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Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1904-02-04
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Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1904-02-04
DR.. FENNER'S
KIDNEY and
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All diseases OF Kidneys. .
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New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
MILLION DOLLAR FEES

The successful modern lawyer is the most
highly paid brain worker in the world. There
a time when the lawyer sought to charge
each particular client all that he thought the
client would pay. The lawyer of to-day aims
TO charge so that his account Will appear on the
profit side of his clients ledger.
William Nelson Cromwell is to receive 81
100000 for selling the rights of the Panama
Canal Company to the United States. But for
Mr. Cromwelrs extraordinary patience and skill
the isthmian canal might have been built
through Nicaragua. and the Panama Canal
Company would have remained in its defunct
condition.
William d. Guthrie received SlOOOOOO for
his victory for the widow in breaking the will
OF Henry Il. Plant. AS result, Mrs. Plant OBJ
tanned S7O0O,OOO SSOOO.OOO. But for Mr.
Guthrie. her share of the estate would have
been exceedingly small. James h. Dill is credit
ed with having been paid 81 100000 for settling
the famous dispute between Andrew Carnegie
and Henry Frick. legal fight would probably
have resulted disastrously to every one con-
cerned. 1t is not known how much Francis
Iynde Stetson is paid the general counsel of
]. Pierpont Morgan. though IL is estimated in
Wall Street that Mr.. Morgan gives him
nual retainer of $4,000 merely for first call
upon Mr. Stetson's time, all actual services
being paid for in addition.
The supply OF lawyers does not exceed the de-
mand. In 1890 there were 5000 members of
the bar in the United States. to every
G:S of the population. According to the census
of 1900 the total number Ia. 1G'. one
to every go OF the population. There is and
will be for a long time plenty OF work for the
good lawyer TO do.-tThe Worlds Work
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
THE AMERICAN INVASION OF MExIco.

The extent OF the American commercial inva-
sion of Mexico is not always realized. A year
ago it was officially reported that more than
eleven hundred American companies were doing
business in Mexico. OF the capital from this
country invested there about 40 per cent is
placed in railroads All of the lines except those
connecting the capital with Vera Cruz and the
National Tehuantepec Railway owned
controlled by Americans. Eighty per cent OF
all Mexican railroad property IS held in the
United States Eighty millions Of American dol
lars engaged in Mexican mines, principally
In Sonora, Chihuahua ard Durango. The min
ing outputs OF the fiscal year ended June 80.
1893, amounted to $1f5 000, ,000-valucd in silver
Icing increase of nearly 80 per cent over
any preceding year. In the same time nearly
three thousand new mining enterprises. or i
per cent nf the whole, We're launched.
In various agricultural ventures Americans
have SIS 100000 staked but this includes proba-
hly some Of those enterprises which appeal 10
the trustful small investor through popular ad-
VeTtisenent, and concerning which our consular
agents have often sent warnings TO the Wash
ington authorities.
Varied manufactures in the Federal districts
and in NueYo Leon absorb much American cap
ital. In Snaloa also operate n profitable
group Of-sugar refneries. To the northward
many great iron and steel plants are in evidence
one of them. just completed at Monterey has
cost fully $4,000 C00-(Frank III. Taylor in the
BookloVerS.
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
MAKING FIRE INDIAN FASHION.

How do the Indians make fire without
matCheS? asked n boy who loved to play
Indian" Most OF us have heard the answer
10 this: The Indians used flint and steel.
as our own fathers and mothers did one hun
dred years ago. and before they had flint and
steel they used rubbing sticks" We have all
read about bringing fire out of two sticks by
rubbing them together. but i find that most
persons look upon this u sort OF fairy tale or.
IL they believe II 10 be true. they think IL so
difficult as to be worth no second thought. All
Woodcrafters. l find. are surprised and greatly
interested to learn that not only is IL possible
it is easy to make friction fire II you know
how. L have taught many boys and men to
do it, and some have grown expert that they
make it nearly quickly with old fash
Toned sulphur match. When | first learned from
Mr.. Walter Hough, who learned from the Ind
ians. 1t took me from five to ten minutes to get
blazing fre-not half hour, as some books
have it. But later got 1t down to a minute
then to 81 seconds. from the time of taking up
the rubbing sticks to having fine blaze. the
time in getting the first spark being about six
seconds.-( (Ernest Thompson Seton in Country
Life I'm America
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29

