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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-01-12
SUBSCRIPTION SCHOOL FOR
cotcREp CHILDREN.

There are more than a hundred
young colored children in Berea who
are deprived Of the opportunity 10
attend College this year, and are thus
left to spend the winter in idleness
and without improvement.
The Institution is helping its for.
mer colored students 10 attend school
elsewhere, but does not venture 10
extend aid TO any colored person
who is seeking improvement at any
place within twenty five miles Of
Berea.
Under these circumstances il seems
plain, neighborly and Christian
duty TO do something for the colcred
young people of Berea, and Mrs
Frost has taken the responsibility OF
engaging teachers and opening a
Subscription School for colored per
sons.
The school will begin at S.35 on
Monday, Jan. 10, in the Colored
School House, and continue l.
weeks. The teachers are Henry A
Lame and Pattie Turner. All pupils
must enter within two weeks OF the
term, pay one dollar in advance INC
part of which will be returned If they
leave before the end of the term), and
do two hours work week, or "a
hours during the term, as directed by
the teachers; and no pupils will be
admitted who are not provided with
the regular books required by the
State.
The first thing is to rally the
colored people 10 this opportunity
Prof. Mason has kindly volunteered
to give lecture each week ON Gar.
dening, and Mrs. Hill will give
instruction each week in Home
Science. Every effort will be made
to give opportunities something like
those of the Model Schools in Berea
College. Now. will the colored
people respondS We cannot afford
to have two teachers unless there are
a large number Of pupils.
And the neyt thing is to secure the
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-01-12

Are women credulousY Ask the
beauty doctor, ask the vendor OF
quack me iicines, ask the fortune
teller. ask the bargain salesman.
The answer in all cases must be
ayes, certain class of women are
credulous, pitifully So" But this
class is far from being representative
of the whole sex, and to judge
women by this class alone would be
equivalent TO judging the other sex
by the class whose greatest mental
effort is TO trump up new fib
each night to explain their absence
until IL pm. from the bosom OF
their families.
Granted that a woman does reach
her conclusions more speedily than
man does, is she, therefore, to be
ticketed as wanting in judgment
II is admitted that her conclusion is
correct quite as often as the more
lengthily reasoned out one of man,
but because it is more hastily arrived
at, a woman is said to be guided not
by reason, but by instinct.
Instict in this case, however, is
only another name for the power OF
quick reasoning In the early stages
of the worlds history woman had a
hard struggle for existence, and the
preservation of herself and her of
spring more or less depended on the
speed with which she was able 10
'think out" a difficult position and
act Those who were able to reason
quickly survived. This gift OF quick
reasoning has been transmitted
through all the ages. Hence the
fallacy that women jump to con
clusions. Scottish American.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-01-12
TOWN ORDINANCE.
Hsw street to BE- Esmss after Fsths,

BE il ordained by the Board OF
Trustees OF the Town of Berea. KY,
that there be new street, to be
called Fee street, established in said
town, extending from Adams street,
otherwise called Depot street, south
erly 10 Chestnut street, conforming
10 the following description: The
said street is 10 extend from Adams
street gotherwise called Depot street,
in southerly direction 10 Chestnut
street. as follows:
The west side Is 10 begin at the
north east corner OF the town lot
held by Samuel Lucas on Adams
street aud follow the east line Of said
lot and OF the lots owned by w. T.
Aahaffey aud the heirs Of Miss
Mollie Early, S. y degrees. w. 455
feet; thence 5. II degrees w. through
land belonging 10 Colored School
District No. |, aud across the lane in
front Of same. 276 feet. 10 the north
east corner Of lot OF land now oc.
cupied by Robt. II. Chrisman; thence
S. ~ degrees f.. 1854 feet to the
5. +. corner Of Bicknell & Early's
store, on the north line Of Chestnut
street.
The east side Of said proposed
street begins "a feet easterly from
the point first named ON the south
line Of Adams street, aud extends in
a straight line along the west bound
AIRY Of lands owned by Robert Engle
and the heirs OF John q. Fee, 5. y
degrees W. ass feet. maintaining the
width "a feet; thence along the west
line OF the Fee heirs land. the lot of
Mrs. Isaacs, and THAI OF Mrs. Sallie
Baker, about $. Il degrees w, 27d
feet, making the street at this point
% feet in width; thence with Mrs.
Sallie Bakers line about S. IL de
grees +. l5J feet 10. the north line
Of Chestnut street, making the street
a. this extremity 20 feet in width.
l.. V. DoD0E, Chairman,
+. l.. RoBISsoN, Clerk.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-01-12
COMMONWEALTH or KENTUCKY.

