THE NEW ERA
WALDEN, - - - - COLORADO.
The Mikado as a Poet.
Great us is the position won for
himself by Mutsu ill to in the litera
ture of his country, it must be
avowed that his poetry, from the
point of view of the west, is second
rate, says Current Literature. In the
original it is comparable only, affirm
native critics, with perfume from the
trees. A striking feature of what
Dr. James A. B. Scherer —high author
ity on the subject—terms these Lilli
putian odes is, he thinks, their “ellip
tical terseness of style.’’ Hence, Mutsu
Hito's poetry lacks quantity, accent,
tone, rhyme, and all the incidents to
prosody. His majesty’s stanzas are
made up of five and seven syllable
lines alternating, unless some patri
otic frenzy agitates his muse. His
genius is grave in the ode, gay in the
stanza, enabling him to perform with
out adventitious aid all the functions
of the court poet. Thus, when a lady
in the diplomatic circle was returning
to her native land, and received in
consequence the unprecedented honor
of a visit from the empress, a royal
stanza embellished the parting. "The
gray goose," ran the verse, "is flying
westward." The departing lady’s
white hair was symbolized by that
bird to which Japanese artists are so
partial, the goose itself being em
blematic in the native poetical mind
of feminine loveliness in its most rav
ishing aspects. The Japanese pretti
ness of the thing is quite sacrificed in
our rugged phraseology. Mutsu Ilito’s
poetical fame is, therefore, strictly na
tional.
Coeducation.
All institutions which have been es
tablished by the state for higher edu
cation should provide for the educa
tion of both men and women, and it is
a decided gain to have this work done
by one institution rather than by two
t—and there is no serious objection to*
the education of men and women in
the same institution that has been es
tablished for both, says Cyrus Nor
thrup, president of the University of
Minnesota, in Collier’s. The boys and
girls grow up together in the same
family; they go together to the same
graded school; they go together to the
lame high school; they go together to
the university, and coeducation in
university does not seem to any of
them any more strange or unnatural
than coeducation in the lower schools
has seemed strange. So far as the in
fluence of the men upon the women,
or the women upon the men, is con
cerned, I am quite certain that the
result in general is good. The men
are made more gentlemanly, and the
women, while having all the frankness
and freedom of the home life and the
school life, never lose the refinement
which belongs to them as women. I
have no sympathy whatever with the
—what shalM call it? —sentimentality
which seeks to segregate the women
and shut them In by themselves in
the walk of education.
Earthquake shocks were felt in four
continents in the six days between
April 14 and 19. They began with de
structive shocks in Mexico by which
three towns were ruined. Then Spain,
Russian Transcaucasia and Constanti
nople felt the tremors, and there were
•hocks at Manila and Charleston, and
volcanic eruptions accompanied b>
earthquakes manifested themselve# in
Chile. It is interesting to note, says
Youth’s Companion, that these shocks,
with the exception of the one at
Charleston, occurred in the recognized
earthquake belts, one of which encir
cles the Pacific ocean, and the other
goes about the earth byway of Mexi
co, the West Indies, Spain, Italy, the
Caucasus, northern India, the Philip
pines and the Pacific islands.
So many school children have been
found with defective eyesight that the
school committees of several cities
have considered furnishing eyeglasses
free. It Is a question how far govern
ment should go In supplying citizens
with the necessary things of life.
Most American parents will prefer to
ipay the oculist. In many cities are
free dispensaries where poor children
caa be treated and receive free pre
scriptions for glasses. Parents should
warned against incompetent ocu
lists who take advantage of the re
ports of the boards of education on
the matter of eyesight In the schools,
and try to get business for themselves
by exaggerated warnings to the "par
tents of school children threatened
with blindness."
'“Psychic epilepsy" has succeeded
drain storm as a medical term. A New
York physician has just been cleared
of the charge of brutally assaulting a
nan and woman on the street on the
plea that he had been subject to at
tacks of psychic epilepsy from child
fhood, and that on recovery he had no
knowledge of what had occurred. Just
{how the ailment differs from ordinary
'epilepsy is not made clear, but it will
endoubtedly prove to be a convenient
malady in criminal procedure
Problem of Child Labor
and Industrial Eduration
By OWEN R, LOVEJOY.
