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An Affinity Union to Encourage
Happy Marriages
By DR. JULIUS VON BERNAUER.
UNION of girls contemplating matrimony, or even am
bilious in that direction, would prove a solution of the trouble*
that are looming up on the matrimonial sea of the country
and flooding the divorce courts. I would suggest that the
maid* ns be organized under the catchy name of Affinity union,
with the following purposes:
To teach members to cook, sew, and keep house.
To instruct them in the laws and meaning of marriage.
To investigate—through a bureau of secrecy —their re-
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speetive fiances.
This union would fill a timely purpose in the large cities. Perhaps
the men would think they were being placed at a disadvantage, especially
through the last named purpose, but it undoubtedly would result in a
reformation among men. To be sure they should be such noble characters
a m to invite investigation—but I don’t think all of them would do so.
The round-faced man makes the ideal husband. Under or dinar}' cir
cumstances such men never separate or become divorced. They love with
vigor and purpose, are even tempered and forgiving.
After marriage the husband .should not forget the following simple
rules, which go a long way towards keeping love’s banner over the home:
Court your wife always as you did before marriage.
Don’t hang around the kitchen and criticise her household arrange
ments.
Don’t indulge in amusements and pleasures alone.
Take your wife to tin* club and theater when you go.
Don’t dispute before the children or a third party.
Kiss her good-by whenever you leave the house, and you will not find
her in tears upon returning.
And to the wife I would say:
Balance inner beauty with outer loveliness.
Don’t think that woman is destined to become superior to man.
Keep yours* If young. A woman is as young as she looks; a man as
young as he feels.
Never joke about husband’s love. Make home your paradise and
stay in it.
What the Schools
Are Far
By REV. W. C. BITTING.
St. Louis.
older ones are doing the
noble work of teaching and millions of parents are asking: “What, then,
will this child be?"’ September begins the real year for the best part of
our nation. Was the old wise man right when he appraised education as
he did? Surely. Our twentieth century wise men have said it differently
when they declared: “No education is complete that does not have a moral
value; and no religion is worthy of acceptance that does not have an edu
cational value.”
The child learning to read learns something more than written lan
guage. He learns that he becomes a part of that great world of thought
that uses language* only as a vehicle. That is a moral truth. He is to
receive and profit by the thoughts of others, and to express his own
thoughts fur the sake of others. “By thy words thou shalt be justified,
or condemned.’’ This is true because character’s great utterance is in
speech, spoken and written.
He b arns exactness. The trials of mathematics, or spelling, or
correct writing all issue in exactness, and this is a moral virtue. He
learns accuracy in the use of his mental powers, bv observing, by grouping
facts, and by drawing inferences from them. That enemy of falsity
is worth eternity to any soul that gets it established within.
He learns receptivity. He has to take on faith the statement that
A is A, and not something else. He has a teachable spirit. No teacher
could help your child were it not for this virtue.
He learns patience and perseverance. Else why should he give
long years of his life to a school? The hard places, and lessons, and ex
periences are only gymnasiums on which he works out these essential
graces of life.
He learns neatness in work, promptness, the glory of completing
things, self-respect, and the value of a thing thoroughly done. He learns
from the social nature of a school, what no private tutor can teach him,
that there is somebody else in the world than himself, that others have
rights, that he must obey his superiors, that he must reverence worth
for worth’s sake, that ho can trust himself to competent guidance, that he
can and must rely upon his own efforts, that only hard work wins the
battle, that every next step in life hangs on the one now taken as that
did on the last. All this and much more the social contacts of the school
teach.
And all those things are moral. An embodied encyclopedia without
these moral characteristics would be as vain as a ship on land. Our
public schools are not unmoral. The very processes of education cultivate
morals. Behind and beneath all mere information gotten, is character
that won it, or that was gained in the process of getting.
Therefore, let us see that our teachers are the true and right sort
of persons. Better send your fine watch to a rolling mill for repair than
the delicate soul of your child to an incompetent teacher. School boards
have duties here.
