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Middletown transcript., 1907-06-01
TELEPHONE COMBINE

A plan is on foot to combine into 'one
monster organization the independent
telephone companies throughout the
United States. The matter is to be
brought up for consideration at the meet
ing Of the International Telephone Asso-
citation to be held in Chicago early next
month. There are independent telephone
associations in thirty states with approxi-
mately $3.50, 600, 600 invested.
The delegates at the gathering are to
urge unified toll system service for their
customers. Canada alone is expected to
send 150 delegates to the convention.
The last year has been the most prosper
GUS one in the history Of the independent
companies. Among the larger cities fran
chises were granted to the Independents
in such cities as Denver, Omaha and Mil
waukee, while in Boston and Providence
the Independents were admitted.
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MACHINES TO SELL STAMPS
Postoffice Department to Test Vending
Apparatus

WASHINGTON, May 27th.-Postmaster-
General has decided to have exhaustive
tests made of several types of automatic
stamp-vending machines adapted to re.
ceive our one-cent and five-cent pieces for
the purchase Of one-cent and fve-cent
stamps and postal cards. Two years ago
experiments were made of such devices
by the Postofice department, but the
committee of experts reported that the
machines were crude.
The Postmaster-Ge General says: "While
department stores, hotels, drug stores,
newstands, etc.; usually want the priv
ilege of selling stamps, there is certainly
no great amount of zeal or alacrity dis
played by the persons vending the
stamps. The purchaser at times feels
that he should apologize for imposing
upon the seller, because there is no direct
profit in the same, the privilege of selling
stamps being desirable for the purpose of
attracting other custom. Stamp-vending
machines in such places would be OF
great convenience to the public and no
inconvenience to the proprietor Of a de-
partment store, drug store or newsstand,
who might be glad to have the business
done by machinery instead of being COM
PEELED to give personal attention to stamp
sales.
If the machines which the Department
has in mind should prove satisfactory, it
is probable that many such places of
business will put them in at their own
expense. They could be installed also on
regular trains, in railway stations, public
buildings and other places For the pur-
pose of tests the department will locate
the machines at various points in the
country.
In the meantime the department is
watching with much interest the outcome
of the report that stamp-selling appara-
fuses are soon to be adopted by the Ger
man authorities. The great difficulty in
this country, however, is that we have no
coin which is the equivalent of the two
cent stamp. Therefore it will be neces-
Sary to use two one-cent stamps for letter
postage, The devices thus far observed
are operated by machinery set in motion |
by the insertion Of coin in a slot, caus-
ing a single stamp to project and prevent
ing the delivery of more than one stamp |
at time.
Middletown transcript., 1907-06-01
BOYS THAT SMOKE CIGARETTES
Four Reasons Why Business Man Will
Not Employ Them

Not Employ Them
Only within the last score of years have
the pernicious effects of cigarette smoking
been fully appreciated. To-day, insurance
companies, banks, railroad companies, the
q. S. Weather Bureau, and hundreds Of
other business organizations will not en-
ploY man or boy who uses cigarettes.
Speaking short time ago, an employer
OF skilled labor said: 'I will not employ
cigarette smoker in any department of
my business, and my reasons are not
ethical, but strictly commercial. These
are four of them:
"First. A cigarette smoker cannot be
depended upon. This has been proved
hundreds of times in hundreds of ways.
In an examination into the cases of fifty
men who failed at critical conjunctures, 1
have found that forty-three used cigar
cites. The poisonous nicotine drawn
into the lungs is carried by the blood to
the brain, where it has the effect of stul-
tifying mental activity. 1t renders the
memory unreliable, and SO dulls the
reason faculties that the man cannot act
quickly in an emergency.
Second. The breath of cigarette
smoker is offensive. 1t is unpleasant to
his associates and also poisonous. Every
pore in confirmed cigarette smokers
body exudes filth, which the nicotine and
arsenic of the cigarette have generated.
An employe whose habits are offensive is
not only disliked by the other members
of the Office staff but is also the means of
driving customers away. The buyer these
days expects to be treated with great con-
sideration-if he isn't, he simply goes
somewhere else to make his purchases.
'sThird, I always question the morality
of cigarette smoker, for 1 have found
that birds OF a feather flock together
and that cigarette smokers are generally
found around pool halls, saloons, tobacco
shops and brothels. While a man may
smoke cigarettes and not be frequenter
of these places, he is classed with those
that do, and SO have always felt that 1
could not trust my business to one who
was regarded in his community as belong
ing to the disreput lble class.
Fourth. would not employ a cigar
cite smoker in my office or factory, be-
cause my term of service would be short.
A boy cuts his years of usefulness in half
when he begins the use of the poisonous
coffin nail,' for know of nothing that SO
quickly saps the vitality of vigorous
young man as the deadly cigarette.
= "These reasons have always seemed to
me sufficient grounds for my refusal to
employ cigarette smokers.
What an Indictment! Will the boy
who reads these lines permit his body to
be polluted, his morals contaminated and
his hope of developing into strong, ac-
tive, useful man blighted by the use of
the filthy cigarette? Will the boy who has
already started on the downward career
permit himself to be carried without pro-
test into the lowest depths Of degradation?
Boys, brace up; be men; quit sneaking
into the alley behind the billboards or
into the hayloft of the unused barn, to
crafty your tastes for nasty weed that
will inevitably work your financial, physi-
cal, mental and moral destruction. Boys,
brace up; be men.
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WAR ON POSTAL RATES