An intercollegiate Bible study
conference will be held at Lexington,
Ky. January l3.
The Rev. Robert Y. Thomas, a
we'll known Methodist minister, is
dead at Marion, a, the age Of eighty
years.
State Revenue Agent Harrison has
fled suit against Anderson county
distillers for taxes aggregating
S27S,000.
After twenty six years of service,
twenty years Of which were spent as
City Assessor OF Louisville, Daniel f..
Murphy resigned yesterday. He will
succeed Trevor II. Whayne as super.
intendent Of real estate for the FL
deity Trust Company.
The Democratic electors OF the
State met at Frankfort yesterday and
east .hs electoral vote OF Kentucky
for Parker:and Davis. The certificate
OF the vote will be delivered to the
President Of the Senate at Washing
ton before February 8.
Andrew Carnegie sent Mayor
Granger letter saying he would
contribute 500, 900 toward the build.
ing OF branch libraries in Louisville
and that he was we'll pleased with
the interest the people Of this coun.
try take in the library scheme.
The jury in the Marcum damage
case returned a verdict for 5000
against James Hargis and Ed Gala
han jointly and exonerated Alex,
Hargis and b. F. French from any
connection with the alleged conspira-
cy 10 kill James B. Marcum. The
plaintiff will appeal from the judg-
ment in favor Of Alex. Hargis "uu -
f. French. and the defend"n.,,s,
James Hargis aud b. F. French VIII
probably appeal from the verdict
against them.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-01-12
Cannot Afford To Lose

I TAVE you deeds, mort
II cages. insurance nans poll
that you do not care to lose?
If so we advise you to rent
one of our safe deposit boxes
in our fire proof vault.
These safes will take care
of your papers, jewelry and
etc. The Safe costs you
only two dollars a year.
Come in and see them.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-01-12

, He goes 10 war who goes to law.
Creeds are often dead long before
they are buried.
The best economy is TO lay up
treasure in heaven.
Education can do much, but il
cannot make pint cup hold a quart.
There is a skeleton in every house.
and its name is rubbish not tit 10 use
and too good TO throw away.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-01-12
An Extra psnutx Clerk.

Frankfort. KY, Jan. 11.-Rodman
Keenan,, OF Harrodsburg. has been APP
pointed as an extra deputy clerk in
the Office Of Clerk ]. Morgan Chinn. of
the court Of appeals,
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-01-12
LETTER. FROM Gales POWERS.

The citizens and students ot Berea
contributed fifty dollars 10 Caleb
Powers for the purpose Of helping
pay the expenses OF his fourth trial;
and said sum together with the names
OF those who contributed, we're sent
10 Mr.. Powers. Following is a let
ter from him ON receipt Of the money;
Louisville, KY, Jan. 8, 1905.
X. B. Roberts,
Berea. Ky.
Ny dear .Sir:-I am Just in receipt
of your favor OF recent date, contain
ing $50. 25 for my benefit together
with the names of the contributors
and amounts donated by each. Please
do me the further favor 10 express
10 each donor my warmest and
keenest gratitude for his or her
interest, sympathy and financial aid.
To the students some OF whom are
doubtless laboring under financial
difficulties themselves, and who
are striving to make out of them
selves. with needed funds, the
best men aud women they are capable
of becoming feel profoundly
grateful. For many years ] have
felt a keen interest in Berea, its col
lege, and the success of its students.
II is hardly necessary for me here
TO reassert my entire innocence; but
it may be- interesting TO my friends
to know that propose to fight my
case until my hair is gray with years,
or win il. Thanking yourself and
other contributors again and again,
| am, gratefully,
CALEB Powers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-18
TREASURY AND MONEY! MARA EFT.


