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GILPIN OBSERVER
ABOUT THE CITY
When visiting Denver stop at the new
Hotel Alamo, corner 17th and Market
streets. Strictly modern, with elevator
service. Public and private baths. Rates
SI.OO per day and up.
You will not find a more complete
line of groceries in the country than the
Hawley Mdse, company carries.
Don’t ruin your eyes reading by a
coal oil lamp. Use electric lights. Let
us point out the difference to you.
The Gilpin L. H. & P. Co.
Second-hand steel, mining tools,
at Anderson’s Furniture Storo.
Everything that a first-class gro
cery keeps can be found at Hawley’s.
The mining exhibit at the Alaska-
Yukon-Pacific exposition in 1900 will
be the most complete mineral display
ever shown at a world’s fair.
Alaska curios never before seen
out of the Northland will bo ex
hibited at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition.
The Tuesday Reading Club will
meet with Mrs. Frances C. May
hew on the 23d inst. Roll call —
Quotations from Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
Saturday evening at the Teller
house the dancing club held their
first series of dances. The affair
was well attended and w r as a most
enjoyable one.
Visitors to Denver Sunday and
Monday found it much colder in
that city than in the mountains.
When a cold snap visits the mountain
sections it’s possible to find warmth
somewhere but in Denver one shiv
ers indoors.
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposi
tion monument will be gilded with
pure gold at a cost of $7,000.
H. Irving Jones, manager of the
Aztec Mines company and the Hearne
Gold & Copper company, has fitted
up a most commodious office in the
Williams building on Eureka street.
The room has been repainted and
papered and is a most attractive
place.
James Noonan was successful in
landing an appointment under the
state administration. He has been
named as one of the clerks in the audi
tor’s office. He will assume his duties
about the first of the month. Mr.
Noonan is one of the hardest working
Democrats in the party and the ap
pointment comes as a reward well de
served for past efforts.
Friday and Saturday of last week,
Chas. Ehrlich, the painter, made the
office of the county superintendent
of schools look like new, so to speak.
He papered the walls and ceiling
with paper of a delicate tint, adding
a beautiful border. The wood work
was repainted and the picture mould
ing w’as gilded. A new carpet has
been placed on the ilc.or of the
room and really the re is some class
to that portion of the court house
occupied by the superintendent of
schools.
Mr. and .Mrs. H. \V. Kane have
gone to Chicago for an extended
litnv. They have leased their homo
to 11. Irving Jones tvho will occupy
the same the remainder of the win
ter. Mr. Jones was given the cus
tody of Master Robert Hearne and
v.-as in somewhat of a dilemma this
week to know what to do with his
charge. Unless watched carefully he
reads the Denver papers which is
not the best thing for a boy to do
whose young brain is Just develop
ing, so Mr. Jones thinks.
The ruling passion is strong in
drink ns well as in death. At least
to it would appear from the case
of a "plain drunk" who fell into the
aathtub at police headquarters, and
thinking he was on a sinking ship,
told the attendant to leave him
alone and save the women und chil-
Iren. The Carnegie medal commis
sion should have its attention dir
ected to Pueblo. —Pueblo Star-Jour
nal.
For a good every day household
angel give us the woman who laughs.
Her biscuits may not always be Just
right, and she may occasionally burn
her bread and forget to replace dis
located buttons, but for solid com
'ort all day and every day she is a
•■cry paragon. Home is not a battle
leld, nor life one long unending row.
The trick of alwayß seeing the bright
side, of shining up the dark one,
s a very important faculty; one of
he things no womnn should be with
sut. We are not all born with the
sunshine In our hearts, as the
Irish prettily phrase it, but we can
cultivate a cheerful sense of humor
,f we only try.—Ex.
Long Drive and Walk.
Morris E. Howlett, the best know’n
professional four-in-hand whip in
America, will drive from the Alaska-
Yukon-Pacific exposition in Seattle,
to New Y’ork City in a coach.
Edw’ard Payson Weston, who at
seventy years of age, is the world’s
greatest long distance walker, will
come from New York to the exposi
tion by “hand.” He will leave New
York City on March 15, his seven
tieth birthday.