11EMATTOE labor robs the child of the years and opportunity
for education. He enters industry too young-to undertake the
more intricate and rewarding farms of labor. In default of
anything in modern industry which can be dignified by the
term “apprenticeship,” he is kept for several years upon some
simple task, which frequently calls into requisition but a few
muscles and oilers no technical development. A report recently
published in Massachusetts shows that the child who begins
work at 12 or 14 years of age as compared with one who re-
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mains in school until 16 is permanently handicapped in the
pursuit of a livelihood.
The man employed at labor which barely sustains life is the least able
to offer his children those educational advantages contemplated in every
well-organized community. Frequently the limitations of his own child
hood have rendered him incapable of appreciating those opportunities and
his very honesty and desire for economic independence lead him to thrust
his children into industry at the earliest possible moment. This we find
notably true among some of the foreign races that are settling in larg3
numbers in our industrial centers.
The general attitude of a community toward education is directly
affected by the presence of its children in industry. Where the largest per
centage of young children is employed the least concern among the people
is the adjustment or maintenance of educational institutions.
Obviously a vast majority of our children are destined to earn their
living in some form of what society most needs —productive manual labor.
In aiming directly to serve the majority of its patrons rather than bending
its chief energy in an attempt to pick out of 100 children the one child who
may become a college president or a captain of industry our schools will
add immeasurably to the wealth and joy of the majority, at the same
time rendering higher service to the one future genius who is believed to
lurk in every schoolroom. Many of our children, are taught the lore of
ancient Greece and Home and the chivalry of the middle ages, and the
physical geography of the continents, but as to the dominant industries in
their own community, and why they are dominant, and whether there
would be an advantage in making a change, how much are they taught of
this? The dominant industry in many a town simply engulfs generation
after generation of the people, principally because they are unaware that
* there is any other way to maintain life than by offering themselves up to
the mill.
Our progress involves, on the one hand, such restrictive laws as shall
entirely prohibit the little child from the fields of industry and bring him
within the range of the school, and on the other hand, an educational pro
gramme which will afford such occupation and relaxation that the child
will not leave school willingly—an education which prepares the child for
self-supporting industry, an education which the parent will recognize as
preparation for higher wage earning, and which will inspire him with suf
ficient patience to forego the pittance of to-day for the higher rewards of
to-morrow. This programme will be opposed by the taxpayer, and, inccd,
1 by the very people whose benefit from such a reform is greatest, but if
virtue, intelligence and industrial efficiency constitutes the foundation of a
democracy, we muse be willing to pay the price.
The Traveling Public
By W. J. LAMPTON.
eling public a subspecies of mankind. Of the real traveler 1 am not talk
ing here. Up knows his business and is as much at home ou the road as
■ he ia under his own vine and fig tree. The traveling public is different,
i About this time of every year, though it prevails to some extent during all
■ seasons, it begins to fill the vacancies in all manner of transportation
1 facilities and is in evidence in all hotels and about every object of siglit
’ seeing interest.
Probably only a day or two or a week is as much as it can spare, but it
makes that count for all it is worth. With a supreme confidence in itself,
it breaks out into the open and spends all its hard-earned savings just as
quickly as it can, but with an everlasting struggle net to give up a cent
unless it has got its money’s worth. It looks upon the wide, wide world,
; outside of its own little circle, as an organized band of skins, and it bucks
i into them without great fear, but with great doubt. Everything is new to
■ it, everything is strange, everything is different, everything is delightful.
Everything is fresh, and it is not less so. It makes a bluff of its hoine
( made confidence and meets anything along the route with a bravado that ia
. amusing when it is not insolent or pitiful. It talks loud and laughs loud.
