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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01
The Mountain Champion,
Roosevelt Believes in tre Noun.
tain People-Do We Believe
in Observation-Disclosures
for the New Year.

The letter Of President Roosevelt
which we print this week should stir
the heart of every man, woman and
child In Eastern Kentucky, Eastern
Tennessee. the western parts OF the
two Virginias and the two Carolinas.
and the northern parts OF Georgia aud
Alabama
We people of the mountains have
been somewhat forgotten, despised
and run over by our neighbors in
the richer parts of our states, and
We have sometimes been either TOO
proud or too faint hearted TO stand
up for ourselves in the best way. But
all that is in the past and can be for
gotten.
Here Is the President of the United
States showing his confidence in us,
and in what eau be made out Of our
children. He reminds us that Abraham
Lincoln was born in a Kentucky log
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01

are student, entiled to all the priv
ileges Of the Institution. You can
draw books from the library, you hav
a seat in the Chapel, you have time
when you can use the elegant bath
room, you are on the straight road 20
happiness and honor and usefulness
Every day you will learn something
new. Some things you will find diff
ferent from what you expected. Some
you will not like as well as you ex-
pected, and some you will like a great
deal more. when you have been here
month, you will wish you had come
year ago, and by the time you have
been here a term you will have more
friends in Berea than you have any
where else.
But you do not come mainly to hav
a good time. or even to make friends.
You come to get useful knowledge and
to improve your own mind Do not
be too impatient. You cannot see
much good in planting corn for the
first few days. You put in the corn
and It grows under ground at first.
SO with your education. You cannot
see all the benefit of it the first day.
But after a little you will find that
your head is full of new ideas; you
understand things you never under
stood before, and long before the first
term is over you will be a changed
persen-more manly, more womanly,
more self-possessed, with new pleas
ures and higher thoughts, and more
power for usefulness. Twenty years
hence hundreds of pSople will be glad
because they started to school NOW.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01

will not come anless we or SOMEBODY
believes they can come. Let us have
faith. Let us thank God for our bless
ings and ask him for more.
The New Year is at hand. Here is
a place where we ought to stop and d
some thinking. We grow older right
along. God wants us to grow better
as we'll What are our plans for i'm
provement during 1907?
Let us believe that what has been
done, can be done. What the noun
taineers have done In educating their
children We can do. What the people
OF Swiss mountains have done in road
making, We can do. And so Of all
other improvements.
And let us try 70 have all the peo-
pie share in this progress. The chill
dren of the most sorry families must
be started on an upward path.
The first good resolution for the
New Year isl will make more of my,
self. TO the glory of God.
The next good resolution for the
New Year isl will be more helpful
to my neighbor.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01

cabin. He expects that through such
education as is coming in reach OF us
through BereaCollege all this noun
tain region will become a storehouse
Of national yigor and patriotism.
This is what DR.. Pearsons of Chica-
go believes and he has shown his sin
certify by his great gifts of money TO
Berea TO help the College help the
mountain boys and girls.
This is what thousands of mountain
parents and children have believed
and by careful work and careful plan
ming they have put over thousand
students a year into Berea, and now
the army of school teachers, trained
farmers, improved housekeepers, hon
est lawyers, skilled doctors, competent
carpenters, devoted preachers, faith
sui and skillful young persons for all
callings In life, that army is pouring
forth from the College to bless the
whole circle OF Southern states.
Now, are your folks going to get
their share? Do you believe that you
have a child worth educating? Do
you, young man, believe that you
could do greater things IL you knew
more? Do you, young lady, know
that you might be much more of a
blessing to your home and your friend
II you had some education? Shall
pride hinder us, or faint heartedness
turn us back?
And are We going to have better
roads, better schools, better churches,
better homes, better laws, and better
people In the mountains? These things
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01

