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Mountain advocate., 1908-10-16
WATERWORKS
Progressing Nicely and
Piping Nearly all
Distributed.

The waterworks is being push
ed as rapidly as it is possible to
do and a large force of hands are
kept busily engaged every day
ditching and laying the mains on
the different streets of the city.
Practicall all of the pipe that
will be required for the system
has arrived and been distributed
throughout the city. The work
of laying the mains is being
rapidly and already a large per
cent of the work is completed.
The reservoir will soon be dug
out ready TO be concreted and
while this is goirg on the pump
ing station has also been looked
after.
The basin for the pump has
been dug and walled with ce-
ment, the boiler that is to fur
nish the steam power has been
placed in position and the pnmps
are on the ground and the work
of building the pumping station
will be finished in a very short
time.
1t now looks as though the
plant will be ready by the first
of the new year to turn the water
into the new main.
Several of the city fire plugs
have been set and connected
with the main and soon our city
will be prepared to give the
long needed protection to our
business antl residence property
that it should have.
This waterw orks means a great
deal for Barbourville and we
have never witnessed such
boom in the line of building as
has come to Barbourville since
the work of installing this sys-
trm was begun.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-16
CHANGE OF DATE
In County Primary De.
sired by All the
Candidates
Committee A ked 10 Fix Date
on December Sfh

A petition has been circulated
and signed asking the Chairman
to call the committee together
here next Saturday tomorrow
to change the date of the county
primary from Jan. 5, 1909, to
Dec. 5, 1908, as that is the date
fixed for the Judicial primary
and have both primaries held at
the same time.
This appears to be a good idea
as it would save the voters the
trouble of attending the polls
twice in order to cast their vot, s
and it would reduce the expens-
es Of the election and be an adj
vantage in many ways.
As it now stands, the primary
will come in the holiday season
and there is a possibility of more
or less drunkenness and if the
committee can see its way clear
to make the change it will meet
the approval of every one and
suit better all around.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-16
pROGRAM
OF Memorial Services of
Improved Order of
Redmen.
Sunday October rs, 1908.

TchOupitoulas Tribe No. Ill,
|. o. r. NJ, have arranged to
hold their annual memorial SER
vices on October 25, at eleven
O'Clock at the Baptist church in
this city.
All sister tribes are most cor
daily invited to join in the SER
vice, and the public is invited to
be present and witness the ex-
ercises.
AT 10 80 a. m, sharp, a line Of
march will be formed at the Hall
and all the mem bers of the Tribe
and all visiting members will
march i'll a body to the church
headed by the Red Mems Band
where the Red Men will be seat
ed in a body.
1st. Music-Opening Ode, by
entire Tribe.
2nd. Introductory remarks by
Sachem, followed by invocation
by Prophet.
3rd. Roll call of depar e d
Chiefs by Chief of Records.
4th Ritualistic service by Sr.
Sycamore, Jr. Sycamore and 1st
Sanape.
9Th. Scripture lesson and pray
er by DIR. J. H. Hitchcock.
SOlo-HOly City Rev. L. b.
Address-Rev. g. X. Dicky.
DoXology and Benediction.
Line Of march will again be
formed and return to Hall where
Council fire will be quenched in
due form.
Charles Davis,
d. w. Clark,
|. II. Golden,
w. H. Mcdonald,
Commitsee.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-16
DOUBLE KILLING
As Result of a Poker
Game at Emanuel
Saturday Night

Last Saturday night about mid
night a shooting occurred near
Emanuel, in which Jim Dorum,
colored, and Dave Bolin, white,
both lost their lives SIS the result
of game of poker.
Bolin, who lived in Clay cOun-
ty, it seems, had come down to
the neighborhood of Emanuel
and he and Dorum engagaged in
a game of poker. The game
lasted until about midnight
when Dorum, it seems had won
all the money and other things
of value that Bolin had about
his person.
The game was clio. ed and all
prepared to leave when for some
unknoSn reason, Bolin drew a
pistol and fired on Dorum,
wounding him. Dorum respond
ed in a similar manner and
when the smoke had cleared
away both of them were mortal
ly wounded. DOrum died almost
instantly and Bolin died about
dayL ght Sunday morning.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-16
Mr.. BRYAN'S FORTUNE.

