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Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01
THE ORIGINAL FLIRT.

According to Prof. Rudolph NJ. Bin
der, Of New York university, man was
the original butterfly, and he is still
playing his old game of fitting from
flower to flower. By. what means of
scientific research tho professor dis
covered who was the original flirt, is
rot set forth in the dispatches, but it
must have been scientific or occult.
IT is such an old game that history
could hardly be expected to get at its
origin, although it records many shin.
ing examples in that line of endeavor
including Cleopatra and Alexander
The Great and numerous other promi-
nent personages of later and earlier
dote And history, having other mar
ters with which to concern itself
u'oht tell 1t near all, of course.
However, it occurs to us that II
oidht or doesn't make much differ
enee who started it; admittedly If bos
been going on for some time. and tho
lheory that man is polygamous per.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

Don't mention it. Just the same
Palm Beach society is mastieating a
sweet morsel to the effect that the
one hundred million dollar Mclean
Walsh baby is to have divided home
owing to rumored divorce proceed
ings, and all because Papa Mclean
and friend bought a trained bear
and took it to swell dancing resort.
filling its skin with champagne cock
tails and then bribed the young ladies
present to tango with Bruin. 1t is
said that champagne corks hit the
ceiling until daylight. In the mean
time Mamma Mclean and her baby
were waiting the return of the re-
creant husband at the Royal Poin-
ciana.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

Our Democratic friends will admit
without argument that general busi-
ness, money for investments and pros
perity as a whole, is entirely depend
ent on confidence. Without confidence
there is bound to be stagnation. This
is Just the condition of this great ma
lion today and it is all owing to lack
of confidence. The exports were never
as large in the history of the coun-
try and the balance of trade in our
favor is more than double what it
ever was, and with all this there is
business stagnation. The resumption
Of work by manufacturing concerns
supplying European nations has Civ
en- employment to large numbers of
idle men. Some factories are rum
ming full handed. Notwithstanding
this, there is no money for new en-
terprises or railroad betterments. A
great many may wonder why this is
so. There can be only one answer
lack of confidence. And why lack of
confidence? Because the monied and
investing public do not trust the ad-
ministrative policy, The revision of
the tariff has proven a dismal fail
ure and every bit of legislation is re-
garded with suspicion. Even the much
heralded regional banking law is not
relieving the situation. The fact that
every prophesy of the administration
and the leading men of congress has
fallen to the ground is going to con-
tinue the stagnation even under the
most favorable conditions the nation
has ever known.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01
BRIEF FILED IN
HARVESTER SUIT

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 20
Gregory's harvester trust suit brief
was filed in the supreme court today.
The most striking distinction was be-
tween the growth from within" and
the growth through combinations"
1t said practically no limitation could
be placed ON any corporations growth
from within itself, but it insisted that
harvester trust combination grew
through big competitors. 1t reiterat-
ed that competition and not combi-
nation must be the law of trade.
Figures were cited disproving the
trusts argument that combination
was necessary to promote foreign
trade. On the contrary, it said the
trust retarded the growth of its for
eign trade.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

The house acted wisely in defeat
ing the McDevitt bill providing for
the abolition Of the primary law. AS
the Herald stated some weeks ago, it
would be move in the wrong direc-
ton. Popular primaries have come
to stay. Had the McDevitt bill amend
ed the primary law by abolishing the
assembly feature, it would be more
to the point. Our notion of pri-
mary law is one that will permit any
aspirant to file his name with the
county clerk, if county office, or
otherwise with the secretary of state,
upon the payment of five dollars, this
t. cover the cost of advertising and
general publicity, and imposing a
heavy penalty on anyone who gave
so much as a cigar for support at
the primaries, or who hired workers
to secure nomination. The great cry
against the primary is the cost to the
poor candidate which some claim is
piohibitive. Put one and all on a
par, prohibiting the expenditure of a
dollar except the original five dollars
given the county clerk or the secre-
tary of state. And we would impose
the same conditions at the final cleo
ton. Furthermore, had we our say,
every voter would have to go to the
polls under compulsion and vote, or
be either disfranchised or fined. This
would put a stop to bribery and the
expense of getting voters to the polls.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01
That's a pretty story that g,

