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The Monte Vista journal., 1914-12-12
WOULD OBSTRUCT
DRAINAGE PROJECT

After more than two years of
pioneer labors with courts and
bond attorneys, the board of d.
rectors of the San Luis valley
drainage district have their bonds
legalized and printed and they will
be placed in vault for safe keep
ing until the market for such
securities is improved.
On January 9TH the voters of
this district will elect three direct
ors to manage its affairs for the
next two years.
AT every opportunity the anti
drainage element at Mosca, who
have an outlet for private drains in
the valley trough to the east of
them, renew their efforts to defeat
the project. These men know that
drainage is a necessity. Everett
has already constructed small
ditch for drainage, but it is not
etfectual. Their plan is to elect
a majority (two) of the directors
who will refuse to proceed with
The Monte Vista journal., 1914-12-12

mODlllZe our resources at once. We
are not prepared to use them i'm
mediately and at their best, without
delay and without waste.
To speak plainly, we have grossly
erred in the way in which we have
stunted and hindered the develop
ment of our merchant marine. And
now, when we need ships we have
not got them. We have year after
year debated, without end or con-
clusion, the best policy to pursue
with regard to the use of the ores
and forests and water powers of our
national domain in the rich states
of the West, when we should have
acted; and they are still locked up.
How are we to carry our goods to
the empty markets of which ! have
spoken If we have not the ships?
How are we to build up a great
trade II we have not the certain and
constant means of transportation
upon which all profitable and useful
commerce depends? And how are
we to get the ships If we wait for
the trade to develop without them?
We lavishly subsidized the trans
continental railroads. We look
back upon that with regret now. be
cause the subsidies led to many scan
dals of which we are ashamed; but
we know that the railroads had to
be built and If we had II to do over
again we should of course build
them. but in another way. There
fore | propose another way of pro
viding the means OF transportation
which must precede, not tardlly fol
low, the development OF our trade
with our neighbor states of America
1t may seem a reversal OF the ma
tural order of things, but It Is true
that the routes of trade must be
actually opened-by many ships and
regular sailings and moderate charg
es-before streams OF merchandise
will flow freely and profltably
through them.
The government must open these
gates OF trade. and open them wide;
open them before II Is altogether
profitable to ask private capital to
open them at a venture. II is not
n question OF the government
monopolizing the field. II should
take action TO make II certain thai
transportation at reasonable rates
will be promptly provided. ever
where the carriage Is not at frs
profitable: and then. when the car
riage has become sufficiently proft
able to attract and engage private
capital. and engage II In abundance
the government ought to withdraw
The people OF the United State
The Monte Vista journal., 1914-12-12

the installation bitches, and to this
end they are working hard in the
west end of the district to defeat
A. L. Stroup for director,
Mr.. Stroup has been manager of
the district since it's formation and
to his hard work in it's behalf. to
his technical knowledge and to his
study of bond finance, is due the
fact that the district finally has
some bonds to sell. Over at Mosca,
the Office of the district, the people
feel that if the electors of the west
precinct do not return him as it's
director that the cause of drainage
will have lost much of its momen-
tum.
1t is hardly probable that the
open ditch system which was pro-
posed two years ago will be CON
structed. Tile aud box drainage
is proving such success in the
Carmel district that it is thought
remodeling of the plans will be
made.
The Monte Vista journal., 1914-12-12
HOME COMING OF
1.-THE OLD GUARD"

The first camp meeting in Dec
ember of the Woodmen of the
World has been designated
home coming rally of the old
guard" This is to be made an
annual affair and is for the pur-
pose of bringing out to lodge the
old time members. Officially, the
old guard are members who paid
the first assessment called by the
order in September, 1890, little
more than "a years ago. There
are just $50 of them left.
Monte Vista camp No. 23 OBJ
served this first annual rally at
their hall Thursday night and
large number turned out to honor
the old members. Only two of
the charter members, w. j. Clark
and @. G. Kerr, were present but
the attendance included good
many who joined the order in the
early nineties The meeting was
turned over to these old war
horses" who thoroughly enjoyed
presiding again in the camp in
which they had taken 80 much
pride and interest in its inception
and growth
The w. O W. goat was there
life size and twice as natural, and
showed the old timers how we'll
cared for, up-to-date goat could
perform. His victims were Hugh
II. Yates and Edward Nj. Matthias.
At the close of the initiation,
short talks were made by some of
the old members reciting some
very interesting history and hand
ing boquets to the w. O. w. as a
protective and fraternal order.
The meeting wound up with the
serving of a very satisfying
luncheon.
The "old guards" have lived to
see this order grow from few
hundred to grand total of 115,-
600 members; they have witnessed
the payment of over Sl9,0OO,OOO to
the benefciaries of deceased
neighbors, about 100000 of this
amount having been brought to
Monte Vista alone, and they have
seen the society grow from an
infant to "The Giant of the
West with reserve of $7,OOO,OOO.
The charter members of Camp
No. % who are still in good stand
ing are: John f. Anderson, w.
}. Clark, S. d. Coffin, A. X. Deit.
rich, w K. Farrar, Peter Form
wald, II II. Joy, G. G. Kerr, K. B.
Lunbeok and WIN. b. Peacock.
the majority of whom still reside
in Monte Vista. The only charter
members deceased are Olando
Bonner and l.. II. Cheney.
The Monte Vista journal., 1914-12-12

