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The Glenwood post., 1910-03-05

The Rife Reveille says the "dry'
issue is on in that town and that al
most eight times the required number
of people, according to law. have signed
the petition for vote under the local
option law at the approaching election
The Reveille says the local option SEN
timent is rapidly growing and intimates
very emphatically that Rifle will be
"drier than bone" after April l. The
following is Bro. Tomlin's article on
the subject;
That the people of Rifle are anxious
to put the saloons out of business and
clean up the town, was amply expressed
in the petition which was circulated last
Friday morning. While it is fact that
signsr to the petition is not necessari-
ly opposed to the saloon, yet it is also ii
fact that those who are in favor of the
saloons always refuse to sign the peti-
tion, and neither are all of those who
refuse to sign the petition, IN favor OF
the saloons remaining in Rifle. Circnm-
stances in many cases prevented per
sons who are dead against the "wet'' -
proposition from placing their names
on tho petition.
The "wets" were no doubt surprised
when they discovered that the issue for
the spring was sure thing, thinking
perhaps that there would be nothing
doing until the fall election when they
felt sure that the proposition was safe
for th., "wets." And their confidence
WAS no doubt we'll founded.
Sometime during the past year an at
tempt has been made to cinch the wet
proposition in spite Of what the people
might have to say in the matter by th+
voice Of their ballots Not willing td
give the people Of Ride their full right
Of frsashise, the county commissioners
It il reported, have switched the county
prsei.sts IN sasA . way - to include II
The Glenwood post., 1910-03-05
Denver Attorney Not From Missouri,
But Would Like to Be "Shown"
Some Few Things
ASKS PERTINENT QUESTIONS.

The Post has been favored, as have
many Of our readers, with the address
of Congressman Taylor, delivered in
the House on February /, Mr.. Taylor
designating his speech by subject as
Federal Encroachment Upon tina
Rights of the West" The speech of
Mr.. Taylor is well worded and sounds
very well when read from the Congress.
sional Record, but with all due personal
respect to Mr.. Taylor the Post believes
he exaggerates these evils that do
exist and is concerned about others that
do not, never did and never will exist.
The Post does not care at this place
to make further reference to Mr.. Tay
lor s speech, but will refer to letter
written to Mr.. Taylor on the subject
by Mr.. John +. Truesdcll of Denver, in
which the gentleman makes some in
quiries which those of us who have
given careful attention to these qucs
tions believe to be highly pertinent AT
this time
The letter of Mr. Truesdcll is as fol
lows:
Denver, Colo, Feb. "a 1910.
Hon. Edward T. Taylor,
House-ef Representatives.
Washington. D. c.
Dear Sir:--I have just read with in
terest your speech delivered in the
House on the LIST inst, called "Federal
Encroachments on the Rights of the
West" copy Of which you were good
enough to send me.
Though l have so far taken a view
with regard to forest and other So
called conservation problems directly
opposed to the one you express, I an
in perfect accord with you on the ques
tion of eliminating from the reserves
agricultural land, and by that term
mean land more valuable for agricul-
ture than for forest reserve purposes.
It is surprise to me though to learn
The Glenwood post., 1910-03-05
COMING SUMMER
IN GLENWo0D
Manager Lucas Reports Many
Foreign Notabes Coming
to Spend Summer

