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Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05
NEvADAv|LLE NOTES

The fremen will give their annual
New Years ball the 31st of December.
A good time is expected and everybody
is invited to attend.
Prof. Sherman Ellsworth came up
from Denver Saturday to cast his vote
for the good of his party.
Joseph Kramer came up from Golden
Monday to cast his vote.
Rev. Mr.. Eaton took the degree of
Esquire in R. L. No. 81 last Thursday
night.
The election dinner and supper given
by the Ladies Aid Tuesday was sue
cess and everyone who attended filled
up to the queens taste.
VIM. Simmens left for Denver Sun
day, returning Monday.
The firemen held regular monthly
meeting Monday night.
James Perkins left for Denver Tues
day.
Bruce Rutherford and family came
over from Idaho Springs Sunday to
visit the Parsons family.
Thomas Mullen left for the state of
Nevada Tuesday.
Richard Walls came up from Golden
Tuesday.
Mrs. ]. Rule came up from Golden
Tuesday.
Nicholas Prouse returned from Grip
pie Creek Tuesday.
Elmer Walls was up from Golden
Tuesday.
James Nichols arrived from Globe,
Ariz., Sunday.
Grover c. Matthews left for Long
mont Saturday, returning Tuesday.
P. Murphy, of New York. nephew of
Pat Murphy, was an arrival Saturday.
John Doran and Mrs. Murphy left for
Denver Friday to meet him and ac-
company him here.
Mrs. Harris came up from Denver
Tuesday evening.
VIM. Richards came up from Denver
Tuesday.
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05
You remember the Register sal

You remember the Register said
we would learn what a sore. head
Democrat was like in an issue be-
fore election? Yes, and that paper
said there would be some surprises
AID we agree with that paper
The surprises were most agreeable
ones. Mr.. Laird you ere quite a
political prognosticator.
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05

There will be some large and
juicy plums which the Democracy
has snatched from the Republicans
in the state election, to be distri-
buted among the faithful. Keep
away from the pie counter if you
didn't pull straight.
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05

Thanksgiving will come on the
26th this year and the people of
Colorado will have occasion to
give thanks. The individual who
stole Alva Adams executive chair
has been repudiated. Wonder how
he feels? The people are jubilant.
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05

Bill Evans said he would get
Johnny Vivian's scalp and the de-
feat suffered by the Republicans
in the state Tuesday indicates that
he will keep his word. Vivian has
gone to his political doom.
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05

The state assembly will be Demo.
cratic in both branches and Chas.
j. Hughes, Jr., will succeed Fl. NJ
Teller in the senate. Colorado
will be represented by bunch of
brains.
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05

Senator H. Nj. Teller, as is his custom
every election, came up from Denver
Monday evening to cast his vote. He
was accompanied by his wife and Chas.
j. Hughes. Senator Teller and Mr..
Hughes spoke before large and atten-
tive audience at the opera house Mon
day evening and returned Tuesday morn
ing to Denver.
Miss Anna Rachofsky came up from
Denver Monday evening to visit her
father and brother.
Mrs. j. D. Richards was an arrival
from Denver Monday. The Richards
will again take up residence in Central.
DR.. Abe Ashbaugh was in the city
Tuesday, coming up from Denver to
cast his vote.
John c. jenkins came up from Den
yer Monday, primarily to vote, incident
ally to look after business affairs.
Johnathan Weeks returned from a
visit to Denver the fore part of the
week.
Alfred Anderson, who is mining out
in Lump gulch, came in to cast his vote.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Weir, who came up
from Denver last week to attend the
Chapple funeral, returned home Tues
day morning.
Geo. Matthews who is attending the
state university at Boulder, following
the example of numerous other good,
loyal citizens, came up Saturday and
remained until Tuesday to vote.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Pitts, former
residents of this city but now of Den
yer, came up Tuesday to cast their bal
lots.
Prof. Smith, principal of the Russell
schools, visited the high school on Tues
day.
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05

Judge Matthews has the laugh
on the Guggenheimcrs. Since
they got such walloping they
are sore that one who didn't pull
with them continues in office. The
Judge is solid for four years.
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05
Phone. Central IO6
Res. Phone, Central los Extension

jefferson county redeemed itself
Tuesday. 1t has been purged of
bossism. Vivian has the blues and
Dickey Broad has a sad case of
melancholy.
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05

Congratulations are extended
the voters of the county for the
good judgement and political wis
dom manifested at the polls Tues
day.
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05

See the umbrellas with the Getach-
able handles at Rapin's.
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05
PROGRESS in SUNDAY School Work.

