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Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
How Sand Dune. Were STONED.

On the coast Of Gascony there are
points where the dunes push forward
more than four yards annually. In
11SO the advance of sand upon the
land of Bordeaux was the occasion of
despair to horticulturists and crop
growers, and the engineer BremOntier,
made himself famous by converting
the movable dunes into stationary
ones. The task was undertaken to
form n wall against the sand inva-
sion by making a palisade of the
dunes little more than a meter high
and putting planks between each pair.
When the sand swept over the boards
it had to break up it's volume in the
effort, and little by little stationary
dune would form with an inclination
of from Z to ~ degrees in the direc-
tion of the sea. Behind this palsade
was conveniently disposed wide zone
of the harder shrubs.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
LUKE McLUKE SAYS

A whole lot of folks seem to
have the idea that you can't be
good unless you are miserable.
The quickest way to get rich
quick is to sell get rich quick
receipt to suckers.
And just because a girls map
is covered with paint is no sign
that she is as pretty as a picture.
When man is too old for girl
to marry and too rich for her not
to marry him, she is going to
marry him, all right.
A girl hates to have bony wrists
because the fool men are likely
to imagine that she is that way
elsewhere.
If men could be arrested for
stealing other mems time, the
jails would not be large enough
to hold the mob.
Yes. Harold, the fellow with the
fringes on his pants who just
touched you for two bits is a lad
who never played anything but
sure things.
A man hasn't any sense. He
thinks that giving a three-months-
old baby things to eat is the way
to feed it.
A man isn't so doggone proud
of a strong will when he happens
to be married to one.
If there were some disease that
nothing but whisky could cure, a
lot of men would cheerfully seek
incubation.
A married man is just about as
scared of his sons mother as he
was of his own mother.
Even when a man modestly ad.
mits that he doesn't know every
thing. he is secretly proud of the
fact that he knows everything
worth knowing.
A man won't get half as mad
when you knock his friends as he
will when you praise his enemies
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
How Leprosy Has DwindIed.

Most of the leprosy of the world
is in Asia and Africa, though 1t is
found in South and Central America,
in South Russia, Greece, Turkey and
Spain and on the shores of the Baltic.
The disease still fingers in Norway
and Iceland, and is not uncommon in
Australia and Hawaii, where 1t was
supposedly carried by the Chinese.
1t was anciently prevalent in all the
known world, and in the middle ages
was extensively diffused in Europe.
Every considerable city on the cOnti-
nent had its leper house, and in Eng
land at one time there were 95 re-
ligious hospitals for people thus afflict-
ed In the fifteenth century, however,
1t underwent sudden and remark
able diminution and has now virtual
ly disappeared from civilized lands.
Most of the cases in this country are.
of Norwegian origin and are found
in the northern tier of our western
states.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
GILPIN COUNTY

The mines of Gilpin county
have an output to their credit of
the value of about two hundred
and fifty million dollars. The
fist mining in the Rocky noun
tain region was done in this
county. The first stamp mill of
this region was operated here and
also the first smelter was erected.
The first discovery of gold-bear-
ing vein was made, over sixty
years ago, by John H. Gregory,
within the limits of what is now
Black Hawk. From the date of
that first discovery, each year, Gil
pin county has added her quota
to the wealth of the state. 1t is
true that like other mining dis
tricts we have had our seasons of
depression but each depression
has been followed by new era
of prosperity.
During this period of time many
r.ew districts have risen and fall
en-have sprung into prominence
one year, only to be forgotten the
next. No question can be raised
concerning the permanency of our
mines. Our continuous produc-
tion has settled that point and
verified the faith of our early pro-
ducers. Our seasons of depress-
ion have been brought about not
thru any fault of our mines but
because the mines were not being
operated. The era of prosperity
that followed those depressions
came when the mines resumed
work.
Mining has been at a low ebb,
.thruout the state for the past few
years but conditions brought
about thru the world war has CIV
en- new impetus to this indus
try. Mining men who have vision
to grasp the possibilities of the
future are searching for old and
abandoned mines that have a
heavy production to their credit.
Gilpin county has many mines of
this character, and many of them
have not been worked for years.
And large part of the produc-
tion of the county came from
these mines, at the time when
they were operated. But we not
only have many mines of great
production that are lying idle but
we have new possibilities. Small
as the limits of our county are,
the greater portion of it is, as yet,
unprospected. Several promising
fields have had scarcely any de-
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
Why More Railroad. Are Needed.

