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organization of business men and sMppers, hailing from every state ana territory in the Union, has finally succeeded in awakening the American people, and through them the Con Sress of the United States, to the cry ing necessity existing for added means Of transportation to handle the coun- try's growing commerce and to sun- pIement the oyercroWded railroad lines To keep up this interest and
 strengthen the organizations and boards apointed by the President, the National Rivers & Harbors Coneress is making renewed efforts to increase its already large membership. Cap- tain j. r. Ellison, it's secretary. is eall- ing to the attention of such indiyid- uals and shippers as the interested in the problem, but who are not vet members, the fact that the member ship fees are very low, and urging taem to join and lend their moral support to the work.
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Prominent among the supporters of the movement for making the George Washington University a great national institution in which special attention will be paid to advanced scientific research, are two of the men whose inventive genius has contributed to make possible what has been aptly termed ''the most indispensable of modern utilities telephone. Alexan- der Graham Bell. whose patans granted on Febru ny 14, 1876, was the beginning of modern telephony
 and Tmile 1erliner, inventor of the loose contact telephone transmitter or microphone, and of several other parts of the telephonic apparatus. are both residents of Washington and have proved their interest in the effort to improve the educa- tional facilities of the national capital by subscribing to the uni yersity fund Dr. Bell, whose figure is familiar one in scientific circles here, recently celebrated his sixtieth birthday. Though not yet an old man, he has seen the inven- tion on which his reputation was formed become i'll generation business and household necessity one involving in thisc ountry alone the use of more than S,COO,Ooo telephone stations, between which upwards of 100000 messages are transmitted annually in the system bearing his name.
 Senator Long called at the navy department this week with an ap- peal from committee coming from his state to present to the new battleship Kansas a handsome sil- yer service. The Kansans were very anxious to take a short cruise on the big fighting craft and de- sired the promise of Secretary Met calf to make a voyage on the yes sel from Philadelphia to New York. The secretary was forced to refuse his permission because, in the first place, it is contrary to naval regu- lations, and tren there are no ac- commodations aboard the battle sh;n for civjlians The Kansans aro
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To one brief speech made in the presence of President Roosevelt Judge '. M, Rose Of Little Rock, Ark, owes the signal honor of being select ed as One of the United States dele- gates to the World Peace Congress which is to assemble for the second time at The Hague Judge Rose is now On his way to the Dutch capital. The speech that brought this distinc- ton to Judge Rose was made on the occasion of MT. R0sevelt's visit to the Southwest in 1905. While the speech was extremely brief the happiness of it's vein made up for that When Judge Rose sat down the President immedi ately asked that he be introduced per- sonally ID him and announced to some of his friends present that he hoped to be able to find some post in the Federal service that he might offer to the Arkansas jurist. Although Judge Rose is now nearly eighty years old lie accepted promptly the appointment as a member of the delegation to the congress that will seek to bring about worldwide peace.
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 ELECTION

Spartanburg, June 4.-Aocording to the directions of the city council today is the day for the primary in this city for the election of mayor and a board of aldermen. So far Mayor Flood is the only candi- date in the field for that office. There is an abundance of aspirHhts for the board of aldermen.
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LOCAL OPTION ELEC-
 TON IN VIRGINIA

Fredericksburg, Va., June 4.-In rsGponsc to petitions asking for an election to determine the question of selling or not selling liquor in Madison magisterial districts in Orange county, an election is being held today. The towns of Gordons- vile and Orange are located in this district.
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RACES AT
 DURANGO, COLORADO

Durango. Colo. June 4.-Horse- men are centering no small amount of interest in the race meet in this city. winch began today. It will continue three days. Some good horses are here. and a highly suc cessful meet is expected.
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there was much disappointment when Secretary Metealf's decision was made known.

