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The state herald., 1912-10-11

S. M. Benjamin and j. E. Grader of
Sullerton, Mob, drove out to Holyoke
last week in their car to look after land
interests in the county. They were
well pleased with conditions in the coun-
tu
The state herald., 1912-10-11

When county commissioners refuse te
take orders from any man in their cour
ty and insist on hewing to the line be,
tween the Taxpayers and all individu.
ais, they generally have strong opposi.
tion for reelection.
Gust johnson and Newton Morrison
have shown themselves to be such com.
missioners and the opposition newspa.
per has been directing its whole fight
against these two men but has utterly
failed to dig up anything against them
that will bear the light of investigation.
The state herald., 1912-10-11
Notice..

hlder Creamery Co., of Denver
opened a cream receiving
Holyoke.
| every cream producer in Phil
ty to give US a trial.
1 cash for cream. butter and
|pnest test and weight and best
rice for cream.
Ind see US at the Baker Hall.
Earl Beremann, Agt.
The state herald., 1912-10-11

Mr.. and Mrs. George King left this
morning for Fairfield. Ia, called there
by the sickness of Mrs. Kings brother.
The state herald., 1912-10-11
PINE SALvt tCLS IIEIApouII

The young peoples elsss OF IN. Pres.
bytefian Sunday School will serve an
oyster supper. also ho, coffee with
homemade sandwiches on the night Of
election day In November
Boys wanted to sell our Sunday pa
porn. liberal inducements 10 huntlcr,
Write 10. Manager Circulation.
The Denver Times.
Denver. Colorado.
The state herald., 1912-10-11

Mrs. Oscar Leblanc entertained a
number of her lady friends at her
home on Wednesday afternoon.
The state herald., 1912-10-11
W. D. WALLER.

ERlT is what has g:"en Hood.
" Sarsaparilla the largest sales i,
the world and enables It to accomplis,
thousands of wonderful CURES.
The state herald., 1912-10-11

Miss Flora Brands of Seward Neb.
arrived in town last week for visit
with her brother Edward.
The state herald., 1912-10-11
First Presbyterian Church.

Hours OF Ser vices;
Sabbath School and Bible Class a,
i0:3oa. m.
EndcRvor 1880 p. m.
Midweek prayer service "Wednesday
$50.
Junior Endcsyor ~ pm,
Preaching AT 1850 a, m, and $40 . n
Subjects;
DR.. James Il, llll, Pastor.
The state herald., 1912-10-11

hts new and true in the new
kmes. 45c a month deli red
J."
The state herald., 1912-10-11
,hicken Dinner.

les of the Methodist church
b chicken dinner at the audi
|Holyoke on Saturday Nov. 2,
cents.
The state herald., 1912-10-11
len For Business.

h Horn Art Studio is again o.
hsiness after my summer va
j. II. Van Horn.
The state herald., 1912-10-11

Mated idea $a: ;s':: s. !: s:;:sE; 's's;
witt. JOIN wEDpERB6RWN W I c., coy Patent @ S 1ssop
pcyt Washington. d. C.. for their 0i 100 prise one
ted ust oS two hundred nvSnt,oas wanted.
The state herald., 1912-10-11
Statement of the Ownership,
Management, Circulation Etc

of State Herald published weekly at
Holyoke, Colo, required by the Act OF
August Ia, 1912.
Editor, managing editor, business
manager, publisher and owner j. b.
Painter, Holyoke, Colo.
No bonds or mortgages.
] II. Painter.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 80, day of Sept. 1912.
(SeaD Robert l.. johnson,
Notary Public.
My commission expires April 81. 1913.
The state herald., 1912-10-11

