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The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1910-11-12
WHAT Is THE REMEDY?

WHAT Is The REMEDY!
A few men now control not only
the industrial life, but also the
money supply and the commercial
credit of the nation. One of our
most eminent financial authorities
recently declared that less than a
dozen men in New York City con-
troll industrial, transportation and
banking enterprises capitalized IN
all at not less than $35, 600, 600, 600.
Think for moment what these
figures mean!
The same authority says that,
emitting from consideration the
small business corporation, total
capitalization of the railroads, the
public utility corporations, the
banks, the insurance companies
and industrial trusts of the county
is about $43,OOO,OOO,OOO. Thus,
approximately one-third of the
total wealth of the country and
four-fifths of all the vital corporate
capital of the nation has passed
into the control or under the
domination of less than dozen
men!
Another writer declares that MIR.
Morgan alone is undisputed mas
ter of the financial situation in
New York. Here, indeed, is
power, unheralded and unaccom-
panied by any of the pomp and
circumstance of royalty, yet great
er even than that possessed by
medieval kings or oriental des-
pots ***
What is the remedy? These
evils demand attention. Monop-
olies must be either destroyed or
controlled in the interests of the
public; stock watering must be pro-
hibited; exploitation of the public
under cover of excessively high
tariff duties must cease; railway
rates must be. more effectively
regulated; the hazards of industrial
accidents must be shifted from the
back of toll; and the natural re-
sources of the nation must be con-
served for the public good.
Unless the experiment of self
government we are try ing here is
to become a hopeless failure, this
nation must remain democratic in
fact as we'll as in name, in econ
omic conditions as we'll as in po-
litica' aspiration. To accomplish
this result, moreover, will require
no innovation destructive of prop
erty rights and no denial to the
strong Of full opportunity to make
the most of their strength. But
it will secure to the unselfish and
to the man of average ability and
and industry, as well as to the ex-
ceptionally endowed, fair chance
g, <I,o .o<,x - l;eo Ass
But before the people can hope
to succeed in remedying these
abuses through governmental ac-
ton, they must first secure control
of the government.-FRANCIs E.
MCGovERN, in LaFollette's.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1910-11-12

Leon Sisters millinery was rob-
bed Friday night; tracks at the
back door, as we'll as the selections
made, indicate that it was a
woman's work. A knife was used
to cut a small hole in the thin
panel and the key which was on
the inside, used to unlock the
door. A fur coat valued ut 800
aud silk petticoats and other gar.
ments to the value OF 500 were
taken.-Alamosa Courier.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1910-11-12
ROBS THE DOG

81 now feed my family twice as
we'll on about two-thirds the cost.
A large part of the saving comes
from the economical use of meat.
| make delicious dinner with a
few scraps of meat that a cook
would give to the dog. From
American Magazine.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1910-11-12

Isaac Gotthelf, of Saguache,
President Of The Saguache County
Bank and Of The Gotthelf Mer.
Co., of Saguache, died at his home
Thursday night of diabetes. Mr..
Gotthelf WAS the largest real estate
owner in this county consequently
the largest individual taxpayer.
The remains will I've taken to
Denver for interment.- Moffat
News.
November will be unusual this
year for the reason that there will
be no full moon This 10 because
there will DO total eclipse Of the
moon on the night Of tho 10Th,
when II would otherwise be full.
This eclipse will be visible in tho
United States and in Wall Street,
and il will send bacon down q
couple OF points. Exchange.
When you think drugs, think
Fuller Drug Co.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1910-11-12

Telephone your Dug orders
We will deliver them. Fuller Drug
Co. Phone, Monte 63l.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1910-11-12

When you think drugs, think
Fuller Drug Co.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29

