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The state herald., 1908-10-09
FIRST Publication Oct 9 1905
Nutica for Publication
United states Land ONCE

sitrlii Colo uci o iYs I
Notice 10 hereby given that Andy Miller
OF HaItun Colo Sho on Nov "a. Iloi IN ID, Hd L
No s.ii for 80 y sec 20 I ionr m hns
died notice Of intention To make final tv.
,ear proof To establish claim to the lnpd above
described before " Il iieiiand clerk dist cot IT
at Hoiyoke Colo..on the day Of Dec 1875
Claimant names ne witnesses
Herbert II DE. OF Hs,tun Colo
Abner Al fisrning q"
Jariu- shockey A. HoIyoke
fr-cion y sppgue
EE AInouh LEICESTER
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"He who by his biz would Use,
Must either bust or advertise. /"

Ground feed for sale all the time.
NJ. Zoll.
The state herald., 1908-10-09

If YOU are a sufferer from that most
distressing affection, piles, and have
tried many remedies without being ben
of.5ci we can safely say that ManZan
Pile Remedy will bring relief with the
first application. Sold by C. E. Allen.
The state herald., 1908-10-09

woods Liver Medicine in liquid form
IN malaria, chills and fever, regulates
tn liver kidneys and bladder, brlngs
o. < relief to biliousness, sicl-hcad-
1', constipation. Pleasant to take.
IN 81 bottle contains = IL times tn
qlil,ity Of the soc sze. First dos,
brnIs r1licf. It's tonic effects felt at
ol.s. Sold by c. Z. Allen
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First publication Sept 95
NQTfCE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land ONCE at Sterling. Colo.
Sept -. 1908.
Notice Is hereby given that Elmer Young Of
Bryant Colo who on Mar y 1907 made lid T. No
,67o for Y Sec 6tp 5 y. Il 10 W, has filed not
ice OF intention to make final commu,ation
proof to establish claim, to the land above de-
-cribed before W q Holland clerk OF district at
Holyokc Colo. on the day Of Nov 1905.
Claimant names as witnesses
John II Garrett of Bryant Colo .
Charley " Garrett
Ss Patterson
John Felderman "
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Tired mothers, worn out by the peev
iah, cross baby have found Cascasweet
boon and blessing. Cascasweet is
FOR babies and children, and is especial
~ good for the ills so common in hof
W alher. Lool; for the ingredients
printed on the bottle. Contains no
hirmful drugs. Sold by City Drug store
Bees Laxative Cough Syrup always
brings quick relief to coughs, colds,
haarssness, whooping cough and all
bronchial and throat trouble. Mothers
especially recommend it for children,
Us it is pleasant to take. 1t is gently
laxative. Should be in every home.
Guaranteed. Sold ly c. L. Allen.
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First publication Sept 25 1905
NutiCs fur Publication
Land ONCE at sterling. Colo
S,liss igJs.
Notice is hereby gwen that Walter s Ne
of Holyoke Colowho on March 20 1907 made
lid Entry No i7I6 for the nc \ sec6 TON RAW
has filed notice OF Intention to make final
commutation proofto establish claim to the
land above described before W Holland
clerk district court at Holy,ke Colo on the
I, day OF Soy isOs
Claimant names as witnesses
J NJ Irwin OF llolyoke Colo.
Ell Fite
William II SHOW " "
Olin Il Holland - Haxtun :"
4. E.ARMouR Register
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sIlshlln Colder with Soy

When you see that kind of weather
forecast you know that rheumatism
weather is at hand. Get ready for it
now by getting bottle of Ballard's
Snow Linimgnt. Finest thing made foT
rheumatism, "hilblains, frost bite. sore
and stiff joints and muscles. all aches
and pains. % soc and 81. Sold by F.
NJ Smith
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{. Z. Allen lolyoka Colo 7. NJ. sm,L lloIve II,
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f. E. ARMOUR, Register
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lect wax from the polished floors, take
the impression of locks and make
keys from empty sardine boxes, spoon
handles or anything to be found. DR..