There was wall from the state or Washington this week when ffanh Waterhouse, prominent steamship man of Seattle reached town. Ar. Waterhouse declares that his state is so short of labor that nearly all industries there are III a crippled condition. He de- clares that the people of Washing ton have no sympathy with the California agitation that has barred out the Japanese. His state, he says will welcome gladly the com Ing of Japanese immigrants, be- cause they are hard workers and can be utilized in all kinds of en- ployment. As a result of the San Francisco agitation the little brown men are flocking into Canada where they are being welcomed h, the Dominion government. The lack of labor has practically caused a shut down in the Washington mines. Because of this state of af- fairs coal is being imported from Wales, Australia and Japan and
 Mfr Waterhouse declares that un- less something is done the labor situation there will grow worse
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Senator Bourne of Oregon is hot on
 De trail of F. H. Hartman. With
 be excepi on Of the ubiquitous Mr.
 |everidge of Indiana, Senator Bourne
 probably the most persistent Visi-
 pr at the White House these days, but nth the exception that be actually has lusiness here. The Oregon statesman seeking to have the Administration 'egln procedings in the United States Pourts to compel the Southern Pacific load to open to settlement about three billion acres of land in Oregon. This Rnd Senator Bourne says, was grant Pd to the railroad by the government many years ago as bonus, and it vas given under the railroads solemn pledge that the land was. to be opened or settlement at $3 per acre. The original grant was for six million Icres, and the road disposed Of half of [, although it is said to have violated ts agreement by selling it ill parcels t $15 per acre and withholding from ettlement the best part of the proper y. It is undoubtedly being held as a latter of speculation, and much. of 1t know worth $100 an acre. The mat r will be thoroughly investigated.
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Among the graduates who will receive their diplomas this week from the Geor:e Washington Uni- Sersity, the institution that is now bending it's efforts toward taking place as the center of education in the western hemisphere, are a large number of students from the states of the middle west and west. Illinois probably has mere repre- seutatives than any other single state, Among them are H. C Hartley, c. H. Dewey, H. !. War aar, E. V. Cuppernell, Robert D. Acton, M. F Een%el. ". F. Henkel, w. E. Thompson and w. " B B Durant. Colorado also is well represented by Mildred w. Cochran, Claude J. Rem, w. l.. Ho"g. Harry Irion, R. D. Winburn aad J. Nj. Drisdale. Hugh s. Hitl is Wyoming's sole representative 2s is E. J. Lundy for Arkansas. Missouri is represented by T II Tomlin
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Members of the Inland Waterways
 Commission and others interested in
 Underway development are regarding
 with satisfaction the plans being com- Ipleted for an extended system of
 canals from Indiana Harbor to point between Gary and Michigan City. These canals are held necessary to the development of the steel and iron Industries lying just south of Chica- go, and to accommodate which the U. s. Steel Corporation undertook the building of town. The first surveys provide for waterways fifty miles in length, to cost $1O,00O,0o0 and engi- neers are already at work in the in- terest of New York, Pittsourg, Chica- go and Indianapolis capitalists, who VIII finance the plan. According to the advices received here the main chan Eael is to be 250 fet wide, with lateral cenals 200 feet in width. A uniform ueptA of A feet is to be had, and EMrnlng basins 800 feet in diameter Niil be constructed at intervals of two Aies. The work is mammoth one, ssAu0 1t is estimated that it will re m Nulre ten years to complete it. This gantic undertaking merely shows
 sae faith of American capitalists and
 business men in the ques- Essoa or waterways developments. and
 .ne great importance in this form of
 .nternal Improvements bears to the
 .u'ure prosperity of the country. This
 uoment is due in large measure to
 .. missionary work of the National
 ''vers and Harbors Congress. This
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Como Of the Leading WhoIssaIs and merit liberal share of your pat
 PINE BLUFF IRON WORKS

General Founders and Machlnlsts.
 8rass and tron CAsLluss aun hs chine Repairing. Stock of ai atAhn ard xDaltiS Htlf; CAAtilgY s.1r~,1u stock all the tine Locomotives ', gtnea aud Boilers Re2,a,re:i l.Jns 234. Pine Bluff, Arkansaa Note We operate our machine shop botk day and olxht
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05
FOUR DIE IN AUTO CRASH.
Motor Car Struck by Trolley Near
Canandaigua, N. Y.