One may wonder whether it
has occurred to Mr.. Bryan that
there is anything remarkable in
the fact that his fortune of $780,
600 is regarded as something
commosplace, trivial and to be
dismissed at once from further
attention.
Speaker Cannon had jOcularly
alluded to him as a million
aire," not meaning to say there
by that Mr.. Bryan was actually
possessed with millions, but
only that he had prospered to a
a degree that should be very sat
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-16
DEWITT.

Tuesday night, October Z, we
organized Taft Club at Dewitt
with over fifty mem bers, pledg-
ing to work for Taft and the Re-
publican ticket at the coming
November election. The meet
ing was called to order by j. f.
Catron. Q. B. Woolums was
made permanent chairman and
II. @. Mills, Secretary. Chair
man Woolums then took the
floor and advising all to join the
club, and to be careful how they
not only in the presidential race,
but in the county races at the
primary. He then called j. F.
Catron to the floor, who gave usa
ringing speech in favor of Taft,
and the Republican ticket. Mr..
Mat Hale was the next speaker,
he said this was his first appear
ance on the floor to speak for the
Republican party, but, that he
had been a Repu blican all of his
life. W. Ii. Mcdonald, was the
next speaker, who said so many
good things to the people that
some are still laughing, while
others are saying Ameni as he
converted three Democrats, who
signed the pledge, and say they
are for Taft.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-16
BARBoURvILLE KENTUCKY FRIDAY

best salaries on earth, teacher
holding a first-grade certificate G
receiving 1920 in gold per month
as a teacher in the public schools.
California naturally was a region
at most seasons of the year for
bidding in appearance and un-
promising except for its gold and
it's pastures. Its interior valleys
were little better than desert
plains. But the intelligence of
an educated people soon discOv-
cred that within the boundaries
Of the State were fifteen hun
dred lakes of fine water eternal
ly supplied by the melting snow,
some of them thirty miles long
by twenty miles wide and all
from two to five hundred feet
deep of water so crystalline that
often the bottom could he seen
iii the lakes which were granite
basins carved out through the
ages by glaciers while the mighty
and valuable forests of redwood
trees for uses of man were grow
ing up about them. Cultivated
minds also enabled them to see
that the water drawn from these
natural re ervoirs in pipes and
distributed over the dusty plains
caused "the desert to bloom as a
rose" and that the expenditure
cf a couple Of million Ey the
community resulted in a remark.
ably brief time in the production
of many millians of dollars worth
of fruit, grain and other good
things for the sustenance of man
and their own profit, materially,
mentally and spiritually
and the beauty of it is that the
good work goes right on with Ed
ucat on ever as the leading fac
tor in the procession of fher peace,
prosperity and happiness among
the great body of her people.
q. Britain Lyttle.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-16
EDUCATION
As a Leading Factor in
Human Life.

Apart from its intrinsic merits
in other sepects the comparative
ly new State of California in
its history probably affords one
of the most impressive illustra-
tions # the usesDf education any
where to be foun along tn Pa
cific coast for a distace of eight
hundred miles With an average
breadth of probably two hundred
miles in the most genial portion
of the north temperate zone
with the further element of
climatic OdifcatiOn of
the japanese current coursing
near it's shores like that of the
Gulf Stream along the coasts of
Ireland, with the two great
mountain ranges, that of the ST.
ezra Nevada (snow-capped noun
tains) and that of the Coast
locally known as the Coast Range,
forming two large interior val
leys, drained by their CORES
ponding rivers, the Sacramento
and the San Joaquin, flowing
south and north respectively,
each with numerous tributaries
with their corresponding lesser
valleys running eact and west
fr, IN the mountain ranges named;
with very many extensive pla-
teaus and fertile hills and i'm
mense sweeps of coast plains,
with most favorable climatic
conditions comprising but two
really well defined seasons in the
year, the rainy" and the "dry ,
season, the former extending
from the middle of November to
the middle of April, and the lat
ter including the other seven
months of the year every day of
which man can work outdoors
in his shirt-sleeves all of which
time is usually needed for gath
ering of the varied crops and for
mining purposes; and with ac-
cess to the markets of the world
by water it stood unnumbered
seasons under the dominion of
the indigenous races an express
ion OF the sense of the lines of
the poet or the plalmist when he
refers to that regi where ev-
cry prospect pleases and only
man is vile." The Digger In
dians, of Alta California, tour
California; skulked among the
forests of the gion in waning
tribes living like bears upon
wild fruits in their season and
picking up what they could on
the seashore during the rest of
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-16

