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The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-07-31

Mrs. kellccn, from Ann Arbor,
Michigan, n sister OF W. j. En-.
Earl. and her son Fred arrived in
the city Thursday morning on
months visit. Fred kellecn sings
with FretxschietY Chestcrs' orchcs.
ira.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-07-31

Mrs. Jackson of Monticello, Iowa,
arrived hero Friday morning on n
visit with Mrs W. II. Hsnder.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-07-31

A. s. Chase shipped two cars Of
hogs 10 Pueblo Wednesday night
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-07-31

Louis Price returned Friday
from n visit 10 Nebraska. His
sister Ms. A. j. Denton returned
with him and will remain hero
during the hot weather.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-07-31

X. b. Halferty returned home
Friday from u trip 10 tho west and
southwest.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-07-31

Dan Jones came homo from
Denver Friday morning.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-07-31

We are glad to be able to say that
the plastering Of the second story 10 CON-
pleted, and that the floor will all be in
very shortly. This room should be all
ready in short time now.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-07-31

Did you read about our sl.0O sale on
sale here, and you will be surprised To
see whnt articles We are willing to offer
you for sl.0O.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-07-31
Fassett's Store News.

1909 FAssErTs DEPARTMENT STORE Number "a
The Only Way To Have A Friend I. To Be one-Eus.en
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-07-31

We received part OF car Of water
melons that were shipped here this week.
These melons seem TO he Of = very good
quality.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-07-31

Mr.. Freeman is quite proud OF his
saddle horse. This horse is only COM
ming 5-year old, but has developed
since Mr.. Freeman has
owned him.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13
occupation for Surplus Women,

The question of the surplus woman
engages increasing attention in the old
Bay State 1t is said that the number
of spinsters and widows in Massa-
chusetts who cannot hope to marry, be-
cause of the scarcity of men, is 100000,
and that many of them lead dreary and
weary lives. Commiserating their for
lornness, sixty successful business and
professional women of Greater Boston
have organized with a view of obtain
ing state aid for this class, which will
enable them to obtain small tracts of
land near large cities, where they may
engage with profit in raising small crops
for the market. 1t is expected to induce
a wealthy New York woman, possibly
Mrs. Russell Sage, to contribute half
million or so to the cause She is ex-
pected to visit Boston and survey the
situation some time in June. OF course
the happiest people in the world-wheth-
er spinsters and widows or others-are
such as possess initiative and can do
for themselves. But among those who
lack initiative there are many with large
susceptibilities for happiness who may
be greatly helped, and it is good Of their
successful sisters in business and the
professions to try to help them.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13
Important Advice from Amateurs.

The Junior Wireless Club, a New
York amateur telegraph Organizati ton,
has made a suggestion to the War and
Navy Departments relative to interior
ence with wireless messages of the gov
eminent, which is worthy Of considera-
ton not only because it points way
out of difficulties experienced by the gov
eminent operators, but because it shows,
how the difficulties of private lines may
be eliminated on basis of mutual con-
sideration. The New York club advises
the government to adopt wireless service
OF high power. and to send its messages
by a definitely established wave length.
1t says this should be followed by Motif
cation sent to all amateur operators that
their instruments should be adjusted to
other established wave lengths in order
to avoid interference with official COM
munications.
If this can be done for the purpose of
preventing. interference with business
messages by those who indulge in wire
less communication 'for the fun of the
thing" 1T ought to be possible for the
competing commercial wireless telegraph
lines to also adopt high power currents
and attune them for the avoidance of
conflict. The high power currents would
be more potential than the amateur sys-
TENS. and the commercial companies are
not sufficiently numerous to make adjust
| ment impossible. Indeed, lit this stage
of development, the commercial possibili-
ties of wireless telegraphy are not such
as to invite the investment of large
blocks of capital and the installation of
numerous competing lines.
1t is interesting to have weighty adj
vice in a matter of this kind come from
a club of amateurs. 1t reveals the in
| tensity of the spirit of investigation in
the minds of Young America, and eX-
plains why the people of this country are
so progressive in invention and in me-
| chanical pursuits. While nations have
been wrestling with the problem a little
coterie of amateurs quietly worked it
out in their own interest. The club would
| like to continue it's experiments without
inviting trouble through interference
with government communications, and it
| has suggested step that will eventually
have to be taken if Hertzian waves are
| to be utilized for the extension of COM
| municati ton.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13