Marie's museum includes collection
of knives of strange and unheard-of
shapes. Some of them have blades
made from pieces of glass or slate and
set in handles of corset steels. OBJ
jects harmless in themselves become
dangerous weapons through the in
genuity of madmen
Insane sculptors are as common as
insane painters. The insane sculptor
hews out coarse statuettes, fantastic
animals, ferocious little horned and
grimacing devils. An ex-mechanic
carves all his soup bones. That his
old trade is still in his memory is
shown by the little screws that he
makes out of the smaller pieces of
bone. He works all day at his sense
less and ridiculous task. Another lu-
matte, who believes he is the incarna.
ton of the soul of Beelzebub, passes
his time carving toy men out of
wood. Each pair of his creations are
Joined together, now at the necks, now
at the shoulders Harpers Weekly.
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was pounded in good and hard, and
Jimmy's Uncle Dick said:
$50! There's 500 pounds of powder
in there. That ought to make her fly"
"But how about the stick?" thought
Jimmy. He did not say it, knowing
how easy it is to spoil an inventors
ideas by interrupting him with friv-
olous conversation.
He was to learn very soon how about
the stick. for as soon as the mighty
cylinder was all finished, Uncle Dick
had a derrick rugged, and up went the
big thing until it dangled alongside of
the dead pine tree near tbs dizzy top
of it.
Then mighty cables were sent up
and the men dashed the loaded paste
board cylinder to the tree until it was
completely hidden by ropes.
Now for the fuse" said Uncle Dick.
He set the men to work untwisting
ropes until they had more than 800
feet all unraveled. Uncle Dick went
up the derrick and put the end of the
unraveled rope into the bottom part of
the rocket. Then he poured kerosene
oil all over IT and rubbed gunpowder
into it.
That afternoon Uncle Dick sent out
invitations both by mail and by mes
senger to places as far away as 200
miles, saying:
Jimmy Broderick respectfully ~
vites you TO his Uncle Dicks farm to
see him set off the biggest skyrocket
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-03
LYDIA E. PINKHAM

No other medicine has been so
successful in relieving the suffering
of women or received so many gen.
uine testimonials as has Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
In every community you will find
women who have been restored to
health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound. Almost every
one you meet has either been bene-
flied by it, or has.friends who have.
In the Pinkham Laboratory at
Lynn, Mass, any womanany daymay
see the files containing over one mil
lion one hundred thousand letters
from women seeking health, and
here are the letters in which they
openly state over their own sigma
lures that they were cured by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has saved many women
from surgical operations.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound is made from roots and
herbs, without drugs, and is whole
some and harmless.
The reason why Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound is so
successful is because it contains in
gradients which act directly upon
the feminine organism, restoring it
to healthy normal condition.
Women who are suffering from
those distressing ills peculiar to their
sex should not lose sight of these
facts or doubt the ability of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
to restore their health,
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AT EW YORK.-The course of the
M Migrants life is in a vicious cir
IN Gle. Street, park bench, cheap
lodging house, court, Jail, street,
brake-beam, court, Jail, etc.; so it
goes, from month to month, from hand
to mouth, from city to city. More &C.
curately stated, the Migrants course
is spiral and downward, with accel-
Grated momentum toward demoraliza-
ton, disease and death. Along his
road are certain rescue stations
charitable societies, missions, curb
stone breadlines, industrial homes,
personal visitations in alcoholic wards.
These are efforts to extend the nelp-
ing hand, to switch the vagrant from
the circular track to the straight
ahead line" But generally the mo-
mentum is too great. Failures are re-
corded far in excess of even imagined
successes writes o. F. Lewis of the
Charity Organization society in the
New York Times.
When we seek, by Imprisonment, to
deal with the individual "vag," what
do we find? Generally ineffective, in
adequate, unjust methods of punish
ment, so futile as to be ridiculous,
were they not so tragic. We find cor
rectional methods in Jail that, instead
OF correcting, debase, methods as
vagrant as are the prisoners. We be-
Geve that each man who is able
should contribute his share of the
days work. Nature abhor: a vacuum,
and the community in general abhors
the constitutional idler II the drone
work not, neither shall he eat. We
believe that crime should be punished
Vagrancy is crime under the law
Punishment is generally and neces-
sarily effected by the rest .aint of lib
erty, within penal institution. Vag-
rants are imprisoned generally in jails
or warehouses
But how7
What are the conditions Of Ameri-
can jails?
Do they check vagranoy7
Do they punish justly?
Do they reform?
