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The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-04
Oscar Wyland loft Sunday night
for the West.

A. O. Phares and wife went to
Denver Wednesday night on a
short VISIT.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-04

John G. johnson and wife, of
Center, took dinner at the Simpson
on New Years day.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-04

Governor Bucbtol seems deter.
mined TO put . stop TO gambling
in Denver and DO has tho ectivs
support Of the Attorney General
Who will take . bend 10 The pros
ecstion OF lAw.breskers in case
district attorssys fail 70 do their
duty.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-04

l.. 81. Duvlc's little 500 who has
been sick for some weeks 10 grad.
ually growing weaker asd 10
hopes Of hs recovery ere eater.
taincd. ais trouble 10 somslh,nS
akin TO cancer Of tho stomach.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-04

John 8. 0ardper spsat TIE holt.
days with h,s family 10 Dsaver.
Mrs. Gardnsr has improved N
health since ~ ~ tbs valley aAd
che snd her chiIdrso are quite Con-
tented IN the big c,ty.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-04

George N. Talbert Of Wash,n9.
ton, D. C., Vas II town The 6rst of
the week and made . visit to NJ.
and Ara w. D. Nelson living sear
Csnter.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-04

w. Z. Sumpl0r cane down froa
Center Thursday - bic auto TO 81
q look at Q i've town.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-04

Laura Manson and mother re-
turned from Denver Monday
morning where they have been on
q long visit.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-04

George Myers Is in Denver
under treatment by DR.. Roudiez.
He 10 10 hopes to recover bis
health without q surgical opera.
ton.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-04

N. F. Powell and son George
returned from q business trip to
Denver Wednesday morning.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-04

The ringing Of church bells and
blowing Of whistles ushsrsd 10 The
New Year u Monte Vista.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-04

JeAs Kerr aod vile node . tsic
70 Dsaver 6sndaS night
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-01-04

The output OF the Creede mines
for the year just ended was S..
4O6, 56l aud since 1892 tho OUTPUT
was $54,964.OO3.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10
wANTED...A SUPERVISOR.

A deputy supervisor of spanking has
lately been appointed. in a New Eng
land city 10 see that the sentences OF
a police magistrate are carried out
when the Judge sends small boys home
10 he punished for stealing apples. The
supervisor Of spanking prefers, to re-
main in his Office, in command of his
forom. while the deputy does the sup
cruising, an arrangement common in
other public offices.
Imaginative reflection sees a~narvelot's
possibilities in the offices created by
the New England municipality, Wise
men from Solomon down have favored
spanking as q reforrnatory influence
Heretofore. we have negltbly enough
left the exercise and adjustment OF
this potent force u esnts, ms
and the occasional seho2lma a.'- lew
England has now pointed the way.
Place for the official spanker.
Imagine with the ringing of the cur
fsm ass efiaiSi soahk~s stealing
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10
MAYOR VS..
Burlington Hawkeye.)

The position of mayor in a college
town is no a happy one. If the chief
executive curbs the students with a
strong hand. he is condemned In vigor-
Gus language. And II he falls to DO
so, he Is also condemned. Mayor Blame
of Champaign, was assaulted Ny a gang
of tough students. while trying to save
a poor freshman, who had been as
saulted by q mob Of sophomores, who
wanted to haze him. The mayor final
" drew his gun and fired into the air,
whereupon the gang dispersed. He
says thatshe will shoot to kill the next
time. IL the rioters were hoboes or
factory hands there would he prompt
action on the part of the authorities.
TT the police We're unable to queal the
disturbance, the militia would NE called
on, and there would be very severe
sentences for the ~ringleaders. Where
any attempt Is made to punish the
leaders OF a student mob, such pun
ishment usually becomes "a ridiculous
farce. The pride OF the country, the
student body ait our higher institutions
Of learning. surely need not be mol
.lvcoddles, yet neither is 1t necessary
that they play the part of row'dies and
rioters. OF course, the mayor of Cham
y,aign will not shoot to kill the NEXT
time. But he cannot be blamed for
growing warm under the collar.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10
thai is carrying Jonah and the whale
IN tba rIoanara

