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The Monte Vista journal., 1909-12-11
FATHER cARRcAN

The Catholics Of Denver do hot
seem to pay much attention to
Bishop Matz' accommodation Of
Father Carrigan. An unusually
large attendance greeted Father
Carrigan Sunday at the midday
service at st. Patrick's church,
when he spoke on the Life and
works of John the Baptist"
His only allusion to the issue
between him and the bishop, if
any, was in these words:
LET US, as faithful Christians,
not complain of our sutferings,
but rather look upon them as trials
permitted by God. If they come
to US because of our sins we can
receive them as Just penalty for
our wrong-doing. If they come
to us when we know that we have
done no wrong, then let us receive
them as test, or trial of our
character"
The Monte Vista journal., 1909-12-11
A GOOD DECISION

Perpetual franchises cannot be
granted by any city or town in
Colorado, says the supreme court
in decision Monday in the con-
troversy between the city Of Lead
vile and the Leadville Sewer com.
pany.
The legislature itself cannot
grant a perpetual franchise, since
such a franchise is contrary to
the provisions of our bill of rights,
says the supreme court, and it is
manifest that a city, being a crea-
ture of the Legislature, cannot
issue perpetual grant.
That is righteous decision and
leaves some franchise rights for
posterity to act upon.
Speaker Cannon in his speech
mt Kansas City, declared: when
Senators CummlnS, La Toilette,
Bristow and their so-called pro
gressive' following join hands with
Mr.. Bryan in making war upon
the Republican members of Con-
gress who passed the Tariff bill
and upon the President who
signed it, in that contest l know
of but one way to treat them, and
that is to fight them just as We
fight Mr.. Bryan and his following"
Joseph should go a little slow. He
should remember that these In
surgents have their states behind
them and that these states have
the balance of power in a national
election.
The Monte Vista journal., 1909-12-11
Por That Dull Feeling After

have used Chamberlain Stomach
and Liver Tablets for some time, and
can testify that they have done me more
good than any tablets l have ever used
My trouble was . heavy dull ieeline
after eating.-David F,eeman, Kempt,
Nova Scotia. These tablets strengthen
the stomach and improve the digestion.
They also regulate tho liver and bowels
They are far superior TO pills but cost
no more. Get free sample at all drug
stores aud SEQ what splendid medicine
it is.
The Monte Vista journal., 1909-12-11
SOMETHING NEW

II B. Zsrbe has opened shop
in FalIcnwlder block, upper Adams
street whore he is prepared to do
anything Ia the line of woodwork,
such as stair building, carving, in
laid work, etc. Ancient heirIooms
restored, gunstocks made; IN fact
anything IN wood.
The Monte Vista journal., 1909-12-11
CHRISTMAS CANDIES

Y. T. Chandler has the choicest
lot Of fancy box candies In town.
They an especially adapted for
Christmas use. Also nuts etc.
Next door 70 lpstofficc.
The Monte Vista journal., 1909-12-11
TEAcHIRS' EXAMINATION

The regular teache~' examine
ton will b. held In tho Monte
Vista High School building, Thur
dny, Friday and Saturday, Disc. 10,
II, and II.
ELMER UNDERWOOD,
County SupA.
The Monte Vista journal., 1909-12-11

Work on the new Robinson
hotel is now under way. The
brick work started this week. II
Is expected that the building will
DO completed this winter.-Ala-
mosa journal.
The Monte Vista journal., 1909-12-11

Take a good. long look at the
Christmas advertising in the COL
umns of the JOURNAL.
The Monte Vista journal., 1909-12-11

Experiments have been made in
Switzerland showing that the
higher attitudes provide excep-
tionall! favorable locations for
wireless telegraph receiving sta
tions. Messages coming from
points within a radius Of two
thousand miles have readily been
picked up in the Alpa Some
point in the Rocky mountains 10
destined to become q central point
for receiving wireless kilograms
and distributing them by wire.
The Monte Vista journal., 1909-12-11

j. N. Stivers has succeeded in
launching his automatic pool table
cover factory in Salida. Mr.. Sti-
vers loft for that point, tie first Of
the week to begin work.-Alamosa
journal.
The Monte Vista journal., 1909-12-11
WATER AT BLANCA

