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THE NEW ERA I
WALDEN, --- - COLORADO.
Charity is one of the few thlngi
that should never be advertised.
An anti-fat manufacturer is in trou
ble. He tried to make light of hit
customers.
That Huntington horse that eats
■wool is probably suffering from a cold
stomach.
Maybe Gen. Kurokl will go home
and tell his countrymen that we are
400 agreeable people to lick.
Joaquin Miller wants to go to the
United States senate. On his merits
as a poet? Oh, dear, no. He has
money now.
A Washington man who tried fast
ing for his health didn’t live long
enough to see whether it helped him
or not.
The sperm whale could swallow an
automobile according to one scientist,
but we should think it would give him
indigestion.
Chicago complains that women talk
too much over the telephone. “Over
the telephone” would seem to be a
superfluous clause.
The late shah of persia had a col
lection of stones valued at $50,000,000.
But death parted him from all except
one —his tombstone.
A clothier's ad in the London (Ont.)
Advertiser: “Our boys’ knickers have
double seats.” Good for the kids, but
hard on father's arm.
Now if the weather should calm
down and be decent for the summer
the croakers would feel themselves
discriminated against.
A Detroit man has invented a nozzle
which spreads water like rain, or in
other words as effectively as it is dis
tributed among the stocks.
Tunis used to depend upon its wines,
olives, cereals and cattle. Now there
are a number of profitable mines and
railways are being built to exploit
them.
Even if it were not dangerous to
kiss the baby it would still be cruel
In most cases, as the poor babies are
generally too feeble to put up any
kind of a defense.
Dr. Wiley's condemnation of pie will
have no effect. The brain food of
New England has been tested beyond
the power of any mere government
chemist to discredit it.
The American Press Humorists, as
Much, have undertaken to raise funds
for a monument in memory of the late
Bill Nye. All serious minded people
can join them in this effort.
Joaquin Miller has found mining
more profl**ble than poetry, for which
reason he desires to be a United
Stated senator. This shows the de
moralizing influence of wealth.
The popularly accepted idea that
women like to do most of the talking
is successfully controverted, in the
petition of a St. Louis woman who
asks divorce. She asserts that she
“can't live with that man. Why, he's
a regular sphinx.”
The highest tree in the world is
•aid to be an Australian gum tree of
the species eucalyptus regnans, which
tsands in the Cape Otway range. It
Is no less than 415 feet high. Gum
trees grow rapidly. There is one in
Florida which is reported to have
shot up 40 feet in four years, and an
other in Guatemala which grew 120
feet in 12 years.
“1 am perfectly certain,” writes an
Englishman to the London World,
“that half our ills are due to the fact
that we do not laugh enough. A good
sincere smile is somewhat rare in
these times, a 'laughing face’ Is scarce,
and it is seldom indeed that one hears
a good ringing laugh.” The obvious
thing for this gentleman to do !■ to
subscribe for London Punch.
The public is henceforth to be
barred from the grounds of John D.
Rockefeller's home, Forest Hill, in the
suburbs of Cleveland, because visitors
presumed upon their privileges and
peeped through the dining room win
dows to watch Mr. Rockefeller eat.
This made the old gentleman angry,
and he ordered the gates closed. He
might have pulled down the blinds.
Red Cloud, the famous Sioux chief,
is now very old, and, realizing that he
must soon depart for the happy hunt
ing grounds, he has issued a pathetic
appeal to the white people to be good
to the poor Indian. Once a fierce war
rior and a foe to the whites, Red Cloud
long ago became peaceable. He still
retains the old style garb ol his race,
but he appreciates the value of civili
zation.
If the gifted persons who write those
wonderful detective stories would win
lasting renown and become benefac
tors to their fellow beings, let them go
out and do a little real detecting.
There are plenty of desperate crim
inals at large whdn the regularly or*
dained sleuths are unable to capture.
The world’s rice crop in 1005 aggre
gated 170,000,000,000 pounds. The
great bulk of this enormous yield was
produced and consumed by the people
•of Asia, the Chinese taking the lead
Ibotk in production and consumption.
