davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17

These conditions would indicate that
there is a vital defect in an educational
system that costs so much and that is
making it increasingly difficult to do
the world g work. The Oxford gradu-
ate who is carrying the manner" in
London, is making the world pay dear
for his culture. Every youth who pre-
fers to remain half baked professional
man rather than frstclass artisan,
is helping bring about monstrous econo-
mic conditions. And the educational
institutions that have postponed the
average boys cage of financial indie
pendence" without giving adequate re-
turns have contributed more than any
other cause to the absurd cost of
"raising the boy"
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17
ANTI-K1ssING CRUSADE

Mrs. Avis Boyce and her anti-kissing
crusade has sprung into the imelight
of publicity. Not that Mrs. Boyee's
crusade, or, as for that matter, Mrs
Boyce herself, is anything new to the
world; but in this instance the agita
tors energy has brought her recogni
tion. Mrs. Boyce is slipping around
through the United States making
mothers quit kissing their babies. She
intends to establish anti-kissing mis-
sions throughout the United States.
branches of the United Sisterhood for
the Suppression of Baby Kissing She
doesn It call it that: she refers to it as
the Womans' Auxiliary of the Anti
tuberculosis leaguc-but she says that
is the same thing. If you kiss the
baby it II get tuberculosis. Only babies
that never have been kissed ESCAPE tu-
bcrculosis. 1t is wrong to kiss baby.
In fact, it is wrong to kiss at all. un-
less you want to have tuberculosis, she
says.
So earnest is Mrs. Boycc about her
work that she went before the Ameri
can Medical association in Atlantic CITY
and tried to get them to indorse her
anti-kissing crusade. The doctors-at
least the older ones and those who
hadn't any babies-sided with her and
many of them urged the abolition of
kissing entirely. But right there the
young doctors, especially the unmarried
ones, and the young married ones who
have babies, jumped into the fight, be.
ing afraid to 60 back home and face
the wives, sweethearts (and perhaps
tho pretty nurses), and confess that
they voted against kissing. And the
uoctoFs uecllheu 10 take any action. 1t
was the sense of the convention, how
ever, that kissing is dangerous, but
worth the danger.
Mrs. Boyce may succeed. If she has
discovered the preventative for the
great white plague, we hope she will.
But just how she intends to prevent the
kissing habit is not perfectly clear to
us at this time. Perhaps Mrs. Boyce
man race. 1t appears to us that moth
ing short of this would accomplished
her purposes.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17

disposition whatever to deal unjustly or
with needless harshncss in connection
with any matter pertaining to the ac-
quisition of parts of the public domain,
in relation to which charges of unlaw-
full conduct have beea made. Violators
of the law cannot expect that their of
fenses will be overlooked, but nothing,
we are sure, will be done in spirit
of persecution.
Being territory, New Mexico is di-
rectly under the government at Wash
ington; but so far as practicabl. the
people will be allowei t. manage IT, err
domestic affairs in their own way. This
can be done only under emission ::,m
congress expressed in organizing tic
territory, but it suffices to give the peo-
pie large measure OF self governn Ii,
the privileges of which should be taken
advantage of with the utmost wisdom
and prudence.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17
SQUARE DEAL FOR NEW MEXICO

While it is possible that the advo-
Gates of statehood for New Mexico NAV
have built their hopes too high upon
what Secretary Garfield said to them
the other day in regard to the probabil-
ity that New Mexico will soon be ad-
mitted into the union, they have every
reason to feel assured that, so far as
the administration at Washington is
concerned, the people of that territory
will in every respect be given the
"square deal" for which they ask.
Whether New Mexico shall be ad-
mitted is for congress to determine, and
the sentiment of the country east of
the Mississippi does not seem favorable
to a step of that kind at present. New
Mexico and Arizona had a chance to
come in as one state last year, but the
opportunity was r jccted through the
adverse vote of tr;2, ma, and it may
be many years before either receives an
invitation to come in as separate
state.
In regard to the internal affairs of
New Mexico, the administration has NO
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17
the Morse code was not.

