8AGUACHE CRESSET.
SAGUAOH~, -- OOIJORADO~
There are 40 counties in Texas
i which have to seek legal advice out-
side their limits, as they have not a
I single attorney of their own.
India has hundreds of dialects,
which may all be classed under three
!great heads the Sanscrit, Pracrit and
~Magadhi. The Sanscrit is the £unda-
mental language and that of the
~redas; the Pracrtt the vernacular lan-
~guage in many dialects, and the Maga-
[dhi or Misra is that of Ceylon and the
ltslands.
King Edward VII has accepted from
,Scott Montagu, member of parliament,
la present of a number of American
bronze, turkeys, which were imported
into England in a wild state, but have
adapted themselves very comfortably
~to their new surroundings, and have
thrived remarkably at Mr. Montagu's
place in Hampshire. The king's birds
will be lodged at Sandringham.
The birthplace of our presidents are
divided among the states as fol!ows:
Six have come from Virginia, five from
Ohio, three from New York, two each
from Masssachusetts and North Caro-
lina and one each from New Jersey,
Kentucky, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Pennsylvania and Tennessee. Presi-
dent McKinley is of Scotch-Irlsh an-
cestry; Vice President Roosevelt is of
~Holland~Dutch descent.
It may be news to some readers
'that English is the language of the
Japanese foreign office, both in its in-
tercourse with foreign diplomatists
and its telegraphic correspondence
wtth its own representatlves abroad.
'~ll telegrams from Tokyo to the for-
'elgn agents of Ja~pan are written and
ciphered in English, and the replies
are in the same language. The
"'Yankees of the .East" evidently want
their western civilization in the orig-
inal package.
The following allegation in a bill for
divorce against a wife was held by the
Supreme court of Washington not to
state any legal ground for divorce:
"She was quarrelsome, vicious in dis-
position, murderous in threats against
the plaintiff and his parents, hysterl-
col and ungovernable in temper, crazy
in her actions, and by her causeless
~nd unprovoked boisterousness
screaming, hallooing and other wild
Conduct, by day and night, an intol-
erable nuisance to all her neighbors."
Graduates of the Naval Academy iu
Annapolis who have attained the
h~rhest rank have heretofore b~
sent abroad for a post-graduate course
in naval archltecture at Greenwich or
Glasgow or the Ecole Polytechnique
in France. It ought to be a matter of
pride to Americans that hereafter
they will study at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. The Annapo-
lis graduates have always taken the
highest honors abroad. The authori-
ties in Washington do not say that the
foreign schools no longer have any-
thing to teach our young men, but
they do say that they have nothing
which is not now taught as well or
better here.
At the recent matriculation examina-
tions of the University of Breslau, a
young German peasant with his moth-
er and sisters passed with honors. The
mother came first on the entire list.
In order to encourage the young man
tn his work, his mother and sister had
since his childhood studied his lessons
with him. A less spectacular version of
family cooperation goes on daily in one
of the most beautiful homes at a fash-
ionable resort. Directly after breakfast
the father~ and mother, two collgge
daughters, one grown and one young
~n, Join in a half-hour's "spelling
down." Thanks to this little ruse, the
boy, who several teachers had declared
cOuld never be taught to spell, is over-
coming an ignorance which would have
• seriously crippled his collegiate course,
and been a source of mortification all
his life.
The "play" of intellect, to use a
vacation pun, constitutes the delight
of learning, and is often its truest in-
spiration. A young gift at a hotel
table, some years ago, undertook to
quiet a restless child by making for
him little figures which she modeled
from bread crumbs rubbed between
her fingers. The rapidly growing pro-
cession of Noah's-ark animals at-
tracted the attention of a gentleman
opposite. It was the sculptor Thomas
Bail, who afterward told the girl she
had unusual talent, took her to his
own studio, and taught her to model
in slay and afterward to work in
marble. An interesting side-light on
the pretty incident is that the young
girl had molded her figures undis-
turbed by a tableful of witnesses, and,
on the other hand, Mr. Ball seated her
in the studio with her back toward
~is own chair, because he "could not
Imssibly work while anybody looked
O11."
Prof. N. C. Bruce, colored, of the
Shaw University, in Raleigh, N. C..
who was given the degree of A. M. by
Bates College recently, graduated from
that college in 1893. He was born in
Virginia, and gained his early eduea-
tl(m with difficulty, working with a
hoe in the summer and with his books
in the winter. While in college, he
~ld books, worked on Maine farms in
the summer, and acted as Janitor of a
Lewiston church. He was on the com-
mencement programme at hm gradu~-
~, and was the cbum,~lay orator.