Therefore, let us ns teachers mind our examples. The reverence of
our pupils is an open door through which our faults ns well as our vir
tues enter into the souls of boys and girls. You may not speak morals,
but you are living them every second, and the schol-
ore see through the word and deed to the underpinning.
Therefore, as parents, let us become interested in
schools. Back up the teacher, and give your child
to the training. Do not excuse, nor indulge the
whim of the child. Keep him at work.
And remember that these moral elements are the
chief part of knowledge. Never mind the medals. The
moral elements won in daily fidelity count in the long
run of life when trinkets are forgotten. You harm
four child when you make light of hie daily work at
school. Upon all students, teachers and parents may
ihc blessings of a fruitful year rest!
Here is a Hebrew sage
who says that the moral
elements of an education
are of first value. Our
public and private
schools are open, and myr
iads of our young peo
ple are studying, hun
dreds of thousands of
WYOMING WOOL MEN.
Condtmn Government Forest Reserve
And Fee Gracing Poiicy.
Laramie, Wyo.—The Fourth ar.r. :al
,'onvention of the Wyoming Wool
Growers* Association closed Saturday
night after selecting Rawlins as tho
place of the 1909 meeting and re-elect
ing J. A. Delf elder of Wolton. presi
dent, E. J. Bell of Laramie, vice presi
dent, and George S. Walker of Chey
enne, secretary treasurer.
General Manager Mohler of the
Union Pacific, addressed the conven
tion. telling telling what the ra road
had done during the year. He ox
pressed fear that the wave of pr >hibl
tion sweeping over the country would
be a possible means of reducing traf
fic. He also denounced agitation awng
the line of rate regulation and other
reformative legislation.
The executive committee of one
from each county was elected and a
large number of delegates left by spe
cial train tonight for Helena. Montana,
to attend the National Association
Resolutions were adopted unalter
ably opposing the Burkett bill, or any
system of federal leasing of range
lands; condemning the policy of the
administration management of forest
reserve and the grazing fee s in
The Black Hills forestry policy va - also
condemned and the convention s op
posed to the regulations issued 1 pub
lic land officials. Gifford Pinchers ad
ministration of the forestry bureau
was opposed and the alleged dissemina
tion of misleading statement In
Eastern newspapers and magazines
was condemned. Newspapers in Wy
oming which oppose the so-called Pin
chot policies were commended the
convention condemning the utterances
of certain newspapers.
Congress is to be petitioned f r the
enactment of a law to make the mini
mum speed of stock trains be tween
feeding points not less than fifteen
miles an hour, including all sto: A
pathological bureau in the sta ? - was
favored and the State Board of -:.•***p
Commissioners is commended 'lhe
present tariff on wool, hides and sugar
was approved and Senator ClarV and
Congressman Mondell were in*i*>rs*d
In their work. both in and out of Con
press. particularly on the public -and
question. Governor Brooks of Wyom
ing was also commended. Resolution
12 was only one not approved, only
twenty five delegates voting for 1" and
double that number against. It criti
cised the President and opposition to
such action was led by Governor
Brooks and William Daley of Rawlins.
Western Live Stock Exposition.
Denver. —With a premium and prize
list aggregating over >8,500, and with
a larger list of entries of fine bl led
stock than was ever gathered tog- her
west of Chicago, the Western Live
Stock Exposition will open Its cates
to the public January 20th. A ar
rangements for the big show have
been completed practically.
The management of the stock show
Is going to take no chances wit;, the
weather this year. In previous ars
there has been some complaint made
that there was no proper pHrfe in
which to exhibit the horses, the cat
tle, the hogs and the sheep. When
the weather turned bad during the
show there was cause for this com
plaint. This year, however, a spacious
pavilion, capable of seating between
2.000 and 3.000 persons h s been
erected at the stock yards. A big cir
cle of seats built In tiers s irrounds
the show ring. The pavilion is cov
ered and besides is heated by steam,
so that no matter what the weather,
spectators will bo as comfortably
housed as though they were seated
in an opera house.
