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THE OBSERVER CENTRAL CITY, - - COLORADO. A Matter of Honor. The-regulations Introduced by Secre tary ol the Treasury Cortelyou appear to work to everybody’s satisfaction. Under the new system passengers are put upon their honor In declaring the nature and value of their possessions, while ample time Is given to prepare and sign the formal declarations to the customs authorities, and there Is no long delay and tiresome searching of personal effects upon landing. The new system was in full force and ef fect when the American line steamer New York arrived at the city after which she Is named, on Saturday. The ship had a big load of passengers, and there was much delight over the changed arrangements One passen ger thus enthusiastically expressed the feelings of himself and many others: "Putting a good American — and I.believe most of them are pretty good—on his honor is the best way to make him better. I have been across the ocean many times and I certainly have objected to the corralling of pas sengers in the saloon and forcing them to feel as if they were undesira ble citizens by an inquisition that was not only unpleasant to them but also to the acting deputy collectors asking the questions. You cannot fancy what a relief it was to be able to come up the bay out on the deck of the steam ship Instead of in the close saloon. Sometimes we never got a glimpse of the city until we were almost in dock, and sometimes we never got a whlS of the air of the bay except as It came through the ports. I tell you this will make people want to travel abroad more and will attract foreign travel es to our shores." Secretary Cortel you in making this innovation, says the Troy Times, has given new proof of his realization of public needs. By the change thus wrought he has swept away all cause for complaint that the government is unduly exacting and In quisitorial. Regulating the Auto. Rural communities have exhausted the armory of weapons against auto mobllists, and with varying success. The mutual feeling aroused by the warfare has not been favorable to the spirit of Christian affection. It has remained for Mlddleboro, Mass., to adopt the gentle measure. It Is to be hoped the result will justify the means, and that Mlddleboro will be a safe leader in the middle way between the Scylla of auto traps and the Charybdls of lightning flights of "devil wagons." In Mlddleboro, says the Troy Times, the Automobile club has asked permission to take the matter In hand and to meet out-of-town chauf feurs with a red flag and a card. Halted by the flag, the chauffeur Is handed the card, which bears these words: "The selectmen of Mlddleboro are going to stop fast driving through this town. Before resorting to several permanent traps they have kindly given the Mlddleboro Automobile club permission to try and regulate this traffic. Won't you personally help us when going through by running not faster than 12 miles an hour? You can go through the town at 12 miles an hour In five minutes; if you go fast you cannot go in less than two and a half minutes. Will you not do your part in helping to make traps unnec essary in Mlddleboro?" If Mlddleboro can make the rural constable and the driver of the “chug chug” vehicle walk together In peace, It will deserve the rewards attending at least one of the beatitudes. Strenuous College Presidents. The old Ideal of a college president la seldom realized nowadays except In some small and backward Institution. We was rather aged and always vener able. His aspect was spiritual. His vision was flxed upon the eternal veri ties. He was prone to deep abstrac tion. He was always a doctor of divinity. He had a cloistral air and a cloistral voice, and he waß at home only when talking on philosophy, theology and metaphysics. The hu manities and the clusses were his realm and the realm of bis institution. All that has changed, declares Current Literature. The university president of to-day is "a good mixer," as the politicians say. He has the air of a man of affairs. Ho muy be venerable, but be doesn’t pride himself on the fact and he doesn’t care to look so. He is no longer of necessity a preach er. He is not scholastic In the old vlasslcal sense. 7. Marlon Crawford libb been com pelled to give up his palace In Italy to escape from the crowds of Ameri cans who insisted on flocking there to admire him. This may be set down as one of the most baneful of all the hardships with which genius has to contend in an age of materialism. The empress dowager oTchlna dem onstrates her mental superiority over some prominent male statesmen by proving that she knows when it Is Urns to resign. The Successful Mission of the Trade Unions By SAMUEL GOMPERS, President American Federation of Labor. REVIOUS to the granting of the Magna Charter in England a laborer who left his employer and sought a position with another man was brought back and upon his person the letter V was branded, showing that he was a villian, or serf. If he ran away again and was caught an S was branded upon his forehead, to show that he was a slave. After a second repeti tion of the offence the man, if caught, was hanged on the charge of conspiracy. Workmen consulting with their fellow- I workmen on hours of labor, wages, or