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The Dolores star., 1906-12-21
A Pie. for whr.kers.

In the columns OF The Lady. an
English publication devoted to femi.
nine interests. there appears q most
ingenious and eloquent plea for re.
crudescence of whiskers. The men
OF to-day. says the fair author. lack
individuality and distinctiveness. .
Certainly. this growing fondness for
bald chins and toothbrush mustaches
is open to just criticism. True
enough, whiskers are unsanitary; but
is that an argument against them
Plug hats and low-cut vests are also
funsanitary-or. at least, unhygienic-
but who has presumed to decry them
lon that account? II man would dis
charge his whole duty to his fellow
men, he must be. willing to make sac
Erinces for beauty. And whiskers
whatever their hygienic shortcomings
hre obviously and undoubtedly beau
tiful. Even red whiskers have theil
place in art. Red hair, on the human
head, Is Irritating. incendiary. anar
chistic and belligerent, but when Il
sprouts from the physiognomy it lose:
these defects and takes on sort O.
calm gorgeousness. Hon. Charles
Evans Hughes has flaming red whis
kers. Hon. George Bernard Shaw. ha.
a set ranging In hue from deep yer
million to the delicate pink OF a sea
shell. Shaved clean, both of thes'
men would appear commonplace
with their whiskers they hold the ey'
Of the world.
The Dolores star., 1906-12-21
SUGAR BEET PAYMENTS.
Large Sums pisbursed by Greeley, Ea-
ton and Windsor Factories.

Greeley.-Saturday payment for the
November deliveries Of beets was
made by the Greeley. Eaton and Wind
sor sugar factories. The Greeley fac
tory paid $4,000; Eaton, $215,.
900: Windsor. $4,000; total, S6O4.-
900. The monthly payroll for
workmen at the three factories is
$4,000, and the expenses $50, 900.
which. added to the foregoing,
makes a total Of $739. 900 put into cir
culatlon by the three factories during
the last few days. The September de.
livery Of beets brought $1S5,000. and
October $311,000, which, with the
monthly payroll and expenses Of the
three factories, has made the three dis,
tricts richer by $1.500.000. 1t is quite
probable that the December delivery
will equal that of November, and 1t will
be February 1st before all beets are de,
lfvered, which will prolong the sugar
campaign into March. All beets are
dug in northern Colorado and there is
good prospect that practically all
will be used by the factories without
loss to the farmers from freezing or
thawing.
The Beet Growers Association of
the Greeley district met Saturday, with
$50 present, to consider making con.
tracts for growing beets for sugar fac.
tories next season. They united to a
man against siloing beets In the field
at $3.50 ton, as offered by the sugar
company, as they claim the extra so
cents does not pay for the shrinkage
In SLICED beets, to say nothing of the
extra expense of labor. The farmers
believe that If the factories wish to
have the beets sliced the work should
be done by the factories.
The growers also object to the
clause in the present contract which
requires a grower to wait until Octo-
ber goth to deliver unless ordered ear
lier. and desire the privilege OF deliv'
ering beets by October 18th. com
mittee was appointed to draft con
tract embodying the desires of the
growers and submit 1t TO the sugar
company.
Henry C. Watson resigned as pres
ident Of the association and Charles
Mason was elected in hit place.
The Dolores star., 1906-12-21

It is no new principle that DIR. Fere.
of the Bicetre hospital in Paris has
made known in q recent article on
Work and Repose," but it is not the
less worth repeating. He has made
many special experiments, and an.
nounces as their general result that
the supposed power of various alco.
holic and other stimulants to increase
physical and mental energy, and post
pone fatigue, or avoid the effects OF
fatigue, is illusory. There is only one
form of effective. recreative repose-
sleep: and sleep. in order to exercise
its proper power. must be natural
The sleep produced by narcotics is "a
toxic somnolence having the appear
ance only of real reparative sleep.
But sleep itself is a mystery concern
ing whose nature we possess merel,
q Hypothetical knowledge"
The Dolores star., 1906-12-21
MEXICO BUYS RAILROADS.
Partial Government Ownership to B.
Established.

