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Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13
COURTESY AN ASSET.

One of the signs of the times that
indicates that the world is advancing
io thePttitude of railroads and other
public service corporations are taking
in the matter of treatment accorded
the general public by their employees.
A few years ago, politeness ON the
pant of the railway employees was not
considered a special asset to the road
~ the officers of the company and
if a man won friends for his COM
p.ny by polireness it was not pai ticu
larry noticed, courtesy toward the
public not being necessarily a ouali-
fication for holding his place. Almost
everyone can recall some difficulty ex-
perienced in trying to secure some
information from some railroad en-
ployes and if their memory does not
play them false, they will remember
That the unnecessary difficulty en-
cclIntered did not make them feel any
tco kindly toward the company rep
resented by the discourJejus ntivid-
ual.
Now the railroads are beginning to
place more Importance on the ccur-
tesy of their employees 80 much, so
that those, who do not naturally treat
others with the courtesy due them,
should begin to take lessons on first
principles in politeness if they wish
to continue to be remembered when
the pay car makes its monthly trip.
Some of the railroad companies are
calling the attention of their men to
the place politeness should occupy in
each mans qualifications. Recently
the Denver & Rio Grande issued
bulletin on the subject and some of
the paragraphs are good business
principles for the man in any line:
Courtesy can neither be bought nor
coerced, but must come spontaneously
from those III charge of the COM
pany's affairs.
Courtesy and affability do not re-
quire one to be sycophant, nor to do
or practice anything humiliating or
repulsive to one of gentlemanly in
stincts.
While affability to some extent, is
talent, it is also in many cases
genius. The one can be cultivated,
but the other, il not natural, can be
acquired only by great effort.
Without courtesy men with other
talents and qualifications seemingly
sufficient have failed; with it those
lacking in other ways have been sue
eessful.
Every victory over discourtesy is
well worth the effort and makes a
man bigger and stronger and a more
desirable employe. 1t brings him
nearer promotion and raises him in
the esteem of his family and friends.
S. j.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13
nary expenditures. However,

nary expenditures. However, the
treasury has adopted different pol
icy, canal bonds have been issued to
reimburse the treasury, and in spite
Of the returned surplus further canal
bond issues are likely under the leg
islation authorizing full reimburse
ment of the general fund
The year broke all records for for
cign commerce. The exports attained
and passed the $4,000 100000 mark,
and it is claimed that the diplomatic
and consular service, by its well-di-
rectcd work in the Orient and in
South America, has been an import
ant factor in extending our sales
abroad.
Uncle Sam, If not as prosperous as
he might be, is certainly in comfort
able circumstances. A sounder none
tary system, better banking and cred
il organization, fair, sensible diplom-
acy, Canadian reciprocity and rational
tariff revision will severally tend to
make him even buster and more pros
Chicago Record-Herald.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13
UNCLE SANS COMFORTABLE
CIRCUMSTANCES.

The treasury's statement for June
20 has just been published, and Uncle
Sans finances make a very good
showing. The fiscal years 1908 and
1909 closed with uncomfortable de-
ficits-$20 100000 and $5S, S,735,000 re-
spectively. The fiscal year 1910 had
surplus of nearly $4,000, 900, but
the year which ended on Saturday
takes us back to 1907 when a huge
surplus was recorded.
The excess of ordinary receipts over
ordinary disbursements on Saturday
last was $45,6s1 500, while the excess
of all receipts over all disbursements,
which include the Panama expendi-
lures, was $31, 100000.
Income from internal revenue ex-
ceeded that from customs. There was
decline in customs receipts as COM
pared with the previous fiscal year of
over $19,000,000, but internal revenue,
including, OF course, the corporation
tax, yielded the record breaking total
of over 1921 100000. The expendi-
lures were less than in 1910 or than
the original estimates; economies
were effected in several directions,
noably in the postal service, where the
deficit was wiped out.
A remarkable feather of the years
fiscal record is that the government
is almost able to pay isthmian canal
expenses out of the current revenues.
The disbursements on the Panama ac-
count were not much beyond the ex-
cess of ordinary receipts over ordi-
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13
STRIKE TELLURM AT 81 PER
POUND.

