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Semi-weekly herald., 1912-11-18
A LAW MAKING FARCE.

One matter seems very clear in
the balloting of Nov. and that is the
general disgust of the people over
being obliged to face SO proposed
laws and amendments upon the bal
lot.
Nobody, except the most radical
legislationists, will say that the per
formance of Tuesday in this respect
was the way to enact laws for the peo-
pie of Colorado.
The average person going into the
voting booth and being confronted
by this mass of proposed laws must
have had a sense of his utter inabili-
ty to give sound judgment up
on this grist of prospective legisla-
ton.
He must have felt that his knowl-
edge of the subject matter contained
in these laws and amendments was
wholly inadequate to a proper per-
formance of this high and solemn
duty.
The only thing about the perform
ance is the fact that many people
took the sound advice given them and
voted against all laws that they were
not reasonably conversant with. The
result is that most of the laws will
be defeated-as they ought to be.
And even for those that are car
ried the end is not yet. Probably
the first attempt to enforce most of
them will bring suit at law to test
their constitutionality, or at least to
try to determine what the trainers
of these bills meant by the language
which they used.
1t appears to us that one of the
things for the people of this state
to take up and determine at an early
date is to devise some way by which
this mass of hasty and ill-constructed
proposed legislation may be excluded
from the ballot.
The present plan of permitting 8
per cent of the people to demand laws
is farce. The law should be so
framed that the people will not be
confronted with law unless much
larger percentage than 8 per cent
demand it. If law or amendment is
really badly needed, then it will be an
easy matter to get much more than 8
per cent Of the voters. If it is diff
fult to get this percentage, then it
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-11-18

has a big, solid standii ( among the
people, and the approval Of God.
Our Dumb Animals says that each
young robin consumes every day in
hugs, worms and other food the equiv
alert OF fourteen feet Of caterpilIars.
This means, as man, about the same
! thing as eating sixty-seven feet of
, bologna sausage every twenty-four
hours. One sees by this something of
what it means to kill robin.
C. d. Howe, state ornithologist of
Vermont, recently said: Were our
birds to become extinct, all life would
soon become extinct. Inject life would
in period of thres years destroy
| vegetation, when all mel and animals,
except peibaps fishes, would die tor
lack of sustenance. Soon the waters
would become polluted and fish life
would cease. The insects themselves
would die for lack of food, and the
earth would be destitute of life in any
| FORM We, of the WEI, can do little
until people of the south pass iron
laws preventing any killing of birds
or destroying of nests.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-11-18
JOHN BURROUGHS ON BIRDS.

The birds have always meant much
to me. In early manhood, l turned to
them with the fondness of youth.
did not go to books for my knowl-
edg of them, except for some techni-
cal knowledge, but think literature
helped to endow them with human
interest to me, and relate them to the
deeper and purer currents of my life.
What joy they have brought me! How
they have given me wings to escape
the tedious and the deadening! /
have not studied them so much as |
have loved them; at least, my studies
have been inspired by love.
How much easier and surer knowl-
edge comes through sympathy than
through the mere knowing faculties!
1t seems as if | had imbibed my
knowledge of the birds through the
pores of my skin, through the air 1
have breathed, through the soles of
my feet, through the twinkle of the
leaves, and the CLINT of the waters.
I have gone a-fishing, and read their
secrets out Of the morners of my
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-11-18
PEPPER BOX WELL SHAKEN
(By Clifford f. Davis.)

There is always living on the farm
for the man who farms.
The bread of idleness is usual,
paid for by some one else.
The less fit man is to boss tn,
job the more sure he is to want t,
do it.
Staying up late at night is cutting
the best end off the next day, by
late sleeping.
Farming the farmer is more en-
riching than farming the farm, bu
not so lasting.
Dried fruit is easier to prepare, fal
more heathful than canned, and easier
to keep and to sell.
To borrow thing, even a book
and then keep it, is just as much
stealing as robbing a hen roost.
In both this world and the next we
gravitate into the kind of company
we like. Let us choose the very best
if not for ourselves, for our childrens
souls.
There are many interesting books
of adventure, travel, etc, that are
really true, and more worth while than
trashy stories. The blood land -thun-
der novel is always too sickening
The late political squabble has
clearly shown that even men high in
position or wealth will bitterly pursue
one who has offended them. 1t takes
big-souled man to aid an enemy
or overlook Sights.
The man who would deceive a cat,
dog or horse that trusted him, briOg-
ing sorrow, or loss of home to it in
any way, is unworthy of the conf.
dence Of any true man or woman, for
treachery is the keynote of such na .
lures.
Teach the children the beauty CT
absolute accuracy and truth in speech;
do not led them pad" story to make
it seem more thrilling. A boy or girl
with reputation for telling abso-
lutte truth at all costs all the time,
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-11-18
resolution was read by Dar F.. New.

