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CHESTNUT COLUMN From the Files of The Observer, Week Knding December 21, 1887, Joseph Curnow was required by Jas. Couch, J. P., to give bond in the sum of $2,000 for his appearance at the next term of court on account of his partici pation in the shooting bee at Nevada ville Sunday evening. He was unable to give bond and went to jail. The thermometer indicated fifteen degrees below zero. The noted detective John Teague was on hand interviewing the prisoners at the county jail. “To John L. Sullivan, Boston, U. S. A. with best wishes of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales,” was the inscription on the gold watch presented to the champion pugilist by his Royal High ness. John Cox went to George;n*, n this week for the purpose of taking unto himself a wife. Mrs. Feehan bought the residence of B. T. Wells in Chase gulch for $2,500. The property was cheap for the sum. Sterl Newell and Livesay were up all night in their night clothes, running from one water pipe to another trying to keep Jack Frost away. But Jack got there just the same. The Goldman and Hogan half interest in the Little Alice mine, was sold in Denver this week for the sum of SB,OOO. Bela I. Lorah came up from the School of Mines at Golden to spend the holidays with his parents. County Clerk and Recorder Bartholo mew Robins was confined to his home with la grippe. Miss Theodora Ranney, teacher in the public school, had been laid up for sev eral days with a severe cold. Born—ln Central City, Colorado, on Tuesday, December 20th, 1887, to the wife of Thomas Husband, a son. In Russell Gulch, Monday, December 19th, 1887, to the wife of James Richards, a daughter. Mr. C. W. Fonda had commenced work on the Gem mine in Gilson gulch. J. Mellor & Co.’s bank shipped $6,300 of gold to the mint in the last two weeks in small retort 3. The Flynn brothers were taking out a good grade of ore in the East Notaway. The last, shipment netted them S9O per ton. Hon. S. V. Newell returned from Denver where he had been visiting with his family. IN RUSSELL GULCH Eugene Gammon left for the valley this morning after a pleasant visit with relatives and friends. Antone Zancanella will be married on Saturday of this week and the boys are getting their “instruments” ready for the big charivari. Cap Ferganchiek last week received a new trombone, and Will Richards ex pects his new tuba any day. These instruments will make a big addition to the Russell Gulch band. Curtis & Chellew reports business as quite lively in the livery and general ex pressing line. The dance given last Friday evening by the Russell Gulch band was a decid ed success and the boys are very well pleased. The people of this section are very much pleased with the orchestra which was organized some time ago and have been dispersing excellent music at the local dances. The following comprise the orchestra: Philip Curtis —Violin. George Scheffer—Cornet. Lou Scheffer—Clarionet. Cap Ferganchiek—Trombone. Josephine Curtis—Piano. At the mnsk ball~given by the band boys John Hughes and Emily Hughes won the prizes for the fanciest and gro tesque costumes. Anna Wagner is expected home Sat urday from Belleville, Colo. John Curnow and wife moved to Ne vnduvillc this week. Wanda Gehmann has gone to Golden to spend the holidays. Mamie Johnson left this week for Texas where she will spend her school v acation. The Sunday school social on Saturday evening was a great success. C. A. Wagner returned Thursday from a trip to Denver. S. T. Harris returned Saturday from n business trip to the metropolis. Frank Paxton returned Sunday from a visit to tho Queen city. Sam Parfet left Sunday for Cripple Creek. Tom Edwards returned Suturduy nf tcr a visit to Denver. Tour of All Mexico By Private Train. Leaves Denver January 28th, via Col orado & Southern. Tickets cover all expenses. Write T. E. Fisher, G. P. A., Denver. WOULD WAIT A LITTLE LONGER. Old Man Waa Taking No Chances on Possible Trouble. He was a man of 70, but as he had had his hair and his long whiskers colored a jet black one had to look at him twice to get his age down pat. It was on the rear end of a street car, and after the wind had blown through those colored whiskers for ten minutes he asked of the man smoking the bad cigar: “Any news from Japan this morn ing?” "I didn’t see any in my paper,” was the reply. “The excitement is sort o’ dying out, eh?” “Yes, I think so.” “But there may be