nothing more than servitors to minister
to their wants, and give them a good
time"
Later I interviewed father belong
ing to the class that have the largest
1annies We've 'ad eight" he said,
and buried five. And l wish we'd buried
the lot"
Dear met [ exclaimed. "How's that?
Inc bishop of London SAYS that the
Worthiest man is he who gives a family
to the nation"
Never mind the bishop of London"
ne said, look at this" And he handed
me all advertisement which ran. Scare
| takers Wanted, Man and Wife No en-
cumbrances. That's what tbev call
EN-" he said bitterly "EncumbTances.
And DEFY you or anybody else to man
age that boy of mine. He's only 10 and
he's 'andful, I give you my word
l sighed. And passing through a mar
row street | came upon d small how
with a large barrow. 1t was stocked
with bananas, and he was just about to
wheel it off.
Good bye, MOTHER" he said. There
was a gray haired woman at the door of
a small house.
Goodbye, dear. Hope you'll sell out"
He trundled off.
Your son, ma'am?" I said.
Yes, sir" she replied. THANK God.
Since his father died eighteen months
ago, he's kept me and himself with that
barrow. And I'll back him against any
man on the road for sellin bananas."-F.
Raymond Coulson in London Ideas.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13
Wheelhouse In % Prison.

The treadwheel is still in vogue al
many English prisons. Within the
walls is little building built of blue
gray stone, standing somewhat apart
from the main structure in corner
Of the exercise ground and prison gar
den. On the chocolate-colored door is
painted In white letters the two words
wheel House" AS the door opens
the dull, grinding sound that was heard
outside grows little louder and clear.
er. The door closes behind the visitor
with the inevitable clash and click OF
the returning bolt.
The house is an apartment some
thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide
On the left-hand side are the wheels
four Of them, in two tiers, divided by
gallery running the whole length OF
the house and communicating with the
floor by staircase at the opposite end
On the right-hand side there is an
other, lower and shorter, gallery or
which stands the warder in charge
The wheels are separated by section
Of brick wall.
Each wheel is divided into compart
ments, cutting off each prisoner from
the others. The object of this is to
prevent the prisoners from seeing and
hearing one another, although CONVEX
sation in low voice, pitched in a diff
ferent key to that Of ''the music Of the
Wheel" is perfectly easy and intelli
gible
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13
AN EXCITING ZEBRA HUNT.
Capture of Herd Not Without Loss of
Human Life.

In Abyssinia, where all game is con-
sidered the property of the Emperor,
Menelik, zebra hunts are conducted on
an enormous scale. One of the Hagen
beck's travellers, hearing that one of
these grand hunts was soon to come off.
asked permission of the Emperor to take
part in it and requested, furthermore,
that he be allowed to take all the zebras
captured to Hagenbeck in Hamburg.
Both requests having been granted, the
traveller joined the imperial hunting par
ty. which included no less than 1000
Abyssinian soldiers and great number
of villagers pressed into service for the
occasion.
A vast piece of land was surrounded
and the encircling lines of soldiers
drawn gradually more and more closely
together until finally herd of zebras.
caught between these lines, was driven
to seek refuge in the bed of a river
Panic-stricken, the beasts threw them
selves into the water from the high
rocky banks. At once these were occu-
pied by some of the troops, while at a
sign from the leaders over 1000 men.
with ropes in their hands, hurled them
selves from the banks and swan into
the very midst of the maddened zebra
herd. After a few hours of terrific strug-
Cling in the water the herd was finally
overpowered and captured IT at a cost,
however, of thirty-three human lives.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13

