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THE HERALD. .. A S S Publisbed Every Thursday, e i A SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, §1 A YIAR IN ADVANCE. , Advertising Rates Reasonable A ——— s w———————— A ——————— —.———— —— —— Officlal Organ Charlton County and the Town of Folkston, W. W. TYLER, Proprietor. e ————————— et e e, S e e e e Bntered at the postoffize et Folkston, Ga, as Second Class Matter. R e S e T Mr. Carnegie remarks: “You don't find much knowledge of poetry resi dent in the average milicnaire.” The visit of the real Di. Koch to America, the Robert Koch made fam ous by his study of tuberculosis, is an event of importance. Here is a man, declares the Christian Register, who has set himzelf at the head of the life savers who, the world over, are stu dying to abolish such digseases as ma laria, yellow fever, tuberculosis, can cer, and other physical enemies of the race, The success already achieved makes it certain that when the knowl edge of the few becomes the common property of the many, the pestilence that walks in darkness will no long er devastate the world. "The highbrows have discovered that all nervous diseases are caused by too much talking. “People silent by nature are seldom ill,” they claim. “A large percentage of the victims of nervous diseases are great talkers, who discuss imaginary ailments until thevy get them.” The treatment they propose of those affected with the gift of gab is silence, ohserves the Pitts burg Dispatch., Tt includes walks in cemeteries and vigits to deaf and dureh asylums and other institutions devoted to silence, There will be spe cial courses for barbers, street car conductors, actors and others aicted with limber maxillaries. : The statistics of the agrlcultmjpl Aepartment show an increase in 1907 cover 1906 of 297,725 horses and mules “in the United States. There are 8,237, 449 more harness-using animals in the country now than there were 8 “years apo. There was a considerable ~decline in the export demand for horses owing to high prices in 1907, the “total being $3,608,119,"as aghinst $4, 914,999 in 1906, In December last 1180 American horses were exported, as :fihpflred with 1736 in December, 1906, These figures show to the Indi anapolis News, that the introduction of motors has not had any injurious affect on the price of horses, and that j'.‘horie raising is as active an industry a 8 ever. : We have stiff laws against killing our song birds, although there is this to be said for that abominable prac tice that it furnishes food to the hun' gry. But this eradication of our choice wfld‘.fliwers. remarks the Hartford Courant, goes on year after year un¢ interrupted and is rapidly extermina ting the choicest of them. The city resident deplores the sacrifice—and then buys a bunch of the flowers. " That's about as practical as ‘much of our sentimemnt proves to be. Presum ably the logic of it is that the flowers have been picked anyhow and they will wilt soon, so that whoever buys them gets their last appearance. That holds a.s'lugh' but it holds equally . well as a invitation to go out and de atrdfv'"'som;h _fore plants. Something 'ah‘oql:il be done to put a stop to this, ruthless raiding of the natural flow er les's. It is most discreditable, : ¢« The report of the park commission -5 er\g of Milwaukee has the following to _algj'; ahout playgrom\@: “The play ‘grounds question has received consid erable attention this season and play . grounds have been established in all i,fmfé'\parks and fitted up with suitable A ! o QM&Q}!S for the smaller children, it . being considered that they needed the * recreation more than the older chil dren, who will have to wait until the park funds are such that athletic fields and apparatus can be supplied. There has been nothing done that has ~caused more satisfaction to the public and 'j‘oy to the little ones than _the playgrounds, and arrangements will be made to extend them in all the parks as the needs require. Efforts should also be made to secure land for playground purposes in the inter for portions of the city, so as not to compel children to go too great a dis tance to reach the same. . Wherever ; fiogglble, the system of dls‘tr?t‘)mhé $ schgolhouses and fire engine houses ' throughout the city might well be fol . lgwed in the installing of these play grounds,” i e IN THE HOUSE. T June 30. A bill by Mr, Foster of Cobb was providimg where a common carrier fails to settle .an over charge, duly demanded for thirty days, the person to whom the overcharge is due can, upon establishing the correctness of his claim in the courts, recover, in addition to his claim, a penalty of