The M. E. Sunday school of this city
reached an enrolment last Sunday of
ITO, Indicating decided increase in the
attendance over previous enrollments
for some time past. On next Sunday,
Nov. 8th big Rally Day service will
be given instead of the lesson for the
day. There will be special music, short
talks, and program of interest to all.
The program is as follows:
2:45 5................. ............ Music
Special Music. ............. Girls Choir
Organ Voluntary E. G. Green
Usual S. S. Collection. .................
Five Minute Talks. s....................
The Home Department. ........ 80.
...............R Rev. c. w. Hancher
The Messenger Boys. .....E. G. Green
SOLO. .... ..................
The Teachers Class. Mr.. H. G. Shuck
The S. S. and the Church ...........
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Mr. McCallister
Song ng............Pr Primary Department
The Cradle Roll. ...... Mrs. L. Monroe
The Field. ......... Mr.. C. o. Richards
Why One Should Attend Sunday.
School. .... Mr.. Geo. r. Momyer
Benediction ................
Rally Day program at M. E. church
Sunday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock.
Everybody invited.
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05

RATES FURNISHED
ON APPLICATION
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05
w. j. Stuii, Editor and Prop

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
One Year in Advance. 20(
Six Months in Advance. e............S10( OK
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05

PAPER GTLPIN COUNTY
OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF CENTRAL
Gilpin observer., 1908-11-05

Rally Day program at M. E. church
Sunday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock.
Everybody invited.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-30
Man as a Bird.

Ever since man learned how to take
long and high flights in the upper air
he has been eager to become the mas
ter of air. The balloon is only a leaf
or a feather, always the sport of the
wind. 1t has served a good turn in
war. and it is natural that it should
inspire men like the Wrights, Pro
fessor Langley and Santos-Dumont to
aim at greater perfection in aerial nav
igation. The sea was feared for centu-
ries. Today it. is only canal between
dominions which want to trade.
The wild fight of the balloon has
been curbed. Santos-Dumont has CIV
en- a gas reservoir that can be pro-
PEELED and guided at its masters WILL
But this device, the airship, can carry
but little weight and is not controlla-
BILE in a strong wind. 1t would be as
sensible to try to navigate the widest
sea in a fair weather boat as to risk
life and treasure in the best airshtp
yet constructed. Santos-Dumont, the
expert on the airShip, has practically
declared that the future of aerial navi-
CATION is for the device which the
Wrights are working upon, a machine
which will initiate the fight of bird.
OF course the bird was created to fly
and to live In the air. But man seems
to be an invader up there. The ele-
ments are hostile to his daring ambi-
ton. The air has yielded electricity
to mans uses. Perhaps it has in re-
serve some element which man-made
bird can rest and float upon. The man
who discovers that element will vie
with Franklin in fame, and the man
who applies it may outrank Morse and
Edison as a worker of marvels.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-30
Demand For Trade Schools.