The disturbance In the New York
money market few days ago, due to
the fall of bank reserves to less than
% per cent of outstanding deposit liza
bilities, was accounted for by specula-
tive conditions in the stock market.
While the situation was by no means
as dangerous as was commonly thought,
as shown by the fact that normal con-
ditions have already been restored, yet
it afforded an opportunity for an appeal
to the national treasury to come TO the
relief Of the money market, as is usual
in such cases.
To this appeal the secretary of the
treasury declined to respond, on the
ground that there was no menace of
injury to the legitimate business of the
country and it is not the duty of the
national treasury to aid speculation.
This is not a new position for Secre-
tary Shaw and now as hitherto it will
be approved by all conservative hnan-
ciers and by the industrial and CONNER
cial interests generally. In a financial ex-
igency threatening injury TO the regular
business OF the country, it would, under
existing conditions, be the plain duty Of
:, he national treasury to afford whatever
relief it properly could. This it has done
repeatedly and undoubtedly will again
do. But it should not under any cir
cumstances lend itself to the promotion
or encouragement OF speculation in
stocks or any other direction. If the
banks allow themselves, as has recently
been done, to go to unwarranted and
dangerous lengths in aiding speculation
they should suffer the consequences.
The law is plain and specific in regard
to the reserve they are required to
maintain and they know the penalty
prescribed for the violation of the law.
When, therefore, they disregard this
the banks should be held to a rigid
responsibility. and it is not to be doubted
that if this were done there would be
an end to infractiOns of the law.
Secretary Shaw has in this matter
taken the proper course. He stands
ready to do whatever may be found ex-
pedient or necessary in the interest of
the legitimate business Of the country
but he declines to permit the national
treasury TO aid in promoting speculation
or to give relief to those who afford
such aid. Some of his predecessors
were less careful and conservative in
this respect than they should have been
but the judicious example set by the
present secretary of the treasury is very
likely TO be followed in the future. The
attitude OF Secretary Shaw has forced
liquidation to the loss of spectators
but 1t has caused no injury TO regular
business.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-18
RATE REGULATION AND WAGES.
Mistaken Views Regarding the Presi-
dents Policy.

indianapolis News
We would suggest to the employees of the
railroads that they ought to be very sure
of their ground before they enlist in the
campaign against the policy of rate regu-
lation. The theory of the engineers, fire.
men, switchmen, conductors and trainmen,
whose organizations have protested to the
president against regulation. is that regula-
ton means reduction of rates, and that
reduction of rates mcansa reduction of
wages. But this argument is logical in
form rather than in substance. For what
is proposed, is not a reduction, but an
equalization of rates, and a guarantee Of
fair treatment to all people interested. We
believe that the adoption of the president s
policy would have the effect of largely
increasing the earnings of the railroads.
1t will hardly be maintained that the roads
have made money by paying millions of
dollars in rebates to the Standard Oil COM
pany, the packing companies and other
large shippers. All this has been just so
much money lost to the railroads Now
it is proposed to stop this rebate business
and to put an end to the private terminal
and private car line abuses which are
simply schemes for getting rebates indi-
rectly.
largely increased under a system Of fair,
honest and open competition. This is the
view of the president. In his reply to the
protest of the employees, he said that 1t
was not his purpose. or the purpose of
those who agreed with him, to do anything
that might injure the railroads or the
country or their employees. What was
aimed at was perfectly fair treatment for
all classes. railroads, shippers and employees
The president very correctly, We think.
argued that the proposed legislation would
not necessarily mean a reduction In rail-
road rates and he suggested that the mem"
bers of the protesting delegation were pro
ceeding on a wrong understanding OF the
situation.
There will be an attempt made to show
that the president and those supporting
him are the enemies of the railroads. But
the president is not an enemy of the
railroads The people generally are not
hostile to them. In certain sections OF the
country where railroad eXactions and dis
examinations have been great there is I'M
douhtedly feeling of hostility to the roads,
but for that the roads in those localities,
and not all the railroads, are themselves
responsible. It is not proposed that regu-
lation shall be prescribed by the enemies of
the railroads. On the contrary, the CO.
operation of the roads themselves is greatly
to be desired. It Is a great mistake to as
sumo that every one who favors stricter
control OF rates is an enemy of the rail-
roads
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-18
PINERs PINE FOR FREEDOM.
CIassed as "InternHtiOnal
Petty Larceny"
Chicago Chronicle.