Prof. and Mrs. Dodge returned
Christmas morning from their trip
to Nashville, Tennessee. Prof. Dodge
gave a lecture in the Howard Cong
regational Church, spoke to the stu
dents in Fisk University, and had
some meetings with the twenty colo
red students Berea College is keeping
there.
Prof. Joseph Dodge, now teacher
in the public schools of East Stone
Gap, Virginia, a granddaughter of
our Prof. Dodge was visiting here
last week.
Word comes of the happy birth OF
a son on October 9Th. to Mr.. and Mrs.
Dean of Vershire, Vermont. Mrs.
Dean is well known to many Bereans
as Miss Eloise Partridge, teacher and
extension workes here few years
ago. She would be glad to hear from
old friends.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01
WINTER TERM
BEREA COLLEGE
OPENS WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY SECOND
1907
FROM THE WIDE WORLD.

The National Assembly OF Ecuador,
South America. on December oath,
elected Gen. Eloy Alfaro, the acting
PAsident, TO be permanent constitu-
tioihl president for four years. Alfaro
received large majority of the votes
cast and his election is very popular
On December 9th Governor Ma.
coon signed the order appointing
commission TO revise the laws Of
Cuba.
ID Is reported that Raisuli, a sort
Of robber chief in the country Of Nor
COCO, in Africa. is arming bands OF
men near the city Of Tangier. and IL
is feared that he intends 10 attack
the forces Of the Sultan who rules
Morocco.
James Bryce, a noted British
statesman has been appointed am.
bassador Of England 10 the United
States. He is closing up his business
affairs aud getting ready to come 10
Washington.
King Leopold Of Belgium has
given over his ownership aud rule Of
the 80 called Congo Free State 30
the Belgian government. The parlia
ment Of that nation accepted this
action Of the King on December 1t.
II is now the plan for Belgium TO
annex the Congo State.
A constitution for the Transvaal
in South Africa. which was conquer.
ed feg years ago by English sold.
iers, was given TO that country by
England on December 18th. IL goes
into effect Immediately.
II is reported that the Gar Of
Russia has approved OF bill giving
10 the Jews in Russia equal rights
9th other citizens. For long time
u Jews there as well as In many
other places, have been fearfully op
pressed.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01
The Citizens Greeting to new
Students

We wish you all very Happy
New Year and very pleasant and
useful time of study in Berea.
In the first few days many of you
will feel home sick. You will not be
we'll settled perhaps,-everything is
new and strange. The old home and
old friends are far away. The teach
ers want to help you to be happy,
but they are very busy. The old
students are ready to make you feel
at home, but they don't know you
and many of them are busy, and
sometimes they forget how they felt
when they first came here. What
shall you dor
The best thing to do is to hunt up
one or two other new homesick
students and cheer them up. Go
out walking with them, all the
college buildings inside and out.
Go into the beautiful new library
and then buckle down to work, and
get a splendid start in your studies.
We want to say word about what
The Citizen can do and wants to dc
to keep you from inconsistencies and
make your stay in Berea, happy. The
Citizen is the College Paper. 1t tells
what is going on among both teachers
and students. One column is called
the Students Journal. In it you will
find out what the literary societies
the different classes, the athletic
teams and individual students are do
ing. On the last page you will find
news from hundreds of mountain
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01
HOW TO GET STARTED
What New students Have 10 DO.

Nhnt New students nave 10 DO.
First find your room. Young lad
les go directly to the Ladies' Hall
and inquire for Miss Robinson or Miss
Welsh. Young men go to the rear
Of the stone Library Building, and
see Mr.. Cartmell. If you have en-
gagged a room these officers will have
1t ready for you. II not they will hel
you 10 the best room that is left. At
this time you make your Dollar De-
post, and get a receipt for 1t. You
will find Berea full of friendly peo-
pie.
After this you will wish to see the
Dean OF Women OF the President for
advice about which department TO en-
ter. etc. and they will take down
your name and address, and the ad-
dress of your parents. Then you will
see the man at the head of the de-
partment you wish to enter. The
school is like an army, but you will
soon find your own regiment and
companyl This assigning officer
or Dean" as he is called, will assign
you to the classes in which you can
make most rapid progress.
Finally you will get a schedule"
which is a paper on which is written
all your classes and appointments
When you settle with TIE Treasurer
he signs this schedule. and then you
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01