Recently the High School Teachers
association of Brooklyn gathered data
from the large cities and from some
of the lesser ones scattered over the
country as to the efficiency of the high
school for the complete education Of
youth. Particular attention was given
90 the abandonment of school during
the middle of the course, especially
by boys. Various causes are assigned
for the failure of the school to hold
boys of sixteen and upward until grad
uation, but one professor biuntly de-
clared that the world can do better for
some boys than the high school. When
a boy quits school with the excuse
that he cannot learn anything there it
is usually unwise to agree with him.
But when he says he cannot learn in
the high school what he wants TO
learn it is wisdom to find out the di-
rection OF his ambition and talents and
give him another chance.
The promoters of industrial educa-
11on propose to give boys who skip the
high school or fail to make good as
students there practical training which
shall serve for a start in the world.
Il Is only fair to the boys to do so. A
boy will be helped on for years in one
OF the professions, now vastly over
crowded, but there remains work to be
done in providing technical education.
The young graduate at law or medi-
cine can hang out his shingle and be-
gin earning at once, but the boy who
steps from high school into the shop
has to begin at the bottom of the wage
scale. 1t has been proved by figures
that the graduate oe Z trade school
starts In the shop with higher wages
and gets on faster than the wholly I'M
trained beginner in the same work.
The practical benefit of technical train
Ing Is assured What is needed Is
more training schools, so that the boy
may take his choice and not waste
time attempting work in the high
school which is not for him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-30
The GOOD Times Boom.

It is true that optimism can be car.
ried too far. There should be some
thing in sight to back 1t up. Prosperi
ty which exists only in the mind is 6
poor asset. The Iron Trade Review
thinks that this national habit of OPP
timism is being pushed to excess in
some quarters at this particular time.
Referring to the unwarranted circula-
ton of improvement reports, which it
calls manufacturing prosperity" this
paper says:
Every section Of the country is natural
ly eager to see restoration OF normal
conditions, particularly on the part of its
own leading industries, and wherever
there is evidence that this is being &C
complished the fact is deserving of the
widest publicity, If for no other reason
than the influence it may exert on indus
trial conditions generally. But there Is
no room for doubt that in the long run
the work of restoring confidence and Of
building up business toward the normal
is actually hindered by the publication Of
reports which are either entirely with
out foundation in fact or at most tell but
half the truth. These fallacieS are GER
tain to be discovered and noised abroad,
and their reaction is invariably disas-
trous.
But it is possible that the cry of
hard times was itself overdone. 1t Is
to be noticed that some Of the sections
which insisted last October that there
was no panic are still talking on the
same key. If the shouts of that class
OF optimists fell upon dull ears, 1t is
but natural that they should shout
oftener and louder. There are truth
full reports current Of heavy orders In
manufacturing, Of suspended banks re-
opening, Of an increase in orders for
store goods. In the state Of mind Of
a year ago these reports would have
meant nothing. Now they tend to
Offset the calamity cries. Fair crops
are in prospect, and prohibitive prices
are not likely to prevail in any lines.
It is safe to moderate our expecta-
tons, especially that form Of Op-
timism which leads to cashing expec-
tations In advance. As the Review
points out false prosperity is calcu-
lated to do harm. There has been
reign Of luxurious living in this coun-
try unwarranted by the real condition
Of things If the hard times are not
real, the scare may be worth while If
Il makes the reckless ones more eau
tious. And false reports Of prosperity
may do harm if they lead to more
reckleSSness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-30
Cotton in Arizona.

Cotton has been known in Arizona
many years. Attempts to grow 1t COM
mercially, however. have thus far met
with economic failure, due to absence
OF concerted effort, inexperienced and
high priced labor and the belief that
with the same soil and water better
returns can usually be obtained from
other crops. Experiments carried on
in recent years have given more def
mite and favorable information con-
corning the crop In this region. A
leafet of the state experiment station
on "Cotton Growing In Arizona" pre-
sents some Of this and will be useful
to prospective planters. 1t is said that
the more recent experiments point
strongly toward Egyptian cotton as
best adapted to Arizona conditions.
The climate of the Salt and Colorado
river valleys is similar to that Of
Egypt. Both regions are irrigated and
are distinguished by the long growing
season, so essential to the proper ma
turing of Egyptian varieties of cotton.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-30
High School Notes.