Despite border line of some 300
kilometers between France and Italy
the frontier is crossed by but two rail-
roads. ut DOdane and at Vintimille.
Yet on both sides OF the frontier are
situated rich regions whose Industrial
activity could be augmented by proper
railroad facilities. 1t is now planned
by chambers Of commerce represent
ing both countries to remedy this de-
feet. Various projects have been nd.
vnnced and certain number Of them
VIII shortly he put into execution
Christian Science Monitor.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
SHALL WE MAKE
OUR OWN PLATFORMS

AS the primary law delegates to
the candidates and few hold
over officials the right to make
the party platforms, would it not
be we'll for the parties to devise
some plan which would pledge the
candidates to ratify a platform
adopted by the state convention :?
Some of us who are not office
seekers would like to have some
thing to say about the principles
that shall be advocated by the
party which we are expected to
support. The primary law may
be all right in theory but that
part of it which takes from the
party the right to make it's own
platform is an Objectionable fea-
ture that should not be tolerated.
AS the matter now stands we
get out in the primaries and name
our candidates and after they re-
ceive the nominations they get to-
gether and make the platform up
on which we are permitted to sup
port them. 1t is hard to make an
argument against an absurGity.
Any thinking person knows, with
out argument, that the principle
is wrong which allows the candi-
date to make the platform. Why
not make our party platforms in
our conventions the same as we
did before this law came into ex-
isterce and pledge our candidates
to ratify it? If they refused to do
this they would be the boilers and
would not be entitled to support
from a party standpoint.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
why Reform Is Slow in china.

One will sometimes see groups of
Chinese women comparing their feet
to see who can boast of having the
largest. This is particularly true of
native women who have become
Christians or who have been educated
in the Christian schools. They feel a
new independence-an independence
Of body as well as of mind and soul
and are proud that the old bodily
shackle of MANNED feet is gone.
The reform, however, in spite of the
fact that China has law prohibiting
the binding Of girls feet, has not
reached further than the cities and
the higher classes. 1t has been calcu-
lated by the former Peking corre-
spOndent of the London Times, after a
long journey through the interior of
China, that 95 per cent of the women
still have mutilated feet China's
numbers are so immense that it will
require a long period to leaven the
whole lump.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
CAMOUFLAGE

Camouflage is the only word we
can think of that will aptly des-
cribe the efforts of the two old
parties to create an issue to go be-
fore the people at the coming pres
idential election. Up to date both
seem to be relying largely upon
abuse of the opposition party, in
stead of discussing in a logical
way, the real issues of the day.
Both raise false issues to hide the
real and we are inclined to be-
lieve that in their abuse of each
other both are more than half
right. Both are fearful that the
farmers and organized labor will
unite at the coming election.
Neither shows any signs of ac-
cepting or even a desire to dis
cuss the Plumb plan, even tho
they know that it has been in
dorsed by millions of voters. New
er before in the history of our ma
ton, has any measure received
such general endorsement from
the public without any support
from either of the two great pol
itical parties. Upon this issue or
any other material question there
is no real difference between the
two parties. Both are camoufag-
ing and kicking up dust, by rails
ing false issues, to hide the real
issues.
1t is some time yet before the
national conventions will be held
and as politicians always have
their ears to the ground, it is yet
possible that one or both of the
old parties will see the light be-
fore it is too late.
There is ray of hope for the
Democratic party from the fact
that VIM. j. Bryan has come to
the front again with his doctrine
of government ownership of rail-
roads. For many reasons, not
necessary to state here, Bryan
should not be seriously consider
ed as candidate for the presi-
dency. We need only state one
and that is, that he could not be
elected. But in many ways Bryan
is man of clear vision and has
a strong sense of right and wrong.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
WHY
Tradition Has Hallowed the
Church of St. Giles