another row over something?” "It is possible, of course, but I hardly think so. There was no real cause for the excitement anyhow.” “No, I guess not, but I’m rather con servative and I think I’ll wait a cou ple of weeks longer.” “For what, may I ask?” “To pop the question to a widder who owns a farm on the Connecticut shore right where the Japs can sail up and blow the dirt out of it down to bed-rock. Widder’s all right and farm’s all right up to the present time, but I’m taking no chances. If every thing’s all serene for two weeks more I pop; if there’s any more talk about war I wipe this dye ofT and shave up and tell all widders to go to grass.” HAIRPINS AND THEIR USES. Many Popular Services Performed by Little Instrument. It is recorded that Zola, on being asked what impressed him most when In England, replied: "The sight of so many hairpins strewn along the paths.” He probably, with most people, did not realize to what varied and service able uses this little article Is put. It is an excellent substitute, for a paper cutter; It will pierce a cigar or clean a pipe; as a buttonhook, either for boots or gloves, it is invaluable; in extremities it has served as a tooth pick, horrible as this may seem; while, if a sufficient number are used, it supplies the place of a hatpin. There is another popular service also that it performs. Recently at a smart hotel a young lady took up a novel, saying to the man who was carrying It around: “How far have you got with this story?” As she spoke she opened the book with that quick movement which inevitably be trays the bookmarker, then putting it down with a laugh, added: “Oh, I was looking for the hairpin which marked the place you had reached, but of course you don’t use hairpins.” Dry Rot in Men. The first strong external revela tion of the dry rot in men Is a ten dency to lurk and lounge; to be at street corners without intelligible reason; to be going anywhere when met; to be about many places rather than at any; to do nothing tangible, but to have an intention of perform ing a variety of intangible duties to morrow or the day after. When the manifestation of the disease is ob served, the observer will usually con nect it with a vague impression once formed or received that the patient was living a little too hard. He will scarcely have had leisure to turn it over in his mind and form the ter rible suspicion “dry rot” when he will notice a change for the worse in the patient's appearance—a certain slov enliness and deterioration -which is not poverty nor dirt nor intoxication nor ill-health, but simply "dry rot.” — Roanoke Times. Poor Prospects. Kid McCoy (or Norman Selby, tc give the ex-pugilist his right name) bought the other day a $350,000 office building in New York. To a reporter who congratulated him on this opulence, Mr. Selby said: “It is pleasanter to bo well-to-do than to be hard up. I thank good ness I am not like the young man out In St. Joseph whom I heard about the other day. He and his sweetheart certainly have poor prospects. “A friend of mine called on this St. Joseph fellow’s sweetheart one night and found her embroidering. “ ‘Oh, I say,’ my friend exclaimed, ‘what exquisite embroidery, don’t you know. It is a little case for jewels, isn’t it?” “ ‘Well, no,’ said the young wom an; ‘but you see, George, poor dar ling. has nothing to keep his pawn tickets In.’ ” Long Spell of Bad Weather. Two ladles who had not seen each other for years recently met In the street. They recognized each other after a time, and their recognition was cordial. “So delighted to see you again. Why. you are scarcely altered." “So glad; and how little changed you are. Why, how long Is It since we met?" “About ten years.” “And why have you never been to see me?” "My dear, Just look at tho weather wo have had." Blinded While Walking Wire. While walking a wire rope across South Bowlder canyon, near Denver, Col., Ivy Baldwin suddenly was stricken temporarily blind, but by talking to the men at the other end he retained his nerve and flnlshed In safety, probably the most perilous walk ever undertaken by man. The wire was 583 feet above ground and from end to end was 660 feet. FELLOW HE WAS LOOKING FOR. Reuben Willing to Be Bunkoed, But Wanted Run for Hie Money. Reuben had just landed In town with a wad of seemly proportions and was looking about curiously at the throng in the railroad station wait ing room, says the Chicago News. “Looking for some one?” asked a