But the traveling public gets more fun out of life than any other
human or subhuman organism. It has worked hard, and this is rest; it
1 has been cooped up in the narrows, and this is illimitable space; it has
| been slave, and this is freedom; it has lived on hay, and this is fruit; it hiis
, looked daily on the old, and this is new; it has saved money, and this is
. spending it; it has been at home for so long, and this is getting away to
i have a good time.
Why One Woman
Wants to Vote
By LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE.
President New York City Mothers' Club.
women, wouldn’t you? I do not see how any seU-respccting woman can
l help but rebel against 6ueh injustice. It is intolerable to me that women
■ who have to bear so much of the burden of life should be downtrodden by
I men instead of helped.
• Since childhood my motto has been, “I will live to redress the wrongs
1 of my sex.” I have seen many wrongs righted, but until women are voters
they will never have the weapon for protecting themselves. Of course, if
, men were all perfect beings, it might not be necessary, but we are not
. living in the millennium, and men would be the last to pretend that we
art.
In the four states where women do vote they are better protectad fXBt
the brutality and greed of men than anywhere else.
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The human race is di
vided into those who
travel and those who do
not, and a further divi
sion of the former branch
gives us real travelers
and the traveling public,
thus making of the trav-
I wish to vote because I
am neither a criminal, a
pauper nor an idiot, and
until men give me the
ballot I am ranked with
these obnoxious classes of
society. You would think
that chivalry alone would
make men hasten to re
move this stigma from
FARMERS’ RIGHTS
PRAIRIE LANDS IN COLORADO
ARE OPEN TO ENTRY.
RAINFALLDOESN’TINTERFERE
Receiver and Register of the Land Of
fice Make Important Ruling in
Title Contest Case.
Denver. —Prairie lands are not ex
empt from entry under the desert act,
according to a decision rendered by
Register C. D. Ford and Receiver
Hugh Taylor of the Denver land office.
The fact that dry farming and the
heavy rainfall of the last two years
has mado It possible to raise crops on
the prairie is not to be allowed to af
fect the validity of titles to arid lands.
This decision was rendered In the
case of Jesse M. Acree against Mrs.
Nannie M. Jackson, a contest which
threatened to affect the titles to thou
sands of acres of land In Colorado tak
en up under the desert act. It was
the first of its kind filed in this state,
and the opinion handed down yester
day will relieve the suspense of many
land owners all over the West.
"The land in question is situated
near the base of the Rocky mountains
at an elevation of almost one mile
and about twenty-five miles northeast
of Denver. It forms a part of that ex
tensive prairie region commonly
known as the ‘Great Plains,’ upon
which, particularly in the state of
Colorado, hundreds of desert entries
have been made and vast sums ex
pended in the construction of various
systems of Irrigation, and it is difficult
lo believe that such sums would have
been expended if agriculture could
have been depended upon as even
fairly successful without irrigation,"
says the United States land officials
in their decision.
“The said land and the city of Den
ver appear to be similarly situated
and it is to be presumed that there
would be but little difference in the
mean annual rainfall of the two
places."
Jesse M. Acree, the contestant, is
a farmer near Barr, Colorado. He
started to cultivate the land in ques
tion early in 1905, without filing on
it. He did so to experiment and find
out whether it was good, fertile soil.
When he had done so for two years
and determined that it was worth tak
ing up, Mrs. Jackson jumped in and
beat him to the land office, recording
her entry under the desert act August
14, 190 G. Then Acree filed his contest,
claiming that the entry was fraudu
lent, inasmuch as he had shown that
the tract was not desert land, as he
had cultivated It, consequently not
subject to entry under the desert act.
He alleged “that said land will with
out artificial irrigation produce an
agricultural crop in amount to make
the cultivation reasonably remunera
tive."''
The decision says further:
"It appears that the tract in con
troversy is high, rolling prairie land,
covered with a natural growth of buf
falo grass and other grasses, and some
cactus; that in the year 1905 the con
testant plowed and fenced about fif
teen acres of said land and planted
the same to corn, pumpkins and mel
ons, from which was harvested about
thirty bushels of car corn per acre
and a fair showing of pumpkins and
melons at a net profit of about $9 per
acre; that in the following year there
was an estimated net profit of about
sl2 per acre and that the ground so
planted was not cultivated either year.