: The enterprising pushers over
ct Blanca seem to be preparing to
get moro than their moneys worth
hom the San Luis Valley Land
Go. Recently a number Of them
instituted suits 70 secure water for
their entire tracts instead of for
i've acres. The court decreed that
the literature plainly stated they
would get water for the entire
tract. Now comes the company
and says that the literature was
changed and all who bought under
the first plan a. outlined by them
can secure the water but those
who bought from the later issue
ct water for but five acres. A.
moro than enough circulars were
issued Of the first agreement to
cover many times the number Of
contracts and none of the circu-
lars being dated, it looks like the
promoters are going to be up
against the real thing for the con-
tract holders are organizing to
fight The proposition with one suit
and plenty Of money to put it
through.
: The big dam 10 completed above
the spillway and water will be let
In the first Of the month, unless
the new complicators compel the
promoters 70 add another story to
The structure -Alamosa Courier.
A man at Blanca broke three
sores Of cod and planted Il to pota.
toss. Knockers gained his ear
and he decided not 10 waste time
on tie crop. When be returned
from the east the other day be
found he had something ever
twenty tons Of average spuds
ready for harvesting. II does not
require much water for potatoes,
Among the thirty-six decisions
handed down by the supreme
court Monday 10 the case Of the
g. q. Leibhardt Produce com.
pany, . corporation, appellant, ~.
0sorgs A. Gibbs and George b
Gibbs, . oo-partnsrship, etc, sp.
psllss. appeal from district court,
Rio 0rsnde; judgment reversed
and rsmsudsd. Opinion BY Jus.
tics Csmpbsll.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29
In Old Kentucky.

Wu-Ting-Fang. the Chinese min
lister, at Washington, is quoted
in the st. Louis Post-Dispatcn
as stating that he can see no
reason for prohibiting woman from
voting if she should prove as learned
as man. Perhaps the honorable min
lister, being a foreigner. may not know
that according to Josiah Strong's year
book for 1904. 1926, 900 male voters ii
the United States, nearly II per cent
of the whole, cannot read or write IN
any language. Perhaps he does not
know that in one state, Kentucky,
there are $4,000 illiterate voters and
5000 school trustees who cannot read
or write. Perhaps he does not know
that a new law in Kentucky secured
by her club women after years of ardu-
Gus effort provides that no man who
cannot read or write shall be elected
to a school board.
Perhaps he does not know that when
the women started on this campaign
they found 100 school districts in Ken
lucky in which the free public school
of America had passed out of exist
ence, and. that in 1888 others it was
housed in The log shack of a century
ago. and that one of these shacks was
within the shadow of a $4,000 monu-
ment to a Kentucky race horse.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29

medans follow the words of their
prophet No knife must be used on
bread, and the small round ioaves are
broken up and handed around. The
tain, or stew. is not difficult to ma
nipulate. although the olives floating
in argon oil slip through your fingers
Miniature tugs of war occur with your
vis-a-vis in the effort to dismember a
fowl or divide tough meat.
As particular mark Of favor the
host will from time to time place be
fore you a little titbit which he has
torn off with his greasy fingers. How
ever your stomach rebels against it,
you have to swallow the morsel. Dur
ing the meal the national dish of cous-
cous is invariably served. This dish Is
made from broken grains of wheat
specially prepared by the women. 1t
is served piled up like a huge cone.
with the meat on top. Each person
SCOOPS out HIS own little hole in the
side and must not trespass on his
neighbours portion.
To the inexperienced it is difficult to
manage the CONSCIOUS without making
an awful mess OF it. The small grain
must be judiciously compressed into
loose ball and then shot into the mouth
with the back of the thumb. The
Moors take extreme delight in watch
ing the Intellectual efforts OF Euro
peans who are in difficulties with their
CONSCIOUS. Moors are very great eaters,
and little conversation is carried on
during the meal. A bowl OF water is
passed from hand to hand for those
who require drink. The last course
finished, the bowl and water are once
more requisitioned and. the hands and
mouth washed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29
REAL JERSEY DEVIL" FOUND.
A Blend of Sea Serpent, Kangaroo
Bobcat and Jersey Lightning"