to the cleaners.
1t would seem that at a time when
we never had SO few students for the
ministry In our ~seminaries, when city
churches in so many instances are
selling their buildings and giving up
the fight, or throwing themselves on
the bounty of n missionary society,";
when preachers squirm uncomfortably
In their pulpits on account of q lonely
array OF empty pews, while they know
every pleasure park in town Is gorged
with men and women going to hell as
fast as they can get drunk enough to
start-it would seem as tho In times
like these professedly Christian teach
ers and preachers would recall how
churches, only a little while ago fam
Gus for revivals. spiritual power and
~benevolence, are now struggling might
and main to make both ends meet.
The trouble is and always will be
that q denial Of the supernatural cuts
the foundation from under the church,
and it becomes no more q religious In
stitution than a public school. II. as
some affirm, the present generation Is
losing it's interest in religion. the prin-
cipal reason is hat the average man
and woman has enough during the
week to destroy faith without going on
Sunday to some church to hear a
preacher who will finish the job.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10
A HsaIthful Sign in Politics.


Desperate as the situation may app
pear to the harassed managers, the
paucity of campaign funds Is one OF the
healthiest signs Of the present political
season. 1T ~insures. we think, q fairer
and more honest election than we have
eneld in many years. The successful
party will assume charge of national
affairs with fewer obligations to spe-
cial interests and less hampered by
"entangling alliances" against the pub
lie welfare. Whether it was admitted
or denied, the donation OF huge sums
by the corporations in behalf Of any
political party or candidate created an
obligation which could not be evaded
and was seldom ignored. The practice
was wrong in principle and vicious in
practice. 1t was, in effect, q species Of
bribery that poisoned our political sys-
TEN more in%sidiously, but not less
surely, than the direct or indirect pur-
chase of individual influence. Tho Ats
rigid enforcement was probably the
last thing expected by some OF those
who voted for 1t, the law prohibiting
corporate contributions was a long step
toward pure politics and honest .legis-
1atiOn n
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10
M@7~~
Base Ball Then and Now.

editorial in Golfers for October lo)
They play better in these days than
in the grand old times of 'Corcoran'
Radbourne, Latham. n Dan
ers. Not the most enthusiastic remln-
iscer a deny it. Confucius observed
that he disagreed with the celebraters
of the good old times; but Confucflls
was one of those ~rarities who do their
own thinking. Most men must adore
some ideal that is remote. No interest
in the past, however. can blind us to
facts so obvious as the superiority ] N
fielding, for instance, today over flve-
and-twenty years age. The perfectlon
of action Is a marvel. And how varied
is the history of this progress. VINO
remembers when three strikes on the
first bound were out? Later the catch
err came up and donned his Ia only
after two strikes or six balls, and he
often had more passed balls in a game
| than the best catcher of today has IN
a month. We remember seeing Kelly
cut third and Williamson make a clean
| steal of home; they could not do IT
now. One cause OF the improvement
is that, discipline is better. Also the
material Is drawn from a larger Held.
You see far more German names. Once
the Irish altogether pr~edomdnated.
| They hold their own but the compe-
tition has Increased. 1T Is a wonder
full spectacle, a irst-class professional
match; better than it has been eVer in
history. The marriage OF Anson $
younger daughter is narrated by tne
pa pers-weN-a-day, how time hoes NY
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10
TWO PANIcs.
Cedar Rapids Republican,