well-dressed and smiling man, with considerable glibness. “Yes,” said Reuben, after a pause, during which he had inspected the stranger from feet to head and back again. “Yes, I am looking for some feller, an’ I bet a hoss you’re him. I wanted t’ find a slick feller that wanted t’ take m’ roll. Hyer it Is. I come t’ town t’ spend it in havin’ a good time, but was tole that some sharper’d find some way o’ glttin’ it away from me, In spite o’ faith. I b’lieved what they tole me, fer Hi Medders an’ Jake Luscomb both owns up t’ bein’ a heap brighter ’n me, an’ both o’ them got skun right hyer In Shycawgo. So I says to ’em: ‘Well,’ I says, 'if it’s a case of git skun, th’ sooner th’ better, an’ I’m goin’ t’ see how he skins me an’ git all I kin fer m’ money.’ Now*, all I ast of you, mister, in exchange fer this hyer roll is t’ gimme th’ biggest time ye kin t’ make a fair profit on yer time an’ labor. Sail in with this roll o’ mine, mister. I’ll keep in sight o’ ye till she’s gone.” But the confidence man had fallen in a dead faint. Reuben remarked: “Well, I’ll be danged!” as he care fully pocketed his hard-earned roll and started to hunt a more competent swindler. TAKES LONG TO CAST STATUE. Many Delicate and Laborious Opera tions Required. “Immense pains and immense labor attend the production of a bronze statue of any size, even after the artist has done his work," remarks a sculptor. “To begin with, the plaster model has to be completely covered with small lumps of a special kind of sand, sometimes as many as 1,500 to 2,000 of these pieces being required. After these blocks of sand are dry they are taken off the cast one at a time and carefully put together to form the mold. The latter is then filled with clay, and the same operation is again gone through, a facsimile of the plas ter cast being thus obtained. “Then comes the most delicate part of the whole work. The clay model, or ‘core,’ as,it is technically called, has to have a quarter of an inch taken off its entire surface, which, as may readily be imagined, is anything but easy, especially if the subject be at all ornate. “The ‘core’ is then again put Into the mold —which has, of course, to be reconstructed once more—being kept exactly in the center by means of iron rods. "The molten bronze is then poured in from the top. completely filling the space between the ‘core’ and the mold. After it has cooled the latter is again removed and the clay interior extract ed. when the statue, somewhat rough, and needing a slight touching up, is revealed.” Why His Speech Was Strange. “When George Ade wintered In Egypt.” said a Baltimorean, “it amused him a good deal to see the serious way in which his fellow tour ists took their smattering of the Arabic tongue. They had picked up all this flimsy knowledge In a week or two’s reading, but they acted as though it was the precious fruit of a lifetime’s study. At Assouan a young woman from St. Joseph complained that she could not understand the Arabic of her guide. To the crowd that encircled her she pointed out the guide—a bent old fellow with a white beard —and she said bitterly that, after her thorough study of Arabic, it seemed strange that she and this guide could not converse. From the rear of the crowd Mr. Ade called gravely: ‘lt's your own fault. Miss Hodson. You should have hired a younger guide. These toothless old ones all speak gum Arabic.’ ” Disinfection of Blankets. The disinfection of woolen things of all sorts after Infectious fevers and the like is always a matter of diffi culty, says tho London Hospital. Blankets, for example, and suits of clothing are often greatly damaged when sterilized by moist heat. If the electrolytic process destroys anthrax bacilli and leaves wool fiber absolutely Intact, a new light Is thrown upon the question how to ster ilize woolen things after scarlet fever, for example. If anthrax germs and vegetable libers are destroyed by a simple process of electrolysis, It seems reasonable to suppose that the Infective agents In the specific fevers would be so, too. Women Are Good Explorers. Dr. Charles Shaw, the biologist. Bays that seven out of ten women are fit ted by nature to make good explorers. Ho has taken women through the mountains on hard scientific trips, and he declares that they not only stand the trip as well ns men, but they have a latent love for the wilderness that keeps them spiritually as well as physlcully vigorous. > - A Bum Affinity. "I don't hear Qwendolln