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THE NEW ERA
Published by THE NEW ERA PRINT
ING and PUBLISHING CO.
VICTOR L. RILEY,
Managing Editor.
A Republican newspaper devoted to the
'nterosts of Walden and the North Park.
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PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY.
Entered as second-class matter March
9, 190(5. at the post oflice at Walden, Col
orado, under Act of Congress of March
3. 1870.
Here shall tho Press the cause of
Truth maintain, unawed l»y Influence
and uubribed by Gain.
Every contortion in financial circles
carries its own burden of blessings after
all. A panic has the moral effect of
putting tho loafers to work and in this
way the whole labor wheel is revolved
so that an employer can get a little work
done on the side. Prosperity feeds too
loafers and encourages idleness even to
criminality. —Field and Farm.
We hojje, and there is every reason to ,
believe, that before 1908 is ushered in j
the banks of this country will all resume
currency payments atul most people will
have forgotten that there has been any
stringency in money matters. The east
ern financial skies are already bright
eniug with restored and restoring confi
donee and tho announcement} may be
made any day now that the clouds of
doubt have rolled away revealing the
sun of prosperity in all its glory.
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Silver coins to the value of something
like $50,000 a day will be turned out at
tho Deliver mint after December Ist
At that date the coining of gold, which
has been done on an extraordinary
large scale for the past two months, will
be discontinued. For several mouths
the full capacity of the mint will he em
ployed in the coining of silver half dol
lars and quarters which are to be ship
ped east, principally.
Between October 1, and November 30
the total amount of gold coined at the
Denver mint will aggregate something
pke $15,000,000. The mint has been
running to its full capacity on gold
coins, and has coined practically no sil
ver.
The full capacity of the mint in coin
ing half dollars is about 100,000 pieces,
or $50,000 per day.
SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY.
Most excuses are lies.
It Is said that every thin woman
who complains about fat women lac
.ng wears pads.
Some people say that working down
town does a girl more good than a
term at an eastern school.
When two women kiss it doesn't
mean any more than the word “dear”
at the beginning of a letter.
“The men,” every woman says, who
has been married any length of time,
“don’t have to know everything.”
Some people look so far ahead into
the possibilities of the future that it
is no wonder they forget the past.
When things go wrong at home,
what an afTection the average man
develops for his business and his of
fice!
Crazy people are smarter than is
generally believed. Who ever heard j
of an old crazy man having a delusion
to the effect that he was young?
A mother has to call a boy five
times in the morning before she has
expressed as much as his father ex
presses when he calls him once. —
Atchison Globe.
LITTLE GRAINS OF FACT.
A bee can outfiy a pigeon.
Paris eats 37,000 horses every year.
%
One million blossoms are drained to
make one pound of honey.
Some one has computed that the av
erage woman carries fifty miles of
hair on her head.
John Bull figures out that his coun
try has been successful in 82 per cent
of the battles in which it has engaged.
An average of SOO persons arc killed
In "the United States c ach year by
lightning. This means one in every
100,000.
No Arctic explorers have ever had
colds until they returned to civiliza
tion. Then, one and all, they are pros
trated by severe influenza.
Statistics show that, though fair
haired people are ns a rule less strong
than those who have dark hair, yet
the former live longer than the latter.
For your Harness and Shoo Rei>airing !
work go to Thos. B. Cochrane, whore all
work is fully guaranteed. Leather and i
new harness repairs of any kind are to
he found here. Second hand tools also
to he had both in carpeuter and black
smith lines. Anyone wanting new har
ness come and get prices. Rubber boot s
mended* Whenin town come in and see
us, at the Daugherty Building.
Thos. R. Cochrane.
ALFRED H. LAW
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law
Notary Public.
Full lino of Legal Blanks,lnclud
ing all Land Office, Conveyanc
ing. and Business Transactions.
I do Su/beying and Prepare Maps,
Plats and Filings of all Kinds.
Telechone Number: \ Residence & Office,
, Walden 28
WALTER L. SNAIR, M. D.
PHYSICIAN and
SURGEON, j* jt
Waldon, Colorado
W. 0. MOSMAN,
U. S. COMMISSIONER.
TiT'R E DAYS: Monday and Saturday
of each week.
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‘.DANS - REAL ESTATE
Walden, Colorado.
P. W. FISCHER, M. D.
PHYSICIAN and
SURGEON. c*
Walden Colorado, j
Harry Green of the Hardy ranch was
in town Saturday and Sunday. Mr.
Green was a witness for Win. Dawson
on his desert laud claim.
ALL SORTS.
Philosophy In trouble Is what Is so
nice to advise for other people.
Although the czar’s yacht stuck fast
after it ran aground, there was no
hurry call for willing and able dyna
miters to raise it
The real victims of nature faking,
the animals themselves, do not appear
to care a rap about the matter, one
way or the other.
That your husband will admire your
prowess In making a good cake as
much as your deftness in dressing
your hair in the latest fashion?
Flirting has been made a misde
meanor in a South Dakota town. The
state appears to be really trying to
reduce the divorce evil.