We invite you to call in and
see our new fall drcss goods.
We will be able TO please you
better than ever.
A. Sehcuncmsnn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
rENNYsoN WAS WRONG

from Ilt-BllS.
 Coulson Kernahan tells, on the au- thority of the late Edward Whymper, a story of Tennyson which may or may not have already got into print At a garden party a rather gushing young girl went up to the hostess and said:
 "oh, is that really. as I'm told. Lord Tennyson sitting there by himself smok- ing on that rustic seat?"
 Yes, my dear, that is be-" was the reply.
 'oh, I should so like to meet him. DO introduce me-" said the girl
 My dear, Lord Tennyson hates to be bothered by strangers" answered the hostess; and one reason, perhaps, why he comes to see me is that he knows I never exploit him in that way" 'Oh, but I should love to be able to say I've met him. persisted the other.
 Well, say you have met him and leave it at that" was the answer
 The girl, however, would take no re- fusal.
 Lord Tennyson," said the hostess, when the two had walked together to the seat where the laureate was smoking. this is Miss B., daughter of an old friend of mine, who is very, very anxious to have the honor of saying How do you do?' to you"
 Flow do you do?" responded Tennyson, gruffly, and scarcely looking up. Seating herself beside him, the girl att tempted awkwardly to carry on some sort of conversation, but as all she got in reply was an occasional 'humphl' or else stony silence, she lost her nerve and began, schoolgirls wise, to wrggle and tidget in her seat. Then the great man spoke. You're like the rest of them." he grunted. You're laced too tightly. I can hear your stays creak.''
 Abashed and embarrassed, the girI withdrew.
 Later in the afternoon Tennyson came behind her. and. laying a hand on her shoulder said kindly:
 T was wrong just now, young woman It wasn't your stays I heard creal1ing but my braces. They're hitched up toe tightly. Sorry.' And he lOuneed away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
WHERE OLD PIANOS co

From Harper's Weekly.
 What becomes of all the old pianos? Thousands of new pianos are sold every year, the greater number of those who already have musical instruments. The salesman allows a liberal price for the old plano in trade, accepts a little cash, and takes the balance on monthly pay ments Now while he has sold one piano he has just as many on his hands one What becomes of 1t? He does not care to sell it to some one who has never had piano if he can avoid it, for if the process of trading continued around in a circle and there are no dividends in that. He must find mar ket for the old musical instruments. To do this he repairs and revarnishes the old piano, boxes 1t, and, with hundreds of others 1t is shipped to South Ameri- ca, Africa, Asia and other benighted portions of the world, where 1t is sold to the natives, who yearn for music and whose ambition is to drum out tunes on an instrument of their own. These pianos are sold for a small amount down and the balance in month ly, sometimes weekly. payments ex- tended over a long period of time. In this way the dealer gets back not only the price he allows for the old piano in the first place, but the cost of repairing, boxing and shipping, with interest add ed to each of the charges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
pELMoNT MEETS BRYAN

Baltimore Telegram to the Chicago Rec
 ord-Herald.
 Mir Bryan and his brother were in the elevator going to their rooms on the ninth floor When the car reached the third floor Perry Belmont stepped aboard
 At first the New York fnancier who had been bitterly denounced by the Me- braskan, did not notice who was in the car. When he glanced around he started to step out, but theh thought better of it and remained He looked embarrassed. As the New Yorker, after a glance at the westerner, turned partly around, Colonel Bryan saw him. Instantly his face broke into a smile.
 How are you. Mir. Belmont?' he asked, extending his hand. MT. Belmont's face relaxed into part of a smile as he shook hands.
 "It's pretty warm," was his perfunctory reply.
 Yes" said MT. Bryan. Then looking directly at Belmont he asked, Were you there?" referring to the convention.
 T was" replied Mir. Belmont. "ouite a demonstration" remarked Mir. Bryan. genially. Tt seemed to be-" said MT. Belmont, noncommttally, as he turned with evident relief to get off the ear. The conversation did not seem particularly agreeable tc | him.
 Mir Belmont could not fathom the com- moners way of doing things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
A very ExcclIent Barbecuc