Rochester, N. Y.-Dr. George Wald-
rcn, a physician of Rochester; Mrs.
Catherine Farnsworth, of Rochester,
and Mrs. William Scandling and Mrs.
Jane Hobbs, both of Hopewell, were
instantly killed Wednesday afternoon
in collision between an automobile
in which they were driving and a
Rochester & Eastern trolley car. near
Canandaigua.
DR.. Waldron went to Hopewell in the
morning with his daughter to visit at
the home of William Scandling, and
had taken the three women, all of
whom were more than 65 years of age,
for an automobile ride. They were
on their way to the Freshour crossing
to meet another friend of the Scand-
ling family. Witnesses of the accident
say that as the machine approached
the trolley tracks it was seen by the
motorman. According to them, the
motOrman made signal and DR.. Wal
dron slowed up. Then, apparently
thinking that he could cross before the
car reached him, he started on again.
1t is thought that the automobile did
not respond readily to the levers. 1t
was caught on the tracks and the oc-
cupants thrown with great force. The
bodies were frightfully crushed.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05
DROPS 1000 FEET; LIVES
STRANGE ESCAPE FROM DEATH
OF AERoNAUT MALoNEY.
Falls with His Balloon After Ascent
at 5arnstable, Mass.-GoV. Guild
Leads Rescuers.

Barnstable, Mass.-Nearly 5000 per-
sons at the Barnstable county fair
saw Professor Maloney, balloonist,
drop 1000 feet to earth, strike on top
of cedar fence post and escape prob
ably with his life.
Maloney made his ascent late
Thursday afternoon, and as the Wis
itors at the fair grounds gazed up
ward they saw that his attempts to
cut his parachute were fruitless. A
sharp easterly wind had blown the
rope which connects with the knife
amongst a mass of cords higher up
and out of reach of the balloonist.
For fully two miles Maloney floated
along. The gas was rapidly leaking
from the big bag above him, and he
prepared for the long drop. Maloney
and the balloon came earthward rap
idly. AS it neared the earth the canvas
fell about the body Of the aeronaut
and prevented him from seeing where
he was falling. He struck in a half
standing position on the top of a big
cedar post used by farmer to mark
off his field His back was terribly
torn and his left arm badly injured.
A long line of automobiles, headed
by one carrying Gov. Curtis Guild,
who was a visitor at the fair, rushed
to the spot where Maloney had fall
en-. The man was picked up in a semi
conscious condition and was hurried
to his hotel in Barnstable Center.
Physicians who attended him say that
he is not internally injured and will
recover.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05
NEBRASKA MOB LYNCHEs A MAN.
Hangs Laborer Who Killed Farmer
and Wife Last Spring.

Omaha, Neb. - Loris Higgins.
who murdered w. L. Copple, a
farmer, and his wife, near Rosalie,
Neb,, May 12, was lynched at Boncroft
Monday. Sheriff Young of Thurston
county came to Omaha Sunday night
to get his prisoner, who had been in
the Douglas county Jail here since his
capture, and took him to Bancroft on
a train which arrived there about
eight o'clock in the morning. Twen-
ty men took Higgins from the sheriff,
hauled him off in dray and'hung him
to tree.
Higgins crime was a wanton one.
He had worked on the Copple farm
and had some trivial dispute with Mr..
Copple. Anger over this is the only
suggestion of reason for the murder
of the farmer and his wife. He killed
both in the barnyard with a gun. He
was young man, and after his arrest
became radically religious participat-
ing in every service held at the Jail.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05
ReprehensibIe Habits.

One of the strangest paradoxes in
human nature is that men and women,
struggling apparently with all their
might to succeed, are yet constantly
doing things, saying things, and think
ing things which drive the very sue
cess they are after away from them
They are all the time counteracting
their efforts by some indiscretion
Men work like Trojans to get a COW
eted position, and then, by getting
pulled up with conceit, or by some
foolish or weak act, knock the scat
folding, which they have been years
IN building, out from under them, and
down they go. Their lives are a series
OF successive climbs and tumbles, so
that they never get anywhere never
accomplish anything worth while.
There are thousands of men who are
working in very ordinary salaried po-
sitions, says New York Weekly,
who might have been employers them
selves but for some unfortunate weak
ness, some little deficiency in their
natures, or some peculiarity-some-
thing which might have been rene
died by a little discipline and self
study in youth. Others are always
driving success away from them by
their doubts, their fears, their lack of
courage, their lack of confidence
driving it away by reprehensible hab-
its which repel success conditions.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05
PRESCRIPTIONS IN LATIN.
The Public Should Have Them Trans
lated by the Druggists.

