him,
asked should the features of this be in
the composite picture of Virginia's hon
ored judiciary" and concluded, with
uplifted hands, May God forbid. :"
This, of course, was merely the conclu-
sion of an attorney employed to prose
cute the charges against Rhea, but his
words ring in the ears of the honest
people who favor cleanness and upright
ness in politics; and are a true echo of
their sentiments.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20
Tho Newspaper Man.
louisville Courier-Journal.)

The successful newspaper man often
remains a newspaper man, despite
chances for greater prominence and
greater compensation in business or in
another profession, finding contentment
in congenial work. Newspaper failures
may be divided, roughly, into two class
es. They are the men who can not de-
velop sufficient ability to make places
for themselves either in newspaper
work or out of it, and the men who,
thinking not of yesterday or tomorrow,
but only today, 90 Indifferent work and
in the end weep as they have sown. To
the latter class belong many bright
young men who become derelicts and
are pointed to as examples of the de
moralizing effect of journalistic worl."
The good reporter must be a student
of men, women and events. The ''cuJ"
who has "a nose for news" scents ne
good as well as the bad in human a
ture and in human institutions. To him
''all the world is a stage" AS he gets
his growth he becomes acquainted tn
the players, not only as they stru in
the limelight, but also as they appear
behind the scenes, with robes and grease
paint and tinsel crown removed.
1t has been said that the world knows
nothing of its great men. The reporter
of wide experience knows a great deal
of some of them, and something of
most of them. He learns, of course,
that some of the greatest are the small
est, and the sum of his knowledge
makes him sometimes an optimistic
cynic; he is rarely pessimist. He gets
sense of proportion and faculty of
diagnosing" men and discerning mo-
tives. In business as well as in politics
diplomacy is useful, and there is no bet
ter school of diplomacy than the news
paper office.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20
THE ARABS OF YEMEN.
story which ThEews . strong
Ltwht on Their Character.

Ah2nt on Ihetr Onara0HoE.
The Times OF India tells the follow
ing story to show the character Of the
Arabs OF Yemen. A man OF Zaraniks
who several times cut the telegraph
lines and who was punished more than
once was caught on one occasion by
an Arab sheik in charge OF the lines.
The sheik intended to send him to
Needy for Imprisonment. but the wife
OF the accused came in and stood as q
guarantee for his future good behavior.
The sheik accepted the bail and re-
leased him, but shortly Rfterward he
again resorted to his old practice of
cutting the wires and bolted away to
another village at a distance OF a days
march. where he had another wife.
The sheik then sent for his first wife
who stood security for him, and told
her he would disgrace her among the
Arabs If she failed to bring I'm her hus-
band.
The woman asked the sheik net to
spread the black sheet "a custom OF
the country when any one commits
breach OF trust until the following
day. She started that night. taking
sharp dagger concealed under her
clothes, to the village where her hus-
band was staying. She found him
asleep In his abode and stabbed him,
cut his throat and carried his head
back to her home. The next morning
she went to the sheik and presented
the head of her husband, saying: Here
is your criminal. and am freed from
the bail. Please do not afIix the black
sheet. Telegraph
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20
EASILY ANSWERED.

One of the most serious faults of the
Democratic party is that its leaders, its
press, and even its rank and file cannot
agree upon anything .-Tazewell Repub-
lican.
VIII our contemporary print the list
of subjects upon which the Republicans
are agreed?-Richmond- Times Dis
patch.
This is very easily done. The Repub-
licans are about solidly agreed in their
support of the following:
A protective tariff system. A sound
and stable currency, with solid value
resting behind every dollar.
An intelligent and equitable regula-
ton of railroads and other corporations.
Inland waterways on a great scale at
home, and rapid completion of the Pan
anna Canal
international arbitration abroad, and
the arbitration of differences and dis
putes between labor and capital at
home.
There are other things upon which
the Republicans are fully agreed, such
as:
United opposition to free trade or
tariff for revenue only.
Opposition to fiat money, which is to
be FINISHED either by the free and un-
limited coinage of silver, or by a pa
per currency that is not made redeema-
bic in gold.
Solid opposition to government own
ership of public utilities and to iniative
and referendum.
And last, but not least, unmeasured
hostility to the ultra States rights doc
trines of the Democratic party.
If this list is not enough we can make
a more extended one for our Richmond
contemporary.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20
MAKE 1T YOURSELF.
Tells Our Readers How to Mix Best
Rheumatism Cure.

Tells Our Readers How to Mix Best
Rheumatism Cure.
A well-known authority on Rheuma-
tlsm gives the readers of a large New
York daily paper the following valuable.
yet simple and harmless. prescription,
which any one can easily prepare at
home:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce:
Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three
ounces.
Mix by shaking well in bottle. and
take teaspoonful after each meal and
at bedtime.
He states that the ingredients can be
obtained from any good prescription
pharmacy at small cost and being of
vegetable extraction, are harmless to
take.
This pleasant mixture, if taken regu-
larry for few days, is said to overcome
almost any case of Rheumatism. The
pam and swelling, if any, diminishes
with each dose, until permanent results
are obtained, and without injuring the
stomach. While there are MANY So
called rheumatism remedies, patent
medicines, etc, some of which do give
reilef, few really give permanent re-
suits, and the above will. no doubt be
greatly appreciated by many sufferers
here at this time
Inquiry at the drug stores of this
nelghborhoOd elicits the information
that these drugs are harmless and can
be bought separately, or the druggists
here will mix the prescription for our
readers, if asked to.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-20

The Tazewell Republican dubs the
Virginian-Pilot "a Roosevelt hater. 1"
Far from it. We lash his errors more
in sorrow than in anger and hope for
his conversion to better lights than
those which now guide him.-Norfolk
Virginian-P Pilot.
We are glad to hear that our
esteemed Norfolk contemporary is
not angry but is full of profound
sorrow for the erring Chief Executive
of this great Nation. But our contem-
porary has peculiar way of expressing
its sorrow. 1t speaks sorrowful of him
as tyrant, a despot, an uncrowned
monarch who is trying to deprive the
people of their liberties, a demagogue,
an insincere and dangerous man, and
one who is deficient in mate honesty.
These are very caustic and strange ex-
pressions that flow from a sorrowing
heart.