Japan and United States
Cannot Afford to Quarrel
By CHOZO KOIKE.
Japan's Consul-General in United States. New York City.
All between the United States and Japan to me is inconceiv
able.
All talk of it is an absurdity. Of course, in my capacity
I as consul general I have nothing to do officially with diplo
matic questions which -may arise between the two countries.
All of those matters are dealt with by the Japanese em
bassy in Washington. My official functions relate chiefly to
the commerce of the two nations.
The Japanese embassy has decided, and very wisely, too, in
W
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my opinion, not even to discuss the possibility of war between
the nations, in the hope that the whole matter will die of inanition and
be forgotten so completely that it will never arise again. For that reason
■I hesitate even to mention the subject even in a most general way.
I have said before, and repeat it, that what Japan and the United
•States both want is commerce and not war. Both nations are devoted to
commerce, not to conflict.
All of the Japanese merchants in this country and all intelligent,
thinking Japanese in Japan and elsewhere regard all talk of war be
tween tlie two nations as nonsense.
I am told that the thinking, intelligent American people take pre
cisely the same view of the matter.
Whatever questions have arisen can easily be settled. If there bo
any cause for friction, all that is necessary is lo find the specific thing
which produces the trouble, examining it closely, study it carefully and
thoroughly, and a solution will easily be found.
There is an old saying in Japan: “Rich men do not quarrel.” This
saying is applicable to the present situation. If there be any Americans
who are belligerently inclined toward Japan they should study the sta
tistics of the commerce between the countries.
For the year ending December 31, 190(3, the exports of the United
States to Japan amounted to 69,948,681 yen and the exports of Japan
to the United States 125,964,408 yen.
So far this year there has been a tremendous increase in the com
merce of the two nations, and the aggregate promises to exceed by a heavy
margin the figures of last year.
When these figures are considered it can be seen that war between
the two nations can only be done at a sacrifice of this tremendous trade.
The commerce of the two countries shows that Japan and the United
States are dependent more or less in a business way upon each other. Any
interruption of the steady increase in the volume of trade between the
two countries would be a calamity of itself regardless of all the other
horrors of war.
I hope that the newspapers will cease printing anything at all on
the subject of war. If one gets in the habit of even talking of war in a
most general way it brings about a condition of the public mind that is
undesirable.
Any ordinarily insignificant happening becomes distorted and as
sumes an importance altogether beyond its real meaning, and in the
hands of sensationalists is easily made the bone of a new contention. ■
The Modern Pagan
and His Home
By REV. HARRY GRANISON HILL.
—but he lives as though
Christ had not lived, and he dies as though Christ had not died, lie
spends his Sundays in athletic sports and amusements, at public parks
or in pay meuseums. This may be healthful and it'may be pure—but it
is the time and not the thing that develops this class of pagans.
The modern pagan home has its fine tapestries, musical instruments,
creations of art, libraries of fiction and of farce, and over and against
the plan and frugal home of the past, with its chief library volume—the
Bible. This pagan home lias Its springs of pleasure, hut none of joy;
its sources of vigor, but none of power; its fountains of recreation, but
none of inspiration.
The question of amusements needs a Christian discrimination. Some
are entirely wrong within themselves, some are wrong in circumstance,
some are wrong in time. A proper amusement will do no wrong toi
self; will bring no blush of shame to the cheek; will work no loss of time
and will do no wrong to others.
The body was made to serve the soul. Think of what man is capable
and then think what he is doing. Endowed with an intellect and a will
which make him a little lower than the angels, having the precepts and
practices of a living Christ to guide him, he still bows the knee to Baal.
The Marriage of
Convenience
By FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS.
Professor of Economics at Columbia University.
to insure offspring to “pour upon the earth of the tomb the milk of moun
tain heifers, libations of wine and the honey of yellow bees” with which,
Iphigenia remarked, the living were wont lo “rejoice the dead.”
