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Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05
THE DOWNTRoDDEN RAILROADS

Those familiar with the people-be-
damned era of our great transporta-
tion systems must marvel at the way
"the old order changeth." Now we
note the magnates of eastern lines
pleading humbly with the interstate
commerce commission for the privi-
lege of raising rates little that they
may dodge receivership. Also at
the Missouri capital, President Bush,
of the Missouri Pacific, and as spokes-
man for other western lines, sounds
a similar plea of poverty, and seeks a
raise from the show-me state. Some
change, indeed, from the old days be-
fore it occurred to the statesmen that
they might fix the rates.
Yet panning the railroads in no
longer the popular pastime it was
when the railroads seemed high and
mighty. The past at least is past,
and people are beginning to under
stand that the nation cannot prosper
uAhCoS VIC A0A1oaoo oiC prosperous.
Commerce by rail affects in some
degree practically every person in
the nation, and it is consequently of
utmost Importance that the trans
portation facilities be maintained at
a high degree Of efficiency, and that
they be extended to meet the grow
ing demands Of new development.
But with SO many lines operating at
loss, or skimping to show slight
profit, extension is out of the ques-
ton, and even adequate maintenance
may be neglected.
Doubtless Hon. Brandies, who
seems bent on blocking all increases,
knows more about railroading than
this layman, but he probably knows
something less than the combined
lines now beseeching an increase.
And one need not have an intricate or
intimate kno wledge of the system to
know that reductions in rates when
everything else is being increased, are
apt to result disastrously. 1t might,
with an increasing prosperity prob
able, as a result Of the European war,
be better to grant the railroads re-
quest, and retrench a little in other
quarters in governmental extrava-
gance, for instance.-Atchison Globe.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

F. B. Fulton from the general pas
senger agents office at Denver, ar
rived on Monday of this week and>
outfitted the next morning for the
Mesa Verde National park, where he
spent three days visiting all the ruins
and such other scenic attractions of
interest. These views are being tax
en- for the special purpose of adver-
tising the park at the San Francisco
International exposition next year.
1t is the plan Of the railroad company.
to erect building of its own on the.
exposition grounds which will be de-
voted exclusively to advertising the,
country and scenic attractions of the.
country traversed by the Rio Grande,
and the Missour; Pacific sxstems, to-
gether with the varied rey fces.-
Mancos Times Tribune.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05
TRAVEL AT HOME.

European travel should give peo-
pie broader views and more general
intelligence. For some, it has been
mere extravaganza and useless spend
ing. 1t may be worth all it costs,
yet it does drain hundreds of millions
of dollars annually from our country.
On August l, Europe closed up its
hotels and railroads, opened its ceme-
teries, and went into the killing busi-
ness. If tn war ends soon, many
curiosity seekers may then go over,
much as the ghouls flock to rail-
road disaster. Normal people will
find Europe in turmoil for several
years. Everyone having leisure and
money for travel may well take this
time to familiarize himself with the
wonders to be seen at home.
The war should teach renewed
respect for American ideas and insti.
tutions. While the powers of Europe
have been loading themselves up with
the barbarous implements of slaugh-
ter, America has been making bet
ter highways, educating it's children,
removing disease, and improving its
farms.
While Europe is now destroying
matchless relics of the past, America
has been erecting churches and mo nu-
ments, painting pictures and carving
statues. Much of this work is crude,
but much is very wonderful. While
foreign powers are working off the
cruel fevers of barbarism, let us here
at home value at its true worth all
that our own builders and artists
have done.
There ought now to be in every
American heart, renewed affection
for his native land. II should stand
for him as the home of peace, as the
.and where love and science and labor
are the ideals, not blood and iron.
One should realize better the gorg-
eous scenic beauty of our fair land,
and feel deeper interest in the abound
ing energy of American achievement.
Let the traveller then, until Europe
rcpcnts of its wild insanity, seek to
learn more Of what God and man
have done for his own native land!
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05
THE DEPARTING SOLDIER.

