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The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-02

CURED property at Seattle worth $780,
100000, at Tacoma s12, 100000, az
Duluth, at Butte, at Spokane sl4,- !
100000 more. The stated policy OF
the Hartman roads IS TO have
enough future lands available so that
for each additional car it can put into
immediate use S62 feet of yard track
age and sidings.
Against the time when coal lands
will be exhausted a number of East
ern railroads are acquiring water
power rights through subsidiary cor
porations. The steam railroads have
no present use for this power, ana
the money so invested must lie idle
perhaps for many years; but they
must be prepared for the future.
Some time-no one can predict the
date with assurance-the electric
locomotive will upset our traditions.
Then to-day's millions will return
dividends.
The smallest industry can apply
this same principle. The big indus
tries are cited only because they are
conspicuous instances: the Western
Electric Company at its new Haw-
thorne plant has enough idle land to
provide for manifold expansion; the
mercantile house OF Sears, Roebuck
& Co. has forty acres Of empty
prairie land around its plant, ready
/ for to-n, orrou's buildinu
The United States Steel Corpora
ton owns land at Gary and Bufing-
/ ton, also seven miles Of lake front,
with riparian rights which will per-
nit OF the making Of as much la3d
out in the lake as the company will
ever require. The Corn Products
| Company has acquired a whole town.
ship and put it, factory IN the middle
Of it. The free land Of the Allis-
Chalmers Company will allow the du-
/ plication of its West Allis plant in a
straight line six times over.
Retail stores are looking to the
future, particularly in congested dis.
tricts, by providing foundations for
structures erected capable OF sup
porting additional stories as the vol
ume of business demands,
Down TO the minutesi detail this
| lookout for tomorrow may be car
ried. A company making various
| lines of apparatus is overhauling its
catalogue system in such a way that
IL will be possible to group kindred
styles of apparatus under simple num-
bers.
The plan has been to number styles
consecutively as they were originated.
Now each type is TO have a thousand
numbers-style A will be called 1000,
style B 1000 and so on. Improve
ments in type A will be numbered
1901, 1902 and so on. Adding to this
the use Of the loose leaf in the cata-
logue, the futures orderly expansion
so far as concerns this one little detail
is provided for
Then there is another kind of to-
morrow policy-the progressive to-
morrow departments, which embrace
those that are studying future de-
mands, altered customs, future mar
kets, future possibilities In the way
Of inventions and devices. Farm i'm
plement makers are investing great
sums In experiments so that the bust
ness OF their sons may be abreast OF
demand and of progress.
A large machine making plant
spent a million dollars in one year
in this experimental work. An auto
mobile factory has devoted five years
to experiments on an automobile de-
signed for a particular and local pur-
pose.
One appliance manufacturer ac-
tually has in his vaults patents, de.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-02
A Xnlued Possession.

My little sister, three years old.
had a peach given her, which was the
first she had ever seen.
When l saw 1t, went up to her,
and taking the peach from her took a
bite cut of It,
Immediately she began to cry, and
I asked what she was crying for.
II wanted to keep that little wooden
APPLE" was her reply.-Delineator.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-02
COZZENS PERPLEXED.
A Soft Answer Tunnel
away His Wrath. .-....,a-
Observation-Disclosures

