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The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

yertlslng for recruits for the navy,
says the Washington Cd. CD Her
aid, II was determined 70 spend a
similar sum this year, but before
letting the contracts the bureau
thought II advisable to find out
where II had received the best re-
turns for It's money An inyestlga-
ton showed that all magazine and
periodical advertising produced
from one-iiith TO one-sixteenth the
returns IN enlisted men the daily
newspaper advertising did. The most
profitable line OF advertising was
that under Help Wanted" by us
Ing the daily newspapers the bureau
OF navigation got recruits at an adj
yertislng cost OF 1885 each, as
against SIS 10 sos each through the
medium OF certain magazines and
journals.
There Is In this investigation by
tho bureau OF navigation and It's re-
suits a most striking lesson for COM
merce and industry, which depend
for their profits on being known OF
the people. Il is obvious why tho
newspaper offers so much more
profitable field than any other me-
dunn. Part OF the people may read
this magazine, part may read that,
but In this day and age practically
the entire population OF the country
reads the daily newspapers, and
goes to It for advice and help.
We merely cite this case OF the
bureau Of navigation, which hereaft-
or will advertise in the daily news
papers for the sailors Il needs as a
modern instance pointing anew the
old and tried moral, ut pays to adj
vertlse."
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

II does every now and then, In this
instance Il Ii the car shortage fore.
seen 10 occur again this fall, Ship.
pers In the northwest face more
serious shortage than they have ever
experienced, even at the high tide
OF prosperity. a Northern Pacific
official Is authority for the state
ment that that road Is doing a heaY-
Ter business than at this time last
year and that II already needs 600
additional cars for lumber shipment
to the East, on the Pacific division
alone OF that one road there are
now 5000 loaded cars--enough 10
make nearly 100 trains-waiting TO
so East, and lumber IL supposed TO
be the worst paralyzed Industry on
the coast Traffic from the East 10
heavier than ever before in the his
tory OF the road, Anticipating a
light trade during the spring and
summer, merchants bought light
stocks and let their stores run down
as low as possible. This fall they
found the prospects OF trade good
and to prepare for It they had to
buy more heavily than ever before.
These big orders are now going West
and they are taxing the capacity OF
the transportation facilities.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20
MARCH OF PROSPERITY.
Henry cIews says in his Wall
street letter;

Henry clews says in his Wall
street letter:
THE crop outlook Is especially
satisfactory. We are now almost
sure Of full crops of cotton, corn and
wheat, all OF which will command
good prices and for which there Is
likely to be good home and foreign
demand. The government report in
dictates a large crop OF corn and a
good crop Of wheat. The cotton crop
Is expected to reach over 10000, 900
bales; and, as already pointed out
the money value OF our crops will
hertainly exceed all records.
Cheap money and plenty Of 1t Is a
lery influential element in the pres
emit advance. In spite OF the APP
breach OF crop moving demands,
both call and time money are un-
usually cheap. and such low rates
aaturally make good stocks and
bonds look attractive as investments.
Bank reserves are abont the highest
IN record for this period OF the year,
Nd the monthly currency statement
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20
To Notify SIafin.

Special to Daily Panhandle.
Chicago, Aug. 17.-Chicago Is to-
day being invaded By the Prohibi-
ton hosts, preliminary to tomor-
rows great rally OF the leaders OF
the temperance movement, when Eu-
gene w. Chafin will be notified OF
his nomination for the presidency on
the Prohibition ticket, Members
Of the national executive commit
tee of the party are assembling to-
day for a meeting, at which planI
for the dry" campaign will be com
pleted.
The formal notification ceremo-
MES will take place in Music Hall,
Fine Arts building. Professor Char.
les SCanlon, who was permanent
chairman OF the national Prohibition
convention in Columbus, will deliver
the notification address. Candidate
Chain will reply with speech in
which he will point out the great
spread OF the temperance movement
and urge the members of the party
to renewed endeavor. A public re-
ception to Mr.. Chafin will be held in
the parlors of the Auditorium ho-
tel.
Mr.. Chafin has already made sew
eral campaign speeches and declares
that he will attempt to visit every
state and territory of the union dur
ing the campaign. He declares that
the liquor dealers are ION the run"
and that the Prohibition party will
cast larger vote than ever this
fall, with probability OF million
votes.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

