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SIX BaagagMßKMy the label fljCjU^ia and boy onlj ■ffjj&* ? Ab9 baking powder made IrElSlfHfflfci S from cream of tartar j GANDERBONE’S FORECASTS FOR DECEMBER. Copyright 190A by C. H. Rietb The shades of night were falling fast As Paul Revere went dashing past. “T. Roosevelt is dead!” he vowed. But everybody laughed aloud, And as he pushed upon the reins. They cried, “Go tell it to the Danes!” Whereat the herald winked his eye And said, "I'll have to change the cry “Prosperity returned!” he bawled. The next town site he overhauled; But this town. too. for all his pains. Just smiled and said, “Go tell the Danes.” Wherefore. Revere, still raising welts Upon his mount planned something else. “Cook has confessed!” was his halloo The next township he galloped through; But those were also knowing swains. And yelled, “Go tell it to the Danes!” At which rebuff he frowned a frown And said “I’ll try just one more town.” And, on the solemn truth resolved, Cried. “Standard Oil has been dis solved!” But this town said and Bhook Its nog gin, “Keep right on. Paul, to Copenhagen.” * * * December was anciently the tenth month, and its name is from the Latin decem (ten). It has always been the last month in every calendar. Like ourselves, the ancients were not quite sure whether they could afford it or not, and it was always, therefore, placed where it could be dropped with the least disturbance to the calendar year. Alexander the Great always attacked his enemies immediately af ter Christmas, when they didn’t have a cent, and Julius Caesar, who could see farther than Jim Hill, repeatedly warned Rome against the Goths and Vandals, who. like the trusts, gave each other no Christmas presents. The cast for the annual Christmas cantata will be as follows: Santa Claus. Mr. Taft. Sled, Mr. Carnegie. Reindeer. Mr. Kuhn, Mr. Loeb, Mr. Al drich and Mr. Payne. Bells. Mrs. Green and Mrs. Sage. Whip, Mr. Law son. Snow. Chancellor Day. Moon, Mr Archbold. Roof. Mr. Ryan. Chim ney, Mr. Hill. Pack, Mr. Sherman. Tree, Mr. Rockefeller Sleeping child, Mr Morgan. The performance will be given on the night of the 24th. Mr. Morgan is said to he in the awakening scene the most delightful child in the history of the play. Tiie natural phenomena of the month will he encouraging. On the 12th there will be a partial eclipse of the sun. visible in the region around ♦he Scuth Pole. During the eclipse 16 ounces of sugar will weigh a pound at the New York custom house and gas meters will run backwards. On the 21st the Coal Trust will kick the sun across the Tropic of Capricorn for n field goal, and tb»* winter sols tice will begin with the ball In the possession of the trusts on our five yard line This will be the shortest day of the year, and Mr IN ary will be the favorite in the North Pole dispute. The dawn of winter will disclose John Rockefeller with his toes Wigwagging with an upward thruat And pieces of the Hugnr Trust Disseminated here and there. With Uncle Samuel with his hair Awry in angry little puffs In looking for bis coat and cuffs. • • • The breath of Boreas will blow, and 10, the soft and flakey snow will lay its mantle on the hill and look for cubby holes to fill. The furry colt will feel the fine on-come of winter down his spine, the which will make him buck and squeal and snap the cracker on his keel. The chilly dog will sniff the air and don his heavy suit of hair, and in his ingloo made of snow the blubber-eating Eskimo will twinge with rheumatiz and gout and wonder how the fight came out. The lusty calf will bawl and bah and burrow in the stack of straw, and Winter, with its biting wind, will urge him Inward from behind. The rabbit hunter, red of face, will prosecute the thrilling chase, and the flying rabbit, frighten* ed daft, will run like Roosevelt were aft. « « * The cost of living, plump and stout. Will dare the Christmas shopper out, And chase him headlong through the door And here and there around the store; And every time he shall espy A present he would like to buy , The swift pursuer, fell and grim. Will knock his pins from under him And slap him smartly on the gills With seven pounds of household bills. At which the drums will sadly beat and all the dollies fair and sweet will : weep in concert, and the toys will , make a thunder of a noise. The mel ancholy horns will toot, and the little ( soldier in his suit will wave his trusty ! haversack and stab the tyrant In the back. We must have Christmas in these parts no