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THE OBSERVER CENTRAL CITY. - - COLORADO. I 1 - . , . ' ■ ■ . - At Home. "I nev«r was a hand to go gawping round!” contemptuously exclaimed an old woman who boasted of never hav ing seen a railway train or a trolley | car or any town but her own. The | generation of stay-at-homes in the country is perhaps passing away—the women—they were chiefly women— who prided themselves on their self imprisonment on farm or in village as a virtue, serving to demonstrate their j devotion to home and children and duty. There is a class of men In the business world who have the same point of view in regard to the object 1 of life. Such a one, dying at the age of 88, left a record of 55 years as the head of a banking house, during which he had been absent from his desk but two days—and those were accounted for by a sprained ankle. No vacation, no travel, no day of summer leisure with wife and children —55 years of steady, unswerving routine! There is something impressive in the story of w lifetime of persistent toil. But there Ib another point of view which de serves respect. The gadabout may be a useless member of society ; but the stay-at-home is likely to be a narrow one. We find ourselves on this little planet, with its oceans and mountains and mighty rivers and wide prairies. We know not whence we came, nor if we shall ever pass this way again. Surely, exclaims Youth’s Companion, we may do our task better in our own appointed place if we look about the world, feed our minds with the glories of nature, and discover how men and women before us have lived their lives, and embodied their aspirations in the great arts of building and paint ing and sculpture. The man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew be fore was long ago pointed out as de serving well of his fellow creatures, •but if distinction is due to such a one, what, asks the Chicago News, shall be said of the man who develops a raoe of hens that would habitually lay more than one egg a day? Surely no tribute of honor and gratitude could be too great for such a one. Prof. Gilman A. Drew of the Univer sity of Maine may be the one to whom such debt will eventually be paid, for he has been studies and ex periments which lead him to believe that there is no biological reason why a hen should not lay more than one egg a day. This being true it follows that the same American enterprise which increases the quantity of all other agricultural products will be turned to the hen and compel her to do her full duty. A hen's time is of no value in other directions, and if she can occupy what has hitherto been idle leisure in producing more eggs, then no laziness on her part should be permitted. She should have no after noons off. The eyes of the world are now expectantly fixed on Drew and the further results of his experiments. A New York toman who is a famous authority on cooking has gone bank rupt while endeavoring to cater to the appetites of the people of her town, where she ran two restaurants. This innocent person should have known that the way to make money in New York is to lay in a dozen celluloid sandwiches and a large stock of alco holic beverages. To try to tempt the New Yorker with good cooking is one of the strangest vagaries thus far re corded, declares the Chicago News. What he wants is something to stimu late his thirst, not allay his appetite. It is well known that good cooking tends to destroy the craving for drink. Yet this expert in the culinary art de liberately undertook to practice her specialty in Gotham! New Yorkers do not want their craving for drink destroyed, so they probably breathe more freely, now that the scientific cookshops have landed in bankruptcy. The New York board of education Is to investigate the question of corporal punishment, as it has been charged that the discipline of the schools has been undermined by the powerlessness of the teacherß to punish and the ad vantage taken by the children in their knowledge of this immunity. Is Solo mon to be vindicated in these modern times and his wisdom admitted when he said that to spare the rod was to ■poll the child? In hiß own day, it may bo remembered, Solomon was considered a very wise man, and his record has not been signally broken by modern sages. One New Jersey hotel keeper proved more than a match for a lot of college bazers. He locked them in, turned in A fire alarm and had the hose turned on them. There is nothing to quench enthusiasm of any kind like having '•©ld water poured on It. Once more the season is at hand when things begin .to happen that cause a rise in the price of coal. In this respect it stands in sharp con trast with the period