Plans for the inauguration Of a national
campaign to effect a reduction of the
present two cent rate for first class postage
to one cent were discussed at the meeting
of the executive committee ofthe National
Hardware Association in Philadelphia.
It was pointed out that the cost Of
collecting, sending and delivering letter
averages about three quarters Of cent
and that the Government is unreasonable
in charging two cents for this service.
After lengthy discussion Of the sub
iect it was decided to begin vigorous
campaign in behalf Of one cent postal
rate, and every prominent manufacturing
and business association in the country
will be asked to join in petition to Con-
gress for the reduction.
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ABOUT SPECIAL DELIVERY LETTERS

People who send special delivery letters
are liable to notice something about an
order from the Post Office Department.
that ordinary stamps are sufficient and
mail their letters without the distinctive
stamp. They should read more carefully
and learn that the new law does not go
into operation till July /. AS soon as
Congress passed the law allowing ordi-
nary stamps to be used in paying the fees
for special delivery. people began to act
as ifit had gone into immediate operation
to the considerable annoyance Of them
selves and their friends and the postal
officials. The law has not yet gone into
effect, but it will in six weeks.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-22

collects their heads and hides aud
measures their exterior proportions
who is he to write, I don't believe for
a minute that some OF these nature
writer's know the heart OF the wild
things? AS to that, | find after care
fully reading two Of his big books that
every time Mr.. Roosevelt gets near the
heart of wild thing he invariably
puts bullet through It. From his
own records I have reckoued a fun
thousand hearts which he has known
thus intimately. In one chapter alone
! find that he violently gained knowl-
edge OF eleven noble elk hearts in a
few days, and he tells us that this was
n type of many such hunts IN others
he says he has been much more sue
CcSsful and often far eNccled these
figures. Mr.. Roosevelt certainly knows
the hearts Of the wild things one ma
ture writer whom he condemns has
watched and followed animals for
years. thinking that he could under
stand these wild hearts better II he
left them beating warmly under their
own soft skins. and he still rerversely
clings to his delusion
Mr. Roosevelt never gets near
enough 10 animals of the forest TO
know anything about them. You stop
200 yards away To shoot deer
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calculated to convince the world that
DR.. Long, after his own trenchant fash
ion, is capable OF maintaining his side
OF the argument. IL is also the species
of defense that adds generously TO the
enjoyment of the general public. More
over, It Is not at all unlikely that its
unconscious humor is recognized and
appreciated even by the victim him
self. The kaiser now declares that he
has never been aught but nightly
tickled over "Hoch der Kaiser" and
the president is quite as fond OF a joke
as is the German emperor.
DR.. Long does not complain of the
presidents incredulity. He even con-
fesses that he has shared it on various
occasions. He says:
IT was myself incredulous about
jumping trout. You know you often
see fishing pictures in which the trout
Is represented as leaping out of the
water Now, | knew Of no evidence
that the trout had this habit. ] had
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Encredihle! PrepoSterous!