leads the intellectual movements of her town
The book club. the Dante club. the entertainer
of the lecturing the travelling lion is the
woman Often the clergyman assists; but she.
through her influence over the surrendered man,
has selected her clergyman. and on her he must
count for the success of himself and Of his work.
She is. indeed generous and gracious. and well
comes with joy every man who StrayS from
business into the company of books and pictures
into homes which she has made. They call their
houses homes oftener than the East, and these
homes bespeak the finer taste of the woman
Her education is likely to be more virie than
that of her Eastern sisters because it is ac
quired at schools and colleges where coeducation
OF the is the rule. Her domination in the
home and her primacy in the higher life. as We
are inclined to call it, are seen not only in the
more obvious social affairs. but in the element
of seriousness which marks most life in this
midway of the country
AS the man pays her high respect by recog
nizing her superiority in the kingdom OF taste
OF feeling. OF the imagination. of the knowledge
which comes from books. she returns his defer
ence by generating him as the active ruler of the
world of affairs. This attitude was we'll ex-
great coeducation universities OF the West. She
was asked to write her view OF Thomas Jeffer
son. and this was her response; Thomas JEFF
ferson timid and SLY. but lovely in his fam
lily" She could judge him one of the world
OF men," because she was not of his family: if
she had been. the last part of her description
alone would have sufliced. -(Henry Looms
Nelson LII. d., in Harper's-
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
CHRISTMAS WITH THE LEWIS AND
CLARK EXPLORING PARTY

Some rain at different times last night and
showers of hail with intervales OF fair starlight
This morning at day we were sGluted by all
party under winders a Shout and a
Song after breakfast divided our tobacco
which amounted Carrots one half gave to
the party who used Tobacco those who did not
gave Handkerchief as n present. The day
proved showery all day. the Inds left this
evening. all our party moved into their huts.
we dried some of our wet goods. / rCved pres
ent OF FIeeshe Hosiery fleece hOsieryl vest
darwS & socks of Capt. Lewis pr MoCkerSons Of
Whitehouse. small Indian basket of Gutcrch
IGoodrichl &. = boz weasels tales of the Squar
of Shabono, & some black roots of the Indians
Our Diner TO day consisted of pore Elk boiled.
split fish & some roots. bad Christmas diner,
worm day.
Ticks and musquiters'' very trauble-
SOM through much of the Journey; the up
per Missouri. "eye knats and prickiy pears,
equal any three curses that ever poor Egypt
laibOured under. except the MahOmetant yoke"
Grizzly bears greatly annoy them east OF the
mountains: Lewis gives many brilliant expe-
renceS with this bulky and ferocioUS beast and
writes: Il find that the curiosity OF our party
is pretty we'll satisfied with Inspect TO this ami
NAL he has staggered the resolution of
several OF them . L confess do not like
the gentlemen and had reather fight two In
dians than one bear" One has frequent glirnps-
es, on the deeply quilted plains of buffalo herds
OFTEN embracing several thousands. and ante
lopes. deer, big horns and other game I'm as
tonishing numbers In crossing the divide we
are closely in touch with sad dearth of food
and unon the Columbia and at Fort Clatsop find
the adventures obliged to exist on horses, dogs
dried fish. and roots. until the human system
sometimes reVOltS-Clark never could aCcustOm
himself TO dog flesh; although Lewis in several
IdcetiouS references, processes to regard il as
Personal Records of Lewis and Clark Serb
ner'S.
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
ROYAL ECONOMY.