Outing. Look out dar," yells stony" (;
there is splash about thirty yards
away, your line becomes taut and
is gliding out like lightning before you
can apply the brake. When you do 1t
is almost jerked from your grasp and
simultaneously the tarpon leaps and
writhes above the water again. There
is no sight more beautiful to the an
gler than the graceful, silvery form Of
the tarpon, like a CLEAN of light from
darkness, leaping forth from the green
sea-
That moment when the tarpon has the
bait and you strike Is the one of all
others most fraught with intense ex-
element. 1t Is the first crisis in the
battle. He is down again and your
hook holds. He darts back and forth,
ever going deeper In his wild PUSHES
1t Is an earnest fight. The first ten
minutes seem like an hour Rush i'm
reel up, don't let rest; following the
advice, your arms tire, your hands be-
come numb, it may be, bleeding and
y
you are towed out toward the sea, al
ways fighting
In his first mad rushes the huge fish
gained on you, taking out nearly 100
yards Of your line During the first
half hour he has decidedly the better
of the fight and keeps most of the
line. During the second half hour you
gain the lost line foot by foot and the
honors are about equally divided Now
the long rushes and leaps begin to tell
and he loses wind. If he did not help
to kill himself by these wild rushes
and leaps, you could never land him.
BY some kind Of intuition an angler
can tell when he has gained the mas
terry over fish. You feel instructive
ly that the second crisis has been
passed and the boat turns back toward
the bench; and as the beach Is neared
you reel in and fight at close range
Once he dashes almost up to the
boat and suddenly turns about; you
nearly lost him that time. You soon
lead him back, however. Now he lies
near the boat; you see his cleaning
side glisten in the light, "Stiddy now
says your man, as the boat touches the
beach; you climb out and, resisting
his last waning strength, as he lashes
spray upon you, pull him out upon the
sand and the fight is won.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13
"CLASs" IN ENGLAND.
Equality Is Hardly Known and So
cial Lines Are Sharply Drawn.

cial Lines Are Sharply Drawn.
The classes are as distinctly marked
as though they wore uniforms. AT
the base of the social pyramid are the
agricultural laborers earning from
$3.50 to 1926 a week so per cent OF
the laborers in England earn 70 shlll-
ings a week or less. A fact worth re-
Numbering when we revise our tariff,
saws a writer in Scribner's. Then the
farm servants and house servants OF
the small gentry, earning, the men
from 500 to $3.50 a year, the women
from $50 to SIPS year; then the
shopkeepers and their assistants and
employees: then the richer merchants,
and mill or factory owners, and rank
ing with them the local professional
men, lawyers, doctors, dissenting min
listers, land agents and the like; next
come the gentleman farmers and land
ed proprietors, and the clergy of the
church of England; and finally the
country gentlemen and the neighboring
nobility, with the lord lieutenant Of
the county, often great noble, as the
official and political apex.
The manufacturer, mill owner and
the like receives Of course both social
and official recognition according to his
success and his wealth.
In the New England town 1 have In
mind-and very proud l Gm to keep
it in my memory-of about the same
size and relative Importance as the
English town / am describing, the gov
ernor Of the state, who happens to live
there, and the cashier Of the local
bank, and the shopkeeper, If he be Of
intelligent proportions, would meet at
one another's houses, If their COM
mon tastes made it agreeable. But it
would. be considered the height Of So
cial glory in this English town should
shopkeeper, no matter how big the
shop, or bank cashier, no matter
what his erudiHon, or even a physician
or small solicitor. or small factory
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13
cHIcAGo's RICHEST POLICEMAN