for rlsea in the price of ice. NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of tha Past Seven Days. interesting Items Gathered From all Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space tor the Ben efit of Our Readers. Personal. President Roosevelt shot and killed a bear weighing 350 pounds during his three-weeks’ hunt fn Louisiana. Secretary Root has returned to ; Washington from his visit to Presi dent Diaz of Mexico. Stephen W. Bolles. chief of the di vision of exploitation of the James i town exposition, has resigned and re turned to St. Loui i. Mrs. Elizabeth C. Thorn who was in charge of the cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa., during the great battle, and stuck to her post throughout the struggle, Edward Everett Hale has retired as president of the American Antiquarian society. He has been a member of the organization for 60 years. Robert L. Carson, a prominent fi nancier and railroad magnate of Phila delphia. died recently while attending a performance in one of the theaters of that city. Jesse Holladay, who operated the | "Pony Express” across the plains dur ing pioneer days, recently died in Chi- I cago, aged 82 years. Algernon Satoris, a grandson of President Grant, has been designated by the state department as secretary of legation at Montevideo. In a recent interview in Chicaga, E. ( H. Harriman, the railroad magnate, delivered this: "Money is like a | liquid. The moment you place an ob ! etruction in front of it a diminution of the flow is caused.” W. B. Gasche, of Topeka, has been | elected president of the Kansas State | Association of Mutual Insurance com j panies. After declaring that he had had a most enjoyable vfrit in thi3 country, the Bishop of London left New York for his home in England. E. J. Haughey, of Paola, has been chosen great sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men in Kansas. It is announced that John Temple Graves, editor of the Atlanta Georgian and News, has accepted the chief edi torship of Hearst’s New York Ameri can. Sylvester J. Small, suspended presi dent of the Commercial Telegraphers’ union, has announced his retirement from office and from the union. Dan O'Leary, the famous long-dis tance walker who is 64 years old, has | finished walking one mile each hour i for 1,000 consecutive hours. Sarah Bernhardt, in denying a rumor that she is soon to retire from the stage, reiterated her oft expressed ; declaration that she will play till she ' dies. Secretary of State Root has re turned to Washington from his trip to Mexico. Seth M. Milliken has been elected president of the Mercantile National bank of New York to succeed Au ; gustus Helnze, who resigned follow ing the collapse of the copper cor ner in which he was interested. Miscellaneous. An earthquake of great violence, the heaviest since the Sar Francisco disaster, was recorded recently on the seismographs at Washington. T he record showed the disturbance was 3,000 miles distant in a southwesterly direction. Investigation has shown that the ex plosion of the Dupont powder mills at Fontanet, Ind., was caused by sparks from a hot box on the shafting. The body of Mrs. Casie Chadwick, who died while serving a sentence in the Ohio penitentiary, was buried at Woodstock, Canada. The Wall Btreet stock market was recently thrown into turmoil by the collapse of prices of United copper company stock. The stock dropped from SSO to $lO in one day. Two large brokerage firms suspended and F. A. Ileinze was compelled to resign from the presidency of the Mercantile bank of New York. Fifty persons were killed and 600 injured and every building in the town of Fontlnet, lnd., was wrecked recent ly by the explosion of the Dupont Pow der company’s works there. The shock of the explosion was felt 200 miles away and buildings two miles distant wore destroyed and the occupants In jured. The telegraph operators on the Den ver and Rio Grande railroad are vot ing as to whether they shall strike. The vote favoring a walk out is prac tically unanimous so far. Five workmen were drowned by the overturning of a scow in the Illi nois canal near Joliet recently. Judge Lawrence, of the Cleveland common pleas court, has rendered a decision holding illegal the franchises granted the three-cent fare street car lines on the east side of the river. The Carnegie Hero Fund commis sion has made 24 awards of medals and money to various persons through out the country for saving life this year. Among the awards was a gold medal and $5,600 to Andrew J. Hed ger of Santa Fe Kan. The annual reunion of the Army of the Cumberland was recently held nt Chattanooga, Tenn. About 400 veter ans were present. Twenty-two slue factories in