We notice that the New York Yacht
club has gone on "cruise." We
quote "cruise" advisedly. AS nearly
all the members belong in some way
to Wall Street, arrangements were
perfected before the "cruise" was un.
dertaken to put into use the "wire
lessn to keep the members in hourly
communication with the "street" and
market quotations. Out upon such a
cruise and such holiday! To what
base uses must great inventions be
brought!
If the telegraph Offices were to close
Wall street would have to shut up shop
very likely. But business would move
along. Crops would ripen and be har-
vested; the wheels of commerce would
keep grinding the necessaries. Broker
age firms might go out of business but
that would be a gain. A community
can get along very well without gam.
bling and nation can get along with.
out stock exchange quotations. The
farmer who grows the grain is not n
party in interest to the Chicago wheat
pit. Too often is he the victim.
Should the present strike tend to
break us of the "telegraph habit" It
will not have been in vain.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17

Her hfe's history is one of the most
interesting, as well as one of the sad
dest, commentaries on the vicissitudes
of this life that is to be found in con
temporary annals.
Louise de la Rance, Ouida, author of
"Under Two Flags" "Moths,
"Puck, - "Princess Napraxine" and u
score of novels in similar vein, is today
the most sought authoress in the world
and the most pathetic figure. Despite
her infrmities, the great old woman
whose pride and poverty are synonym
Gus, is writing her last book, rounding
out an even forty, and its title is
"Finis.'
Ouida's pension from the govern
ment, made necessary by her poverty,
equals the pay of retired captain.
Upon this penurious pittance, she lives
alone with her dogs at the tumble-town
villa at Massarosa, except that the wo-
man with whom Mile. de Rance lives ut
present is one of her old domestics, now
widowed. The latter's devotion to her
former mistress is one Of the most
pathetic features Of the situation in
which Ouida finds herself.
About Florence Mile. de Rance is
known as La Signora del Cani, the lady
of the dogs, and the mistress of the
dogs has been heard to declare that
the heoric qualities Of her heroes are
perpetuated in the hairy personalities
of Pepito, Petit Puck, Petronel and the
rest of her numerous canine tribe of
followers.
"Madame is indisposed," is the in.
evitable reply Of the aged duenna for
an interview with her mistress.
But sometimes toward sundown one
may see Nile. de Rance walking slow
ly, aided by a cane, and followed by
her canine friends in the garden of the
Massarosa villa and then it is to note
that she is half blind, stumbling pathe.
tically over the rough edgings of the
brick paved walks, cropping sadly for a
seat beneath the rose bushes and belp-
less-almost prostrated by her many in
frmities.
And for the last time of all Ouida is
writing a book.
1t will perhaps be biographical. No
man knows, though dozens of publishers
have besought an interview.
81 am not working for money now" "
she says. "My room here costs shilI-
ing and threepence a week. Fruit and
bread are cheap. Milk is to be had
for the asking.
81 can finish my work on its merits,
and at my leisure. l am not under con,
tract. There is no hurry. If the Master
calls me to a higher task ere l finish
this one, so much the better"
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17
THE coNTAa1oN OF CRIME

Bellamy was not the first, nor is he
the last, to advance the theory that
crime is disease. Nor is the theory
confined to Socialism. Many there be
who agree neither with Mr.. Bellamy
nor his Socialistic propaganda, who go
even further in theorizing upon the
origin and effect of crime, and boldly
express the belief that it is contagious.
The latter theory is probably more
demonstrable than the former, and it
is equally as probable that its contagion
can be traced more directly to pschycic
influences than to the physical. Under
this hypothesis, "crime waves' are no
more marvellous than the great "relig-
ious waves' which have been known to
sweep over the country periodically.
Very thruthfully, the Colorado Springs
tion may account to considerable ex-
tent for the condition that now prevails
in New York City, where women and
young girls are being assaulted with
such alarming frequency. Suggestion,
indeed, cannot be given too large
place in accounting for the spread of
crime in localities that occasionally
come into such unenviable notoriety
through series of criminal acts. Who
has not noted the tendency of crime
waves to sweep over certain cities or
localities, or of one particular species of
crime to sweep the whole country?
The province of the newspaper is to
give the news, and, failing to do So,
it fails in it's mission as a newspaper.
Present sociological conditions demand
of the newspaper all the happenings of
the day, of whatsoever nature. But it
must be admitted that public and pri
vate discussions of such tragedies as
the Taylor case at Aspen, the Colorado
Springs affair, the more remote Thaw
case and kindred crimes are apt to con
vey most harmful results. Fireside
discussion of these facts NAV prove
lastingly injurious to children, and
even adults are more or less susceptible
to the impressions thus conveyed.
The best preventative and cure for
the sequalae of such tragedies, CON
tinues the exchange aforementioned,
may be found in diverting the mind to
pleasanter and uplifting channels of
thought. There is SO much of good in
the world and in humanity that to
counteract one dark tragedy dozen
bright deeds may be found. Each crime
or tragedy that one reads of should at
once be counteracted by the contem-
plation of some noble act or some good
life, and particularly the minds of i'm
pressionable youth should be directed
along these lines.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17
NOTICE TO NONRESIDENT OF
PROBATE OF WILL LAW, 1908