A N ANSWER has recently been
~ made public which rs q scathing
arraignment of conditions in a great
majority of American county jails, all
the more scathing and staggering be-
cause made after a careful inveStiga-
ton by committee of the National
Prison Congress, which does not seek
sensationalism. The following para
graphs are almost random quotations
from the report:
IF the only or chief purpose of jails
were to keep wild beasts in cages,
most of the jails are we'll enough
adapted for this purpose. The
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in the world on the evening of the
Fourth of July"
Uncle Dick also sent word to the
papers about it, and on the evening of
the Fourth more than 10000 people
were at the farm. wondering at the i'm
mense skyrocket and trembling all
over at the thought of the explosion
when she vent off. And all over the
land people who could not go to the
farm were watching the heavens and
paying very little attention to the 9TH
er fireworks of the United States, be-
cause the papers had told all about the
rocket and had explained that it could
be seen hundreds of miles when it
went up.
When the time came, Uncle Dick
gave Jimmy big piece of lighted punk
and then he stood in front of the tree
and said:
Ladies and Gentlemen: You will
notice that this tree is inclined toward
the north. My calculations tell me
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"Ten Thousand People Were There"
that when the rocket is lit it will pull
the tree clear out of the ground and
go north for at least 1000 miles, which
will bring it over uninhabited country,
where it will fall without hurting any
body, unless bear or moose should
get in the way. Now, Jimmy, touch
her Off"
Jimmy touched the end of the fuse
and then everybody ran away to safe
distance. The fire climbed swiftly, and
suddenly with bang that shook the
towns 100 miles away, the giant rocket
went off.
Out came the tree, roots and all, and
sailed grandly into the sky with hiss.
ing trail of fire behind it. The amazed
spectators watched it for more than
half an hour, getting smaller and
smaller, till it disappeared in the
northern sky.
For days after that the paper printed
reports from distant places from peo-
pie who had seen a wonderful fiery
thing in the night. By means of these
reports, it was possible for Uncle Dick
to pursue the course of his wonderful
rocket until he found that it had gone
far over Canada; but he could not
learn where it had fallen and he did
not learn until recently.
But about week ago hunter who
had been in the very far north of Can
ada, near Hudson bay, shooting musk
oxen, visited Uncle Dick. He told a lot
of interesting hunting adventures, and
finally said:
"The queerest thing that I saw was
far up in the barren lands where there
are no trees. One day I saw something
odd some distance away, and I went
there on my snow shoes.
What do you suppose I found? A
mighty tree! That was queer enough
up there. But queerer still was the fact
that this tree did not stand in the
ground as other trees do, but stood
roots up with it's crown buried deeply
in the soil. 1t was the most marvellous
sight 1 have even seen, and can hard
ly believe it yet. l would give good
deal to know what caused this strange
freak of nature
Uncle Dick chuckled and winked at
Jimmy.
did you ever hear of Jimmy's won
derful skyrocket?" he asked.
mo, never" said the hunter. you
know l have been in the wilderness a
long time"
So Uncle Dick told him. After he
got through the hunter said Il am
glad to know this. 1 intended to write
a book about it, but now l shall be
able to save myself the trouble"
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institutions where misdemeanants or
the warrant or inebriate class are con-
fined, She industries maintained seem
to be far more largely carried on as
sentences than as chances to earn
a living.
AEArIY of the cities use the Bertillon
lvl system of Identification measure
ments. One chief reports asking the
"usuGl questions" another the name
and address"-as though Migrants
name. and address would be of value!
Whas contrast is this to the elabor-
ate Belgian system for the Identified
ton of Migrants, which centers in the
easier centrale de vagabondage," a
general Identification bureau at Brus-
sells? In Belgium the process Of trying
an arrested vagrant is speedy and
thorough. As soon as the police arrest
vagrant they communicate by tele-
graph with Brussels. Within a few
hours there is sent back from Brus-
sells by telegraph full description of
the vagrant and of his previous career,
if anything of the prisoner is on rec
ord. On the following morning the
magistrate, who is graduate of the
university, has before him sufficient
material about this particular vagrant
to enable him to form an adequate
Judgment of the case.
Coupled with this carefulness and
completeness of Investigation, regis
tration, and adequacy of judgment is
the Belgian system for the punish
ment CT Migrants, which differs so es-
sentially from our opportunist meth
DDS as to be staggering at first to con-
template. We bunch" our Migrants
in law. In New York state the man
with no money, no work, and no WISH
BILE means Of support is a vagrant.