"Section 2 of the desert land act de
fines that all lands exclusive of min
eral and timber lands, which will not
without irrigation produce some agri
cultural crop, shall be deemed desert
lands within the meaning of this act.
"In the interpretation of said sec
tion 2 In the case of Babcock vs. Wat
son et al.. the department held: ‘lt
it not necessary, however, that the
lands without irrigation should be so
sterile and barren that they will not
produce at all.’"
The decision then quotes the rain
fall statistics for the region for the
years from 1890 to 1904, and then for
the years 1905 and 190 G, showing that
in the latter two years it was much
above the average. From this fact
It is deduced that extraordinary pre
cipitation Is accountable for the fact
that Acree raised crops so profitably
on the land.
"Even granting that crops of the
value and character claimed were
raised upon the land, we are of the
opinion that such fact is not sufficient
to show conclusively that it will with
out irrigation in an average year, or
one year with another for a series of
years, make a fair return to the ordi
narily skillful husbandman for the
seed and toil expended in endeavor
ing to secure a crop; and, further
more, it is shown by the report of the
United States weather bureau, as
above set forth, that the years of 1905
and 1906 were above the average as
to annual rainfall and that the mean
annual rainfall for this section of
country covering a number of years
falls far short of the limit recognized
by the department at which successful
agriculture without Irrigation may be
carried on.
"We are also of the opinion that the
allegation of fraud has not been sus
tained. We accordingly have to rec
ommend that the said contest be dis
missed and that the said entry of Nan
nie M. Jackson be allowed to remain
intact."
Thirty days are allowed within
which appeal may be taken to the
commissioner of the general land of
fice. Acree has declared his intention
of fighting the case to the limit, so
it probably will be taken to Washing
ton.
Leaves Fortune to Nurse.
Glenwood Springs, Colo. —Franl
Burcham, sixty-six years old, died here
of paralysis. He was one of the first
settlers in Glenwood Springs and was
engaged in the stone mason business.
He was worth about $50,000, all of
which he bequeathed to Miss Tillie
Englebrecht, a professional nurse, who
has taken care of him during the past
year, during which he has been help
less.
Generous Mr. Kraft. I
•*Mr. Kraft, the merchant,” said the |
eollege president, "has offered to do
nate $5,000 for a new building to be
known as ‘Kraft hall.’ " 1
"But," Bald the dean of the facul
ty. $"55,000 won’t pay for the build
ing wo want.”
"Oh! no. You see, Mr. Kraft’s gen- l
erous offer Is contingent upon our se
curing donations of SIO,OOO each from
ten c?!ier public-spirited citizens." —
Philadelphia Press.
LIFE INSURANCE ACTIVITY.
The New York Life’* Business Nearly
Up to the Legal Limit.
Tho New York Life Insurance Com
pany announces that its new paid ,
business during tho half year just end
ed was over seventy million dollars.
As the new law allows no life com
pany to write over one hundred and
fifty millions per year, It would ap
pear that this company is working
nearly up to the limit. The New
York Life gained such headway be
fore the law was passed and suffered
»o little, comparatively, from theArm
itrong investigation, that the question
with Its management has been how to
keep business down to the limit, rath
er than how to . reach it. No other
company is writing nearly as much
as the law allows. The New York
Life has evidently become a pre
ferred company.
The company’s payments lo policy
holders during the six months end
ing June 30 were $21,660,761. It is
Interesting to note that this amount
was almost equally divided between
payments under policies maturing by
death and payments made to living
policy holders. Thus, while death
claims were $11,180,626, the amount
paid for matured endowments, annu
ities, trust fund installments, for pur
chased policies and for dividends was
Modern life insurance, as
practiced by the best companies, em
braces a wide field, and covers many
contingencies. It is money saved for
the aged, as well as money provided
Tor the families of those who die pre
maturely.
Courtesy at Home.