NOTICE TO NONRESIDENT OF
PROBATE OF WILL LAW, 1908
State of Colorado, County of Garfield,
In The County Court, In Probate
The People of the State of Colorado to
A. E. Burcham, Elnora A. Hampton,
Mary Burcham, Ada M. Lore and the
unknown heirs at law of Francis A.
Burcham, deceased. Greeting:
Whereas, 1t has been made to appear
to the County Court of Garfield Coun-
ty, in the State of Colorado that you,
the said A. E. Burcham, Elnora A.
Hampton, Mary Burcham and Ada M.
Lore are heirs at law of Francis A.
Burcham, late of Glenwood Springs,
Garfield County, Colorado, deceased
Now, Therefore, In accordance with
the provisions of the statute in such
case made and provided, and by order
of Court duly made and entered, you
are hereby notified that an instrument
of writing purporting to be the last will
and testament of the said Francis A.
Burcham, deceased, was presented to
said Court for probate on the 30th day
of July, A. D. 1907, by Tillie f. Engle-
brecht, residing at Glenwood Springs,
in the State of Colorado; that the said
decedent was, at the time of his
decease, a resident of Glenwood
Springs, in the State of Colorado; that
the said deeedent, according to the
said alleged will devised and be-
queathed his property in the words and
figures following, to-wit: 90
and subject to the payment of my
debts I give, devise and bequeath all
my property, real, personal or mixed
and wheresoever situate, of which die
possessed or in which at the time of
my death may have an interest, unto
Tillie f. Englebrecht, her heirs and as
signs forever"
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED to
be and appear before said Court at the
County Court Room in the Court House
in Glenwood Springs, in the County Of
Garfield, in the State of Colorado, on
the 4th day Of September, A. D. 1907,
then and there to attend the hearing
on the probate of the said alleged last
will and testament Of the said Francis
A. Burcham, deceased, and further to
do and perform what shall then, by
the said Court be required and ad-
judged.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and ahixed the
seal Of said Court at my office in Glen
wood Springs, in said County, this 3oth
day Of July, A. D., 1907.
(seaD A. L. BEARDsLEY, Judge.
1924.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17
A PSYCHOLOGICAL probe

A PSYCHOLOGICAL problem that
has puzzled the brains of sages and
wasted enough midnight oil to capita
lie even the Standard Oil trust is thus
touched upon by B. N. Wyatt: "After
all, are we as people wholly civilized? :?
Are there not times in the lives of all
when an insane desire takes possession
to do something awful? A sudden i'm
pulse to murder our mother law, to
throw the baby out the upstairs win
dow, or leap into the well as we gaze
into it's depths? Is it not true that in
spite of all our progress we are still
half savage; that it only takes a fan
cied wrong or sudden anger or even
less to arouse the sumbering savage
which is our heritage, handed down to
us from our savage ancestors and which
is so strong in some hearts that it
makes men bad?'
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17
SATURDAY, AUGUST ", 1907
SUCCESSFUL BUT NOT GREAT