New Zealand insists on being called
a dominion and not a colony. The :
pride of social distinction exists
among nations as well as among Indi
viduals.
A team of polar bears is to be tried
by a Swedish explorer as a means of
reaching the north pole. When pro
visions run short there is likely to be
an interesting argument as to whether
the explorer shall eat the bears or the
bears shall eat the explorer.
PERSONAL.
Lord Walsingham’s collection of
moths and butterflies is said to be the
finest in the world.
Richard Robbins of Boston has
started a movement to mark the birth
place of Benjamin Franklin.
Every Christmas Lord Rothschild
gives a brace of pheasants to every
omnibus driver and conductor in Lon
don.
The kaiser when out shooting some
times leads a severely simple life. He
has a shooting lodge near Syittkehs
men made of plain boards covered
with bark and hidden away in the
woods.
Prince Rechad, heir to the Turkish
throne, has been the victim of a sys
tem of tyranny of which history of
fers but few instances. For 30 years
he has been virtually a prisoner in his
own palace.
FLASH LIGHTS.
There’s one thing about the snorer.
He can always get to sieep on a sleep
ing car.
An Italian poet recently won $lO,-
000 in a lottery, proof that nil poets
don’t starve to death.
The trouble is that people who get
married on the sly don't do their
quarreling the same way afterwards.
It won’t be long now before we
shall be reading accounts of the un
timely death of the man who “looked
like a deer ”
VIVIAN’S
AWAKENING
By EDGAR FAWCETT
(Copyright, by-Joseph B. Bowles.)
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His family were what one could
safely call very plain people. They
lived in a little house, rather far to
the westward, and in a street that
cut through the heart of Harlem. His
father had married rather late in
life, and his mother likewise; so that
now, when their youngest child, Viv
ian, was a full-fledged young man, they
both had the air and look of elderly
persons.
But to glance at their beloved Viv
ian, always gave them a gladsome and
youthful thrill. Mr. Firth was one of
thoso many mortals who strive stur
dily yet end by partial failure. Now
past 60, he was still a clerk. But his
employers, who were prosperous and
prominent New York bankers, trusted
him implicitly, and gave him a salary
about half as large as his keen and
shrewd services deserved. Still, they
had blandly promised Firth that “some
day” they would “make an opening”
for liis son, and this airy sort of agree
ment had filled their listener with
hopeful cheer.
“Only,” one of them had said, “it
seems a little —eV extravagant,
doesn’t It, for you to send him to col
lege like this for four years?"
Firth thought it "extravagant," too,
but he rejoiced in his power to be
stow on the dear boy collegiate train
ing. Afterward there would be the
"position" at Bainbridge Brothers.
Vivian had two elder sisters, Ann
and Jane, very nearly of an age, who
worshiped him.
And Vivian? lie took their homage
quite for granted, as he did that of
his parents. He had, indeed, al
ways taken for granted all the fam
ily afTection showered upon him. He
was amiable to his relatives, but pas
sively so. The smoke of their incense
kept constantly ascending to his nos
trils. and he sniffed it with the sweet
est of smiles. But he sniffed it quite
as a matter of course.
At a convivial meeting of Lis fel
low-classmates, during Ills sophomore
year, Vivian sang a song—one of the
pretty, current ballads of the day.
“By Jove," said Stuyvesant Har
rowe, clapping him cordially on the
shoulder, when the song was ended,
"you can sing about as well as you
can play football, and that's putting
It rather strong, considering how you
helped our side of the game out last
Saturday.’’
Vivian blushed a little and his
brown eyes sparkled. Stuyvesant liar
rowe was one of the aristocrats of the
college, petted and flattered for his
parents’ wealth and place—and per
haps for popular personal reasons as
well.
Till then Vivian had been a nobody
at college. But soon, as the chosen
"chum" of llarrowe, he became a
member of the most select secret fra
ternity and counted Ills friends by
the dozens. Harrowe presented him
to his family, who beamed on him
with great politeness. Ethel Har
rowe was Stuyvcsant's only grown-up
sister, a tall, blonde girl, with light
azure eyes.
Ethel Harrowe was very gracious to
him. and bade her parents, who lov
ingly obeyed her least caprice, regard
him as a genius of song. He became,
as it were, the girl’s protege.
By dint of straining and pinching in
certain household ways, and of an in
dividual self-denial practiced with fur
tive gladness by each of his idolizing
relatives, Vivian was enabled to be
gin lessons under the same teacher
who had lured the silvery do-re-mi-fas
from Ethel I-larrowe’s blooming Ups.
Signor Boldini now taught him free
of charge. He had made friends with
the Italian, as he made friends with
nearly everybody with whom he came
in contact. Meanwhile the professor
had grown privately yet sadly amused
by his pupil’s enormous self-reliance.
“I somehow suspect, Signor Bol
din!." said Ethel to him one day,
"that you have now no real belief in
Vivian Firth’s voice."
"You must not even fancy it!" was
the first shocked response.
