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Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
INSTEAD OF oRPHANAGES.

There are no orphans in Australia,
and, as one would expect in those cir
cumstances, there are no orphanages,
either. AS matter of fact, however,
it was the abolition of orphanages
and not the longevity of parents that
led to the desirable consummation for
the bereaved children of that country.
Every Australian child who loses its
parents is taken in hand by the state
child's council, and that body finds,
on farm or in town, married
couple who are willing to adopt the
child, the state bearing the expense.
The idea is due to the efforts of
two private individuals, a Miss Clark
and Miss Catherine Spence, who,
when South Australia was small
community, undertook to find homes
for some destitute children of Ade-
laide.
Similar activities have been started
in America by private individuals and
societies-such as the Illinois Chill
dren's Home and Aid society, and to
q very limited extent by state action
in Indiana-but in Australia the gov
ernment has gone very systematical-
ly to work to enlarge the idea and
and back it up with full social con-
troll of the destinies of the child. Paid
travelling inspectors and voluntary
local inspectors, government physi-
clans and special police officers see
that the privilege of boarding the
wards of the state is not abused. For
the state is the father and mother of
these children, and its parentage is so
actual thing that the word orphan
is no longer a part of the living YER
nacular of Australia.-Chicago Post.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
PRoGREssIvEs RUN THIRD.

A Democrat has been elected to
succeed the late Congressman Pepper
in the Second Iowa district, by more
than one thousand votes, but there Is
no special significance in the result,
except so far as it shows the relative
standing of the Republicans and the
Progressives in Iowa. When Con
gressman Pepper was elected in 1910
he was opposed only by Socialist.
On Tuesday the three leading parties
were represented by candidates and
the Progressives ran third, with the
Republicans second. Almost two
years have elapsed since the last CON
gressional elections, and Iowa is
state where liberal voting is indulged
in, yet the progressives have not been
able to make any gain. They ran be-
hind the Republicans in every con
gressional district in the last regular
election in Iowa and Mondays result
indicates that the same will happer
again next November. Iowa can be
safely counted as one state which will
not send any Progressives to the next
congress.--Pueblo Star-Journal.
The above again illustrates the fact
that divided opposition means Demo
cratic success. Are the Colorado lead
ers going to continue to play the foo
hand?
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

An old man who thinks he's smart,
would like to trade his wisdom and
wealth for the privilege of being
young again, and good deal of mon
ey is still expended in Ponce de Leon
pilgrimages which fail to get any
where. One can't stay young, and
it is difficult to grow old gracefully
or do anything else gracefully when
rheumatism is kicking ones joints
around and the world seems largely
composed of vanity and vexation of
spirit. Hence it is great idea to
cultivate the health habit, and stay
young as long as possible in mind as
well as body, which will help toward
ageing cheerfully if not gracefully.
The fact that you can't live for
ever is bum excuse for not living
right as you 60 along.-Atchison
Globe,
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
MAN FACES CHARGE OF
NUMBERING GIRL, AGED 3

PUEBLO, Colo, Feb. l7.-After a
delay of several months, James Will
liams, charged with the murder of
Alberta Serfling, aged 3, on Septem-
ber 29, 1913, went on trial in the dis
trict court today. The father of the
girl has also accused Williams of at
tempted murder The prisoner will
have to face both charges.
1t is believed the line of defense
will be temporary insanity, caused by
a blow on the head with piece of
Stag alleged to have been thrown by
Serfling on the morning the girl was
shot. That same evening, Williams,
according to Settings complaint, ap-
peared at the Serfling house and call
ed Serfling out. When Serfling ap
peared, he declares Williams fired at
him point blank, with revolver. The
shot went wild but pierced the abdo-
men of little Alberta who was play
ing inside the house. The girl died
November T.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
MINERS INSIST THAT MOTHER
JONES BE ALLOWED TO TESTIFY