If the object of marriage is to obtain or to raise the social position
of the family, the marriage of convenience is certainly a more effective
means to that end than the marriage of love.
But if it is admissible lo regard the personal happiness of husband
and wife, and (he physical and mental well-being of their offspring for
indefinite generations, as (lie supreme objects of marriage (he so-called
love or romantic marriage is the only one that can claim biological and
psychological sanction.
The literature of evolution, from Darwin lo IVcstermarck, is cleai
and, on the whole, conclusive on this point. If it is true, ns has been
alleged, that many people in America are of late maintaining that the
European marriage of convenience is better than the American romantic
marriage, the fact undoubtedly means that Ihe wealthy stratum in Amer
ican society is beginning to feel a strong desire to segregate itself aa an
exclusive or aristocratic class. T1 at, 1 suspect, is (rue.
We do not worship a
Thor, nor a Woden, nor
a Jove, nor a Mar, yet
we daily bow the knee to
amusement, ease and
commercialism.
The pagan is not nec
essarily a bad man—as
the term man is applied
Our view of the rela
tive merits of romantic
marriage and the mar
riage of convenience is
necessarily determined by
our view of what mar
riage is for.
In the days of ances
tor worship the supreme
purpose of marriage was
Distribution of School Funds.
The semi-annual distribution of the
Bchool fund has been completed by
Miss Catherine L. Craig, state superin
, tendent of public instruction. The dis
tribution divides $119,173.74 between
the various counties of the state as
follows:
Adams $ 1,171.75
Arapahoe 1,081.45
Archuleta 508.88
Baca 140.50
Bent 695J51
Boulder 5,15tf5)5
Chaffee 1,201.95
Cheyenne 203.98
Clear Creek 1,011.00
Conejos 1,940.81
Costilla 874.17
Custer 308.94
Delta 1,900.30
Denver 30,013.08
Dolores 81.04
Douglas 505.30
Eagle 432.78
Elbert 830.11
El Paso 7,080.45
Fremont 3,001.91
Garfield 1,313.98
Gilpin 805.11
Grand 241.15
Gunnison 793.70
Hinsdale 114.59
Huerfano 2,185.90
Jefferson 2,270.21
Kiowa 212.58
Kit Carson 807.10
Lake 1,078.20
La Plata 1,038.35
Larimer 4,795.72
Las Animas 5,332.08
Lincoln 458.77
Logan 838.22
Mesa 3,00G.G7
Mineral 249.98
Montrose 000.41
Montezuma 1,305.00
Morgan 1,240.00
Otero 3,457.09
Ouray 498.98
park 290.58
Phillips 413.40
Pitkin 997.71
Prowers 1,711.35
Pueblo 9,165.78
Rio Blanco 293.58
Rio Grande 1,070.87
Routt 896.57
Saguache 718.07
San Juan 290.93
San Miguel 500.39
Sedgwick 341.05
Summit 263.36
Teller 2,285.50
Washington 349.92
Weld 4.8C7.75
Yuma 1,104.12
Normal School 377.12
Total $119,173.74
Express Companies Fight Cut.
The express companies operating
into Denver from the East are fighting
a law recently passed in Nebraska re
ducing rates which will afreet express
rates in the same manner that the 2-
cent per mile legislation will affect
through tickets between Denver and
the East. The Nebraska Railway Com
mission has ordered a reduction of
twenty-five per cent, in the schedules
now in effect by the Adams, the Wells-
Fargo, the American, the Pacific and
the United States Express companies
in Nebraska, and has instructed these
companies to publish a new schedule.
The various express companies have
refused to publish the schedule and
are subject to a fine of SI,OOO each. In
stead they applied to the United States
District Court, for an Injunction to pre
vent the railway commission from
seeking to establish a new schedule.
Judge Munger, before whom the appli
cation was made, denied the injunc
tion and decided against the express
companies. He has, however, allowed
the commission to appear and show
why the injunction should not he
granted. This will come up In Omaha.