other conditions of labor, were adjudged guilty of conspiracy and jailed for long P periods of time. Through the pages of written history runs the thread of the organized struggle of the workers for the attainment of justice. Those who studious ly search may learn that in the effort of the workers to remedy wrongs and establish rights, the trade union has been the factor by which concessions have been forced from existing society. With the beginning of the 19th century, and almost coincident with the founding of our government as an independent nation, an immense impetus was given to the labor movement; but because ours was an agricultural country the trade unions were sparse and fragmentary. The abolition of chattel slavery paved the way for larger industrial development and cojointly with it the growth of trade unionism upon a national basis. Momentous results have followed and are following. Trade unions have striven, successfully here and there, to make the labor of man so remunerative as to enable the breadwinner to maintain his loved ones as becomes a man and citizen. They have striven to wrest from the profit-mongers of all kinds the greatest monopoly on earth, the monopoly of the worker’s time; to secure for the toilers relief from the ’.ong hours and burdensome toil and find work for those who cannot find ;rork at all; to obtain the full enfranchisement of labor, not only at the polls and in the halls of legislation, but, far more important than all these, in the factory, workshop, mill, mine and field. Politics and Business Tr aining By ARTHUR WARREN, Journalist. acter that we can be called upon to regard a business career as a sacred preparatory school for public life. The great scandals of recent years have been in the business world and have concerned business men who brought their pe culiar views to bear upon politics. Look over the list of men who have governed nations with singular success and you will find it remarkably lacking in “business men.” Lin coln was not a business man, and he probably had that fact, along with a good many others, flung into his face between {he morning of his first inauguration and the day of his death. Grant had a sort of “business training” in a humble way, but it did not make him the man he was. You would have to stretch the imagination a long way to consider Wash ington as a business man, in spite of the fact that lie was a very good man of business. Our presidents have been lawyers when they have not been soldiers, and sometimes they have been both. Bismarck “had no business training,” and Disraeli could hardly be regarded as a man who had learned in counting houses and workshops how to guide the destinies of an empire. Napoleon had no “business training” whatever, but he is likely to be remembered as an administra tor quite as long as the “greatest business man” who ever lived, whoever he may be. It has long been the proud boast of the American business man that he has nothing to do with politics, that he will not stain his hands nor his name by plunging into the soiled pool of politics. At the same time he has bought franchises and owned legislatures. Where he has not trafficked thus he has thanked God that he is not as the politicians are. In short, he has left politics to politicians who could be bought because he wished to buy them, or because he would not suffer his own majesty to be contaminated by striving against them in the political field. And when a man without “business training” wins distinction in politics the business man affects to regard him with suspicion, and can not, for the life of him, see that this rude, untutored being has a wider outlook upon life than any that is gained by even an exceptional training in the commercial world. Universality of Christianity By DR. MANLEY J. BREAKER, Secretary Baptist Home and Foreign Missions. been thoroughly leaven • ed with the gospel, but if the holy process has really been begun, here is • promise which cannot be broken that some time in the history of the individual his entire nature will be filled with the gospel. Tim leaven will leaven the whole lump. But the promise applies not only to the individual, but to the world. The whole world is to be filled with the glory of God. There shall come a day when earth will not contain a man, woman or child who is not a sinccro believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and when the principles of the gospel will everywhere prevail. There will come a day when every city will be a New Jerusalem; when every man will be consciously a son of God and actually a brother of every other man. Paradise is to be restored on earth. We are not to pray in vain, but his name is to be hallowed, his kingdom come, his will bo done, on earth as it is in heaven. The kingdom of heaven with a great many men is limited by the Christian denomination to which they belong, and they find it very hard to rejoice in the spread of that kingdom except as their communion prospers, but the kingdom of heaven is no particular church. It is deeper and wider and higher than any or all churches. In governing a coun try, “a business training” is neither a necessity nor a special advantage. The association, of or the in fluence of business upon politics has not in the United