Wednesday morning before writ
ing the examinations we Wei
entertained with talks by Mr..
Schreiner and Mr. ShOwalter on
the subject of Andersonville Prison,
and other subjects concerning the
Civil War. The accounts were very
inter estlng and appropriate on ac-
count of the nearness of Memorial
Day. In conclusion the school stood
up and sang the national sorg.
America.
The examination were given on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Thursday morning an opportunity
was gwen to students to make up
back work in tests, rhetoricals and
examinations. Quite number
awaited themselves of the op-
portunity.
Pupils returning their test books
this week were nearly all saddened
by the demand of fines for damages
done to the books in the way of
''broken backs" scribbling, etc.
These fines often reached to the
amount of twenty five or thirty
cents. and you know that's an
enormous sum for a high school
student at this time of the year.
Miss Barber's mother, of Wash
1ngton, D. g., has been visiting here
during the past week.
Miss Stiles mother who visited
here last week has returned to her
home at Beloit.
This week for the first time in
it's history the detention list failed
to work. Those who were not
writing examinations were excused
at recess.
Several rhetoricals were rendered
to a very meagre audience during
the last two days OF school. The
required rhetoricals were necessary
before proper credits could be given
School is over and many are the
signs of relief. The only regretable
fact is the loss of the senior class.
What are we going to do in athletics
now that the 'O8 class has been
graduated and taken some of the
best men9
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-30
A New Railway Danger Signal.

Testimony in recent distressing &C
c1dent due to a grade crossing collision
between trolley car and passenger
train showed that danger signals are
recklessly ignored sometimes. To
make schedule time is the object set
before motormen and engineers, and
1T is only fair to say that occasionally
the making of schedule time by train
will limit the liability to accident
Through confusion. However. the prac-
s&ice of ignoring signals has come to be
a menace, and railroad men have en-
couraged a new device for signaling
which also stops the train or car sig
nailed. If the machine operates eff
fectively it will doubtless be widely
adopted.
The new signal cannot be ignored,
because the car or train is at once
taken from the control of its master
and compelled to stop. The only way
TO start motion is for some one to
salight and release the exterior check,
fixed automatically at the time the sig
mailman gives warning. Recently an
old railroad man declared in an article
printed in the Atlantic Monthly that
the practice of ignoring signals by rail-
road men at certain times has become
q habit hard to eradicate. He consid-
cred the practice responsible for many
distressing accidents, but yet trainmen
continue to, exercise discretion. If the
obstacle suggested by the signal is
seen the warning is needed, but if not
speed is merely slackened and no full
stop made. If railway men will not
obey rules as to signals absolutely a
device to check their train in spite Of
them will be found necessary, espe-
cially at points where the danger is
greatest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-30

A woman who evidently has studied
her subject first hand said recently of
American society: "The whole trouble
with society can be summed up in one
word-insincerity. A love of outward
display governs every action. People
have become too fashionable to enjoy
themselves and, while they do not
know it, have lost the art of good liv-
ing" Others have discovered this,
too, and that may be why so many
plain people content themselves with
homelike simplicity and genuine friend
Ships
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-30
Personal Identitication Cards.

The woman who was arrested and
detained on the New York Central
upon the vague suspicion that she
might be the Laporte murderess was
fortunate in being able to establish
her identity without tedious delay.
For one thing, she had a travelling
companion, making it necessary for
the police who made the arrest to dis
have Jared worse. The incident shows
that it is wise for people travelling far
from home to carry upon their persons
some form of Identification papers. 1t
is a simple matter, but may turn out
to be most important. Accident insur-
ance companies provide their patrons
with such a card under the belief that
in case of injury the insured may be
alone and Identification a subject of
mystery to strangers.
The revelations Of the Laporte case
also show that means of personal iden-
LITIGATION are always good thing. Miss
ing men and women by the hundreds
are unaccounted for In this country,
and the friends Of the missing ones
are in doubt in some cases as to wheth-
er the farm victims may not include
the objects Of their search Some of
the missing ones may choose to hide
their identity, others may be dead and
still others, bereft Of reason, detained
in public institutions. Under va
riety of happenings swift and sure
means of identification may serve a
good turn, and every long distance
traveller can easily provide for it in
advance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-30
G. A. r. Veterans and History.