not less than SIOO, the same increasing with an increase in the amount of the claim, was passed, The bill permitting depositions to be taken before justices of the peace ~and notaries who are exofficio justi ces of the peace, was passed, The bill prohibiting any unauthoriz ed personsfrom stopping, starting or otherwise interfering with a locomo tive, was passed, Also a bill by Mr. Reid of Putnam requiring monthly publication of the doings of the board of commissioners of roads and reve nues of Putnam county, A resolution providing that the house visit the property of the state in Chattanooga in spite of the fact that the senate had declined to go was referred to the committee on tem perance., The house adjourned until 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, July 1. Governor Smith’s message was re. ceived by the houze, urging a formal approvement of the application of the University of Georgia to be made " a participant in the Carnegie foundation fund, which provides a pension for aged teachers under certain condi tions, It was shown that the univer sity would receive this benefit if for mal approval was given by the trus tees, the governor and the assembly, An invitation was received from the Ladies’ Memorial Association and Kennesaw chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy, to attend the un veiling of the monument at Marietta on:Jduy 1. A resolution, providing that the general assembly attend in a body, was adopted by the house, ‘ A bill providing that all lacomotives | on main lines he equipped with elec tric headlights beginning July 1, 1909, was passed 131 to o, A Dbill to license the carrying of ri-' fles and pistols was defeated by a vole of 73 to 64. 2 July 2, | The larger part of the Thursday} morning session of the house of rep-! resentatives was taken up in the dis-| cussion of amending the law which limits the rights of recovery of dam ages to certain gme bers of the im-| mediate family o t[{:e deceased in case of homocide. The amendment, it passed, will permit any personal| rg%rgsemat,lve of the deceased-to re-} covér damages. It was sent back to! the judiciary committee. I Mr, Edwards of Habersham, speak- | ing to.a question of personal privel ege, denied the newspaper report that sub-committee, which inspected the convict camp of the Bibh Brick Com-[ pany, was drunk when the inspection was made,. ; July 3 : .~ Mr. Edwards, of Habersham, pre sented a resolution, calling for ghe‘ appointment of a committee of five, of which three are to come from the house, to investigate the charges of drunkenness, made by John T. Moore, of the Bibb Brick company of Macon, against Representatives Edwards, Powell and Bowen and Senator Staple ton, at the time that these gentlemen acting as a sub-committee from the general assembly, inspected the con vict camp of said brick company. Speaker Slaton appointed as the committeemen on the part of the ‘house Messrs, Atkinson, of Morgan; Adanis, of ‘Elbert, and Johnson, of Jeff Dayis, | A 'resolution by Mr. Candler of De- Kalb, granting the request of the trustees of the University of Georgia that the wunlversity and its eligible branches, he made eligible to partici pate in the Carnegie foundation fund for aged teachers, was adopted. Fd e July 6. . _The third week of the house of rep resentatives commenced on. ‘Monday morning. at 10 o'clock. Immediately after the preliminaries of opening the session, two bills' by Mr. Wright of Richmond relating to the collection of back taxes and the arbitration of con testéd ‘assessments, were taken up by unanimous. consent, read the- third time and passed, - On’ motion of Mr, Hall of Bibb it was decided that when the house ad journs it adjourn until Tuesday morn ing at 9 o'clock, instead ot 10 o'clock, as has been the custom up to this time, " After considerable discussion .the Dykes bill, amended, penalizing téle graph companies $25 for failure to de liver messages was passed by a vote of 102 to 27, : In a freight wreck on the Georgia road, at the ninety-one mile post, near Augusta, a through train in charge of Conductor Jack Paschal, coming from the direction of Atlanta, had ten'cars derailed and six cars badly smashed at an early hour Sun day morning, Nobody was injured. Superintendent Brand had the wreck ing train’ on the scene and by the ‘afternoon the track was cleared, The cause of the wreck is not known, but the twenty-first car in a train of 31 was the first to leave the track, : - If “the ‘world credits a man with brains, it is-a sign it has found out that he has money. y Everybody has a few good traits— excepting our relatives, Fearful of the possible escape from Georgia of