"That was truly Fourth of July bar beeue that w. l.. Taylor. manager or the county almshouse, served to the inmates, said man who was among the special guests.
 Now, I am familiar with barbecues and I do not hesitate to say that many of them do not measure up to the stand ard par excellence. In the first place the selection of the meat is all important. Young kid makes fine dish, but the best of all meats for the bonvivant is mutton. full grown, fat sheep. Then the fire.coals. and the tempered slow heat is the next sine qua non. Next the steady, careful basting with proper sauce, There should be a different sauce for pork than for mutton. A barbecue pit should run about 10 hours before >the meats are carved. My choice of all cuts is the nut ton kidneys.
 MT Taylor's meats, purchased in the market were unusually good By the way no animal that comes to the slaugh- ter shows the effects of feeding more than sheep. Here in the south the finest mutton is produced by sheep grazing and burnt-over broom straw. And this also produces the finest of golden butter. The mutton of the Piedmont region, and that territory running across the middle states, including Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky is the finest in the world.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
Houston Not Heavenly

T was in Houston, Tex, for the first time a few weeks ago. said a Birming- ham man last night, and Pm willing to concede without any argument that Houston is destined to be the greatest city in the great southwest countrywide tween the Mississippi and the Rocky mountains"
 "Of course Houston cannot hope to outgrow Birmingham, for Birmingham s mineral resources and iron and steel in- dustries easily place her ahead of any southern city
 But notwithstanding Houston's fine showing, I was disappointed You see I've been reading Col George Bailey g hot air about Heavenly Houston and Houston's red-headed widows so long I simply couldn't reconcile myself to Houston as Houston is I felt had been deceived, in fact felt the disappointment. so keenly that I actually went over to the Houston Post and called on Col George Bailey. intending to poke lit tie fun at him, but you know the Hous- ton weather was so unbeaiably hot and general conditions in Houston were SC unheavenly that Col. George Bailey him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
"PoPULAR, SONGS

From the Indianapolis News.
 When one pauses-if ever one does to consider the burden of latter day lyrics of the "ragtime" variety, it must be obvious even to the less discrimi- hating observer that Q r'ngular change
 has come over the aspect of modern
 popular songs Of the music itself little
 need be said. It is mediocre, if not
 worse, but, what is more to the point, 1t is harmless. Not so, however, with the words. When the refined singing and dancing" players-usually team"
 made up of a man and woman-make their appearance, one may be fairly certain in advance that some remars- footlights And this driveI is decadent; it is vulgar, offensive to common de-
 cency in many instances, designed to convey double" meanings and is de-
 moralizing. Who can deny that the ef- feet of such an endless flood of songs of this sort is inimicaf to good man ners, good morals and good sense? Not
 at once, perhaps. but gradually. taken with other agents of similar ten- Utita 1NIicS, DdWitu~dl us III our
 best theatres, drummed at us in the
 playhouses where popular prices pre- vail. thumped on parlor pianos and ground out on hand organs, accepted
 without protest and sung by yourvS women in their own homes, lend them selves to perversion of our ideals and contribute toward a process that means stupefed, coarsened and vulgarized so- | ciety In view of such perverted stuff as this, one may have excuse for sigh ing for the old days when our yoth g men and young women sang Nellie Grey" and of Aunt Dinahs Quilting Party" of Ben Bolt,' of The Old Folks
 at Home,' and joined their voices in
 the sweet old melodies sat came up to
 us from the south, favored with whole some sentiment and tender romance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
Cotton Acreage This Year

The governments crop estimate just Issned relates to facts ascertained up to June 25. It says 34,0S7000 acres have been planted in cotton, as against 36,6S1 ,000 acres one year ago. The apparent loss is 2,594,o00 acres, or about per cent.
 Alabama is estimated to have se r20,000 acres in cotton, as against ' s043,000 acres last year. The loss is
 23,O00 acres, or about 71a per cent.
 All the acreage figures of the gov ernment estimate outrun those ob- tained by newspapers and private syndicates, and it is probable the truth lies somewhere between the public and private estimates.
 The condition of the crop is report ed About equal to the 10-year average. Prices were advanced after the gov srnment's estimate was made public. The governments figures point to a l.rop of about 13,2O0,O0O bales, as against a crop in the present cotton year of fully 15,0O0,00o bales.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