Farewell, dear wife," the soldier
said, "my country calls, and l must
go. to wear helmet on my head,
and shoot at folks I do not know.
Ard men whose names 1 never heard,
will go for me with gun or sword; the
whole blamed business is absurd, and
l am sad, and slightly bored. l know
not what the wars about; if wise or
just do not know; only know, Pm
going out to make target for the
foe. But keep cheerful heart, l beg,
for I'll return to farm and home; per-
haps I will be shy leg, and maybe
I'll be short an arm. But I'll come
back; though battered sore-come
back in flesh, or as ghost; may be
brought upon door, may be ship
Fed by parcel post; some way, some
time, 1 shall return, my soul, as ever
fond and true, to watch you trying
hard to earn living for our fam
iShed crew. You'll have to till our
barren fields, and reap the scanty
crops you raise, while am packing
sword and shield and shooting holes
through unknown jays. You'll have
to thrash the meager grain and yoke
the oxen to the plow, while Pm piroot-
ing DER the plain, large brass her
met on my brow. 1 hate to leave
these humble walls; our lives, dear
wife, are made a wreck; but l must
go where honor calls, and get a bull
let in my neck" walt Mason.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05
WEATHER-wISE CREATURES.

Certain birds and animals are in
fallible weather forecasters. A con-
tributor to Farm and Fireside de-
scribes the manner in which many of
them act in preparation for storms
or changes in the weather.
The spider, upon the approach of
rainy or windy weather, will be found
to shorten and strengthen the guys
of his web. When the storm is over
he will lengthen them again.
Sea-gulls predict storms by assem-
bling on the land, but this is merely
a search for food. They instructive.
ly know that the rain will bring the
earthworms and larvae to the surface.
A similar instinct teaches the swal-
low to fly high in fair weather and
skim the ground when foul weather
is coming. They simply follow the
flies and gnats which remain in the
warm air.
Swine will carry hay into straw to
a hiding place, oxen will lick them
selves the wrong way of the hair,
sheep will bleat and skip about, hogs
turned out in the woods will come to
their pens squealing and grunting,
crows will gather in flocks, and crick-
cts will sing more loudly.
In all probability these many ac
tions are due to an uneasiness similar
to that which all who are troubled
with eorns or rheumatism experience
just previous to = storm. and are caus
ed both by the variation in barometric
pressure and the changes in the cleo
trical condition Of the atmosphere.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

Here is bit Of news to set one
thinking, says La Toilette. A Ger
man price list of foodstuffs received
in New York shows that on Septem-
Der 2 in the Hamburg market, out Of
32 items, 18 were lower in price than
in New York, nine were higher, and
five the same. A German housewife
could buy for 1854 what would have
cost her in New York s8.25. A trav-
eler returning from England exclaim-
ed to a reporter that one aspect Of
the war which greatly impressed her
was the fact that prices in New York
for ordinary necessities were marked
ly higher than they were in London
when she left that city. Is there any
good reason why this should be SO ?
One thing is certain: We are all
paying a pretty penny for the an
swer.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05
AT THE HUsKIN's.

A typical American trait is the de-
sire to get something for nothing.
The old time festival of corn husking
illustrates it. This function has
somewhat gone out Of fashion where
these hilarious old time frolics were
an efficient machine for performing
toilsome task of farm work, and
they are still common in many rural
localities.
Uncle Reuben has been worrying
about his corn field. Farm help or
expert huskers cost high.
Removing the husks by the old time
method is sneezing, stuffy job.
The boys cough pathetically to show
how it would injure their throats and
lungs.
Some rural genuius discovered that
by getting the young people together,
those husks could l.agically be strip
ped, merely for ll.ie treat of sand
wiches, apples, and cider.
The young fo.ks have no kick COM
ing" The boys get free the society
of pretty girls. There are frequent
tips contine snt on red ears, which the
forces of nature always mysteriously
provide in abundance. OF course it
isn't work. Under these circum-
stances, good healthy corn dust never
hurt anyone. The young people, as
well as the farmer, get something
for nothing.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

What do you think, Mr.. Rural Route
Carrier, Of Postmaster General Burle-
cons proposal to have the service on
rural routes let by contract to the
lowest biJdei? Does that sound like
the proper reward for your years of
service to the government and to the
patrons Of your route? Don't you
feel tina; you deserve somewhat bet.
ter treatment for that long disagree
able daily pull through rain, mud,
sleet or snowdrifts? 1t perhaps would
not be regarded as pernicious activity
to ask your good friends, the patrons
of your route if they think you are
overpaid and wish to have their mail
service put on a cheap star route
basis.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05
SERVING THEIR COUNTRY IN
WAR AS IN PEACE.