The high school athletic associ-
alton has secured the opera house
for athletic purposes this winter
and will have roller skating each
Saturday afternoon and evening
to which the public is invited. A
charge of l0c admission and l5o
for skates will be made.
The Monte Vista journal., 1914-12-12

Wiley Houck had very painful
accident Wednesday while at work
in the French & Kellar blacksmith
shop. One of those very heavy
steel wagon tires, which weigh
nearly one hundred pounds, slipped
OIL from the anvil and fell upon
his foot, crushing it badly.
The Monte Vista journal., 1914-12-12

Mrs. Frederick Seipert of Del
Norte was adjudged insane We'd
nesday and was taken TO Pueblo
that evening by Sheriff Goad and
wife.
The Monte Vista journal., 1914-12-12

Mrs. L. X. Morgan and little
son left Thursday night for Okla.
homa to spend couple of months
with her parents.
The Monte Vista journal., 1914-12-12
LIVE STOCK FEEDING
IN SAN LUIS VALLEY
By j. ii. GooDKNIoHT, Cashier First
National Bank.

By j. III. GooDKNIGHT, Cashier First
National Bank
As stock raising and stock
feeding locality, the San Luis val
lev of Colorado offers more ad-
yantages and fewer drawbacks than
any other agricultural district in
the United States. The thousands
of acres of mountain grazing
ranges; the fertile agricultural
lands producing field peas-the
greatest fat producing crop known;
the dry, beautiful climate and the
cheapness with which stock can be
raised and finished for the mar
kets-all combine to establish an
enviable stock-growing record for
this valley.
The cattle and sheep are usually
started for the ranges from the
18th of April to the 18th of May
and are brought down from the
lst to the 18th of October, to be
placed on feed or shipped direct
from the range for butohering.
The cost per head for cattle for the
above period on the range is 35
cents and for sheep 81 cents per
head. The stock all comes from
the range in good condition, some
Of them going direct for butcher
ing, while others are placed on
feed to harden the flesh and to OBJ
tain as large gain as possible.
AS for our feed, we have so far
raised no corn, rs we have sub
stitute in the field pea that in
every way replaces corn in feeding
and fattening cattle, sheep and
hogs, which produces a most deli
cious flavor and is much cheaper
and easier grown.
The cost of growing an acre of
field peas is not to exceed S. for
the seed, preparing the ground, ir-
rlgation and care. This acre of
peas will fatten twelve lambs, with
a gain of fifteen to twenty-five
pounds during period of from
ninety to one hundred days. II
will also fatten. four to five head Of
hogs, with gain of from 125 to
lou pounds. 1t is readily seen
that if they only gain 125 pounds
per hog, with four to the acre, you
have a gain of 500 pounds, and at
seven cents per pound you realize
100 from one acre, or profit of
$50 per acre.
For cattle feed we grow peas,
oats and bald barley, and with any
crop at all the yield is four tons
per acre, We then grind this foil
age and grain together with alfalfa,
which is grown plentifully in the
ean Luis valley, into meal, feeding
u to cattle in the regular way.
ms experiment last year on the
yates ranch resulted in fve-car
Shipment to Kansas City that
"pped the market by good mar
gin.
Dld you ever eat any San Luis
valley pea.fed lambs, pork or beef I
Inc meat has that particularly
pleasant flavor that cannot be OBJ
"'ned from any other feed. This
@the reason our feeders from the
oah Luis valley realize top prices
u all OF the markets shipped to.
@member, the. sunny San Luis
valley is natural feeding ground
'a1 we need at least one hundred
more stockmen next year, and with
oe present prices of land you can
"o' lose. Investigate now.
Leonard Hedges came home this
morning from Texas where he has
The Monte Vista journal., 1914-12-12

Leonard Hedges came home this
morning from Texas where he has
oen Tor some time visiting his
''''er and family.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1914-05-16
Utah Carries Twenty-six Guns.

r~HE o commanded by
Captain Gibbons She balcslp Of 2ls35
horsepower and has four
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1914-05-16
Louisiana From Rear of Nebraska

accompanying photograph taken from the
deck the Nebraska The Louisiana ti flagship Of Rear Ad
the Atlantic Meet She is
10y captain John H. Gibbons
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1914-05-16
Delaware Has "a Powerful Guns.