A VOICE FROM THE DARKNESS.
We have intimated that in his Wis-
consin speech Senator Tillman only
spoke for the minority of intelligent
white men tm the South, and that even
that minority had subordinated its in-
telligence to its prejudices and its pas-
sions. There are many thousands of
solid men in that section to whom the
blatant and brutal philosophy of the
South Carolina senator is as disgust-
ing as it is to anyone in the .North; per-
haps mole so, because they realize the
Injury that such coal~e and conscience-
less scnthnents may work to their in-
terests. They are not as notorious as
he, because they do not advertise
themselves as thoroughly, but they are
nevertheless heard on occasions.
The progress of the Alabama State
Constitutional Convention, now in ses-
sion, is being watched with much in-
terest, not on'ly in that state, but. all
over the country. It made a false
step when it adopted the "grandfather
clause," but It did something to atone
for it when it incorporated another
clause giving the governor power to
remove a sheriff who failed to do his
duty in defending a prisoner against
mob violence. This, of course, points
directly to the reduction of lynch law
In the state, and the credit of its adop-
tion belongs largely to ex-Governor
Thomas G. Jones of Montgomery,
who, prior to the gathering of the con-
ventlon, and during its deliberations,
has given much era'nest and valuable
counsel to the people of his state. Per-
hops, should this amendment be con-
firmed, there are some governors who
would not use the power thus given
them, but there are others who would
one of whom, we believe, is Governor
Jones.
In an elaborate argument in favor
of the amendment, Governor Jones
made the .startling but doubtless true
statement that "in the last ten years
over one hundred citizens of Alabama
have been taken by mobs from sher-
iffs and Jails and murdered." This
record does not include those who were
lynched before the officers of the law
had them in custody, which would
swell the bloody llst considerably. Yet
more than two-thirds of those thus
murdered were not even suspected of
the crime which is always instanced as
a Justification of such extreme meas-
ures. "These mob executions," sold
he, "are brutalizing our children,
blunting our reltgion and undei'mlning
our civilization. Can anyone in the
sound of my voice rise up and say
that this is not so? We are under-
mining all noble ideals of duty and
manhood."
His state and his country owe Gov-
ernor Jones gratitude and honor for
the patriotic stand he has taken. He
has labored as earnestly, as intelligent-
ly and as unselfishly in championing
the rights of the helpless citizens of
his state as ever Samuel Adams did in
defending the rights of the colonies
He may not win success, but he will
do the better hhlng, which is to de-
serve 1¢. Such a check upon mob vio-
lence would place Alabama in this im-
portant respect in advance Of all oth-
er southern states. It wo~ld give con-
fidence and encouragement to capital.
It would be an col-nest of a better civ-
ilization. It would safeguard the law's
sanctity and help to set np higher
standards of Justice. It would be a
practical antldo~e to such social poison
as Tillman and Bonaparte have been
dlssemlnatlng.--Boston Transcript.
The Old Revenue Law .~dequste
There Is no need of a special session
of the Legislature or of'a new law to
empower the authoritie~ to assess rail-
roads and other corporations. The old
law Is adequate. It makes ample pro-
vision for the assessment of such cor-
porations.
There never has been any need of s
new law on this subject. The Fusion-
Ists have b#en in power for nearly ten
years and durlng that time the~ have
completely controlled the State Board
of Equalization which under the law
is required to assess the property of
railroads and kindred eorporatlous.
This board needs no increase in its
powers. If It has failed to properly
assess the corporations it is the fault
of the men who constitute the tioard
and not of the law which confers upon
them power to act.
Instead of eaMng a special session
of the Legislature for the purpose of
enacting a law that would confer this
authority to assess corporations upon
other Fusionists, Governor Orman and
the other members of the State Board
of Equalization have but to discharge
their duties under the act ereatlng that
board. They have all the power they
need, all that the Legislature could
confer upon another set of officials. A
special session of the Legislature
would cost something like $100,000,
out a session of the State Board of
Equalizatlofl would cost nothing. Gov-
ernor Orman and his associates on the
board should accept Judge Dixon's de-
blsion, go ahead and make the assess-
ments In the way they ought to be
made. To enact a new law would be
to shift the responsibility now resting
upon the State Board of Equalization
to the shoulders of other officials, but
with no assurance whatever that the
duty of assessing the corporations
would be any better discharged than in
the Past. "
The proper discharge of public dutles
lies not in the form of the law, but in
the character of the officials upon
whom those dutles ure imposed. Th~
Fusionists have been in control of the
State Board of Equalization for years,
and if they have not properly dis-
charged their duties what assurance is
there that the desired assessments
would be made in any better way by
the Fusion county assessors or other
officials to whom the authority might
be entl.usted? Are we to suppose that
the fact that a few of the assessors
are Republicans inspires Governor 0r-
man with the holie that in the aggre-
gate the duty of assessing corporations
throughout tim state would be better
performed than it would be by the
State Board of Equalization composed
of Governor Orman himself and other
Fusionist state officials?