How’lett will drive from San Fran
cisco to Seattle and from Seattle back
through California and Nevada and
on across the continental divide to
the east.
It will be the longest trip of the
kind ever attempted and he plans
to use 1500 horses in making the dis
tance he has to go. He estimates
that it will take him 120 days, or
90 days from the California and Ne
vada line to the metropolis.
The coach he will drive, the Mag
net, is the same with which he de
feated Alfred G. Vanderbilt last No
vember in a sensational race from
Arrowhead Inn to the Holland House,
in New York City.
Weston will also leave New York
and will come to Seattle byway of
Chicago,St. Paul and the Great North
ern railroad route. He figures that
he will be able to walk the distance
in 100 days and arrive at the Expo
sition grounds in the pink of condi
tion. As the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific ex
position opens on June 1, Weston is
due to arrive at the Fair gates on,
or about July Ist.
At least one Seattle owned air
ship will be entered in the races and
tests flights of air craft to be held
in Seattle during the Alaska-Yukon-
Pacific exposition. William Pitt Trim
ble, a Seattle millionaire, will be the
first man of the northwest to own
an airship. He recently became in
terested in aerial navigation and
will make a trip east to investigate
the various inventions of air craft
and when he returns to Seattle he
will be the owner of one of the
ships.
Mr. Trimble is the president of
the Seattle Aero club recently organ
ized to promote airship races and
test flights during the 1909 expo
sition. The club has a membership
of several hundred wealthy men of
Seattle and will offer a trophy for
the exposition races similar to the
Scientific American cup.
“Within the next ten years air
ships will be as cpmmon as automc
biles,” said Mr. Trimble. "The in
ventors have discovered how to nav
igate in the air and the only thing
that remains is to perfect the in
vention. It was only ten years ago
that the automobile was about in
the same stage as aerial navigation
is today. Most of the big Areo
clubs in this country are composed
of wealthy men who are interested
in air navigation as a pastime.
“We expect to have ships from
all of the clubs in the United States
and many foreign countries entered
in the races and test flights during
the exposition.”
Monday the bills introduced in the
house by Representative Hicks to
amend the charters of Black Hawk and
Central passed third reading.
Visitors to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacl
fic exposition next summer will find
ideal weather during the entire time
of the fair. Seattle never suffers
from extremes in heat or cold.
The little son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Hawn, age one year, one month and 25
days died this morning early of a com
plication of ailments. The funeral will
be held Sunday, interment in the Cath
olic cemetery.
Flowers never before grown in the
United States will form part of the
decorative features at the Alaska-
Yukon-Paclflc exposition at Seattle
next summer.
A new series of stamps has be jn is
sued by the postoffice department in de
nominations of from 1 to 6 cents, and 8,
10, 13 and 15 cents, also special delivery
stamps. These have been received by
the local office and stamp collectors can
have them at their face value by mak
ing request.
Grains, fruits and vegetables grown
In Alaska will boa feature of the
exhibit from the Northland at the
Alaska-Yukoon-Paclfic exposition next
summer.
The Ala3ka-Yukon-Paclfic exposition
has appropriated $ 100,000 for prem
iums in the live stock show to be
hold In connection with the 190!) ex
position.
Read The Gilpin Observer, $2.00.
There’s a Way
To defeat the mall order man’s cut*
throat methods in this community.
The way is publicity for your buainesa
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columns will give your business the
publicity you need.
AS TO ORIGIN OF THE SPOON.
2!ic113 Probably Firct Used for Pur
pose In Prehistoric Times.
The suggestion is offered by a cor
respondent that tho domestic spoon
nrcbably owes its origin to the shell.
Shells of the mussel, scallop, and oy
ster, It is believed, were used in pre
historic times as spoons and ladles,
the handle being formed of a pleco
of wood split at ono end to hold tho
she'l firmly. Some savage nations
make similar spoons up to the present
day, and the old Highland custom of
offering whisky in a shell has been
probably handed down from genera
tion to generation for untold age 3.