States, been of such an ennobling char- Christianity is to be absolutely universal. The leaven leavened the whole lump. The grace of God in Jesus Christ is to reach every part of man as an individual The world contains few if any, men who have NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of th9 Past Seven Days. interesting Items Gathered From all Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space tor the Ben efit of Our Readers. Personal. The Canadian Valley Trust com pany, of Muskogee, I. T., has been ab sorbed by the other banks of the city. Judge Crothers, the democratic candidate for governor of Maryland, is ill with typhoid fever. Wu Ting Fang, former minister of China at Washington, has been reap pointed to that post. In an interview published in New York, William R. Hearst declares he can conceive of no conditions under which he would be a candidate for president. Gov. Folk, of Missouri, addressed 20,000 persons at the home-coming celebration at Nashville, Tennessee. Prof. De Lage, of Paris, has suc ceeded in producing life in one hour with chemicals. The Roosevelts have returned to Washington from their summer so journ at Oyster Bay. Gen. Cecil Clay, general agent for the department of justice and holder of a medal for gallantry in the civil war, is dead in Washington. Wilbur Glenn Vollva, who succeeded John Alexander Dowie as head of Zion City, has been given 30 day’s notice to vacate the building occupied by him there. The option which he held on land in New Mexico has also been lost. Mrs. Sarah T. Rob r, known all over the United States as an authority on cooking, has gone into voluntary bankruptcy in New York. Arthur Malle, president of a coal company at Pittsburg, Kansas, was re cently caught under a fall of slate in his mine and fatally injured. M. L. Gray died recently In Holden, Mo., after having been agent for the Missouri Pacific at that point 42 years. Secretary Taft and party on board the Minnesota have arrived at Yoko hama, Japan. Vice-President Fairbanss was de feated as a lay delegate from Indiana to the quadrennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal church to be held in Baltimore. Eugene F. Ware of Topeka, Kan., the lawyer poet of Kansas and for a brief and troubled season United States pension commissioner, will move to Kansas City and become a member of the law firm of Ware, Nelson & Ware. Miscellaneous. The Indian territory oil field has broken all records for production of crude petroleum in the United States for the eight months ending August 31. The average was 3,381,263 bar rels a month. German scientists, with automatic instruments attached to unmanned balloons, have discovered that at high altitudes the air is coldest over the equator and warmest above the poles. A monster petition signed by hun dreds of British Columbians, has been sent to Sir Wilfred I-aurier, the Can adian premier, asking the absolute ex clusion of all Orientals. A royal prescript has been proclaim ed in New Foundiand, suspending all colonial statutes authorizing officials to seize American vessels for alleged fishery offenses. C. H. Shumway, wanted for the mur der of Mrs. Sarah Martin at Adams, Neb., has been arrested at Forbes. Mo. Three men were killed by the explo sion of a crude oil tank while sprink ling the race track at Monts park near New York. President Roosevelt has announce t that he will approve the constitution recently ratified by the voters in the new state of Oklahoma when formally submitted to him. A statement has been filed with the Kansas railway commissioners by all the railroadß in the state saying that a two-cent fare will be put in opera . tlon on October 5. I Conventions of all five political par ties in Nebraska were recently held in Lincoln. The republicans Indorsed . William H. Taft and the democrats i William J. Bryan for president. ! Attorney General Hadley says the ' statement of the railroads that they have loßt $1,600,000 in Missouri Bince the two-cent fare went Into effect is redlculous. During the year ended August 31 cotton maunfacturers in tbe United States used 6,290,783 bales of cotton. | At the New York hearing of the 1 Standard Oil suit It wns developed I that the Indiana Pipe Line company made a profit in 1903 of $4,091,022 on a total investment $2,228,768. I The first killing frost of the season did considerable damage in lowa re cently. 1 The large conservatories of O. M. Kellogg at Pleasant Hill, Mo., were re cently damaged by boiler explosion to I the extent of $60,000. | The head of a big brewery com pany has* been elected lord mayor of London. i The battleship Knnsns recently de feated the Georgia In a 400-mile race from Cape Cod to Delaware break water. At Gallpolls, Ohio, four men were drowned by being thrown out of a launch by the explosion of a gaso line tank. A general railroad strike Is threat* ened in England as the result of the demand of the Railway Men’s union for the recognition of their organi zation. A conspiracy to start a revolutionary movement in Cuba has been discov ered by Gov. Magoon. It is believed that the movement is backed by New York capitalists. Attorney General Bonaparte has in structed United States district attor neys to bring suit against various rail roads throughout the country to re cover penalties