~ \PrAiN WILLIAM RODGERS delaware ~ the
She line haethp ~ 2ltSsl
tons and horsepower
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Photo nv smcrlcan Press Association
Captain .f,mes II Glcnnon IS In com
mand ~ The Wyoming the official
flagship OF Rear Admiral Charles j
BADGER. commander In chief Of the
Atlantic feet
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Wyoming, Badgers Great Flagship.

Is NtSti
horsepower She is the official flagship 81
Charles Badger commander in chief OF the Al
antc neetse sent o
Evening star., 1914-01-25

tango wriggles; while the music alone
would keep the couples going in sweep
ing dance of dignity and beauty
In standardized tango they will go
back to ancient music. Modern tango
music has done great harm. Fortuna tely,
the maxixe is danced chiefly to old Bra
lillian" music of real value and a rare
and taking rhythm. Certain of them are
old popular airs, like Don Padilla," and
must be qualified as pure chefs-d' oeuvre
OF rhythm. So the tango. when it comes
to its own again. OF course you know,
1T is not really Argentine; and in a recent
symposium Of London society leaders
Lady Helmsley struck the true note:
1T is pity" said Lady Helmsley
that the old Spanish dance. the tango
quite graceful in its original form, should
IN the course of its indirect Introduction
into our country have acquired so many
of the Objectionable characteristics now
associated with it,
And, finally. Lady Byron has just call
ed 1t a ''romp."
Unfortunate tango. l would back Eng
ish misses to romp through almost any
thing; but the tango, whatever be its
faults, is the negation OF romp.
Evening star., 1914-01-25

partner With elbows crooked. very
saucy, he rests his two hands on his two
hips, and let's the girl cling to his shoul-
ders.
Cruikshank depicted modest London
waltzing. The couples kept far apart.
sometimes the man caSped his hands
gingerly behind his partners waist,
While she gripped his shoulders. Or he
Just touched her waist with open palms.
A daring couple whirled with his arm
round her waist. her right arm leaning
on his left shoulder.
The other extreme was wild waltz
of Paris-the man held his partner SO
snugly in his right arm that she could
luxuriously repose on his shoulder. AS
Washington Lopp said to the King of
Spain while teaching him the Boston:
Its touchstone of refinement" And
the same might be said Of jig, cakewalk
and tango. Little by little. good taste
prevailed and the waltz arrived at veri-
table heights of delicacy in Paris. The
Qkith, around 1880, was the '.valse
roule,' the partners going side by side,
with their hands clasped behind their
backs
The present danger of the tango is, of
course. its infinite variety. When I saw
Alexander Kahn, late of Boston, dance
the tango with Marthe Urban. presently
OF the Paris opera, in kahn's offices of
the Rue Tronchet to the simple music of
piano. l received the impression of a
verltable sweep of gracious movements
and noble attitudes. Back and forth and
in and out they went, very much as 1 had
seen Don Padilla danced at Cadiz. 1t
looked subtler, suppler mnuet.
AS to the position of the parties, the
modern idea in waltzing is perfectly ac-
customed 10 have your arm round the
girls waist And to lead her you must
keep her close. In the tango of Kahn
and Urbain-and that of correct Paris So
ciety today-it is less amazing. While the
position of the mans right arm and the
left arm of the girl are the same as in all
modern waltzing, the tango step itself de-
mands that the dancers keep apart from
each other. One of the prettiest figures
seemed to me a so-called backward move
ment. when the left arm of the man and
the right hand of the girl were wedged in
between the two partners
But when l see paid dancers at the
tango tea of a cafe it is not that at all
1t is cutie different 1t is something like
Evening star., 1914-01-25