Wcstman in his “History of the
Spoon,” givoi Roman specimens, which
are very simple In design—something
like silver caddy spoons—».ml are
much shorter in the handlo than these
from Egypt. Those for common use
were generally mado of bronze. Iron
or brass. They clearly show how the
shell shape was retained, and their
marine origin is also preserved in the
name of a spoon—cochleare—derived
from cochlea, a shell or cocklo. Tho
Celtic # spoon also closely resembled
the shell in form, though made of
bronze. The horns of various animals,
such as the ox, bison and ram, were
often used as drinking cups, and as
the material was found suitable, it
was sometimes used with wood, ivory,
metal, etc., for spoon making. Hence
the ancient expression: "To spoil a
horn to make a spoon.”
FORM WITHOUT THE SUBSTANCE.
Somewhat Mean Comparison Made by
Profane Man.
The proprietor of a certain hotel In
Maine is not only one of the kindest
and best hearted men, but also one of
the most profane. He swears without
knowing it and means no offense. He
spends but little time in the office and
is practically unknown to many of the
guests. One day, however, he was in
conversation with the manager when
a Indy interrupted them.
“I want my room changed,” she said.
"It is on the side overlooking the
kitchen, and I am annoyed by the
swearing of some man down there
every morning. I am a church worn
and and will not stand it another day.”
The remarks were addressed to the
manager, for she did not know the
proprietor or that the one who did
the swearing was he.
“Do you happen to know who that
man is?” he asked, before the man
ager could reply.
"No, I do not,” she answered.
"Well, I do,” the proprietor contin
ued; “and he doesn't mean any more
when he swears that you do when you
get down on your knees to pray.”—
Lippincott’s.
Circus Daring Due to Heredity.
Alfred T. Ringling tells me that
nine-tenths of the leading performers
before the public can be included in
30 families. As sharply defined a®
any old English lineage, they can be
traced backward In some Instances
more than two centuries—each gener
ation accepting without question the
heritage of spangles and tights. The
circus daring and the circus muscles
and the circus restlessness have de
scended from father to children and
thence to children again. The thrill
of the sawdust ring has got into the
blood. From the parent trunk branch
es have crossed and crisscrossed untP
as In the case of the Clarkonians
and the Demctts and the Siegrists
Florenzes, great circus lines have
been built up and guarded with the
zealous care of a royal genealogy.—
Hugh C. Weir. In the Fiohemian.
A Disciplinarian.
Miss Hobson was most popular with
the two young and unmarried mem
bers of CVntervllle’s school board.
They did not propose to have any
change of teachers In District Number
Three.
"Do you think Miss Hobson pays
quite enough attention to discipline?”
suggested one of the elderly, mar
ried school committeemen one day.
"Discipline! Why, of course she
pays a great deal of attention to it,"
asserted Ed Porter, hastily.
"We never had anybody else begin
to pay as much,” said Henry Lane.
"Why, one afternoon I was In there
at Number Three, and Miss Hobson
spent the whole time—every minute
of it—preserving order in that school
room.” Companion.
Doctors for the Well.
There seems to be much to com
mend the practice of employing a doc
for at so much per year to visit the
homes of his clients, watch their diet,
clothing, habits, tho sanitary condi
tion of their person and homes; to
teach them the laws of health and how
to be temperate In eating, drinking
bathing, exercising, recreation and
work. People who are never sick arc
the ones to whom this should apply
with special force, for there always
comes the day when sickness knocks
at their door. The old adage; "An
ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure,” Is bb good to-day as when
It was uttered centuries ago.—Boston
Traveler.
Introducing Mr. Spencer.
Harry was walking with another boy
when he was joined by a friend n year
or so older and Inclined to manners.
"Introduce me, Harry,” the new
comer whispered, pompously.
Harry twisted, reddened and at Inst
turned to h!s companion with: 'Mini,
have you ever seen Gilbert Spencer?’
"No,” the other boy answered.
"Well,” Harry blurted out, redden
Ing still more and Jerking his thuml
over his shoulder toward the new
corner, "that's him!” —Llpi lncott’s.
PAPA IN HIS BOYHOOD DAYS.
Not the Paragon of Virtue He Would
Like Sons to Be.
There is a dey old lady in up-town
home who doesn’t take much stock in
new-fangled surgery. More especial
ly she sniffs at the theory that way
ward boys can be cured of their bad
Inclinations by having their brains
nicked with a knife.