resolution was read by Oar r.. New
comb
To the officers and members of the
San Juan Pioneer association in meet
ing assembled at Durango, Colo,
Sept. 26, 1912.
hereby give notice that | will
present the following resolution foi
consideration at the next annual meet
ing of the said association, to amend
article No. 2 of the constitution, to
read as follows:
Resolved, That there be added to
said article two on membership this
clause: That the Oldest son or
daughter of member in good stand
ing and who is a resident of the San
Juan country be and is eligible for
membership. d. E. NEWCOMB.
The tables having been removed
from the banquet hall the roll of
years was called, beginning with the
year 1870. No response was made
until 1878 was reached, when five
couples responded, 1874 three couples,
1875 three couples, 1876 two couples,
1879 three couples, 1880 five couples
and 1881 the limit of eligibility for
membership brought many couples in
to the column. When, to the number
of 100 or more, it filed into the ban
quet hall and the grand march was
commenced, led by the president, A.
p. Camp and his wife. At the close
of which the couples formed for an
old-time quadrille. so rarely seen of
late years. Waltzes, two-steps, schot-
tisches and Virginia reels followed in
quick succession until the midnight
hour was reached When the pioneers
adjourned to meet in 1918 at some
point in the San Luis valley not yet
determined upon. Dan Il. Newcomb
voiced the appreciation Of the pioneers
from other counties of the hearty well
come given them in Durango and the
good time enjoyed and all departed
with the conviction that the 1912
meeting had been one of the most en-
joyable in the history of the San Juan
Pioneers association.
JOHN w. WINGATE,
Secretary-T Treasurer.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-11-18
HOW DO YOU Llk f THIS.

According to the Denver News the
tax commission will recommend to
the next general assembly bill conf
pelling county assessors to assess
property at full cash value instead of
one-third as at present in vogue. The
commission argues that it will not
increase taxes but will lower the rate.
This may be true so far as county,
city and school levies are concerned,
at the same time officials are prone
to spend more money and ask for
larger appropriations when the tax
levy is low, and property owners
would soon find their taxes increasing
along this line.
But our readers should be able to
read between the lines and get onto
the game. According TO the constitu-
ton the state can only make a certain
levy. This levy, at the rate expensive
boards and bureaus and an increasing
horde of employees are being burdened
on the people, does rot meet the re-
quirements. All the money now raised
is principally required for salaries
whereas few years ago it not only
paid the salaries of state officials and
employees but took splendid care of
educational and other state institu-
tions. The present state levy is A
mills. The assessed valuation of La
Plata county, in round numbers, is
$5,500,000. The state levy on this
sum foots up about 5000. The
$5,500,000 is based on one-third value.
Suppose the assessment is changed to
full cash basis, the assessed valua-
tion of La Plata county would be, in
round numbers, SIG, 900. The state
levy on this valuation, instead of be-
ing $4,000 would be $4,000. Thus
the taxes of La Plata county would
be increased $4,000 alone for state
purposes in order to pay political
debs and squander in different ways.
Thus, leaving out the possibility of
local levies being kept down, our tax
burden would be increased as above
Now we believe it must be plain to
the people of La Plata county, and
every other county in the state, for
this matter, the joker in the propo-
sition to place property assessments
on full cash basis. La Plata county
members of the senate and house
should bear this fact in mind when
the recommendation come up for con-
sideration. With such measure in
force means that instead of sending
$4,000 to the state treasurer this
year La Plata county would send $685.
o0O-quite a burden. Therefore do
not be fooled by some one telling you
taxes will not be increased. 1t is a
joker of the worst kind.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-11-18
EDITORITL PARAGRAPHS.

Barney Haughey is recovering slow
ly from being run over by steam
caliope.
This gun-toting is bad business, not
only for those permitted to do so but
many innocent people, and very costly
to the taxpayers.
Bryan will undoubtedly be secretary
of state If so, he will be the over
shadowing power of the administra-
ton.
Begins to look as though President
Wilson will have an unmanagable me-
nagerie on his hands shortly after the
fourth of March.
When the powers get through with
Turkey her pin feathers will be about
all plucked. The old bird has escaped
her just deserts for hundreds of years,
but guess she is going to get all that
is coming at this time.
The question is: Who will be Judge
Searcy's clerk of the district court.
The only person we have heard men
toned is Glen Russell but we pre-
sumo there will be several applicants.
The snarling fee generally loses
the bone. The snarling dyspeptic
newspaper is about on a par with the
dog, but in Durango no attention is
paid to barkers
1t is reported that Governor Am
mons will about make clean sweep
of gubernatorial appointees when he
assumes office. There are a few who
should be shown the door in double
quick order.
People having business at the coun-
ty clerks office after Jan. l will find
many changes, Clerk Conroy and his
force have been doing business at the
old stand so long the place will look
deserted when they move out.
We rather suspect that President
Wilson will have hand in selecting
his cabinet, notwithstanding the news
papers and politicians. The lineup
will undoubtedly be very much diff
ferent than the latter are predicting.
The eight-hour law for working
girls is already having its effect by
the announcement of a reduction of
S2 per week in wages by the laundry
men of Denver. The laundry propri-
etors say they cannot stand the in
creased help made necessary by the
new law and that girls will have to
work for less money or the family
wash will cost more money.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-11-18