matter who It is that smarts or what the blooming tariff is, or any man desires for his. We’ve got to fill those empty socks no matter If the planet rocks, or If the plu*ocrats we rile go round barefooted for a while. We don't mind being made the goat and wearing our old overcoat year In .and out and being spent, and sifting ashes for the rent; bu! when the hol ■ idays advance and Fatty Morgan hangs his pants upon the mantle with the cuffs tied up with strings and oth er stuffs, and tells the rest of us to git, by thunder, we won’t stand for It. There will be something doing in foctal and political phenomena. Con gress will assemble at Washington on the fifth, and an emergency session of the Standard Oil legal staff will begin at Cleveland on the alghth. Mr. Taft’s ultimate conclusions as to golf and other great issues will be read on the sixth, and Mr. Rockefeller's an nual message will be made public on the ninth. The Insurgents will blv • uac across the Potomac from the Capital, with Mr. LaFollette In com rnand. Mr. Cummins as scout and Mr. Beveridge qh lookout. On the 21st wo shall pass tinder the Influence tf the zodiacal sign of Cap rlcornuH the Goat. This will cause Mr Taft, who in going to go for Rip Van Winkle’s record, to turn over, and ♦he consignor will he the goat » * * And then the new year will arrive To swell the sum of years, And the man from Elba will return To s«t ii.i by the ears THE CANON CITY RECORD, THURSDAY, DEC. 9, ioog SWITZERLAND ADVANCED IN PRACTICE OF FORESTRY Switzerland recognized the benefits of forest protection and development 600 years ago when the forest ordin ance of Bern was Issued. The Shil wald of Zurich, one of the most per fectly managed and most profitable forests in the world, has been handled under a working plan since 1680. The little Alpine republic still reports progress In fortst work, and the Am erican consul writing from St Gall, says: “The g overnment of Switzerland has so carefully regulated the timber output that It has never been permlt tetd to exceed the natural growth. The thick growth of timber on the mountain sides, purposely allowed to become dense, has perceptibly lessen ed the danger and frequency of ava lanches and landslides, which In for mer times were so frightfully de structive. To control the spring floods In the rivers and streams massive dams, for tified by thickly planted trees, have been erected at exposed places. In the extraordinary attention paid to Its timber lands the government has tak en into account also the necessity for sheltering and pasturing cattle, the maintenance of the soil, the roads, and the natural springs, climate, and the control of mountain streams. “The actual forest area in Switzer land comprises 2.205.508 acres, 21.48 per cent, of the entire surface of the country, 77,004 of which belong to the state, and 2,128!504 to the cantons, communes, municipalities, and pri vate corporations. Beven hundred and eighty-one acres of the state for est are set aside as a nursery. From this nursery in 1908 over 22,000,000 young trees were taken and trans planted In the various forests. "Swiss forests are classed as ‘pro tected* and ‘non-protected.* The for mer are those which are situated on mountain slopes where the Imminence of washouts, stono and Ice chutes, landslides and avalanches calls for the constant exercise of extraordi nary care and attention. The ’non protected’ are those on comparatively level ground requiring only ordinary attention to keep them In good condi tion. Because of the character of the country the gre* majority of the for j ests are 'proter^d.' ' "The law provides that ’the forest I area shall not be diminished’ and thit l all forests shall be maintained In a THIS MAN HAS THE RIGHT IDEA ABOUT THE APPLE PACK Dear Mr Hardy: All the fall I have watched with interest the discussion regarding the reputation which Canon City has made for herself in the matter of grade in apple pack And It has been with somewhat of shame that I have realized that it was not what It ought to be. so when my eyes ran upon the article from which the following is taken. I said, “if it has been done else where, why not here?”