W. G. Boyett, for whom he had signed a bond in the amount of S6OO, W. Martin, a prominent Pierce county farmer, tied 'Bovett with a rope to hold him and Jrought him to Savannah, whtre a warrant was issued for him some time ago. Boyett |is charged with padding pay rolls of the Atlangic, ~Coast Line - vaillway, and earning=s2oo in that way. Receipts at the Atlanta pestoifice increasel $31,644 during the year end ing July 1. | IN THE SENATE. , i June o, T T i Senator Williford of the T wenty eighth gets the credit of the first gen eral biil to be passed by the senate. His measure provides for uniformity of school terms, Mr. Knight ques tioned the wisdom of the bill and op posed its passage. The bill was pass ed by a vote of 25 to 4. A petition from . the penitentiary committee, asking that Senator How ard be designated as a member of the committee, was read, and President dryant announced the appointment of Mr, Howard, A bill by Mr. Crittenden to prohibit any ordinary, county commissioner, judge of any city court or county court, sheriff, solicitor of any court, or other county or court officer of this state, from hiring or turning over to any private person or persons, or any corporation, ete, and person who may hereafter he convicted and sentenced for misdeameanor in any court was ‘passed, July 1, | The first business of the senate was |the comnsideration of the Overstreet bill, making the possession of a fed | eral liquor license prima facie evi (dence of violation of the prohibition [law, It was tabled by a vote of 22 to 18. Message from governor was received. July 2, The Weaver bill, to prohibit unfair commercial discrimination between different localities of @Georgia, and aimed particularly at Standard Oil, |was passed by the senate Thursday morning, by a vote of 29 to 10. The measure was debated at considerable length. Senators Henderson, L. A. Akin, Knight and Camp championed, aggressively, the measure, while Sen ‘ator Hawes opposed it vigorously, The committee appointed to report the Hardman bill for the imposing of penalties upon any common carrier who intentionally converts to its own use any commodity entrusted to it, recommended that it pass. Mr. Hard man spoke briefly in behalf of the bill. An amendment by Senator Hawes of the 30th was adopted and ‘the bhill was passed. The senate accepted an invitation from the Ladies Memorial association ;of Marietta to be present at the dedi cation of the new Confederate monu ‘ment in Marietta cemetery, July 7. | July 3 ; The senate was in session for an hour and a half Friday morning and adjourned until Monday morning at 10 o'clock, this in face of the senate’s recent refusal to adjourn to visit Chattanooga. i : ~ The first bill of the session to pass ‘both houses was put through the sen ‘ate without objection.” It was a€ ‘measure by Mr, Dunbar of Richmond, providinng for the vilidation of muni cipal and county refunding bonds. The ‘bill was amended in a slight particu ‘lar, and when this amendment is ‘agreed to by the house, the measure 'will go to the governor for his signa ture. It will become the first law of the session of 1908. . : - July 6, S The senate met at 12 o’clock from the adjourned session. A good man} senators were absent. A resolution from the house asking for an investi ‘gation of the charge of drunkenness ‘made by John T, Moore of Macon ‘against the committee that inspected the conviet camp at the Bibb Brick ‘company in November, 1907, was ‘read, The resolution must, under par liamentary rules, lie on the table for | one day, Reports were read from the commit tee on counties and county matters and after a session of exactly twenty six minutes, the senate adjourned un til Tuesday. : Pretoria, a lumber center in south-; west Georgia that has been silent and almost in the deserted village class for the past two or three months, ow ing to the closing down of the big lumber plant there, is to resume its former busy appearance, a Thomas ville, Ga., company having concluded its arrangements to place the pine lumber plant there in operation again, | At the sixth annual convention of the Rural Letter Carriers’ Associationi of Georgia in session at Al bany the annual officers were elected, a pew constitution and by-laws were adopted and Cordele, Ga. chosen as the next place of meeting July 2 and 3. 