That's a pretty story that comes
from Old Mexico regarding the poker
playing qualities of George C. Caroth-
ers, Secretary of State Bryans spe-
cial agent in Mexico. Villas late pri-
vate secretary declares that on one
occasion Carothers dropped ten thou
sand dollars to Villa, who appears to
be an expert poker player as well as
an all around assassin and statesman
OF course it is well known that Villa
has had his own way relative to Am
erican affairs in Mexico for long
time, being apparently favorite in
administration circles, but many are
wondering if it is really necessary
to have the United States trusted
agent drop such large sums to the
Mexican general. Wonder if Bryan
or any of his other cabinet officers
are in on the deal?
A foreigners life in Mexico is
now gamble in which he has no
chance to win, it being merely
question of whether they kill him
or strip him of everything he
has.-Morning Democrat.
If President Wilson or any of his
cabinet officers should happen to read
the above it is liable to cause fric-
tion, coming as it does from fed
eral patronage sheet. For once, how
ever, our esteemed contemporary tore
off the mask and told the truth. II
is the result of the watchful, waiting
| policy of the administration. And to
think that this country, under the
Monroe doctrine, guarantees to pro-
tect the life and property of foreign.
ers.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01
How Britishers Do 1t.

Possibly the most scientic breaking
of bad news gently comes from the
British. AS "A rule ii takes British
journalist "A long time to tell anything
and il is difficult to understand what
he has related after you are through
reading him, when it comes to
war news which isn't news, he would
make the advance agent of a vaude-
vile artist jealous by the things he
says and by the things he omits to
say. My own judgment is that the
commander of the French troops does
little better than the others. He is
behind the firing lines and is appar-
emily willing to keep within gunshot
of the truth do not mean to say
that any of these armies are not COM
posed of good soldiers, nor do / init
mate that they are not good fighters.
They are. / think it would be better
for all these countries to .ell the
truth.
| must make little apology here
to the British, the Russians, the Ger
mans and the French for the reason
that the Turks are now in the war.
They are sending the news from the
Dardanelles. They say that some of
their men wandered out of fort and
that the English aimed a great shell
the British say they have about as
many battleships and dreadnaughts
as can be got into the Dardanelles,
and that they have but couple more
forts to capture before it is all over.
They are probably already determin-
ing who shall be military governor
of Constantinople.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

In defending his bill for a constitu-
tional amendment preventing the re-
call of judicial decisions he declared
that Christ was crucifed as a result
of the peoples recall of Pilates de-
cision. In reply, Representative Dun
Jap of Pueblo, declared tie house was
acting on so many fool bills that he
wouldn't be surprised to see someone
try TO repeal the constitution of the
United States, while Representative
Noonan, former county judge, said
that some of the judges of Colorado
were not above suspicion and he pre-
ferred to abide by the decision of the
whole people.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

son naturally is backed up by con-
siderable supply of facts, many Of
Which are not known to the genera
public, and would never do for pub.
lication in household journal. It is,
however, fact that it takes both
sexes to give filtration a good start,
and make it of much interest to those
involved, or the gossips who are glad
to deplore such thing. If there
were no flirtations to deplore, it is
quite possible that gossip would be-
come a lost art for, while gossip is
often fiction, it must be tinged with
probability to secure large and ap-
preciative audience And those who
bear in mind that it isn't compulsory,
and if the men are to blame they
must be aided and abetted by the
women in the case. 1t isn't compul-
sorry to either party.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

If the proposed changes in the civi
service law were simply to do away
with Democrats and make room foI
Republicans, the Herald would fight
it to a finish, but it is one to advance
merit and also make it possible to re-
duce the surplus state employees. We
know the people liable to be affected
are making big howl, claiming that
partisanship is at the bottom of the
measure. We have the same howl
being emitted by our city commission.
ers who are opposing the manager
plan because they realize that il
means doing away with their useless
jobs.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