What virtue is there in the secrecy
with which the doctor hedges about
his profession?
Professional etiquette" occupies a
prominent place in the curriculum of
every medical school, and when strict
ly analysed professional etiquette"
seems to mean doing what is best for
the doctor, individually and COL
lectively."
Among the things that 'is best for
the doctor" is the writing of his pre-
scriptions in Latin, and thus keeping
the public in ignorance not only of
what it is taking for it's ills, but fore
ing call upon the doctor each time
a prescription is needed
In plain and unmistakable English
the writing of prescriptions in Latin
makes business for the doctors.
Let us say that you have the ague.
You had it last year and the year be-
fore. Each time you have visited the
doctor and he has prescribed for You
in Latin. You have never known
what he has given you for the disease,
and so each time you are forced to go
to him again and give him an oppor-
tunity to repeat his prescription-in
Latin, and his fee-in dollars.
If you ask the doctor why he uses,
Latin in writing his prescriptions, why
he writes aqua" when he means wa
ter, he will give you a technical dis
sertation on the purity of the Latin.
language, and the fact that all words;
are derived from it, etc. 1t will be a
dissertation that you may not be able
to answer, but it will hardly convince
you.
1t would be a good thing for the pub
lie to devise little code of ethics Of
its own; ethics that will be "a good.
thing for the public individually and,
collectively"
Let us apply one Of the rules of this:
code of ethics to you, the individual.
You call in the physician when you
have the ague, the grippe, or any of
the other ills to which human flesh is,
heir, and which you may have again
Latin, and you take this, to you. mean.
ingless scribble to the druggist to,
have it compounded. Right here is.
where you come in, if you are wise.
Say to the druggist that you want a.
translation of that prescription II is,
your privilege to know what you are
taking. While the doctors code Of
ethics may not recognize this right it,
is yours just the same.
With the translated prescription in
your possession you have two distinct
advantages. You know what you are.
taking, and should you wish to CALI
some other doctor at some time yo,r
will be able to tell him what drugs you
have been putting into your system.
and also if you should have the same.
disease again you can save yourself
a visit to the doctor, and his fee, by
taking this translated prescription to
the druggist once more and having ID
refilled.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05
coNvIcrs ELUDE POSSE.
Two Men Who Escaped from Joliet
Still at Large.

Chicago. - A posse of 100 men,
led by Deputy Warden Henry Sims,
is in close pursuit of Harry Har-
mon and Eddie" Quinn, convicts
who escaped from the Joliet peniten-
tiary. The men were believed to be
trapped in box car at Brander's
Bridge, near Joliet, but they eluded
their pursuers.
The convicts left the car just as the
carriages conveying the posse ap-
peared in sight. A through fast
freight train on the Santa Fe was
passing at the time, and the fugitives,
rislIing their lives, boarded the train.
The escape of the men was one of
the most sensational prison flights in
years. By means of rope made from
strips of a sheet and an improvised
hook they scaled the high penitentiary
wall, eluding the armed guards and
sentries, and gained their liberty be.
fore the alarm was given and posses
started the search for them.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05
JAMIE WASTED NO TIME.
Youthful Philosopher Had Carefully
Thought Out Situation.

It was Jamie's bath night. He had
several each week and he hated them
all. On this particular night, once
started, he soaked and splashed in the
tub for a full half hour, then his
mother hailed him forth. He came out,
Of the room in his pajamas with his
face all streaked and dirty as it was
when he went in.
"Mercy!" cried his mother. Il
thought you took a bath"
$50 1 did" answered jamie scorn-
fully. "a bully one!"
"But your face is black!" said his
mother.
Obi" Jamie smiled understand
ingly. "My face is all right. l. have
to wash that in the morning. bath or
no bath. You don't s'pose I'm going
to waste time bathing my face!
always begin Just below my ears and
work down on my arms and legs; but
always leave my face and hands
those ends tend to in the morning."
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05
Increase of Gold.