isfactOry to man who, if one
may judge from his talk, finds
opportunities diminished in num-
ber and restricted by the mon
ey power"
Thereupon Mr.. Bryan hastily
and with some heat made reply
which was, in substance, that all
his worldly possessions cid not
represent value in excess of $3.50
900. 1t was as if he said: THAT
is have; you ee, g ID poo
pie, that 1 am still lo1r man."
In this case, Mr.. Bryan's view
is also the popular view. His
statement that he is worth
"only" $I50,000 is accepted in
the spirit in which it is made.
The subject of Mr.. Bryan's
wealth has been dismissed as
one that has no further interest.
Yet, regardedby itself, the sum
of $3.50, 600 is large one. Why,
then, is it regarded as something
inconsiderable? Surely not be-
cause there are some men in this
country who are reputed to be
possessed Of many millions. Ex-
ceptions are never accepted as a
standard Of measurement,
The simple truth is that Mr..
Bryan,s fortune is looked upon
as nothing extraordinary because
thei e are so many other Ameri-
cans who have as much or nearly
as much as he; because there are
many more who have the equiv
olent of large fraction of his
possessions; because there is
multitued of Americans who,
though they do not possess near
ly as many thousands as Mr..
Bryan, are yet not at all dispos-
ed to regard the accumulation of
as much as he has as something
beyond their reasonable hopes,
beyond the possibilities with
in their reach; because the aver
age American citizen is so we'll
tO-dO that he is not disposed to
regard larger possessions with
envious eyes, because in short,
all who make proper use of their
are prosperous.
In a Ma ion in which all enjoy
their share of prosperity, what
effect can Mr.. Bryan hope to
produce by his continuou, fulmi-
against the 1.-THE money
power?" How can he exect TO
create state of mind in which
there will be agreement with his
that there must be rev.
OlutiOnary changes in policies
of government or in order that
all may have their rights?
Through the establishment
and maintainace of Republican
policies this Nation has become
the most prosperous one in the
world. That fact will make in
effective all of Mr.. Bryan's argu-
ments for departure from them.
Albany, IN. Y Journal.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-16
To Purchase Organ.

Miss S. K. Mile went to Knox
vile yesterday to purchase a new
organ for the Baptist church of
this city. She was accompanied
by Miss Lizzie Johnson.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-16
Sunday School Convention.

The annual convention of the
Sunday Schools Of Knox county
will be held at Emanuel on Sat-
urday, October "a, 1908. All
Sunday schools workers of Knox
county are requested to be pres
ent on this occasion. Programs
will be issue later.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-16
JESSIE D. TUG6LF
Announces For Common
wealth's Attorney in
This District.


