Semi-weekly herald., 1913-01-06
EDITORIAL COMMENT


the government S5l 900. Cheap and
mercy well speas
A Kansas youth Of 10, tender years,
weighs 300 pounds. Might be termed
Il healthy spring chicken.
The bee industry is worth s250,O00
year to Colorado, or at least this is
the estimate for last year.
Now for steady and hard pull and
the year will bring prosperity to this
southwest section.
Let us trust that no disaster will
overtake our fair San Juan basin dur
ing the year 1918.
Don't become discouraged girls AL
though this is not LEAP year il you
really want a fellow there are plea y
of ways to bring him to your feet
So far only PIT aviators have lost
their lives flying in machines. Avia.
tors are not a very good insurance
risk.
When man says he is going to he
chief of police or bust the charter like
Pueblo candidate is alleged to have
done, its time he was sidet- ackeI
1t used to be: How would you like
to be the ice man?" Now it will be-
since parcels post: "How would you
like to be the postman?"
According to scientists, primitive
man was able to think before he
could speak At the present time
many of our most voluminous ora
tors have not yet learned to think.
If you want to say it correct you
must pronounce it parcels post" But
it wont make any difference how yor
say it when it comes to sending ant
receiving packages by mail.
The men convicted in the dy W ite
conspiracy cases are not LAUGHING il
their sleeves quite as much a, tho,
did when the Los Angeles ritne1 was
blown up.
The "best dressed Frenchman" ma.
come to this country to lecture. Wha'
could be more instructive and up
b1Ifik lStCiiiiS W a iVStuiS ~,
the "best dressed Frenchman?"
Walking from New York to Al
bany is simply an endurance test
like the six day bicycle race-tht
chief difference being that the hikers
do. not share in any gate receipts OF
reap consideration of any kind
The fur of the gray fox is valued
at $1,000. Not that this fur is SC
much better than other fur but be.
cause it is rarer. Women want some
thing that other women haven't got
and can't afford to buy.
The Missouri Pacific ia, shortened
.:s running time for freight trains
"a hours between Kansas City and
Denver. This means quite an item
One of the results of the Union Pacif-
i.'s recent policy.
Woman suffrage was defeated in
Michigan, according to the final re-
turns, by $50 votes. The suffragists
will not rest, of course, until this
narrow margin is wiped out in fu-
ture election.
The number of Kansas City work
ing women who are being robbed OF
thousands of dollars worth of dia.
monds is becoming appalling. Think
of the sad plight of poor working
woman bereft of diamonds!
1t is reported that the Santa Fe has
purchased land in Denver to the tune
of half million dollars for the pur-
pose of building into the heart of The
city and establishing its own termi-
mails.
The News goes the Post one be tel
and says Denver will reap $4,000, ,000
a year on account of the parcels post
This means so much less for the coun-
try merchants then. The thing will
soon be tested.
The black pugilist's lawyers have
deserted him. They were colored men
and their latest action is some credit
to their race, not forgetting entirely
that they took the case in the first
place.
Il would lend millions to man
without security if liked his char
acter," says j. P. Morgan. And there
are millions Of men who would like
to assure Mr.. Morgan that they have
perfectly lovely characters.
The state officials have notified
the bondsmen of Assessor Pitcher of
Denver that they will be held for the
tax II Pitcher refuses to certify the
tax list without the ten per cent re-
duction.
Denver Times has 1t in for moving
picture shows. II is right in one thing
that of having the ordinance en-
forced for the protection of patrons.
Probably not one out of ten of the
Denver moving picture shows are
complying with the law for prorer
fire protection. In this movement,
Mr.. Patek, you are right.
Just what good tariff hearings will
do ct this time is not made plain. The
rrssent congress will not pass any
Effective legislation along tariff lines
ss,1o ths s,aVu ho,,ae will have il all one