TRINIDAD, Colo, Feb. 17.-Chair-
man Foster" of the strike probe COM
mittee, today sent the following mes
sage to Governor Ammons, relative
to having Mother Jones testify be-
fore the committee:
Congressional subcommittee has
been formally requested by the coun-
sci for the miners to subpoena Mrs.
Mary Jones, now held military pris-
oner. Will you direct the military
authorities to bring her here before
this committee for examination ?"
Ammons replied:
eve will obey your wishes but
would prefer you subpoena her here
after you return to Denver, or see her
at the hospital to avoid any possibil-
ity of trouble. Letter follows"
Foster said the committee would
await the governors letter.
Charles Morton, strike breaker,
testified that he came here from
Pennsylvania because working condi-
tions and wages were better. He said
he opposed unions. He denied that
soldiers interferred with him at Ber-
wind.
Sam Irons declared the superin-
tendent of Rugby mine prevented him
from getting his mail.
I ,phn padri dacla rod that onJy cnm
pany officials had been school direct
ors for years.
Miss Marion Derr of Ludlow testi-
fled that she saw a striker dubbed
and prodded with bayonets and
forced away from the postoffice by
soldiers.
Tomorrow the committee will prob
ably tour the strike district.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
A TEACHERS TRIALS.

The Atchison Globe surely says
many truthful things in the follow
ing:
A teacher gets five day week,
short hours and a long vacation, and
yet one who knows children may mar
vel occasionally that so few teachers
perish of nervous prostration. 1t
seems to the outsider that the va
cation should be on full pay, that the
teacher might not have to wait to
gather the reward due in heaven.
And, despite modern methods and i'm
proved buildings and better pay, in
some ways the teachers lot is worse
than it used to be in the days when
our young ideas were taught how to
shoot. The rod as a righteous weapon
Of discipline has been largely elimin-
ated, and teachers are imposed on by
pupils more than they used to be-
Parents also are different, and the
o. f. parent who administered fur
ther chastisement at home otter pun
ishment at school, is a grandparent
by now, or gone on to his or her
honorable ancestors. The modern
parent instead finds fault with the ad-
ministration of discipline, if any, and
the teachers lot is as happy as a hear
Sc. We object to crouch taking 1t
out on the children, but it might, as
Henry Field suggests, be better for
the children if there were a little
more discipline in the home of the
free.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

If you hear snorts you may know it
is the women reading the latests nom
sense in the women's magazines. A
Mrs. Frank Patterson, of New York,
is being exploited in these maga-
zines. She is settling the hired girl
question; says for the women to do
their own work. She calls kitchens
studios. Mrs. Patterson's pictures ac-
company the articles. She appears
among the pots, kettles and skillets in
the kitchen wearing low necked
party dress and high heeled slippers.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

Highly encouraging are the figures
in regard to the public schools in the
Philippines lately given out by the
war department. In 1928 there
were graduated from the primary
course nearly 1000 boys and 1000
girls; from the intermediate course
$500 boys and 1000 girls; from the
higs school 2s4 boys and 58 girls.
This year the total attendance is
nearly 464,000, of whom 5000 are in
the high school, and it is estimated
that the schools reach third of the
school population. The limitation is
largely due to lack of funds, the out
lay being only AZ cents per capita of
the total population, as against $4,45
in the United States.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

1t is a gratifying thing to know
that there is still vitality enough in
the nation to convict rich offenders
like the New York makers who have
been convicted of smuggling and the
politicians for buying and selling
judicial places. Now if the ignominy
and contempt of prison term can
be fixed upon them and theirs, as it
is on the poor man who makes a
wrong step, some good will be accom-
plished. Lots of people fail to see the
disgrace of stripes on a rich man.
Colorado Springs Telegraph.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

heavy, especially in the mammoth
wash. Our first nights camping
ground was on the big canal which
leaves the Colorado river four miles
below Yuma and carries the water
that is used in the Imperial valley.
We covered 80 miles of the worst por-
tion of the read, the first day.
The next morning we had beau
tiful drive down through the little
towns of Brawley and Imperial to Ell
Centre, the county seat, which boasts
of about 5000 inhabitants. Here we
met James Trimble and William De-
genhardt, former Colorado residents.
We also saw Irving and Joe McGrew
and other Colorado folk who now
make the Imperial their home. The
valley is level and pretty. Alfalfa
raising and dairying seem to be the
most profitable lines of business.
Bailed hay brings from SO to $40 per
ton and is a slow sale at that. We
are told that fruit and potatoes are a
failure. Cotton growers are giving
away one-half of the crop for the
picking. The hard winds are one OF
the disagreeable features of the val
ley in winter, and the extreme heat
makes it an undesirable residence
place in summer.
While there we took twenty-five
mile side trip to old Mexico, crossing
the line at Calezico. We drove thru
the streets of Mexiceli while the
natives looked "daggers' at US. The
custom house officials searched oul
machines to see that we were moi
smuggling anything across the line.
After a few days rest we started
one cool, cloudy morning for Sar
Diego. We made the trip across
mountains and plains, a distance o.
1876 miles, in one day, which W.
thought was excellent time consider
ing the condition of the roads.
Weary of camping, we have taker
apartments at the Glen hotel. Sar
Diego has grown a great deal since
we were here 18 years ago. Now W.
motor 40 miles to see both ends Of
the city. So far we visited the ole
San Diego mission, Port Luna, Ocear
beach, Romana's home, City park
and viewed the exposition buildings il
the course of construction. We have
met Charles Herr, R. E. Sloan, Chas
Naegline, and number of old timer:
| from Colorado.
We dine at cafeteria-the quicl
lunch restaurant, where patrons serve
themselves. We like it for differen
reasons and especially because the
tips are eliminated.
When we reach Durango in thu
spring we hope to be posted as tt
the proper route for the new autt
road, as we expect to come via Need
les and the Grand Canon.
GEORGE w. SPENCER,
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