The repeated story Of Washing
toms profanity at the battle of Mon
mouth is strenuously denied in Marion
~ rland's autobiography. and upon the
best authority-that of a revolutionary
veteran, Stirling Smith by name, who
was uncle to Marion Harlands grand
father. HE did not swear" the old
warhorse would thunder when irrev-
erent youngsters retailed the SANDER
in his hearing. II was close behind
him-and l can tell you, sir, we rode
fast-when what should we meet run
ming away, lickety-split from the field
of battle with the British almost at
their heels, but Central Lee and his
men. Then. with, that says Central
Washington, speaking out loud and
sharp-says be, Central Lee! in Gods
name, what is the meaning of this ill
timed prudence?' Now, you see.
Central Lee. he was mighty high-spir-4
tied. So he speaks up as naughty as
the Central had done, and says he:
I know of no one who has more of
that most damnable virtue than your
Excellency. So you see, young man,
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time at the club. A German friend took me
one evening to the German women's club The
club has magnificent suite of apartments, in
Guiding auditorium reading room, parlor, cafe
and smoking room.
When she took me into the last apartment
1t almost feazed me for minute 1t was blue
with smoke l had never before seen room
filled with elegantly gowned, cultivated women
all smoking These were the wealthy society
women of Berlin, titled some of them
They were cosmopolitan in their dress and
manners and did not present any striking
points of difference from the American women
except in the smoking. 1t made the occur
renee of last summer, when our immigration
officials detained second class passenger a.
woman art dealer, for inquiry into her sanity
because she smoked cigarettes, appear very
funny in retrospect.
"The German women's clubs, like those of
the Englishwomen, are based on the same prin-
ciple as mems clubs; these are places for So
cial enjoyment and for the convenience of
members in taking meals entertaining friends
and so on. They do not take up work in study.
philanthropy, reform and SO on, like the wom-
ems clubs in America
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Ways of Berlin Women

Il believe that the typical German hausfrau
is myth" said New York woman who re-
turned the other day from a years residence
in Germany. 81 don't how the average
German woman finds any time to be a haus-
frau. | sometimes wondered when the Ger
man woman found time to do anything at
home.
Il spent eight months In Berlin with my
daughter, who was studying music. From
eleven to twelve in the morning the cafes
were packed with German women, who go out
to take their second breakfast in the public
restaurants. thing unknown in America.
They take along their sewing or embroid-
cry and sit an hour or two over their cup Of
coffee or glass of beer. At the concerts, too,
they take their work and spend hours day
after day listening to the music You can spend
an afternoon listening to beautiful music,
magnificent orchestra with fine vocal artists,
Tor l6 cents. That is illustration of some
OF the things that help to exile Americans.
AT three in the afternoon again you will
see the cafe crowded with German women TAX
Ing their afternoon tea. | think American
women are more domestic than German be-
cause | never heard of American women who
lett tnelr homes in the evening to pass the
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teenth century Life of the Patriarchs and in
the "Ethiopic Synaxar," a woman who reigned
over the Benz ell Hamuna had recently invaded
the country, burned the churches and monas-
teries, and driven him from place to place. Ma
rianus Victor speaks Of this woman as the foun-
der of the Zague dynasty, and as having mar
ried a ruler of the province OF Bugna, name
afterwards corrupted into Benz ell Zague.
Eleven kings of the so-called Zague dynasty
reigned until 1870.
The earliest monuments of Semitic speech in
Ethiopia the inscriptions found at Yeha.
These are written in the consonantal Sabaen
script and indicate that the writer's used the
lesna Gees, the language of Semitic Ethiopia,
as early as the seventh century B. G. Geez
is today represented by two dialects, Tigre and
Tigrai or Tigrina. The latter is spoken in
Tigre, and the former is spoken in the districts
north and northwest of Tigre, and shows great
similarity to the old Geez,
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and third centuries A. D.