The lmpartlallty and political fair
ness OF corporations has been aptly
Illustrated by the action OF the West
ern Passenger Association In con-
nection with the Bryan notification,
Mr.. Taft had carte blanc for cheap
rates to his melting, Mr. Bryan's
friends paid full fare, straws show
which way the wind blows. Corpo-
rations and trusts love the party
that feeds and foster them. It's mat
ural. Even tho hyena Is grateful to
a benefactor.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20
THURSDAY, AUG. 20, 1908
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
(From Thursdays DaIly)


The number OF persons killed In
railroad accidents In the first three
months OF the present year, accord.
ing to Accident Bulletin No. p" Just
issued by the interstate commerce
commission, was smaller than for
any similar period since 1901. Graf
flying as the decrease may be, the
commission gives the railroads no
credit for the showing, but attributes
IL TO the decreased number Of trains
operated and the shorter hours OF
the working men, occasioned by the
depression in business.
The report shows that for the
three months, 72S persons were kill
ed and 15,441 Injured IN railway
accidents. The report deals only
with accidents to passengers and to
employees on duty. or the killed,
sixty-seven were passengers. 1914
were trainmen engaged In tho oper-
alton OF trains and sixty-fiye were
trainmen who were killed in the
yards.
While many Of the leading rail-
roads have installed the block sys-
tenn and other safety devices, there
were 1,lSO collisions during the
three months, all OF which would
have been avoided by the general
use OF the block signal system. In
these collisions sixty-two persons
were killed and 1897 injured. In
the same period there were Lap
derallments OF which 9S1 were direct
ly traeeable to defects of roadway or
equipment. How much Of this was
due to recent retrenchment policy
can not, OF course, be determined,
but 1t must have been considerable.
The maintenance Of the roadbed and
equipment Is the surest guaranty
OF safety in railway travel and their
neglect the most prolific source OF
accidents. The neglect OF operators,
signalmen and tralnmen caused sew
enty-three accidents in which three
persons were killed and sixty-three
injured.
The interstate commerce commits.
sion holds out no promise that the
resumption Of business and the press
ing into service of idle cars and un-
employed trainmen will not be fol-
lowed by corresponding increase
In the number OF casualties that hava
long been a standing disgrace to
American railroading. It is not cred,
table to us that so little progress Is
shown from year to year In the mat
ter Of preventing accidents on Amer
ican railroads.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

The burglar who enters puI
house while you sleep md robs'ou
of your valuables will ardly relrp
to repeat the job, anl so you an
know Just what damagihe does, Iut
the trust that enters yur home I'D
robs you every time yu use anyoi
the necessities of THISTLE continps
that robbery day aftei day and with
ever increasing demads' The peo-
pie who would punjh the burglar
and protect the trug are shortsight-
ed. The burglar uGally robs those
he thinks have ,omething from
which they can b separated, The
trust makes its eaviest eXactions
upon the homes the poor and the
lowly.-Brownwod Bulletin.
Tha trusts thatleyy tribute upon
the purses OF tho American people
are more firmly snTenched than
were the medieval ba'ons who dwelt
in mountain fortresse and got their
llvings off the surrounding farms
and grazing lands without ever hit
ting lick Of work. The protective
tariff is the castle which the trust
baron shelters himset behind, and
it is a more substantial structure
and he more merciles and exacting
than anything knoyn in fuedal
times-Dallas News,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20
MAKE PROPERTY PAY INCOME.
lFrom Saturdays pallyl