The largest of the big meetings to be
held in Glenwooi during the coming
summer will be that known as the
Western Classification meeting to be
neld beginning July and lasting two
full weeks. "There will be fully three
hundred people in the crowd and it
wonld not surprise me to see even more
than that, /" said L. E. Lucas, manager
of Hotel Colorado, who is more jubi-
liant this year than ever before over
the future outlook for the hostelry.
''At this time last year, 1 thought we
were doing a heavy business, but It
is not to be compared with the book
ings We are now making. ! have. re-
ceivcd several communications from
Ernest stephen, who is touring foreign
lands in company with Mr.. Drayton,
and these assure me that Glenwood
will be the mecca for some of the lead
ing families of the old world Although
I am not now at liberty to state the
names of all the families who have al
ready made reservations, we will have
some of the best people. And,' con-
tinued Mr.. Lucas, "thty are coming
directly to Glenwood for the summer
months. OF course, We expect to be
taxed to our full limit in July when the
Western Classification meeting is on,
but will be able to take care of the big
crowd and make them perfectly com
Portable That is the largest crowd
that we have booked so far but smaller
parties and parties. that will remain
with us for several weeks are already
making reservations. I do not think
that Glenwood ever had brighter
summer ahead of her than the. one soon
coming presents. We will soon start
force of workmen on the cleaning
redecorating and otherwise getting the
hotel in first-elass shape for the first
arrivals and before the middle of the
season we will have the house filed
and believe every hotel and rooming
house in the city will have an increased
patronage"
Mr.. Lucas is thoroughly conversant
with the business and his predictions
are always verified when the summer
season is on. Taking his prediction for
the coming season, it would seem that
G1epwond is hecominp hetter and more
widely known and that as the years
pass we will see an increased traffic
from the foreign lands This one meet
ing. that of the Western Classification
association, will. result in greater ad-
vertising to the town than any former
gathering in the city and it behooves
every Glenwood citizen to put forth
every effort to make the town as in
viting as possible. We have few
vacant lots within the city limits and
these should be cleared off and given
over to flowers and shrubbery that
would enhance the beauty of that sec
ton of the city. Other towns have
tried the vacant lot scheme with per
feet success and you could not bribe
them into returning to the tin can pile
or rubbish heap. Why not Glenwood
take more pride in herself and remove
from the sight the blemishes and in
their places have flower gardensy Let s
try it.
The Glenwood post., 1910-03-05

Miss Sue Warlick who is teaching in
the Spring Valley district, had a three
days' vacation this week owing to the
death Of her cousin, Ralph Curry.
The Glenwood post., 1910-03-05

The family Of MAx Cohen left Wed
nesday for Denver whore they expect to
make their home in the future
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18

with the material at hand one need not be expected to see Hughey put the Sox in the front row at the be- ginning of the race and keep them there Having none of the cares of a manager on his shoulders. Billy Sul livan, the great catcher, is expected to show his old form again this year and if he does 1t will mean more strength to the Sox
 Duffy is part owner of the Provi. dence team in the Eastern league, as we'll as manager of the team. He is the man who engineered the deal for Shortstop Blackburn for whom Comis, key paid $12.500. Blackburn was considered the greatest infielder in minor leagues last year.
 Duffy broke into the game in New England when Anson was winning championships in Chicago and Comis. key was making himself famous in St, Louis. "Anse" heard of Duffy and signed him for his own team in 1887, In 1890 he joined the Chicago Brother hood team under Comiskey, and should be at home at the new park
 With the breakup of the Brother hood Duffy joined the champion Bos .on American association team. and when the consolidation came the fol lowing year he became a member of the Boston Nationals, of which team he was made captain in 1896. He left Boston to become manager of the Mil. waukee team in the American league, and later became manager of the Phil. adelphia Nationals, where he re- mained until the close of 1906. when he went to Providence.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18
EpEAT LOVE STORIES
 . OF HISTORY - 1v ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE
|p.,edict Arnold and Peggy Shippen
Copyright by the Author.)

dier. Arnold lived in luxury. was looked up to by all and was a wei. come guest at the best houses He became friendly with several Tory families, people who disapproved of the revolution and were loyal to Eng. land. One of these Tories was Ed ward Shippen, whose beautiful daugh. ter Margaret Cor Peggy" as she was 1amlllarly known), was the belle of Philadelphia. Arnold promptly fell in love with Peggy. His handsome face. magnetic manner and fame as hero quickly won the girls heart. They be- came engaged Miss Shippen was a stanch Tory. So were her family and her friends. Influences were brought to bear upon Arnold to shake his loy- atty !. the cause of freedom. The woman he loved did not approve of the revolution. The men at whose homes he was an honored guest hated 1t and had glib arguments to oppose Arnold's faith. He was told how Gen. u.,. Monk sold the
 r.,.,.,s Commonwealth of England to Charles H., and was thereafter re- garded as hero; how the duke of Marlborough betrayed Eng land to William of Orange and was made peer of the realm. Other cases of the sort were cited to show Arnold that betrayal of his country was not treason, but for the country's ultimate good. since the revolution at that time seemed doomed to failure. He and Peggy were soon afterward married and the wife's influence over her ador- ing husband was almost unbounded She was heart and soul with the Tories.
 Even then 1t is doubtful If Arnold would have yielded had not his ene- mics trumped up absurd charges of official misconduct against him. These charges were disproved, but congress continued its prosecutions and or dered Washington to give Arnold public reprimand. That was the last straw. Arnolds patriotism, already undermined by Peggy and her friends, was swept away in gust of fury at this crowning injustice. He entered into reasonable correspondence with the British. The rest is known How he obtained command of West Point and tried to sell that stronghold to England; how through the capture of Maj Andre, the go-between, the plot was discovered.
 Arnold fled to the British, fought against his country and later went to England to live. Peggy Loyalty joined him in his exile and disgrace, and did all in her power to comfort the out cast in his last years. If she had really instigated his treason, she also shared its bitter fruit.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18