SUCCESSFUL BUT NOT GREAT
One of our exchanges truthfully
states that when most people couple
John D. Rockefeller with Standard
Oil, they actually mean Henry H. Rog
ers, who stands for the present day
genius and acquisitiveness of the oil
trust. John D. has long abdicated in
favor of Rogers, who is the actual head
of that concern, the silent engineer OF
the most powerful money machine in
the world, yet so oiled and adroit are
his movements that the limelight knows
him not.
Rogers is about to figure more promi-
nently in the world s news-unless all
signs fail-as the organizer of what
might be called the Stardard Oil rail
road-a chain of railroads that will
stretch entirely across the continent
and be the longest line in the world
with the exception If the TRANSIT
berian. 1t will be the last and decisive
stand of Standard Oil
Probably no man of ,qnal stature in
the financial world started more hum
bly-though, truth to tell, there is
much competition among magnates in
regard to their humble origins. He
graduated at the age of sixteen from
the village school at Fairhaven, little
New England village, and then ped
died papers in the streets of New Bed
ford, as stepping stone to proud
position behind the grocery counter and
on the delivery wagon, which he held
for five years at So week and board
News of the Pennsylvania oil fields
around the stoves and cracker barrels
The proprietor of the village paint shop
was told by New York oil merchant
to get him sturdy New England
youth. Rogers took his savings, made
the journey to New York in 1859 and
got the job. Six years later he entered
the firm of his employer, Pratt & Co.,
embarking Immediately on a career
that is almost without a parallel in the
romance of riches.
Rogers is hard n.an-but his per-
sonality never intrudes directly on the
ouIs ide world for he is always hedged
in by an army of secretaries. He is
sombre as thundere!oud, with eyes
glazing from under his bushy white eye
bows. His figure is tall and athletic,
with abnormally long arms, probably
inherited from his fsherfolk parentage
He is the embodied spirit of silence and
secrecy, and in age is rapidly approach
ing the seventies.
His philanthrophy has been confined
to his boyhood home, Fairhaven, except
in the one case of Mark Twain, in which
he "unbent," to the surprise of all his
intimates. When Mark Twain awoke
enc morning twelve years ago, follow
ing ,he failure of his publishing house,
he faced $15O,OOO of debt. Then Rogers
came to his aid, acting as trustee and
breaking an ironclad rule of his career.
rs Twain paid off the indebtedness
with money obtained by lecturing, Rog-
ers carefully invested the money in
stocks, in such profitable way as
not to allow the Great American hu.
morist to pay off his debts, but to store
up splendid surplus for his declining
years. Rogers fortune is estimated at
$s5, 600, 900, and his favorite recreation
epigrammatic but here is his defense
epigrammatic but here is his deefnse
for the unending accumulation of
wealth.
"The richer a man gets, the less he
knows about what he has-unless he
keeps at work to protect it,
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17
ou1DA AND HER STORY

Lame, halt and blind, Ouida, the wo-
man who, second to Kipling, has done
most to make the fame of the British
soldier, IL today a pensioner of tho
British government at tl.25 per day.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17

Notice of Discontinuance.-THr POST ls
not discontinued at expiration and Is sent 20
celved by us, and all payment Of arrear ages
10 made, as required by law. The courts In,
vsrIsbly hold a subscriber responsible to
the publisher for the subscription price Of
ali papers received until the paper 10 PAID
for In full up to date and ordered discontln-
DIsCoNTINUANCE.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17

Entered at the poston1ce In 0lenwood
Springs, Colo, as second-class mail matter
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-01-19

The town of Pollock is to have a
bank i'm operation in the near future.
Mr.. G. o. Groves. through whose ei-
forts the institution was mainly or
ganized. was in Colfax this week. ac-
companied by MIR. :. o. Williams,
who is also interested. We under
stand they were looking after the
purchase of furniture, and other de-
tails necessary in organizing the
bank. The business community oil
Pollock will be greatly aided by a
bank, aid they will doubtless give ii
a good support.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-01-19
The Grip.

Before we can sympathize with 9TH
ers, we must have suffered ourselves"
No one can realize the suffering attend
ant upo an attack of the grip. unless he
has had the actual experience. There
is probably no disease that causes 50
much physical and mental agony, or
which so successfully defies medical aid.
All danger from the grip, however, may
be avoided by the prompt usL of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy. Among the
tens of thousands who have used this
remedy. not one case has ever been re-
ported that has resulted in pneumonia
or that has recovered. Sold by Valley
Drug Store.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-01-19
Subscriptions Received.

Since our acknowledgment of Jan.
5th. the Chronicle has added eight
new subscribers to its list. namely:
ID r. Williamson, Mrs. w. n. Simms.
Texas Bridge Co.. Perry Woods. Mrs.
G. - Fletcher, +. p. Aubry 4 Son.
Elisha Lewis and q. w. Taylor.
Also we acknowledge renewals OF
subscriptions received. as follows:
J. w. Arwell. Jno. X. Hunter. Cert
rude +. Person. II. NJ. Nngent, j. T..
Drewett. j. w. Sketoe, Dan Fletcher,
Joseph Billes. H. +. McManns. j. W.
Pledger. Katie johnson, q. II. Fri.
dav. H. l.. Brian. Simms Lumber Co.
IS. +. Richardson. J. l.. Morintine. w
NJ. Brat ton. j. A. Hyde. +. Il. Dean
Sam Irwin. X. s. Cameron. Mrs. Julia
Napier, Henry Thomas, DR.. j. l.
Woodall. ID. B. Turner. w. H. by
son, w. p. Deem. J. W. TORY. G. w
Williams. ID. l. Williams. j. Y. San
ders and Richard Newton.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-01-19
DIED.

