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La Junta tribune., 1912-07-20
New Books At City Library.

The following new books have been
sccriyet recently Al the library.
Bone Of thes0 are gifts from VI. Fin
ity. and Mrs. keycs. Mr.. Finitys
gift includes ten volumes OF the
Worlds famous orations. edited by
". J. Bryan. and five volumes on
eketeieity. four OF them by Sloane
and one by Robinson. They deal
VitA practical electricity
Mrs kcycs' gift, are four volumes
Of f,o,s,n. one French book. Shake
spearc's complete works in one vol
ume. and "Quirk's How TO Write
4 Short story"
A New Conscience in Regard to An
t.eent Evil. American Academy OF
Political and Social Science publiCa.
lions. China-,Social and Economic
Condition.. Efficiency In City Gov.
ernmcnt. Timber l.onds as Invest
s,ent Securities aud Industrial Com.
y--,ition aud Combination. Carnegie
Endowment for international Peace:
Yearbook f1r 1911; Moultou. Against
Wind aud Tide "a book OF poetry tot
rAi'drcnl Wells. The Merry-Go
koSnd. Also n book OF childrcn's po.
etry. Proceedings Of ia. American
Society Tor Psychical Research. 1911:
Prom Wool To Cloth. a Treatise on
che Manufacture OF Wool by the
An~sican wooicn Company. Cubb.rl,
The Improvement Of Rural Schools
Daikcith Stories from French History
Cor children. The Classical Psycholo
Ststs. compiled by u Rand. States
aab'k Yearbook for lal2.isl3. St.y
snapn's Chilir.n's Classics In Dream
lic Form. Book V: Who's Who In
Ancrica. ieie-isi3. wymau's con,ro
Of sAc Market. a very impartial treat
0eNt of trusts. set Of the New
international Encyclopedia: four o
0vs Opvcrnncut AGes0~nts. Single
0DA's Ouidc to Crest cti-s-No~th
western Europe. Ho~ell's Letter
0Dphe.
La Junta tribune., 1912-07-20
vis,to~s From Nebraska.

W0,am Ellefbcch. wife. and IL.
- son. James Eilcrbcck. and wife.
Chssprs Tanner and wife. Mrs. Dohns
and son. and Mrs. d Bun~cli. all
ol ,iIestrlcc. Ncb.. ar. In La Jun'a
ed vicinity for = moath or t~o.
Mr.. Tanner owns the large farm
osvcn miiss southwest Of Ia Junta,
hAoyA ~ tho Mstsss,bcrs property
anl hc and hts family will spend
~ greater part of the time there.
Wiiiiam Eilcrb~ck and Mrs. B"s
eel have land Interests ai Benton
Aal Jamcs Eiierl,~ck. In FAirmount
AZ q the company. except this
9anasrs. viii remain In Ia Junta.
La Junta tribune., 1912-07-20

FOR SALE-I am going to leave
The state and wish TO sell my prop.
0ty at corner OF Colorado and Ninth
street House has eight rooms with
haus. closets. pantry. bath aud full
cement basement s'-'-'l- modern
and beautifully finished. Inquire at
sos Colorado or phone Junta 2O9.-
Mrs. G. +. Erwin
La Junta tribune., 1912-07-20
Annual Financial Statement.

