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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25
DRINK MAKES DEAD BEATS.
Results Of Investigation Of Business
Men OF creston, Va.

AZ Creston. la. the business Men
association for self protection has
made a list OF all the men who reside
In that city. They have classified these
on the basis OF willingness and ability
TO pay their bills. The results are a.
follows.
OF 100 men who pay their bills
promptly and regularly only three OF
them are drinking men. Out OF 100
men who do not pay their bills either
regularly OF promptly 81 Of them drink
ans only three % them are considered
total abstainers All Of those who are
on the blacklist not TO be trusted for
any sum whatever. 81 per cent. are
saloonkeepcrs. bartenders and regular
patrons Of the grog shop. Creston has
~ saloons. The railroad shops OF the
C., u. a. q. are located there. and about
So. 900 In wages from the railroad u
the sum Of the monthly expenditures.
The saloons do not have the patronage
OF the railroad men connected with
the rolling stock. but get much Of the
earnings OF the common laborers and
the shop men Creston would be com.
uerolally thousands OF dollars better
on each year were the saloons driven
uut.-Dial OF Progress
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25
A Bang. T,mp.r.nes RuIss.

4 leading bank OF Cleveland. O..
has adopted very stringent rule
against the use Of intoxicants BY Us
employees. When a man or boy en-.
tiers the service OF this institution be
Is required to sign an agreement that
he will not enter any place where IN
toxicating liquors are sold. 1t may
seem a hardship" said an Official o,
the bank In explanation OF their ac-
ton. TO prevent young man from
entering a hotel or restaurant a.
which he might 10 with the best Of
motives. but with this rnle agreed 70
on the part OF the employer and en-
forced ON the part OF the bank We feel
sure that an employe 10 not going e.
steal the banks money for the par.
pose OF spending & In improper
places. nor are the employees likely
10 form the acquaintance OF short
card gamblers or race track touts Ia
the dairy lunch rooms"
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25
WHAT THE row is ABOUT.
Washington Post Has the Right Ides
About Tariff Tangle.

Shrewdly and correctly the Wash
ington Post estimates the true in
wardness OF our tariff tangle With
Germany when II says;
Germany wants to sell her sugar
in our market IN competition with the
sugar trust. That IS what the row Is
about"
Undoubtedly the chief cause of irri-
tation has been the foolish decker
with Cuba. Prior 10 the time when
we elected to favor Cuban sugar by a
20 per cent. tariff reduction German
beet sugar came to this country at
the rate OF siO.0OO.000 a year. Di-
rectly following the conclusion OF the
reciprocity deal with Cuba our inn
ports OF German sugar fell to about
$4,000 a year. The refusal OF con
gress TO lower the duty on refined
sugar TO correspond with the reduc-
ton OF the tariff on Cuban raw sugar
was an especial offe1se 10 Germany.
The effect OF that refusal WAS to put
many millions OF dollars annually in
to the pocket of the sugar trust and
take many millions out OF the pockets
OF German sugar growers. From that
moment Germany began 20 study
how TO compel the United states to
give fair treatment 20 German eS-
ports OF sugar Result the high max
imum tariff with which Germany
threatens 20 discriminate against
American exports unless substantial
tarin concessions shall be grSated In
favor OF German exports. That Is
what the row Is about. The PJst Is
absolutely right In this view. All the
present trouble has grown out Il tho
chapter OF follies perpetrated In the
name OF Cuban reciprocity. Not alone
did that misguided move involve q
rank injustice to American growers
of sugar and tobacco. a trade balapce
loss OF $4,000. 600 year. and a loss
OF SIS 900 600 to $4,000. 900 n year In
revenues. but Il so angered Germany
by its gross fayoritlsm toward Cuban
sugar planters and the American
sugar trust that for nearly three
years the club OF German retaliation
and revenge has been shaken In the
face OF our government. The Cnbap
blunder lies at the root OF the present
situation. That Is what the row IL
about.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25
Gtglr JhralH Nrrhrh
hy 8ntl1 Srxra
BY MARY KENNEY o'sULLIvAN.

thing good cooks and
good and
and good husbands and all through life
In the industrial world comparatively factor where
for held She has yet adjusted
life her domestic habits She often takes
makesft until she shall marry and she irresponsible
does and the she demands for it, But though she this
greater than brother he guless
her Of dependence behind him for his fsne
something Of degradation in the idea Of dependence
nobility the idea of The individual
standpoint is in nv
opinion end equal with the who life from the
STANDPOINT
The know Of life in its daily routine the
highest ideals possible
by high standards of truth and equity within individual
Only and who have high standards the very
being will find equality and nobility the idea of these
standards develop possibilities Of his manhood and
woma the best possibilities of her woman
possibilities different in kind, but alike H. m H
n excellence and alike in helpfulness ~
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

'h!S!ali%pa5zzs
ATHLETES AND DRINK.
Feats Of Strength Are Best Done
Without Alcohol.