Bobcat and Jersey Lightning"
If anybody ever doubted that "Jer-
sey deviP' left its strange and puzzIing
hoof prints in the snow of New Jersey
and adjoining states last winter, proof
has been produced at Burlington, n. j.,
that the scare was never due to high
balls. There is on exhibit the carcass
of the queereSt animal ever seen, q
beast not on the schedule Of any nat
ural history ever read by any one.
The animals body. still in good con-
dition, as though 1t had been dead only
a short while. was found by Morris
Cabinsky of Burlington and Charles
Malsbury OF Kinkora in the woods
near KinkOra and was brought to Bur
lingtOn, where hundreds have seen and
marveled. Photographs have been
made of the beast, and Professor Hen
~ Morse. curator of the state museum,
viii be asked to give the animal a
name and place it where it belongs-if
he is able to do so.
The boys thought at first they had
come upon the carcass of a big wild
cat, but 1t looked so queer to them
that they decided to carry it into town.
The body of the animal is about
twenty inches long and thin. The spi-
nal column extends six inches behind
the junction with the hind legs, like
the tail of a kangaroo, but this again
is tipped with nine inches of tail like a
squirrels, but of reddish brown fur
The strangest feature of all and that
which would seem to convict 1t Of last
winters famous hoof prints is found
in the fore legs and feet The legs are
fifteen inches long, consisting of four
joints. and socketed to these are the
feet, which take the form of a broad,
Eat bone with a distinct heel. The
foot bones are two and a half inches
long and over an inch broad in a solid
piece.
If the animal travelled by leaps. bend
ing the two fore feet down together, he
would land after each long spring
with the feet forming the puzzling eff
ject of the hoof prints in the snow last
winter. The rear feet would explain
the finding of ''cat'' prints near the
hoOf marks. Whatlooks like the frame
work of pair of short wings rises
from the animals back just above his
short hind legs.
The big mouth is set with sharp
teeth three-quarters of an inch long,
while the head is adorned with long,
lancelike ears and four inch whiskerS-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29
The Persistent Man.

What the world wants is men made
Of the gritty material that Peary and
Cook are made of, the material which
comes up again and again and wrests
triumph from defeat, SAYS Orison
SWEET Marden in Success Magazine.
Six times did Peary try to realize
his north pole vision. How many men
are there in this country who would
have tried the seventh time? Not one
in thousands would have attempted it
even the second time.
Twice before had Cook tried to reach
the north pole and once the south pole,
but neither failure. suffering nor the
pleadings of friends could wean him
from his north pole vision. A man
who had the grit when boy to peddle
milk and do all sorts of things in order
to earn money to study medicine and
become a doctor, a man who had bull
dog grit and a dreamer's Willingness
to take chances, could not easily be
turned back. 1t is ever the man who
cannot be weaned from his aim that
makes history.
The real test of character is what
a man does after he fails. What will
he do next? What resources, what IN
ventiveness, will his failure arouse in
him? Will it discover new sources IF
power, will it bring out reserves.
double his determination, or will it dis
hearten him?
There are varying degrees of per-
sistency. Some men start out with
great zeal, but turn back at their Grst
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29
An Old story,

A brand new notion like a fash
or inspiration strikes your mind,
You treasure IL most tenderly
And call It such lucky find.
You think to get IL patented
And multiply your worldly store. IA
But, 10, when you investigate
Some one has thought OF IL beforef
It's mighty hard to find lead
That hasn't TO the death been done,
Fer there is nothing new. they say,
Beneath the bright and shining sun.
A bright idea comes across,
But with me to the records go
And find some Greek has worked 10 out
About two thousand years ago.
We run about in circles wide. "a
Make finds of things from day TO day
That were discovered in the past
And, with the labels, put away.
To think the ancients fossilized
Is an injustice and a wrong.
They had lot of things down fine
That we discover right along.
Since man first learned to work the wheels
That operate his massive brain
There's been "A lot of thinking done.
Both ornamental. straight and plain.
So ere you publish to the world
That you've dished up a brand new kink
Just search the books little while
And you may have another think
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29
The Argus Daily Short Story
At the Junction-By Donald Allen.
Copyrighted. 1909. by Associated Litera ry Press.