City Of Mexico, Dec. 14.-The details
of the railway merger, in which this
Mexican government takes control ol
all the important lines in the republic
are not known.
By the terms of the contract the gov
ernment secures absolute control ol
the Mexican Central, the National, the
International, the Inter Oceanic and
the Hidalgo & Northeastern, all oi
which will be merged into one great
railroad system. The government also
comes into control of the Texas-Mexi.
can, a railroad at Laredo. Texas, which
Is owned by the National. The mile.
age of the system, will, with exten.
sions, which are rapidly nearing com
pletion, aggregate approximately TO-,
900 miles.
The Tehuantepec National and Vera
Cruz & Pacific. two other roads con
troiled by the government, will con
tinue to be operated as independent
companies.
A Mexican company, of which a ma
jority of the stock will be held by the
Mexican government will be organized
with Headquarters In this city. The
company will issue its securities in eX.
change for the securities outstand
ing Of the two companies. and the
new company will acquire all the phys
ical property and concessions held by
the old companies. 1t is contemplated
to create board of twenty-one direc
tors, to be divided into general board
which will reside in Mexico, and 10
cal board with headquarters in New
York. The board in Mexico will con
sist Of twelve members and the New
York board of nine.
The Dolores star., 1906-12-21
DOLORES STAR
PunaisAsd Weekly.
eharlsp Beer, Edstoe end Prop.
DOLORES, COLORADO.
Terms: 500 Per Year.
steam Engine Civilization.


! No stranger who has visited your
great American cities can fail to be
deeply Impressed with the swift and
enormous development of q new type
Of civilization. II that stranger knows
England well. he cannot help making
comparisons between the two coun-
tries. And taking a wide. impartial
view, think any candid observer
must be driven to the conclusion that
the American continent will develop
not only at a very different rate OF
speed from England. but also very
largely In widely different directions.
What does this mean? 1t means. says
Henry Arthur Jones. In Atlantic. that
either the older nation will drop be-
hind on different track. or that the
younger and more impetuous nation
will drag the older nation headlong
with 1t. On our side we hear plaintive
bleatings about the Americanization
of our institutions. Englishmen must
eympathize with these bleatings. must
sometimes bleat. At the same time,
we cannot help watching this fasci-
pating, stupendous Gathering engine
Of American democracy with all Of
you SO busy steaming and stoking 1t
we cannot help watching and wonder
ing where 1t Is going, and what Will
be its destination. At any rate, II Is
certain that 1t Is making a new type
of civilization, a new national char
acter, with new national ideals and
modes of thought. incidentally. it al
80 means a change in dress. habits, in
ceremonies, In all those thousand de-
tails and minutiae of everyday life
which make up 80 large a part OF
the dressing Of our modern realistic
plays.
The Dolores star., 1906-12-21

Some military men now assert that
the day of battle ships of the air is
at hand They talk Of the ships car
rying $4,000 pounds. dropping explo
sires from the sky into forts and max
ing them untenable. If such ships
are possible so are other ships tc
fight them in the air. This, however
does not mean progress towards uni
versaI peace. 1t means only that the
tragedies OF war will become more
horrible. The cure for war lies not in
more terrible means Of destruction
but. as Secretary Root says. 'fn the
love of justice and peace among the
people who make war or preserve
peace"
The Dolores star., 1906-12-21
brooklyn runneI compIeted.