He Was Looking at the Shadow
 Moodily One Day When He Noticed That the Shadow Was Curling Up a
 Little at One Edge.
 the shadow of the house would shift around somewhat, and then Balkins had to get up and move his chair into the shadow again. And nothing he could say would make the widow tote his meals out to him--he just had to brace up and walk into the house for he was pretty reasonably happy. He said he would sit there in the shade and slumber, and when he wearied of that he would sit there and doze, and between times he would get little change by sitting there and sleeping Balkins said he couldn't imagine but one thing that might spoil his hap piness, which was that the house might take fire and burn down, and then there would be no shadow of it for him to sleep in, and he said he had awful nightmares right there in the daytime, dreaming he was trying to save the shadow of the house, and the shadow slowly disappearing as the house burned, and then he would awaken and find that the sun had moved around and was shining on him, and he would have to get up and go to all the exertion of moving his rocking chair into the shadow again.
 Along about August 9th, when the sun was at it's hottest, Balkins was sitting there in the shadow of the house when one of those awful Colo rado winds came up. Biff! 1t came, with the suddenness of an explosion, and struck the house full force, and the first thing Balkins knew the house was sailing away through the air He said that for a minute he could hardly realize it. It was a medium high wind-about ten feet high-and down where he was there was not a ripple of air-not enough to rock his chair but it caught the house and whooped and his first thought was that he must get up and tote his chair all that dis tance to get in the shadow again, but the next moment he realized that he settle down about half mile away, t away. He says he saw the house F vas still in the shadow of the house. Yes, sir, he says it was fact, he was .till in the shadow of the house! He said he did not try to account for 1t
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18
The Bridge of Years.

When I was six and she was four the
 midge! We used to play about the old red bridge. And often dig in sand for half the day; Twas then we made it spades" as one
 might say. We quarreled fiercely once, as I recall; She said a word-'twas not polite at all: She said it thrice to make her meaning
 clear, We came to blows. we made it clubs"
 l fear. Long afterwards we played at bridge-I
 lost. Lost all. yet played on. reckless of the
 cost; Then asked her, with the courage of
 despair: "A diamond may I make it-solitaire?" She said a word: she said it very low And only once: 1t didn't sound like NO" I was-and am-the happiest of men, For we have always made it hearts"
 since then. Frank M. Bicknell. in Smart Set Mag
 azne.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18

Kidderminister, having her play, though not many of them having "the heart of child;" more mirth and music in London than in all Italy. What paradox the world is! They are still playing Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" to crowded houses, and it was only the other evening that an old British vestal quite up in the peerage, being told that 1 was from Kentucky, exclaimed with some thing that bordered on enthusiasm: Quite extraordinary. you know; why, that is where that Mrs.-dear, dear Twiggs of the Garbage Snatch came from, isn't it?"-Henry Watterson, in letter to Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18
Donahue a Magnate Now.