And here is its charm, its reason for
being. Repose, ah repose. Previously
when any but siXteen-year-old girls
waltzed or quadrilled they get tired. Men,
especially after twenty-four. had no de-
sire to whirl and get winded. Quite
young men had come to say, Il don {
dance. Hostesses were 50 hard up for
dancing men that they founded play On
II. The Man From Whiteley's.''
But they dance the tango, Why? Be-
cause the tango eliminated the jump and
brought in an easy, plastic movement.
Why, the primitive tango, which we all
learned, was the easiest of dances, as the
waltz is the hardest. 1t will become as
easy again as easy the minuet and
as precious for developing grace.
speak of tango-type. the tango Of the
astronomers IN
l speak of standardized tanE0 ancieng
Spanish tango. tango-nla xixe or Whateve.
healthy forms are bound to come. In any
case, IT is the first dance since the minuec
and the gavotte to do away with tie
whirlins dervish movement" which cap.
tured the world with the waltz
a hundred years is a long time to whirI.
STERLING HELLO,
Evening star., 1914-01-25

not know-or do not lke-each other S
tendencies, or cannot readily feel or
guess what the other is going to do, find
1t very difficult to tango together. Even
more. the very conception of the tango
differs with the person.
SO much so that in Paris it is pretty
well agreed that this really grand dance
will have to be standardized by way of re-
turns to the original simplicity which
made it, at irst, the easiest of dances.
I do not say "a return but returns -
That early tango, welcomed as the
easiest of dances which any one could
learn and which stout matrons of sixty
rejoiced in, would be tango A. And half
a dozen other models-every one will come
Evening star., 1914-01-25
Eye-Openers.

GEORGE ABE. at the Chicago Athletic
Club, entertained a group of bache-
lors with a marriage story
An old widower." he said, was tell
ing group OF cronies in the Brook gem
eral store that he intended to get mar
riec again.
I'm an old man. boys, he said, and
] can't expect to be here much longer.
pleasant to have a wife at my bedside
to close my eyes
odd Jake Hodges gave a loud, snaIling
laugh.
I've had three wives he said, and
they opened mine. "
Evening star., 1914-01-25

fair-booth wrestling-"every grip permit
ted, here a man learns suffering.'-and
gallant man helping a poor girl to pick
her way out of a messy place.
There are now 120 figures they say, of
the tango.
1t was so easy in the beginning, and
now you know why it is so difficult at
present. So few knew the beautiful old
dance in the beginning that whoever
dubbed himself professor might add some
thing that was all his own. Doubtless,
also, it got tangled in the Argentine.
One great danger comes from all this.
1t Is the tendency to pair off and dance
continually together. A couple who are
used to the same figures dance we'll to-
gether. On the other hand, pair who do
Evening star., 1914-01-25

dance because it is the tango-when it
is the tango because You dance!
Which comes to this-there is a time
TO dance and time to tire of dancing.
The SUMS pulsattons of eleven years.
it's maximums of thirty three years,
and grand maximum of once a century
correspond every perfectly to the waltz
of 1872, the galop of 1874, which a.so
ushered In the schottische). the ma
zourka of 1886, the polka of 1S45. the
quadrille of 1852. the lanciers of 1861.
the can-can of 1869, the pas -de-quatre
of 1882. the Boston of 1898, the cake
walk of 1902 and the tango of 1913.
An astronomer could even point out
the grand minimum of nothing do
ing" after 1870 and the thirty-three-
year maximums which gave, just thirty
three years apart, the notable dances
of the mazourka, quadrtlle and Boston.
1t Is on this principle of grand re-
crudescence that tango-type ought to
last until 1924. Given the present tango
anarchy-120 varieties-it may well re-
qufre some time to straighten out the
new dances.
Because. they are new. The quadrille
was new, though nothing but the con-
tre-danse revived. What matters that
] saw Don Padilla tango-ed at Cadiz in
1892? I saw the cakewalk done at
Philadelphia in 1897. Both were brand
new to the world when their time came.
Regina Badet calls the Boston a
waltz for pale persons. In fighting
tango which is surely new. she defines
as "a Boston for paler persons" Truly
it's clutches and wriggles have nothing
OF the free grace which made Marthe
Urbain call the tango the minuet of
the twentieth century" 1t is all right
the waltz went through similar ad-
ventures just a hundred years ago.
\ hundred years ago the armies of
Napoleon found the peasants of Thur
ingia dancing a new dance. 1t was so
xay and audacious, so heart melting
and enthusing in its music, so novel
i'll step and tempo, that the soldiers of
the grande armee all but stopped fight
ing to learn 1t.
It was danced by couples. The man
took his partner by the waist, while
she clung to his shoulder. The re-
hand clasping hand. And round and
round the couples whirled, round and
round to music of a new lilt which
brought tears to the eyes. a measure
at once dangerous and agitated, sooth-
ing and exciting, sentimental, diaboli-
cal.
Now. that is some dancing!' said the
soldiers of Napoleon. They took the
dance with them, taught it to the con-
and somewhere around 1912 the waltz
came to Paris and London,
x y
Imagine waltz bringing tears to
your eyes.
Yet Debucourt called it the folly Of
Evening star., 1914-01-25
Rebutting a Libel.