The other day her grandson camo
to her.
"Grandma,” he said, "was papa a
pretty naughty boy when he was as
old as we?”
“I’m sorry to say he was, Georgle.
Ho headed all the michief for miles
around.”
"Now, mother,” remonstrated
George's father. "It wasn’t quite as
bad as that.”
“You know it was, James,” retorted
the old lady. "And I won’t have you
holding yourself up as a model for
your boys.”
“Say, grandma," Gecrgie Interrupt
ed. "do you think it would have done
papa any good if the doctor had cut
*nto his head like mamma was read
ing about?”
The old lady laughed.
"In the first place, they couldn’t
have caught him.” she said. '•’And In
f ;he next place they would have had to
off his head to do him any good.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
BLIND PEOPLE SWIM STRAIGHT.
Keep Course with Marvelous Direct
ness, Guided by Sound.
Just ns some professional singers
with magnificent voices never learn
to sing in perfect tune, so do the train
ers of really fine swimmers often find
It impossible that men with every
quality for racing otherwise can bo
made or taught to swim even in an
approximately straight line.
Many n splendid swimmer is beat
en on this account, for his inveterate
habit of getting off his course, natural*
*y gives him a roundabout journey.
Hut the remarkable fact remains that
blind swimmers of whom there are
in this country a considerable number
'n connection with various institutions
for persons so afflicted —universally
and without exception swim with
marvelous directness; indeed, in as
perfectly straight a line as is humanly
possible, even when the distance cov
ered is very considerable.
Hlind swimmers can, it appears, on
hearing a noise in any given direction
not only swim absolutely straight to
the point whence the noise proceeds,
but when left to themselves their
steering is just as accurate.
Atchison Globe Reveals Secret.
A former chief of police of Atch
ison, the Globe says, had a wide repu
tation because he was not afraid of
women. When a mad woman called
on him and said, haughtily: "I called
to see you about a little matter." ho
promptly replied: ”1 am glad you did.
There is a good deal of complaint in
your neighborhood about your temper,
and I want to say that if I hear any
more about it I will put a stop to it in
away you won’t like.” etc., etc. In
short, the secret is that the chief
chewed the rag first, and kept at it
without giving the woman a chanca
to say a word. Men should remember
this when approached by a mad wom
an, the man Bhould attack first, and
keep quarreling until the woman erica.
Malta's Pest Is Muskrat.
Malta's objectionable pest is tha
or*mmon muskrat. He Intrudes Into
erery house, and everything he
touches Is Impregnated with the odor
from which he derives his name. If he
inters a larder he is more destruc
tive than a dozen cats. In a wine cel
lar he is worse than a dishonest but
ler. From pure wantonness he taints
and renders uneatable everything with
in his reach. He will ruin dozens of
bottles of beer by merely running over
them, so powerful and at the same
time so penetrating is his offensive
odor. This Maltese muskrat Is a
squeaking little animal, who adds to
his evil ways by disturbing the reposo V
uf the victims of his depredations.
Two Kinds of Criticisms.
"I am going to read you my sonnet
to ‘Persephone’s Left Elbow,’ ” an
nounced Miss Amma Teurltre to her
betrothed. "I want you to give me /
a perfectly frank criticism, Just the
simple truth, as though you did not
know mo at all.”
When she had finished, her lover
spoke solemnly: ”1 do not dare to
speak frankly, but I will say that
there is a trace of a hint of a possible
future promise.”
The following week she married a
freight handler who had worshiped
her for years and who declared tnat
the sonnet was flner'n silk.
Splendid.
"That’s a fine looking maid you have
now, dear."
"Yes. she’s a darling, and she came
to me highly recommended.”
"Knows all about the latest styles o]
maiding, 1 sigpose?”
"Oh. so far as knowing the duties
of a maid goes, I don't suppose she
knows a thing."
"But she came highly recommended,
you said?”
“Yes, she broke the Jaw of the last
man who tried to klsn her.”—Houston
Post
International Criticism.
Pat—Sure, and In Scotland they
taurder the styles entirely.
Bridget—Sure, and how do they
do it
Wtar. tfear'ra Ult aatlralr.