eyes. have longed under tree,
and the book of their lives has been
opened to me. ! have hoed in my
garden, and read the histories they
write in the air. Studied the birds
No, have played with them, camped
with them, gone berrying with them,
summered and wintered with them,
and my knowledge of them has filter
ed into my mind almost unconscious
| ly.-Atlantic Monthly.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-11-18
rHE BIISY BEE.

The middle or latter part of the
present month is the proper time to
carry the colonies into the cellar, pref
erably after a couple of warm days
in which the bees will have the op-
portunity of taking cleasing flight
before their long winters sleep.
Where the number of colonies is up
to hundred, part of the ordinary
cellar may be partitioned off with
shingling laths and paper to make
most satisfactory storing place.
BY no means store the bees in a
lighted cellar or one in which fur
mace or stove is operated, but rather
in one that is moderately cool, in
which the temperature ranges from
40 to 65 degrees, lin absolute dark
ness.
Get the bees into the cellar with as
little jarrng as possible, along toward
night, and then leave them absolutely
undisturbed for several days, as the
cellar will not need to be ventilated
for some time.
Some successful beekeepers remove
the lids and over the hive place
shallow chaff tray whose bottom is
covered with duck or heavy muslin,
and the tray filled with, say, an inch
or more of chaff or sawdust, claim
ing that this method not only alb
serbs the moisture of the hive, but
that it also gives the colony added
warmth at the top just where 1t is
needed.
Where the bees are to be wintered
on their permanent stands outdoors,
the best plan is to have them in chaff
hives with double walls, or else have
each hive protected with many thick
nesses of old newspapers, over which
wind and waterproof wooden tele
scope cover should be placed, the cover
Of course, being very deep.
Colonies wintered outdoors should
have at least twenty-five pounds of
honey in them for winter stores, and
if it is too cold to feed the needy
ones, just remove from their brood
nests several empty or light combs,
and replace them with fully capped
over ones that maye be on hand.
Where few hives are kept, corn
stalks can be piled all around the
hives, leaving the entrances of the
hives unobstructed.
When we speak of wintering bees
outdoors in chaff hives, we would not
have our readers understand that
these chaff hives are extra winter ar
rangements separate from the hive
proper, but are complete hives in
themselves, to be used both summer
between their winter and summer use
is that when we prepare them for win
ter we put in place at the top the
chaff-filled tray that is stored away
during the summer season.
By the way, these chaff hives are
rot only warmer in winter, but be-
cause of their packing are cooler in
summer, as the insulation is non
conductor of heat.
Foot Notes
If your surplus is comb-honey, then
have each section encased in a neat
pasteboard carton.
Have nice label with a photo-en-
craving of your apiary on it, and a
statement that the honey conforms
to the pure food laws.
In the production of comb honey
there will always be on hand large
number OF leftover, unfinished sec
tions, and these make excellent bats
in the supers for the late flow, and
should be judiciously distributed
through the supers that can now be
put over the strong colonies.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-11-18