The active management of 'he stock
show this year is in the ha:. !s of Col
onel W. E. Skinner, who was for a
number of years at the head ■ f the In
ternational live stock exposition In
Chicago and who built It up Into the
greatest live stock show in the world.
Thaw Jury Completed
New York. —The second jury to try
Harry K. Thaw for the killing of Stan
ford White was completed Friday af
ternoon. As a whole the jur\ is made
up of a most Intelligent both of busi
ness men, most of whom an at mid
dle age or over. When the ; inel had
finally been completed, after many
vexatious delays, and after the exer
cise of twenty-three peremptory chal
lenges by the defense and twenty by
the people. Thaw announced that he
was entirely satisfied and in fact well
pleased with the twelve men. Young
Mrs. Thaw, who has watched the se
lection of the jury with the keenest
interest, also declared that she was
well satisfied.
“They are much nicer than the men
selected last year,” she said, as court
adjourned, and Thaw exclaimed that
he echoed his wife's sentiments.
The jury as finally completed stands
as follows:
One. Charles F. Gremmels, ship
broker, foreman; 2. Arthur B. Naeth
ing, employing baker; 3, George W.
Cary, dry goods; 4. George C. Rup-
Precht. salesman; 5, John H Holbert, j
mineral waters; 6. David E Arrow
smith, manager; 7, William F. Doolit
tle, auditor’s clerk; S. William H. Mc-
Hugh. clerk: 9. Frank Howell, man
ufacturer: 10. William Burch, assist
ant secretary Y. M. C. A.; 11. Francis
Dovale, real estate; 12, James A.
Hooper, meats and provisions.
Hall for Irrigation Congress.
Albuquerque. N. M —At the meeting
of the board of control of the National
Irrigation Congress here Friday night
it was voted to expend $20,000 on a
convention hall for the meeting here
next fall. Plans are being drawn for the
hall and for buildings for the great
Industrial exposition covering hun
dreds of acres, to be held in conjunc
tion with the irrigation congress.
Chief Forester Pinchot and the rec
lamation service are co-operating with
the congress officials to make the na
tional irrigation meeting and exposi
tion the greatest thing of the kind ever
held in the Southwest. Colorado.
Texas. Arizona asi Utah will take
part in the exposition which it is
planned to make a record-breaking ex
hibit of the resources of the vast Irri
tated lands of the Southwest.
TO COMPLETE
MOFFAT ROAD
SYNDICATE OF COLORADO CAPI
TALISTS WILL PUSH LINE TO
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS.
BACKED BY MILLIONS
WILL OPEN LARGE TRAFFIC IN
COAL, CATTLE. MINERALS
ANO LUMBER.
Denver. —By the Incorporation or
the Denver-Steamboat Construction
Company, which filed its papers with
the secretary of state January 10th
the connection of the Moffat road with
the main body of coal fields in Routt
county Is assured.
The present terminus of the road
Is Yarmony, 146 miles from Denver.
The next station will be McCoy's,
twelve miles further on. Orman A
Crook have finished grading and have
the line ready for the rails to McCoy’s.
The new construction company will
build to Steamboat Springs and prob
ably on to Hayden. It has the assur
ance that with the opening of the coal
fields a number of Individual mine
owners and syndicates will build lines
connecting their property with the
Moffat road, these acting as important
feeders.
David C. Dodge heads the list of in
corporators of the new company, and
associated with him are Henry M. Por
ter, S. M. Perry, John F. Campion,
Charles Boettcher, Charles J. Hughes, 1
Jr., Thomas F. Walsh, L. C. Phipps
and William Byrd Page. The capital
lzation is $1,500,000 and headquarters
will be maintained both In Denver and
In Routt county.
Am stated in the articles, the object
is to take over the bonds and stocks
of railroad companies and secure con
trol of and operate them. The right
is reserved to operate in Denver, Routt
xnd Eagle counties, and such other
counties in Colorado and Utah as may
be necassary.
Most of those associated in the new
company are also interested in th«
Continental Railway Tunnel company,
organized some months ago. Friday
negotiations for the building of the ex
tension were completed and David H.