St. Loulb, which have been closed for five weeks on account of a strike of employes, have resumed work. The stock market of Montreal, Can ada, was recently thrown into a panic by the passing of the quarterly divi dend of the Detroit United Street Rail way company, most of the stock of .vhich is held in that city. The Nebraska railway commission has issued an order limiting the speed of trains on the Missouri Pacific in that state to 25 miles an hour until the roadbed has been repaired. Five persons, two men and three women, have been arrested in Joplin, Mo., suspected of blowing up the News-Herald printing plant with dy namite. The la-t Indian pow-wow was re cently held in Collinsville, I. T. Ge ronimo, the old Apache chief, was the principal figure. J. N. Sapp has employed counsel to aid in the prosecution of S. F. Whit-! low, charged with the murder of May Sapp at Moran. Kan. A dollar a bushel was recently of fered for wheat at Arkansas City, Kan. By a cave-iu in the ballast quarries of the Mexican Central railroad at Victoria 16 laborers were killed and 11 others fatally injured. The trial of George A. Pettibone, charged with complicity in the assas sination of ex-Gov. Steunenberg, of Idaho, is set for October 28 at Boise. The failure of Haller, Sochle & Co., an old banking house of Hamburg, Germany, has been announced. The liabilities are estimated at $7,000,000. Commercial business between Glace bay, N. S., and Clifden, Ireland, is now being accepted by the Marconi Wire less Telegraph company. The first carload of buffalo from the New York gardens have been turned loose in the government reserve in the Indian territory. Interstate Commerce Commissioner Lane is authority for the statement that the Southern Pacific railroad has continued to give rebates to shippers in defiance of the Hepburn law. The facts will be laid before the depart ment of justice. Attorney General Hadley of Missou ri has given an opinion in which he holds that the state railroad commis sioners have t£e power to reduce the rates charged by express companies in that state. The Santa Fe Railroad company has announced a voluntary raise in salary to all telegraph operators in the em ploy of the company. Judgment has been entered in the St. Louis courts against John Morton, a Joplin, Mo., mining promoter, for $537,030.22. He was charged with selling a "paper” mine in the zinc dis trict. The State Savings bank of Butte, Mont., in which F. Augustus Heinze is the principal stockholder, closed its doors on account of a run caused by the failure of Heinze brokerage firms in New York. The farmeis and their wives from all parts of the country to the number of 3,000 attended the National Farm ers’ congress recently held at Oklaho ma City. The Modern Woodmen of America have closed a deal for 1.000 acres of land adjoining Colorado Springs on which it is proposed to erect a sanitar ium for the treatment of members of the order afflicted with tuberculosis. An ear of corn recently sold to the highest bidder at the National corn ex position in Chicago brought $250. A move has been started in Chicago to purchase a S4,CCO trophy emblem atic of the world’s baseball champion ship. The California limited train on the Santa Fe railroad was recently ditch ed at Earl, Col. The engineer was killed and several passengers were in jured but none fatally. Fred Magill and his wife Faye Gra ham Magill have l een acquitted of the charge of murdering the first Mrs. Ma gill at Decatur, 111 The Philippine assembly was form ally opened by Secretary Taft in Ma nila in the presence of a largo crowd of people. The new' railroad branch of the Y. M. C. A. in St. Louis was recently formally opened by Helen Gould. A crowded trolley car In Cincinnati left the rails on a grade and plunged over a 25-foot embankment. One man was killed and 30 others injured. The Illinois senate by a unanimous vote, adopted a Joint resolution pro viding for submission to the voters a constitutional amendment for a $20,- 000,000 bond issue to proceed with the deep water way project. Persons making homestead entries on public lnnds after November 1 will be required to prove actual residence on the land for 14 months before they can obtain title by cash payment. In stead of eight months as heretofore. The first Joint resolution of the Philippine commission and assembly was one conveying the thanks of Filipino people to the American peo ple for the boom of u national as sembly. The confession of Banker Beckwith regarding his dealings with Cassie Chadwick is never to he made public, according to a statement made by the United States marshal who has pos session of the document. The Topeka city council has passed an ordinance closing