The trouble goes back to the fact,
demonstrated through years of bad
g~vernment and mismanagement of
public affairs, that the Fusionists are
incompetent and without any qualifi-
cations for governing a state or a com-
munity of any other size. This has
been demonstrated and illustrated ever
since they came into power and they
seem to be growing worse and more
and more inefficient and incapable
w~£n each succeeding administration.
The blunderlng attempts at legislation
last winter and spring were the worst
in the history of the state. To call
such a l.~glslature into special session
to'enact a law for which there is no
use whatever would put the cap sheaf
upon Fusion bad management and
wasteful expenditure of public money.
--~enver Republican.
~[r. ]~'8 Dlvcr61on
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Times, does Mr. Bryan a grea~ injus-
tice. The late presidential candidate
has visited the Buffalo Exposition. He
enjoyed himself, and he wrote up the
show for the Commoner. The extracts
~from this correspondence made by the
Times suggest descrtIrtive writing of
the dullest and most commonplace
character. Of course It was bad Judg.
meat on Mr. Bryan's part to write on
such a subject at all, but having under-
taken It, his inability to make a good
Job of it, from a literary workman's
point of vlew, was his misfortune and
not his fault. Mr. Bryan's sole talent
is denunciation. In excoriating a
monsmr and painting an outrage in its
most awful colors, Mr. Bryan has no
superior and few rivals. But in de-
scribing anything he has enjoyed he is
perfectly helpless; he lumbers around
among the mostcommonplacethoughts
and the tritest of expressions. His
mind has dwet~ upon the Bobber Bar-
ons, the Gold Bugs, the Octopus, in
succession; it is not clear what it will
dwell on in 1904, but it will be some.
thing awful, and Mr. Bryan's powerful
arms will swing a scourge over it.
What can he who is wont to storm the
imminent, deadly breach to do when
called upon to chatter airy nothings
tn a lady's boudoir? What can Mr.
Bryan do with the instructive Pan-
American, ~he amusing but strictly
chaste Midway, and the beautiful
T~nousand Islands?--Commercial Bul-
letin.
Mr. Tnlman's Principles
The sort of man to whom the state
of South Carolina turns itself over, if
it refuses to accept the good advice of
Mr. McLaurln, stands revealed in the
brutal speech made by Senator BenJa.
rain R. Tlllman, at Marinette, Wlscon.
sin, yesterday. In an entirely unneces-
sary and characteristically offensive
manner, Tillman proclaimed to a far
northern audience the extreme "berG'
de wall" slave-driving principles on
the subject of the negro's assumed un-
fitness to live anywhere else than
well under the white man's heel. The
whole speech carries us back to the
past. "Would you have your daugh-
ter marry a nigger?" the old pro-slav,
cry orator used to exclaim. "Why
don't you exterminate your black pop_
ulation by intermarriage?" asks Till-
man. Then he goes on to declar~ that
Booker T. Washington ought not to
be permitted to make artisans and
tradesmen of the negroes, because
that would put them on an equality
with white artisans and "intensify
race hatred."
Mr. Tillman says there were more
Christians among the 4,000,000 slaves
before emancipatlon, than there are
among the 9,000,000 blacks of the pres~
ent day. It does not seem to occur to
him that this statement is a worse re-
proach to the white people of the
country, add particularly to those o~
the section in; which the negroes chief.
ly live, than it is to the negroes them-
selves. The blacks are of their house.
hold. If they have gone so far astray,
the household is morally responsible.
If they are relapsing into paganism
and barbarism, they mfist have been
horribly neglected by their natural
guides and guardians.
Mr'_ McLaurin, and the new senti-
ment in the South which he represents,
offer salvation from this old Confeder-
ate-brigadier and slave-whacking spir-
it. There are some hopeful signs that
South Carolina Is ready to accept the
salvation. Ia ~Tlllman the people may
see the evll and ~evoltin~ alternative
that is offered them.--M~ll and Ex
press.