An incident that occurred recently illustrates
the frugality of Emperor Williams family.
The Empress, with two of her court ladies,
was sitting Il terrace in the park of Sans
SOuCi. at Potsdam Palace. when another lady
of the court countess, approached. The
countess accompanied by her little girl, and
the Empress called to her own little daughter,
the Princess Victoria. who playing down
below. to come up and make this child's ac-
Quaintance. y few minutes later the Empress
felt somebody tugging at her sleeve.
Mamma whispered Il small voice at her
ear. ''see what beautiful things that little girl
has, Ohe COuntesSs daughter was most ex-
pensively dressed). And it is not Sunday. and
there uncle-kings here. And 1 am a
little princess and she is a little countess. And
she has beautiful things as you give me
on Sunday and when an uncle-king comes. May
put my beautiful things?'
No little sweetheart" the Empress whispered
N reply your papa is under too great an ex-
pense to permit you to wear your good clothes
every day. We must be as careful as we can or
our clothes, TO help Iim in every way pos
sibie. (EverybOdys
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
AN AMERICAN TEACHING THE CAR

An American is teaching the Gar how to de-
velOp the resources of Siberia John Rosene
has obtained mining concessions in Siberia
capitalized at S5,010.000. Three years ago he
was engaged in a small way in the Pacific Coast
trade. when a man takes $50 into Siberia and
comes back after three months work with 81 900
You get Interested he says This experience OF
a Nome gold mine aroused him 10 Asatic pos
sibilities.
He learned that concession for mining IN
Siberia. financed by Russian and English capi-
tal had lapsed through the dispeasure of the
Car at speculation with the concerns stocks.
II will get half that stock and the renewal OF
the concession" said John Rosene
He got them The London holders were anx-
ious to unload worthless stocks. and they were
cheap. Then he went back TO Seattle and
ganiZed the Northwestern Commercial Com
pany. In a few weeks word came from ST.
Petersburg that the concession had been revived
by the Gar. John RCsene FASTENED 10 the Rus
sian capital. had personal interviews with the
Car. was given free hand in several kinds OF
commercial operations These included taking
American miners into Siberia, to mine. TO
timber fish. to take furs and to operate
between Seattle and Siberia with trading
sells.
Within month the Northwestern Siberian
Company was organized. capitalized at 5000
600 and purchased the three Pacific liners
Gently operated from Puget Sound to the Orient
by the Northern Pacific Railroad Their ships
Will probably sail under the flag of the North
western Siberia Company Russian transports.
Who can tell? The ramificatiOns of American
enterprise run to unexpected places--(The
Worlds Work
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29

The heart of a boy beats in the breast OF
Theodore Roosevelt, and he relishes with jul
Venile joy situations that usually afford pleas
ure to thoughtleSs and care free adolescence.
IL is no uncommon thing for him to out
walk some Secret Service man, put on his trail
for protection and, turning corner. to meet
him after while with cordial and seemingly
innocent 'HellOr'
When a crack British regiment in WASH
inSton not long ago the President invited sew
eral Of the officers 10 ride with him horse
back through the mud. He led them such a
chase that their natty and snowy uniforms
were badly spattered. They kept up with him,
of course. for British officers not made of
sugar. thereby winning his admiration. but in
no wise abating the bOyish delight which he
took in the chase that he had given them and
its innocently disastrous effects.
similar story is told of the President and
Mr. Root. late Secretary of War. There had
been an engagement TO ride. but the day being
rainy. the President sent word. in Mr.. Fora
ker's hearing. "TeH Root that It's too wet
ride, but il he will put his old clothes We'll
take a tramp in the mud" upon which Mr.
Foraker exclaimed devOutly, Thank God, I'm
not n member of this administrationP'-(Cieorge
Horton. in The Reader.
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
A JOCKEYS INCOME.

For the past two years George Odom the lead
ing jockey of America, has been under contract
TO Captain ). S. Brown. the Pittsburg million
are. who pays him an annual retainer of $IJ-
ooo. Then he sells what is known the turf
as second CALI to John Madden for an amOunt
approaching half OF the first contract price
When neither owner is starting a horse Odom
has the privilege of accepting outside mounts
From this source n rider of his skill accumulateS
RS much money as he receives from regular con-
tracts. In gifts and prizes in special races he.
receives additional amount. Cdorn cannon
give the exact figures of his income this season
until, at the end of tho year. he has summed up
his outside amounts ana perquisites. Safely he
may count on S3OHbU as the figure which he
may credit for one year OF wearing the silks
and Satins. and riding American raCehorses 10
splendid and. sometimes. unexpected yictorv
The figures Will startle you. and at first YOU viii
be much inclined To wonder. Then as YOU look
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
WOMAN IN THE MIDDLE WEST.