~ gUJ,I. Ivuu nave nau TO stay
Just the same"
The young man saw her look of cha
grin, disappointment and anger from
the -four barrel on which he was sit
ting, but did not come forward and
take the red headed man by the neck
or speak words of consolation to her.
She looked at him and mentally called
him names-real hard names.
The agent had home, a wife and two
children. The home was quite near,
and the right thing would have been
to invite Miss Carrie to tarry there.
He didn't do the right thing. He didn't
care whether she walked the platform
or roasted on the haystack.
And that young mana nice speci-
men he was. OF course Miss Carrie
had made up her mind when she first
got off that if he tried to scrape ac-
quaintance she would promptly freeze
him out, but that was on the under
standing that the q. and 5. train was
on time. Now it was hours late, and
that made all the difference in the
world. He ought to know that 1t did.
Just after the red headed man had
told Miss Carrie that she still had two
hours to wait she looked at her watch
and found that it had stopped. There
was no clock in the depot. The young
man had a watch. which he frequently
consulted in a somewhat ostentatious
way, but would the girl humble her
self to ask him what time it was?
Never in this world! There were some
yellow flowers growing alongside the
tracks twenty rods away, and he could
haye jumped down and culled her
bouquet.
The two hours were about up when
the red headed man went out to Miss
Carrie to say:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29
A MEAL WITH A MOOR.
The Repast Began With Green Tea
Served in Glasses.

The RepaSt Began With Green Tea
Served in Glasses.
During my stay in Fee L took every
opportunity of gaining n closer insight
into the domestic life of the inhabit-
ants, and for that reason. writes Law
renee Harris in the London Graphic.
heartily accepted an invitation to dine
with Abdullah ell FAST, the minister
for foreign affairs.
On arriving at his home I was ush-
cred into a large room in which were
seated five or six guests of high rank
Abdullah took me by the hand and
gravely INTRODUCED me to the company.
A silken cushion was placed on the
divan, upon which l seated myself.
The repast commenced with green
tea served In small glasses. The Gus
tom of preparing this is peculiar TO the
country. To the principal native guest
is given the honor Of making the tea.
In this case it was Raisuli, who. being
under British protection, had been in
vited to dinner in my honor. He ac-
copied the invitation to do the honors
of the evening and ordered the ne
gress to place the native brass tray in
front Of where he sat cross legged on
the divan. The methods of proceeding
are not such as would recommend
themselves to an English tea party.
Measuring out the tea in his hand,
he dropped it in the pot The negress
slave then poured boiling water over
it. This was swilIed around and the
water poured off. The pot was then
filed with huge Jumps of loaf sugar.
broken roughly from a sugar loaf. and
n little mint was added. A small guam
tity of the connection was poured into
a glass, slipped and poured back again
into the pot. This process was con-
tinued until the required delicacy Of
flavor was reached.
The company then drank the custom
airy three glasses of this sirupy mix
with a sound like a horse drinking. AS
each glass was finished and replaced
in the tray it was refilled and handed
back by the keeper of the pot" who
was supposed to remember to whom
each glass belonged. at sign from
the host the tray was removed, and
another slave approached each person
with brass bowl, soap and towel and
bronze kettle of warm water. The
guests washed their right hands pre-
paratory to the dinner.
We all sat around small table about
six inches high. upon which was placed
the dish The courses were many and
varied. AS says the Hadith, 'The
blessing of God rests on the food taken
with the fingers" SO all good Moham-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29

Miss Carrie Mayberry had made a
journey of seventy miles up the state
TO pay a months visit to her aunt. She
had had to change cars at a junction
en- route, but the conductor had been
so courteous and there had been so
many passengers changing with her
that she had not minded the ten min
ute wait. In returning after her visit
was up things were different. The con-
ductor was a crossgrained old chap
who had no good looking daughter of
his own. and than the only other pas
senger to get Of and take the G. and
B. road was a young man. who pro-
ceeded to saunter up and down the
platform without giving Miss Carrie a
second look.
AS if these three or four things were
not bad enough. she learned that the
train she had to wait for was three
hours behind time. She did not learn
this from the young man-oh. no, He
found ont for himself and then kept
the Information to himself. though he
must have known what a hurry she
was in to get back home and see pa
and ma. He just didn't care whether
she got home that day or the week
after.
Miss Carrie learned about the late
ness of the train from the red headed
depot agent. It was a country juno
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29

defeat, while failures only enhearten
others, call out their reserves, and
make them all the more resolute, de-
termined to win. For some men every
defeat is a Waterloo but there is no
Waterloo for the man who has clear
grit, for the man who persists, who
never knows when he is beaten. Those
who are bound to win never think of
defeat as final. They look upon it as
q mere slip. They get up after each
failure with new resolution. more de-
termination than ever to go on until
they win.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29
Thoughts for Farmers.