Being a gentleman Of leisure, as some
persons understand the term, is not to
the liking of Michael Hassett, who re-
tired from the Chicago police force re-
Gently, ''the richest policeman in Chi
cago" Hassett has travelled beat
in the stock yards district for twenty
three years, and, although not an old
man by any means, he thought he need
ed a rest. Now that he has the op-
portunity to remain in bed until 20
o'clock in the morning and have his
breakfast brought to him, he finds that
he cannot break away from the habits
which have been formed by a life of
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13

rigid routine. In spite OF his desire
to snooze in the morning he finds him
self rising at o'clock and he Is at
the police station when the "rest of
the boys" report When the squad
starts out to begin the days work
Michael becomes restless, and by the
time the last of the men has filed from
the building the millionaire" has "fal-
len in" and steps as lightly and as
proudly as he did twenty years ago.
He passes the greater part Of the day
on his old beat with his successor. TITS
great to be rich," says the former
patrolman, ''but what good do l get
out of retiring If I can't quit the beat?
My heart is in the work and my feet
won't let me stay away"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13
THE LILIES.

l, a mortal, had a dream
Where the long-stemmed lilies grow;
And | saw their petals CLEAN,
Like pale nymph-limbs over snow.
], mortal. heard them speak
Just above the waterfall,
Where the narrow, hurrying creek
Runs beneath the birches tall.
List they said, 1.-THE Used-to-be
TrembleS in each golden heartl
Listr' they said, And you shall see
How the out-grown years DEPART"
l. a mortal. saw them sway
Backward forward, in the night
There are mortalS who would say
Twas but moonbeamS flashing white.
But 1 saw from each rare bloom
Something rise and upward wing;
Nor would l cen yet presume,
Or attempt to name the thing.
Only each white bloom aroused
And stood wanly, frail and tall,
While the tenants they had housed
lowered near the waterfall.
o We wraiths of Hidden Things.
Spirits of the Used-tO-be,
Wherefore do you try your wings
Ere we know you, fair and free?
Wherefore do you leave behind
But milk-white, waxen shell,
And song we cannot find,'
And dream we dare not tell?
/, mortal, looked Beyond.
Pierced the intervening Wall,
Where the little river fond
Hurries to the waterfall.
And | wonder, as the years
Creep along the Lonesome Way,
Where the lilies keep the tears
OF the hopes of Yesterday.
All. when my spent years are blown
Upward from the lilies tall,
Shall | find my Youth, outgrown,
Lingering by the waterfall?
Or shall I, as humans see,
Merely lie all straight and cold,
While the lilies cover me
With their royal white and gold?
Lila B. n. Weston
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13

The government has been selling fire
arms of discarded patterns to anyone
who wanted them for a dollar apiece.
They are worth many times the price.
Some Of the people who bought them
were relic and trophy hunters. A real
gun is an effective ornament for ''den. y
Other purchasers, it is said, belonged to
the criminal classes, and wanted the fire.
arms for no good purpose. The adoption
of the policy of holding the guns by the
government is under discussion. They
would come in very handy to arm a citi-
zen soldiery in case OF sudden war.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13

And now comes Prof. Earle Barnes OF
Philadelphia, in lecture to high school
teachers, declaring that children under
II years of age are liars 1t is an echo
from the West. Perhaps the statement
is true There is evidence, moreover,
which indicates that juvenile predisposl-
lions have firm hold on many people
of maturer years. But now that the con-
dition has ben diagnosed, what are tue
professors going to do about it?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13

Trans-isthmian traffic between the
eastern and western coasts of the United
States is growing rapidly, and amounted
last year to $5O,OOO,000. 1t is facilitated
by two railways, one on the isthmus of
Panama, and the other on the isthmus of
Tehuantepec. The latter is owned by
British capital and controlled by the gov
eminent of Mexico. Wait till the Pana-
ma canal is finished and then see the
booml What is going on now will seem
then only like the patter of raindrops be-
fore q storm.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13


unhped She consequently helpless and was
when found the Roosevelt
the accident
dispatched the ship owed into port In sarey W
ABOARD
ship the moue
otherwise would nave
teraphy overland little has been made In
working time passed
commercially
directions Chi
Milwaukee but
the scientists do not
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13