Exit the cigar; enter the bonbon. A
candidate for alderman distributed the
other} evening thousand boxes Of
candy among the enfranchised wo-
men of the twenty-eighth. Per con-
ira, Miss Marion H. Drake, alder
manic in the first, where beer has
been heretofore the campaigns usual
currency and medium of exchange, is
running free coffee wagons in her
ward, with the steaming beverage
ladled out gratis to all who apply says
the Record-Herald.
Woman, whether as giver or taker,
may be depended to promote ameni-
ties in political warfare.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
Denver commissioners enjoy life at

Denver commissioners enjoy life at
the taxpayers expense. Each COM
missioner has an auto paid for by the
taxpayers and Mayor Perkins and
Sheriff Nisbet pay their chauffeurs
$125 a month. Again, we note the
sheriff's Abbott-Detroit car was not
good enough so he purchased Stod-
dard- Dayton for $4,000, turning in the
old car for $1,000. Holding office and
having a, high time when the other
fellow pays the bill is the popular
idea these days, at least in some COM
munities. Time is coming when the
people will rebel against such tactics
and rebel good and hard.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
NOT HONEST BUSINESS.

The revelations of high financing
in the management of the New Haven
and Frisco railroads are simply an
other demonstration of the manner
in which some of these properties
have been exploited by Wall street at
the expense Of the public and of the
roads themselves.
This is not honest business. In the
smaller transactions of life it would
be called by harsh name. But un-
der the guise of big business and the
glamor of the millions of dollars in
volved, it is considered entirely legi-
timate.-Leadville Herald Democrat.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

1t is improbable that General
Coxey' will lead an army of 100000
unemployed to Washington. The num-
ber could be raised, but the commits
sary arrangements of the last expedi-
tion are too vividly remembered, and,
moreover, Coxey is said to be worth
something these days. The man with
a bank account seldom leads revo-
lutionary movement, says an ex-
change.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
WOMEN ASSERT THEY
WERE CLUBBED BY DEPUTIES

HANCOCK, Mich, Feb. /.
Charging she was held captive h
five children for several hours, CT J.
bed and forced to accompany dc =
ties to Houghton in an auto in ". :
cry weather, Mrs. Margaret Gioaee.4,
a Slay, testified in the strike prcue.
She said her four months old boy
carried in the auto trip, died shoi Y
as the result of the exposure SIZE
declared that she never learned wi.v
she was arrested. Her husband tli, d
to find out but the prosecutor said he
could do nothing.
She followed another strike
wife who said deputies dubbed her.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

F. d. Coburn, secretary of the state
board of agriculture, today refused
the offer of the nomination for gov
ernor of Kansas on the Progressive
ticket with all expenses paid and the
work of the campaign to be done by
others. This is the second time Co.
burn has refused to be candidate
for governor and once he refused to
enter race for United States sem
atorship.-Press dispatch. Send for
some Coloradoans. No one in this
state ever refused to run for office
II given an opportunity.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
HORRIBLE BLOTCHES OF
ECZEMA.