Observation-Disclosures
what cried Mr.. Cozzens,. isn't
dinner ready yet?"
And as he strobe around the din
ing room in a tempestuous and ag-
grieyed sort Of way he contentedly
attuned bis ears to catch 4 spirited re-
ply from Mrs, Co2zens, but as for Mrs.
Cozzens, Mrs COzzens fooled him,
and the only response he heard was
a rattle Of dishes in the kitchen,
where Mrs c. was preparing the
evening meal
isn't ready yet eh?" he cried.
"Isn't ready yet, eh?'
And again be attuned his ears TO
catch the customary NO. it isn't. Ell! -
but again Mrs. Cozzens disappointed
him, placing her head through the
kitchen doorway Gnstead Of speaking
sharply TO him through the door,
and saying, Just a minute or two,
Henry. I'm sorry I'm so late"
"Oh, you're sorry, eh?" cruelty de-
manded Mr. Cozzens, flinging himself
into his evening chair and rafting
the evening paper, you're sorrY
eh?"
"Tn be only a minute now said
Mrs. Cozzens.
Hull cried Mr. Cozzens. "When
come home hungry like my dinner
work hard all day, l do, and l need
IT."
But Mrs. Cozzens had returned to
the kitchen.
Sorry exclaimed Mr., Cozzens,
bitterly, raising his voice. "Yes,
sorry! But sorrow doesn't feed mel
Mo- Sorrow doesn't butter my pars-
nips! No! Sorry! Huh! And so
you're sorry, eh?- he cried.
And glanciug toward the kitchen
door he gave It a look that said,
There, thatll fetch her out on the
rum"
But, on the contrary, Mrs Cozzens
appeared on the walk with a plate Of
bread IN her hand.
Have You had q hard day,
Henry?" she asked.
81 always have a hard day." grum.
bled Henry, 'and want my dinner. b
Just a minute" said Mrs Coz.
gems.
Just a minute. eh?" demanded
Mr., Cozzens, with a look like a
griffon.
Yes, Just a. minute" said Mrs
Cozzens
Just a min ute, eh?" demanded Mr.
C02"ens again, in such a nasty ton,
of voice thar ordinarily it would hav,
brought Mrs. Cozzens around his ear
like a swarm Of bees.
Eyes, that's all, said Mrs, Cozzens
and as she hurried back into tn
kitchen Mr.. Cozzens turned his eye
up to Dick, who was filling in wit
birdseed for the night
"Huh!' cried Mr.. Cozzens Ccart
fully raising his,voice so that it coul
be heard from the kitchen). AN
there you are stuflng away An
what have. you been doing all day
Have you been dong nothing, too?-
Bue only silence greeted him, s
that at last MI Co2zens gathered h
eyebrows together with an expressio
that said, "Now, that's funny! Nov
that's very funny"
Ready at last, said Mrs. Cozzen
hurrying in with the soup.
"Oh, so you're ready at last, Ell
exclaimed Mr. Cozzens, inexorab
laying down the challenge again.
"You must have been tired Of wal
ing" said Mrs. Cozzens.
"Huh!" cried Mr. Cozzens.
an give You plenty Of SOUP" sa
Mrs. Cozzens, because you're hu
cry"
That's all right, too" grumbl
Mr.. c. "You needn't try to fill I
up on soup"
well, who's trying to fill you
on soup2" cried Mrs. Cozzens (befc
she could stop HERSELF.
And as for Henry, Henry rejoic
In his heart and was glad.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-02

Albert Richardson, of Eskridge,
Kan, died last week at the age of
10. He was so old at the time OF
the Civil War that his enlistment was
refused, 49,.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-02
Prophetic Eye in Business.

Tomorrow Departments" Of the Great Industries,
Railroads Securing Fuel Half Century Ahead
Tanners Buy Up Forests-Brick Makers Get Clay
Banks-Traning For Work Of the Future ..''.''''''
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-02

Germany is the chief LAM Of dueIs
at present.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-02

Observation-Disclosures
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
TRADE IN REPTILES.

The trade in snake skins does not at
first thought suggest itself as one re-
quiring large capital or very compli-
Gated organization, at least in this
country. But in the far east things
are different, says the Boston Herald.
The Java Reptile Skin Company has
been incorporated in the island of
that name, with capital of $4,000.
Branches will be established in a num-
ber of places throughout the island,
where live snakes will be purchased
from native hunters. Great stress is
placed upon buying the reptiles alive,
since the skin is much more valuable
If the snake is skinned while yet alive.
Live snakes 12 to 1S feet in length
bring good prices; while dead snakes
are drug in the market. The woman
who wears with pride a daintily bound
snake skin card case will probably not
give thought to the fact that the ma
terial was stripped from living
snake. Ever since the episode in
Eden some few thousands of years ago
snakes have apparently had no right
10 having their feelings considered.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08

The passing of the cowboy, like that
of the Indian, is loss to the pictur-
esque in the life of the west; but it
means a gain to civilization, says the
Washington Herald. The Indian dis
appears in tradition more squalid than
poetic; but the white cowboy, with
the energy of his race, becomes him
self a producer instead of a mere
herder, of wealth. The change is a
gain also to the consumer, for not only
is the labor cost of the product les
sened, but the living animal reaches
the abattoir comparatively fresh from
the grazing land, without the necessity
of refattening at the end of a long, ex
hausting march.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
POLISHING a Diamond.

