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I GEN E RaTmEReHANDiSE ~f i - | X Having purchased the stock of the Arapahoe ♦ X Mercantile Co., I will continue to handle a gen- 1 X eral line of merchandise, and solicit your pat- ♦ X ronage. Highest market price paid for cream. J |J. C. Ford Arapahoe, Colo, j 4-f4-44"44444444 ♦4 »4 »4»4+4»++**+»**+++4-4+4-4’4 444444 » 14 4 * 4 4 4 4 « • 4 4 4 ♦ ♦ -» —f : W. F. WILLIAMS I I 4 4 ► '• General Blacksmith ar]d Work. 4 * - ► [ HORSESHOEING A SPECIALTY .. ♦- 4- ♦ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 *• 4 4 4 4- —' '"T" Robert C. Lewis Successor to CV W, Carlson. Lumber, Coal, Cement, Posts, Sash, Doors, Roofing and Building Papers. If you want the best of any of the above, or of any thing else in building materials and want to get better prices, it will pay you to see me, because my stock 4 s hew and bought only of the best grades. While I am selling on a basis of live and let live. Seeing is believing, so oomeinand see me and become convinced. Will be glad to'meet any mail order competition on the same grades of material and under the same conditions. Arapahoe, h™ no. uo-s. Colorado. ARAPAHOE. Tine weather we are having. Talk about windy waather, we had our share Sunday. Dr. H. C. Homer was a business caller in Cheyenne Wells Sa>ur day. Miss Hattie Galland spent last week at the home of W. W. How ard. Misses Gertrude and Lillian Walker spent Sunday at B. F. Mitchell’s Mr. and Mrs, Sherman Smith have returned from as extended visit in the east. The Gilbert boys, from I a nar, Colo., were callers at the S. A. Dodds home, Monday. Lou Birn and John Wyant at tended the dance Thai night at Mr. Shum’s. Mr. Roy Lewis has returned home after spending a wee k in Lincoln, Nebraska. Misses Beatrice and Beulah Blood spent Thursday night at the T. E. Howard home. 'Mrs. L. A. Fe-guson and daughter Aileen left for Oehey daci, lowa, Sunday evening. Lura Ferguson and Lottie A1 ernathy went to the Thanks giving dance at Sharon Springs, Thursday evening. Mr. B. F. Mitchell -and ».*.n,ily expect to leave the last of the week for Cloverly, Colo., their future home. Fernard Bidingrer had the mis ! fortune to fall off the railroad track last Thursday and cut his shoe quite badly, but in no other way injured, The oyster supper at Mt. Pleas ant school houae Thursday even ing was a treat and a feast. Mrs. Ford, the genial professor of the Amoebic college had every t' in? arranged to a queens taste. | First a splendid program consist j ing of songs, declamations, reci tations, etc. and last, but not least, oysters, (not the little |dried up specimens), but great big delicious fellows, that had the appearance of walking into the oral cavity of the purchaser, and good, well there’s no words to express it, then to finish with a flourish a vote was taken on who was the least attractive man in eastern Colorado, the voting went rampant for a long time, but finally simmered down to two of our most noble specimens who were v >ting for each other, when the balance of the ps rty dispersed. We have not leen informed yet as to whether they are voting or not Talk about eats! That’s where we shine, aid such a table as the ladies set a 1 ; the Chapel Thurs day would be an honor for the King of England, or the Presi up to. Thankful, why a man would be exceedingly lacking in dent of the United States, to sit the arrangement of his multipo lar cells in his cranium if he were not thankful that he could live to partake of such a meal. The tables, two of them, 30 feet long, were loaded with viands that would tickle the .palate of the most delicate, and the appetites of the eighty or more present, were of a nature that spoke of the hardiness of the people sur rounding Arapahoe, but the phy sical man was perfectly satisfied. Rev, Mills looked after the spir itual welfare, with a well chosen sermon, and all who came went away saying, “Well done, 1 am content." Such gatherings as these, where neighbor meets neighbor face to face and cracks jokes over the table, are of more value than many a hard days la bor. He comes to learn that his neighbors are all good fellows and that this old world is yet not such a poor place to live in. TEACHING POSITIONS Philippine Islands. In order to make it possible for those interested in positions in the teaching service in