Quickly cured by DR.. Hobson's Ec-
zema Ointment. C. P. Caldwell, Of
New Orleans, La, writes: "My doc
tor advised me to try 'Dr. Hobson's
Eczema Salve.' used three boxes
of Ointment and three cakes of DR..
Hobson's Derma Zema Soap. Today
l have not spot anywhere on my
body and can say am cured" 1t
will do the same for you. Its sooth-
ing, healing, antiseptic action will rid
you of all skin humors, blackheads,
pimples, Eczema blotches, red un-
sighly sores, and leaves your skin
clean and healthy. Get a box today.
Guaranteed. All Druggists. Soc, or by
mail. Pfeiffer Chemical Co., Phila-
delphia or st. Louis.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
ADDRESSES ON COMMISSION
FORM OF CITY GOVERNMENT

BOULDER, COLO, Feb. ia
series of addresses on commission
government as it actually works out
in operation featured the morning
session today of the first annual
municipal conference of Colorado be-
ing held here under the auspices of
the state university. j. Knox Bur-
ton, of Pueblo's city commission;
Mayor Charles Cherrington, of
Grand Junction, and Frank J. Annie,
Ft. Collins, all discussed the subject.
Their remarks precipitated general
discussion of the problem of city COM
missions.
Prof. Loran d. Osborn, director of
the university extension department,
opened the session with an address on
Forms of Municipal Government"
while C. A. Ballreich, of Pueblo, dis
cussed "The Advantages of a City
Charter"
At noon today the delegates were
guests at a luncheon given by the
university, when DR.. Alvin PEBBLES,
professor of preventive and expert
mental medicine at the university de-
livered an address on Public Health"
At the closing session of the con-
ference this afternoon, DR.. J. Nj.
Perkins, mayor of Denver, discussed
social welfare activities and Clinton
Rogers Woodruff delivered an address
on Municipal Improvement" Before
the session closed permanent Or
ganization was formed.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

Charles Warden ScofieId, 7s years
of age, died one day last week in
Brooklyn, and on his deathbed mar
ried Miss Jean Fitzsimmons a trained
nurse, 2s years of age. His second
wife (he has had severaD left him
$4,000 and he wanted the nurse to
get the money. Now, isn't that enough
to make the second Mrs. Scofield
haunt the bride?
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

Marconi is able. by means of wire
less telegraph to light a lamp which
is six miles away from him. Pres
emily we shall have things SO per-
fected that man, before he start4
for home late at night, can turn on
the light in his window and thus ap-
proach the house with the feeling that
somebody cares for him after all.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
WOMAN FOUND MURDERED
IN CEMETERY; SKULL CRUSHED

AURORA, ILL.,, Feb. 17.-Miss
Tracy Hollander, aged 20, was found
murdered in st. Nicholas cemetery
this morning. Her face was down.
ward and her skull was crushed. The
tramped snow indicated desperate
struggle. Anthony Pedro, jinted
suitor, was arrested but denies any
knowledge of the crime.
1t is possible the motive was rob-
berry. The girl was the financial sec
retary of the Knights and Ladies of
Honor.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
SPENCER WRITES
FROM CALIFORNIA

San Diego, Cal, Feb. 10, 1914.
Editor Herald:
Leaving the. land of rattlesnakes
and cacti, the boys, with our autos,
crossed the river on the ferry boat,
while Mrs. Darlington, Mrs. Spencer
and I preferred to walk over the
Southern Pacific railroad bridge The
first forty miles out are most DESC
late. there scarcely being any vegeta-
ton. We followed near the railroad
forty miles more. The sand was
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

Statistics compiled by the En-
gineering News shows that in Ill
cities of the United States the amount
of building operations was less in
1913 by some $6O,OOO,OO0 than in 1912.
This condition of affairs was notably
general--in 46 eastern cities fall
ing off of 1853 per cent; in 13 south
ern cities, 30.6 per cent; in 10 cit
les of the Pacific coast, 2.82 per cent.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
SENATOR KEATING SCORES
SUGAR MANUFACTURERS