Gold was the substance for which
all the world hungered, and yet when
Columbus discovered America there
was less than $250,O0O,OOO of it in all
Europe. Surely it has been a difficult
substance to find. Centuries had
passed, during which this yellow metal
had been carefully boarded, and yet
all of Europe held less than a quarter
of billion of it. That was a matter
Of AIS years ago. When the great ex-
plOrer set sail for unknown shores the
world was increasing it's stock of gold
at the rate of less than $4,000,000 an
nually. 1t would therefore take Eu-
rope 60 years to duplicate its gold
holdings. When another hundred
years had passed the output had in
creased to S6,OO0,00O annually. There
was nothing startling in such an in
crease. To bring this about it has
ures of Peru, Mexico and other new
countries. Once more we move the
hand of time forward hundred years
until We come to 1900, in which year
the average gold production is only
G,OOO,OOO yearly. Certain there was
no reason to fear an over-production
Of gold. Another hundred years
brings us to 1900, in which compara-
lively modern time the annual produc.
ton of gold was only $12,000,000.
Thus We find, says Frederick U.
Adams, in Success, that, during the
three centuries following the discovery
of America, the worlds average an
nual increase in gold was $26,66 Had
this modest ratio been maintained for
the next hundred years, the total pro-
duction of gold in 1900 would have
been about $15,OO0,0OO. How much do
you suppose it actually was? Double
that amount? Three times it? Make
another guess. 1t was $262, ,220,915!
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05
Not Entire

The aeronaut, after painfully ex.-
tricating himself from the wrecked,
balloon, limped to the nearest farm
house.
Madam" he said to the woman
who answered his knock. "can you ac-
commodate with nights lodging a.
balloonist who has come to grief?"
I'D be glad to-" she hesitated, but
you are an entire stranger to-"
Not an entire one" he interrupted.
with some acerbity. For have left
my left ear, three teeth. and certain
portions of my nose back there with.
the ruined car"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05
LYNcHERs IN MISSISSIPPI
Had Busy Time Shooting and Hang
ing the Gibson Kin.

Columbus, Miss, Aug. 31.-As a re-
suit OF further trouble between the
whites and blacks caused by the lynch
ing of John Gibson, negro, who was
identified by Mrs. Ed Winbourne, as
her assailant in an outrage committed
early in the week, the whole Gibson
family, including the father and other
relatives, have received warning to
move out of the county just across the
Alabama border. Three negroes have
been shot, one a preacher Will Har-
ris, uncle of the negro, was lynched.
The others were killed Thursday. The
lynching took place Wednesday.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05
BIG FIRE IN LOUISVILLE.
courier-JournaI Building Is Practically
Destroyed by Flames.

Louisville, Ky. The Courier.
Journal building at Fourth and
Green streets caught fire just after
midnight Thursday night and within
half an hour was practically ruined.
1t was believed all the employees es-
capped safely.
The fire spread with remarkable
rapidity through the office building,
which was half block in length and
five stories high. The plants of the
COurier-Journal and Evening Times
suffered irreparable damage. The for
mer paper was offered the use of the
Morning Herald plant.
The fire started at the top of an ele-
vator shaft at the north end of the
building, and is supposed to have been
caused by defective insulation of elec-
trio wires.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05

A little girl of five was taken to-
church one Sunday, and listened with,
unexpected attention to the sermon.
which graphically told the story Of
the stilling of the tempest on the Sea.
OF Galilee, and how Christ walked on
the waves. In the afternoon her moth
er missed her and began an anxious
search of the house AS she neared
the bathroom she heard sounds of
splashing, and hurried to the door to,
behold small, excited face peering.
over the rim of the big white tub, and
to hear a small, excited voice ex.
claim; Say, mamma. this walking
on the water is quite a trick"