man ot science he declared without
reservation in Everybody's Magazine.
civilian j. Long is perhaps the
worst Of these nature writing Offend
ers. It is his stories, am told. that
have been put in part. into many II
the public schools OF the country IN
order that from them the children NAV
get the truths of wild animal life The
preservation of the useful and bcautl-
full animal and bird life OF the country
depends largely upon creating AN in
terest IN the life Of the woods and
fields. If the child mind Is fed with
stories that are false to nature the
children win so to the haunts of the
animal only to meet with disappoint-
ment.'
This Is language to be undcrstanded
Of the people, but to mako 1t even less
subject to inisiutcrpretation the presi-
dent cited specific instances OF lack Of
discrimination between fiction and the
naked truth on the part Of several
popular writer's OF nature literature.
among them Jack London. Professor
Charles q. ID Roberts and tho interest
ing Ernest Thompson Seton himself
An Able Apoosist.
Every one of these lights in popular
scientific research was fully capable Of
defending himself. United they form
ed battery of scientific fact that
would have annihiated a less heroic
enemy. rs was III and to he expected.
since he had most at stake in the mat
ter, the president having singled him
ont as premier offender. DR.. Long was
first to break the awful silence that fell
ar,,s1
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The Man Who Wrote my Country IT'S of Ttee"
Movement to Convert His Home Into Memorial

Smith. The president OF the associa-
tion which viii be charged with the
duty OF preserving the poets home Is
the Hon. J, r. Lesson and the secretary,
TO whom contributions may be sent, Is
d. c. Heath, 100 Boylston street. Bos-
ton. 1t is hoped that great many
small contributions may be made, those
of % cents being especially requested,
so that the movement may meet with
success through the help of liberty
lovers the country over. In no way
could the patriotic services Of the au-
thor OF america" be more itly COM
memorated than by thus maintaining
for visitation by generations to come
the edifce which Is insepnraby linked
with his long life OF Christian work and
patriotic achievement
EDWARD HALE BRUSH.
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mIrabIe type of the New England
patriotic citizenship which has done
so much TO make the republic what
1t is.
DR.. Smith published several works.
both in prose and verse. One Of the
latest is his book describing mis- visits 10
missionary stations in foreign lands
shortly after his death movement
was started for the purchase and
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acmas; in Scotland they are Candle
mas. Whitsun, l.ammas and Martin
mas
I'm Britain 3S,5ts persons make stock
lngs for themselves and their foreign
customers.
Gladstono's home rule bill was re-
iecled by the commons by St3 10 3lS
votes.
While March is one Of the driest
'r rff ~ ''o o1"f ~ lfr"land ~ '0 o"N
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" HAVE never published anything
d regarding the ways Of a bird or
q of an animal which | have not


"T HAVE never published anything
n regarding the ways of a bird or
of an animal which ! have not
H. rnnrr,,sd .n,,,soIf ~, ,y,icb has
not hoen r,,,e,.t,nJ h,. - hunter ar
mid, whose -st,tor,c,ts a,e entirclv
o. he ,1a,ta,,rod ,,,,,,, h,vo of,on
Loo, .,bti.,,l -. ,.',jt ,'r.,,.,, enr ,rerinc..
,,n,' XXI, ,n ~, .,,,,,,,n,,t.. ba,e no.
,,,,',joJ ,,,.r'. ~ -. ,,.,ich b,>o
nat ,t..ral -, m,.,,,, i,a,..,,,.,. had nat
r,,ir,. 1,,,,,,,,.i ~, y,
-.Iosc ,,'o,',. ,,,o,, sno,.o,, h,, M. WI.
liam n Ionc fon,, vosrs 400 Auropos
~ praetden, pcosovclt,s recent ar
raignment Of this naturalist in a maga-
zine, charging him with drawing the
long bow mixing fiction ana the facts
OF nature with little regard for the lat
ter, II is evident that the president Is
not the first doubter who has mad the
courage to profess skepicism in regard
to the marvellous tales related IN the
nature study books. IT is evident also
that Or, Long has been on the deteh-
sivo for number of years
II is true that most of us accept rec
ords Of animal Intelligence with the
most childlike faith Acts that seem
well nigh Impossible under the tull OPP
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student and his work in the spread OF
the gospel being in harmony A. "a
scholar his attainmouts were really
wonderful IL acquired familiarity
with no less than fifteen languages.
Even as a boy at the Latin sch ool IN
Boston he committed 10 memory all The
"Eclogues' OF Virgil and odes OF Hor-
ace in Latin and The odes of Anacreon
in Greek. Later at Harvard he was
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-22