Junction creek is here with the
goods and evidently to stay A num-
ber of the smaller properties located
in the ORC Fino district are showing
up fine. Fred Schrader has a good
showing on the Genoa where he is put
ting in a cross cut. The ore is pay
but how rich cannot be determined
until the assays are made.
William O'Brien and Stephen Miller
have lease on the Little Baker, and
have just opened up a good vein Of
tellurium. 1t is rumored that the orc
from the latter runs as high as 81
per pound.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Said to be new: A colored woman
had colored man arrested for steal
ing $13. During the trial she explain
ed that she attended dance with the
negro who stole her money and that
during the intermission they went
outside and sat on the grass. The
Judge asked her where she had the
money. She told him she had the
money in her stocking. "If you had
the money in your stocking" said the
judge, Couldn't you prevent him from
stealing it?" "Well, you see, judge
she replied, 81 didn't know he was
feeling for my money"
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

1t seems to us that to make love To
a schoolmarm would be difficult
however enjoyable, proposition. An
exchange tells Of a worthy but rather
bashful young man who loved a teach
er young and fair but was n little
afraid OF her. One evening, as he was
about to say goodnight to her, he
bIushingly asked, May | kiss you be-
fore | GO" The young lady demurely
replied, IF you wish to kiss me think
you had better do it before you go
as it would be utterly impossible for
you to do so after you have gone"
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13
DANGER IN DELAY.
Kidney Diseases Are Too Dangerous
for purango People TO Neglect.

Kidney Diseases Are Too Dangerous
for Durango People to Neglect.
The great danger of kidney troubles
is that they get firm hold before the
sufferer recognizes them. Health is
gradually undermined. Backache,
headache, nervousness, lameness,
soreness, lumbago, urinary troubles,
dropsy, and Brights disease, follow
as the kidneys get worse. Don't neg
lect your kidneys. Help the kidneys
with the reliable and safe remedy.
Doan's Kidney Pills, which has cured
people right here in Durango.
T. II. Ballard, 622 Sixth avenue,
Durango, Colo, says: 81 gladly con-
firm the public statement gave in
praise of Doan's Kidney Pills in Jan
uary, 1907. procured this remedy at
G. Il. Tiffany Jr,'s drug store and it
entirely relieved me of kidney trou-
BILE. | have had no need of Doan's
Kidney Pills since"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Alilburn Co., Buffalo,
N. Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remenber the name-D Doan's-and
take no other.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13
SEATTLEs FUNERAL SERVICES

Up in Seattle the other day the peo-
pie had funeral pageant which
pleased them nightly. They cremated
the "knocker." Being children of a
larger growth" they had to do SO
with fitting ceremony. A hammer rep
resented the hoodoo that had been at
tacking the city and the hammer was
borne in catafalque to the funeral pyre
amid beftting ceremonies and funeral
marches. When fire had destroyed the
emblem of the ''knocker" great shout
went forth from thirty thousand
throats and the city gateway to Alas
ka heaved a sigh of relief that could
be heard at Sitla. But the people
themselves felt better after the mum
meries were through with; they re-
solved against the backbiter and dog
in-the-manger citizen.
Seattle has suffered from its own
folly Of late. II had been undergoing
penance for its sins Of omission and
commission. IL had been experiment
ing politically and suffering from the
consequences. Two forces were at
work. One, a believer in the city,
spent much money in improvement;
the other, tantamount to our own Lit
tic Denverite, proceeded to knock
the improvements, TO knock" the city,
to herald to the world Seattle's sins,
to add greatly TO these sins in the
telling, and TO warn the world to be-
ware of the city, which IN the eyes
of the mucliraker had become a SINK
of iniquity. The local government of
Seattle was not always of the best; it
seemed to be impossible 10 get away
from the outpost era, but the would
be reformers instead Of bcttering con-
ditions used the city's shortcomings to
Undo the whole community. A period
OF financial stress brought the city
to realization that it must begin
building, not tearing down.
AT almost the other extreme of the
continent is city that has its lapses
and its evildoers, but the leaders of
the southern city take things in hand
and right them without permitting the
outside world to interfere. That city
is prosperous to degree and the rea-
son for that prosperity is the Los
Angeles spirit of standing by the city
and crushing the ''knocker."
Denver has suffered more than Sc
attic from the ''lSnocker" and the
muckraker. Denver is feeling the eff
fects of that Jungle" crusade this
season; and it is bound to feel it, be-
cause Denver is dependent more than
almost any other city in the country
upon its good name and the favor of
the nation at large. There was less
excuse for the attacks upon Denver
for the reason that this city has
shown marked Improvement with the
years and has developed from from
tier city into model residence city.
The assault upon Denver is po-
lltioal attack, the result of personal
spite and animosity. 1t would not be
permitted in the southern California
ciIy.-Denver Republican.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13
ALYA WILLIAMS DEAF.