One of the strangest of American pro-
clivities is that to "go on arguing the case
after the court has decided It," as 1t was
phrased by the pioneer governor OF Illinois,
John Reynolds. who observed 1t while Hill
nois was yet territory.
1t is not therefore a new thing that has
cropped out in the sensational report that
the people of the Isle of Pines, always an
appanage of Cuba have declared the island
independent of Cuba and have sent to
Washington and demanded that the United
States shall resume" control.
Resume covers the preteXt for this
claim II was contended that because Spain
coded to this country Porto Rico and the
other islands under its control and re
linquished" Cuba without mention of other
islands. therefore the Isle Of Pines came to
us, though always a part of Cuba under
Spain
The claim was urged (by Americans who
had bought property there) before the War
department in February, 1903. when MI
Root was its head, and he promptly de-
cided that we never had or claimed any
title that the phrase Porto Rico and the
other islands" in the Paris treaty meant
the small islands always recognized as
part of Porto Rico.
OF course, TO ''relinquish Cuba" was to
Telinquish all that Spain had governed as
Cuba, and that included not only the Isle
OF Pines but also twelve or thirteen hun
bred other Islands fringing the Cuban
coast, the Isle of Pines the largest of all.
II the Isle of Pines was included among
"the other islands" of the treaty so were
the other thirteen hundred. The claim is
and was always absurd, but though we,
]
promptly repudiated il Cuba was uneasy,
and five months later, when buying by
treaty from Cuba two naval stations, we
made another treaty formally declaring
the little island a part of Cuba, gave to
! Cuba a kind Of quit claim deed. and that Is
| now before the senate
General Wood may have told the Ameri-
cans who went to the isle that no doubt
the United States would retain the island"
/ He is inclined to talk too much. but he can
not have guaranteed It as is now said. II
he did his guaranty was utterly without
value. He had no right TO do anything Of
the kind and they must have known H.
No doubt the United states will stand by
their guaranty In the treaty with Cuba OF
protection OF the personal and property
rights of Americans, but that guaranty
was not Of any right 10 rebel or seoede or
turn hiibuster In any shape, and II they
have tried to do so they must face the
| legitimate consequences
II may be that Cuba. and with II the Isle
OF Pines. will in the fullness OF time CRAWL
tate into this union. but If so the move
ment must come from there freely and
covering the whole Cuban Jurisdiction To
listen 10 the proposition IN this piecemeal
way would be a kind OF international petty
larcer-.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-18
rHe srAr.Ar.RnMr VOTE.

The compilation of the complete re-
turns of the election just held in Ne
braska affords the basis for an approx
mate estimate of the stay-at-home vote.
The total vote polled in all the election
precincts in the state this year aggre-
gates but little more than 1T5,0O0. The
total vote polled i'm Nebraska in the
presidential election last year was but
few short of 225,OOO, SO that the stay
at-home vote at the last election can be
roughly given as $4,000 in round figures
In other words, more than one voter to
every four and a half who participated
in the presidential election failed to ex-
ercise his rights of suffrage at the recent
election.
That the result of the election would
have been changed had all of these stay
at-hOme votes been polled is not to be
believed for a moment, but on the con-
trary, there is little room for doubt that
large majority of them, if cast, would
have been recorded for the republican
candidates and would have gone to
swell their majorities by many thou
sands.
On the face of the figures it would APP
pear that the republicans with a plural
ity of nearly $4,000 out of total Of
10000 votes have things practically
their own way, and this is unquestiona-
bly, true as respects any issue embodied
in what is known as the Roosevelt
Program" That Nebraska is not so
overwhelmingly republican on local is
sues, however, is plain enough from the
fact that comparatively few counties are
to be found in the state in which the
democrats, or fusion opposition, did not
elect one or more county officers over re-
publicans who were weak or disreputa-
BILE, and on that account could not COM
mand the full party strength.
The lesson of the election returns is
that Nebraska is firmly republican, but
not so firmly set that republicans can
with impunity fly in the face of popular
sentiment upon current issues, or Haunt
candidates who have forfeited popular
confidence.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-18
Publicity that Failed.
s.t.ua.ta Dan,,t,tfcar