. This is the report of one small com munity, in the effort to improve their own market. “Some 17 years ago the peach grow ers of the Catawba Island. Ohio, be came greatly dissatisfied with the meth-.ds In vogue In marketing their crops.” They were satisfied that prices were low. and grading dishon est. They wore careful to establish uniform grades, to ship in uniform p (I age , d< an r a common brand that brand * f pe iche i stand for quality and grade In every market, and succeeded In establishing so high a reputation for their pro duct that Gypsum, the shipping point has become one of the greatest peach markets of the country.” Every year marketing seventy-five to one hundred thousand bushels of peach es at highly remunerative prices.” This Is no peach market but the principle applies to our apple mar ket. Now. I don’t think that It may be necessary to form any more associa tions for the handling of our crop— hut what I do want to emphasize is that by some system of uniform grad ing and packing, there can be a rep utation made that will mean many uCy I I I I'* r «1 •||* j | I 'clyr* ’llte only high-dsM Baking I‘owtJer told at j&fjfc a moderate price. fairly dense condition. Even in pri vate forests close cutting or clearing up is strictly forbidden, especially In exposed places, without the consent of the federal authorities, and then only in small areas and when prompt reforestation is guaranteed. Trees for cutting are carefully selected by forestry experts. “Through the forests are excellent roads, made largely by the cantonal authorities. The year 1908 was mark ed by such activity in road construc tion that the state, which bears a pro portion of the expense, paid to the cantons the sum of $46,634 on their account alone. “Spruce Is the most Important tree in the Swiss forests, and then In order of their Importance come the white flr, beech, larch, pine, cypress, and a few* other varieties. “The principal revenue derived from the Swiss forects Is from the lumber output, there being no manu factures of resin, turpentine, and sim ilar bi-products. To offset the cut ting there were planted In 1908 23.096.226 trees, of which 18.031.690 were conifer and 6.064.635 were de ciduous. and no less than seven tons of seed were sown. “Statistics of the receipts and ex penditures of all forestry work lu the country are not available, but a coup le of cases may be cited which show gratifying returns. "The total receipts from the sale of wood In 1908 from 2.421 acres of state forests in the canton of SL Gall are given as $24,457.37 and the ex penditures as $7,104.81. leaving a net profit of $17,352.66. In the forests of the town of Winterthur, amounting to 2.833 acres, the receipts were $51,174.- 63 and the expenses $21,634.50. leav ing a net profit of $29,540.13. or an average profit of about $1042 per acre. “It Is not to be presumed that the revenue from the entire Swiss forest area can be approximatetd by talcing as a basis the earnings of the St. Gall or Winterthur forests, which have for many years been under the moat In telligent and excellent management, but the universal opinion among for ' ♦’•try officials Is that the jealous care | with which the Swiss timber lands j have been guarded has vastly bene fltetd both national and cantonal treasuries from the financial point of lew.” Neither do 1 believe that the rank Thousands of dollars profit each year to the fruit growers of this valley, and file of packers of Canon City are wilfully dishonest in their pack, but because of the absence of any com mon understanding, or established grade, every man has to pack to his own judgment, resulting In anything but uniformity. Now let uie fruit growers associa tion and the shippers get together, es tablish a grade, adopt a uniform pack age. and by rigid and Impartial in spection insist upon the requirements. I>»t every fruit grower rally to the standard and do his portion In up holding the good name, and It won’t be many seasons before Canon City apples will occupy the place In the markets, to which they are Justly en titled, among the front ranks. The time to do this is at once, for th** next pack of apples must be larg • i and Increasing with each year as more and more land Is brought Into cultivation and new orchards cotne In to hearing—meaning more and moro and Increasingly more profit to the section—and it will be easier now to 1 establish a grade than when the mcm | b. r of growers has been doubled—Ex <•'] -e me If I take up to much of your i valuable space but the subject seems t ° important to me that I venture to Fay my say. “A READER.” A Thrilling Rescue How Herbert L. of Cheny. 