"Jiggs" Donahue. the second man of Comiskey's famous White Sox staff to become a Chicago semi-pro magnate, took his degree when he signed five year lease for Anson's park and took over the franchise in the Chicago Baseball league.
 Big Larry Mclean, the crack back stop of the Cincinnati Reds, has just been appointed captain of the club for the coming season by Clark Griffith Pitcher Bob Spade has signed his con tract with the Reds.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18
Common Errors About Birds

prejudice against all birds of prey includes that pretty little hawk. the kestrel. Now. if the kestrel were known as the mouse falcon. it is pos sible that keepers would not invari' ably shoot it on sight. The kestrel lives mainly on mice and wire-worms. It Is quite innocent of killing part ridges. In game-preserving district in southern Scotland kestrels were practically exterminated few years ago. What was the result? Over a tract of country of 1,200 square miles field mice increased in such myriads that the grazing was absolutely ruined. One sheep farmer lost $S.0OO in one year.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18
BETZVuLE TALES Bulkins SchUar(z and fhe Shudou
E1fs Darker BuHeEI H&S Author of"Pi9s spiqs Etc. SKA3 ILLUSTRATED By PETER NEWELL

Last Tuesday about five o'clock Bal klns Schwartz. who was at one time one of Betzvilles most respected leis- ure-classists, walked up to Uncle Ash dod Clootzs back door and asked for nve dollars. He said that if he couldn't have that he would willingly accept square meal, a pair of shoes, toothpick, or any old hunk of chew Ing gum that might be sticking on the underside of a chair or table. He finally compromised on a chew of fine cut tobacco. From the story told to Uncle Ashdod we judge that Balkins has been having hard time of it since he left Betzville and went west. Uncle Ashdod happened to remark that Balkans was so thin he hardly cast shadow, and Balkins immediate ly burst into tears. He said he couldn't bear to hear a shadow men, tioned after what had happened to him in Colorado.
 Balkins said that as soon as he struck Colorado he knew he was in Gods country, and he decided he would settle down there if he could find anyone that would feed and lodge him free gratis, and give him clothes for nothing, and the first week he was there he found the right widow, and they were married in June, and Balkfns settled right down to work at his job, which was pulling a rock ing chair into the shadow of the house and dropping off comfortably to sleep between meals. He said he liked the job first rate, except that the sun out there keeps moving all the time, and
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18
Bright Lad.

The teacher was trying to familiar ize her little pupils with the definition of the word tame"
 And what do most animals become after they have been in the zoo a long timer" she asked her class.
 Up went the chubby hand of the lit- tie boy in the blue reefer.
 Please. ma'am, know" he chirped. What, Willie?"
 Peanut eaters, ma'am"
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18

at first, but in a minute he figured that the shadow must have been very loosely attached to the house, and that when the wind struck the house it was blowing so high that it did not touch the shadow at all, but just wrenched the house loose from the shadow, and left the low-lying shad- ow where it was.
 At first, Balkins says, he was mighty pleased-mighty pleased-because he did not have to move his rocking chair, but the next moment he began to weep, for he saw that he would have to walk all the way to the house every meal time, and then walk the half mile to the shadow for his nap, and if it came to that, he might as well be tramping again He says he put up with it for a week, for the widows sake, and tramped back and forth between the house and the shad- ow three times day, and then he got sick of it. He said he felt that a To- cation half mile away from a house was no place for houses shadow, and he was looking at the shadow moodily one day when he noticed that the shadow was curling up a little at one edge, and that gave him an idea. So he got the OK team and hitched it onto the loose edge of the shadow and drove the ox-team in the direction of the house. At first the shadow seemed to be following all right, but when he got about half way to the house he saw he was mistaken; the shadow was not following, it was fastened tight to the earth at the other end, and it was just stretching out long and thin, like a sheet of rubber But he goaded the oxen on, and drove up to the house, and nailed the end of the shadow to the side of the house It wasn't much of a shadow in that shape. It was stretched out half a mile long, and correspendingly mar. row, but Balkins said he thought he could make it do, for it was wide enough to set rocking chair in.
 But that night terrible thing hap pened. The widow heard noise in the chicken coop and got up to see what was the matter, and just as she stepped on the shadow the far end of it came loose and it snapped like a rubber band. Balkins said it snapped up against the house with a noise like cannon. Naturally shadow that has been stretched half a mile and then suddenly loosened at the far end would do that. It completely killed the widow; killed her thoroughly, it struck her so hard, and broke the rocking chair, and Balkins says that when he went out and saw that rock ing chair all smashed he didn't have the heart to remain, and he come away.
 He told Uncle Ashdod that the only thing he had left of those happy days was a small piece of the shadow he cut off as memento It looked to Uncle Ashdod like small piece of shingle at first, but when Balkins held it up in the sun in the right position Uncle Ashdod saw that it had its shadow with it all right. It did for fact!
 Copyright. 1909. by W. G. Chapman.)
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18