the Philppine Islands to take the ex amination for eligibility to ap pointment without intefering with their regular school duties, the United States Civil Service Commission announces on exam ination for teacher, departmen tal and industrial teacher on December 27 and 28, in many of the important cities of the Uni ted States. I Eligibility in these examina tions is required for appoint -1 ment to positions: Women in Home Economics. High School Science. Men in Agriculture. Manual Training. Mathematics. English. and Supervision of Schools The entrance salary of the ma jority of appointees is $1,200 per annum and expenses to the Is lands by the Government, with j eligibility for promotion up to $2,000 as teacher and up to $3, J 000 as Superintendent. ! For information relative to the ' nature or the service and the ex ! animation, address. Bureau of Insular Affairs, Washington. D. C. Colorado Pass System Dead. The Colorado & Southern and the Denver & Rio Grande Rail road companies have recently done what the legislature should have done long since. two roads have adopted laws —or the same thing —rules or a course of conduct, whatever yov may call it, by which free railroad trans portation is a thing of the past with them. They have sent out the edict that tha companies have absolutely abolished the free pass system, and that it will make no difference who the ap plicants may be—newspapers, politicians' officeholders, candi dates, members of the legisla ture, their brothers, their sisters, their uncles or their aunts—they can’t get passes, and that’s the end of it. Entertained At Baber Ranch. On last Saturday evening we left by automobile for the Babtr Ranch, 15 miles north of Chey enne Wells, where by invitation, "something we were never known to refuse," to be present at a premeditated Turkey dinner. We arrived in time for supper Saturday evening:, and sit down to a table loaded with New York counts, raw, stewed, and fried. We thought when this meal was over that it must be Sunday, but it wasn’t, and we were glad. Dr. C. E. Lewis and family were also guests at this famous Ranch of the house of Baber, and the only thing visible on the physiog nomy, of this well known pre scription specialist, was an im movable expression of great sat isfaction and unadulterated joy. It was no wonder, however that the Dr. indulged hi 6 feeling in such open expressions, for the pre-feast, supper, which was seemingly served as entree to the feast being prepared in the cul inary department, was of a na ture calculated to fill one with ecstacies of antcipation of what the morrow would bring forth. It is always a pleasure to visit the home of the Baber’s. This good family are among the most sustantial in the county, and are always in line for entertaining, and perhaps do entertain oftcner than any other family in this section. There is scarcely a day passes, thateither friend or stran ger is not entertained within their gates. Mrs. Baber is one of the best cooks that ever made biscuit or baked a turkey, and it is to the genius of her hand that the Baber Ranch is distinguished for miles around as the prize place to be caught, at meal time, and this opinion is borne out by the fact, that on cross country routes, its the slogan, don’t stop till you get to Balwr’s, and be sure to get there at meal time. This ranch is well stocked with horses and cattle, poultry and swine, and the feed that is piled up in the stack yard, as well as the great abundance still in the shock in the field, is ample evi dence of the success that attends the efforts and the methods of farming, as carried into practice by Mr. Sam Baber, who is re sponsible for what takes place on this ranch, in the way of farming and stock raising. We wish we could stay here a month, but after the manner of our feasting on that Turkey, Fried Oysters, cranberries, celery, Et caetera, together with our dear Dr. Lewis, annexing so much of the table spread that he fell down on the bed in a truce and dident wake up for four hours. We are afraid to suggest it. We are used to getting ourselves pretty well fed at the Albany Hotel, and we are satisfied with what we get to eat there, for it is good: But the kind of eating we had for five days at this Ranch, has introduced some new ideas to us, and we may not be able to enjoy our tegular fare, until