certain railroad publicity bureau. To-
Gated I'm Chicago, and with branch offices
throughout the middle west, whose mis-
sion has been to spread the propaganda
against President Roosevelt's rate regu-
lation program, has been closed by those
who chartered II. 1t is even claimed that
the maintenance of this bureau cost the
different roads assessed nearly 100000.
The crisis came when a western newspa-
per. whose editor had been offered re-
Enumeration II he would print as editorials
the matter sent out by the bureau, col
lected evidence against the person who
made the offer. and used the whole front
page OF his paper in exposing the man and
the scheme. When copies of that exposure
reached the railroad presidents they de-
cided that the venture was a losing one,
and closed the bureau. This is belated
ana forced evidence OF returning good
sense. Such bureaus are still active IN
the east and they are doing more than
any other one thing TO diseredit the cause
Of the railroads with the newspapers and
the people.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-18
POLITICAL DRIFT.

The late defunct in Philadelphia threaten
TO upset the band wagon in their haste to
get
A patriotic omoeholder in Kansas has
gone into court to establish his right to a
salary of 81 a year.
Having just pulled off scrap for state
Offices, Boston now lines up for a municipal
row to keep its hands in.
It's an III wind that blows nobody good.
The republicans OF Cincinnati saved the
office of overseer of the poor from the
wreck.
Mayor Mcclellan swears that he didn't
spend cent for campaign expenses He
got mighty hot run for the money drawn
from other pockets.
The coming man for democratic leader in
New York state is former Congressman
Burton Harrison. He is young, attractive
and a smooth public orator.
Merely to prove that IAN honest ballot
and fair count means Just what the
words imply. Philadelphia has sent three
crooked election officers to the penitentiary.
parody of a popular song entitled
Everybody Works but Mother" defeated
a republican county oficeholder in Penn
sylvania who had provided places for his
family.
They say in Kentucky that the days of
Senator Blackburn's political career are
numbered very short. now that the cleo
ton shows him to be without adequate sup
port In the legislature for reelection to
the senate. Jude Paynter. his rival, claims
81 out of 10 democratic votes.
Says the New York Evening World:
Suppose the chief evangel of Mr.. Hearsts
campaign were known to have bets booked
for $4,000 at odds which would have netted
him $4,000 had his employer won. would
it have the effect of increasing the pitch Of
his cry for a recount Of the mayoralty bal
iot2
Governor Pennypacker has called the
Pennsylvania legislature together for the
purpose of effecting some reforms decreed
at the ballot box. Last winter when this
same body was in session 1t was necessary
to telegraph to an absent leader in Florida
to prevent the passage of an obnoxious bill.
Word came back and the bill was killed
Now some optimists expect the members
will act on their own judgment. as the
leaders are too Ill to boss the jobs.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-18
HOW THE ROW BEGAN.
Denver Republican.


Hades popped in Cactus Center. vvhan
Jest like catapult
Inc lie insurance question hit us on the
18th nit;
II began when ella Hawkins said insurance
men was thieves
said the hull cadoodle of 'em would stun
aces up their sleeves.
He was took up by Slim johnson. who's
been writin' risks in town,
An before we cleared the barroom there
was three men lynn down;
Slim went shootin' TO his ONCE an he got
four on the way,
While Old ella, trallin' after, winged a
few with shots astray.
So we laid siege to the office, an we
punctured Sims tough hide
An laid him and ella Hawkins, with
their wounds dressed, side by side
An old Hawkins got 20 laughin', lyin'
stretched out on the bed,
But at last he checked his smokers, an
before his last breath, said:
II apologize, most humble, Slim, as fur as
you're concerned
But / jest can't help a-laughin' at the
trick that you have turned;
Fer you've dealt your graftin' bosses quite
a hard financial blow
The joke is on YOU Johnson-I'm insured
with you, you know"