the theaters on Sunday. Citizens of San Francisco are mak ing elaborate preparations to receive the bnttleshlp fleet when it. arrives at the Golden Gate next spring. The Danish steamer Alfred Erland son was wrecked off the coast of Scot land and 20 of her crew drowned. By the overturning of u gasoline launch in the Illinois river, near Har din four men were drowned recently. Representatives of the state histori cal societies of the Mississippi valley recently met In Lincoln, Neb., and formed a national association for his torical research. HOW THE STATE IS PROSPERING REPORTS FROM EVERY CORNER GIVE GOOD NEWS OF COLO RADO’S PROGRESS. FACTORIES COMING FARMERS ARE DOING WELL THEIR PART TO BRING THE STATE TO THE FRONT. Denver.—Secretary James B. Young of the State Commercial Association yesterday compiled the reports for the past week which have come to him from the various local civic organiza tions around the state, and the com pilation shows remarkable progress in every part of the state. The Commercial association now has a chance to locate in Colorado a manu facturing industry that will employ 600 men and make a cash investment of $500,000, but the secretary has been instructed not to give out the details at this time. The reason for the many recent ar rivals of men to invest money in Colo rado is that the truth of first-class con ditions is recognized. Brighton’s new syrup factory is ready for business. The sweet fluid will bo turned out from sugar beets. Here is something to ponder over and tell your friends in the East. Two Colorado men planted 130 acres to potatoes this spring. They have Just finished digging. Here is the result: Fifteen thousand sacks of as flue pota toes as were ever grown, or sixty car loads and 3,000 sacks of seed potatoes. The average was 230 sackß of salable potatoes and fifty bushels of seed pota toes to the acre. Can you beat it? What is believed to be one of the finest deposits of marble in the world has been discovered in the Redlands country. Corn averaging forty bushels to the acre has just been cut four miles west of Fort Lupton. It was raised without irrigation. This indicates that Colo rado can grow corn successfully. Fort Morgan counts it a day lost nowadays when some new buildings are not started in that city. During the present year over 200 buildings have been erected and still there is a big demand for more. It is expected that water will be turned into the big ditch in Morgan county next year. Forty thousand acres of virgin land will be watered by the ditch. Over $1,000,000 will be paid out to the farmers of Morgan county this year for sugar beets alone. Fort Morgan is contesting with Gree ley as to potato growing. One man dug fifteen acres that went better than 150 sacks to the acre. If the price of potatoes in the Gree ley district holds up to present figures spud growers will have no cause to complain of any shrinkage in their bank accounts, but on the contrary will be looking around for more room in which to store their money. Potatoes are selling at very good prices at pres ent and one which leaves a big margin of profit. A Kersey man has just sold his eighty-acre farm, which he bought four years ago for $3,500, for SIO,OOO cash, and he retains his crop for this year, valued at $4,000, in addition. The $lO,- 000 that he received for his property is practically all “velvet.” One hundred thousand lambs will be fattened in Weld county this fall and winter. Next spring under the Beaver Land & Irrigation Company’s project in Fre mont county, 4,000 acres of land will I be brought under irrigation and event- I ually 30,000 acres will be added to the I arable soil of the county. The fame of Colorado honey is spreading abroad, and all beekeepers in the state find that they have not enough honey to fill orders. Colorado Springs is going to have a new dairy that will make a specialty of supplying a line of milk that will be acceptable to the doctors of the city. Over in the Redlands country they have pumps at work that are throwing water Into irrigation ditches at an alti tude of 137 feet. This gives a good idea of the big strides that are being made in the state in the way of more and better irrigation projects. Blackmailer In Jail. Lead, S. D. —An attempt to extort $20,000 from J. Grier, manager of the Homestake gold mine, under threat of dynamiting Ills house unless the money was placed In a designated place, was frustrated laßt night by the nrrest of the alleged blalckmallers. Mrs. Anna Maljas, Chris Maljas, her husband, nnd Mntt Zlmbolu were' arrested by the police ns the guilty parties. Grier received nn nnonymous letter demanding $20,000, the threat being ntado that Grier's home would be