COWBOY TOURNAMENT AT
MOUNTAIN AND PLAIN CARNIVAL
Denver, Arig. 12.--A cowboy tourna-
ment, the most unique and thrilling
spectacle the West could afford, will
be the star attraction of the first day
of the carnival this fall. The commit-
tee on this part of the program have
decided on the feature "is submitted
by J. M. Kuykendall, and .I)reparations
will at once begirL for a wild west,
cow-punching, "broncho busting" exhi-
bition tlmt will surpass anything of a
similar nature since the early days of
the plains. "Buffalo Bill" will be a
guest of honor.
The committee met with Mr. Kuy-
kendall yesterday and unanimously in-
dorsed the plan. To bring the great
riders to the tournament a prize belt,
worth $300. will be offered for the
best rider, and its owner will be rec-
ognized as the champion of the world
in that line of daring equestrianism.
Eighteen states, all west of the Mis-
souri, and having, ill" lrart, the old fla-
vor of the tflains, will be asked to send
fearless riders, each state sending
three of its picked men. A state con-
test in each case will decide who shall
have the honor of representing the
commonwealth at this gathering, and
thus the flower of western rough riders
will participate in the Denver con-
tests.
"The chief thing about this cowboy
tournament." said Mr. Kuykendall,
who is enthusiastically entering into
the plan, "is that nothing like it has
ever been, held in tlm West. or any-
where, for that matter. Under the
plan of choosing these riders we will
have here in Denver the pick of all the
cow-punchers in the West and in 01d
Mexico."
The judges will be old-time cattle-
men and ranchers wlm staged in the
early days. The chief guest is to be
William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," pro-
viding Mr. Cody can find time to come.
and the committee believes he will.
So, with Buffalo Bill on band "~o see
the thing done right, and before the
cheering thousands the cowboys will
ride the bucking horses for the cham-
plonshlp of the world.
TJae tournament will be held Octo-
ber 2nd, the first day of the carnival.
and the first evidences of cowbo~ day
will be in the big parade. All the conl-
petitors will appear in this parade in
picturesque garb. In the afternoon
will be held the tournament. The first
prize will be the $300 belt, which will
parry wlth it the title of wor}d's chum-
Ilion. Each rider~will have three trials
for the belt, the contests to b9 over
who can best master a bucking bron.
the. There will qlso be awards for
the best rider, a contest without an3"
taming of wild horses. There will be
a first award of $200 for the rider and
$200 for the horse making a fine aggre-
gate for the winner. Five other
awards will range from $50 to $200.
Following the contests will bc all sorts
of rough riding and cowboy novelties
on hors~l)aek.
Last of all, though the feature h~qs
not been finally decided on, the cow-
boys will give an instance of the dar-
ing deviltry of "shooting up a town."
This will embraoe all the features of
the raids that terrorized frontier ham-
lets in the early days, without any of
the dangers.
The eighteen states are each to send
three of their best men. In each state
a contest will be held to determine
who are" the best. The judge in each
state will be the president of the Live
Stock association. This will insure a
star group of riders at the Denver
tournament.
The committee on the tournnment is
J. M. Kuykendall, 1V. W. Porter and
J. K. Stuart. Among the old-time
plainsmen and cattlemen who have
beer invited to be present, either as
judges or as honorary guests, are the
following: George Adams and John
Sparks of Nevada. John Tinnon of
Utah. A. Van Tassel of Wyoming,
Matt Murphy of Montana. Cleveland of
Nevada, Font and the Snyder brothers
of Texas. and from Colorndo Elton
Beekwith. John Fraser, William J.
Wilson. John Tromley, Metcalf. Al
Bowie. Charles Coffey, Johnny Block-
er. Mnrdo McKenzie and Dick Walsh.
The prize $300 belt for the champiou-
shi0 will be a thing of beauty and
well calculated to excite a cowboy to
hls best. The very sight" of it would
make any rough rider's, or for that
matter, any other heart, bound for Joy.
Leading Jewelers will design and ore-
pare it for the committee. It will
probably be a broad band belt. of some
fine. heavy leather, or with finely
woven material, studded with gold
p-
rado and does not take in Cripple
Creek has missed half the ~how." is
what a Kentucky editor says of the
great gold camp.
The old Tabor opera house at Lead-
ville, erected by H. A. W. Tabor dur-
ing the palmy days of the camp. has
been purchased by the Leadville Lodga
of Elks and will be greatly improved.