incurred by them for alleged violations of the safety ap pliance law. The challenge of Sir. Thomas Lip ton for a race for the America’s cup in 1908 has been declined by the New York Yacht club. The club was un able to limit the length of contestants to 68 feet as requested by the chal lenger. Cyrus Baldwin, 85 years of age, one of the wealthiest residents of Kane county, Illinois, recently committed suicide after killing his aged wife. Gens. Parra, Ducasse and Miret have been arrested by the secret police in Cuba charged with conspir ing against the public order. Many prominent Episcopalians from all parts of the world attended a three days’ session of the international con vention of the Brotherhood of St. An drew at Washington. The Lord Bish op of London was a prominent figure. Twenty persons were injured in a rear end collision in a tunnel between Paris and Cherbourg, France. Several Americans were among the victims. Physicians of the marine hospital service in charge of the bubonic plague situation in San Francisco say there is no danger of an epidemic of the disease, although cases will continue to occur for a considerable period. Judge Landis, in the United States district court at Chicago, has decided that the Chicago & Alton railroad should not be further prosecuted for rebating in connection with the Stand and Oil company. The League of Republican Clubs of Pennsylvania has formally endorsed Senator Knox for the presidency. The Asiatic cruiser squadron con sisting of the West Virginia, Colorado, Maryland and Pennsylvania has ar rived at San Francisco from the Philippines. A decisive victory was won by the state of Nebraska when federal Judges T. C. Munger and W. N. Mlin ger denied an injunction to the rail roads to prevent the state from enforc ing the laws reducing grain rates. The Standard Oil company has dis tributed 4,000,000 copies of a pamph let which declares that the company is the victim of a "persistant and ad roit’’ attack on the part of the federal authorities. Eight Greek laborers were recently killed in a wreck on the SouMiern Pacific railroad in California. Friends of the victims chased the engineer and fireman of the train into the hills and then proceeded to demolish the cars of the train. An incendiary fire at Wuchow, China, cost the lives of 100 jiersons and destroyed property Talued at $250,000. Eight persons were killed and sev eral others injured in a wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad at Duncanuon, Pa., recently. The big turbine steamer Lusitania made the return trip to Queenstown from New York in five days four hours and 19 minutes, or three hours and 25 minutes more thau her west ward run. The total deposits in the Kansas banks at the end of September were $144,220,618.71, an Increase in one year of $20,000,00). The federal grand jury at San Francisco has returned Indictments against the Southern Parific Railway company and the Pacific Mall Steam ship company, charging them with giving bribes on shipments of goods from Japan. The indictment contains 124 counts. An Injunction has been granted in district court of Wyandotte county, Kansas, forbidding members of the Kansas City livestock exchange to obey the rules of that organization which require them to boycott non members. L. B. Williamson of Findlay, Ohio, has confessed to an attempt to bribe a juror in a case against the Standard Oil company tiled in that city last June. While In St. Louis recently Mrs. Root, wife of tbe secretary of state, declared herself emphatically in ravor of tbe re-establishment of the army canteen. A racing automobile, while going at CO miles an hour at the Morrlß Park track in New York, crashed Into a fence, killed the driver and In jured 20 other persons. The trial of George A. Pettlbone, one of the men charged with the murder of former Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho, has been set for October 16. A fight over a church edifice led to the arrest of Presiding Elder Hope of the United Brethren church while preaching at Chanute, Kan. The sultan of Morocco Ims sent his Jewels to France as part security for a loan he is attempting to secure to cover war expenses. Gov. Hoch has appointed W. 8. Glass of Marysville to succeed the late Judge Humphrey as member of the Kansas tax commission. Sir Thomas Llpton when notified that hlB challenge to race for the America's cup In 1908 in boats limited to 68 feet had been declined by the New York Yacht club, Immediately announced his intention to challenge again with a 90 foot boat. COLORADO NEWS ITEMS The sugar making campaign has op ened at Fort Collins. The Messa county fair, held at Grand Junction, was a rousing success. Colorado Springs has a new feature for the grand Jury to work on. It is called “embracery.” It’s getting so a fellow has to be mighty careful who he embraces now days. At the -weekly luncheon of the Cham ber of Commerce at Fort Collins the following were elected directors for the ensuing year: Prof. W. L. Carlyle, Pe ter Anderson, I. W. Bennett, T. H. Rob ertson, C. A. Black, T. A. Gage and N. C. Alford. The directors will hold a meeting soon for the election of od cers. The report of Secretary Taylor shows a membership of 182 and a bal ance in the treasury of $350. A. W. Marksheffel, who was indicted by