,ev snippen has been termed mt .Sy by es' nuun "the Cleopatra of the ei povolution. As the willy n.n l.aA oueen of old lured a great ua ;, Mark Anthony, to throw away a', a,,a for love, so was Benedict @ 'a brave and gifted hero Of the ,u, nt,on, turned by love of woman traitor. That Miss Shippen ,ed the enormity of the crime to- which Arnold was being drawn ], nroyen. Nevertheless, till he nor few men deserved better beir country than did he. Soon he fell under the girls infiu- he began to plot the treason that made his name accursed.
 onle are apt to remember Bene- Arnold only as the traitor who to sell his country. His crime blackened the memory of his ear pnd heroic deeds. If he, in an evil ent yielded to temptation to the cause of freedom, let it also ecalled that he had previously more than almost any man ex- Washington to win his country's Bom and that no other patriot suffered such gross injustice and -ution at the hands of congress. article is not designed to white i" Arnold nor to excuse black khery, for which there is no ex-
 But it may explain how a hero ened suddenly to turn villain.
 hold. from the moment the revo- n began. was in the thick of the
 fight. While he ma'N TUT was away on the 'njus''9e' Canadian ca m-
 his first wife died. Left with ome ties, he gave himself wholly be cause of liberty. Fearless in e. brilliant in strategy, he rose in the army He and George hington were dear friends. This dship strangely enough, was one rnolds worst misfortunes, for hington's secret enemies in con- and in other high places vented dislike for the Father of His try by sighting and injuring the Is friend Arnold would win Try; another man would get the greatest service to the colonies rendered when Burgoyne, with British army, swept down from porth in an invasion that threat to wreck the patriot cause. Ar by repeated attacks, weakened oynes army and at last met and oyed it at the battle of Sara
 Even after this act of hero congress was slow to do him jus but Washington secured for him military governorship of Phila- Ria
 ls was a complete and pleasant ge from the rough life of a sol
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18
" Most Sagaclous Creature, ana the Dove Has Royal
 Fighting Qualities.

|ns ul the common sayings con.
 s.,a ualrds are stupidly wrong. |an,,i .ap'u goose!" is an expression hs. 's heard; yet the goose. |ns Wild M or tame, Is most sa. '', Wild geese, for instance. \ ., su without throwing out es vs sentries. J. G. Millais de. he 1om n.'s, ne saw a flock of geese
 ,,, ",'n sentries out, and how.
 e' ne one of the sentries went |it aaOi, o,ra that was feeding, and Ns ,S0se gentle pick on the back. The on osn1ereupon .s left it's grazing and s 's too', to t. take up guard, while the (,.' 'OA It's turn to feed.
 n,Os us as dove" IS such . corn.
 IS'sro the aa',i that the dove has be. ls, s,. for all the dove e's, and eu,,e n,seoa a linz great great fighters. and he in tbs
 in ssas season the cock birds % in. ~ battles royal, The e'lSs foolish ,a,
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18
PATTERSON IN LONDON
ran Editor Writes Entertaininuly Of Visit to British Me.
 tropolis.

course, everybody Is out of
 That is one reason why I like on best in summer. In winter 100 fashionable and tragieal. But 1uly, when the season. closes, |oVember. when it opens again, |seather is fine and the streets |pnanlasmagoria of moving pie
 or song and dance and sun-
 mlrth;;' the taterdemalion or ias making discords with the clous' hand organs; the half
 araos Of the slums taking their |'essons for the stage which they Y ia'er along; many and many a
 'napes, embro marchioness of
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-18
Lamy Sets Two Skating Marks.

Edmund Lamy of Saranac Lake. ip the national indoor championship meet at Cleveland. O.. broke two worlds championship skating records one of which he himself made at Pitts bure last year. He reduced the guar ter mile indoor mark from 40 20 tc aS AZ. and took three seconds oil the mile and a half record made by J. s Johnson in Montreal in 1894. witr 4:25