Colonel Phil Trounstine died ~t Den-
ver on the 10th instant of hemorrhage
of the bowels. He was buried on Tues-
day, August 13th from his late resi-
dence, the ceremohies being conducted
by the Grand Army of the Republic.
The Rio Grande Southern for the
fourth week in July earned $14,105, an
increase of $131 over the corresponding
week of last year. For the month it
earned $43~9S0, "an increase of $1,449
over the same month of last year.
The colored people of Fremont and
Pueblo counties celebrated Emancipa-
tion Day at Florence. August 5th.
There was an excursion train from Pu-
eblo which brought several carloads of
visitors, accompanied by the Pleasant
Grove Band.
Captain C. H. Hilton, Jr.. who served
during the war with Spain and during
the Philippine insurrection with the
Colorado regiment and the Thirty-
ninth infantry, United States volun-
teers, has received notice of his ap-
pointment as first lieutenant in the ar-
tillery branch of the regular army.
The Denver & Rio Grande proper, fez
the fourth week in July, shows net
earnings amounting to $331,000, an in-
crease of $24,700 over the same week
of the preceding year. For the month
of July the earnings were $1,023,800,
an increase of $101,300 over the same
month of last year.
At the meeting of the Scientific asso-
ciation in Denver this month Curator
Ferril of the State Historical and Nat-
ural History Society, will endeavor to
call attention to the necessity for the
publication of an up-to-date botanical
work for the Rocky mountain and
western plains region.
Louis R. Ehrich has offered the
Chambei- of Commerce the use of his
extensive lawn and grounds for the en-
tertainment of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science,
which meets at Denver, August 24th,
should that body accept the invitation
to visit Colorado Springs.
At last reports H. B. Palmer, the
gunner who was dangerously injured
In firing a salute at the Boulder Quar-
to-Centennial celebration, was doing
well in the hospital at Boulder, and
likely to recover. He has lost one
arm and three fingers of the other
hand and is in danger of losing one
eye.
Three prlson~rs escaped from the
Latimer coumy Jail at Fort Collins on
Saturday, August 10th. They were
Mike Berr{y, Charles Ides and Ed. Mon-
roe, all of them awaiting trial for bur-
glary. A fourth prisoner, Jake Thom-
as, awaiting trial for horse stealing,
was bound and gaged by them and left
in the prison.
T. V. Biddle, living on the Beulah
road about six miles southwest of Pu-
eblo, was killed by a bolt of lightning
that come down the chimney of his
house, on the afternoon of August
10th. Idis wife, infant daughter and a
friend visiting at the time, were
stunned by the shock but were other-
wise not Injured.
Within a few weeks an attempt will
];)e made to telegraph and telephone
from the top of the Equitable building
in Denver to the summit of Pike's
Peak without the. aid of intervening
wires. The American Wireless Tele-
graph and Telephone Company, which
has recently invaded the West, will
~onduct the experiment.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the second annual fair of the
Colorado-New Mexlco Fair Associa-
tion, which will be hel(~ at Durango
the second week in October. The fair
will last four days, one day being de-
voted to Indian spor[s. It is expected
that there will be several hundred
Utes and Navajos present.
T~ue Manitou City Conncll has passed
an ordinance to the effect that after
sundown all burros which are kept
for hire shall be banished from the
city, to remain in exile until morning.
The ordinance applies as well to dogs,
cats, parrots or any other beast or
bird that may become troublesome
during the night time by reason of un-
earthly noises.
It is estimated that between 10,000
and 11,000 people participated in the
"log rolllngs at Boulder Saturday,
August 10th, of whom nearly 6,000
came from Denver, taxing railroad fa-
cRities to the utmost for their trans-
portation. The log tellings at Glen-
wood S~rings, Montrose and Chey-
enne, ~¥yoming, on the same day were
also largely attended.
A deplorable accident occurred on
the 6th instant at the home of Van B.
Kelsey, five miles north of Fort Lap-
ton. Wheeler Kelsey, a boy of eight-
een, while performing with a revolver
supposed to be empty, shot and killed
Harry Rafferty, aged thirteen, the Son
of a neighboring farmer. '2'he bullet
entered at the inner corner of the left
eye and penetrated the brain.
At the anual meeting of the directors
of the Colorado Springs & Cripple
Creek District railway, In Colorado
Springs, the following officers were
elected: President, Irving Howbert, re-
elected: Vice president, William ]~en-
nox; treasurer, F. M. Woods; secretary
and assistant treasurer, E. F. Draper. i'
A heavy passenger business was re- •
ported, which promises to last all aum-
me~.