homes, probably from your home,
week by week. The Citizen gives
comments on the Sunday School les
son that you will have to study, a
week ahead. 1t gives the most i'm
portant news of the world, our
country and state of Kentucky, just
what you will need in your Current
Events classes and Rhetorical work.
There are many other things about
The Citizen which make it paper
you can not afford to do without. So
we simply ask that you subscribe for
it and give it a chance to do for you
what it can and when the year is over
you will think it was worth ten times
the cost.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01
IN OUR OWN COUNTRY

on December cath. Mayor Woodwar
OF Atlanta, Ca. ordered all saloons Of
the city closed from 4 o'clock y m.
until Wednesday morning, as there
we're rumors that attacks would be
made on negroes on Christmas day.
A race war Is feared In Mississippi.
Negroes have fined the little town OF
Wahalsk. and threaten vengeance on
the whites because a negro was killed
by a conductor while he was trying
20 quiet a disturbance on his train.
Soldiers were on the way to Wahalak
On Dec. 2fth to protect the white res
dents there.
Joseph H. Smith, head OF the Nor
mon Church. some weeks age confess
Ell that he had disobeyod the law in
unlawful oohabitation with one OF his
wives Now he has been summoned
as a director OF the Union Pacific r..
Y. to answer charges OF giving illegal
febafes. Week before last there was
a warm debate in the u. S. Senate
~ regard 10 the Mormon Senator
Smoot Senator Burrows of Michigan
spoke. representing a majority OF the
senate committee which recommends
that Smoot be excluded from the Sem
ate. Senator Dubois OF Idaho charg-
ed President Roosevelt and the repub-
lican leaders with putting party sue
cess above national good in supporting
Mormon candidates in Idaho. Utah
and Montana in the last election.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01
COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY

More gold is being discovered in
Estill county. Some time ago il was
found at Wagersville and near Irvine,
and now within the last few weeks a
goqd mine has been located at Cobb
E$as a result II is said, OF follow
ing out some clews found in some old
papers left by an Indian.
Much interest has been excited
thru the country by the story of Lind
say B. Hicks, a Kentuckian by birth,
who was imprisoned for about two
weeks in mine in Bakersfield, CAL,
and after very hard experiences was
finally rescued December %. Hicks
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01
Chr lllhitr ainllsr
MaEbingfnu
OYSTER RAY, NY.
September 90, 1900.

September 1900.
Dr.. rost
wish good luck. wish all o
College believe profoundly loyalty Of
people of two
places they
firmly that
through the fundamentally
College. Appalachian prove
national of
country be benefit the United
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Dr. william Coodc FROST,
President, College,
Berea Kcntncky.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01

did some serious thinking while shut
up in the walls Of earth and granite
aud made up his mind TO let whiskey
alone for the rest of his life. IL
might be well for few more Ken
tuckians TO be shut in mines a while.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01
IDEAS.

~ bright New Year and a sunny
II track
Along an upward way,
And a song Of praise On looking
back
When the year has passed away.
Now every year the gifts appear;
New praise from our lips shall
sound
And golden sbeaves. nor small nor
few:
This Is my New Years wish for you.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-01-01
Chief Contents of This Number

PAGE ONE.
From the Wide World.
In Our Own Country.
Commonwealth of Kentucky.
President Roosevelts letter.
The MountainiC champion.
PAGE Two.
Poem-A Song Of GIadness.
seriai-'rhe Grafters."
PAGE THREE.
Berea and Vicinity.
Take Notice.
Law and Order League.
College Items.
PAGE FOUR.
Comments.
New Football Rules.
What the Good wife Brings, by DIR. Hills,
ChiIdrens Department story Of Injun Joe
PAGE FIVE.
A New Years Resolution.
Sunday school Lesson.
News From Everywhere.
PAGE SIX.
The Home-Good Recipes.
The School-Look Ahead, by Prof. Dins.
more.
Eighth Kentucky History.
students ) ournaI.
Latest Market Reports.
PAGE SEVEN.
Review u 1905.
PAGEsEIGHT.
Eastern Kentucky Correspondence.
Starting "a school.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-02-17
Secretary Loeb.