Annual Financial Statement.
Annual financial statement Of
School District No. Is. county of
Otero. state Of Colorado. from July
I. 1911 to June 30. 1919.
RECEIVED.
Amount on hand June 80.
1911. held BY county
treasurer. general funds - ~
Amount on hand June 80.
1911 held By county
treasurer special susd. 3 s7i Ss
Received from general fund
by ap0sstSsaasat. :. - 10 ~
Prom special tax Tor scAooi
purposes.. :. ~ 80 ~
1ntsrcst.. ~ ss7
Total. :. -. :. -. ..tltss ~
For teachces' salariss.. =. - 80 %
For fuel. rent. insurance and
all current expsnsss. - i73 7s
Tosai anount paid oct dssiag
| he year. ~ ssS 10
Balance u hands Of cosaty
treasurer 70 credit Of de-
trtcs. Juns 20. 1918. ssssr.
q funl.. =. =. :. =. :. ~ u ~
Balance IN hands q cosaty
TREASURER to credit q ais.
tstet. Juas 30. 1913
special fund.-. =. 49,. ..e1W 81
Total. :. =. =. >. =. ..e1loo ~
ualanco h hands q cooaty
oa1 11otrlee efoooufofO
- above.. .. .. .. >. ~ ~ ~
SCHOOL BONDS.
~ too1e svee iseoe1 n ~ ~.
..s......v e 49, & ,e's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
Enhancement of Land Values

One effect of the great activity in the industrial world at the present time is the enhancement of mineral land values in the south. There is very little good ore land on the market and what little is found outside of cor poration ownership will, it is believed, not remain long unsold.
 Undeveloped coal property is not quite so scarce as ore property, but still there is little coal land, compara- lively speakingA that is purchasable, and it is reasonable to say that coal acreage will bring 50 per cent more 12 month from now than it's quoted price of today. Men of means, who appreciate the value of mineral prop erty and who look to the future, are showing more disposition now than ever to invest their money in coal property in this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
upon thousands of miles of road have been macadamized

upon thousands of miles of road have been macadamized.
 The good roads propaganda has ac- complished much, and the educational work that has been done has resulted in the introduction of road building machinery that added greatly to the economy of road bed construction.
 The Alabama Good Roads associa- ton has been a leader on the educa- al side of this great question of bet ter highways. It has aroused interest and worked up enthusiasm, and the enthusiasm has counted for much. The annual meeting of the association in Birmingham next week will doubtless be well attended. Those who are on the programme for addresses should ring the changes on the necessity of cross-state highway. The next two years should become notable as the years of good road making in Ala bama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
Constitutional Amendment

The proposed amendment to the constitution of Alabama empowering the legislature to abolish the fee sys- tenn in Jefferson county will be voted on at the general election in Novem- Der, and it is hoped the amendment will be ratified by good majority Few measures adopted by the legisla- ture last year were of such far reach ing importance as the act submitting the constitutional amendment re- ferred to.
 The fee system has been curse to Jefferson county in many ways. The amendment will give the legislature the right to "fix, regulate and order the costs and charges of courts, fees, commissions, allowances or salaries to be received by any county officers in Jefferson county"
 Alabama needs gew constitution. The one we have is Only Il years old not old as constitutions go-but the world moves fast and changed condi- tions make some sections of the orr ganic law very undesirable, to say the least. Some things in the consti- tuition favorably regarded at the time of this instruments adoption, having been tested were found harmful in stead of beneficial. The cumulative poll tax is one of them. The cleo torate of this state will become smaller and smaller each year until this poll tax section is remedied.
 The fee brigade has managed to continue the old fee system in the rich counties, but the next constitutional convention, it is believed, will give the state a system of county admin istration at once reasonable and just. As it is, the people will vote on the amendment relieving Jefferson county of it's fee burden.
 This is one of the worst fee ridden counties in the south. It is the worst fee ridden of any of the Alabama counties. The county officers when placed on salary basis will give good satisfaction, and the poor, ignorant and the unprotected who fall into the hands of the law will no longer be harrassed with the payment of fees and court costs.
 Let all patriotic and public spirited citizens throughout the state rally to the support of the constitutional amendment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
THE PLAIN MAN,s MORNING