Auditor Mulnix is unearthing saw
ory scandal whereby the Denver coun-
ty commissioners compromised the
Walsh estate inheritance tax. The
fact has been brought out that the
s24,500 accepted as compromise
mostly went for expense, one favored
attorney receiving $500 for his
share, while the county's net share
was around ten thousand dollars,
And many of us wonder why taxes
continue to pile up while a few spe-
cial friends" can walk off with such
handsome sums.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

Argentine is said to be shipping
five million bushels of wheat weekly
to Europe, which is reported as one
OF the causes for wheat remaining
around the $l.50 mark in the Chicago
wheat pit. 1t will be remembered
that the Argentina crop was harvest
ed last month and at the present rate
of shipment will be exhausted long
before the United States crop is
threshed.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01
osBoURNE ENUMERATED.

NEW YORK, March 29.-U. S.
District Attorney Marshall today an
nounced that Miss Rae Tanzor, ar
rested on the charge of using the
United States mails to defraud, has
been exonerated by the former dis
trict attorney. She mistook James
W. osbourne, the millionaire, for her
lover and instituted $4,000 breaneh
of promise suit against him. 1t was
Oliver osbourne who paid her such
ardent court, and she supposed he
was the millionaire.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01
From the Dardanelles.

| hope the news from the Darda-
nelles may be correct-I should say,
the British news. Constantinople is
a great cosmopolitan city and should
be in the hands of people more en-
terprising than the Turks. This is
without regard to religion. 1t must
be borne in mind that less than So
per cent of the inhabitants of Con-
stantinople are Turks. However, when
the allies have taken the Dardanelles
and when all these wars are over,
there may be war between England
and Russia for the control of the Dar-
danelles. The Dardanelles were form
ID by nature for the purpose of con-
necting the Black sea and Marmora
sea and the Aegean sea and the Midi
terranean. Below the Dardanelles lies
Asia Minor, and across it the armies
of thousand years ago were passing
to conquer or reconquer. 1t might be
a good thing to give Turkey clean
quit claim deed to Asia Minor and call
it square.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01
TAKE OFFICIAL WAR NEWS
WITH SALT.
(By Lafayette Young. J

LONDON, March 8, 1915.-(By
Mail. )--There are four great centers
Of news in this war country--London,
Paris, Petrograd and Berlin.
without attempting to say a mean
thing, it is evident TO newspaper
nan that the truth is not told from
official sources form any of these
cities.
If the German army is whipped, it
is glossed over by saying that "this
forenoon our lines wavercd little
from the position heretofore held, but
late in the afternoon our gallant men
rerainch all they lost"
II the Russians are slaughtered by
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01


A major of the British army told
me in confidence yesterday that the
military leaders on the British side
estimated that in the month of May
the British casualties would be 200,-
900, and in addition to that the cas-
ualtics among officers would reach
1880. Three-fifths of all these would
be wounded and two-ffths would be
dead. The estimate is none too large.
But the British army has its eyes wide
open and Kitchener's young men are
ready for the sacrifice. The women
of England are patriotic to the last
degree. They are urging their male
relatives who are of the proper age
to go. This applies to all classes.
There is no complaint that the titled
people are lodging their responsible
ties. They are in the army by the
thousand. They have been killed right
along. They are maintaining the
traditions of the British soldier as a
HRHtlHS Hldn
Easier to Get News.
The authorities in control of the
government and armies are making
it little easier for correspondents
to get to the front They must prove
up that they are capable and that they
are not yellow and, above all, that
they are gentlemen. | am told that
the British are taking six correspond
ents per week to the firing lines and
trenches in order to show them the
process of the war. hope this may
prove to be true.
Yesterday attended divine SER
vice in old Westminster Abbey and
heard an excellent sermon by a min
lister whose name did not get. He
discussed the life of Joseph and Incl
dentally presented the achievements
and career of the British empire. In
the audience there were at least fifty
soldiers who appeared to be devout
worshipers. Such service in such a
historic place was impressive. The
acoustic properties of the abbey are
surprisingly perfect and when a choir
of male voices in perfect harmony
pronounces "Amen" it seems to be all
the music that is required. The SER
vices were short. Visitors who wish
ed to remain to look through the alb
hey, as if it were secular day, were
not permitted to do so.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