II Is because of the weakening e.
feet OF alcoholic liquors that men Ia
training for feats requiring great
strength do without alcohol. Ath
lotes, cricketers. footballers, swim
mers, all know that the man who
wants 90 last must avoid intoxicants
Drink has shortened the playing days
of thousands OF sportsmen and ath
leies.
Some Of the strongest men who
have ever lived have been. like sam
son. abstaincrs from strong drink.
Weston. the famous walker who
trampcd 5000 miles In 100 days; Han
lon, a champion oarsman; Capt
Webb. who swan across the English
channel: Mills. Holbeln. and other
cyclists; Frank Holmes. who recent
~ swan from Dover 20 within a
short distance OF the French coast,
Hackenschmidt. the great wrestler.
Tyldesley, the Lancashire cricketer.
the seven teetotal members OF the
Australian cricket team which came
TO this country In 1905; the members
of the New Zealand Rugby football,
team, most OF whom are both tee.
totalers and non-smokers. all 60 20
show that where strength OF muscle
Is required, abstinence Is best.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25
sobrie,y the Remedy.

1T is nearly always the man In
his prime. or the young. able-bodied
man. who bulks so largely among
the unemployed" asserts Mr.. Mercer.
secretary OF the Charity Organization
society OF Blackburn. England. In a
recent magazine article. lie states
that by far the greater portion who
applied to the local distress commit
tee last winter were in the prime of
life. and the same thing was notice
able among the applicants TO the cor
poration labor bureau. The opinion
of Mr.. Mercer Is that sobriety would
work wonders In helping TO provide
more employment.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25
Only az Per Cent.

The output of the German Steel syn
dictate during 1906. according to the
Iron and Steel Trades Review amount
ed to 100000 tons OF finished and
semi-finished products. As this guam
tity comes very near being equal to
the total output OF Germany. combi-
nation in that country may be said
to have reached degree of effective
ness not attained In the United States.
Despite the talk about trusts in the
United States, the greatest of the
steel concerns does not boast a great
err proportion of the country's output
than about as per cent.--San Fran.
cisco Chronicle.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

The Worlds Work obtains from the
last census the surprising fact that
among the working women OF the
United States there must be included
nearly 1900 stock raisers and drovers.
almost as many fishermen and oyster
men. and more than 1900 miners and
quarrymen. Also there are 1871 ma
sons, 1875 plumbers and filters, $40
watchmen and policemen, 1876 black.
smiths. 113 wood-choppers, 154 boat
men and sailors, 100 iumbermen, IS
carriage and hack drivers, 26 switch
men and yardmen. 81 brakemen, 6 ship
carpenters. n stevedores, is long
shoremen, 81 civil engineers and sur
veyors.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

In the great basin between the Rock
ies and the Sierra Nevadas lie the
ghosts of many dead lakes. Rivers
stiil flow down the dry edges Of these
one-time great reservoirs. and are
licked up by evaporation and the Chi
nook winds. OF all the lakes that
once lay there. only Great Salt lake,
Lake Tahoe and Bear lake are left.
The Southern Pacific rolls for los
miles across the bed Of what was
once Lake Lahontan, and passengers
gazing idly from the windows may see
the terraces and wrinkles in the crust
of the fossil lake which nature robbed
and defrauded Of its crystal treasures
ages ago.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

In the former douma last year there
were comparatively few young men
and many old ones. there being twice
MS many over so years of age as there
were under 30. Now the proportion is
almost exactly reversed. About one
fifth of the members are under 80,
while one-tenth are over so. Between
those ages the majority are nearer the
younger than the older figure, 40 per
cent. being between 80 and 40, while
only 80 per cent. are between 40 and
80. Analysed by classes or parties,
the moujik, or peasant members are
the youngest of all and the reaction
aries are the oldest.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

Uncle SAM chip one tariff.
GERMANY raise you with my
double tariff.
France double that raise with a
cottonseed oil tariff advanced from
sl20 TO s. per kilo 1870 pounds.
John Bull pass for the present.
Just now I've got nothing but no-tar-
IN chips. Perhaps Ill be better fixed
one of these days.
Uncle Sam-Hadn't we better post
pone this game a few months? When
my congress meets next December
and passes the McCleary bill III be
ready TO see both OF your raises and
call both bluffs with a maximum tar
in OF my own.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

Australia is arranging 10 establish
q two-cent rate of postage on letters
mot only throughout Australia but with
all parts Of the British empire and all
foreign countries that will deliver two
cent letters from Australia. The time
is coming when two-cent. ocean post
age will be the universal rule.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