Reports from Europe bring us the
news that the ranks of newspaper
men in every one of the warning ma
tions have been depleted and that in
stead Of welding the pencil they are
now active with sword, rifle and can
non. They are serving their countries
in war as they have served them in
peace, as every good newspaper man
should.
In France, and more particularly
in Paris, newspapers that formerly
ran twelve, sixteen and more pages
are today appearing on the streets as
single sheets. They carry only off,
cial news Of the war. which has been
severely blue penciled by the censor.
Many 4 line or paragraph Is blocked
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05
BLOOD WILL TELL,
The Heroes of the War.

Blood will TELL" is an axiom tb..
III an the ages has never been p.;n
SAD. Every man who does a brana
heroic act carries within his ve;ns
quality of blood that urges .nd
tains him. No matter whether he -
merits 1t from long line of famo,..
ancestors or from the sound-, ~
healthy constitution of his immei;.s'
parents, whose only distinction is boa
oraole toll and simple, virtuous lifa
1t matters little where or bow
ontain 1t, but it matters all the wor,I
that by some means you possess oons
blood. Good blood is first, last and
always the making of manly men and
womanly women. 1t is the source -
all courage, virtue and happiness.
"A new man can be made out of
one that's "used-up," bilious and dvs-
peptic- It's done by DR.. Pierce's Cola
en- Medical Discovery. 1t starts tho
torpid liver into health action. pur;-
,,fies and enriches the blood, cleanses
repairs, and strengthens the svster,
and restores health and vigor. AS an
appetizing, restorative tonic, it sets
at work all the processes of digestion
and nutrition, and builds up flesh and
strength. It's the Only Blood and
Liver Remedy that's guaranteed. in
every case, to benefit or cure. If il
doesn't do all that's claimed for if
the money is promptly refunded. But
it keeps its promises-that's the rea-
son it can be sold in this way.
1t is not secret remedy for its in
gradients are printed on wrapper.
You only pay for the good you get.
Discovery" strengthens Weak
Lungs, relieves Shortness of Breath,
Bronchitis, Severe Coughs and kin.
dred affections.
, FREE. DR.. Pierce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser, bound in cloth. is
sent free on receipt of 81 one-cent
stamps to pay expense of wrapping
and mailing only. Address: Doctor
Pierce, Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

If Postmaster General Burleson was
thinking to strike a popular chord
when he suggested economy by let
ting the contract for rural route SER
vice to the lowest bidder, he reckon
ed without consideration Of the thou
sands of rural route patrons, who are
served daily by the carriers Of the
rural mail. These people have been
receiving service performed by men
whose aim has been to give the best
possible. They are not trying to cut
off the corners in order to lessen the
expense of doing the work and they
are cooperating constantly for i'm
provement.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

This country has had an annual loss
of 10000 killed in its industries, an
army larger than the country possess
ed at the outbreak Of the Spanish
American war. About 100000 more
are injured every year. 1t is esti-
mated than an average Of 5000. 900
are i'll from occupational diseases.
Experts have sought to estimate the
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

Substantial raises have been grant
ed all railroad employees in Germany.
Owing to the strenuous duty OCCASION
ed by the war, in the way of troop
and provision transports and trans
ports of wounded soldiers, the crew
of the trains work many hours over
time. The motormen's pay has been
raised four marks daily (about 81
extra; and engineers get three and
half marks extra pay a day, the
conductors two and half marks, and
the other employees wages are in
creased proportionally.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05
out in black, for again the censor has