What about the farmers and the
panic? After the panic OF 1893 farm
ers sold their corn for 10 cents a
bushel and their hogs for $3.50 a hun
dred pounds, right here in Iowa
Horses were a drug on the market
and CATTLE sold for n n How has
1t been this year and last fall? In spite
of the so-called republican panic OF
last year, the prices of farm products
have gone 4up instead of down. Corn
is 10 cents q bushel, instead of 10;
hogs are $3.50 instead OF $3.50. Horses
are higher than they have ever been
and that in the face OF the development
Of the automobile. There Is not a
farmer who has lived long enough who
does not know the difference and who
does not see thru the sophistry OF Mr..
Bryan in presenting the so-called re-
publican panic OF last fan as an offset
for the panic OF 1898. Mr.. Bryan dre"
pictures that were entertaining, but Inc
said nothing that was convincing on
this subject of panics.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10
THE HERNDoN OIL WELL.
Bagley Gazette)

HE
MONDAY we visited the we'll that
the National Refining and Manufactur-
ing company is putting down at
Herndon in search of oil. On account
of the size of the machine in use-one
of the largest made-we expected to
encounter considerable noise. but were
much surprised at the quick. quiet and
easy manner in which everything was
done. MI. Clements, who has the
work in charge, seems ito be thorough
ly acquainted with his business.
When we were there a depth of $50
feet had been reached. Last week
they drilled thru a strata of twenty
feet of "Ohio break This is the
most favorable indications of Oil they
have vet reached, and this with the
stratas they have since passed thru
are identical with those encountered in
the Ohio oil fields. Ever since they
passed thru the "Ohio break" oil in
a. small amount has appeared on every
bucket of water drawn UP. Below
this strata, Mr.. Clements tells us, they
will not strike water.
The company has eight and one
fourth inch casing on the road to put
inside the present casing and cut off
the water. After this is done they
can go down three or four times as
fast as at present, and they expect
to be compelled to go several hundred
feet yet, but the prospects for success
seem favorable"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10
Iona Newspapers
SPEAKING OF HOG CHOLERA,
burlington HaMkeYel

Farmers in the vicinity of Boone re-
port heavy losses thru hog cholera.
No doubt, sooner or Letter, this disease
will be fully investigated and the rem
edy will he found. Perhaps ere long,
farmers will be raising hogs that arc
immune, cholera-proof so to speak.
1t Is believed that prevention rather
than cure is to be sought. The total of
the losses that Iowa farmers have suf-
fered thru hog cholera will reach stu
pendous figures. And perhaps the rem
edy is a very simple thing, II we only
knew 1t. Perhaps there Is something
that ought to be fed, or there is some
plant that nature supplies. something
growing wild. The hog cholera Is to-
day one Of the worst things that the
Iowa farmer las to contend with. o'
course he does fairly well in spite OF
1t, but 1t seems as II by this time the
way ought to have been discovered to
cut off the awful waste that is caused
by this disease.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10
Ths Morals Of Golf.
(New York World)

A question as to the gambling ten
denotes OF golf Is raised by a CORE
spondent of a London newspaper. HIS
particular accusation is that 81 stran-
ger at a golf club finds it difficult to
get into a match unless he Is willing
to risk a money wager on the result.
1t will be remembered that a New YORK
golfer was recently tried before Justice
Gaynor on a charge OF violating the
anti-gambling law by betting d box OF
golf balls on the outcome of match.
The great vogue of golf makes per-
tinent a consideration of its influence
on the morals of players. Is 1t insid-
iously breaking down conventional
moral code? Sober citizens who would
not think of playing bridge on Sum
day hurry away to the links after an
early breakfast to take. part IN matches
on which there is frequently a consid-
cradle stake. Men h would resent
the suggestion of playing bridge for
bet a ball out and a ball lin"
with a third ball on the full round. III
the match is a foursome there are fire.
q%uently side bets against the medal
scores OF the other players. A player
doing a hole in a stroke less than
DOGGY, il the can Of the links making
a "birdie," extracts q tribute OF a ball
from each of hisaopponents. From three
to a dozen balls, the equivalent of from
$3.50 to Sc, may thus hang on the re-
suits of a match, the balls serving as
convenient counters for a settlement
made in cash.
Are those who have the nations NOR
ais in their keeping aware of these de-
moralizing influences Of the game?
VIII there yet be a demand for the
state regulationqin the interest of pub
lie morality OF the sport which is like
wise charged with initiating against
Sunday observance and excise legisla-
tion2
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10