and third centuries A d.
On a marble throne In Adults, Cosmos
metaphysics found and copied in the sixth
century an inscription concentrating the power
of great king whose name is not given. He
is supposed by some scholars to be the founder
of the Askumite kingdom, but it is more prob
able that he reigned at the end of the third
century A. ID. King Aizana is known to have
reigned in the year A. d. 1856 In his time
Frumentius preached Christianity in the coun-
try. The political relations that had long ex-
listed between Askum and Rome were such as
to favor his mission. In 378 Askum was
duced to it's African territory. In A. D. 525
Elesbaas, king of Askum, with the aid of the
Sabaen and Hadramautian rulers, made
end to the Himyarite kingdom of Dhu Nuwas,
and Ethiopia again controlled Arabian territory.
Before the end of the century, however, the
Askumites were driven back to Africa, and
never again extended their conouests to Arabia
According to letter addressed to a king Of
Nubia in the time of the Patriarch Philothe IS
of Alexandria (9801OO2), preserved in the four
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ty; but 1t was enough to make any
self-respecting girl angry-the sug-
gestive words of that parchment
skinned, silly-talking Roumanian.
She wouldn't believe, and she knew
very well that she would always re-
main true to Jimmy Hamilton; he of
the dark brown hair and blue eyes
Jimmy Hamilton, who could twist
his love words and phrases to the
daintiest proposals ever bringing the
bushes to the cheeks Of maid. She
would not receive any hideous old
millionaire with open arms!
Polly was in a terrible state of
mind when the luckless Jimmy espied
her from across street and FASTENED
to join her.
"You!" she stamped a foot in the
fine frenzy of her rage. "As If
didn't have trouble enough without
you coming along!"
Jimmy smiled and continued to
plod cheerfully along at her size.
eff l had a mouthful of vulgar gold
teeth" contributed the girl spitefully
I'm sure would keep it closed and
not be always grinning like a
Cheshire cat! It's what / call an
an ostentatious display of riches"
Without a word of protest Jimmy
obediently pulled his lips to
straight line.
care you dumb?" asked the fair
vixen. Cant you talk? Have you
lost your voice? For gracious sake,
say something! You get on my
nerves"
Its a fine day." observed Jimmy
Hamilton.
Polly glared. You ought to read
the advertisements anG take course
in general intelligence"
The unabashed Jimmy laughed
heartily. you are the original little
cross-patch," he enthUsed. "The ia
basco sauce, as it were, TO the dull
routine of life in Greenville. Really,
am proud of you. Polly. But why
this most becoming petulaace?"
IT Cont know why / should tell
you my troubles, observed the girl.
"You haven't any sympathy-and,
besides, have decided to have moth
ing more to do with you. There!"
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s7ENENEASSZNSASA @7 6@5
Polly and the Prophecy
BY STANLEY BARTON
copyright, 101o, BY Associated Literary Press

The fortune teller held Polly's little
hand and gazed long and shrewdly
into her eyes. The fortune teller was
a woman, and therefore Polly did not
blush, as she was wont to do under
the admiring stare of men.
Nevertheless, Polly was uneasy
There seemed to be a set grimness
about the tense moutL of this oddly
dressed seer that BODIED i'll for the
dimunitive one before her
"You would penetrate the future, y
began the fortune teller. "and' You
have come to me to find out what is
in store for you. Well, then. young
woman, 1 will tell you. Listen: An
old man with money is to enter into
your lie. The stars tell me that you
will greet him with open arms"
81 won't" proteste4 the rebellious
Polly. She had in mind, as she
spoke, the sturdy Jimmy Hamilton,
whom she had refused for the third
time that morning
"The stars GS not lie," chided the
fortune teller AN old man will en-
ter your life, and his impetuosity will
fairly take your breath away He
will be old. but-he has money"
81 won't hear a bit more" came
from Polly angrily. and in turbu-
lent state of mind she drew her
naughty little self Indignantly out Of
the camp chair and fiounced from the
tent.
Polly Edmunds wasn't sunersti-
tious, and it was absurd to believe
that she had gone to the fortune
teller except through gentle curiosi-
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Guiding forty inscriptions in the hieroglyphlcs
of Meroe, two royal statues, and a great many
vases of a new kind of pottery, objects OF wood
and glass, titles aud pottery. Especially inter
esting was the pottery which is almost as thin
as biscuit china and gives evidence OF Roman
influence Professor Sayce found Greek 1nscrlp-
lions showing how the city was destroyed at
the end of the fourth century A. D., by King
of Axum, since which event the. city was IN
occupied.
Ethfopia was the name given by the Greeks
to a country south of Egypt variously conceiv-
ed as including only Nubia (Aethiop1a AegyptD,
or Nubia Sonnar Kordofan and Abyssinia, or
region extending indefinitely east and west
from the Upper Nile but applied after the fall
of Meroe more particularly to Abyss1nia. the
name is said to have had its origin from the
fact that it was alluded to by the Greeks as
country of sunburned faces.
Historically there were three distinct king
doms known as Ethiopia, those OF Napata, Me-
roe and Askum. There is no definite evidence
that either of these included at any time all
the territory between the southern border or
Egypt and Bah ell Mandeb.
Already in the time of the old empire the
Egyptians had relations with their southern
neighbors. From the forests Of Nubia they OBJ
tanned large proportion of their timber, and
the city of Abu (Elephantine) derived its name
from the ivory which found its way to this
&c 329O-326O B. CO. employed warriors belong
ing to six Nubian tribes in his war upon the
Bedouins The early pictorial representations
of Nubian archers- do not suggest that they
were negroes A regular conquest of the coun-
try south of. Syehe apparently was not under
taken :until the twelfth dynasty &c. 2522-2323)
The most powerful Nubian people at this time
was Kash or Kosh the Hebrew Cush. 1t is
probable that the stock originally Hamitic
though in course of time it absorbed various
Negritic tribes. .Usertesen III &c. 2409-2372)
established his frontier north of the second
cataract and built for its protection two forts
at Semneh and Kummeh on opposite sides of
the river Whether the Hyksos kings held
possession of this territory is doubtful. At any
rate it had to be reorganized by Aahmes (1575
1881 the founder of the eighteenth dynasty
and his successors. Napata probably had been
the capital of the Independent kingdom, since
1t was made the residence of the viceroy, en-
titled prince of Kosh, who governed the new
Egyptian province. In the time of Rameses II
there was an unsuccessful rebellion Pianchi !,
who seems to have reigned in Napata since TIT.
availed himself of the weakness of Egypt at the
end of the reign of Uasarken III to make an in
vasion of. Egypt. He defeated twenty petty
rulers and forced a treaty. Shabaka, grand
son of .Pianchi, united all Egypt with Ethiopia
under one crown. Napata was destroyed by
Cambyses in 524.
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Or Z1N- EuCY AZZNP AM Hull ar
CClLlH~yS M 71E- ZEIz6ZE az AHzOW.