'
The value OF vacant property Is
purely speculative. So far from be-
ing productive. It is the opposite,
for every parcel OF vacant property
represents an expense that is OF no
small size. when taxes, interest on
investment and other kinds OF out
SO are taken into consideration.
Being a SPECTATOR the owner OF
vacant property is or should be on
the alert for opportunities to realize
on his Investment. So long as the
property remains vacant there Is only
one means by which he can realize,
and that Is by sale or by long term
lease. which amounts to practically
the same thing. II Is fair to presume
that the expense OF carrying vacant
property is to Z per cent a year.
IL, therefore, must appreciate rapid
ly in order to afford the owner an
adequate return on his investment.
But there Is means by which the
owner OF vacant property can realize
on his holdings without releasing
his rights, and that method is by e
improvement OF the property for
renting purposes. There are few
cities even in this time OF partial de-
preston in which rental property in
a good location Is not in demand
In Amarillo rental property is even
more In demand than ever before.
This constitutes an argument for
building, and, when Il Is realized
that to BUILD NOW means a saw
Ing OF from to 25 per cent on the
cost OF construction over the cost
which prevailed a year ago, and is
likely to prevail q year hence, It
seems that an argument for the inn
provement OF sucn vacant property
Is hardly necessary.
m the first case, so far as the Inn
provements are concerned, the de-
probation is inevitable. In the Sec
ond case II is not probable.
II the owner OF vacant property
sees before him an opportunity to
improve with a reasonable certainty
that both the improvements and the
real estate will rapidly appreciate
within the next two years, IL is GER
tainly an opportunity he should seize
and that is the opportunity that IL
presented to him now.
The owner OF vacant property now
finds lumber brick, cement and 9th
err articles that enter into construc-
ton selling at reduced prices II
he makes improvements and takes
advantage OF the decrease In the |
cost OF construction OF from 10 to |
25 per cent he is receiving par as
values then exist--with every condi-
lion indicating that next year, when
shall have risen, his par
Investment in Improvement will pay
an immediate dividend OF 10 to rs
per cent, because OF the increase in
the cost Of construction.
Therefore. every consideration
should encourage the owner OF va
can't property to BUILD NOW, !
for rent for sale or for
personal use. a man who owns a
city lot and has been planning to
build a home can BUILD NOW a $4,-
900 house for $500. In other
words he can build $4,000 house
that is likely to cost him $4,000 to
build next year. IL certainly would
be folly for him to throw away $500
on a $500 investment for II repre-
sents a saving OF 12h per cent To
The owner OF vacant property--spec-
nlative owner or intending home
builder--these are thoughts worthy
Of careful consideration.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

The Hartman lines are bidding
for 5000 new steel cars, to cost any
where from $6,OOO,OOO to $1,000
900. Three of these lines-the I'm
ion Pacific, Southern Pacific and IL
linois Central--have put themselves
in funds by the sale of securities and
are in position to make extensive
purchases, The order for new cars
If filled, will be altogether the larg-
est since the panic.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20
MAKING DENATURED ALCOHOL.
(From Mondays Daily.)

(From Mondays Daily.)
John G. Capers, United States
commissioner of internal revenue,
and DR.. Campton, chief chemist Of
the bureau OF internal revenue, have
gone to Europe on a mission which
Is of great Importance to the farm
ers Of the United States. This is to
study the methods OF the manufac-
ture of methylated, or denatured, al
cohol and the use OF the pro luct.
Mr.. Capers said recently in a news"
paper interview:
When the law was passed remov-
ing the tax on denatured alcohol, the
hopes OF the American farmers ran
high. Their expectations have not
yet been realized, however, for they
overlooked the fact that there was
no use for distilleres on farms until
the market had been established.
In the second place they didn't
know anything about operating such
distilleries.
THE experimental station Of the
agricultural department will have in
operation at Washington within sixty
days a complete plant snd from each
OF the experimental stations and ag-
ricultural colleges throughout the
country a man will come to learn the
practical side, which will then be IL
Illustrated to the farmers"
During the month Mr.. Capers and
Or. Champion will pass in Germany
they will study the methods of man
ufacturers and see how methylated
alcohol can be made from potatoes at
such cost that 1t can compete fairly
with petroleum and other means of
heating and Illuminating. Potatoes
are cheaper In Germany than here,
but information will be sought how
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20
From an Electl.IcIan,s Note pool.