slelth alike, paddle in hand. thru the
parks, scanning the benches beneath
tho ~shadowinS trees! Imagine the
sounds that would rise as ae swiftly
and skillfully got in his work, the
smacking crack of the paddle placed
accurately where paddles do the most
good, the cries OF pain and the swift
patter of homeward- flying feet. I'm
.agine how quickly the erring feet Of the
.truant would point toward the school
house about the time the official
spanker doomed on the horizon. There
are some splendid possibilities in the
New England plan.
But there are cases for which an
official spanker lis a remedy too mild.
The office might be supplemented with
the OFFICIAL worshipper. Every fair
sized town has in 1T a gang more or
less numerous who are At food for
horsewhips. Lazy, worthless louts, who
live on Woodworking parents and Gig
arets, semi-criminal %"tinhorns' who
hang about watching for the unsophis-
ticated and asinine. who may be
fieeced out of a few dollars in a card
game, or 'tfrisked" in n way or an
other, and perhaps most of all deserv-
ing of quick and condign n-handling
the offensive brute who walks the
streets, staring in the eyes Of women
.ur,speakable insult. An active. earnest
and competent man, fmbued with the
high privilege Of his office and pro-
vided with an elm club could do much
to these. Perhaps he could render his
office a %sinecure by Kidding the town
of their presence. If so. HE should
be kept on at. full pay and persioned
in his old age
There is somewhat that appeals to
present-day needs in the official pro-
cedure of New England.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10
my FARMING.

Few farmers in the ts.orn country"
ana inside the S0-inch rainfall, realize
how Infinitely valuable the work Of
the agricultural department Of the gov
ernment is now and is certain to be-
come. The irrigation projects attract
great attention from their magnitude
and the fact that they reclaim land
absolutely worthless. However, it is
probably true that where the irrigation
projects will produce one bushel of
grain, 'dry farming" is certain to pro-
duce 100. No more valuable assist
ance has ever been rendered agricul-
tural production than the introduction
OF this system.
The returns are now coming in to
the secretary of the Trans Missouri
Dry Farming congress, and yields from
tarrns and ranches operated under
scientific methods as compared with,
Yields Grom farms and ranches where
slack methods were utilized show the
0ilference system anu Ito sss-
tenn. The report is typical. In the
eastern section Of Laramie county,
wyoming, the experiences are worth
considering. On ranches where no
attention was paid to advice Of experts
Aald experimental station directors. the
Yields Of wheat are as low as v
bushels to the acre. while a few miles
atstant. under exactly like conditions
81 rainfall, soil and climate. the yields
run in averages from thirty to forty
bushels to the acre. The men who
..won out followed carefully the di-
reotdons given, using deep Moving.
narrowing as directed, and in most
cases alternate cropping methods.
Thirty to forty bushels Of wheat on
land that has been classed as semi-arid
and OF small value vel, for stock graz
ing, Is am addition to the worlds
wealth worth considering. The scien-
list has proved libel against the geog-
4apher who created "The Great Amer
lean Desert"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10
Sermons That please Lawyers.