The reduction of twenty-five per
cent, ordered by the Nebraska commis
sion on all express schedules in effect
in that state, if put into effect, will also
reduce the through charges on express
matter from Colorado to Chicago, St.
Louis and the East on the same basis
that the railroads are being forced to
give Colorado a reduction in fares be
cause of legislation in states traversed
en route.
Killed Over a Bunch of Keys.
Cheyenne. Wyo.—Emil Cossi was
•hot by Herbert H. Harper and died an
hour and a half later.
Harper was arrested by a witness to
the shooting and is now in the county
jail. He refuses to make a statement.
A week ago Cossi and Harper, both
of whom are employed by the North
ern Colorado Power Company, quar
reled regarding some keys, and several
times later the quarrel was renewed.
On two occasions, it is said, Harper
threatened Cossi with a gun. The men
hoarded at the same place and they
met on the porch of the house and
fought.
They were separated and Harper
got a revolver. Returning he found
Cossi standing on the sidewalk. A few
words passed between them and Har
per opened fire, sending three bullets
into Cossi’s body. A dozen people wit
nessed the shooting.
Cossi was unmarried and came to
Cheyenne from Denver four months
ago.
Nothing regarding his family connec
tions is known here.
A brother of Cossi is employed by
the Denver Gas and Electric Company
in Denver as a switchboard tender at
the West Side station.
Stranded on Mountain and Freezing.
Geneva.—A party of twenty-two gyp
sies. men, women and children, arc
stranded at the top of the great St.
Bernard pass owing to curious circum
stances. On being expelled from Italy
they ascended the pass, intending to
go to Switzerland, but when thev
reached the top they were refused ad
mission to Swiss territory by Swiss
gendarmes. Unable to return to Italy,
ns Italian gendarmes followed them to
*ee them across the frontier, they are
now encamped at an elevation of 8,100
feet, unable to proceed. They may
freeze to death unless either Italy or
Switzerland relents. The monks of
st. Bernard are feeding them and lend
ing them warm clothing, but they can I
not be sheltered in the hospice because I
(t is in Swiss territory. I
SAVED FROM DREAD FATE.
Kind Woman’s Assistance Meant
Much to This Tramp.
▲ certain lady, noted for her kind
heart and open hand, was approached
not long ago by a man who, with
tragic air, began:
“A man, madam, is often forced by
the whip of hunger to many things
from which his very soul shrinks—
and so it is with me at this time. Un
less, madam. In the name of pity, you
giro assistance, I will he com
pelled to do something which I never
before have done, which I would
greatly dislike to do.”
Much Impressed, the lady made
haste to place in his hand a flve-dol
lar bill. As the man pocketed It
with profuse thanks, she Inquired:
"And what is the dreadful thing
I have kept you from doing, my poor
man?”
“Work,” was the brief and monnfa*
ful reply.—Harper’s Weekly.
WEBTERN MEN IN NEW YORK.
Brains of Mountain and Prairie in De
mand in the Financial Center.
• «
Ever since the early days, when D.
O. Mills, J. B. Haggin and James R.
Keene "emigrated" from California to
New York, the metropolis has been
drawing largely on the west and south
for its supply of “men who do things.”
1 heodore P. Shontj, both a southerner
and westerner, who has undertaken to
solve New York’s great transit prob
lem, is the latest Importation in re
sponse to the cal! of the east.
The promptness with which Thos. F.
Ryan, of Virginia, turned the Equit
able Life Assurance Society over to
its policyholders, who now elect a ma
jority of its Board of Directors, and
divested himself of the control of the
stock which he bought from Jas. H.
Hyde, and the success of the new
management of the Society under the
direction of President Paul Morton,
have created a demand for the strong
men of the south and west that is
greater than ever before. Under the
Morton management the Equitable has
made a better showing than any other
insurance company in the way of im
proved methods, economies and in
creased returns to policyholders.
E. H. Gary, head of the greatest cor
poration in the world —the U. S. Steel
Co. —John W. Gates. Henry C. Frick,
Norman B. Ream, Wm. H. Moore and
Daniel G. Reid are other westerners
who are among the biggest men in
New York.