1909..."The following officers were elec¢ted: President, Paul C. Coker, Chamblee; vice president, S. M. Hall, ()nwgu; secrefary-treasurer, George C. Bond;- Elherton., Delegates to na tional conyention. at Omaha: S, M. Hall, Tifton, Ga; .George C. Bond, Elbeérton; P. C. €Coker, Chamblee; J. A {fl;gxiu, Round Oak;.L. W. Ford hani, Dublin; J. B. Lumpkin, Rome; J. A, Simmons, Zebulon? J..L. Erwin, Atlanta. Executive Board==F, L. White, Buckhead; B. J. Mann,Albany; G. W. Gammage, Brownwood. -At the conclusion of the convention .dele gates were given a big barbecue by the citizens of Albany. " W. W. Wells has been appointed postmaster at Connesauga, Gilmer county, vice W. M. Evett, resigned. Rural free delivery carriers for Georgia have been appointed as fol lows: Davisboro, route 2, Thomas -J, Orr, carrier; J. P, Riddle, substitute. Deep 'Step, route 2 Loyd T. Hall, car: rier; Jessie [, Hall, substitute. Ten nille, route 4, Charles C. Everett, car rier; Oliver Everett, substitute. Ty | Ty, route 3, Moses A. Shiver, carrier; {John Inman, substitute. Warthen, route 3, Steve Cobb, carrier; John L. | Brows, substitute. i The career of Banker J. J. Parrish,‘ Jr., 23 years of age, who had quite a| string of banks in Georgia and Flori. da, has ended in ' the bankruptey court, his ligbilities being $25,000 and his assets $17,000. The payment of $250,000 by the Southern Steel Company to the Geor gia Iron and Coal Company, attorneys and others in Atlanta marks the con. summation of the agreement between practically ‘all parties interested to re. organize -the $30,000,000 Southern Steel Co,, Which went into bankruptey last October. LATE NEWS NOTES. General. Secretary of the Interior James R. rfield, who went to Honolulu on the ba'tt'?égliip Alabama to investigate the commercial and industrial conditions in these islands, returned to San Francisco on the protected cruiser St. Louis. M. Bleriot at Paris, succeeded in flying six hundred metres with his monoplane machine, winning the Aero club’s medal, H. R, Shaffer is the only delegate and D, M. Field, the only alternate of the twelve elected to represent Porto Rico to attend the Democratic conven tion at Denver. The others have named proxies residing in the United States. Under an enactment of the last gen eral assembly, bucket shops in Con necticut ended their business July 1. The penalty for violation of the law is a fine of from SSOO to SI,OOO, and imprisonment for not more than one year. Twenty-two members of the Manila and Fibre Paper Manufacturers’ asso ciation who were fined $2,000 each re cently for operating a combine in re straint of trade, paid their fines to the United States circuit court. The The other two companies are expect ed to pay theirs in a few days. On account of the local option laws in so many counties in Illinois buffets in nearly all railroad cars will, be closed. An order has been issued by the Pullman company closing the buf fet in the parlor car of the Alton lim ited between Chicago and St. Louis and abandoning entirely the sale of intoxicating drinks. One man was shot and seriously wounded as the result of a mutiny among the convicts at a convict camp near Atlanta, Ga. The trouble started when the men in the camp refused to go to work. The final report of Receiver T. A. Oherinn of the Mississippi Home In surance Company filed at Vicksburg, Miss.,, shows a deficit of $183,588.34, and the numerous premiums $89,672.- 73. The capital stock of the corpora tien was SIOO,OOO. Miss Helen Gould has come out in open disapproval of the marriage of her sister, Anna, and the Prince De Sagan, although she joined the other coheirs of the late Jay Gould in sign ing a formal deed of consent. An automobile carrying a bride and groom, returning from their wedding journey, ran down and killed a woman near Grant’s monument in Lincoln park, Chicago. The victim was cross ing the roadway. A wave of crime and disaster spread through the section about Bluefield, W. Va., as a result of which nine are dead and one seriously wounded. Six met death in wrecks or by track walk ing, while two men and one woman were murdered. - A letter from the insurgent sultan of Morocco was read aloud in the ‘Mosque, in which the writer thanked the people for preferring him to Abd- El-Asiz, the legal sultan. The pre tender asks for SIOO,OOO. ) Six hundred persons were drowned in a storm off Java, according from sdvices received -at Victoria, B. C. The disaster occurred near Batavia, ‘when a terrific storm struck suddenly. ~ While Ferdinand Bunday was lying asleep by the side of his wife in their home near Echo, La. an un identified assassin crept into the house and shot him to death. There is no clue to the murderer. The Arkansas railroad commission ordered railroads operating in the state to use three brakemen on freight trains of over twenty-five cars. The railroads objected to the order on in terstate trains. The commission, how -ever, ruled that trains must have full crews to the state line. Chris Rochroff, a