dyna mited unless the money was put In an envelope and placed at a certain place. Ho reported to tho police and a decoy letter was left nn directed. Mrs. Mai Jas was arrested by a concealed police man ns she took the letter. Her hus bund and Zimbola were later taken Into custody. Grier’s house, the finest In Smith Da kotu, is located on the top of a steep hill In the center of the town. Fall Over Cliff Kills Pioneer. Breckenrldgn, Colo. —Col. .lolin B Thoxton, on olil-tlmo resident of Colo rado and one of the bcßt known min ing men In the state, fell over n cliff at Montezuma and was killed. He represented the Chalmer people of Chicago for twenty yoars In con struction of mlllH reaching from Can ada to Mexico. He hnd been a resi dent of this place for flf'"en years and recently left for Montezuma to sii pervlse the construction of a concen trating mill. He was sixty-five years old, and Is survived by u wife and child, who live here. The body was shipped to Idaho 3prlngs for burial. COLORADO NEWS ITEMS Denver has seventeen theater*. Mayor F. P. Hunt of Delta, killed himself on account of domestic trou ble. The Modern Woodmen of America are to have an elegant home at Colo rado Springs. The organized unions of Fort Col lins have formed a trades assembly with 260 members. The assessed valuation of Denver is approximately 1120,000,000. This does not give the real value. Prowers county 1* rapidly coming to the front in the production of a splen did grade of draft horses and mules. Cattle shipments from Routt county are greater thl* year than ever before in the history of that section of the state. A Denver man married a girl to re form her and she had him In Jail be fore the honeymoon turned the first quarter. A Longmont man claims the best seventy-acre wheat field In the state. His crop runs about eighty bushels to the acre. For the first time In a great many years Custer county finds Itself entirely out of debt and with a snug balanoe In the treasury. R. D. Whetstone, a frontiersman, was accidentally thrown from his w-agon near Boulder one day last week and killed. The Santa Fa fiyer went Into the ditch near Earl ’ast Saturday, and one death was the result. Many others were shaken up. More fall wheat than ever before in the history of the district has been plsnted this year In the Cache Ln Pou are and Boxelder valleys. Two Canon City men think that the town of Radiate le properly named. They have Just made a big strike of a rich coal find ln that place. Yampa is confident that the firet train Into the town will be seen by June 1, 1908. Scarcity of labor Is de laying work on the Moffat road. It will be nip and tuck between farming and precious metals lu Colo rado this year. The output In both commodities has been very heavy. Dry farming has made good again In Colorado, and there will, In all probability, be more land tilled under the new system next year then aver before. Over 300 union miners in the lig nite coal mines near Colorado Springs walked out on a strike last week. What a blessing this fine, warm Colo rado weather is. Mrs. Anna Shandler of New York, came all the way to Colorado to see her son. and sad her awakening when she found him behind the cold Iron bars at Canon City. Denver Is now willing to stand on the top of Pike’s peak and aver thal she has over 200,000 good, hustling souls within her corporate limits, and there are none to dispute. Eastern Colorado is coming to the front with oil and gaa. There Is no telling what Coloiado will do yet ln the way of furnishing the necessities of the world. She already has done more than most states. E. J. Cavenaugh in running a serlas of articles ln a Denver paper explain Ing why times are ‘’hard” right now. He says the prices of the necessities of life have advanced but common wages remain the same. Greeley is now receiving its night electrical current from the Northern Colorado power plant at Lafayette. The day current la furnished by tho local plant. Sunday, both night and day current will be turned on from Lafayette. A party of Spanish engineers are ln Colorado learning from the experi ence of our farraeie in reference to irrigation. That old song Is still good: "They are coming by thou sands, from every land, the cause cf our greatness to see, etc.” Forty-five acres of pears from Grand Junction returned the fruit growers in that section over SBO,OOO this fall. A Grand Junction paper says that It le enough to make a poker player green with envy to learn that the farmers are making fortunes at "pears.” Twenty capitalists from New York made the trip of ovor 2,000 miles to look over some mining properties ln Gilpin county last week. They spent two hours at the mines and were so well