New York.-The two sections of the
tunnel under the East river, which
we're started simultaneously in New
York and Brooklyn, we're Joined per.
fectly beneath the bed Of the :iver
Friday.
The Dolores star., 1906-12-21

Santos Dumont says everybody will
soon fly. So every one who has Joy.
GUS anticipation Of this coming event
should be exercising his flying
muscles little every day SO they will
be able to do a fairly respectable job
sof It
The Dolores star., 1906-12-21

French deputies have increased
their pay from $1,000 to $4,000 year.
That looks reasonable enough. as
they make twice as many gestures as
our congressman make for 5000 a
year.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09

Then he went to work and wove miles
and miles and miles of strong cord.
so strong that it could never break nor
wear out. Then once more he gathered
up the pieces of Wind. By this time
you may imagine it was pretty well
broken up. But he persevered with
logged determination, and after awhile
ne succeeded in putting the bits into
the cave where lay the thousands upon
thousands Of miles of cord he had
woven. To each piece of Wind he at
tached long cord so it could fy and
yet be pulled in like kite at his will.
Then he divided the pieces of Wind
into four punches. One bunch he tied
to the North Pole, another to the South
role, and the two others he attached to
sunken rocks in the middle of the At
lantic and Pacific oceans. Then he sat
down on the highest mountain peak and
laughed to see the success of his last
effort. ~
The pieces of Wind, big and little.
f1oated out on the ends Of their tethers,
here, there, everywhere, north, south,
east and west, gentle or fierce, accord
ing to their sizes. They laughed in the
ears Of the tropic birds, they rushed
headlong over the deserts, they shouted
across the vast expanses of the polar
ice fields, they swept the streets of the
cities, built by the little men. they filed
the sails of ships and windmills; they
sweetened and freshened the whole
Earth. <.@
And the Head Apprentice was glad,
for he had every wind under his thumb
(barring few that have never been
accounted for).
And that was the beginning of the
First Weather Bureau. -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
THE PUEBLO NOAH'S ARK
The Story Of the Flood Is Quantity Varied in In
dian Traditions

The children of the Pueblo Indians have a Noah's
ark of their and of the animals contains are
very curious indeedsuch animals in fact as civilized
young people not acquainted with. Among them are
mountain goats, queer creatures of the and
prong horned antelopes All Of these animals are made
out Of clay and baked like pottery: which they are
painted in quite an artistic and felike fashion
Like most other peoples the Pueblo Indians have
tradition of great food The catastrophe occurred long
ago. when they lived in the ancient land of their FORE
fathers One day the earth began and strange
rumbngs grew louder and louder until at length open
ing yawned in the middle of the square of the
town. Out Of the opening gushed mighty stream Of
water overwhelming the houses and flooding the valley
that the inhabitants fled with their stock to neiph
boring mountains. -
Presently there out of the hole earth the
head of gigantic turtle which to the very roof
of the sky Everybody terror stricken but chief
man of the town-whose ought to have been Noah
ucked the courage to ask the great reptile what it
wanted The turtle replied that it hungry and that
its appetite could be appeased only by the sacrifice of
young man and young woman. There was nothing to
do but to obey, and handsome youth beautiful
girl delivered to the turtle which took them in
its mouth and sank with them thru the hole Immediate
~ all Of the water flowed away and in the place where
the reptile had appeared there large rock
which, according to the myth may be at this day.
testfying to the truth of the story Unfortunately the
deluge left things in such damp con-
don after destroying all of the houses and most of the
portable property that the people thought to 90
away So they started journey northward the whole
tribe of them and the crane which is sacred bird few
ahead to pick out the dries At length they
to the region which their descendants now inhabt and
which is extremely dry that the water supply is al
ways a subject Of anxiety. - =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
MORE SPELLING TROUBLE

N RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has done more for the
of spelling reform than anybody else has
been able to d. by ordering that 800 reformed words
shall hereafter be used in all government publications.
It is that rather takes the breath of
who have been enthusiastic supporters of the idea of
spelling REFORM and of course, there great many
people who object such sweeping changeor changes
of any kind in spelling, for that matter.
However, the Juniors who have read any of the
writings in the original of the old English authors
Chaucer Spencer, Ben Jonson Shakespeare and the
authors of century ago., know that from first last
spelling has gradually undergone change from genera
ton to generation. Not long ago but that many living
today remember it, "musc' spelled with a final
"k'' also ''physc'' and other words ending in
like manner. Yet these changes that any sensible
person today approves of. So with the word wagon'
The original spelling and the still in in England
makes it waggon," yet sometime within the past fifty
years Americans decided to drop F'g''-and who is
there today to say that the change not wise Like
wise, the English spell Ehonor' with "u,'' well
other similar wordslabour, neighbour, harbour etc.
Probably spelling reform undertaken by
wholesale the president has done it, but tho it
may not be approved of by many, who cling to the old
ways dreadng change the fact remains that from gen.
Grafton to generation from century century, the spell
ing of every language has undergone, and will continue
to undergo, just such changes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
DREAMS AND MORE DREAMS.
GSXX7 HEN you can't think Of anything else, write
w about a dream. -

GSNX7 HEN you can t think of anything else, write
w about dream.'
That be the attitude of nearly every Junior
at least in his With altogether too great
number, it to have become chronic It may be
easy way out when wants to write, but shirks
necessary thinking, but oh, what sameness, what
drearines what thnness what but the editor might
60 excaiming for half column, and still fail to
vey the meaning Of just how unwelcome these 'dream
stories are, except when dreams specifically called
for in the topic.
the "little old woman who speaks in ''squeaky
voice. and says the most uninteresting things. The
editor nearly always tell just what roads they will
travel to the old ending and then woke up.'
There is not variety in the dreams. They might
all have been out thru the machine, tho
the writer's in widely separated districts.
For nine years the editor has watched the dream
habit growing with each crop of Juniors and
she believes that the time has arrived when it should
come to full stop. During the school year, the
Der Of sent in far exceeds the space that be
given to publication and hereafter the following rule
will be applied to all ''dream stories'' that not
specifically called for in the topics:
''Dream stores' will be sacrificed for '*straight'
stories the TOPICS matter how we'll they may be
written.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
SUNDAY NJ oRN1NG, SEPTEMBER 8, 1905.
THE FIRST WEATHER BUREAU

TN THE very very Long Ago. when the Head Ap-
prentive was rigging up the Earth with the neces-
sites and getting her ready to start housekeeping
he found it necessary to have appliance keeping
things moving There could be progress without
kind of stir-up occasionally ..o>st >-'.~-
So he went up into the garret of the Universe, and
Poked around in the stores; and tucked off in outof
the-way corner he found small and insignificant Wind
Aha!' he said, as he put it in his vest pocket and
fastened down the flap, 'here is the very thing Now
back to the Earth and weU have this adjusted in no
time.' 3. : '-... $500 =. -
The truth is that the Head Apprentice had had very
little experience with winds and he didn' know what
was in store for him. The little Wind began to grow
from the first minute of it's release from the stuy old
garrett By the time they onequarter of the way
back to the EARTH altogether too big for the
pocket or any other pocket Finally the Head Appren
tice had to take off his coat and tie the wind up it
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09