A lawyer in speaking before the
Baptist ministers conference in Boston
recently, proposed to the clergy there a
method of operation taken from his
own profession. How would it work,
he asked, if the preacher filed a brief
Of his sermon on, say, Friday. where
it might be examined? This is in imi-
tation of cases In the highest court OF
Massachusetts, where "the rule prevails
that attorneys. shall file their briefs,
that is, the outline of their argument,
with their authorities in support Of it,
the day before the case is placed on
the list for argument, and the oppes-
ing counsel is entitled to a copy" 1t
such a rule were followed, he asks,
would it change the style of the SER
mon, its subject, its language, its gem
eral tone and line of argument, and
would the sermon be prepared and
filed on time without any unusual
haste In it's preparations" The ques-
tions are left for the ministers to an
swer and are only put at the end of a
discourse on the subject OF the kind
OF sermon lawyers like. The speaker,
Mr.. Frank K. Linscott, whose words
are quoted in The Waterman, Boston.
gives a sketch of a lawyers day, and
in the light of such a program tells
the kind of a sermon that a lawyer
would be likely to wish to hear on the
day following. We read:
"Consider for a moment a lawyers
diary. and become, as it We're, a prac-
ticing attorney for a day.
.The first caller is a bank president.
A debtor Of the bank is in financial
straits, involving not alone thousands
of the banks money, but the solvency
of other concerns n the reputation
of business men. The lawyer, sum-
moning to his aid past experience,
legal decisions, statutes of this state
and the other states, of the
United States and of England, decides
on q. course Of action that brings his,
client the best result obtainable under
the circumstances.
"Next. the brother of a mar indicted
for murder in the first degree brings
in the report of an expert on insanity
the defense decided upon. Bristllng
with technical words and theories ne
considers it not alone for it's intrinsic
worth, it's cross-examinatlon value Dut
also it's bearing upon other reports
already received and as a I~oundatloa
for his own cross-exa1nination of OPP
posing expert witnesses.
CHE is followed by a woman whose
husbands unexpected death has sud
denly burdened her shoulders with a
going business. the strain which mad
caused her husbands death. Again
the lawyer is called upon at once to
plan a course of action that shall not
alone at once bring the ship back to
her course from which it his fallen or
the instant the hand at the wheel
had loosened, but also shall be suffl-
GENTLY comprehensive to include the
future care AND development of the
business.
cat this point he goes to court to
+,y a case. 1t is n on which he has
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10
HQw THE FARMS Will VOTE.

One Of the infalltble induces to po-
tftical conditions Is supplied by the
attitude and opinions of the farmers.
IL . politician wants to know how a
state In which the farmer vote Is a
6actor is going, he has to get back to
hho soil. Especial care has been taken
70 sound sentiment among the arm
ers In half a dozen states, including
New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
North Dakota. The farmers are pros
porous and contented. They are keen
~ alive to the importance OF the trust
ana railroad regulating activities of
Mr.. Roosevelt and what dt means to
the tillers of the land. They approve
of them, and they know that Mr.. Taft
cam be depended upon to lend his In
duence wisely and c~onservatisely, but
e1fectively, to the same end.
saThere is no use in trying to make
q farmer believe that the country is
going tosthe dogs and a change of adj
manifestation is needed, when he has
money In the bank, no mortgage on his
place and possibly a few hundreds out
on interest said a man today who
has travelled much OF late thru the
middle west. They aren't responding
20 Mr.. Bryan's pleas, and they don't
syrnpathize with his ideas. They are
+ that they owe their prosperity to
Mckinley, Roosevelt and the republi-
AN party, and they are satisfied to
let things run on a they are. Why.
EI heard OF one farming section not
i from Chicago where among 5000.
persons there were forty-two auto
mobiles owned. What reason have
tillese folks for taking a chance polit-
icalIy BY voting for Bryan, the un-
sried theorist, against Taft"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-10
A jewelers. Experience.

c. X. Kluger, the jeweler. 1860 vir-
ginia avenue. Indianapolis, Ind, writes
II was SO weak from kidney trouble
that Istcould hardly walk a hundred
feet. Four bottles Of Foley's Kidney
Remedy cleared my complexion, cured
my backache and the irregularities dis
appeared, and I can now attend to
business every day, and recommend
Foley's Kidney Remedy to all sufferers.
az 1t cured me after the doctors and
other remedies had failed. Mcbride y
VIII Drug company.