States persists in making slap-dash sched-
ules while Germany and France make
scientific ones, the result will be highly
beneficial to Germany and France. and
highly detrimental to the United
States.
The probability is that in regard to
the major part of the pending tariff bill
it has been as carefully adjusted to exist
ing conditions as was any other measure
of the kind in this country. Certain
of its provisions, fagrantly unfair and
unwise. were not in the measure as
originally planned, but were hastily in
serted at the last moment. Some of these
excrescences have been cut off. 9th
ers undoubtedly are slated for a similar
fate in the Senate. But there is still I'M
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13

The people who assert that tie electric
current does not kill, but that what does
away with life in the bodies OF victims
of the chair at Auburn is the autopsy,
are not permitted to make attempts at
revivifcation of malefactors. But there
is the sad case of Prof. Tufts, OF Column
bia College, killed by an electric dis
charge while testing the electric light
plant at Bayonne, New Jersey. Ii the
electric current does not kill, why is the
phenomenon not illustrated in the case
of Prof. Tufts?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13
The Necessity for Tariff Commission

The argument in favor of tariff COM
mission is strong and will grow stronger
as the foreign trade of the country ex-
pands. Tariff rates can not be fixed
anywhere, with the confidence that bust
ness will adjust itself to them. That
might have worked once: but those SIM
pie days have passed. The tariff is now
employed by each of the great CONNER
cial and industrial nations, with the ey
ception of Great Britain. as a means of
securing trade concessions, as well as q
means of protecting home industries.
The construction of tariff schedules has
become a science. and must be conducted
on scientific principles. If the United
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13
One of Those Foolish Questions.

A. certain man, Of rather a waggish
disposition, contends that his wife has
no imagination. A writer in the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger tells why he
thinks so. At dinner one night he
CHANGED to mention a tragic circum-
stance which he had read in the even
ing paper on the way home.
1t seemed that passenger on a
transatlantic steamer had fallen over
board in mid-ocean, and had never
been seen again.
"Was she drowned?' asked his wife.
'HOh, no." answered the husband,
'but he sp1ained his ankle, I believe"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13
CoNoUERING THE TARPoN.

Sensations of One Who Has Hooked
a Fish of That Kind.
The boat stops still; yonder is
swirl on a wave and a great, dark
body, with a greenish back and large
protecting fin appears above it; 1T is
a breathless moment, says a writer in
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13

An organization known as the Associa-
ton for the Protection of the Adiron-
dacks has formally expressed itself in
favor of prohibition of the use of the
Maxim gun silencer except by the regu-
lar military establishments and duly au-
thorized officers of the law. 1t is feared
that general use of the silencer will in
crease poaching and other crimes. This
was remarked when the simple contriv-
ance was first exploited, and it is inter-
esting to note the fact that the opinion
is rapidly becoming general. Cross bows
in olden times, and later the airgun, were
prohibited for the reason advanced by
the New York organization.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13

The fight for free hides will not be
won until the tariff bill has passed both
houses of Congress and received the
Presidents signature. The selfish inter-
ests opposed to the measure know that
every cent of the thousands OF dollars
which the tariff on hides puts into their
pockets is clear gain, and that they can
afford to keep up to the last their strug-
gle for its retention. Meanwhile the
manufacturing interests and the con-
sumers should leave not a stone I'M
turned to defeat this greedy conspiracy.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13

Tue Bureau of Railway News and Sta
tistics challenges the accuracy of the In
terstate Commerce Commissions estimate
of the loss which the railroads of the
country sustained by reason of the panic
of 19O7-S. The Interstate Commerce
Commissions estimate is $164, 464, 941,
while that Of the Bureau of Railway
News and Statistics is $330,O00,OO0. The
Bureau further says that though two
cent fare legislation led to an increase in
the number of passengers carried, it
caused a loss in gross earnings OF S2o,-
100000.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-05-13

One of the text books submitted for
animadversion because it contains a di-
rection to pupils to write an essay on
Booker T.. Washington. This tends to
show the inveteracy of Southern preju-
dice on the subject of the colored race.