Arnold Bennett in the October Metro politan.
 The plain man on a plain day wakes up, slowly or quickly, according to his temperament and greets the day in mental posture which might be thus ex- pressed in words:
 "Oh Lord. Another dayl What grindl"
 If you ask me whom I mean by the plain man, my reply Is that I mean al- most every man. I mean you. cer- tainly mean me. I mean the rich and the poor, the successful and the unsuo- cessful, the idle and the diligent, the luxurious and the austere. For, what with the limits of digestion. the practi- cal impdssibility of wearing two neck ties at once the insecurity of invest
 ments, the responsibilities of wealth and of success, the exhaustingness of the search for pleasure, and the cheap
 ness of travel. the real differences be- tween one sort of plain man and an- other are slight in these times (Aud indeed they always were slight.) The plain man has a lot to do before he may have his breakfast-and he must do 1t. The tyrannic routine begins in- stantly he is out of bed. To lave limbs. to shave the jaw, to select clothes and
 assume thenl--these things are naught. fIe must exercise his muscles-all his muscles equally and scientifically-with the aid of a text book and of diagrams on a large card; which card he often
 hides if he is expecting visitors in his chamber, for he will not always confess to these exercises; he would have you believe that he alone, in world of simpletons, is above the faddism of the hour; he is as ashamed of these exer- cises as of a good resolution, and when
 his wife happens to burst in on them
 he will pretend to be doing some com lmon act. such as walking across the
 room or examining mole in the small 1 of his back. And yet he will not aban-
 don them. To drop them would be to be
 craven, inefficient The text book as- 1 serts that they will form one of the
 pleasantest parts of the day and that he
 Twill learn to look forward to them. He lsoon learns to look forward to them, but not with glee. He is relieved and proud when they are over for the day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
FILLING A NEWSPAPER
From the London Times.

From the London Times.
 ]" HERE is common idea that q
 writer for the press is always
 looking for something to put in the paper or "something to write about as if the chief aim, -and difficulty, of journalism was to fill columns. The truth is that there is no day in the year when the matter which comes into The Times office Cor into the office of any other great daily journaD, would not amply suffice to fill two papers. On most days it would well furnish three, while thcra are black and nerve-racking times when, with the London season in full swing, parliament is busy on great affairs, the law courts hard at work, and all the world conspiring to go mad together, so that the air Is full of rumors of war and awful portents and from China to Peru it seems that the entire social order is In upheaval, on such days noth- ing less than five or six whole issues of the paper would accommodate the overflow of the flood that pours unceas- ingly into the editorial rooms over every wire of telegraph and telephone, by mail and messenger. One may imagine that at such seasons every newspaper office huns like a swarming hive; but, in fact, there is little time for noise. The hours of the night are few, and heads must be cool and judgment instant; and sucn crises have to be met, in the editorial rooms at least, in grim and earnest si-. lence. But in greater or less degree the same thing goes on every night in every great newspaper office in the world the same desperate task of compressing, not quarts. but gallons and whole hogsheads, into pint measures.
 Happily the pint itself is elastic: 1t is truly a liquid measure, The average" size of The Times each day in the year, exclusive of any supplements. is 20 pages, though, according to the pressure cf news, it varies from II to S6 pages; but beyond this latter figure, again exclu- sive of all supplements, expansion is hardly practicable. It is not that the mechanical task of production becomes too great, for the organization and equip- ment of The Times have ample margin over any task that has been or, humanly speaking, can be thrown upon them; nor is it that economy forbids, for that Is a consideration to which, in prudence, is given the minimum of weight. It is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
PIERRE LOTT