the grand Jury on a charge of invol untary manslaughter in connection with the automobile wreck last week, which cost the lives of three passen gers was fined $25 and costs in a Colo rado City Police Court on a charge of violating the speed ordinance. Mark sheffel pleaded not guilty, submitted no evidence, and was admitted to S7O boil pending an appeal to the County Court. The Loveland sugar factory is grind ing beets and has made a successful start on the long campaign. There are about 10,000 tons of beets in the sheds and more are coming at a rapid rate. The beets are smaller than in former years, and as a rule there is a better stand, which will bring the average tonnage up to the standard of last year. About 10,000 acres will be taken care of by the Loveland factory, and so far the crop is testing well in sugar. Tho factory will have a payroll during the campaign of Miout $40,000 a month. Another carload of honey wlli be shipped from Boulder in a few days. In all over eighteen carloads will be shipped from this county this year. The value of the honey raised in Boul der county this year will be over $60,- 000, as each carload is worth about $3,500. Most If not all of this will be shipped east of the Mississippi river. Bee men say that by the end of Novem ber, if not before, there will not be any Colorado honey left in this state. Ohio has taken all of the honey raised In this immediate vicinity. Mrs. Nellie H. Smith of Snyder, Col orado, charged with the murder of her sixteen-year-old daughter Shirley, was found guilty of involuntary manslaugh ter In the District Court. The defen dant was terribly shocked, breaking down and weeping bitterly. The jury was out seven hours and its verdict was contrary to general expectations M. M. House, attorney for the defen dant, appealed to the court for a low bond that she might visit her two small children during the five days which must elapse before arguments on the motion for a new trial. The Bent county fair showed undl minished interest. The grounds were crowded with farmers and their fami lies and almost the entire population of the town. The committees awarded the premiums and the pride manifested by the receipients was not on account of the money value of the prizes, but because of the distinction of producing the best. The parade of horses and cattle also took place and was a sight that can only be seen in* a stock grow Ing community. The races were all by Bent county horses and created much interest and enthusiasm. A number of saloonkeepers at Boui ler have paid rent on their places of business for another month, hut have closed their saloons. Some have re ceived the impression that the Su preme Court will decide the election contest before November Ist, but tho only question before that tribunal at present is the appeal from Judge Gar rigue’B decision sustaining the demur rer to the complaint in the quo war ranto proceedings. If the Supremo Court should overrule Judge Gar rigues, the case would be tried on its merits in the District Court hero, which would mean a delay of several months. Rushing down Platte canon at high speed, the engineer of the passenger rain from I,eudvllle, on the Sou'll ’’ark line of the Colorado & Southern, discovered a bridge on Are near Ins mont, and brought hlB locomotive to a stop just in time to prevent the train with its load of human frleght from plunging through the flames into the bed of the canon. This is the third bridge burned in the canon within the last ten days. The other fires are be lieved to have been incendiary, but to day's Are is attributed to sparks from s passing locomotive. A temporary trestle was built and the passengers taken on their way to Denver. The studonts of the new veterinary bodege at Fort Collins havo organized a veterinary modical association. This Is the first organization of Its kind In Colorado. Dr. Glover In discussing the abject of the association, declared such an organization to be a nocessary pait at every well organized veterinary ichool, and that starting with imported •peakers on veterinary and medloal topics, as the students advance the work of preparing papers and ad dresses will be turned over to them. The new association meets once a week, and starts with a membership of thirty-live. Scott Wiener of the junior class la the first president of the vots. Six out of seven druggists at Boutdpr have published over their names tbe following: “We, the undersigned, be ing six of the seven druggists of Botil dor, do not wish to engage In the liquor business, and therefore will not fill doc tors' proscriptions for any kind of liquor. We desire to observe Sunday, nd are ready to close our stores all lay Just as soon as all other drug itores in this city will agree to remain closed on Bunday. This move Is caused by the action of the City Council In passing an ordinance which compels druggists who dcßlre to handle liquor In their places for tho purpose of filling prescriptions to take out a license for that purpose and to give bond In $1,009 that they will not vlolato the ordinance which requires that liquors shall he told only on a legitimate prescription given by a licensed physician. The new ordinance will go Into effect Tuos lay. There la but one other drag •tore here and the owner la out of town.