Denver has a very modest man
when it comes to estimating damages,
having filed claim against the city
for only $21S, because he fell and
broke an ankle on an icy pavement.
The amount scarcely covers physi-
clans bill, hospital charges and sal
ary of $15 week for ten weeks.
Most people would sue for five or
ten thousand dollars and let the
courts figure up the actual damages.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01


The annual report of the United
States Steel corporation gives details
of sales and production that throw
much light on the position of the steel
trade whose best customers are the
railroads and traction companies. The
corporations total output of rolled
and other finished steel products last
year was 9,014,512 tons, decrease of
about 100000 tons. Had it not
been for the scrimping of the rail-
roads the loss of business would not
have been very heavy. It's output of
steel rails alone accounted for nearly
a million tons of the total decreases,
the rail tonnage falling from 1,927,-
745 tons in 1913 to 97S,907 tons last
year. Heavy decreases in the output
of plates, heavy standing shapes for
bridge work, axles, steel car wheels,
spikes, etc, consumed chiefly by rail
roads or railroad equipment and loco
motive shops, accounted for most of
the remaining decrease in output. And
railroad. retrenchment is just now
more acute than ever.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01
THE WHEAT STOPPER.

Whether opening the Dardanelles,
like gouging out the stopper of bot
tie, will be followed by an outpour-
ing of Russian wheat remains to be
seen. 1t is doubtful. Normally, Rus
sia is a large exporter of wheat via
the Black sea, the Bosporus, and the
Dardanelles, but there now are two
reasons why access to this source of
food might fail to command the sup
ply One is that the Russian wheat
crop last year was short, so that in
any case the surplus for sale would
be small; and the other is that Rus
sia naturally would desire in the pres
ent circumstances TO conserve her
food supply. Since the beginning of
the war last August exports of GER
eals have been prohibited, except to
allies in arms, and so far as results
show the embargo might as well have
included even the allies, for exports
of wheat to the end of last December,
out of the 1914 crop, were nil, against
121 100000 bushels to the end of De-
cember out of the 1913 crop. Stats
tics since December are unobtainable,
but it is doubtful if Russia has ex-
ported any wheat at all out of the
1914 crop, which was 1S0,000,000
bushels less than the 1918 harvest
So, without the incentive of war to
protect her own surplus of food, Rus
sia would have much less than usual
to sell this year.
1t is remarkable fact that the
wheat harvest was sub-normal last
year not only in Russia, but also in
Prussia, Hungary, Rumania, and
Italy. Statistics on the French crop
are withheld. The only country in
the Northern Hemisphere that pro-
duced a large surplus was the United
States. However, the worlds crop,
combining the 1894 harvest of the
Northoyn Femisrhere and the 191+15
h..r..st of inc So.4.,.n Hemisphere,
is normal, almots to say abundant.
There is actually no shortage of
wheat in the world. But for the war
in Europe the price would probably
be as low as last year, possibly low
er, say so cents, which in this coun-
can farmers estimate of the cost of
can farmers estimate of the cost Of
production. The present high price of
wheat, therefore, is owing not to an
actual scarcity or to the immediate
possibility of it, but to the expectation
of scarcity later. If the war were to
end at once, the 1915 crop in Europe
could hardly be normal. That is why
all the countries at war are so anxious
to conserve their food supplies and
why Russia would probably place an
embargo upon wheat exports via the
Black sea and the Dardanelles if they
became very large.
The other side of it is that, whether
fuvoring, the production of wheat
outside of Europe will be abnormal,
planting having been wonderfully
stimulated by the high prices. Per
capita consumption tends at the same
time to fall. So are supply and de-
mand affected by the price.-N. Y.
Times.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01
wHooPING COUGH.

Well-everyone knows the effects
of Pine Forests on coughs. DR..
Bells Pine-Tar-Honey is a remedy
which brings quick relief for Whoop-
ing Cough, loosens the mucous, sooth-
es the lining of the throat and lungs
and makes the coughing spells less
severe. A family with growing child
rem should not be without it. Keep
it hands for Coughs and Colds. 25c
at your Druggist.
Electric Bitters Spring Tonic.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01
Germany Not Starving.