The greatest patriotic society in the
United States today, says the Chicago
Tribune, is the Grand Army of the
Republic. SIN its membership are the
men who made the most heroic chapter
In the history Of our country, and the
veterans themselves are so many walk
ing pages of that chapter, full of expe-
rience at which the child imagination
takes fire." With branches in every
city and in almost every town and
hamlet of the land, this great organiZa
ton is a great educational machinery
already in existence, one, too, that
could fifty be employed to bring to the
children in the public schools the in
spring realities of the great epoch it
made and the great lessons Of devo-
ton and sacrifice it learned in the ma
tional crisis.
On each Memorial day veterans of
the G. A. r. are asked to speak to au-
diences made up Of the young and dur
ing Memorial week even address the
children in the schools. But Memorial
day and it's opportunities come but
once a year. The work might be so
organized that every school should be
addressed by a veteran once a month
or even once a week. The talk should
be brief and informal and not dwell so
much upon patriotism In the abstract
as upon concrete experiences of the
living veterans or their late comrades,
so that the children would remember
it as story Of fact heard from the
heros own lips or from the lips Of
witness of or participant in the war
event. In this way the moral courage
and the sublime patriotism of the war
era would be wildly impressed upon
young minds. The Tribune believes
that this would be work worthy Of the
last days of the Grand Army and one
which it could without difficulty and
certainly would most gladly perform
1t is in keeping with fundamental
pledge of the order to which every
member has subscribed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-30
KING DONALD

Certificate of Grade Stallion No. 2OsO.
King Donald is bay stallion with black
points. Stands 1872 hands high, weighs 1000
pounds He is a grand individual and a
very nigh acting trotter. He could show
better than 2:15 clip as a Two year old
pacing, and last year as a 3 year old paced a
mile in 2:2O over half mile track. I have
started him at the trot and he can show
better than 2;3O clip with only two weeks
work. He is without doEbt the fastest
young stallion Of his age in Grant County.
He will make the season at Dyer's Livery
Barn and will stand at $500 to insure stand
ing colt. Parties disposing of mares will be
held for the service fee, which will be due
when mare is sold. w. B, DYER.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-30
Education In South America.


Il is often a matter of surprise to
people Of this country who are aware
OF the large number of highly educated
men and women Of native birth and
training In South America that civ
ilization there is backward in COM
parison with the United States and
Canada, for instance. Light is thrown
upon this subject by Professor ". r.
Shepherd OF Columbia university,
whose observations on a recent trip
are set forth in the Review Of Re-
views Briefly it is gathered from
Professor Shepherds showing that,
while there is much education in the
South American states, it is not of the
right kind. He quotes Chilean au-
thority, who criticises the system in
his own country as follows:
A capital fault in our method Of In
struction is it's academic and theoretical
character of eff1orescence and ostentation.
We do not try to prepare the youthful
mind for the daily struggle of existence,
to teach our young people along lines
that are really practical, that bear upon
industry and upon making use OF the
active forces of the country. On the
contrary before everything else we turn
out academic debaters, aggressive rhetori-
clans and voluble takers, who often run
politics into the ground. The utmost ap-
parently that can come forth from our
universities, even the best and most Sc
lect Of them, is a quantity of doctors.
lawyers and engineers, a number Of
young fellows equipped with diplomas
and who, without realizing 1t, rush into
professional and titular encounters. We
have surfeit Of lawyers and doctors.
Professor Shepherd remarks that
this criticism applies to all South
American republics and proceeds to
an explanation of the origin and tend
encies Of the educational influences
now at work in several Of The more
progressive states. The basis Of cul-
ture Is Spanish or Portuguese, and
upon that is laid a French veneer.
French power dominates in astrono-
my and In fine arts, and German sway
is apparent in the natural sciences.
French ideals prevail In Chile and Ger
man in Brazil. In the. latter country
the authorities in certain provinces
have found 1t necessary to encourage
the teaching Of the national tongue,
the Portuguese. From this readiness
Of the people to borrow and to initiate
culture 1t may be inferred that edu-
cation Is looked upon In South Ameri-
ca as an adornment, not as a vital ele-
ment Of race progress, and it is easily
conceivable that the educational sys-
tenn applied to the masses, however
generously supported, lacks practicali-
ty and directness, as Professor Shep-
herd asserts.