of the wettest In tho southwestern
counties Of Devon ana Cornwall
Washington is practically The only
capital city in the world which has no
slums. Berlin has none OF tho squalld
areas which disgrace London
Holland has 10 200 windmills, which
exercise an aggregate power equal 10
thai OF $4,000 horses, Tho area drained
by each mill is on an average of $40
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HERE AND THERE.

duced by ono-tenth each year and all
those sill using opium in l9l7 WIN be
baniShrd
A japanese rs liable 10 military serv-
ice at the age ~ seventeen, bur he Is
rot enrolled until no N twenty except
in lime OF war
The people Of Greal Britain receive
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aud This was his second. His FIRST was
the Baptist church al W0toHIlle, Me-
lie was pastor thcro for eight years
aud was al tho samp tiue "a professor
Of ancient Language al what 's now
Colby university Ne waa ion some
years editor OF The Christian Review
and for hftgcn years hud charge OF me
publications Of the Baptist Missionary
union. Il WAS m this way lhal ie raino
10 travel 30 extensively, his tastes AZ q
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preservation Of his home, but 1t was
decided that $50 long as his widow lived
ana occupied The house II would not be
best 10 press a plan for it's conveyance
90 PATRIOTS society Recently the
matter was again taken up and an as
fpciation 90 carry out the objects OF
to Tho labors uf love OF Houll0 Carter
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Fun For Everybody.

the author think at the time he COM
posed the lines on at the time when the
fresh young voices OF the children sang
them ON the nations birthday that the
song would immortalize his name.
As poem the hymn MY Country.
It's Of Thee" is considered one Of the
most beautiful in the patriotic lltera-
turc Of any nation. It's author was a
man Of unusual poetic facility. and
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pulso rs more frequently eaten man
eny other ueawoed II IL usually dried
end oaten raw IN The Mediterranean.
where the plant rs commoh, II is cooked
Hna Is chief ingredient In tho ~
mons -. ra,ick's soup
ny a recent ediui the cultivation of
oplNm M china must cease entirely hy
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in feet by the length " the mldshlp
beam nnd that result by the depth.
Divide he product by o.
There are 100000 railway servants in
Great Britain Their average wages
are $685. a woek
the output of Transvaal gold AT pres
est averages over Sl0,000,0O0 pei
month
Law terms IN England and Ireland
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ODD sM1TH HoMEsTEAD AT NEWTON oENTER, MAss.

