Semi Weekly Herald

New York hens are refusing to lay. If by agreement, the trust law, quick!

The Denver News says it is positively through with all circulation controversy with the Post. Good!

Shafroth voted against his conscience and convictions when he aided the passage of the tariff bill. And all for a few federal positions.

The Denver News works off a dispatch reviewing that old gag on the Damm family. Appears in the press regularly every year or so.

High High authority says American girls do not know how to spend money. Gee! Most of us have been under a different belief.

Denver papers are advertising fancy Elberta peaches at 60 cents per box. Fruit generally sells cheaper at a distance than where grown.

The man who blows about his wealth had better know who is listening. The income tax officers will soon be abroad in the land.

It is reported that there are 1,000,000 bad eggs in Kansas City. How the population of that town has been increasing.

The libraries have begun barring out Hall Caine's latest novel. His publishers will, of course, make no effort to keep the fact a secret.

The Herald is for Durango and her business interests, also La Plata county and the Great San Juan Basin.

Congressmen and senators are chafing over Wilson's determination to keep them in continuous session, or until the currency measure is acted on.

Cotton futures were not handled in the tariff measure. Southern senators would not stand for it. But how about Thomas and Shafroth when it came to Colorado interests?

Still, if New York should bar all the shows which edge toward immorality, some of the leading theatres in that burg of bright lights might have to shut down.

Geo. J. Kindell evidently understands freight rates and should confine himself to such matters. He proved a failure as alderman of Denver and is a failure as congressman.

Government officials say they expected a hold-up of imports during the pending tariff bill but did not think they would accumulate as they have.

Canadian railroads are offering every inducement to secure settlers. Lands are being sold on the 20-year installment plan. A large number of Colorado beet workers have bought farms and will grow sugar beets.

Bryan having quit the lecture platform for a time says it's no one's business when he starts again. Nope. But should a government department small-fry official drop his work to lecture he would be fired instantly.

As we understand Senator-Historian Lewis, Rome fell because there wasn't enough kicking among her citizens. If so, this republic is safe. As political kickers we are without rivals.

George Bernard Shaw makes the announcement that Christianity has been a failure. There are indications, however, that a large number of good people are disposed to give it another trial.

Durango is a conservative business center. Her merchants are up-to-date, at the same time careful in every way. They cater to the people and as a result enjoy a steadily increasing trade from all parts of the San Juan Basin.

The tariff bill is at least out of the way and the millions upon millions of foreign goods that have been held in bond are relieved. See that you obtain your proportion of the reduction.

The tieing up of the southern and northern coal fields is virtually for recognition of the union. The matter of wages is not the vital issue. The agitators want more money, hence they came to Colorado and now the state has to suffer.

Junius Spencer Morgan, a son of J. P. Morgan, is living in one of the cheapest dormitories at Harvard, his desire being to have an opportunity to "associate with the poorer men."

Few people are compelled to go to as much trouble as that for the purpose of associating with the poor.

Again the Denver papers, for want of other news, are booming the proposed new union depot. This will prove a fruitful theme for the next decade. The railroads have no more intention of improving the depot accommodations than they have of flying.

And now comes El Paso county and asks the state tax commission to make a 20 per cent horizontal reduction in the county assessment. In the meantime La Plata county is willing to pay taxes on an honest valuation, although for years we were the highest assessed county in the state, according to property holdings.

Life is just about what one makes it. You can go through long years with a smiling countenance and good will towards mankind, or you can wear a scowl and make people shun you. Look on the bright side; keep on the bright side and stay with the right side and you will come out all right.

We note by the Denver papers that officials are moving against overcrowding of moving picture shows and also compelling theaters to install proper exits and fire escapes. If we remember rightly a similar crusade was inaugurated some months ago but evidently nothing came of it and probably the present agitation will end the same way.

Revenue agents believe two per cent of the Colorado farmers will appear on the income tax role. We hope so. Would like to have it more. The man with a clear income of over $3,000 can afford to contribute to his country's welfare. We have always stood for an income tax. You see it will never affect a newspaper man in Durango.

No danger of the News-Post circulation claims being investigated. Neither side will agree to terms. Probably the circulation may be based like that of a Durango publication before the federal law went into effect. With less than 800 it claimed a circulation in all the newspaper directories of 2,000 in order to fool foreign advertisers.

The farmers of this section are lacking in only one thing--the growing of sugar beets. This industry coupled with what we already have, would make La Plata the most prosperous of any county in the state. However, with alfalfa at $12.00 in Durango, with prospects of a much higher price before many months, the tiller of the soil will come out pretty well.

Four hundred and fifty thousand head of cattle, 250,000 hogs and probably 1,000,000 sheep will be shipped out of Denver this year to the markets of the world, returning estimated profits to the stockmen and sheep-raisers of Colorado and the surrounding states of more than $33,000,000, according to figures given out at the stockyards a day or two ago, says the Denver News. Approximately $25,000,000 will represent the value of cattle, $5,000,000 that of hogs and $3,000,000 the value of sheep.