Her Aim.
A man who runs a truck farm hi
Virginia tells of the sad predicament
in which a colored man named Sam
Moore, who is in his employ, recently
found himself. Sam had had consid
erable difficulty in evading the on
slaughts of a dog from a neighboring
farm. Finally the dog got him, as
Sam kicked at him.
Sam s wife, hearing • tremendous
yell, rushed to the rescue of her hus
band. When she came up the dog had
fastened his teeth in the calf of Sam's
leg and was holding on for dear life.
Seizing a stone in the road, Sam’s
wife was about to hurl it when Sam,
with wonderful presence of mind,
shouted:
“Mandy! Mandy! Don’t frow dat
stone at de dawg! Frow it at me,
SSandy!”—Youth’s Companion.
Quite Desirable.
The Hold-up Man (as he takes large
watch from victim’s pocket)—-I sup
pose you’re thinkln’ I’m a real unde
sirable citizen, eh?
The Victim —Nothing of the sort,
old man! That watch you’ve just re
lieved me of was in my wife’s family
for 75 years and she forced me to lug
It around. —Puck.
New Use for Old Ropes.
Some time ago a woolen manufac
turer in the north of England succeed
ed in making a fabric from old ropes.
He obtained a quantity of old rope
and cordage, unraveled them and
wove them by a secret process Into a
kind of rough cloth.
A BMALL BECRET.
Couldn’t Understand tho Taste ot
His Customers.
Two men were discussing the var
ious food products now being supplied
In such variety and abundance.
One, a grocer, said, “I frequently try
a package or so of any certain article
before offering it to my trade, and in
that way sometimes form a different
Idea than my customers have.
“For instance, I thought I would try
some Postum Food Coffee, to *ee what
reason there was for such a call for it.
At breakfast I didn't like it and supper
proved the same, so L naturally con
cluded that my taste was different
from that of the customers who bought
It right along.
“A day or two after, I waited on a
lady who was buying a 25c package
and told her I couldn’t understand how
one could fancy the taste of Postum.
“‘I know just what is the matter,
she said, ‘you put the coffee boiler on
the stove for just fifteen minutes, and
ten minutes of that time it simmered,
and perhaps five minutes it boiled
now if you will have it left to boil full
fifteen minutes after it commences to
boil, you will find a delicious Java-like
beverage, rich in food value of gluten
and phosphates, bo choice that you
will never abandon it, particularly
when you see the great gain in health.’
Well, I took another trial and sure
enough I joined the Postum army for |
good, and life seems worth living since
1 have gotten rid of my old time stom
ach and kidney troubles.” 1
Postum Is no sort of medicine, but
pure liquid food, and this, together 1
with a relief from coffee worked the
I change. “There’s a Reason.”
Read “The Road to Wellvllle." to
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COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
/ Boulder Chautauqua has kept up it»
usual good record this year.
The “Jungles” in Fort Collins are to
be given a general scrubbing.
Dr. Forrest L. Estile recently died at
Colorado Springs of brain fever.
Work will begin on the proposed
Royal Gorge electric line very soon.
Denver has again figured it out that
she has 190,000 children, old and
young.
Troop D of Colorado cavalry of Boul
der has been taking an outing at
Golden.
j The local lodge of Modern Woodman
at Greeley are preparing to bold at
street fair.
A Denver dairyman has confessed
to using starch in making cream thick
'•nd yellow.
Everybody is thinking about the big
time to he had in Denver on Colorado
'day, August Ist.
The flood In Clear Creek canon
caused $50,000 damage and suspended
traffic over a week.
A Negro colony is proposed for Col
orado somewhere in the neighborhood
of Colorado Springs.
« Another retired capitalist—
Wolf —has moved his family from
ver to beautiful Boulder.
Ault Is out after the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, asking that more
crossings he placed in that town.
Georgetown waß without daily news
papers and beer for over a week, ow
ing to the cloudburst, hut the town
moved right along.