From the New York World.
 Visitors to Central park missed the flock of sheep usually to be seen crop of the Mall. When the sheep wander over near the center drive and the collie Jack rounds them up at the com mand of the shepherd to prevent them from getting in the way of passing automobiles, the interest of visitors is aroused. The reason the sheep were not there was because they were over in the sheepfold being milked. Forty of them had their lambs taken from them and sold at public auction. So a milking was necessary.
 There are no milkmaids in the park department, so Head Keeper Bill Snyder of the menagerie got ready to do the work with his own men. To milk 40 sheep is no easy job. The flock was separated into two compartments in the sheepfold by James Conway, the shep- herd, and two milking crews got to work The sheep are of the Dorset breed, with horns, and are unsociable. Keeper Kiernan of the monkey house would seize a sheep by the horns and hold on to it until 1t stopped struggling Then Shepherd Conway, with his tin pail, would get to work. In the other inclosure Sticks, a useful man about the menagerie, would seize a eve, and Keeper Bob Hurton would act as milk maid. The yield from each eve aver aged half a pint.
 
 This is much richer in cream than cows milk" said Conway, as he held up his pail But the important thing about this milk is that 1t is great for bald heads. It will actually make the hair grow on a head that has not a single hair upon it. I know this from experience and observation"
 The shepherd said he had thus brought out hair on his own head. Con- way is 75 years old, and has such a thick growth of hair that he is obliged to have 1t cut close to the scalp during summer for the sake of comfort
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
- Musie in fhe Park

"Now that the open air concerts have been started in Capitol park, many or us will pray for dry weather" said a member of the Can't Get Away club. "Nappfs band gives us delightful music, and the weather permitting, the crowds in attendance are always large.
 Tt was suggested frequently in The Age-Herald last year that the city erect pavilion not only for the band, but for those who listen. It need not be an expensive structure, but a pavilion with seating capacity of 15OO to 2ooo would give great satisfaction to those who attend summer concerts regularly; for In the event of rain the music would go on just the same.
 "The Music Study club. under whose auspices the park concerts are given, has engaged the band for eight weeks. Pop ular subscription should supplement the fund already in hand so that the concerts may be continued to about the middle of September"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05

stand exposed to the public gaze. This is very distinct and very obstructive stumbling block.
 And then again the Bull Moose states disagree as to the need of a third party. Some of the states, for example South Dakota, proceed to select Roosevelt electors and state ticket devoted to the hero of Saga more Hill. Of the seven little gov ernors all have declared against a new party, Governor Johnson of Cal ifornia alone excepted, and yet it is believed a call for a national Bull Moose convention will be issued next week. /
 In Minnesota and in Michigan, and perhaps in many other states the pro- gressive republicans are declaring in favor of the election of Woodrow Will son, and if this movement continues to gain force Bull Moose convention would be fiasco even if it should be called to save the colonel's face. So long, however, as Tim Woodruff is ready to head bolt in New York and Boss Finn in Pennsylvania it is safe to assume that convention of third termers will really be held.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
Nc call a nettle but n nettle; and The fnulfs of fools but folly.
 --Cymbe1ine.
Parcels Post in the Platform

The democrat who opposes the par cells post is one who ignores the plat form of his party. He is scarcely a democrat. The platform reads: "We favor the establishment of parcel post or postal express, and also the extension of the rural delivery system as rapidly as practicable" " Every dem ocrat is committed by his representa- tives duly selected to this plank in the Baltimore platform.
 That platform is eminently pro- gressiye, and it could not well do less
 han to heed the plain public demand for parcels post, The only oppo- nents of a parcels post are the four named by John Wanamaker when he was Postmaster General. The four want all the profits of package trans portation, and they do not hesitate to .ake it in good fat slices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
THE RENEGADEs