st. Giles church, In Edinburgh
stands for unadulterated Scottish tra-
ditiOn. From its massive stone COL
umns, centuries old, to the crownlike
dome which towers over Edinburgh
st. Giles Is typically Scottish-of the
Old-time Scots who wore the plaid and
talked language OF. their own.
st. Giles has served as back
ground for much history and romance.
In time of Civil war 1t has been turned
into a well-armed fort, and In time
of sO-called peace 1t has been plum
dered and burned. Its many alcoves
have Mt times been parceled out for
distinctly worldly purposes, such as a
jail, town clerks Office, school and
court, while the nave and altar were
reserved for the minister and his con-
gregation.
OF st. Giles stories, none is more
popular than the dramatic adventure
of Jenny Geddes and the three-legged
stool. A certain king ordered the
service of the Church of England read
in st. Giles which was stronghold
of the Scotch Presbyterian faith. The
dean of st. Giles started bravely to
conduct the service amid harmless but
disturbing protests and grOwls from
his hearers. But Jenny Geddes, an
old vegetable vender, soon saw that
the dean was unimpressed by mere
words. She seized the three-legged
stool on which she had sat and hurled
1t with deadly aim. The dean ducked
and fled, and the Church of England
service was never attempted in st.
Giles again.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
Why Bright coIors Are POPULAR.

There Is craze for sunshine cOlors
in house furnishing and decoration
now. The drab years have passed.
says the continental edition of the
London Mail, and with them have gone
the taste for grays and fawns. Rooms
now glow with happier tints. A firm
which guides or lnterprets much Of
the most beautiful and good deal of
the most extravngant schemes of in
terror decoration has been lighting up
the walls and windows. the carpets
and the chairs of town and country
mansions with blues, purples and or
anges, jade. green's and flame" the
last perhaps the newest color for
faded rooms.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
ONLY A DAD

Only dad with tired face,
Coming home from the daily race,
Bringing little of gold or fame
To show how we'll he has played
the game.
But glad in his heart that his own
rejoice
To see him come and to hear his
voice.
Only dad of a brood of four,
One of ten million men or more,
Flooding along in the daily strife
Bearing the whips and scorns of
life
With ne'er a whimper of pain or
hate
For the sake of those who at home
await.
Only dad, neither rich nor proud
Merely one of the surging crowd,
Toiling, striving from day to day,
Facing whatever may come his
way
Silent, whenever the harsh con-
denim,
And bearing it all for the love of
them.
Only dad, but he gives his all
To smooth the way for his chill
dren small,
Doing with courage set and grim,
The deeds that his father did for
him.
This is line for him pen,
Only dad, but the best of men.
Author Unknown.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
How to Avoid Influenza.

There Is one point regarding influ-
enza on which the medical profession
is in agreement. This is stated by the
Journal of the American Medical AS
sOciatiOn as follows:
'The pulmonary complications Of
influenza, which make 1t so serious IA
disease, may be avoided to large ex-
tent by rest In bed mt the onset of the
illness. Influenza itself Is not usually
fatal, and general inslstence on the
onset Of the illness will accomplish
more than all else in preventing COM
plications and reducing fatalities from
the disease"
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
Why There Are Noxiou. Perfume.

Wild things would disappear IL we
fixed the perfumes OF the vegetation
to suit our own desires. The things
we call noxious are quite as important
In the world as the things we have
learned to love and enjoy. Something
somewhere. Is attracted or repelled
by every odor that we encounter out
Of doors. and the old world wobbles
on In bliss because 1t is SO well ar.
ranged for the creatures that inhnblt
it.-George +. Burba In Columbus Dis.
patch,
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
Why II. Wa. Answering.

At marriage service performed In
a little country church, when the min
lister said, in solemn tones, "Wilt thou
have this man to be thy welded hus-
band?" instead Of the woman answer
ing for herself. gruff mans voice an
swered ~ will" The minister looked
up. very much perplexed, and paused
He repeated the sentence and again
the same gruff voice answered II
will !" Again the minister looked up.
when man seated Mt the end Of the
first row said. "She's deef, parson, an
I'm answerin for her!"
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08

He still has without doubt as
large if not larger personal fol-
lowing than any other man in the
country. Powerful as he has al
ways been in a convention, if the
presidential bee can be kept from
buzzing in his head, he could ac-
complish much in forcing the
Democratic party to adopt a plat
form of principles that would
meet the present needs of the
people.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
GOVERNOR SHOUP