talking about her affinity any more," “Nope.” "What’s wrong?” “Her affinity gave her a fake com merclal rating," BLACK HAWK NEWS The Red Men celebrated their Bth anniversary Monday evening in their new hall. Dancing was indulged in un til 11 o’clock, when a big turkey supper was then served to the members. Plenty of everything in wide variety was served, after which dancing was resumed and continued until 3 a. m. on Tuesday. Fred Matthews rode the goat in the Red Men Thursday evening and receiv ed the first degree, and will again try the animal this Thursday evening for the second degree. The great chancellor of the K. of P. visited Black Hawk lodge No. 4 last evening. Don’t forget the Red Men’s social dance next Saturday evening, at their new hall. Charles Jacobs and wife arrived on Monday evening from McCook, Neb,, to take in the Red Men’s anniversary doings and will visit with relatives until after the holidays. J. M. Hurwitz, wife and child, came up from Denver last Friday evening to visit with Mrs. Hurwitz’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Rachofsky. About 200 tickets were sold for the dance Tuesday evening given for the benefit of Thomas Roberts. Owing to the disagreeable weather which pre vailed many of the tickets were not used. The Red Men donated their hall and the Rebekahs served the supper. Dancing was continued until 1 o’clock. Leo Voll furnished the music. Mrs. Allen, great Pocahontas, is here with Nello Boyd of Idaho Springs, wife of the great Senior Sagamore, and are making an official visit to Neota Coun cil. Wednesday evening, after a few initiations, a fine banquet was served. Miss Florence Hill is visiting with friends in Idaho Springs for a few days. Winning Her. “Papa says,” remarked the heiress, “that you’re a mere fortune hunter.” “Well now, my dear,” replied the shrewd fellow, “that’s more or les9 true. Your face Is your fortune and that’s what attracts me.” Canadian Bounties. Canada paid the following bounties for the first 11 months the 1906 fis cal year: $624,191 on iron, $538,591 on steel, $213,440 on steel rods, $13,478 on binder twine, and $267,048 on crud« oiL Restrictions. The alien was in jail for having shot a fellow countryman. “And this." he said, bitterly, “is what you call the land of liberty.” Irascibly biting a piece out of a bar of his cell he contemplated his wrongs. Chorus Essentials. “What kind of a voice have you?” asked the theatrical manager of the sweet thing who was applying for a place in the chorus. “Oh, I have no voice,” she replied. “But here are my measurements." Keyed Up. Prue —Do you think motoring has improved your health? Dolly—lt has made my lungs strong er. Charlie can now understand what I say to him without reducing the speed.—Puck. Questionable Veracity. Green —So Braggs tells a different tale, does he? Well, I guess my word is as good as his. Brown —I should hope so. Braggs is a charter member of a fishing club. —Chicago Daily News. No Hurry. Tho American traveler who en deavors to hasten the comfortably galted orient against its wish soon conies to a halt. That was the ex perience of "A Woman Alone in tho Heart of Japan.” "Make the rlkman hurry. I have a date and can't wait here all day," she said to the “boss rlkman” at the sta tion. He blazed like a fiery dragon. “Veil, you get so mad, you no can wait for dls, you go find ’nodder rlk sha,” he said. She answered very meekly: "Dear friend, you do not know me. I am not the least bit mad. This is only a gentle American hustle. If you want me to be real mad, I will show you tho difference." “Veil, you vas almos’ mad,” he In sisted. “You seem Jus' like mad when you say ‘No can wait; mils' hnve rlk sha quick; hurry up!’”—Youth's Companion. Close to Nature. A gentleman from one of tho north ern states hurried to Texas to tho bed side of htß son, who lay sick with a very high fever, says Harper's Week ly. Tho doctor who accompanied him was very anxious to procure some Ice for his patient, and tho father went out In search thereof. Ho approached a group on tho hotel piazza, Inquiring where he might get some Ice. None of the group made any response for some time, but whon tho Inquiry was re peated, one man finally renounced to bacco Juice for articulation. Striding to the end of tho balcony, he ejected the Juice and made the still somewhat Irrelevant reply: "Well, who tho h—l ever heered o' ice In the summer time T” NEVADAVILLE NOTES Word was received here last