Arthur Chapman in Denver Republican. The last of the longhorn steers were they The last of the herds, far flung, That were trailed from the Rio Grande
 way
 In the days when the west was young; They had cunningly lodged the roundup
 hands
 When the range was combed in the
 spring, But we drove them at last to final
 stand
 God. the race was noble thing. They had fled through the stunted cedar That dotted the mesa top, But, with heaving sides and trembling
 knees.
 We brought them at last to a stop: But the fire was bright in each wild eye, And they beloved and paved the dirt. And they flung their spreading horns on
 high
 As they ended that last, long spurt. Then our grizzled foreman. Texas Bill,
 spoke up. in voice most queer: He said: "I know we've got to kill The last durn renegade steer. But I've seen the time when their like
 was strung
 For miles on the Chisholm trail When you heard the songs the cowboys To the herds when the moon was pale. I've seen the time when their spreading horns Was thick as the scrub oak trees When they gcNwed like. the prickly cactus thorns On a million steers like these; So I'm goin' to hit the back trail here You cowboys can do the rest And I'll know. when I hear your shots
 ring clear.
 It's the last of the old time westI''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
June Sales of Iron Enormous

June pig iron prices averaged bet ter than those in May and those of May were higher than those in April" say Matthew Addy & Go. in their re- port this week.
 "One of the distinguished southern iron masters in commenting on this fact said that this upward tendency was highly satisfactory, but that it would take an advance of another dollar to make him feel that he was really out of the woods. All over the country the furnacemen are feeling that this long five years of wandering in the wilder ness will have an early end. Jordan is in sight, so to speak, and it is about time. for the iron business has had all the trouble it can well stand.
 "The tonnage of iron sold in June was encouraging. and this without any special band wagon accompaniments. Trade came in large blocks. 'Geograph- ically the east was a more liberal buy CT than the middle west, though the lat ter section has no complaint to make. Couparatively the steel mills are buster than the foundries. Everywhere there is demand for steel that it is difficult to met-sheets, plates, bars and ralls' Prices in steel have advanced sharp ly but have not checked trade On the contrary higher prices seem to have a stimulating effect.
 "The whole iron outlook is encourag- ing. No one is expecting a phenomenal recovery, but sure and steady upward movement is anticipated. It looks as if every month would make an improve ment."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
Prosperity Ahead

'The year 1912 thus far has been fair ly prosperous and a high degree of prosperity Is expected during the second half of, the year." said r. T. Arnold of Philadelphia.
 "It is generally remarked that pres idential year in recent times is not so bad on business as 1t used to be. Per haps, if we had no political agitation this year all lines of business would make wonderful records, but as 1t Is. new high records are going to be made in many branches, and the industrial world, generally, is thriving.
 ''Favorable crop reports will boom business. If the crop outlook is good when the 1st of August comes we can count on an unusually healthy busi- ness boom during the autumn"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
SOMETHING ABOUT PLUMAGE

From the Popular Magazine.
 Tbe voung man did not know what he wanted to eat. His appetite was poor His palate must be tempted and tickied. t4e scanned the menu card again and again. Finally. with sigh Of reslena- ton. he said to the waiter:
 .tr,ne me some fish feathers"
 "Eish feathers! exclaimed the waiter'
 ryes, Fish feathers. And want em tonight--not next week.!
 The waiter retired for conference win the chef, the captain and the floor manager.
 "No such dish here.' was his report. .There ain't any such thing. There never was such a dish in New York" The young man arose and sighed again. "Thats what I've been told by every walter in New York; he remarked sad ly. '.But, if you will drop a line to George M. Bowers, the Commissioner of Fisheries in Washington, he will correct your mistake. enlighten your ignorance, project a shaft of thought into that gran ite which grows above your shoulders. He sighed a third time, stretched him. self slowly. and added:
 MT. Powers will tell you that fish feathers are delicacy. They are taken from flying fish. You catch flying fish with salt water on their tails." Then he went gloomily into the night.