Moffat signed the agreement with ths
new company. The arrangements en
tered into contemplate a completion
of the road to Steamboat Springs by
the end of 1908.
The coal fields to be tapped cover an
area of 1,000 square miles. All kinds
of coal are found In these fields, the
anthracite being equal in quality to
the Pennsylvania product.
With tho connection of the Moffat
road and the coal fields, an immense
resource of the state will bo opened
So favorable is the present outlook
taat mining properties in the county
have experienced a great stimulus
Syndicates are also being formed to
purchase tracts of land that are after
ward subdivided into farms and sold
to homesteaders. Large Bums of
money are also being invested in cat
tle.
The mineral springs at Steamboat
Springs have assumed a value for re
tort purposes, and It Is reported that
a number of Eastern capitalists have
associated with a view- of utilizing
them for this purpose. It Is said that
they have purchased all the unsold
parts of the Steamboat Springs town
site, and will make the property one
of the finest of the state's resorts.
Dorsey Bros, of St. Louis have formed
a company to build a Moffat road
feeder twenty-seven miles long, which
will make direct connection with
some of the anthracite mines.
The following is the official atato
ment of the new company:
“The substantial Denver capitalists,
mining men, cattle men, beet sugar
men, coal operators and financiers,
who constitute the board of directors
of the new company, have joined Da
vid H. Moffat in his great Denver,
Northwestern & Pacific railroad enter
prise. This combination of financially
strong and successful Denver men con
stitutes the most powerful combination '
of financial interests which could by
any possibility be gotten together In
Colorado.
“Acting together with Mr. Moffat,
the vc nver men who have now JolDed
him In the enterprise are financially
able to construct tho railroad to Salt
Lake City without applying to any
Eastern capitalists for funds or to any
other railroad organization for as
sistance.
“For more than a year the Moffat
road, even In its uncompleted condi
tion, has been earning the interest
upon all its bonds which have been
sold. In addition to earning its operat
ing and maintenance expenses. Its
completion through the Routt county
coal fields to Steamboat Springs will
give It such an extensive added traffic
In coal, cattle, minerals, agricultural
products and lumber as will make it
the most profitable railroad enter
prise In the western states.
"This new Denver railroad enter
prise will open to development and
settlement a vast region of great fer j
tility and mineral wealth in northwest
ern Colorado and northeastern Utah,
now without any railroad communica
tion and practically unsettled. It will
Dring a tremendous Increase In trade
ind growth to Denver.
“Merchants and labor will both re
:eive the benefit accruing from the
tomblned efforts of the strongest body
>f representative citizens working to
gether for the growth of Denver and
Colorado upon a scale never before at
tempted.**
GUARDING THEIR FLOCKS.
Tare Hundred Armed Men Protecting
Twenty Thousand Sheep.
Denver.— A Grand Junction. Colo.,
special to the Republican Monday night
•ays:
Appeals to the governor and to the
sheriffs of Mesa and Delta counties for
special protection having failed, and
fearing that a bloody battle might be
precipitated by irate cattlemen through
’whose territory they must pass and
which had been the scene of many
range wars and murders, the owners
of 20,000 sheep are sending the stock
from Montrose to the winter range in
Utah under guard of over 200 men,
armed with Winchesters.
This great body arrived within two
miles of Grand Junction at dusk to
night and bivouacked on the Orchard
mesa. For miles around and along the
route skirmishers are deployed, look
ing for the slightest sign of hostile
cattlemen. The guards form a cordon
about the flocks, taking turns at keep
ing watch.
The sight Is the most picturesque
ever seen in this part of the country
and brings to mind the days when the
Ku Klux Klan of the South mustered
its wierd forces under the shadows of
night to make Impossible negro domi
nation.
On every peak, hilltop. In the ra
vines and along the roads and trails
watchmen are tonight silhouetted
against the clear sky and refuse to
speak. Save for infrequent challenges
by sentries of curious persons ap
proaching too close to the line, all Is
quiet.