ID Tuggle, of this city, for the
Office of commemorative AttOr-
ney of this, the 9th Judicial
District, the people of Knox
county, and in fact the entire
district feel that they have a
man on whom all Repu blicans
can unite and in whom the arm
of the law will rest in perfect
safety.
Mr.. Tuggle was born of poor
parents, but with that determi-
nation to rise began in ca ly life
to work his way to honor.
After he had completed his
studies in the rural district
schools he became student of
Union College where he better
fitted himself for the duties and
responsibilities of life.
After securing a good educa-
tion for himself he began teach
ing and in this way secured a
small sum of money of his Cwn
which he applied toward further
ing his own education.
Deciding that he wanted to
take up the profession of law he
attended the Law University of
Valparaiso, Ind, where he COM
pleted his course and returning
to his native home was admitted
as a member of the Knox county
bar, and for sixteen years he has
been practitioner in his chosen
profession.
r His reputation soon began to
grow as lawyer, and i'll the fall
of 1897 the citizens of Knox
county elected him County At
torney, and so well did he fill
the position that he was re-elect-
ed in 1901, serving eight years
and during that time he so ably
represented the interests of the
county and State that he has
been urged to enter the race for
the position he now seeks.
There is not mem Der of tin e
Barbourville bar that stand high
er in the profession than he, and !
not man in the district who
knows him but will feel that the
interest of the Commonwealth !
will be perfectly secure in his
hands.
He is lifelong Republican,
from the time he became vote r
he has always taken an active
part in Republican politics, and !
has always led the fight against
the common enemy speaking |
for the Republican tick t |
throughout the county and the |
enemy has been made TO feel the
influence of his strength and pop /
ularity in Knox county.
Asa prosecuting attorney, the |
eight years he served as county
attorney has eminently fitted |
him for the position to which he
is so naturally adapted, and while
he has always based his prosecu-
tions upon the law and the evil
dence, there was never a crimi-
nal against whom he has appear
ed but what will bear testimony
of his ability to prosecute to the
extent of the law.
He places his claims in the
hands of his friends and relies
upon their support to assist him
in securing this nomination and
pledges that if elected he will
honestly and faithfully discharge
his duties to the extent of his
ability, and any influence or sup
port given him will be gratefully
appreciated.
Sunday School Convention.
The annual convention of the
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peel bark from the pine trees III
long rainy seasons and live on
the sap scraped from the bark
and the tree trunks thus Destroy
ing their own forests, or as Hen
ry Ward Beecher would put it in
speaking of the illiterate: de
scending from poor to poorer ten
ements as improvidence dried up
their resources.
This was the condition of the
region when discovered and con-
quested by the Spaniards toward
the close of the first quarter of
the sixteenth century which on
account of its transcendant beau
ty and chaste lovelines as whole
at the season when it was dis
covered by the Soldierly Cortez
named for tn wife of another
great soldier of whom her illus
trlous husband had said that she
must be if not peerless above
suspicion - But for three long
centuries this same beautiful
and naturally productive region
lay in a condition materially but
little better, except for the es-
ia ablishment of the Francis Mis-
sions and the teaching of the
rudiments of the Christian relig-
ion to the aborigines, but little
improved beyond its original
state. Then after the declara-
tion Of Mexican Indepence in
1910 till the acquisition of that
territory by the United States in
lS4S California had but few i'll
ha bitants, and no industries save
those of grazing and little des-
lltOry mining, its total exports
being quantity of hides and tai
ow and a few ounces of gold, the |
Whole amounting annually, per-
maps to a few thousand dollars
sent on some passing "whaleI"
lr some seal-hunter's craft there
being up to the time tf the
American occupation nothing in
he way of a ship on the coast |
arger than a schooner and but /
NE or two of these plying Cali
'ornia waters, so that an Indian
woman lost on San Nicolas Is
and, one of the Santa Barbara |
group, in 1886 had TO remain
here alone until 1858, eighteen
'ears. for the want of a vessel
efficiently seaworthy to reach
San Nicolas island, ninety miles
rom the mainland. | am re-
of this and have been
cad to draw this deduction
# the influence of education
rom reading in the San Fran
.iscO Chronicle of the 18th ult.,
! leading newspaper of Oalifor-
Tia, that the shipments of fruits
# different kinds from that State
Up to date for this year have
,een 1900 carloads, of the APP
,roximate value of $26, 100000
nd that the total mineral out
,ut for last year was of the value
# 500, ,697 ,943 including at the
lead of list petroleum of the
'alue $40, 1888, 943 followed close.
Y by gold TO the value of $16,-
"a, ,92S, then copper, clay brick,
ement, boraX, macadam. as
halt, silver, quick silver, min
raj water, limstone, granite,
alt, clay pottery, pyrites, gems,
$232, ,632, paving blocks, sand
tone, tungsten, marble and nat
Iral gas, the latter forming the
tenn of least value amounting to
i14,759. In connection with
hese facts were mentioned the
'roducts of various other indus
ries; indicationg the, active in
of the people of that
tate which perhaps not exceed
ng some other States of the Un-
On in natural resources has from
he period of its teens in the
isterhood" of the States ex-
ended more for educational pur-
:
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who was identified with the movement be-
cause of rewards he hoped for wearied of
disappointment. and even the honest en-
thdsiast tired of fight that yearly seemed
to grow more hopeless. But woman, per-
t:nacious woman. toied on. and suddenly
the tide turned. With such overwhelming
force did public sentiment about face
that today half the country is dry
First Suffragists.
Twinned with the fight for prohibition
has for a century been the demand of
woman for a vote.
The first great pioneers in the battle
were ridiculed and even prosecuted. Susan
B. Anthony. DR.. Mary Walker, Belva
Lockwood, Anne Dickinson, all knew
what it was to suffer as though the doc
trine they were teaching meant absolute
treason to the country.
Yet they struggled on, and today their
successors have the satisfaction of seeing
woman's suffrage an accomplished fact
in this country and other parts of the
world.
Upon the shoulders of the Rev. Anna
Shaw has fallen the mantle of the great
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Our HooDooED CONSULATE AT Ar1oG