1t is Prof. Henry A. Sill Of Cornell
who has found classical justification
of the slang expression "23" in Plu-
tarchs account of the assassination of
Julius Caesar, where it is recorded
that the cause of his farewell was %
wounds inflicted by the senatorial con
spirators. Some may think that this
IA silly.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

Lord walsingham, acknowledged TO
be the finest shot in England, is prob
ably the only man in the world whose
aim is so accurate that he can shoot
wasps on the wing. He is also an &C
complished writer, one of the first en-
fomologists of the day, a fellow OF
many learned societies and owner of
the finest collection OF moths and but
terfiies In the world.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

Once in awhile foreigner MAKES a
really sapient remark. concerning the
observations he has made ~ this coun.
try. An Austrian aTtis.. for whom
President Roosevelt sat" declared
that the president is ideally American
because he could not keep him still.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25
Move for canteen.

A movement is on foot among the
women OF Washington for the restor-
alton of the army canteen which was
banished few years ago at the In
stance OF the w. c. r. u. and other
temperance organizations throughout
the union.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

Mile. Andre Corthis, still young
woman, whose poems in the volume
entitled "Gemmes ct Moires' have won
high praise. has been chosen poet
laureate OF France for the year passed.
The honor is one conferred annually
by a vote of eminent literary people
on the most distinguished poet of the
year.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

Secretary OF Agriculture Wilson
says the prosperity of the United
States cannot be destroyed by Wall
street fiurries. The people throughout
the country are clearly OF the same
opinion.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

Premier Campbell Zimmerman says
the British house of lords will be re
formed. Owing to the fact that the
lords will have to vote in favor Of
reformation before IL can be
achieved. there are strong reasons for
believing that the premier is merely
guessing.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

IL is estimated that more than
100000 hares are shipped from Maine
every year and as many more used as
food within the state. Notwithstand-
ing this, and the fact that thousands
of hares are devoured every year by
beasts and birds of prey, this small
animal continues to increase.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25
A1f-z@4<::.

One great lesson, one
hopeful sign, can be
drawn from painful if
Dramatic scenes enacted
during the past few
weeks in local court
rooms. II has been es-
tablished that mother
hood remains sacred in
tie public mind. With
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25
prrntaitrtt 5ttlarrrr nf tllr
.Thratrr Apnn 11lay 6nrra
BY PROF. BRANDER MATTHEWS.
OF Columbia University.

One Of the best ways TO test the permanent effect
of the theater the public is to note the verdics of
playgoers the productions of a season or two The
successful play is the popular play, per When the
people stop going to it the performances In
this connection it is interesting to know that all the
great drGmatists Shakespeare and Moliere, first
wrote for the theater as a commercial propostiono
please and amuse the public After they obtained
ognition the finer things that were in them finally and
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-04-25

Women are individuals
as well as men, and they
possess individual tai
ents, energies and capa-
bilities as well as men.
1t is, on the face of it,
absurd to assume that be-
cause one-half Of the hui
man race are women they
must all do the same
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-14
AN IDAHO ISLANDER.
ESSAY CAIGH.

AS many as half dozen people,
perhaps a few more, have seen
weekly publication recently estab-
lished at Boise, Idaho, and called the
Scimitar. A greater number have
heard or read of it, because its proto-
types in this city have made mention
of it and once or twice have copied
from its columns. The field which
the Idaho heminaiy seeks to cover
was so thoroughly filled previously
by one or two similar things issued
in that state, supplemented by the
Salt Lake Tribune, that there was re-
ally not much wind on tap with
which to spread the sails of the new
venture; and it is shrewd guess that
it will find mighty poor picking in the
line of patronage for similar reasons.
The editor, or nominal editor, OF
the Scmitar is Fred T. Dubois, a man
whom some people have mistakenly
referred to. as the Tom Kearns Of
Idaho. There is not much similar
ity between the men,, except in the.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-14