week of the death of an old time resident of this place at Victor, Colo. Mrs. Fannie Vaughn died of cancer of the stomach. She had resided here many years and four children survive her, all of whom were raised in this locality. Mrs. Matt Edwards of Russell Gulch is a daughter. Mrs. Vaughn was highly esteemed and well liked and her death was received with sorrow. John Roberts returned from Denver last Wednesday. Mrs. Thos. Murley left for Denver on Friday where she met her husband who has just returned from Bullfrog, Ne vada, and they returned here Sunday. Nicholas Tregeay came home last Friday from England, where he has been visiting for the-past year. A good deal of stealing has been car ried on in this locality of late, such as coal and feed, and what small things they can lay their hands on. Thomas Murley’s barn was broken into the other night, coal and oats were removed. A close watch is being kept and if the par ties are caught they will be dealt with accordingly. Ernest Kloer returned from Denver last Tuesday with a fine bunch of fancy birds. He brought some of the finest specimens of Fantail pigeons that ever came to the county. John Grenfell came up last Sunday from Golden. Mrs. Edwin Trembath and son John left for Denver last Friday and return ed again in the evening. Hugh Lawry held down the pulpit of the M. E. church last Sunday morning while Smith preached at Russell Gulch. Mrs. Harris who has beer, sick the past six weeks, is able to be around again. Chas. Kendel was obliged to stay at home for a few days the past week on account of sickness. Hazel, the little daughter of Emmett Slater, has been sick the past couple of weeks. Mrs. Allen of Ouray, the G. P. of the G. C. of Colorado, and Mrs. Boyd of Idaho Springs, paid an official visit to Osceola Council No. 5, D. of P., Tues day night. A good spread was served and everyone had an enjoyable time. Mrs. Hatch, mother of Mrs. Fred Bolsinger, moved her furniture up from Central City Tuesday. She will make her home with her daughter. Severnl electric lights were put up around town by order of the city dads, which are greatly appreciated. John Kraemer was obliged to quit business this week on account of a touch of pneumonia. Look out for the big dance to be giv en by the Nevadaville Fire department New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31. At the last regular meeting of the Nevadaville Fire department the follow ing officers were elected: Chief—Robert Fallon. Secy.—James Richards. Treas. —W. T. Dickerson. First Foreman—Wm. Bolitho. Second Foreman—Wm. Richards. First Asst. Foreman —Wm. Davey. Second Asst. Foreman —E. Tuck. Engineer—T. O. Davey. Asst. Engineer—Hubert Bolsinger. Leonard Stevens and family moved from Russell Gulch to this place last Saturday. Sol James came up from Denver last Thursday. The Sunday school is making big pre perations for their Xmas tree next Tues day evening. Everybody is invited. Sol James has been down sick the past few days with pneumonia. John Curnow and family moved from Russell Gulch Wednesday into the resi dence of James Hoskins of this place. Arlo Kloer returned to this place from Arrowhead Thursday. ] Two more gentlemen of this place were made happy this week. The stork visited Fred Bolsinger Wednesday and left a little daughter. He came to the home of Postmaster Tom O. Davey a little later Thursday morning and presented him with a daughter. Going Home Christmas? One fare for the round trip via Colo rado & Southern on 23, 24, 25, 30 & 31 and January Ist. Ask our agent. Christmas Excursion Rates. Colorado & Southern offers tickets at half rate for round trip to state points on 23, 24, 25, 'lO & 31 and January Ist. Local agents have full particulars. Letter List. The following is u list of letters re maining in the postoflice for the week ending. Morgan, Mr. John R. The Ruins of Litla. Tour of all Mexico by privnto train, leaves Denver January 28th, via Colo rado & Southern. Write, T. E. Fisher, G. P. A., Denver. WANTED TO DROP THE “SHOP.” Professor Complains of Monotonous Repetition of Titles. “Have you ever noticed,” asked the professor, “that because of society’s decree, we are not only forced always to think of certain men as associated with their occupations, but that even in addressing them we must remind them of their callings? “Take the doctor, for example. I should think that he would be ever lastingly tired of having his profes sion brought home to him by every body who speaks to him. Even the wives of physicians fall into the habit of addressing their husbands by their title of office. It must be very wear ing. On my way abroad last summer I met a man who holds one of the chairs at Harvard. The first thing that we did after becoming well enough acquainted to feel a little freedom with each other was to stop using the word ‘professor.’ ‘You may call me anything you like,’ he said one day to me, ‘so long as the term you employ doesn’t remind me of my work.’ “Incidentally, what dreadful monot ony it must be for the holders of military or political offices to be ad dressed constantly as ‘General’ or ‘Colonel’ or ‘Captain,’ ‘Governor’ or 'Senator.' It’s all right, at first; it makes a man feel his importance; but the sameness of it, day after day. week after week! A handle to a name i 3 sometimes necessary, but must it always be used?" "No, indeed, professor,” his friend agreed warmly. The professor looked sad and then changed the subject. NEVER ASK FOR THEIR FEE. Japanese Physicians Leave Compensa tion to Their Patients. A Japanese doctor never thinks of asking a poor patient for a fee. There is a proverb among the medical fra ternity of Japan: “When the twin enemies, poverty and disease, invade a home, then he who takes aught from that home, even though it be given him. is a robber.” “Often,” says Dr. Matsumoto, “a doctor T ill not only give his time and his rc licine freely to the sufferer, but Y will also give him money to tide him over his dire necessities. Every physician has his own dispen sary, and there are very few chemists* shops in the empire. When a rich man calls in a physician he does not ex pect to be presented with a bill for his medical services. In fact, no such thing as a doctor’s bill is known in Japan, although nearly all the other modern appliances are in vogue there. The doctor never asks for his fee. The strict honesty of the people makes this unnecessary. When he has fin ished with a patient, a present is made to him of whatever sum the pa tient or his friends may deem to be just compensation. The doctor is sup posed to smile, take the fee, bow, and thank his patron.” Love Told on Persian Cushions. Certain sentimental young women are embroidering Oriental cushions as gifts for their best young men or the ones they would dearly like to be their best young men. Lines of Per sian poetry are woven among strange birds and flowers. It is no drawback that the man cannot read Persian. The phrase may have all the more de lightful significance because he doesn’t know what under the sun it means. One girl is weaving a phrase to the ef fect that true love Is better than rubles. As she has stocks and bonds, and the young man of her affection* hasn’t, the cushion message, when translated to him, will be equivalent to a leap-year proposal. Youths who get such cushions should get the aid of the right kind of college professoi for translating. If none is available, there are Persian rug merchants in town. —N. Y. Press. Maine’s Three-Footed Bear. Vanceboro’s big three-footed bear, which has survived so many battles, is dead, killed by “Jed" Johnson and ’’Dob’’ Crooker, according to the Ken nebec Journal. They set a dead fall and the bear was caught napping. Bruin was one of the largest evei seen in that vicinity and was very old. One foot was missing, having evidently been taken off in a trap, but so well healed that old hunters say that the accident must have hap* pened years ago. The bear had been seen in many places within a Arty mile radius, Musquash Lake, in Tops field; Lambert Lake and the Orient Horseback being his famous stamping grounds. He had been fired at scores of times, but ulways escaped. Half a dozen scars of bullets were found in his hide, and one ear had a clean hole through It. School for Waiters. It is often a matter of wonder why foreign waiters are preferred to Eng lish ones, even In English hotels, says London Truth. The reason Is a very simple one. The foreigner is a far better waiter. His aim is not always to remain a waiter, but to rise in the hotel business to a higher position In Lausanne there Is a school for wait ers. They are taught there forelgi languages, and not only to wait well but everything else connected wltl the working of a hotel. Heard Enough. Judge—Do you think you could give a verdict in accordance with the evi dence? Would-be Juror —I do. Lawyer (for the defense, hastily)— Challenged for cause!— New York Weekiy. , .