From an Electricians Note Book.
Berlin police are taking steps to
prevent the best streets from being
disiigured by electric signs, No OBJ
jections are offered to the erection
OF street signs In ugly or confined
spaces but they will be excluded from
the best streets.
Although milking cows by electri-
city was NJ first ridlculed 1t has been
demonstrated that It can be success
fully and profltably accomplished.
Marconi Is working upon a system
OF wireless telegraphy by which wire
less messages can be sent both ways
at once. He is also experimenting
with device to locate the direction
from which a message is coming.
One OF the inventors OF the Cen
eral Electric company has pateAted
a device for holding the recording
instruments on electric vehicles. I'm
til this device was produced the watt
meters and other meters were not ac-
curate on account OF the vibrations.
The new attachment does away with
all this trouble.
A large system OF electric signals
has just been completed along the
line OF the Caledonian Railway,
Glasgow, which is the first install
lation Of its kind in Scotland.
The colors OF lightning flashes
vary from white to blue. Red Is the
commonest in forked Lightning,
with blue closely following, and
orange and green less frequent.
White is seen oftenest in sheet light
ming, red and yellow coming next
Hail usually comes in a thunder
storm with blue lightning.
BY adopting the electric drive in
English rolling mills, the output of
the mills wherever that power has
been installed has been more than
doubled.
A Chicago church has installed
electric footlights on the floor at
each corner Of the pulpit, to obviate
objections of the pastor to the light
falling on him from above.
The transmission Of pictures or the
drawing of pictures, SO to speak, by
wireless telegraphy after the sys-
tenn invented or devised by II. Knud-
sen, the German scientist, Is giving
satisfactory results and promises TO
become of practical use. By the
same system Knudsen asserts that he
can operate a typesetting machine
anywhere within the field of the
stations operating capacity.
The success of electrically-driven
pumps for supplying water for ir-
rigatlon purposes on lands lying
along transmission lines of subur-
ban railways having been demon
strated by the Puget Sound Railway
and Power Company, between Seattle
and Tacoma, the irrigation in that
way OF such lands, where irrigation
would be an important help to farm
ing is being suggested as new and
profitable field for central station
managers to exploit for promoting
the sale of electrical energy in ter
ritory tributary to their lines
Electric cooking utensils in kitch-
ems of railway dining cars do away
with the danger always involved
where glowing Goals and open flames
are the rule. The necessary cur
rent for electric cooking can be pro-
duced by dynamo driven by a small
Curtis steam turbine located in the
baggage car.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

Tomorrow evening ends the Daily
Panhandle contest The number OF
new subscribers added TO our lists
runs into the thousand. Financially
the contest has not gained much for
as. u was not money-maklng
proposition our gain has come In
the way we had planed--by way OF a
largely increased subscription list.
We have the list, and according to
the rules Of Uncle Sam, It's paid up.
With 80 many moro readers We may
expect better and more advertising
patronage, and that's whore we eK-
pect to play even.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