out in black, for again the censor has
foSf1 something which iie considers
Tor publication. Sucii news
as Is gwen in the papers is greedily
devoured by the populace.
There are several good reasons why
the Paris newspapers are appearing
as single sheets. 10 begin with, the
paper supply is very short, and there
may even come a time when the sup
ply of news print paper will cease in
France. But the principal reason for
the reduction in the size of the pub
lications is that the men who write
and make them have gone to war.
Only the old men and small boys are
left. One paper has even suspended
entirely. The announcement in its
last issue informed the public that
1--WE are all going to war" and that
the paper will resume publication
when the men return. May the pa
per resume and prosper.
In England many newspaper men
have already smelled the smoke Of
battle, and only last week the reports
told of over 100 others who had an
swered the call to the colors from the
London papers alone. The English
papers are not so hard hit as are the
French, for they have been literally
supplied with paper from Sweden and
Norway. The English papers and
consequently the English public are
suffering from lack of news from
the seat of war, and this is at pres
ent the greatest complaint Of the
British press. The latter has gained
great credit because of the restraint
it has put upon itself in regard to
the publication of war news which it
had at the beginning of the war and
which for patriotic reasons it refus-
ed to print. This news dealt with
the mobilization of British troops and
Was in the possession of every Lon
don paper. Despite this fact, not a
word of it was made public, and so
the movements of the troops were
kept secret until they had reached
their destination. At the present time,
however, there seems to be an under
current of dissatisfaction with the
censor, who has carried on things in
high handed manner--so much so,
in fact, as to arouse the ire of all
of the big London dailies.
In Germany, of course, every able
bodied newspaper man, with the rest
of the sound male population, has
gone to the front or is preparing to
do so, and it is remarkable fact
that during the early fighting two
of Germany's well known newspaper
men met death. The German news
papers, of course. are under the
thumb of the censor, as are the pa
pers of France and England. The
German supply of news print paper
is problematical, but it is likely that
it can be and is being replenished
from Sweden and Norway.
In word, the newspapers have
made sacrifices, and the men who
make them are making greater sac
rifices, thus maintaining the tradition
of the craft, which is to serve the
country loyalty and unflinchingly in
peace and war.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05
NEWS AND COMMENT.


The Norwegian press is making an
appeal to the government to rescind
the prohibition ordinance which was
passed in the first excitement of the
war to stop the sale of strong alco-
holic beverages. Nominally fifty per
cent Of the Norwegian people is rep
resented in the membership of
"Teetotal Societies." and next to Fin
land, Norway ordinarily has the
smallest per capita consumption of
alcohol in the world. The appeal for
resembling the prohibition act is bas-
ed primarily on assertions that after
more than two months of prohibition,
prohibition has not worked.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05
PUBLISHERS TO BOOST STATE.

The Utah Newspaper association,
at recent meeting in Salt Lake,
inaugurated a movement calculated
to aid in the upbuilding of the state.
A new organization was formed at
the meeting to be known as the
Utah Community Builders associa-
tion," and its object will be to get
every man and woman possible in
every community in the state to sign
a pledge to buy from their merchants
Utah-made goods.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

A Berlin cable through The Hague
says the kaiser now has 100000 cap
tiyes, and that nearly half the prison.
ers are French. The exact numbers
given out are: British-Officers, 1870;
men, 5000. French--Officers, 2,050;
men, 123,0O0. Belgians--Officers 47O;
men, 30,S00. Russians-Officers, g.
150; men, $4,000.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

The highly cultured European arm
les don't line prisoners up against the
wall and shoot them, as the Mexicans
did. They merely destroy all their
buildings and crops, and starve their
victims to death gradually.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

Mrs. J. R. White, OF San Diego,
Cal, has graduated in law and wants
to be admitted to the bar, but not
under the name of White. She wants
to practice law under her maiden
lame, Emma 8. Smith. The bar will
not let her in unless she uses her
husbands name. Mrs. White has TAX
en- the matter to the court of appeals.
She says it is a weak sister who
uses her husbands name instead of
her own. Why does a woman like
Mrs. Emma Smith White marry?
Why does she not stick to her own
namei n the first place, instead of
raising heaven and earth to get that
OF some man?
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED
! Ar rae l'uBLic LIBRARY