We are all creatures of habit,
men and women alike, and the uablts
ind surroundings of daily life have a
powerful influence on the character of
both. The root of all bad manners Is
lelflshness; when *elf ever Is first, fore
most consideration for others always
lags much in the rear, and drops so
far behind in time that It disappears
Altogether. "One cannot keep up the
ceremony and etiquette of society
when at home." True, for between
friends these can be laid aside. They
merely are the rivets that keep so
slety together, but not courtesy and
consideration. The latter ought to
be so much the habit with each of us
that it will become our second nature,
And therefore can be no more laid
ABlde than can an arm or a leg.
Modesty of True Greatness.
Abou Ben Adhem had just found
•ut that hia name led all the resL
“Still," he eteserved, with a modesty
as rare as it was charming, "the sea
son Is young yet. I’ve made a few
lucky hits, it’s true, but Just as likely
as not I shall be at the bottom of the
percentage column In batting before
the season ends.” Smilingly accept
ing the bouquet of cut flowers sent to
him by an admirer in tho grandstand,
be steepped up to the plate, struck
out, dodged a lemon thrown at him
by a disgusted bleacherite, and went
And took his Beat on the bench.
Unkind Advice.
1 Two Irishmen were eating theii
lunch, when one asked the other:
‘Pat, an’what be you thinking about?"
Pat replied: "Shure, Mike, I was a
thinking how I would b« getting me
slothes over me wings when I would
gtt to heaven.”
"You would better be thinking how
rou would be getting your hat over
pour horns when you get to the other
place,” answered Mike. —Ally Sloper.
MEAT OR CEREALS.
A Question of Interest to All Care
ful Persons.
Arguments on food are interesting.
Many persons adopt a vegetarian diet
on the ground that they do not like to
feel that life has been taken to feed
them, nor do they fancy the thought
of eating dead meat.
On the other hand, too great con
sumption of partly cooked, starchy
oats and wheat or white bread, pastry,
etc., produces serious bowel troubles,
because the bowel digestive organs
(where starch Is digested), are over
taxed and the food ferments, produc
ing gas, and microbes generate In the
decayed food, frequently bringing on
peritonitis and appendicitis.
Starchy food Is absolutely essential
to the human body. Its best form Is
shown in the food "Grape-Nuts,” where
the starch Is changed into a form of
sugar during the process of its manu
facture. In this way, the required
food is presented to the system in a
pre-digested form and is immediately
made into blood and tissue, without
taxing the digestive organs.
A remarkable result In nourishment
Is obtained; the person using Grape-
Nuts gains quickly in physical and
mental strength. Why in mental?
Because the food contains delicate
particles of Phosphate of Potash ob
tained from the grains, and this unites
with the albumen of all food and the
combination is what nature uses to re
build worn out cells in the brain.
This Is a scientific tiot that can be
easily proven by ten day’s use of
Grape-Nuts. "There’s a Reason"
Read, "The Roal to WelYrlUe,’’ la
Phgs.
COLORADO DAY
SONS OF THE GLORIOUS WEST
HEADED TOWARD DENVER.
AUGUST 1 IS THE DATE
Twenty-five Sections In Big Parade
and Street Decorations Will
Cost Thousands.
Preparations have been completed
for the observation of Colorado Day,
and Denver promises one of the big
gest and grandest celebrations August
1 that has ever taken place In the
state. Through the efforts of the Sons
of Colorado, who have the celebration
in charge, the state, county and city
will participate, as well as the mer
chants of Denver, the Gentlemen's
Riding & Driving Club, the pioneers,
veterans and volunteer firemen and
other local clubs and organizations,
while representatives will be present
from many other states, Including New
York and Pennsylvania.
The city will put on gala attire,™d,
according to the report of the commit
tee on decorations made to the Sons
of Colorado, the principal streets will
be draped from one end to tho other
with hunting, flags and patriotic em
blems. The only thing lacking to
make the celebration the big success
hoped for is the unanimous consent
of the merchants of Denver to close
on that day. Governor Buchtel will
Issue a proclamation declaring It a le
gal holiday, but some of the trades
men are loth to close their doors.