The social picture of the Middle West as a
whole, however, presents the sexes occupying
different intellectual and moral planes There
the woman is indisputably the mistress in all
that makes for culture-culture in letters and in
art; the man is king i'm his own active realm
Each is most deferential to the other in that
others sphere. The books the shelves the
pictures on the WALL are of the woman's choice
or selection. The man speaks of her literary or
artistic tastes, usually of both combined, with
the reverence that is due to her superior intel
loctual and spiritual gifts and requirements
She is the hostess. and the host stands appro-
priately behind her. She Is the instructed and
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
BATTLING FOR A PIPE LINE.

Coming to the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western the promoters of the independent pipe
line to the sea decided to test their position by
LAYING a pipe. 1t was promptly torn out y
farm over which the railroad passed was then
purchased and preparations made TO lay the
pipe in 4 roadway under the tracks AS thlS
road was some seventeen feet below the rams
any claim that there was possible danger from
he oil seemed feeble. knowing that the point
was watched Mr. Emery tried strategy. Tax
ing fifty men with him he went in the night to
the cuivert under which he meant to cross. iaid
his pipes four feet under ground, fastened thefn
down with heavy timberS, piled rocks on lleih'
anchored them with chains. established a camp
on each side of the track. and prepared Tor war
They soon had il. First with a body of rail-
road men armed with picks and bars who in
vaded the camp. II told the boys, SAID Mr
Jcr cry in describing the incident TO the INDUS
trial Commission in 1889. ITO take the men by
the shoulders and the seat OF the pants and
take them out and lay them down carefully.
which they did" The next day two wreckin5
charged the camp, but again they were routed
The matter was taken by mutual agreement
into court, and, while Mr. Emery was before
the Justice of the peace. two locomotives We're
run down and the camp attacked with not
water and Goals!
aroused The unfairness of the thing was so
ratent that even the railroad employees engaged
in il did not hesitate to say in excuse or lheir
EMPLOYERS that il was the Standard OIL Com
panv which was at the bottom OF the opposi-
tion, AS for the inhabitants. they offered any
oif they could give The local Grand Army of
the Republic sent fcrty eight muskets 10 the
scene OF war Mr.. Emery bought eighteen
Springfield rifles the camp was barricaded
= no for seven months the pipes were guarded
while the courts were deciding the legal ttle
to the crossing.-Qda NJ. Tarben IN Mcclure s.
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
A FRAUD AND THE GUILTY PUBLIC.

one OF the most typical of the frauds carried
out through the mails one wherein the re-
ceiver of the circular WAS told that he was en-
titled TO a prize which he had won from a n'aga.
zine called The Mississippi Valley Planter
published by the Mississippi Valley Publishing
Company.
The real kernel was the statement that the re-
cipient of the circular was entitled to certain
prize which would be shipped on receipt or the
freight charges. In nearly every case the ad-
dressee had won premium number seven
horse and Lilly buggy and harness, valued at
s215." With equally remarkable uniformity. the
freight charges were placed at S29 60
Never was a bubble blown with less actuai
SOAP There never had been such concern as
the Mississippi Valley Publishing Company. or
such a publication as THE Mississippi Valley
Planter"
The fraud order intercepted six hundred
money orders and n number of registered letters
All these people, with the hundreds VINO hid
come before them were reaching out after Valu-
able prizes which they. in the nature ot- things.
must have known they had never earned or even
competed for. He has mistaken me Tor some
one else but I'll take the horse and buggy just
the same" must have been the thought which
flashed through those six hundred heads. and II
is an unpleasant commentary on the wickedness
of human nature. The prime swnder simply
makes victims of not unwilling TO be his
accomplces.-(Leslie's Monthly Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29