knots then some of it squeezed out
thru the arm-holes 49,: 49,. -. = 49,.
He had an awful time landing, for by the time he
reached the Earth the Wind had turned his coat into
balloon He managed after while to clutch hold of
mountain peak he sailed it, finally got
feet the ground He proceeded Immediately to fasten
the Wind in cave, and then sat down to consider
things. - ;--. F.. 49,
How to fit the Wind to the Earth was the first
problem that stared the Head Apprentice in face
and how to make it work properly the second He
pondered deeply for about year without stirring, and all
that time the Wind growing in size and temper.
At last he hit upon a plan. He would attach the
% he TO n OF on t nd
on firmly, and then paid the line out slowly till it
stretched clear around the Earth. Everything seemed
Little set out in their little ships the sea-
sailing with the Wind, and away they went
+h ~o " 90 was ene1p S4s TIE oown
of the But the trouble when they wanted to
get back home again. for the wind blew always
way and it impossible to tack against that steady
rush of wind and current. - -. ...-.
People shore began to have trouble, too. Those
living side of the ocean saw the water all blowing
away from Them leaving bare stretches of seaweed ana
mud, and there tide to them again. On
the other side the water banked up and flooded their
homes, that they had to flee to the mountains for
their lives. 49, 49,:
The trees became one-sided and leaned with the
Wind, and the whole landscape had the appearance of
wanting to rush off somewhere 49,
The Head Apprentice plainly that this state of
things would not do So he reeed the Wind back again.
There pieces of it, however, that broken
off, and they settled in the countries and became
Trade Winds. ..."t .~.
The Head Apprentice decided to break off pieces
of the Wind, and sow them around broadcast but he
found himself up against series Of fresh disasters
Every handful Of Wind turned into whirlwind, and
tore things right and left People and animals cried
for mercy So that method had to be stopped.
Next he made great air gun, and tried shooting
chunks of Wind out in various directions This made
more trouble than for they turned into hurricanes
and blew everything fat It took the Head Apprentice
to get his forests reconstructed after hurricane
had swept them and there mighty lot Of
for the little men, too getting their homes rebuilt
WE'LL you may imagine that by this time the Head
Apprentice was pretty well discouraged. He just about
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
PRIZES FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS.

p R1zEs, aggregating $1,000 offered by the Mer
chant Marine League of the United States, at
Cleveland, Ohio for the best four essays Elbow to
Build Up Our Shipping in the Foreign Trade''
Only students in high schools chronological schools,
colleges and universities in the United States eligible
to compete
There will be four prizes, viz: Of $780, one of
$500, of 5000 and of 500.
The contests will close about November Is, and the
prizes will be awarded about December 49, 1906.
The Merchant Marine League of the United States
has sent notices to the principal of every high school and
the president of school of technology college and
university in the United States together with suggestions
as to of information upon which writers might
draw Further and fuller particulars than be given
here may be obtained by addressing the league at Cve
land, Ohio. q: e -,
~ The subject is demanding attention, for it is
astounding fact that shipping in the foreign
less in 1906 than it in $780, in spite Of the
growth of our commerce in the Intervening years -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09

gave up trying to have any wind on the Earth. A
soon as he bit rested he started gathering up the
pieces that were blowing about Every he could get
There" he said, ''you won't do any more mis-
Chief and he capped bung into the mouth of the Jug
substitute. - O~~-.Oo> -. ::
Rip! fash! crack! crash All of sudden the Jug
burst INTO thousand pieces So fast the Wind rushed
iorth that blinded the Of the Head Apprentice
ike streak Of lightning, and the deafening roar was
the first clap of thunder heard on Earth The Wind
went flying in every direction. -. :@...I ~
At the sight, the of the Head Apprentice
gave way and he burst into of tears which fell
and deluged the land for miles around = $50.
cloud has burst!'' cried the little men, and thew
all rushed indoors till the storm should pass over
will never give up, never!'' said the Head APP
prentice, grittipg his teeth ~ :, -o>1 - =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
Disabling Military Balloons.

Experiments to disable balloon in the air by rife
army. balloon 1000 feet high held at anchor and
the gunners kept ignorant OF the told to dis
able it. twenty-five shots fred before the approx.
innate range found and it only at the sixty.
fourth round that the balloon hit and that slightly
but the small rupture Of the gas bag made it slowly de-
pcend.-London Globes ~ l1Sst: 5seAA.%.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
THE PICTURE PRIZES.

ID EGINNING September 49, the schedule will be
~ changed from the personal prizes to the
pictures for schoolrooms And usual the number Of
prizes will be two each for Minneapolis and Northwest
Junior departments each week New pictures have
been added to the list and every is most desirable
for the schooroom walls and well worth working hard
to win.