Meroe as it's capital. The kings, Arura Har-
slot, Nastasen, who reigned in the fifth and
fourth centuries, conquered considerable ter
ritory south of Meroe in Seminar and Kordofan
and possibly in Abyssinia. While the suzer-
ainty of the Ptolemies seems to have been rec
ognized for religious reasons, King Ergamenes,
by putting to death the priests who had de-
manded that he should abdicate In the time of
Ptolemy w Philopator (221-204), paved the way
for independence. Ptolemy V. Epiphanes GOA
1917 was able to resist his attack upon Egypt,
but not able to prevent his asserting of sover-
eighty in Ethiopia Queen Candace seems to
have extended her power in the north, and
twenty-five provinces are said to have been
tributary to her. But her invasion of Egypt
was successfully resisted by Caius Petronius
in B. c. "a. Napata, that had been rebuilt, was
destroyed by the Romans. Another Queen
Candace is mentioned in Acts viii. But gradu-
ally Meroe itself fell into ruins. To guard
against invasion by the Blemmyans, people
akin to the Bugaitae, the modern Beja, Dioce-
tian moved the Nobatae negro tribes of the
same stock as the population Of Kordofan. from
the oasis of khargeh into the Nile valley.
The mountain region of Abyssinia was prob
badly inhabited in very early times by Semtes
as well as Hamites. Whether the original home
of the former in Africa or in Arabia the
overflow population would naturally set in the
direction of this Alpine country. AS the native
name shows, the Semitic Philippians were still
in the nomadic state when they entered this
territory, priding themselves on being
derers, roaming freely wherever they liked.
There were evidently successive waves of i'm
migration. If the Egyptian Hist is of Semitic
origin, as can scarcely be doubted, they
apparently kinsmen of the Yemenites in Eretria
and on the Somali coast c. 1900 B. C. Sebaean
inscriptions found in Yeha, the ancient Ava.
may be as old as the seventh century B. G.
AS long as the Ptolemies dominate the
Erythrean coast from Adults, Berenice and Ar
since, a strong Abyssinian kingdom could not
well develop. But in the reign of Augustus,
when the Romans suffered serious reverses in
Arabia, and were occupied IL Africa with
Queen Candace, while the Arsacid cOnquests in
eastern Arabia forced the Yemcntte States to
seek compensation for their losses elswhere,
the Semitic element in Ethiopia seems to have
been reinforced, and the kingdom of Askum
founded The "Periplus maris Erythroei," prob
ably written by Basiles between A. d. Sc and
81, refers to king of Askum by the name of
Zoscales, who controlled the coast from Masso-
wah to Bah ell Mandeb, and was friend OF
Greek culture. 1t is possible that some OF the
Greek coins with Greek legends that have been
preserved should be assigned to the second
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as | can learn, it is made as follows
First. all meat is stripped from the
bones and thrown on chopping
board along with some raw onions,
potatoes and the like. After it is
chopped into small pieces a liberal
quantity of salt, forecastle butter, bay
leaves and other seasoning is added,
the whole being thoroughly mixed.
Each stoker has brought tin bucket
aboard with him, and into his bucket
he places his 'whack' of the mixture,
after giving the bucket liberal coat
ing Of butter. Then the cover Is placed
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Work Of Modern Chemists.