But soon, by adroit questionings,
Ethel drew from her teacher this con
fession:
“It has disappointed me. He sings
with admirable style; he has acquired
a delightful grace and finish. But,
frankly. 1 can teach him nothing more.
It would be like overloading with em
broidery some flimsy fabric, liis voice
is all charm and sweetness and capti
vation. But it has no depth, no vol
ume. I see now what I totally missed
seeing before. He can sing for the
drawing room only."
"And with such charm!" sighed
Ethel. Then, in accents of reminding
earnestness she pursued: "But he has
made up his mind to sing in public.”
“1 know —I know. At Steinway hall.
I shall be there; three or four of our
best musical artists will lend him
their aid. His legion of admirers will
purchase scats. He will make two
thousand dollars, very likely. But ah,
Miss Ethel —afterward!"
“You prophesy failure, then?”
"Wait and see.”
A few weeks later the concert oc
curred. Steinway hall was packed
with aji the patricians and plutocrats,
all the grandees and potentates.
Never was failure more absolute.
Even poor Ann and Jane felt It and
vlutched one another's hands. His
mother turned white and gnawed her
lips. To everybody the disilluslhn
was terrible. The plaudits, when he
rushed up the street, only saying as
they reached her home:
"If a good chance to go to Washing
ton offers itself, please do not accept.
I am anxious to win that wager. It
may be selfish, but men are proverbial
ly so, you know.”
Not a word said she, but Tom
smiled all the way up the street.
Bessie was receiving a fair salary as
typewriter in a New York office. She
had no parents, and her few relatives
were in moderate circumstances
only. The luxury of this trip was not
to be considered, even If her employ
ers would give her the three days. For
out of her salary came board and other
expenses, both for herself and a
younger sister, who was preparing to
teach for her own support. This left
nothing for jolly trips to the capital
and the like.
Tom went his way in quite a self
congratulatory mood. In one short
and unexpected moment he had made
a sudden spring toward the ambition
of his life. He knew that Bess’ word
was as good as gold—that she would
“play fair.” His only fear was that no
opportunity would come to her, and he
began to rack his brains for some way
in which he might catch my Lady Dis
dainful.
Then one evening Tom called on
her.
"Do you still want to go to Wash
ington?” were his first words.
"Certainly. Why?”
"Because I know of a chance for
you. Miss this train and I will tell you
while we walk. Will you?”
"Yes, it is still early.”
"To be as brief as possible: At the
office they are in a great flurry. Tracy.
“But There Is Your Word for It!"
their main dependence, is laid up for
some time to come, and an important
piece of business which he was to see
to will have to go to the wall unless
Borne one can take his place. So they
are going to send me.”
“What has that to do —”
“The business is at Washington, and
I am to go next week."
"Well!” Bess’ face began to flush,
but she would not see. Tom contin
ued rapidly:
"The business will take a day or
two, if not three. They pay all ex
penses of course, which will not be
small. Except that they will make a
big bile of money by the transaction,
the trip would be very expensive. So,
when I suggested the excursion at re
duced rates which goes from N
next week as being a great saving and
so forth, and so forth, they were so
pleased at the interest your humble
servant displayed in their affairs, that
Rindell, Senior, said: ‘Well, my boy,
If you can make the trip at so low a
figure as that, take your mother or
sister along and get what enjoyment
you can out of it. You have worked
hard this year, and we know you will
do this job to our advantage.’ With
that the fine fellow made out a liberal
check, telling me not to be afraid of
It.”
Again Tom paused and looked at
Bess, but not a word said she.
"Well?” This time Tom said it.
“I am neither mother nor sister.”
"But you may be ‘wife.’ ”
"Suppose I do not care to be?"
"But there is your word for it! Mar
ry me —then your trip will be neither
a gift nor a loan, but your right, for
‘with all my worldly goods I thee en
dow,’ you know. Come, Bess,” and
Tom’s tone grew low’er, "I have waited
so long, and loved you so dearly. We
are poor and have no one to say ‘yea
or nay.’ We can be quietly married
on Monday—you to go immediately to
Jennie’s and enjoy your trip in your
own way. I will not Intrude upon you
at all. Maggie will soon be teaching—
until then I will gladly do for her
what you are now doing."
Of course Bess rebelled. She fought
hard to overcome each one of Tom’s
arguments, but in vain. She had
given her word, and finally she was
convinced that this was a bona fide
"chance," such as she had promised
to accept or lose her wager.
"So now," said Tom, when he saw
that she really was convinced that
this ofTer came under the conditions
of the wager, "if you will not marry
me and go to Washington, I win the
wager, and you will have to marry me
anyhow’. So you see I have you fast,
my darling." and Tom looked as
though he would like to hold her fast
In another way. had he dared.
"I never go back on my word," said
she, after a moment, "so I accept your
offer. That means my trip for me, and
the Joss of the wager for you;" then
an irresistible laugh broke from her.
“1 cannot help it —to think of how you
have gotten the best of me," and with
one of her sudden impulses, she
reached up and kissed him.
And he was satisfied.
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