The body of a new born babe was
found a few days ago In an irrigation
ditch near the Rustler school house.
In Uie vicinity of Pueblo.
I Dan Murphy, found beside the rail
jroad track at Greeley a few days ago
suffering with a fractured skull, died.
He was seventy years of age.
j Denver papers are saying much
about a “Shirt Sleeve Club” in that
city. Denver needn’t feel so puffed up
over it —we farmers have belonged to
that club for years, b’gosh.
j The editors of the state are con
jtemplating a royal time July 22d-24th,
'the dates set for their annual mid
summer outing. A trip to Steamboat
'Springs, over the Moffat road, is plan
ned.
The large dairy farm plant of Ben
Bacovi, of Silverton, was burned one
day recently. The loss was over $3,-
000 and was only partially insured. The
j Municipal electric light plant and a
| large sawmill adjoining narrowly es
caped being burned.
! A Farmers’ Institute will be held at
| Florence July 28th, and expert agri
culturists from the State Agricultural
;College will address the institute on
j subjects of interest to formers. Ex
pensive advertising is being done and
• a large attendance is expected.
J Turman F. Kennedy, who
one of the White Mountain sunnt«K
resorts, and who is visiting at BouldW
'contemplates locating somewhere in
this state. He says the Eastern sum
*mer resorts are becoming too much
|the gathering places for people suffer
ing with tuberculosis.
j The farmers on Gunbarrel hill. wNch
•is above all irrigating ditches, say
some of the wheat there will run as
Ihigh as fifty bushels to the acre. For
la time it looked as If the green louse
(would destroy all of the wheat, but
'the cold, wet spell In the latter part of
• the spring killed off these pests. Some
fields were utterly ruined by them, but
not many.
! The last of the old landmarks In
Greeley is to be torn down to make
way for a two-story brick building to
be built by D. R. McArthur for a hard
ware store. The old one-story frame
(building which stands on the south
side of Main street among a r&jr of
• brick blocks, was built in 1871 by John
Abbott, an original Union colonist, now
a resident of Fort Collins.
Believing that Jose Martinez, the
Mexican stabbed at Windsor a few
nights ago. was near death, county
hospital attendants were much sur
prised to find his bed empty and the
man gone a few morning ago. Ho had
arsien in the night, secured clothing
and fled. His companion in the fight
is In the hospital and will recover. No
effort will be made to find the man.
The citizens of Keene, in eastern
Weld county, are digging the first ar
tesian well in that region. There ajtfL
two reasons for putting down the wejfcp.
one, that it is possible to strike a floV
of artesian water to be used for do
mestic purposes, and also to uncover
a coal vein which is said to underly
the town. It is understood that the
Burlington railroad is interested in the
project and if coal is found, even of a
cheap grade, will mine it for its own
use.
Like a white elephant on their hands
is a barrel of bottled beer in the pos
session of the town officers at Ault.
They arrested Jud Cathy alleged owner
iof the goods, charging that he was vio
lating the ordinances by selling liquor,
and holding the beer as evidence.
Cathy escaped from jail and thte po*'
essors of the beer are now wondWing .a
Just how far their power of cont»s ca Jr
tion goes. All the town officers \ »r
--,strict temperance men, will not a
the beer in their homes and have .
ious objections to storing it in the t
• ball.
Cold Storage Plant.
Pueblo.—Pueblo is to have the db
jtinction of numbering among its enter
prises a mammoth cold storage plant,
which will easily rank ns the largest of
its kind in the entire W’est. Clements
land associates have practically com
pleted negotiations whereby they will
erect a plant to cost more than $500,-
000 in the business part of the city,.
I and which will be bounded on two
'sides by the Grande tracks.
With the C(. 1 storage plant vill be
j Installed a system of street ferrigera
ition, an innovation enjoyed only by
( Kansas City, St. Louis and other towns
,of their size. The system will be in
stalled only in the business section. Mi
will be used in large Ice-boxes or w
inny place where a refrigerator is used
j /on a large scale.