Alva Williams, the young colored
man, who number of years ago when
a small boy served as mascot for
the Durango baseball nine, and as
such, in the carly days of the organi-
zation attended all the games in a
small suit like the rest of the team
died yesterday at the home of his
mother on the corner of Thirteenth
and Main.
Alva had been i'll for some time.
For the past few years he was en-
ployed as porter at the Horseshoe.
The funeral arrangements will be
announced in tomorrow's issue.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

When you are reading this the old
fat editor will be standing on the
shore of Pine river filling the air with
trout which he will remove from the
river by means of a hook and line
as he is too feeble to wade in the
river and run them down. We 90
out with that expert fisherman, p
A. Nelson, and in return for his in
structing us in the science of trout
fishing we will show him how TO catch
catfish when he goes to Kansas. I'm
less we become so smitten with the
joys of trouting that we conclude to
stay out there for the balance of our
life we will be back at work, fishing
among the exchanges, on Monday.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

One of the things in life that is
greatly to be regretted is the fact
that the real thinker, the man who
could say something worth while if he
would, is generally a tight-mouthed
sort of chap, while the free and
easy conversationalist, as a rule, new
er appears to have an idea worth re-
lating.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

circulation is worth more to them
than three papers with a circulation
in each instance too limited to be ef-
feetiye because of patronage that
is badly cut up and divided junction
City Union
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

British suffragettes have fund of
half million, and American politi-
clans are wondering why British
statesmen treat the issue with such
contempt.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

There is good to be said for al
most anything, or any place, and even
when it comes to hell you will re-
member that it admits only those
who have earned the right of en-
trance, no one goes there because
some one else did wrong.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

A young lady in piano contest in
Kansas won the prize, offered to the
most popular" young lady in the
county, with something like 14,000,-
900 votes. To realize the tremendous
popularity Of this lady one needs only
to know that President Taft's total
vote, in 1908, was only 7,67S,90S.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

The editorial page today is the
product of the force and we guess
that most of it was written with a
pair of shears. We did not get back
from our trip to Pine river until about
noon today, too late to make any
editorial noise for this paper.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

A man has been fined 800 for tax
ing a sun bath in Evanston. He ap-
pears to have been unable to sub
stantiate claim that he was crazed
by the heat.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Ex-President Diaz hasn't said any
thing for publication for several days
but it is inferred that he is greatly
enjoying the present street car strike
it Mexico City, in the absence Of
larger and more sanguinary activi-
ties in his native land.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Frank Hartman, the well known
newspaper man, left for Alamosa this
morning, where he is running the
Alamosa Empire. Mr.. Hartman re-
turned yesterday from La Plata City,
where he arranged the preliminaries
for starting up a newspaper.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

A Boston man complains that east
ern papers and magazines print no
real witty verse, but that western
newspapers are full of it. Distance
seems 20 lend enchantment to num-
ber of things,
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Drinking never hurt any man, or
any mans business, if he drank mod
erately. Even as high as twenty
small drinks daily will not injure a
person if they will stick to water and
cut out all other liquids.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

James Jeffries is still living in
hopes that Jack Johnson may say
something to rile British suffrag-
ette during his stay in London. A
thirst for revenge seems to be born
in some men.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

While he was resting in Chicago the
other day, Mr. Jeffries announced
that he was through with the fight
ing game" The referee made the
same announcement over year ago
at Reno.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Ambassador Reid has been spending
a good deal of his time entertaining
royalty, and it is also believed he
has wasted good deal of money in
that way.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

The young women who shot Mil
lionaire Stokes have been discharged,
because of decision not to prose-
cute. Does the millionaire admit it,
OF is he afraid they might shoot bet
ter next time?
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

While we suppose that it must be
laid to charge of inexperience yet we
cannot but feel that baby, who picks
on the hot and fly-time season of the
year to be born in, is showing mighty
poor judgment.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

1t is said that the words Goodbye"
are the saddest words in our Ian
guage but we believe that it all de-
pends on TO whom the words are ad-
dressed We believe that every man
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

When business man, that is a
man who poses as business man, will
knock on his town and refuse to help
keep up the Institutions of the town
he is no better friend of the town
than the farmer who sends all his
money to the mail order houses.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Do you remember how, only few
months ago, You were growing about
the snow? How you wished it would
come summer? Now you are kicking
and growing and wishing that winter
was here.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

When a husband and wife get to
going separately around over the
town, and to different places of en-
tertainment when they could go to-
gether, it seems TO us that the law
yers ought to scent divorce case.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

II everybody wanted to be really
fair and just all the courts the coun-
try would need would be a board of
arbitration to settle differences of
opinion.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

A Chicago rich man wrote to a
widow, and called her "My Dear
Baby" But she ceased to be his baby
and wants 100000. Considering the
names he called her, it is believed she
has a good case.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

The EngIishman who announces
that our winters are going to be
warmer during the next two or three
hundred years is good enough to re-
frain from including the summers, for
which he should be thanked, even if
he doesn't know what he is talking
abnut
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Senator I.aFollette and Joe Cannon
are pretty well united on the reel
procity issue, and that measure has
made number of other strange bed
fellows.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

enough Of himself to get his picture
taken occasionally, and it is believed
the senate viii soon be content to
have nothing else by which to remem-
Der him.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Referring to recent history in the
making; being dictator Of Paraguay
sounds larger than being country boss
il Indiana, but probably it doesn't pay
as well.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