Work Of Modern Chemists.
Modern chemistry enables man to
make over some of the most useful
metals very much at his will, and
greatly to his profit. Dr. w. Rosen-
hahn, in England, recently made a re-
port on the proprieties of new alloys
of copper, aluminium and manganese,
which show remarkable peculiarities.
An alloy of eight per cent. copper, 800
per cent aluminium and 2.01 per cent
manganese showed enormous tensile
strength, a cold-drawn bar having
yield point of 40.S8 tons per square
inch, and an ultimate stress of 52.0S
tons a square inch. Another alloy is
so hard that it can take
cutting edge sharp enough to
sharpen a lead pencil. The British
admiralty is experimenting with these
alloys to determine their resistance to
corrosion In sea water.
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use. Every evening after dinner two
of the men go aft to the galley and get
couple of panfuls of the delicacies
which they would otherwise never get
their teeth into. All the grub des-
tined for the sailors is thrown into
big pan in the galley; hence the name.
Why the pan is called black 1 cannot
see.
"'Hoodle' is a dish peculiar to the
stokers. 1t is also made from scraps
from the saloon tables, with the ex-
ception that occasionally raw pork and
beef are used in it's makeup. So far
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Styles in Sailors Dishes

these days. The new style of ships
and men brings forth new style dish
es. For instance, there is black pan
and noodle, dishes seen regularly in
the quarters of the seamen and sto-
kers respectively.
Black pan consists of chicken,
ham and roast beef. The variety, how
ever. consists of scraps of food from
the saloon tables and is given to the
men by the chef as unfit for other
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over the whole. On going on duty he
carries his bucket down with him. and
places it among the ashes under his
fires. BY the end of his watch It is
thoroughly cooked, as you can mag
inc, and is carried up the ladders az
he goes off duty. When cooked it is
noodle and, to judge by it's aroma
is a rich and rare dish. How It de-
rived it's name is more than can
tell"
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Passing of Wind-Janimer Brings New
Fashion in Menu, for Sea-
=. Going Men.

Dogs. body,?',': said the. steamship
officer, in. answer: to. a passengers
query. why, dogs body is a dish
peculiar to. the sailing ship and tramp.
There are several otherss but they
seem to be- dying out with the wind
TANNER, as you seldom hear of them
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Not In Such a Costume.
The Venus de Milo may be all right.
but have you ever seen a Charleston
News and Courier.
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Did Washington StUear?

it was Central Lee that swore and not
Central Washington. Don't you ever
let me hear that lie again !"-Harpers
Literary Gossip.
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A souvenir by any other name would
probably be called trash.
49,
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Professor GarStang at Meroe III INC 0"
Professor Sayce in 1909 located the sue ol tno
city of Meroe on the east bank OF the Me- %
tween the Fifth and Sixth Cataracts' anu Ile CA
cavations carried on by Professor Hal "
the end of 1909 enabled the details OF tne Etnio
plan capital to become known. The leIpie ~
Anon, where the Ethiopian Kings were clo"nou'
was also discovered. Even more interesting -
the excavation of the beautiful sun lenple'
which was discovered at the edge or the KNOT
or meadow thus confirming the account OF hero
dotus, who tells us that Cambyses sent 10 lne
Ethiopian King to inquire about the Taple Oh
the Sun" in a meadow lin the suburbs OF the
capital where cooked meats were set eacn
night" There is doubt that this bulldlng Is
referred to in the Homeric legend that Zeus
and the other gods Toasted every year for twelve
days among the blameless Philippians. Many
others buildings were also explored and the
Temples of the Lion and the Kenisa were dis
covered. 1t may be noted that the lion emblem
was of frequent occurrence, and may probably
have been the totem of the district. Many beau
tiful objects were dug up by the expedition. IN