From the New York Tribune.
 The retired French naval officer who has written his pseudonym of Pierre Loti" on the rol of honor of French literature holds on that brilliant page a place apart. One cannot classify him among his brilliant contemporaries of the last century. He belonged to no school; he has founded none. He is an exotic in the shrinking subjectivity of his work. Life, seen through his sen sitiye melancholy, and, from the more sturdy Anglo Saxon point of view, mor- bid temperament is a meaningless, pur- poseless tragedy, whose fleeting joys but intensity its pain. Whether in the Desert of Sahara, amid the tropical luxuriance of the South Seas or in the chilling gray mists of the Iceland fish ing banks, the note of sadness ever prevails in his books, a sadness that does not wonder. much less protest. It acquiesces, 1t accepts; such thing; are, and must be suffered They spell l. ge
 No wonder, then, that Pierre Loti has found no lasting joy in living in his surrender to the lure of distant places of races and customs not our own. We ourselves are heaven and hell" Everywhere his temperament has sounded the note of Weitschmerz. Our western civilization@is hateful to him hustling. ugly, harsh. He shrinks from it, he mathematics 1t under the Pyra- mids profaned by street cars and tour ist agents and by the Briton's brisk rule. He has searched the world all his days and found not what he sought.
 But in the seeking he has enriched French literature with many page of beauty he has added to her crown many a jewel. cut and polished with all the perfection and brilliancy of the finished artist. It is as artist pure and simple that the world has recognized him and honored him, that America honors him again today. His is. in- deed, the art of the lapidary in letters in his descriptions of thei stands far away mirrored in the southern seas Yet at times, in storms of the chilling north, thel apidary has risen to the sculptor's strength.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
CUSTOMS IN NEW GUINEA

From the London Standard.
 Fresh details of interest concerning < the little known land of New Guinea have recently been brought home by the Finnish student and traveller Dr. Gunnar Landtman.
 Few parts of the world still contain so many remnants of the life of the pure savage as does this vast island, and for many years past 1t has nat urally attracted large share of atten- tion from all who make a study of anthropology. Until recently canni- balism was prevalent, but 1t is now con- fined to few tribes and when Arch bishop Donaldson was among them some years ago he found that the na- tives. many of whom had been con- verted to Christianity, were extremely unwilling. to talk about their old ways MT. R. W. Williamson, who returned last year from a stay among the Ma fulu savages, had. however. another story to tell, for this section of the people can still enjoy a banquet of hu- man flesh They do not slaughter thefc victims merely for greed. but wait until
 
 both a meal and the excuse for talk ing it. In other respects he described them as being a simple and quiet race, with an extremely complicated religion, the origin of which they did not in the least know. They believed that the fig tree and certain other plants were haunted, while their lives were, to great extent. spent in fear of sorcery.
 Dr. Landtman entirely confirms these stories of their wonderfully imaginative nature, and he relates how they tell remarkably long and complicated tales of romance, in which the fortunes of hero and heroine are marred by the machinations of witches. In most of their stories can be seen dim resem- blance to the fairy legends of Europe. a point which should attract the atten- tion of the student of comparative re- ligion. Of their morals he speaks in the highest terms. yet he relates that their code allows a ceremonial exchange of wives.
 Much more matter of interest is like ly to be published when pr. Landtman brings out the whole history of his travels among this strange people. The Papuans. who comprise the majority of the inhabitants, are a people of fine physique, and, according to the latest reports are fond of sports. in which the women join with the men, the game being not unlike our English hockey Many of the tribes in the mountains still live by raids on lowland districts, but in other parts the people are quiet lily earning living from cultivating the soil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
PROBING PREDATORY WEALTH
By BILL VINES

Mr. Cortelyou, for instance, is one of the classest little forgetters now at large. This is probably why he remains at large some people think that he invented the system of how to forget, and sold rights to prominent capitalists. Anyhow, 1t is a fact that some of our rich men up there can't even remember the given name of their last wife.
 There will be a great many prominent men before Senator Clapp's committee this week. J. P. Morgan will be there. MT. Morgan likes to visit Washington and ride up by the treasury building and mako it look foolish. He expects to call on Senator Clapp's committee and tell them that he has faint and indefinite retol- lection about an election in 1908. and that he thinks this is going to be fine season for young railroads.
 Mir. Morgan is a very tender hearted and sympathetic man. Nothing touches him more than to see young and trust ing railroad in distress-parching up as it were for want of nourishment--it always gives him great pleasure to pat it on the back when 1t is discouraged and pour water over 1t. MT. Morgan is one of our strongest prohibitionists-he believes in lots of water. He frequently waters his own stock instead of leaving 1t to tfl hired man.
 MT. Roosevelt will be there. MT. RooI Welt will give the committee a red I bunch of right fresh information concf ing many public men who are tryin 1@ beat down the doors of the Ananias cs-- n nan ATt. settle all doubt in the eyes of the com mittee about their eligibility.
 Other great men will be on hand, and altogether the committee will almost find out something.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
n xvb,t authority and show or tru'" c.p cunning sin cover itself wi'h"i'
 -Much Ado About Nothing
Tho Presidential Contest