pleased they will stand up for Colorado like real boosters. New York dally papers came to Denver recently for two well known persons, Miss Nell Brinkley, of the Times, and Paul Thleman of the Post. Miss Brinkley is a Colorado girl and her skill as an artist has attracted more than national attention. She re ceives SIOO a week on the New York American, with a three years' con tract. The director! of the Montrozoma Company, which is running the Famous tunnel near Aspen, have decided to raise $260,000 to build a mill, develop water power and work the mines on Betolte, Famous and Richmond hills through tho tunnel. The people of As pen believe that this Is the beginning of a new era of prosperity In that sec tion of the state. It is expected that Denver will have direct rullroad connection with Grand Lake, ln Grand county, by the opening of the season next summer. The Rocky Mountain railroad, owned by Denver and Boulder people, has been constructed about half way to Grand Lake from Granby, on the Moffat road. It Is understood that the con structlon of this road on to Grand Lake la to be pushed and that it will be In operation all of the way by next spring. Not all Greeley potato pickers are hoboes and one hab been found among them who Is a student of sociology and pursues the work of gathering spuds to study the labor problem at close range. He is educated, an Eng llshman of good family, a great stu dent, and for over a year has been gathering data for a book soon to be published. He hns been here for two months working in the bay and potato fields. He Is a verse maker, but pre fers tbst bis same be not ■Bade pub lic. WHAT IS PE-RU-NA? Is It a Catarrh Remedy, or a Tonic, or is It Both? Some people call Parana a great tonic. Others refer to Parana as a groat catarrh remedy. Whioh of these people are right 1 Is it more proper to call Pernna a ca tarrh remedy than to call it a tonic f Our reply is, that Peruna is both a tonio and a catarrh remedy. Indeed, there can he no effectual catarrh rem edy that ia not also a tonio. In order to thoroughly relieve any ease of catarrh, a remedy must not only have a specific action on the mu ooo* membranes affected by the ca tarrh, bat it mast have a general tonio action on the nervous system. Catarrh, even in persona who axe otherwise strong, is a weakened con dition of some mneons membrane. There must be something to strength en the circulation, to give tone to the arteries, and to raise the vital forcea Perhaps no vegetable remedy in the world has attracted to much attention from medical writer* as HYDRASTIS CAHADEHBIB. The wonderfhl effi cacy of this herb has been recognized many year*, and is growing in its hold upon the medical profession. When joined with CUBEBB and COPAIBA a trio of medical agents ia formed in Pe runa whioh constitute* a specific rem edy for catarrh that in the present state of medical progress cannot be improved upon. This action, rein forced by each renowned tonics to COLLIHSOHIA CANADENSIS, 00E YDALIS FORMOSA and CEDBON SEED, ought to wiabs thl* oontpound an ideal remedy for oaterrh in all Ito stages and locations in tho body. Prom a theoretical standpoint, there fore, Peruna is beyond criticism. The use of Peruna, whiUttm this opinion. Number loss testimonials from every quarter of the earth tarnish ample evidence that this judgment is not over enthusiastic. When practical ex perience non firm, a well-grounded the ory tho reonlt is a troth that cannot be ■hshssi NO STAIN ON HIS RECORD. That’s Where the Driver Had the Best of the Preacher. A New York clergyman, who wften spends his vacation In fishing the streams of the Adlrondacks, was on one trip adopted by a handsome set ter dog, which Insisted on following him from camp to camp, as he moved along the stream. One day he met a party of men working upstream with a native guide. The guide immediately recognised the dog as his own property. "Trying to steal my setter, are you?" he shouted at the clergyman. ‘l'll have you to Jail for this! There's i law In the woods Just as big as you lave In the city." The clergyman endeavored to ex plain that he was an unwilling com panion of the dog, which had refused lo bo driven away, but to little effect until he added a two-dollar bill to bis arguments. "It's queer what strange things hap pen to a man up here," he said to tho stage-driver who later carried him away from the woods. “That Is tho first time I was ever accused of steal ing a dog-" “Yes, Blr,” replied the driver, sym pathetically, and added, after a mo ment's pause, "For myself, sir, I havo never been accused of stealing any thing. ’’ —Youth's Companion. Signs of tho Times. 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