Shoup's reasons for calling the
extra session, we should not for
get that he asked for an appro-
priation to pay for the services of
the militia in the recent coal
strike. We can not blame the
militia as long as they were fore
ed to go, for wanting their pay,
but we fail to see what necessity
existed for calling them out. So
far as Colorado was concerned.
the strike was largely sympathet-
ic and the men were making no
demands. So little was violence
feared, that the local authorities
in some cases, requested that the
militia should not be sent into
their district. The man who joins
the militia to help the state en-
force the law in time of need,
should not be called away from
his home and business unless con-
ditions require it. Neither should
the state be called upon to bear
the expense of maintaining the
militia in the field unless public
safety demands it.
The strike was peaceful, not a
single shot was fired, not an act
of lawlessness committed, not
county in the state asked for or
even desired the presence of the
militia. Why then were they sent
out? Why was this expense
placed upon the people of Color
ado? The state constabulary
was created to meet such cases.
1t could have been sent out with
out extra expense.
We believe that Governor Shoup
was playing politics. That he was
anxious to prove to the big capi-
talists of the state that while he
was governor they could rely up
on the resources of the state be-
ing used in their behalf, in any
dispute that might arise between
them and labor. No doubt, the
governor is honest in doing this.
He belongs to the capitalistic
class himself and probably looks
at these questions from their
viewpoint. But do the plain peo-
pie of this state want that kind
of man for governor? If they
do they will make no mistake in
re-electing him, should he be-
candidate to succeed himself.
Then too, Governor Shoup has
good reasons for believing in the
power of money in politics and
he may have wanted to convince
big interests that money, donat-
ed to the Republican campaign
fund, would be a good investment.
AS long as we elect men to Of
flee like Shoup, Phipps, Guggen-
helm, or men whom they control
or influence, we cannot expect to
curb profiteers or do away with
special privilege. To elect them
is an Endorsement of their meth
DDS of getting wealth and also an
Endorsement of the special privil-
eges by which they obtain it.
Would a banker hire burglar for
night watchman, if he knew it?
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
How Walk Shows Character.

The rolling gait in walking shows
geniality and jollity; the stiff, upright
carriage. frmness, love of convention
and lack Of sympathy. The former Is
common to sailors and people who
live very free. out-of-doOr kind Of
life. and do themselves wells" the
latter to ministers. people with the
legal turn Of mind, and particularly
the blue stocking type Of women.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
HOW SALE OF STONES
IN y" BY THE YARD"

BY THE YARD
WORKS OUT IN ENGLAND.
Visitors to the pretty coun-
ty of Buckinghamshire arr much
Interested in certain women
working in the fields, who ap-
pear to be exceedingly busy pick.
ing up some objects which they
place in large square wooden
box. says London Answers.
These women are engaged In
picking up flints. which are used
for repairing the roads, Bucking-
hamshire having no quarries
from which it can obtain road
material. The square wooden box
into which the women pitch the
stones is measure called
yard" This name is probably
given to 1t because it is meas
ure yard square by a yard
deep, there being no bottom to
the boxlike structure.
The farmer pays the women
for gathering the stones and
sells them later to the district
council. Now comes the truly
Bucks spirit for saving the rate
payers money. Instead of count
ing the "yards," as they stand
in the fields, the road authorities
have them all heaped into a cart
and removed to where they are
needed on the roads. Here they
are dumped down by the road
side in immense mounds. Before
the farmers are paid these heaps
of flints have to be again meas
ured into yards" by old road
men.
These rOadmen are deserving
fellows and 1t is up to the au-
thorities to see that they are
kept employed. Perhaps that is
the reason why the yards" are
not counted on the field.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08

The actual money wealth of the
country amounts to $47.2S a per-
son, according to the Federal Re-
serve Board, which announces
that money in circulation, that
held by the Treasurer, and that
in the Federal Reserve amounts
to SIS, ,409, 100000.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
How Lamps Came Into u,e.

The inventor Of the lamp as we
know It at the present time. with the
wick fitting into cylinder and an
upward air current supplying oxygen,
IN said to have been Aime Argnnd, a
Swiss, born in 1755. but the use Of
lamps did not become common for
years thereafter.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08

velopment.
If we awake to the opportunity
which now presents itself, and
each of us does all that he can to-
advertise the resources of our
county, we will soon enter upon
another of our eras of prosperity.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08

For anything in the grocery
line go to the Hawley Mdse. Co.
They have a complete stock of
both staple and fancy articles.
The freshest of fruits and vege-
tables in the market. Hay and
grain in large or small quantities.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
How 70 Check Flying oust.