The following new books have been
received at the public library:
Adult Fiction.
Montgomery, Louise-Mrs. Maho-
ney of the Tenement.
Richmond, G. L. (S.)-Twenty-
fourth of June.
Bower, B. M.-Ranch at the VOL
VERNE.
Reed, Myrtle-old Rose and Silver.
MacGrath, Harold-Arventures of
Kathlyn.
Leonard, NJ. F.-Little Red Chin
ney.
Lutz, G. L. H.-Man of the Desert.
Vermilye, X. J.-Creeping Tides.
Fiction.
Nansen, Fridtjof-In Modern Mists.
Williams, II. W.-Russia of the
Russians.
Kellner, Austria of the Aus
trians.
McGiffert, A. C.-Martin Luther.
Bulfnch, Thomas-Age of Fable.
Stephen, Sir Playground of Eu-
rope.
Hearne, R. P.-Airships in Peace
and War.
Gautier, Theophile-Journeys il
Italy.
Kinglake, A. W.-Eothen.
Tyndall, John-Glaciers of the Alps
Taine, H. A.-Italy, Florence ano
Venice.
Burroughs, John-Bird and Bough
Hare, A. J. C.-Studies in Russia.
Munsterburg, H.-Americans.
Mclaughlin, MY Friend the In
dian.
Pan-American Union-Mexico.
Yriate, Charles-Venice.
Edwards, A. A. S.-Untrodder
Peaks and Unfrequented Valley.
Marden, P. S.-Greece and the Aeg
can Islands.
Bingham, H.-Across South Amer
ica.
Cabot, R. C.-What Men Live By
Antin, Mary-They Who Knock A
Our Gates.
Harrison, j. E.-Ancient Art an,
Ritual.
Children's Books.
Mabie, II. W.-Essays That Ev
cry Child Should Know.
Duncan, R. B.-Brave Deeds of tn
Revolutionary Soldiers.
Wood, Eric-Boy's Book of Bat
ties
Altsheler, ]. A.-Scouts of Stone
wall.
Altsheler, ]. A.-Sword of Antie
tam.
Mathewson, Christy-Won in tn
Ninth.
Alcott, L. M.-Hospital Sketches.
Jacobs, c. E.-Blue Bonnet in Bos
ton.
Baker, E. A A.-Fairmount's Quar-
tette.
Richards, L. E.-Merryweathers.
Brown, E. A.-When Max Came.
Peattie, E. W.-Azalea at Sunset.
Heyliger, William-Off Side.
Gilman, Bradley, Sound of the Des
ert.
Blanchard, A. Elizabeth, Bets,
and Bess.
Lang, Mrs. E. Bred Book O
Heroes.
Moran, G. N.-Kakahu the Hopi In
dian Boy.
Nesbit, E.-Story of the Treasur
Seekers.
Loring, j. A.-African Adventur
Stories.
The librarians report for the mont
of October shows circulation of 80
books during the month, and $40 per
sons using the reading room.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

Benjamin Strong, Jr., governor of
the New York federal reserve bank,
will receive a salary of $4,000 a
year. No doubt a great many will
take the place for less, but in mat
ters of this kind the government
doesn't invite bids.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

A letter from a correspondent at
Sonnenburg, Neumark, says that the
inmates of the penitentiary there,
1000 in number. collected 1900
marks in cash for the Red Cross.
The convicts get certain amount for
their work every week. The amount
collected is, in American money,
about $1,000.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

This is one of the finest falls we
have ever enjoyed. Farmers should
improve every golden moment and get
everything ready for the coming
spring. Remember fall plowing is
the thing.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

They are calling each other liars
SO freely it is feared there may be
some hard feeling between Germany
and the allies before this cruel war
is over.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

Attention of householders looking
for fuel supply for the winter is call
ed to the fact that several perfectly
good planks, approved by the Balti-
more convention, have been discard
ed.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

Many bishops and high officials of
the Methodist Episcopal church met
in Washington last week for a confer
ence to plan the raising of $5,000,O00
from the eastern conference for the
support of aged widows and children
Of deceased pastors. Addresses will
be made by Speaker Clark and about
fifteen bishops in behalf of the cam
paign.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

1t is astonishing what good ar
ticle an editor can write on the ad-
vantages of cheap vegetable diet,
after he has had good square meal
of roast beef.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

The boys will always bring pail
of water for the ball team, but don't
humiliate the youngsters by asking
them to lug one for mother III the
kitchen.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

Now in particular Uncle Sam
should stay out of Mexico, for the
show would be rotten compared with
Europe's stupendous production.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

You are hearing much of the large
opportunities Of South America, but
this is an awfully comfortable coun-
try at this time, despite the high cost
of living.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

1t was Germanys misfortune to
take Ostend after the bathing season
closed. Ostend, you know, is noted
for the most abbreviated bathing
suits on the well known continent.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

1t is expected that some Of the ad-
vanccs in food prices are not due 80
much to the war as to the desire Of
dealers to acquire 1913 automobile.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-11-05

Let all feeling engendered during
the campaign be sidetracked. This is
land of give and take. Don't carry
your political prejudices minute af-
ter the polls close.