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A FORTUNE IN GOATS.
There is a now resident in Denver
who is not only pleasant in personal
ity and onpaging in conversation , but
particularly interesting with respect
to his business.
This gentleman is Charles S. Ou-
dordonk of Lamy , N. M. , who has
just arrived in Denver with his fam
ily and is residing in a beautiful
now home at 950 Corona street. Ho
is a man of great wealth and an an
nual income that runs far up into the
thousands.
Ho depends for all the luxury with
which ho surrounds himself on goats.
There is no time of the year when
ho has not on his immense ranch
the largest goat ranch on earth at
least 10,000 goats. Often , prior to
the periodical shipments , ho has as
many as 20,000. There arc 28,000
acres of ground for them to graze
over , and they are such frugal little
beasts that they can pick up livings
where other animals would starve.
They eat the foliage of low trees
when the grass is scanty , and oven
strip off the bark sometimes , and
really fatten on such food.
The ranch is just the sort that the
youngest kid intuitively longs for.
It covers a laigo part of Glorieta
mountain , a great elevation east of
Santa Fe. It also contains Apache
canyon , with its precipitous sides and
rocky ledges , along which the intre
pid quadrupeds skip and climb in
their careless , break-neck fashion ,
and it is great fun for them , for
nothing tickles a goat so much as
risking his neck , and on the Ondor-
donk farm ho can take his chances
every hour in the day.
Mr. Oudordonk raises but two
kinds of goats Angoras , for their
hair , and "Corieutes , " for their
skins. The word "Coriontcs" means
simplv "coarse ones , " and it is from
the skins of those tougjior animals
that the famous "vici kid" goods arc
made , Robert H. Foerdorer of Phila
delphia manufacturer of the "vici"
leather , being a partner of Mr. Ou
dordonk.
The hair , which grows luxuriantly
on the Angoras , is used in many ways ,
especially is it valuable in the manu
facture of mohair goods. The moat
of the goat is little used by Ameri
cans , but the Mexicans , who inhabit
the country around the Oudordonk
ranch are quite fond of the meat , and
nearly all of it is sold to them cr ex
changed for labor on the ranch.
Ondordonk lias been spending part
of his time at the manufactory in
Philadelphia , and part of it on the
ranch. Henceforth ho will spend
most of his time in Denver. Denvoi
Post.
ABOUT COLOR.
It scorns that the word ' ' nigger' '
has taken root in the far-off Philip
pines , whore the haughty American
invader applies it indiscriminately
to the native races. They do not like
it , as far as appears , any better than
do the other peoples in various parts
of the world , to whom it has been
applied. It is a feature of our Anglo-
Saxon supremacy. Whornvor wo have
gone , wo have found darker-complex-
ioucd races whom we could kick , and
whom wo have called niggers. So
it was with the Virginia planters and
the kidnaped Africans , with English
convicts and the Australian savages ,
with the British soldiers and the
natives of India and Afghanistan.
The kick and the "nigger" go to
gether , and so both parties under
stand it. It is wicked and impious to
raise one's hand on the Lord's
anointed so long as we are It but
there are always some people ready
to wonder whether the color of skins
is really the final test ; just now some
of the good women are agitated by
the question of admitting black
women to the National Federation of
Women's Clubs. And from Los
Angeles , where the organization has
boon in session , comes one cautious
voice , suggesting that the only color
that argues necessary inferiority is
that pale yellow that shows its owner
to bo guilty of living and eating
wrong and shunning wholesome air
and exorcise.
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