Under the caption, "a Few Facts for
Iowa Farmers to Think About" the
Muscatine News-Tribune publishes the
following which is interesting every
where:
Thomas lawson gave the name of
The interests to that great aggrega-
ton of INSCRIPTIONS corporate wealth
that recognizes no law but might, and
Theodore Roosevelt termed it 'Preda-
tory Wealth. Either will do, but 1
prefer the latter.
"Of predatory wealth Standard Oil
stands conspicuous. OF Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller is the head. j. D..
Rockefeller's son married Nelson w.
Aldrich's daughter.
Nelson w. Aldrich is United States
of the finance committee of that body,
and absolute boss of the senate, back
ed unquestionably by Hale, Penrose,
Burrows, Cullom, Smoot, ct al, who
absolutely control every important ac-
ton of the senate, as Cannon and his
committee on rules do in the house.
"At the close of the extra session Of
congress the Record Herald reported
that President Taft prepared written
statement to send out to the people,
but submitted it to Aldrich, Hale. ct
al, to be blue-peneiled prior to publica-
ton. And later, President Taft in
public addresses boldly asserted the
Aldrich tariff law is the best one ever
enacted and that those who voted
against it departed from the republi-
can party And Mr.. Cannon says that
if Cummins, La Toilette, ct al, are
republicans he is something else.
Added to this, it was recently an
nounced from Washington that the
packing interests. in connection with
Standard Oil, are about to develop the
cattle trade with Argentina; and al
most simultaneously President Taft
urges ship subsidy in one of his
speeches on the Pacific coast.
'eWhat do Iowa farmers, democrats,
republicans or what not, think of the
foregoing array of simply stated, I'M
questionable facts?
ITO maintain fertility, either costly
fertilizers must be used or we must
rotate with clover and grass. With
clover and grass, live stock is neces-
sary to success, and cattle the chief
dependence Ought we to be taxed to
help the packers and Standard Oil to
bring in Argentine cattle to compete
with us?
"Is it not about time for Iowa farm
it not look a little as if predatory
wealth is approXimating complete con-
troll of our national government, both
legislative and executive? That in
satiable greed is arrayed against the
great mass of people and the fight is
only fairly begun. as Senator Cummins
is reported to have said? If anyone
who votes against Aldrich, and Can
non, the personification of predatory
wealth, thereby departs from the re-
publican party, would not all Iowans
better depart at once?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29

Referring to the New York mayor
atty candidates, the Sun says: zone
of the candidates is a gentleman, but
not politician, another is a politician,
but not a gentleman, and the remain
ing candidate is neither a gentleman
nor politician"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29

'You are about to receive large sum
of money" said the fortune teller. "a
''Sure about II. professorY"
"There il is as plain as day in your
hand"
LOAN me five on IT. and l will give
you my note for ten to be paid prompt
" on it's arrival"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29

nenry ivan Name. an oyster dealer
in P;ainfield. n. j.. while opening oyS
tiers the other afternoon found a pearl
worth between S4CO and $500. II IS
as large as a hazenut
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29
WarneG.

"Now. don't make a fool Of yourse7r
I'm this crowd"
''Why notT
81 don't want to see you lose money"
Lose money! HowT'
by giving q free exhibition. You
are worth quarter a bead when you
act the fool"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29
Not Earned.

Everybody says he is a good fell
low"
"How much did he steal from bis
employers
mot a cent"
docs he beat up his wife?'
mo"
'Where did he get his titlew
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29
Superb Service, Splendid Scenery

Superb Service, Splendid Scenery
enroute to Niagara Falls, Muskoka and
Kawartha lakes, Georgian bay and
Temagami region, st. Lawrence river
and Rapids. Thousand islands, Algon-
Quin National park. White mountains,
New England and New Jersey coast
coast resorts, via Grand Trunk railway
system. Double track Chicago 70
Montreal and Niagara Falls. Special
low round trip fares are in effect dur
ing summer season.
For copies of tourist publications,
fares and descriptive pamphlets apply
to w. S. Cookson, A. G. p. A., 1856
Adams street, Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-29

Apropos of Explorer Cook, a news
paper bard sings:
To take the proofs to Denmark
Perhaps was on the square,
But why in Copenhagen
Should he leave them over there?