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Finished in Nickel or Japan in various styles. •rwy Dealer Everywhere. n Not At Yowre, Write for Descriptive Circular to the Near eat Ageacy oi the COJf ini EBTA.I Oil, COMPACT AERIAL TRAMWAY ESTAB LISHED ON WOLF PARK FOR TRANSPORTATION OF COAL Uttell Brothers of Colorado Spring* —owner* and operator* of the Wolf PArk Coal mine, a couple of mllee south of town, after having an aerial tramway built for the transportation of their product from the mine to the Santa Fe railroad spur, running out to the Empire Zinc plant, a distance of nearly two miles. It la a somewhat unique piece of engineering construc tion. there being nothing quite like It anywhere in southern Colorado. It la nothing more or less than two par allel line of tightly stretched, three quarter Inch, steel cable, varying In height from two to twenty fee above the ground, on which cars carrying about a ton of coal, or other merchan dise. are operated by means of pulleys —The Installation of the enterprise will be completed next week when the output of the mine will be carried from th»* shaft to the railroad track In the manner we have described. Thirty cars have been ordered by the company and It Is Intended ulti mately to have fifty of them In com mission. A few months ago a somewhat sim ilar tramway was erected by one of the mining companies in the Cripple Creek district, the first of lt« charac ter In the Rocky Mountain region, and was the prototype of the line being put up by Llttell brothers. There are two tracks, one for the loaded cars and the other for the emp ty one going back to the mine The cables are securely fixed to heavy posts, set In groups, at Intervals of a hundred feet ana rag but very lit tle under the loads they carry. The cables are cut In lenghts of 800 feet In order that the slack resulting from expansion during the hot weath er rnay be taken up. which Is accom plish'd by means of set screws These traveling cars loaded with coal and moving forward without vis ible power will present an Interesting spectatclo. Along the railroad tracks capacious platforms are being con structed for the storage of the coal. The Wolf Park mine Is 1,100 feet deep. but. In spite of thnt fact. Is no more expensive to operate than those In which the coal measures are much nearer the surface. Thomas Knowles Is the pit boss at the Wolf Park mine and John Minister has supervision of affairs at the sur face. MASH MEETING FOR MEN AT THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH SUNDAY AFTERNOON On Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock a special meeting for men will lie held at the Christian church to which all men of the city are cordially Invited. Rev Dean, the evangelist, who Is con ducting u series of meetings at the Christian church, will speak on the subject. "Five Kinds of Fools." Rev. D*mn Is not a sensationalist, hut ho Or C Hfrman Gp «vf’ Private k - Ray Examinations vor Ain Treatment 114 North t*»rth H'r«#< Office hours 2to 1 mi 1 ? to « v will have some splendid things to say. In an Interesting manner. Prof. Arthur L. Haley of Butler. In diana. will sing and have charga of the special music of which there will t*e a fine program. Special meetings at the church at the regular services both morning and evening to which all are welcome. Subject for morning sermon. “Otft. Father;" for the evening discoursed "The Church of the New Testament.* A Dally Record want *d does the work. Only Be llu j The man on the farm can rightfully lbe numbered araoog the country - ! moat careful inventors. The Colored! fruit farmer, especially, la seldom en snared by fake schemes. He It eat» lulled to place his comings where they earn a consistent rate of Interest «n 4 nro absolutely safe. For this reason an Interest account in this bank has. for nearly eighteen years, been the choice of Colorado farmers and ranchmen. Its Ranklng-by-Mail department is 'he largest and most modern In the west. No matter where you live, yon '•an deposit with this bank, and yoor funds will earn four per cent. Interest. Send today for Booklet *F." which explains our system. —THE— INTERNA lIMNAI. TP <T ■ ospanv-bank "The OliN-et and t-irKct In Colorado.” I). 11. MOFFAT, I’rr.ldint. m:\fl. 'SSI IS mn: mi mil! lOIK ’ y* ! hey \\ in i \\ nlk ’ or even whi n you are sitting or stanr Ing. Our Suits and Overcoats alway look well »nd command the admin Don of every student of correct drei for men We make the most stylls Stilts and Overcoats, perfect from f; brlc to finish, and there Is a dlsllnc Iveness about the details—ln the ct I and the "hang” of the garments, th | ■tamps the work as artlßtlc talmrln I We have the best equipment In uX to clean soiled garments. McGillicuddy j 117 N. 3th j