nature has reduced us to our normal size, and we havere g itied our equiebrium. DEMOCRATS’ EXPENSE In Colorado $21,141. In dollars and cents it cost the Democratic state central com mittee $21,141.98 at the recent election. George Bradley, state chairman, yesterday filed his campaign expense affidavit with the secretary of state. The largest single item is $7, 120, distributed among thirty-five counties for election day. This means that in twenty-nine coun ties of the state the committee did not spend a cent. The second item i i size is $2,264.90, spent for advertising in newspapers and magazines. This is the itemized account: Printing, postage, exprcssage,head quarters $1,667.5-'* Expense, labor, publicity and press burotm 942.36 Main headquarters expense. Albany Hotel, stationer}'* etc. payroll, .of clerks, stenographer* an4 ertlher incidentals — 1.73M** Telephones and triegeams - ..806.11 Attorneys' legal service* 200.M Speakers' bureau expense, epcaketu’ expenses etc BSk.d# Printing and posting of'bills for meetings, meeting at Auditorium Denver, Including decorating, mu sic 1,462 15 Advertising papers magazines etc ?,2.4 94 Posting and distribution campaign material 206. 5# Workers sent out by headquarters 470.00 fjabormt headquarters and workers 800.60 Women's headquarters (except rent) 150.00 Colored headquarters and workers 160 00 Personal and incidental expenses of secretary .250.-0* Personal and incidental expenses of chairman 160.06 Billboard signs. Denver 292:26 Dem >cratic state press ceramittue 262.0» Expense Bryan train. C. Ac S railroad 260.00 Expense Wilson train, D, A R. G. railroad 127.80 Buttons and plate matter 284.65 Aswsots distributed to thirty-five different counties for election day and prior 7.120.00 Outstanding bills (estimated) 8126.00 Total I21.l41.9i Balance on hand 215.80 FIRST VIEW NEWS. Mrs John Mnrslinll is on ill* sick list Miss Bert'aa Cheny rtturnM to Denver, Monday. There will be Cathslic services here Decemb r (5th. C. N. Smith and wife visited the county seat Saturday. O. Ellis returned from Mar. hattan, Kan., Inst Thursday. Mrs. Delos Curtis is home again ufter a prolonged stay at Cheyenne wells. Geo Ilorner urriyed here Fri day with an car of goods from Manhattan. The Lndies Aid Society will ‘ weet with Mrs. Fred McDonald Wednesday December 11th. Mr. Gregory, of Manhattan. Kan., purchased a section of land from C. N. Smith last week. Mr. Wolf and family, Claud Smith and wife and Oliver Fry spent Thanksgiving at the homo - of J. M. Ellis' Req. Wind preached a fine ser mon Sunday. The unpleasant, weather caused quite a number to miss it. A large crowd atteuded the literary last Friday night, all had a very pleasant evening. Come every Friday night. Hla Wishes Carried Out. Old Forglen, the Scotch Judge, died Jn 1727. Dr. Clerk, who attended hli lordship to the last, calling pn his patient the day he died, was admitted by the Judge's cld servant and clerk, David Reed. "How does my lord do?” Inquired the doctor. "I houp he's weel!" responded the old mao, whose voice and manner at once explained his meaning. With tears streaming down his face, he conducted Dr. Clerk Into a room where there two dozen bottles of wine underneath the table. Other gentlemen presently arrived, and having partaken of a glass or two of wine, while they listened to Da vid's account of his master’s lust hours, they all rose to depart. “No, no, gentlemen; not so,” said the oi l factotum, ‘‘It was the express of th: deceased that I should fill ye a’ fou, and I maun fulfill the will o' th > dead.” Dr. Clerk used to add, when relating the story, "and. Indeed, he did fulfill the will of the dead, for before the eud o't there was na an.? of us able to bite Ills aln thoombl” Ancient Egyptian, The question, "Of what race were the ancient Egyptians?” has never been satisfactorily disposed of, but we may be sure that tljey wore not negroes. They were not black, nor was their hair “kinky"—therefore, they belonged to some other than the negro race. They certalDly were not Caucasian’s, nor were they of the Mon golian or yellow breed of man; Tiie builders of the pyramids were prob ably of Arabic stock or stock In which Arabic predominated. Although, as has been Intimated, it is by no means set tled yet as to Just whero the old Egyptians are to bo placed In the hu man scale.