Five thousand invitations have been
issued by Governor Buchtel through
the Ch.imber of Commerce to various
officials throughout Colorado and
neighboring states to participate in the 1
celebration. The invitations reads:
"You f.ie cordially invited to Den
ver on August 1, 1907, to assist the
Sons of Colorado in Inaugurating the
new state holiday, Colorado Day, and
thus encourage the development of :t
patriotic pride in our state. The com
mittee on arrangements will spare no
pains or expense in making the cele
bration vor thy of the occasion, and
your jie s tnce and co-operation is
earnestly desired."
There lias already been spent and
contracted for $3,500 to make the cele
bration a success, but it is predicted
that this will be nearly doubled before
the Sons of Colorado are through. Sev
eral hundred dollars are to be given
in prizes for competitive sports at
City park, and the fireworks display
In the park at night will cost $1,200. A
special feature of this part of the
bration will be twelve floats o|Abe
lake brilliantly illuminated,
entire lake will be encircled with in
candescent lamps.
Parade Is Big Event.
The big event will be the parade, the
principal feature of which will be the
evolution of transportation and life in
the West portrayed by the pioneers. J.
B. Shreve, president of the pioneers,
has promised the Sons the biggest dis
play of this kind that the West has
seen since the days of the real pioneer
life. They will have in line ox teams,
pony express riders, trappers and
wagon trains. The Gentlemen’s Rid
ing and Driving Club will also make a
Btrong showing in the parade, promis
ing a turn-out three-quarters of a mile .
long. Hhcrc are 250 members in tho
club and every one will be in line.
There will also be 300 automobiles
in the parade and six bands, with a to
tal of 200 pieces, a mandolin club of
seventy-five pieces, a chorus of 250 I
voices on an electric float and a
preachers’ quartet.
The parade will start at 10 o’clock
In the morning from Fourteenth street i
and Court place, and will march to Six
teenth street, to Lawrence, to Eigh- ,
teenth, to Arapahoe, to Seventeenth, to (
Broadway and capitol building. Col. j
J. H. Brown will act as grand marshal
of the parade, and will be assisted by ;
T. P. Boutwell as chief of staff.
The parade will start with the first. ;
of thirty-one guns to be fired by the f
national guard at three-minute inter- •
vals. The order of march will be:
Platoon of police, Colorado F£rs‘
Regiment Band, grand marshalMW'l !
aides, Hudson bay trappers and V'l' !
animals, pioneers in prairie schooners,
pony express, William Cates, Concord ;
coaches, line team, by J. A. Osner;
Lohman’s band, the state, county and
city officials; the Sons of Colorado.
New York, Ohio and other societies; ‘
Spanish Veteran Drum Corps, visiting
officials, members of Colorado First g
regiment and members of first const i- •
tutional committee; Satriano’s band, j
Gentlemen’s Riding and Driving Club,
band, Golden and Central City volun
teer firemen hook and ladder teams,
State Veteran Volunteer Firemen’s
Association. Chief Owens and assist
ants, Denver city fire department, first
division; Sach’s band, Denver city fire
department, second division; Young
Ladies Brass Band and sixteen male
singers on electric float, Colorado Au
tomobile Club and all other auto club •
or individual machines. Interspersed
will be the mandolin club of seventy
five pieces, two quartets and the elec
trophone.
Lieutenant Governor Speaks.
Following the parade, the celebration
will be continued in City park with a
basket picnic, addresses and music.
Neither Governor Buchtel nor Mayor
Speer will be able to be present. Lieu
tenant Governor Harper will speak on
behalf of the commonwealth and A
Spengle, president, ol the Board of Su-lB
pervisors, will speak for the municipal- j®
ity. Robert Bonynge will represent®
New York and F. C. Goudy of the Sons®
of California will make an address on®
behalf of the Pacific coast state.
In honor of the event the Gentle-*
men’s Riding and Driving Club will*
hold Its annual field day in the after ®
noon In City park. A number of races*
have been scheduled, the dJj
events being a free-for-all for pacers®
and a free-for-all for trotters for two®
challenge cups. * 9 9 y K