The owners of the sheep are mem
bers of the Western Slope Wool Grow
ers’ Association. They petitioned the
sheriffs for 200 deputies, but they were
refuse 1. Then a petition to Lieuten
ant Governor Harper for troops was
also refused, but he sent a letter to
the sheriffs to see that the flocks were
protected.
A time ago John Swanson, a
sheep herder, was murdered and his
, fiock driven off the range. Although
$2,000 reward was offered the murderer
was never captured. The feeling be
tween the two sides is bitter and mi
nor troubles have been frequent. The
sheep are feeding as they go along and
troublo Is feared. The sheepmen will
break camp at dawn and continue to
ward the Utah line.
Will Withdraw Troops.
Washington.—President Roosevelt
has determined to withdraw the fed
eral troops from Goldfield, Nevada,
shortly after the convening of the
special session of the legislature, which
met Tuesday. This intention was
made known at the White House
when the report of the special Investi
gating commission was made public,
together with a letter from the Presi
dent to Governor Sparks dated Janu
ary 4th.
The President says he shall be gov
erned by the recommendations in the
report unless the governor can show
that the statements of the report art*
not in accordance with the facts. The
report says:
"The conditions did not support the
general allegations in the governor’s
request for troops, nor were his spe
cific statements established to any
such extent as to justify his use of
these statements for the purpose of
getting federal troops.”
The commission expresses itself as
satisfied that out of the entire mem
bership in the miners’ union the~e are
not over a few hundred men oi dan
gerous type, while the great majority,
probably three-fourths of the member
ships of the union, were conceded to be
men of law-abiding tendencies. The
report adds:
“By permitting their organization to
bo managed and controlled by men of
violent tendencies, the union ns a body
has thus laid itself open to the re
proach of being a vicious organiza
tion.
"In view of the foregping facts we
believe there Is considerable danger
that serious disorders will be attempt
ed If the troops be withdrawn and the
mine operators insist on carrying out
their publicly announced policy. But
If a handful of men have controlled
the Goldfield Miners’ Union and com
mitted the organization to indefensible
policies and practices, it Is no reason
why the county of Esmeralda and the
stato of Nevada should tamely submit
to tha domination of this same group
and should not assert their authority
and power and enfore respect for law
and order without aupport of federal
troops."
Awful Theater Disaster.
Boyertown, Pa. —One hundred per
sona of this borough were killed in a
theater fire and panic Monday night
and nearly threescore injured, many
of them fatally. A majority of the.
killed were members of the leading
families of the town.
While “The Scottish Reformation”
was being produced in the Rhoades
opera house by Mrs. Monroe of Wash
ington, a gasoline tank used in a mov
ing picture scene exploded. Immedi
ately there was a wild rush for the
exits of the building. Men of mature
years endeavored to still the panic,
but their voices couff not be heard
above the shrieks and screams of the
terrified women and children, who
composed the greater part of the audi
ence.
It seemed as though nearly the en
tire audience made a mad rush for the
exit the moment the explosion oc
curred. In their attempt to quiet the
great crowd those persons who were
on the stage accidentally upset the
coal oil lamps used at the footlights.
The burning oil scattered in all di
rections, anr» the lamps which were
used to light the opera house ex
ploded, throwing the blazing oil over
the terror-stricken people who were
fighting frantically to gain the exits.
In the mad rush a section of the floor
gave way. precipitating scores of per
sons to the basement.
It was scarcely five minutes from
the time of the explosion of the tanks
until the entire heart of the structcre
seemed a roaring furnac*
COOK ARRAIGNS
THE PRESIDENT
OOLORADO CONGRESSMAN GE.
VERELV SCORES THE AD
MINISTRATION.
IN UNO FRAUD CASES
BAYS PROMINENT CITIZENB
WERE VICTIMS OF POLIT
ICAL PERSECUTION.
Washington.—ln a personal letter
which he has addressed to the Presl
dent and vice president. Speaker Can
non and all members of Congress, the
Justices of the Supreme Court, mem
bers of the cabinet and the Washing
ton newspaper correspondents, George
W. Cook, Republican congressman at -
large, from Colorado, severely ar
raigns the administration for its
oourse In prosecuting alleged infrac
tions of the public land laws in Colo
rado.