at his attentuated figure and the old, old face.
and note the heayiness of his speech and the
sometimes pathoS of his voice, then 1T Is thrust
in upon you that. after all. at twenty-one it is
hardly worth while; and that George Odom the
jockey, earning more each year than directors
of great human events. is underpait. The re-
ward doesn't seem to be commensurate with
the labor. There is brilliancy, acclaim, praise
in extravaganza, sycophantic following g-all
OF that for the little. old ulan-boy who rides.
But he has lost SO much. and life for him In its
active moments has been such carping, rack
ing life that he had paid great price for the
pride of his place George Odom. jockey. IS
ofttimes pitiable figure.-( Every body'a
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
From the Jane Magazines.
Y. Personalities and Anecdotes Workaday World.

toned almost hueless. expanse of the Syrian
landscape. long reaches of paest blue and gray
and yellow. with only occasional blotch of
brilliant color in the foreground Dreary and
waste, and sad, indeed. is the scene to the eyes
of the flesh; but, to the eyes of the spirit, that
squat, bald hill becomes n veritabe Mount of
Visions-Visions Il thousand times more real and
vivid than the spectacle Of mud huts. and steam
mill, and rocky wastes.-(N. w. Woodrow. in
the MetrOpOitan.
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
JOSEPH'S WELL.

At Dothan. in upper Palestine, is pool which
has refreshed the traveller for centuries. II is
the Well Of Joseph. It's environs form dreary
enough prOGpect-above IL low, insignificant
hill. upon whose summit cluster few miserable
mud huts. and at the base is the sordld
from it stretches In all directions the faint
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
CHHDREN-THE GIRLCHILD.

Give her n flower TO keep and hold
A waXen doll in n silllen gown,
A chain of coral with clasp Of gold,
tiny kitten as soft as down;
And sing, with your lips against her cheek,
Loves dear lullaby whispering,
Till sleep comes over her eyelids meek.
Sing for the girl-child-mother singi
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
THANATOS ATHANATOS.
(DeathIesS Death.)

At eve when the brief wntry day is sped.
I muse beside my fires faint fiickering glare
Conscious OF wrinklng face and whitening
hair
OF those who, dying young inherited
The immortal youtbfulnesS of the early dead
l think of Raphaers grand seigneurial air;
OF Shelley and Keats with laurels fresh and
fair
Shining unwithered on each sacred mead;
And soldier boys who snatched deaths starry
prize,
With sweet life radiant in their fearless eyes.
The 9-eanS of love upon their beardleSS lips.
Barterng duh age for Immortality;
Their memories hold in deaths unyeilding fee
The youth that thrilled them to the finger
tips.
John Hay in The Century.
New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
THE BOY-CHU.D.

Show him the bird in its daring flight
To the clouds brown edge. Teach him TO know
The flag that spreads TO winds wild night
Sweep of the rain and whrl OF snow
Laugh with him, run with him. romp and lean
Give him his will Of the noisy day
But. when you pause at the gate of sleep
oh. pray for the boy -child-mother prayt
-(Madeine Bridges, in The Smart Set
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-27

How She Entertained Weary Travellers
at the Union Depot.

A sweet little tot of FIVE years of age,
golden haired and sunny faced, highly
entertained the passengers in the Union
depot yesterday afternoon to whom the
minutes slowly passed in marking time for
belated trains went with dreary laziness.
The little one is Viola Fitzpatrick, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. NJ. Fitzpatrick
who live near Clifton, in Pitt county.
For some months she has been with her
cousin, Miss Mary Fitzpatrick in Wilson,
where Miss Fitzpatrick is teacher of elo-
cution in the Atlantic Christian College.
Little Viola is an elocutionist herself,
and sings also. 1t was with bright little
Rotations and sweet songs that she en-
tertained the ladies and gentlemen who
were delighted. She was on her way to
Moncure. where she was to recite last
night in an entertainment in which Miss
Fitzpatrick took part. Viola may come
with her cousin to Raleigh at some time,
for Miss Fitzpatrick expects to appear here
later on