and who are presumed to have some
little judgment of men and things
hereabout, are prone to look at it this
way: While it is not necessarily to
an incomer's disadvantage that he is
an alien to Our shores, Our customs
and our tongue, so is it not necessarily
to the all-along residents advantage.
All are given the benefit of the doubt
and treated with as much considera-
ton as their department warrants,
even though coming with no thought
or purpose of adding one cent to the
country's prosperity or one square
foot to its cultivated area; nor does
the contrary fact that their only pur-
pose is gain-the getting of sub
stance and comfort here which is de.
MED them at home-interfere with
the national hospitality which meets
them at the ships landing and ac-
companies them right along until
they forfeit their right to it. But
among their privileges is not the ex-
clusively American one of butting in.
No matter that here or elsewhere are
conditions and circumstances which
the homemade mischief purveyor and
incurable scandal-monge continually
magnify and pass around through the
country, it is not the province of the
shekel- seeking alien to take a hand.
Let him look on and enjoy the repul-
sive skeleton dance which is kept go
ing on here ad nauseum (thcse words
are not Greek, they are Latin) if
they will but their words of approval
or disapproval one way or another
are not wanted and they had better
keep their hands off if they want to
keep the same in working order.
AS for Reed Smoot-well, after
what he has passed through and sur
vived it is hardly worth while for even
as noisome an insect as the Macedon-
ian tumblebug to toss its peculiar pro-
duct in his direction. What matters
it if he does get the best of others
on mining deals and other such means
of legalzed plundering? There is
sovereign remedy-Don't deal with
him.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-14
A GREEK ERUPTION.
A Gift-Bearer Without Gifts Says
Something.

Greece is one of the many cradles
of poetry and art, the rocking of
which has produced more or less
swaying throughout the terrestrial
orb. It's history is interviewer with
the classics, the beautiful and the
heroic in real life having descended.
to modern times through song and
story, along with much that was I'M
real, fictitious, NEUROLOGICAL but all
indicative of the grand, the enter
prsing and the beautiful in life. Who
that has not heard of Helen of Troy,
who raised the first syllable of her
name with young sport named
Paris? And there was that irresis
tible young masher and later explor
or, Jason, who had the scandalous af-
fair with Medea that was in all
the papers of that day, and subse-
quently went on prospecting expe-
dition at the head of lot of toughs
calling themselves Argonauts - he
was one OF the choice spirits of that
favored land. In more modern times
the maid of Athens (Greece) has
been regular enchantress, a sort of
Lorele whose siren songs have lured
young Greecers to destruction. Lord
Byron got after her once, but had no
sooner got his muse properly tuned
up than he turned and fled, his lay
running
Maid of Athens, we must part,
Because | hean the bulldog bark.
A great place is Greece, ancient or
modern, in song or story, in the fry
ing pan or elsewhere.
Well, we have here in Zion a whole
lot of the offspring of that historic
land. Among them is an editor and
some Others more fortunate. They
have a paper here named "Ergatis,"
and it looks it. This paper captures
and materialzes the divine afflatus
which escapes from the brain tissues
of the said opinion moulder. To
show that he and it are in no sense
behind the times, recent issue has
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-14
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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-14

TIC tdluy, Dul TIE Tall Oh the process
sion is counted better than no part
of it at all, evidently The Pelopon-
nesian emanation has taken exception
apparently, to what Reed lately said
about his (the Creek countrymen
sending all their spare earnings back
to home and mother, a proceeding
hardly as reprehensble as some 9TH
ers which many of them are known
to engage in, and he thereupon pro-
ceeds to demolish the senator in the
following style, handed down perhaps
from the school of Hon. Marco b.
zarris
"This is the same Smoot who is an
apostle of the Mormon church-onc
of the most gigantic grating institu-
tions ever devised by the genius of
man, and whose polygamous faith
has probably done more by way of
example for the pollution of Ameri-
can morals than any other single in
huence-and this same Smoot is
member of an idle priesthood, con-
sisting of an even dozen leeches called
apostles, who receive 1.-THE from
the product of the labor of the mem
bers of that institution. No wonder
he complains at the falling off of lab
or ON the part of the tithe-payers-
which is his real complaint. He pro-
fesses alarm at the speculative ten
denotes of the Americans, but if we
are correctly advised, he and his as
sociates during the past year have
hoated innumerable wildcat mining
ventures in Utah and Nevada and
have gathered in large sums from
punches of festive suckers who pos
sessed like speculative mania. 1t
is we'll known that he is not a member
of the working class and also that
portion of the great fortune he owns
has been cnched out of the specu-
lative public"
And then some, for this modern
renaissance of the Odyssey endeth
not here, but the rest, like the cor
responding portion of cats tail, is
similar.
How fortunate that that son of
Greece Cor something) permitted his
wandering footsteps to cease their
westward march here in this dugout
of the Rockies, where his talents
amount veritably to the long-felt want
no longer missed! True, others have
sung forI long time the same old
song that he sings, but in less rhy-
thm:c words and to the accompani-
ment of less tuneful Tyre. Who
among us that have heard with min
gled incredulity and ridicule of the
awful land piracies of the Mormon
church that can now afford to longer
buck against the irresistible? We,
who have had Our pockets rifled and
our very raiment spirited away by
these modern Saracens of the Rockies
nigh, (by reason of the smallness of
the plumber, probably have remained
in ignorance of our situation had not