John d. ROCKEFELLER. talking to q
, Cleveland clergyman. said one day
with whimsical but rather sad smile:
From the stories that are told about
my love of money and my disregard for
humanity. you'd think was some such
monster as the criminal of the anecdote.
"A judge once said to a terrible Grim.
inal:
land you actually had the heart to
murder this poor man for a matter OF
30 cents
"'Weli, your honor said the criminal.
with an iujured-innocence air, well, you1
honor, what do you expect? Fifty cent?
here-and 50 cents there-it soon mounts
up.'
Evening star., 1914-01-25
Her Only Justification.

GENATOR ROOTS capture Of the sI0,-
- OOC Nobel reace prize recalls the
Rooseveltian dictum that Root is the
ablest man in America
1T recalls also many stories Of Mr..
Roots brilliance at the bar. One Of these
stories is about woman who sued a rail-
road company for $4,000 for the loss Of
her thumb, which had been destroyed in
a rear-end collision.
Mr. Root-a young man then-opened
the defense with the words:
twenty-five thousand dollars for the
jury. the only Justification can see for
50 eXorbitant a claim is that it was the
thumb the lady kept her husband under"
Evening star., 1914-01-25
Amusing Truth.

THE late Franklin SiI.l..uns, the fa
nous American sculptor who recent
ly died in Rome, was an exponent of the
frank, naturalistic method.
How much more amusing tie true is
than the IDEAL he said one day In his
studio to a correspondent Take the
case of the little girl.
My dear the little girls mother said
don't you think you're getting too old to
play with boys?'
THE little girl frowned in scornful as
tonishment
why. no. mammal she cried Inn
patiently. The older I get the better I
like EN- %
Evening star., 1914-01-25

the day" simultaneously, in Paris,
they waltzed in 1,S00 public balls. You
might think 1T the tango. Young folks
could not eat ices on the terrace of
Bagatelle without jumping up every
ten minutes to waltz on the lawn. They
waltzed everywhere, in public, in
private, in all classes, from count
esses to queens and maids and Wallets
waltzed behind the scenes"
In the midst of 1t a great protesta-
ton, similar to that of the present
kaiser. the king of Italy, certain bish-
ops in France, the Duchess of Norfolk
in England and the mayor of Pittsfield.
Mass, declared itself against the popu-
lar new dance. In Paris two famous
society 1eaders-not to mention a very
famous emperor-Mme. de Genlis and
Nine. de Stael, proclaimed themselves
respectively. against it and for it.
The Countess de Genlis. who was also
the Marquise de Sillery, of the first
great Champagne mark, obtained her
immense influence by her genius as
writer and her early position as gov
moment Napoleon was paying her
$4,000 year to write him weekly let
ters on literature and morals. Nine.
de Stael, daughter of the famous
Necker minister of Louis XVI, was
charmer as a woman and a notable
writer, who. with Chateaubriand
opened the modern age in all kinds
OF thought. Napoleon did not like
hci-e4iu ulu HOl inucll ike WaItZlng,
Napoleon requested Genlis to give ear
nest meditation to the tango-pardon, l
mean the waltz-and to please to write it
out for him. They Were agreed-against
Mime. de Stael was for. Today she
would be in favor of the tango. And all
three were right and would be right to-
day. "Inconvenient" waltZing of 1872
was as objectionable as infghting tango.
For months, the fate of the waltz tren,-
bled in the balance, when:
Gentle Geniis in her strife with Stael
Would cen prescribe it from a Paris ball.
But, unlike the kaiser, Napoleon Hesi-
tated to move decisively against the
folly of the day" Lord Byron Joined the
fray, and in his celebrated ode ex-
pressed his disapproval of taking your
partner by the waist. while to keep a
grip on her unengaged hand appeared to
him the limit. So he summed it up:
Can aught from cold kamschatka TO Cape Horn
With waltz compare. or after waltz be born:
Evidently, yes, the tango. And now it
is all the same thing over again. Prog
ress is an eternal advance-round a cir
Gle.
society and animated Lord Byron's lode
to the Waltz one has but to glance at
the dance prints of the period. There
were twenty ways of Waltzing, when the
waltz was new. just today the tango
but said that. Half of them were good
and half of them were bad. There is an
old twopenny-colored print-today worth
Sf0-of rude sailors of Brest wa ting very
correctly. The man does not touch his