The dust that flies through the house
every time the furnace is shaken and
which causes such annoyance to the
neat housewife, can be allayed II you
lay cloth wrung out Of water over
the registers.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08

Peter McFarlane has the con-
tract to electrify the hoist on the
Eureka mine. They have been
running the compressor by elec-
tricity.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08

Mackinaws for the cold weathe
at the G. o. Richards Co.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08

Morris hams at Parteli's only
30 cents pound. The choicest
bacon, canned goods, fruits, etc,
Groceries che. per than elsewhere
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08

Trade at Hawley's and get the
best in the line of groceries.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08

Give Hawley's a trial.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-10
RESPONSIBILITY OF
NATION RESTS UPON
INDIVIDUALS, SAYS

st. Paul, Mimi, oct. 9.-Vlce
President Marshall, speaking yes
terday before the state democratic
executive committee, said he was
most interested in seeing that the
nation functioned as true dem
ocracy."
Il am vitality interested in the
success of the democratic party,
he said, "but l most want to see not
partisan spirit or victory, but a
real searching through the hearts
and consciousness of the American
people that the nation may func-
ton as a true democracy.
II have been in Washington too
long to have any faith in more
legislative enactment. The respon-
sibility of the nation does not rest
upon the shoulders of the president,
congress or the supreme court, but
on the shoulders of every man and
woman in the United States today
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-10
RECORD CROP Of
CORN PREDICTED
FOR YEAR 1920
Forecast Is 3,216,192,OO0
Bushels; Estimated Wheat
Yield Shows a Falling Off;
Tobacco Crop Good.

Washington, oct. "a corn
crop of 3.2l6,l9S,000 bushels or
/ II900,0OO0 bushels greater than
the record crop of 1912 was forecas,-
ed yesterday by the department of
agricultul from condition of S9.1
on October /. There was further
railing off, however. III tho total
! wheat crop forecast. production be-
ing placed at 75O.b4S,000 bushels
as compared with forecast Of
2l8, OO7,O 600 bushels as compared
| with 37OOO,OO0 last month. The
condition of the spring wheat and
! all wheat crops was not given in
the departments announcement.
The tobacco crop also showed a
falling off, total production being
estimated at l,47S,l8S,OOO pounds
as against forecast of 1853, 000,-
600 pounds month ago. The crop
SUI SILL, remains the largest IN his or y
despite this reduction OF 100000
pounds in the forecast.
PRODUCTION OF oats was placed at
1852 900 bushels, an increase
OF 2,523,OO0 bushels during the
month. White potatoes production
was forecast at 4 ,sSb,0oO bushels,
an increase of 2,o5S,Ooo bushels
since september L.
. Forecasts of production this year
OF the country pflhclpai crops eS-
timated from their condition octo-
Der l. or at tiihe OF harvest as an
nounced by the department OF ag-
flcultufe, were as lolloWs:
spring wheat, 2lS,oO I0OO bush
els; all wheat 'oo'o4S'oO00 bush-
els. "
Corn D." 10, l9-'OoO Dushels; con-
dltton' S9'I. -ooo
Apples, 34,2SGOOO barrels;
peaches, 44,o23, OOO bushels.
kaflrs, l39,"O5.VVo bushels.
PEANUTS 59Zl ,'ooO Dusneis'
Beans (siX states). 9,3b4,OOO
bushels. -
oats, l,444,5oZ,o WV buSnels'
Barley 1871 ,3Sb,OOo busheIs'
BuckWheat, l0,53Z,Vuo buSheis'
condition, 85.6. -
White potatoes Al "a, 9Sb'OO0 BUSH
els condition, ~.
Sweet potatoes, lO5, i9,VVV Dush-
els; condition, sal,
TObacCOs, l,4IS, I6S,0OO pounds
condition, S3.3,
Flax, l,7o4'ooO bushels; cohdl-
ton, b2.8.
Rice, 52,29S,OOO bushels; copdl-
ton, SS.l.
Sugar beets, $4,000 tons; con-
| dition. 1914.
Condition on October and pro.
ductIon forecast Tin thousands OF
bushels, i. e" thousands omitted ,
Of important crops by prlhclpal
| producing states, follow:
Oats: Ohio, condition, 9Oi lore
cast, 63,1l4. 49,, ,o,o