The polishing of a diamond is a
slow process, because of the great
hardness of the material; besides this,
the work must be frequently inter
rupted to allow the disk to cool out
after 1t has become overheated by
friction. Each time new facet is to
be cut the diamond must be removed
from the dop and reset at another
angle, and the diamond cutter trusts
to his eye alone to guide him in this
delicate adjustment, although in the
case of small diamonds a magnifying
glass is necessary. The skill shown
in placing the stone in the heated
metal sometimes with the bare hand,
is surprising. The regular brilliant
has Sc facets, besides the table and
the collet-32 above the girdle and "a
below; but as eight facets are first
formed, both above and below, each
of these are considerably more than
Sc separate surfaces 70 be cut.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
THE SAN LUIS VALLEY G. SOUTH
ERN RAILROAD COMPANY
INCORPORATED.
OPENS VAST TERRITORY
A GREAT PROJECT, WHICH IN.
cLUDES COMPANIES CAPITAL
lied AT $4,000, 1000.

Denver.-The Republican Saturday
morning says: Articles of incorpora-
tion of the San Luis Valley & South
ern Railroad Company, with capitali-
zation of $1,000,0O0, were filed with
the Secretary of State yesterday aft
ernoon. The object of the road is to
open for agricultural purposes the
Great Costilla Grant and develop the
Labelle mining district. The officers
named in the articles of incorporation
are: Franklin e. Brooks, former con-
Sressman, president; Gerald Hughes,
vice president and treasurer, and H.
Alexander Smith, secretary. Besides
the officers the company has among
the incorporators such men as Horace
G. Lunt of Colorado Springs; Senator
William Lorimer of Illinois; Congress
man Weeks of Massachusetts, and
former United States Indian Commits
sioner Leupp.
The railroad corporation is but one
of group of corporations formed to
exploit and develop the resources of
the famous Costilla Grant in Southern
Colorado and North New Mexico, en-
fertile agricultural land.
The Costilla State Development
Company, the Costilla Irrigtion Com
paay and the Costilla Power Company,
all capitalized, together with the rail-
road, for a total of s10.O00,0O0, give an
idea of the vastness of the plans of
the incorporators
Adjoining the Costilla grant is some
100000 additional acres of agricultural
land which will be developed by the
water and power Of the corporations
named above, making 100000 acres Of
agricultural land alone to be devel-
oped.
A few years ago the Labelle Min
ing district in Southern Colorado was
discovered and gave promise Of being
a very rich district. But there were
absolutely no railroad facilities and
the discoverers could get no money
out of the ground with which to make
further developments. But the San
Luis Railroad Company has acquired
the rights to this district, will run
branch there and open mining opera
tions on large scale.
Contracts have already been let for
the construction of part of the road
from Blanca, near Fort Garland. to
point on the Costilla river, and as fast
as it is completed new sections of the
road will be placed under contract.
Extensive operations are now going
on throughout the Costilla grant in
the way of constructing irrigation
works, canals and reservoirs, and
power will be developed from the
abundant water supply for operating
the district thereabout 1t might be
said to be investment on the depart
ment store plan, for the company be-
hind the various propositions will
have half a dozen ways of deriving
income from the company when the
works have been completed. Con-
gressman Brooks was largely instru-
mental in planning and financing the
project.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08

Will McCann. a railroad man of
Bailey, Colo, and Teddy R. Slate, a
cowboy of Doyle, Colo, while looking
after cattle on Razor creek, in Gunni-
son county, were attacked by female
bear and two cubs. Mr.. Mccain shot
one of the cubs, weighing 80 pounds,
with six-shooter. Teddy Slate
wounded the mother bear. but could
not kill her.
Greeley sugar factory next season,
has been contracted at 60 to so cents
per ton, double the price paid in pre-
vious years. So desirable is pulp for
fattening cattle and sheep that Field
Superintendent Timothy says 100000
tons could easily be disposed Of at the
Greeley factory. 1t is expected this
factory will extract $4,000 tons and far
mers have made the increased prices
in their anxiety to secure the waste
product for next year.
Work has been resumed on the Ned
erland dam of the Eastern Colorado
Power Company, which was suspended
ior several days on account Of the dis
agreement between the Colorado
Power Company and Macarthur Bros,
contractors. The dam is now about
twenty feet above bedrock, and is 60
ing forward at the rate of COO cubic
feet day, which will be increased to
| 900 cubic feet when the night shift
is put on. The dam will contain 1885,
600 cubic feet of concrete, and will be
! 1SG feet high. The work will be pushed
in order to get the concrete In place
before freezing weather.
Thoroughly organized and working
together Systematically for the past
Six months. five clerks of the Hendrie
e. Bolthoff Manufacturing & Supply
Company at Denver stole thousands OF
dollars from the cash sales Of the com.
pany, to which each of them has con.
fessed, according to the Denver police
The body Of w. ID. Valentine, a we'll
known Grand Valley ranchman. who
was frozen to death in Alaska last
March, reached Grand Junction a few
days since for burial. With the body
was found letter requesting to be bu.
ried at his old home.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
AND BANDIT
Senator Captured by Cole Young
er During Civil War.
Outlaw Prevented Shooting Of Prison,
er Who. Repaid Him by Aiding
In Getting Pardon Many
Years After.