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 49,
"If the beet sugar manufacturers OF
Colorado and Michigan replaced lot
of their antiquated machinery with
modern equipment, they would not
need to make threats of cutting
prices for their beets."
In these words, Representative
Keating, of Colorado, summarized
what he believes is the real reason
for price cuts in the beet sugar busi-
ness. At the same time he announced
that the government will probe the in
dustry to see whether the beet manu-
facturers are using the price cut as
a club to get the tariff law changed
Both President Wilson and Secretary
of State Redfield have assured Keat-
ing that they favor inquiring into the
business and that they will have the
department of commerce go as far as
funds will permit.
Heating declared many of the beet
sugar plants are using machinery
that was brought over from French
plants long time ago.
"These men try to fool the public
by showing that it costs so much per
ton to get out the sugar in one OF
their worst plants,'' said Keating
"but they figure their profits on the
lowest cost of production and pay for
the beets on the highest cost. They
never present their figures for plants
in the heart of the beet district, using
the best equipment"
Keating sarcastically alluded to the
statement of Henry Oxnard, head OF
the beet sugar combine, who said that
he believed America could compete
successfully with other nations in the
beet sugar business.
eyes, | think that is true,' Heating
asserted, although | must admit that
some of these factories will have to
raise their standards of machinery
and methods of production"
He believes the farmers of Colo
rado ought to raise the slogan, "The
old prices or no beets."
.'In this way" he said, 'the grow
ers will soon have the manufacture
ers meeting their old terms. A whole
lot of the Colorado farmers don't have
to depend on the beet growing for a
living and many of them think that
perhaps it would be better to go into
some other line. In those circum-
stances, it seems to me that the man.
ufacturers might well take warning
and drop prices"
Keating pointed to the fact that
some of the independent concerns
are renewing old contracts at the
usual prices for beets and held that
if the Independents, using good equip
ment, can do this, the sugar combine
can do the same if it will raise its
standard of production.
81 see in this move of the factor
les, simply an effort to plead bust
ness depression as the result of the
reduction in the sugar tariff and the
ultimate free listing of that product"
Keating said. "It will be well for the
government to show up this attempt
as warning to other manufacturers
of the country
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

The Utah Power and Light COM
pany, is advertising bond issue of
$10,0O0,000 at five per cent, N. w.
Harris & Co., of Chicago, handling
the issue. The bonds are quoted at
95 and interest. They are protected
by the company's property in Colo
rado, Utah and Idaho.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

Hicks is making record in weather
guessing. Said look out for Febru-
ary, stating the places that had es-
capped winter weather in December
and January would reverse places
with the sections where snow and cold
had been severe. The east and mid
die west is sure getting it now while
we are having very mild weather.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

The war debt of the nations of the
earth exceeds $4,000, 100000. It
never can or will be paid. The Uni
ted States is now spending in time
of peace more than 100000 day on
the army and navy. We spend more
than $4,000 day on smokeless pow
der alone. A battleship costs more
than 10000 homes.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

If convictions continue in New
York state in the future as of late
there will be no danger of defeating
the Republican party this fall. There
will be too many grating Democrats
in the penitentiary, among them the
king-bee of Tammany hall. The nets
are closing in around them.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

The Denver ws-Times should be-
come the state papers, SO far as Den
yer is concerned. While we have re-
GREETED the filth dragged in the water
fight by the News Times, it has prob
ably been hard matter to make a
decent fight. We know from expert
ence when fighting a newspaper that
backcaps every industry and a COM
munity's leading citizens.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

Some people say, now that the wat
CIR fieht is over Denver win settle
down and the papers have something
to print about the good of the state.
No such luck as the papers will dig
up something inside of ten days to
divide the people and prevent vacant
store building and residences being
occupied.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19

The Denver News says: "How
long, how long, will Denver stand to
be maligned and her leading citizens
attacked?" The Herald asked simi-
lar questions in Durango for many
long years without action and guess
the News will have to ask the same
question for years to come.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
BOTH SIDES REST IN GORE CASE

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Feb. II.
Both sides rested in the Senator
Gore case this morning. Judge Clarke
charged the jury that under the law
nine jurors can decide civil suit.
He declared the burden of the proof
that Gore assaulted her rests with
the plaintiff.
Six hours were allowed for argu-
ment on each side. The plaintiff IS
attorney, E. ]. Giddins, denounced
Senator Gore.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
NEW FORMS OF
POLITICAL TREATING

The 159,028 women voters have
begun to make themselves felt in the
details of the campaign. The men
are treating the women differently,
and the women are treating the men
differently. The word treating is
used in its technical campaign sense.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-19
ZAPATISTAS AND FEDERALS
FIGURE IN FIERCE BATE. E

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 17.-Desper
ate fighting is in progress between
the Zapatistas and the federals at
Milpa Alta, 20 miles away. The fed
eral infantry and machine guns were
rushed to the scene. The casualties
are heavy.