Greek, was arrest ‘ed at St. Louis, Mo., on an indictment charging him with embezzlement as bailee, the allegations being that he secured about SIO,OOO from a number of Greek laborers who frequented his saloon and gave him practically all ' their wages to keep for them. Seven are dead and over a score injured in a wreck on the Missouri- Pacific Railway near Lamont Mo., Because Georgia Devortoria, of Mec- Keesport, refused to deposit $2,000 in a specified place, members of an al leged “Black Hand” society dynamit ed his residence. The house was partly wrecked while a neighboring house was damaged. Many were hurt, Washington. One of the most sweeping orders ever issued in the New York navy yard forbids giving out any informa tion regarding the work on the 20,000- ton battleship to be started soon. Even the date of laying the keel will ‘not be given out, Orders have been given by the war ‘department that during coast artillery ‘service practice all emplacement doors ‘and windows of the battery that is }flred will be kept open. This is stated to be simply a precautionary measure and intended to prevent the loosening of the door hinges and the !breaking of windowpanes if these are closed. ~ In a statement issued by the treas ury department it is stated that *al though the treasury statements show a deficit in round numbers of $60,000,- 000 in the operations of the govern ment during the fiscal year just clos ed, the dificit is more apparent than real, beinng due to antiquated system of bookkeeping, which Secretary Cor telyou-is having overhauled and mod ernized. At the state department in Wash ington it is said there is nothing new in the Venezuelan situation, the Amer ican legation at Caracas has been withdrawn and until some move wat ranting it, there dpes not seem to be any probability of-the resumption of diplomatic relations. - Saturday, July 4, the United States department’s flag-staffs and all govern ment posts and vessels ran up *“Qld Glory” with forty-six states in honor of the admission of Oklahoma to statehood. The expense of new flags was heavy. 5 ' 2 3 Y - - e ’ . - o - Ty NI =—— \‘, . ‘( MLe e 5 " '\" ""\'\: m @ l)/\.-' 3] LB '%a?mfi% ffifidfifi!’@%\” SR - ~M?’fifg,—-'—“? oLNe 1T v&;gflu‘gflvfif b ! i 7 My e(L e D Lt oP Bl ‘3 e !5’ F géj 7 ?§§ 2 !&ilg :'3: { : e A ) I ) 2L 21 e o e drl ey e FLgR @ E»;g@dfim A . 'AA:f i 2 wi{u«“. '4(«,4:’7 v| }‘ 13| 1 .’f 4 . »:,3' \::1"‘ —“*‘? 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DENVER AND THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION ’ Up to Saturday there was no storm ing of Denver’s gates, and the ad vance guard was somewhat below the average of national conventions, ow ing to the distance of Denver from the populous centers, and also be case the government and state restric tions on railroad passes keep back the hundreds who have heretofore made national conventions the occa sions for a quadrenniad free excur sion, The early arrivals include the Missoui delegation, headed by the tall form of Senator Stone; part of the North Carolina delegation, headed by Governor Glenn, and straggling ad vance gards of many of the other del egations. These, with Judge Parker, the democratic candidate of 1904; Congressman Clayton of Alabama, the silver-tongued southernern; Chief Murphy of Tammany Hall and Gov ernor Haskell of Oklahoma, were the chief fiugres of national interest on the ground. But there was rather a noticeable absence of national leaders and the conspicuos figures of former conventions—Tillman, Bailey, Culber son, Champ, Clark, John Sharp Wil liams—and most of the men of action in the gathering were from the ranks of local leaders. There are more automobiles in Den ver in proportion to population than in any city in the west. Few east erners who came expecting to have to dodge the bullet of rampaging cow pnnchers and miners engaged in the cheerful occupation of shooting up the town watched for these things in vain. A mounted cowboy, one of the Fred erick Remington type, in the streets ;of Denver, would have his troubles in dodging the scurrying automobiles. The speed limit seems to be some what higher than Pike's Peak and lost in the fleecy clouds paneled against the “turquoise sky.” The reception committee for Geor gia, North and South Carolina, Flor ida and Alabama met Saturday night and appointed subcommittees to meet the delegates from these states upon their arrival in Denver. Each state was under the care of a special com mittee, and the entire section had their headquarters at room 203 Ireal building, The executive committee of the Southern society met Saturday af ternoon in the office of C. S. Thomas to co-operate in the entertainment of the visitors from the south. This is a convention a mile high. It was the late Amos J. Cummings who eight years ago was so fond of alluding te William J. Bryan as the “Pike Peak of Democracy.” i ’ Sasse iih . \{7}"\63*s’ : e - AN, el SN R, L e 5 ‘,gfi*,f'fl'«~w9&’}‘:§,’,,,, et RGN s X s ; BT RN Ve SeDR R A SOALDR AN S 8 L T ;«i*»%f;*w Lo T 00l ey o Fa eSR eT R eR et Yi?fl R i sL O el e S e T PRI T kS s e ataos ot mnsnonici E‘Eqr; Pflw w«:’;;?iiy:- 3 jf*: 3g; S PRy lIR | : oBNIS LSI S M ‘.