Washington.-Step Benton Elk
ins, senior senator from West Vir-
ginia, is native of Ohio, but was
raised" in Missouri, and there re-
ceived his education.
1t is not generally known, but it is
fact that he has had a career which
for variety of experiences and range
Of adventures outrivals that of almost
any other man in the upper cham
I Der.
Just now, after service of Is
years in the senate as confirmed
regular, he has taken the leadership
of an insurgent movement of his own,
protesting against the treatment
which. the Payne tariff bill gives the
industries of the new industrial south,
and also against the domination of
New England in the great committees
of the senate.
| Senator Elkins' autobiography in
the congressional directory omits
mention of one of the most remark
aSle incidents in his life. He was
graduated from the University of Mis-
souri, in 1860, and later became a
uHioh oolulSl uullhS lllS SlNh wal
Nowhere was local bitterness more
intense than in Missouri, and that
feud was the beginning of the outlaw
ry which for many years after the
war was continued by the James
Younger gangs of bandits. During the
war the bandits carried on their strife
with utter recklessness of human life.
Young Elkins was captured by a gang
of the guerrillas, of which Cole Young
er was a member.
The ethics of the game that the
guerrillas played in those days pre-
scribed that the captive be shot.
Younger, for some reason. had taken
fancy to the young prisoner, and in
sisted that he be spared. 1t was final
ly granted. and Elkins soon afterward
went to New Mexico, where he prac-
ticed law and politics, and became a
great property owner, laying the foun-
dation of his fortune.
Many years after the war Cole
Younger and two of his brothers were
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08

The Chicago judge VINO held the
other day that a woman who has OBJ
tanned a decree of divorce and has not
remarked is entitled to alimony when
ever her former husband becomes
capable of paying it, delay in making
the claim being no bar, may start
other proceedings of the same sort,
for lawyers generally approve of the
decision as good law. OF course where
a woman has accepted stipulated ali
mony at the time of the divorce she
is bound by her stipulation. But the
man whose wife is glad enough to get
rid of him without asking for alimony,
and who has since acquired wealth,
even if he has married again and
raised a second family, will now be
worried by the bugaboo that heavy,
heavy hangs over his head" Perhaps
the situation may incite good conduct
which in some cases will avoid provo
cation for divorce.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08

Statesmen in America realize, says
the Spectator, that it would be little
short of a national disaster If the COM
mand of the sea were lost by Britain
and were to pass into German hands" "
The English, we are told, are our
silent partners in the Monroe doc
trine, which a Germany that ruled the
sea would not respect. But what dan
ger is there of Germans ruling the
sea? Her navy is not yet half as
strong as the British, says the New
York World. No foreign army has
brought war to English soil for 800
years. The German emperor has done
some warlike talking, but Germany
has kept peace for nearly forty years.
The present frantic condition of Brit
Ish nerves is pitiful. 1t is, as DR.. But
Ter told the Mohonk peace conference
last week, "the greatest present OBJ
stacle to the limitation of armaments
and the chief menace to peace"
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
CHEERING Him Up.

BILL" said the invalids friend, I've
come to cheer you up bit like. I've
brought yer a few fahrs, Bill /
fought If was too late they'd come in
andy for a wreaf, yer know. Don't
get down-'earted, Bill. Lummy. don't
you look gashly! But there, keep up
yer spirits, ole sport; I've come to
see yer an cheer yer up bit. Nice
little room you ave ere, but as l sez
to meself when l was a-comin' up:
'Wot orkard staircase to get a coffin
dahn'"-London Globe.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
AN OLD TIMER
Has Had Experiences.