noted for his scholarship. lie was i'm
tine Same class at Harvard with Or
Oliver Wendell Holmes. hm OF 1929,
and il was Al one of the reunions ~
This elias. that ihe author ~ "The Au-
iocrat Of the Trcakfast Table" referred
TO him M the lines
And thoroH nice youngstor OF excellent
piih.
Fate luod 10 conceal him by naming him
Smith
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W T will b. seventy-fve years on the
n Fourth Of July next since the
II hymn beginning My Country TITS
OF Thee and generally known as
america" was first sung. II Is now
nearly dozen years since its author,
The Rev Dr samuel Francis Smith.
was gathered To his fathers. America"
is commonly regarded as the national
hymn of he republic. the beautiful
composition by Francis Scott Key call
ed "1hc star Spansled Banner being
ranked ass our national anthem The
latter Is no; Of q sacred character. and
The two compositions perha ps enjoy IN
their different fields about equal popu-
lar'ity, NOt long ago a movement was
started 10 preserve the old home Of the
author OF "America' "a Newton Cen
ter Mass, and 10 make IL a shrine
where souvenirs connected with the
poet whose words have so often stirred
patriotic emotions may be gathered
and viewed by coming generations.
" p
Or Smiths widow survived him sew
eral years Now that She is gone the
members oi The family who remain
would Ike 20 see The house which shell
tered The gentle poet and divine be-
come the property OF a society pledged
TO maintain a. whatever may happen
90 his. descendants An association has
been formed with this end In view and
muny subscriptions 70 The project have
already been obtained The house con-
tR!ns many things which are interest
ing from Iheir associations with IFS
former owner and many rare specimens
witch Dr. Smith collected In The course
~ his extensive travels In foreign
lands
Newton Center was Or Smiths home
For forty years though be was often
absent from It on mis- Journeys in the
Interos, Of Christian missions and
when ne returned from these travels
10 the modest but comfortable appear
ing huusc, with It's ample ana wen kcpt
Grounds typical New England home
Hs heart seemed 10 glow with pptti-
otle emotion which often fouud Nont in
vetso, Dr Smith Wus "a lover nj ma
ture, as might be- SnoYn from his
"Amefea' and Other hymns and poems.
luye tbs iocbs and rills
Thy woods aId tempted bills.
Was the uttorancc 90 man whose
hcart iid indeed with rapture thrill AZ
thought Of lho scenery OF his native
land beautiful in Itself and rendered
dolbly doal ny association with grand
ana Inspiring ideals OF life The house
at Newton Ccntor ~ frame dwelling
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ashed in half the trout streams from
Labrador down to the south coast Of
Connecticut, and / had never seen
trout jump. Bass and salmon, yes;
trout never. But one day was canoe-
ing through a Maine swamp and / OBJ
served that we were passing over the
channel of cool, clear stream. MY
guide laughed at me, but ! began to
whip the water. Sure enough trout be-
gan to rise. | took twenty within
very short while. and of tho twenty
eleven jumped"
The doctor admits that he tells some
wonderful Stories but he Is careful to-
point out the fact that one may do
that without becoming at the same time
an incorrigible liar
1T is true" he says that 1 tell some
stories about wild animals that are
surprising. / dare say there are thou
sands of still more surprising things I
have not seen and do not tell. There
are many incidents in my notebooks
which ] should not care 10 publish.
saw them. There is no mistake
about them. But they would seem SO
extraordinary to the average reader
that I prefer to wait until | have the
corroborating testimony of another obs
server. 1t Is constantly happening that
these extraordinary stories are re-
leased so to speak. by the circum-
stance that friend sees the same or a
very similar incident"
A Final Thrust.
After answering each one of Mr..
Roosevelts specific charges in detail,
giving whatever corroborative proof he
has at hand. the aggreved naturalist
clinches his clever and very readable
"apologia pro vita sua' as follows
at is a beautiful morning said the
Englishman. 1t Is a heavenly morn-
ing, Come, let us go out and kill some-
thing That Is the idea Of Mr. Roose-
welt, and that is the idea the entertain-
ing Of which makes impossible the un-
derstanding OF such work as am try-
ing to do. If 1t is charged that / do
not understand nature as Mr.. RoOse-
welt does. l stand UP and plead guilty:
yes. guilty in every page every para
graph, every sentence. If my little
books have done anything to undo the
spirit of this mans work and make IL
regrettable. | am well content to have
written them. Indeed, the fact that
they have shown. by contrast not by
criticism, the crudeness of his primitive
views and have helped to bring new
spirit of gentleness and sympathy into
our study OF animal life is perhaps the
chief reason for his antagonism'
BENJAMIN STILLSON.
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that sponGos are found occasionally on
English coasts, There are several
soiis. They are often found ON the
lower tmbeIs Of old piers
The Slmpl1n tunnel has cut the
length Of TIE journey from Paris 10
Milan hy an houI aud half
OF the population of The rtansyaal
only 70 IN 100 are white people.
A vessels tonnage s found lhusi
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But he shouted a song for the brave and
the free
Just read on his medal. MY Country OF
Thee
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u was In Boston in the year 1905
that Or Smith was born, and he died
at the ripe old age OF eighty seven in
the house at Newton. Center which
was for so many years his home sur
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Not far away is the church over
which the poet was once settled as
pastor He held but two pastoratcs,
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surrounded by trees and broad lawn.
Dr. Smith fllcd it with objects of az
tistic and historic value brought from
India, China. Ccylon. Burma and from
many countries of Europe.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-25

Camera Craft Is fascinating. Let us elucidate that point to you at the Bis bee Drug Store.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-25

"uENat is viler than the smell of liouor?" ssks W. c. T. U. delegate How about limburger?