That such a man is not often jailed,
unless the case is aggravated by
other factors, is not the fault of the
law, so to speak, but is due to the I'M
willingness of magistrates to commit
the unemployed homeless, or to the
indifference of the authorities. But in
Belgium the state of mo work, no
home, no money is not crime, un-
less there is added to that the state of
intentional idleness.
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deter and reform? Shall we, know
ing Jail conditions, allow him to roam
ut large? But the vagrant habit is fos.
tered by idleness, mendicancy and the
absence of prosecution. Even as it is,
the unwillingness of many police OFF,
Gals or magistrates to prosecute
tramps is well known. When the
vagrant is told to 'get out of town or
be run in" he of course decamps, and
the town finances are spared, while
the neighboring community receives
the shifted burden. Yet if the con-
victed vagrant is sent to Jail he be-
comes a source of contamination to
other inmates, and in addition he is
often glad to hibernate or spend few
weeks where warmth, food, idleness
and the company Of vicious fellows is
assured. Are we not often, by admin
istering the law, condemning the vag-
rant to further depths of degeneracy?
What do the reports of chiefs of po-
lice show? The writer recently re-
ceived extended reports from so
chiefs, representing as many different
cities, representative or large and
small municipalities. The letters
showed that in most instances vag-
rants are committed to jails, less fire.
quently to warehouses. and in few
instances to the penitentiary. Boston,
Lowell and other Massachusetts towns
report sending some Migrants to the
state farm, where there is nine
months sentence. In these jails and
warehouses; the labor required, when
there is any, consists generally of
breaking stone in quarry or in Jail
yard, roadmaking, chaiicaning, chair
making and farm work This work is
ION paper" There is little or no eff
fort made to bring reformative infiu-
ences to bear on those serving short
sentences or to teach trade. Even
at the Massachusetts state farm,
where the workhouse conditions are
far better than in most correctional
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LuNATIcs SHOW MUCH CUNNING.
Some of Their Work Known to Have
a Scientific Value.

Some Of the inventions of the in
sane are Of scientific value. A patient
at Villejuif invented "panification
machine" by combining bottle, a
plank and small metallic tubes, to
which he had fitted faucets. Having
set up his machine, he produced
loaves of bread the size of a mans
head. The bread was good-so good
that it was decided to make the ma
chine known. One day when it was
in action the doctor suggested taking
a photograph of it. The inventor
watched him as if petrified for mo-
ment; then he fell upon the machine,
wrenched it apart and trampled it I'M
der foot. The invention-an exceed
ingly useful one-was lost, because no
one had seen him make it, and no one
dares speak of it to him. To allude
to it is to bring on furious attack.
Most lunatics, no matter how content.
ed they may be, generally cherish a
fuftiye langing to escape. They col
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wrong, and offends against the laws of
health. T.. Almost all the reports
from jails record the dull, mononton-
GUS, maddening tramp of prisoners
walking aimlessly up and down the
corridor. 1t is the path of lunacy.
Why not have walled yards in the
open air, partly sheltered from rain,
covered over with steel wire to pre-
vent escape? But this plan is rarely
thought of. Card playing is the
universal resource for passing the dull
and anxious waking hours"
Many examples are given of exces-
sive overcrowding.
I'm Birmingham, Ala, 24O men in "
cells; 25 women in ten cells. q. :.
The inmates of jails are chiefly of two
classes-those awaiting trial and con-
victed misdemeanants. . The ordi-
nary term of convicted misdemean-
ants, Migrants and inebriates is too
short for any sort of industrial train
ing or systematic production. A care
full study of the situation in all parts
Of the land has long ago driven many
to the conclusion that we must have
district labor colonies or warehouses
for those convicted of offenses, and
that the term of degenerates must be
at least two years, if we really intend
to fit them for useful lives"
THE committee plainly shows that
i under present conditions and laws
the county Jail must provide for males
and females; children, youth and
adults; first offenders, habitual crimi-
nails, vagabonds, prostitutes; wit
nesses held for their testimony; poor
debtors whose crime is their poverty;
idiots, imbeciles, insane, epileptics,
persons arrested on suspicion, and
apoplectics whom the sapient police
man could not distinguish from drunk
ards. All these, says the report, are
often under one roof and management,
in building so built that cries and
whispers travel along a corridor with
cages open at the side.