A woman who has used Postum
since 1t came upon the market knows
from experience the wisdom OF US.
ing Postum in place Of coffee II one
values health and a clear brain. She
says:
AT the time Postum was flrst put
on the market l was suffering from
nervous dyspepsia, and my physician
had repeatedly told me not to use
tea or coffee. Finally / decided to
take his advice and try Postum. I
got package and had 1t carefully
prepared, finding 1t delicious to the
taste. So continued its use and very
soon its beneficial effects convinced
me of its value. for l got well OF my
nervousness and dyspepsia.
my husband had been drinking cof-
fee all his life until 1t had affected
his nerves terribly, and l persuaded
him to shift to Postum. It was easy
to get him to make the change for
the Postum is 80 delicious. 1t Ger.
tainly worked wonders for him.
I'VE soon learned that Postum does
not exhilarate nor depress and does
not stimulate, but steadily and honest.
ly strengthens the nerves and the
stomach.
q, ITO make long story short, our Cd.
tire family continued to use Postum
with satisfying results. as shown in
our fine condition of health and we
have noticed rather unexpected i'm
provement In brain and nerve power"
Increased brain and nerve power
always follow the use of Postum in
place Of coffee. sometimes in a very
marked manner. There's Reason"
Look In pkgs. for the famous little
book, "The Road to Wellvllle."
Ever read the above lettere A new
ONE appears from time to time. They
are genuines trues and fall Of human
Interest.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08

captured, following their raid and rob
berry of a bank at Northfield. Mimi.
Cole Younger was sent to the Still
water (Minn.) penitentiary for life
and served some 20 years. Then, in
bad health and broken and repentant,
he asked a pardon.
The effort for that pardon developed
nation wide interest There was bit:
ter opposition and also earnest in
sistence that it be graned. No man
had larger influence toward securing
it at last than the man whose life
Younger had saved. Senator Elkins.
far from forgetting the service that
had been done him, worked as hard
for the aged outlaw as the famous
old brigand had worked for him. In
the end the pardon was secured, and
Younger proved the good judgment of
the men who got 1t for him by living
a worthy life thereafter.
Senator Elkins came to congress as
delegate from New Mexico, and while
there became acquainted with Senator
Henry Gassaway Davis of West Vir-
ginia, whose daughter he married. AS
a result Of this, after leaving. the
house, he moved to West Virginia and
engaged in business. He always was
wealthy, but the great present day
fortune has been made mainly in
West Virginia.
1t is said that he is one of the rich
est men in the country, and to many
who are best acquainted with his af-
fairs it would be no surprise to be as
sured that he is worth s1OO,OO0,O00.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
Special Round Trip Homeseekers'
Rates to New Mexico ard Texas.

each month, during the entire year,
the Colorado & Southern Railway will
sell round trip Homeseekers' tickets
to great many points in New Mexico
and Texas at one fare plus $500 for
the round trip. Final limit twenty-five
days, allowing liberal stop-over privil-
eges. For detailed information. rates.
ETC., call OH the Colorado & Southern
agent, or address T. e. Fisher, General
Passenger Agent. Denver. Colorado.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08

One college professor having de-
clared that he can signal Mars, an.
talk to that planet by means of an ar
tificially constructed rarefied atmos-
phere. But, even if the last dream is
realized, experiment may get another
drawback by the discovery that the
Martian language may be something
on the order of Volapuk or Esperanto
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
Like an Hour Glass.

Nelle-Is that fellow of yours ever
going to get up the courage to pro-
pose?
Belle-I guess not-he's like an
hour glass.
Nelle-An hour glass?
Believes; the more time he gets
the less sand he has.-Cleveland
Leader
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08

A man drank two quarts of whisky
in two hours in Philadelphia to win a
bet of one dollar. He will drink no
more, and his executors doubt whether
the dollar will go far toward paying
funeral expenses.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08

Persistent violators of the speed
laws should, after certain number OF
offenses, have their licenses taken
from them. A fine to such is merely
a part of the necessary running ex-
penses and is no protection to the Lub.
lie from their recklessness.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08

A Massachusetts man shot a deer
feeding in his strawberry patch. Any
deer that would attempt to feed in a
Massachusetts strawberry patch at
this season of the year ought to be
shot
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08

A contemporary suggests the return
q, his poll tax to every man who goes
to the polls and votes. The ballot box
is better off without than with the
vote of man who has to be paid to
go to the polls.