1t is reported that Hon. William
Loeb. II. secretary to the president,
has been offered fine business posi-
ton in New York with dignitied SUN
as salary-much larger than he is now
receiving-and that he has decliQafl
with thanks Mr. Loeb is perhaps
wise III his day and generation and,
remembering Secretary COrtelyou'$ rap
id ascent, may hope for u cabinet
portfolio himself. which would greatly
enhanfe the value of his services after
quitting the cabinet, 1t may he. ANA
1t is always right 70 put the best pos
sible construction on 4 mans motives
and acts. that he is 50 faithful to his
chief and so enanored of him that for
that reason he will retain his present
position.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-02-17

said that Il baby's pink fingers that
pull down IL stone house. and | think
parents will quite agree with him.
Coats for small children can afford
but small protection to the lower por-
ton of the body, 50 the needfui he;l t
must be furnished by the warm draw
ers and leggings. The daintiest and
prettiest of Puritan hoods are made for
these little ones. with Russian caps for
the boys or tohoggan caps for ordinary
Dresses are not made so short as
they have been for two or three sea-
sons, and darker goods are provided
for even quite small children. PlatS
are in great demand. and Scotch fan
nels are useful and pretty. Small bat
tons and narrow. bright braid trim
them. Nearly all are high in the neck
and long of sleeve. though there are a
few gnilnpe suits shown.
Washable material and trimming are
preferred for everyday wear. The thin
washable silks are much liked for he t
frocks, and they are garnished With
Misunderstanding oftener than with any
thing else. There is something pc
culiaciy dainty and suitable i'll this
pretty hand work. Lengthwise tucks
form q good portion of the ornamental
ton of the dresses for girls of all ages
Cashmere. chevio:. cravenette and
many other wooden stuffs are all seen
made up into neat and simple dresSe;
for young girls from ten to fifteen
years. but the keynote of them all is
good sense. neatness and quiet taste
Underwear for young girls and boys
is for comfort and health. with all
weight han ing from the shoulders.
There are several kinds Of underwaists,
all calculat to keep the chest out
the shoulder blad~; in and to Distribute
the weight Of all the undergarmentS
and the hose equally. This has obtain
ell for sever years until now rounu
s.louldered girl is never seen. The
wearing of snug and warm unGergar-
ments makes heavy skirts unnecessary
Hats for tie growing girls" are eX
ceedingly simple when for school o.
every day. rhiie those for church CT
other dressy wear may be as ornate as
one may Wi h..
The coats follow the same general
style of those of their mothers. and
special attention IS paid to pretty
gloves and sensible shoes
OLIVE HARPER
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-02-17
SHERIFF'S SALE.