home and family gone--the loving
and devoted companion of poverty,
want and rags, the ever-faithful and
loving dog, follows his masters life
less body to an unmarked grave, and
there, prone upon cold damp mound
of clay, he lays his head between
his paws and mourns requiem un-
til he dies of grief.
The dogs sincere love, answering
devotion and rare fidelity have shone
in song and story since the dawn of
civilization. There can be no reason
able doubt that we share a common
nature and common fate with our
mute fellow-creatures around us,
which we are pleased to call "lower
animals" and it may be that our poor
tiny with us.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, who
for nearly half "A century represented
the heart and brains of the Christian
clergy of America, in the course of
an eloquent sermon on Men and
Oother Animals" declared: "Why, if
horses and dogs have not souls to be
saved, what in heavens name will be-
come of their masters? For fidelity
and devotion, for love and loyalty,
many a two-legged animal is far be-
low the dog and the horse. Happy
would it be for thousands of people if
they could stand at last before the
judgment seat of Christ and truthfully
say, 81 have loved as truly, | have
lived as decently as my dog And
yet we speak of the dog as being
only brute
Eul0gy of Famous Dog
Poets of all ages have sung the
praises of dogs, and one of the noblest
and truest tributes ever paid to can
inc worth is expressed in the lines of
Lord Byron which, with the epitaph
inscribed to his dog, Boatswain, run
as follows:
When some proud son of man re-
turns to earth,
Unknown to glory but upheld by
birth,
The sculpto's art exhausts the pomp
of woe,
And storied urns record who rest be-
low;
When all is done, upon the tomb is
seen
Not what he was, but what he should
have been:
But the poor dog, in life the frmest
friend,
The first to welcome, foremost to de-
fend,
Whose honest heart is still his mas
ter's own,
Who labors, fights, lives, breathes for
him alone,
Unhonored falls, unnoticed all his
worth,
Denied in heaven the soul he held
on earth;
While man, vain insect! hopes to be
forgiven,
And claims himself sole exclusive
heaven.
Ye, who perchance behold this simple
urn,
Pass ont honors none you wish to
mourn:
To mark Friends remains these
stones arise;
| never knew but one-and here he
lies."
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-11-18

Near this spot,
Are deposited the remains of one
Who possessed Beauty without Vanit,
Strength without Insolence,
Courage without Ferocity,
And all the Virtues of man withou
his Vices.
This Praise which would be unmean
ing Flattery
If inscribed over human ashes,
Is bust just tribute to the Memory o
BOATSWTIN, A DOG"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15

Here's serious matter for you
salaried men to think of. Here's a
Florida land offer totally different
from any other you ever read about
because it S backed and financed not by
the typical land man or agents" you
have always known, but by men who
have Tired in Florida for years, men
who have their OaUn money there! And
these bankers stand ready to give
you your money-back guarantee
absolutely inSnring your satisfaction.
$1,000 a year income and better is wait
ing here for you at Wauchula. Florida.
men. but it's up to you to make good.
You've got to make good on your desks
now; you can't sit around and expect
your employer to pay you unless you do
your work thoroughly. Consequently
you re now just eking gut an existence.
Hundreds of settlers here are pros
pering. So can you. They're making
from $1,000 to 81 900 and $4,000 annual
ly and more. You can do just as well. A
10 acre plot is big enough. A small
first payment and then 81 90 q month per
acre allows you Ito pay as you 60"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15
Florida s Most Conservative Bank
ers Will Back You at Wauchula

Here at Wauchula in the beautiful
Peace River Valley are all the elements
necessary to produce the finest grape
fruit and oranges in profusion. The
famous Wauchula combination soil
the right altitude-well distributed rain
fall-hne drainage No wonder citrus
fruits are f1ourishing here! No wonder
we can furnish letters showing aston
ishing incomes that have been earned
and are being earned here today.
Wauchula is not only a frst-class
locality for earning. it is a delightful
little city to lire in. 1t has l 800 inhabi-
tants: Two flourishing banks. modern
stores. graded schools. churches. lodges,
put Wauchula on par with the ag-
gressive Northern towns. No negroes in
Wduchuld. A safe, pleasant place to
bring your family.
A three hours ride brings you to
Tampa. thriving metropolis, one of
the great fourishing cities of the South.
Rapid rail transportation to northern
markets direct from Wauchula.
This Wauchula offer is not an ordi-
nary FLORIDA land proposition To
begin with this is one of the few places
where you get
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15
The True Combination Soil

The genuine Wauchula combination
soil is equally well adapted to citrus
fruit and vegetables. You place your
young orange and grape fruit trees.
Then you put out beans. cucumbers.
onions. watermelons or sweet potatoes
between the rows. Vegetables keep you
going. They furnish your living ex-
penses. They pay for your land. A nd
all the time your grape fruit trees and
orange trees are depelobing Soon they'll
be producing the huge results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15

Your income increases steadily. And
when your trees are once established
and bearing you will find yourself in
the car owning class - that is. indie
pendently fixed for the rest of your
life
Combination soil makes it possible
for you to attain this prosperity on a
very small investment. Groaping rege-
tables between the roars of trees is the
who came here with very little money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15
A Year for Inspection Before You Decide

Because we want you to talk to the
settlers. We 1pGnt you to question Them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15

about their profits. We want you to see
the gropes. We have nothing to conceal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15
BY FRANK A. HAYWOOD

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stone. Bahias are Brazilian diamonds from
the Bahia district. Golcondas are diamonds
from India.
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If You Eat You Need Dieestit
The New Relief For Indigestion

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t1zzry ZL1ol peopie IN the United
s-s-ss are victims o. some form a
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s-ii Is stozatA distress. aelching. in
elEsE5oa as dyspepsia
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t'ss- to-nt . certain esick and per-
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