Congressman Cook's letter follows:
"My Dear Sir —1 most earnestly pro
test against the continued
handed, pernicious political
tion made by certain of the depart
ment bureaus of the government la
this city, branding many of our most
honorable, upright and law-abiding bus
iness men of Colorado as criminals
“Their only information and au
thority for such malicious statements
are reports made to them by non-resi
dent special agents and prosecutors
sent to Colorado, whose accusations
against innocent men are for the sole
purpose of securing personal promo
tion in Washington and the opportun
ity for the governmental bureaus here
to disseminate among the press
throughout the country misrepresenta
tions as to timber land and coal
thieves that do not exist in Colorado.
“Judge Robert E. Lewis, of the
United States District Court, Denver,
on December 24th, 26th, and 30th,
quashed all of the indictments against
some thirty of our most worthy and
reputable citizens, several of whom
have been engaged actively in business
In Colorado for thirty years, on tho
ground that the government had abso
lutely failed to furnish any evidence
whatever against these men—a most
stinging and severe rebuke by Judge
Lewis (an appointee of the present
administration.)
“Active preparations were made by
certain high officials in Washington
for the prosecution of these cases.
They condemn honorable men of un
questioned integrity before they were
found guilty of any violation of the law
or even given an opportunity of de
fense.
“Judge Lewis’ decision gives univer
sal satisfaction to all our people in
Colorado regardless of their politi<M|
affiliations and is endorsed by oW
press; in fact, every newspaper in the
state most heartily commends Judge
Lewis’ action. The truth has been vin
dicated.
“In this connection I beg to call at
tention to editorial below- from The
Denver Republican of December 20,
1907; also editorial of December 25,
1907, written by ex-Senator T. M. Pat
terson of the Rocky Mountain News,
Denver.”
Congressman Cook then continues:
"Referring to the action taken at the
last Cabinet meeting of the year, De
cember 31st, as to the Colorado cases,
the President criticised the Judiciary
and authorized the attorney geueral aa
, follows:
“ ‘The government will use every
means In Its power to bring about in
the higher courts disapproval of the de
cision rendered in Colorado by Judge
Lewis.*
“Our citizens are ready and willing
to meet the issue raised by the impul
sive administration, but as to the pur
pose on the part of the latter I can
not comprehend, unless it is to con
tinue In the ‘limelight,’ and therefore
the country will be saved —from the
bureaucrat's point of view.
“The unprecedented and dictatorial
encroachment of the executive against
the executive and judicial departments
of the government is almost a daily
threat to the peace and prosperity of
the republic and should be knocked on
the head by the constitutional decis
ion of the Supreme Court of the
United States.
“An article In the Washington St£
of December 31st quotes the commis
sloner of the land office as saying:
"‘They will call eighty violations of
the land laws In Colorado to the atten
tion of the grand jury and some of
these may Involve a number of per
sona whom Judge Lewis has dis
charged.’
“This Is a subterfuge bordering on
the farcical and is disseminated to
the press of the country for the pur
pose of misleading the public as to
so-called land frauds that do not and
have not existed in Colorado.
Our citizens In Colorado have with
patience submitted to these persecu
tions for alleged offenses, and every
rair minded citizen should Join In com
mendation of the fact that we have in
our beloved country true judges who
ba i*G. ~e coura Se of their convictions
and believe In justice to every citizen
and a real ‘square deal’ emphasized.
In conclusion I beg to say I as
sume the personal responsibility for
statements herein made."
Vls,tors and members of
the Colorado delegation decline to dis
cuss Representative Cook’s state
ment.
Non-Union Miners at Work,
Nev —Nearly 200 new men
took j°bs in the mines Saturday, most
or them former members of the West
ern Federation of Miners. All of the
active mining district Is picketed bv
hundreds of federation men who
• warm the hills in droves attempting
to influence the miners to quit work
The miners have to run a gauntlet
• early half a mile long to get to tjf
luarters provided by the mine owner*.
»ut so far few have *eceded.