The presidential campaign IS warm- ing up and the entire month ot oc'o- her will witness a good deal of poiiti- .o, commotion. Of the three proml- nent nominees, Wilson, Roosevelt ana Taft, Wilson it still well in the iead' If the election were held tomorrow he would win with good many eiec- toral votes to spare.
 From all indications Roosevelt IS second in the race today, and Iaft third. One difference between Roose- welt and Taft is that Roosevelt has rained ground since his nomination. whereas Taft has lost ground. Cow onel Roosevelt was never more popu- lar with the people than he IS now. He may not be able to break the solid south, but he is arousing a great deal 5of enthusiasm in southern cities. That is not only gratifying to his partisans' hut astonishing to his opponents ana to mere lockers on. If kooseVelt has enthusiastic demonstrations Tn inc south. what may not be expected in the east. Roosevelt will have ample campaipn funds. If President Taft stood any chance of being elected big slush fund could be raised in his be- half, but with such poor outlook Tor him the high protection and trust will not respond very liber- ally to appeals for financial aid.
 The national democratic committee is asking for contributions; is urging aopuIar subscriptions. The amount re- .eived by the financial committee thus far is only about s3O0,O00. A total of s1 100000 was the amount which the campaign manager estimated would be needed. Whatever is to be done in The way of financial aid should be done within the next two weeks. Seven ar eight hundred thousand dollars could be legitimately and proftably ex- pended between now and the middle of the month. The democratic party does not use bribe money. It's use of campaign funds will be chiefly for ating and paying the expenses of
 paign orators. 1t will not do for
 party to be over confident.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
INCREASE OF DIyoRcEs

hsStGASE Of DltORCES
 From the Living Church
 In the (continentaD United States the divorce rate has risen from 30 in every 100000 in 1870 to S5 in 1909. and is estimated al 100 in 1910 Except for Indiana and Nevada, California has the highest ratio of any of the states. Bv geographical sections the ratio of di- vorces per 100000 Inhabitants has in creased from 1870 to 1906 as follows;
 North Atlantic states from 26 to 4O south Atlantic states from to 4s. North central states from 45 to 1o9 south central states from IS to IF. Western states from 65 to l5O. Pacific states from 6S to 1856.
 Thus no part of the United States has been free from the growth of the evil. Yet when we compare the figures or Japan, we find that the evil is thero a diminishing one. The number. of di- Vorces in Japan has fallen from over l24,0e0 in 1897 to about 60,000 in 1908 the ratio per 100, 900 of population from l2Sf to 122. Not only have the divorce ratios of Japan and the United States nearly met. but the ratio in our west ern and Pacific states is now much worse than the ratio in Japan. Why is IL that Japan can stem the tide of this grave social evil, and the United States cannot?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
THE WHITE BIRDS
y William Butler Yeats

By William Butler Yeats. would that we were. my beloved. white birds on the foam of the sea; We tire of the flame of the meteor. be- fore it can pass by and flee; And the flame of the blue star of twi- hit hung low on the rim of the sky. Has aN Ned In our hearts my beloved, a sadness that never may die. 4 weariness comes from thoses dream- CTS, dew-dabbled, the lily and rose, An, dream not of them, my beloved. the flame of the meteor that goes. Or the flame of the blue star that fingers hung low in the fall of the dew: For l would we were changed to white birds on the wandering foam-I and you. l am haunted by numberless islands, anu many a Danaan shore, Where Time would s9rely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more: Soon far from the rose land the lily. the fret of the Namfs, would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved. ss~ suoysd out on the foam of the