& o *j 1 e e iRt R ¢ e ISR SeR B e - s e sy o ‘é& «flzfi“‘&‘:*fifi‘f o ém o Ret el - e : e e 0 g ol SR R SR LR e -.‘Ql}l.‘:.f’, L R e eSS B SRR a’g{ Bl e e L B SRR o ee e S SRR R e gLAR IS e s ) RPN »;c»g;:’,’ R f[‘ LR IR Y 7 e e kil SEdude o T TG eS O N N S 2 8 R R \}37{ o, SRS T e R e PRy | FUpnsane) "filk es IR ;;_,,“?"— SRR e S _l-‘~~.;..hf:..:€'~r A PR R RS ST pae TR LRi o o e Ro SO B B AR TBTR DA g e o Tl et o THly BRI g - :.‘}m“,\«-&:gg % e Aioo 4B TR v ) s NG g e i T Pe B ek, 225 - L Lt QOO VRI . WELCOME P 4 II‘J A‘\I)CII D TANY Y 4 \ : I‘;\ \FP ~ e s ’ i Uh () 44 Tam NN\ Which Blazed a Welcome to Del :- ’ L(), ATL xIOX S'l ATI( N M e e e T . L egates b B 5 ; gates to the Democratic National Convention. In many respects this was a unique convention. It is the first notional convention eve held west of the prair ies, The republeans went farthest west in 1892, when they held the ill starred convention at Minneapolis and started General Harrison toward his defeat. The democrats went farthest west when they held their eqally n lucky convention at Kansas City.and nominated William J. Bryan for a drubbing, But: now the democrats have gone into the Rocky mountains and hold their convention in the cén ter of the mountain states, . - Charles P. Clark, managing editor of the Denver Times, had an appoint ment to confer with Mr. Taggart at his headquarters at 10 o’clock Satur day morning, Instead of calling in person, Mr. Clark sent a’ highly illu minated and ribbon-bedecked coal black bpurro. Accompanying the ani mal Mr. Clark sent the following let ter to Mr. Taggart: “My Dear Sir: I am sending you by a trusted messen ger a rare and wonderful Colorado bird, the Rocky mountain nightin gale, His melodious veice will charm you early and late, and his sweet smile is something to inspire you when cares of state oppress. His name is ‘Denver,” so he will serve to remind you of our city whenever his bright smile happens to haunt you. The Rocky mountain nightingale is probably the most democratic denizen of Colorado. You will find him a friend to rely on and as affectionate as a brother. Take this living em blem of democracy and treasure him.” When “Denver” was taken through the hallways, up the elevator and along the tiled corridors of the Brown hotel this morning he was apparently not well pleased with his surround ings, and it required no little;&ysical persuasion to make him-— recall ~iiis gocd manners, but when he arrived in the committee rooms Denver behaved like a perfect gentleman. One glossy black side bore the legend in white paint: “My name is Denver—ask me,” while on the other were the words: “I belong to Tom Taggart.” “This bird will be the mascott of the democratic party this year,” said Mr. Taggart, “and with him we can not lose, When I go back to French Lick after the convention, Denver is going with me, and he will be looked upon as one of the attractions of the place. People who come there will want to see the new acpuisition to the Taggart family, and others who want to wake up early in the morning will be arosed by his dulcet chirpings and whistles.” Denver has a population of about 200,000 and the entertainment .com mittee had a membership of 200,000. The convention visitors owned the town for the time being. The Denver club, Denver Athletic club and other organizations turned their qaurters into houses of entertainment. for the visitors. For the purposes of the oc casion the operation of the anti-pass law of the state was suspended and visitors traveled whither they willed without having to pay fare, which is a distinct novelty since the Hepbarn law went into effect. Denver naturally calls up historic memories, Just back from the con ven hall, on the hill, is the home of Senator Teller, who entered the Té publican party as a voter when Col orado entered the union and was da member of Grant's cabinet as secre tary of the interior. He it “was who. with tears in his eyes, led the: bolt from the republican national conven tion at St. Louis in 1896, when the platform declaring for the gold stand ard-was adopted. He hecame a silver republican, but entered the democratic caucus,