Now, what chance is there in the
average jai! for the reformation of the
imprisoned vagrant? We may think
that Jack London draws the long bow
in his picturesque descriptions Of life
on the road but in his tale of impris-
onment in the Erie county Jail he
never wrote of such horrifying condi-
lions as are described by the report
of the committee, of which Prof
Charles R. Henderson of the Univer-
sity of Chicago was chairman. What
chance, above all, has the detained
witness or suspect, held in the Jail for
his testimony, and innocent before the
law until he is proven guilty? What
chance has he of not suffering con-
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NO PLEASURE IN THIS WORK.
Spectacle PeddIing Evidently Employ.
ment to Be Evaded.

"The meanest job of my lean days"
said millionaire, was spectacle ped
ding. l still see the sad and scornful
looks, l still hear the reproachful
oaths which that work brought down
on me.
1T was at the seashore 1 had a
case of spectacles for every age from
As up. I paced the beach and the
board walk
Once walked up to a lady and
gentleman seated close together on
the sand.
"'Sir and madam I said, would
these interest you? The best and
cheapest brand of old-age spectacles
on the market. This pair would be
your size, sir-49 years. Lady, will
you try these 54-year ones?
They redeemed and the man told
me with an oath to move on. re-
membered, as / moved, that he had
been holding her hand. A seaside
Irritation. OF course they hadn't liked
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recently, regarding Witzwyl, that
there is no doubt that the fact of hav-
ing worked hard for a year or 10
the habit of working, and this is be-
lieved to be the actual result in
Switzerland.
What, then, shall we say regarding
the treatment of vagrancy in the Uni
ted States? First, that at present 1t
is thoroughly inadequate. AS statis-
tics and the accompanying diagrams
show, 81 per cent. of the commitments
to penal institutions are to county
jails and warehouses; in which the
conditions are often exceptionally
bad. Drunkenness, vagrancy and dis
orderly conduct were responsible for
more than half the commitments dur
ing 1904 to penal institutions in the
United States. For these three Of
lenses the county jails and work
houses, to which the large majority of
offenders are committed, offer prac-
tically no reformative influences. For
more serious crimes, such as burglary,
robbery, assault forgery, ETC., there
are reformatories and state prisons, in
which latter institutions some reform
atory influence is felt.
This brief resume of the present
conditions inevitably points to the
necessity of material change in our
system of combating vagrancy. In
this connection it is of special inter
est that within recent months bill
has been drafted in New York state
providing for the establishment of a
farm colony upon lines very similar
to that of the Swiss compulsory colo
ny, Witzwyl. This bill, which has the
approval of the leading charitable so
cieties of New York city and of sew.
eral trunk lines terminating in New
York, and which will be introduced
into the next legislature, provides for
the establishment in New York state
of compulsory labor colony, with in
determinate sentence, regular labor,
reformatory influences and classified
ton of prisoners.
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ID UT when Belgium does commit a
ID vagrant, then woe to the liberty of
that vagrant for long period! Con.
viction is to a depot de mendicite for
from two to seven years. The depot
de mendicite is at Merxplas, a great
industrial cc,ony with accommodations
for about 5000 prisoners. Here there
occurs a classification, the worst ele-
ments being at night placed in soil
tary confinement and otherwise placed
under strict discipline. Intensive la
Dor is carried on, the work being
graded according to the physical abili-
ty of the individual inmates
The Belgian treatment of Migrants
brings out prominently several facts.
In the first place, Belgium believes in
getting Migrants of the streets and
highways. Some years ago the minis
ter of Justice declared that there was
no vagabondage in Belgium. This
statement needs interpreting. There
is probably fairly little vagrancy
along the highways, because every
vagrant must be apprehended and
made to show cause through his pa
pers, or by the absence of record at
Brussels, why he should not be sent to
the depot de mendicite. The fact that
Merxplas contains about 5000 in
mates, and that the average period of
detention is Is months, and that the
majority Of the inmates are returned
to Merxplas for succeeding offenses
of vagrancy, shows that vagrancy in
Belgium is not eradicated from the So
cial body, but removed as much as
much as possible from society.
THE Swiss colony of Witzwyl, which
j Mr.. Edmond Kelly has recently de-
scribed in detail in his book on "The
Elimination of the Tramp" shows that
in a certain proportion of cases the
inmates computed to compulsory
labor colony DO not reform and rejoin
the ranks of the industrial army. A
trained English investigator stated