4 passenger, having boarded a
train, rendered the legal fare to the
conductor, explaining that the office
was not open in time for him to pro-
cure a ticket. The conductor re-
fused the fare, and demanded one
much larger which the passenger
refusing to pay, was elected. 1t APP
peared that the train was one char
tered for an excursion, and that no
tickets were sold nor fares collected,
except at the instance OF the one
chartering Il, OF which fact plaintiff
was ignorant. The supreme court
OF South Carolina in a decision Just
rendered holds that the railroad
could not divest itself OF duties to
the public and not having appraised
plaintiff Of the character OF the train
before entering, 1t was bound to car
ry him for the regular fare.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20
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ton.
Just how the American people
keep up three or four separate and
costly systems OF public service and
all the different churches and lodges
and then support their families is an
exceedingly interesting problem.
They have more government to keep
up than others, more different kinds
of churches and more organizations
and movements of other sorts.
The federal government is sup
posed to touch the citizen but slight
ly. 1t is not supposed, under the Con-
stitution, to come home to him close.
ly like the state, county or city is ex-
pected 10 do. Yet to maintain this
general provision for the public
safety" the income in J<ly, 1907,
was 5b,906,4 ass; last month il was
$52,l69,456. The July expenditures
OF the government totaled $66,S13,-
345 last year and S77OSS,S93 this
year. The falling off in the public
income is explained by the shrinkage
in the receipts from the custom
houses $2S,S36,44S last July, $40,
605.447 this July. That is explain
cd by the hard times.
A contemporary gives some details
about the July outgo, last year and
this. The "civil and miscellaneous"
expenditures increased from $14,-
S9S,161 to $2O,6O2,956; the expendl-
lures on the army from $14,21S,2S3
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

The merry Widow" hat is pass
ing, and still larger and more i'm
posing piece of headgear is taking
its place. The new hat is variously
known as the "Airship," the SKY
scraper" and "The Tub" Those
who have seen IT agree that for size,
style and general dash there never
has been anything known in a mil
linery way to approach the new crea-
ton. The size of the hat varies, but
specimens on exhibition measure
from twenty-eight inches in diameter
to over six feet in circumference. It
is said that It will create a new de-
mand for "rats" and that several Of
these will be required to get the
proper effect.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

Hearst" says the Marshalltown,
Iowa, Times-Republican, "can always
get followers as long as his bar'l
is allowed to distribute the contents
Consequently the Independence party
will last just as long as Hearsts
spending proclivities do not fail"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

shows the amount Of circulation in
the country to be s3,O46,OOO.OOO,
against s2,7Sl.OOO,OOO a year ago.
An increase OF over i26O,OOO,OO0 In
twelve months chiefly In gold GER
tificates 10, OF course, inflatlonary In
character, especially In view OF the
diminished activity In business which
lessons the demand for currency"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

Eugene Chafin, the Prohibltlonist
nominee for president, nearly lost his
life by drowning in a shallow Y. NJ,
c. A. swimming pool the other day.
The idea of a prohlbitionist candi-
date who can't swim seems bit
absurd.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

Rats are said to cost the United
State $3.50, 100000 a year, sum
sufficient to pay for Panama ca
nal. Unfortunately the rats cannot
be put at work on the big ditch and
made to earn their cost.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

A New York woman drawing a
salary of $4,000 year says it is far
finer and better to be a wife and
mother than to have her job. What
a comfort this good woman would
be to the right man--if she has saw
ed her money.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

Water is now purified by passing
a current OF electricity through II.
whereby It Is decomposed and sepa-
rated into It's gaseous elements, the
oxygen generated accomplishing the
work OF publication, At the sepa-
ration Ii formed ozone. gas which
retains the remarkable activity OF
nascent oxygen and burns almost any
substance with which II comes In
contact. Every living organism is at
tackled and instantly burned up by
the powerful ozone. Water con-
tains millions OF disease germs, II
thus subjected to the searching or
deal OF the electric current, becomes
not only harmless but almost cheml-
cally pure.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

A woman's page contributor says
There is no objection to his presence,
man when fruit is being put up"
Theer is no objection to his presence,
however, when the fruit is to be
paid for.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

The newest drink In New York is
called the aviator" because It car
ries you up into the air and leaves
you there, That is better, OF course,
than coming down with a duh sick
ening thud.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20
THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM

A rather striking demonstration
OF the supreme value OF newspaper
advertising over all other kinds is
given by the bureau Of navigation,
which spent last year $50, 900 In ad-
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

Castro fired the Dutch minister
for calling him almost a dictator"
II is thus made clear that Castro will
not stand for any qualifying words
or phrases.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

The humorist is abroad IN the
land. His latest appearance was in
a grocery store where he asked for
photograph records on the theory
that they were canned tongue.