However, war is progressing. All
the great armies are being fed. Re-
sources are not yet exhausted. Some
people say that Germany is getting
short Of rations, but do not believe
1T. country that had every prepa-
ration for war made in advance would
certainly be conscious of the fact that
armies must be fed and clothed. Ger
many has been producing foodstuffs
to within 10 per cent of all she has
needed, and through the work of wo-
men and boys her production this year
will be as great as last year.
The report is that the German SOL
diers' rations have been much reduc-
ed in quantity. This is not alarm.
ing. Many armies have been over
fed. The British soldier cannot now
eat the ration that is assigned to him
he has too much. And there is COM
plaint that supplies are thrown away
and that they are gathered up and
fed TO the pigs. Nobody need expect
Germany to be starved out. Further
more, the Japanese army when fight
ing Russia lived on the slightest ros-
sible rations and performed deeds of
valor which surprised the world. His
tory has recorded what the confeder-
ate soldier lived on during the last
year of the great civil war. con-
clude that this war must end by bat
ties and not by exhaustion of re-
sources. The dead must be piled up
around every fort and in every trench
The youth of all these countries must
be sacrificed to settle the Lord knows
what. Certain 1t is, however, that this
war should not end by any kind of a
compromise. Too much blood has
been shed already for an ending that
shall mean nothing. When fist fight
ing prevailed the rule was for the
fellow who was on top to pound the
fellow who was underneath until he
shouted that he had had enough. This
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

1t is also announced that the divine
Sarah Bernhardt is to make America
another farewell visit, parting being
such profitable sorrow to the great
French actress.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

A Kansas newspaper man says he
can sympathize with the Russian gen.
eral who is having his rear threat
ened, probably because the Kansas
newspaper man was once a boy.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

Mexico announces that she proposed
to work out her own salvation. If
the record of the past few months is
a sample of the process to be en-
ployed there is reason to fear that
Mexican salvation might as well be
classified under the head of almost
indefinitely postponed"
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

Since the war began we are becom-
ing more or less reconciled to jaw
breaking names and Charley Tras-
chetta was confirmed as postmaster
of Leavenworth without protest.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

Auditor Mulnix has refused to is
sue voucher for thirty odd thousand
dollars being the amount expended
by Warden lyman over and above the
penitentiary appropriation. Mulnix
holds it is illegal, although the legis-
iature has passed deficiency bill
covering the item
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

AN partisanship should be forgot
ten from now on until the close of
the Legislative session in order that
the industrial relations and compen-
sation measures may have smooth
running, although the mongrel bills
reported out by the Candlish- Lewis
faction are inferior to the original
measure.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01
FRENCH CAPTURE
GERMAN OFFICERS

PARIS, March 2a.-The French
won fresh victory in the snowy slopes
of Hartman Swelterkopl. They drove
the Germans from their last positions
captured six officers, 3S1 men and a
number of wounded that were aban-
doned.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

kansas is the football of liquor
publicity" said a prohibition lecturer
in Topeka the other day. That's
right Both sides exaggerate. The
state isn't the land of perfection as
some enthusiastic prohibitionists paint
it, and neither are the people as in
sane and criminal as writer's of the
liquor side would have the world be-
lieve. It is always safe to discount
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

The government printing office is
reported at work on circular protests.
Nothing like having them convenient
and in quantity as the government is
quite busy in the protest line these
days. The protests, however, do not
interfere with foreign nations buying
our food products and ammunition.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

Attorney General Farrar is being
doomed by Denver Democrats for
governor. While Mr.. Farrar has made
a good attorney general, it does not
mean that he would be equally eff
cient in the governors chair. Bet
ter let well enough alone.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

Dispatches inform us that the
peach crop of two southern states has
been nipped. We know of some
peaches it would take more than a
frost to nip. They are not of the
drug store type.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-04-01

the thousand in the SHOWS of the Car
pathian mountains, the story is sent
out from Petrograd as if it had been
merry picnic party, and that they
had filed every mountain pass with
dead Germans.