PARISH-At her home in ward
two, near Ada. Grant parish. La.
about3 ID. m. ON Wednesday. Jan.
is. 1907, Mrs. Martha J. Parish. be-
loved Wife of =. L. Parish. born
March %, 1917, departed this life aged
50 years. 8 months and q days.
The deceased was married to Sci.
L. Parish, August 8, 1866, and of this
union were born six children. two
boys and four girls. all of whom lived
to be grown and married. and be-
came respected aud useful citizens OF
Grant parish. She was the sister ui
w. ID. Irwin, of Coifax, and her rela.
tives in Grant parish are quite nu.
merous. the family being among the
early settlers here. She WIS II mem
Der of the Methodist church. and fou
many years lived an exemplary
christian life, passing to rest peace
! full and triumphant In her faith.
Her death resulted from cancer on
her neck. from which she suffered
great torture. hut always bore hei
sufferings with the greatest christian
fortitude. She submitted to a sur
gical operation to remove the can
CT last summer. but the disease was
| too deep seated for eradication, and
| of late 1t again became malignant
Her remains were laid to rest
| Thursday afternoon in the family
burying ground near Gray y creek. al
| the old Methodist parsonage place
Rev. Leon l. Mccain officiating a,
the funeral. which was attended by
n. large number of relatives ant
friends. The Chronicle extends sin
cere sympa thy to the bereaved hus
band and members Of the sorrowina
family.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-01-19

Judge w. l.. Richardson. who
built the Oldest residence in the town
of Colfax. and has lived in ii for y
years. on Thursday of this week NOV
ed his family to his farm four miles
north of town, and will rent out his
town property. The Judge is about
the last of the old citizens who were
here at the organization Of the town,
and is familiar with all of its historic
vicissitudes. He il rugged, sturdy.
upright and To he relied on at all
times. and we regret to see him and
his good wife move away even for
so short distance.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-01-19

WANTED QUICK-Active agents
in every parish in Louisiana to sell
on the installment plan lots and
farms in Southwest Texas. Superior
opportunity for rich returns and for
a magnificent investment In fine
progressive country, unexcelled for
climate and within easy reach of all.
For full particulars apply quick to
CUSHMAN-PETRCS REALTY CO.,
Exclusive State Agents.
Alexandria, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-01-19
Cured of Lung trouble.

at is now eleven years since had a
narrow escape from consumption" writes
G. U. Floyd, a leading business man Of
Kersbaw. s. G. Il had run down IN
weight to 135 pounds. and coughing was
constant, both by day and by night. FL
nally began taking DIR. Kings New
Discovery, and continued this for about
six months. when my cough and lung
trouble were entirely gone and l was re-
stored to my normal weight. 170
pounds" Thousands of persons are
healed every year. Guaranteed at Cres-
cent Drug Store.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-01-19

The Iatt Lumber Company's store.
opposite thesdepot. will be open for
business next Monday morning.
Messrs. L. HI. Johnston and J. ID. Civ
ems have been at work nearly all this
week opening goods and getting them
In order. They expect to sell every
thing at the closest figures possible
with fair dealing.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-01-19
on th. safe SIDE.

Neglected coughs andcolds put one on
the unsafe side. There is no need to
take these chances. Royaiine Cough
Cure, taken 10 time, will quickly put you
on the safe side. You will find nothing
better for coughs, colds, Group and
whooping cough. Contains no opium.
Pleasant, safe, sure. Keep it on hand.
25 cents. Money back if You want it.
Get bottle to-day. For sale by DIR. w.
j. Roberts and Crescent Drug Co.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-01-19

VIM. SPARKS and Marion Barfield
were arrested and brought to CoIfax
last Saturday by Deputy Watson
Rogers. charged with breaking into
the Montgomery depot Christmas
week and stealing liquor. We under
stand the young men confessed to the
crime. Barfield gave bond this week
and has been released.