No. Io,934-In First Judicial DISTRICT
Court of Caddo Parish, Louisiana
The Victoria Lumber Company Linz
tied VS.. John Arthur.
BY virtue of a writ of seizure and sale,
to ME issued i'll the above entitled and
numbered suit, by the Honorable First
Judicial District Court of Caddo Parish,
Louisiana, have seized and will offer
for sale, at public auction, for cash, with
out the benefit of apprasement, at the
principal front door fthe court house
of Caddo Parish, in the City of Shreve-
port, La, during the legal hours for
sales, OH
SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1907.
Lots No. twenty-one (2I) and twenty
two (22) of block A of ten-acre lotYNo
thirty-five (35) of the City of Shreve-
port La, with all buildings and I'M
provements thereon.
Said property seized as belonging to
the said defendant and to be sold to sat,
ifsy the debt specified in the said writ
i'll the sum of eight thousand five nun
bred dollars with s per cent per annum
interest on three thousand ($3.oooeo)
dollars from June 1, 1904, and like inter-
est on fifty-fve hundred (S5.5oooo) dol
lars from August 70, 1904, and all cost
of suit, including FIVE per cent on asid
sum and intercts as attorneys fees
s. y. ALEXANDER,
Coroner and Acting Sheriff of Caddo
Parish, Louisiana.
Caucasian, Jan 8, 1907.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-02-17
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But isn't this Republican Massachu
| sets wall for lower tariff the funnies
thing ever put in print since Mari
Twain, the most illuStrious NiSSOuriaI
now living-indeed the most famou
American man of letters-frst publish
ed The Jumping Frog of Calaverae
County," We who have been fleece
tor all these years to make a holiday
for the tariff barons-and, by the WAY
John Sherman bestowed that title upon
them-can extract some comfort to see
them squirm. Butting ones hea
against a stone wall has been synC
nym for stupidity for, 10, these many
years. but that is precisely what these
Republican, Massachusetts tariff revi-
sionists are doing. Uncle Joe, Aldrich
and the other stand patterS merely
laugh in their sleeves when they think
of it. Everybody knows that there i;
only one way known among men to Sc
cure tariff revision, and that is by
throwing the Republicans out neck
and crop and putting us in. And any
body who tries to hold with the hare
and run with the hounds by yelling for
tariff revision and at the same time
voting the Republican ticket simply
makes himself spectacle for gods
and men: that's all. Governor Guild
ct al. tried this performance at the
last session and We're treated with con
tnmely and scorn by the stand patters.
Another application to them for relief
is like going to q goats house for wool
They had fair warning. and if they
really want Il revision of the tariff why
didn't they send tariff revision Demo
Gratis instead of stand pat Republicans
to the next congress?
As long ago as Jan. ). 1906, | eX-
planned on the floor of the house to
Representative Augustus p. Gardner,
son-in-law to Senator Lodge, precisely
how they could secure the tariff revi-
sion which they want. and that is by
giving us of the south and west the
tariff revision that we want. | was
hammering his father-in-law's mystify-
ing plan for a maximum and minimum
tariff when Brother Gardner interrupt
ed me to know if | would favor free
hides-a New England fad-to which |
replied, Yes; so quick it will make
your head swim. provided the tariff is
taken off boots. shoes. harness and
other things made of leather" AS we
say out west, these Massachusetts Re-
publican tariff revisionists must walk
up to the lick log if they want relief.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-02-17
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o CHAMP
CLARK'S
. LETTER
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Especial Washington letter.


N ANY persons are puzzled b.!
fVH the strong hold which JOIN.
I'VE Lawrence Sullivan has upon
the popular imaginatisn In this
regard he reminds one of Napoleon.
John l.. is far and away the, most pop
slar pugilist that ever lived and the
greatest. If he had never zone up SO
frequently and SO enth.j sastically
against John Barleycorn. swhom II
man can conquer. Sullivan |ould have
held the worlds heavywel Eht cham
pionship till he was fiftys and then
could have retired as emeritus cham
pion. Talk about JeffrieS' guard.
which nobody can break down and
through, When in his prime Sullivan
would have broken the JeffrieS guard
by breaking the Jeffries arm if ned
be. But | did not start TO write Il
eulogy on Johns fistic ability. but to
account for his amazing and enduring
popularity and to draw Il lesson from
it which may be applied TO many Per
sons besides gladiators. The secret Of
the widespread affection for hiIu-foi
that is what the general feeling comes
to in his case. affection--is that he was
a square man. or. as he puts it. he
fought on the level That's John rs
Bhrasing of President Roosevelt's
square deal" Suily was simply Il
bruiser. but all the money now in cir
cuiation would not have induced him
to throw a fight" When he entered
the ring all men knew that he would
win if victory We're possible. That
was his idea of the ethics of pH@iiism
and CHALLENGED the admiration of many
good men who condemned pugilism in
toto IF men in all the walks of life
especially in public place-had as high
a code of ethics as Sullivan and always
were ION the level" what an imprsve-
ment there would be in this old world,
SO full OF strategy and spoil. Thou
sands of men have better headpieces
than 1.-The immortal Sully." but none
no. not one-has better rule of con-
duct than fighting on the level"