At this season of the year we be
lieve that no really polite woman will
take her seat upon mans knee
without having first obtained his eX-
press permission.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

While we do not wish to kick on the
business girl yet, if crowded to it,
we would have to admit that we be
lieve that a womans sphere is in
breadmaking, not breadwinning.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

That new steamship, the "olympic," ("
is longer than New York's greatest
skyscraper is high, but there is more
room straight up than there is out in
the Atlantic ocean, so New York
should cheer up.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Money has two speeds, when coming
to you it crawls slower than snail
and when going from you it flies
faster than an aeroplane.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

1t is an i'll wind that blows nobody
good and the high price of spuds has
brought popularity to the lowly tur-
nip and the brain building bean.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Golfers Weekly doesn'; seem to b.
working its advertising any harder in
o, der to pay the damages hcn. Hearst
has sued for.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

A Bayfield, man sent 81 for sure
preventative of cholera in hens. xiii
them and eat them" was the recipe he
received
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Unless you can make a little noise
like self help you need not expect
others are going to break their backs
helping you.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

A close tab will reveal the fact
that the very wisest man you know
will sometimes do some most ridicu-
lously foolish things.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

We can almost make up our mind
t, love Pinchot on account of his
failure to crow over the Cunningham
coal land decision.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Somehow we feel little doubtful
that the couples who chose the Fourth
for their wedding day were observing
the day in Safe and Sane manner.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

1t is as easy to get up quarrel as
it is to fall off log and one feels
just about the same, after it is over,
in either case.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

If you never allow yourself to want
anything that you can't get you may
be happy but you won't have much
to be happy over.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13
Mary had a little wit,
She never showed it, though,
For anywhere that Mary vent
1t never seemed ~ &C.

When you have time to do it, think
Of the number of men who live to be
60 years of age without ever being
called doyens of anything.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

1t don't cost anything to sit down
and wish for better times here in
Durango and the results are usually
worth just about the price paid.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Edison says we shall all presently
be wearing clothes made of mineral
wool Not unless there is marked
change in the weather.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

While we just dearly love excite
ment you can safely bet, when you
hear that some airman is taking pas
sengers up into the clouds, that one
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

If anyone needs a warning, it should
be Lorne in mind that q New York
nan was shot while try.;s to get
scme fool letters he mad written
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

AS between a change in the weather
and little change in our pocket we
believe that we would prefer the latter
unless the weather was VERY bad.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

There is rejoicing in the spread Of
the safe and sane Fourth idea, but
the glorious day seems TO have lost
its cunning as rainmaker.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Although elected on the Republican
ticket, it will be noted that the in
surgent congressman look to the Dem
ocrats for most of their support.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

A man who is worth more than ST.
100000 can get any commonplace re-
mark accepted as an epigram.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13
won't have much time to notice how
much the other fellow loafs.

Work is a good medicine, it will
help a man to stand suspense, ex-
pense, and enable him to dispense.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

There is a 'best" in every man but
some can't reach it and others won't
even try to do so.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

With a fly-swatter at hand, there
isn't much excuse for idleness before
frost comes.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

If Nat Goodwin was as good an
actor as he is an advertiser, he woGic
have them all bested.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

If trading stamps were given with
the works Of the poets more women
would buy them.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

The average life of fly is three
weeks. Did you listen right? We
said "fly," not ''lie."
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Boys who entered the corn grow
ing contests this year are entitled to
more encouragement.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

A man who carries a tiqe umbrella
may not always know enough TO get
in out of the wet.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

lof the passengers is not this old fat
editor.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

The way that bright woman lands
a man is by never letting him mis-
trust that she is fishing for him.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

If you are pretty busy yourself you
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

knows people who he would be tickled
to death to get to say goodbye to-.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

1t is a mighty insignificant man who
is not closely watched by competitors.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-13

Senator Lorimer still thinks
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-10-07

What is he to do? Yc babies are
all dressed in long clothes. They all
wear hair short. have no teeth and
pug noses. How can any ordinary
man be expected to tell whether they
are boys or girls? When they are
grown up, even II they were dressed
the same, we girls would do all the
talking, and 80 they might be distin-
guished, but otherwise there would
be no means of finding out. Talking
Is habit ye girls seem to acquire
later and one which ye small babies
have not. .r,,s,. -.,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-10-07

Think how easy II would be II ye
mothers would only have small tin
gold or silver could be used II so
equired-fastened through ye ear of
ye small darling, so that ye young
man could read upon II: Boy;
Teddy; three months; best in the
world, and something similar In the
case of girl It would fix the whole
matter.
Babies should not be allowed to
eat sticky stun before being handed
over to the visitor. This would be
much appreciated, but It always seems