of properly built consulate, with a wall
inclOsing the entire tract.
Our Canton post Is source OF shame to
Americans who compare it with the Brit
ish and German consulates. owned by
their respective powers. These as we'll as
our buildings are upon the artificial Island
Of Shameen. where is located the foreign
quarter of the city. The Germans have
here built the most magnificent consulate
to be seen in any part of China. The
building alone cost 100000 and it's gran
deur is of great commercial advantage.
for it gives Chinese tradesmen the i'm
preston that the Germans are far ficher
than any other nation, particularly than
the Americans. Canton is about the size
Of Chicago, and is the great commercial
emporium Of the province Of Kwangtung.
Secretary Root asks for 100000 with
and for SIS, 600 with which to erect quar-
tiers for our immigration officials and a
decent residence for the vice consul gen.
eral who is now obliged to lodge with
private families and pay exorbitant prices,
as there Is no respectable hotel on the
Island of Shameen.
We are the only power which does not
furnish its consular staff with a residence
In the conspicuous part of Chefoo. The
British havee erected there a walled COM
pound In which there is granite resi-
dence for the consul, large granite and
brick Office building, a residence for the
marshal. with Jail adjoining, handsome
house for the vice consul and good sta
ble-all of these surrounded by large gar
dens. tennis and croquet grounds. The
Japanese consulate is equally imposing
but our present premises are rented from
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Of Philadelphia. and all Of the foreigners
there live upon the island of Nantai, in
the river Min. where our consulate is
situated. Foochow. being the capital Of
province. is the residence of the high
provincial officials with whom our consul
Is obliged to constantly exchange cOur-
tesies. which cost him no small sum-
The same conditions exist at Hankow.
also a provincial capital and which with
It's million Of people is the largest inland
city of China. For good piece of prop
erty for sale in the German concession
Congress is asked to pay $4,000; also an
equal sum for the erection of a consulate
general and consular iail. the latter for
the Imprisonment Of local American Of
tenders who in China are tried by our
consular courts.
A large building to contain the offices
Of our consular.and immigration officials
as we'll as our public health inspectors
is asked for at KongkOng. at an estimated
cost of $155.OOO. Since half the year the
climate there is constantly humid and
sitting, a wide and airy building is want
ed. But. there being no vacant lots any
where in Hongkong, our government must
down the standing buildings. Moreover
land there is not sold outright, but leased
for 900 years at a small annual crown
rent to the British government, and the
law is that a title must be vested IN
either an individual or a corporation. Ex-
actly how our government can buy
consulate under these complicated condi-
tons Secretary Root has not yet finally
figured out. To build at Nankin an Amer
lean consulate in keeping with those of
England and Germany he wants $4,000
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as annoying and. at times. almost intol-
cradle. 1t has been lately aggravated by
an immense increase in oriental real es-
tate values. Commercial houses and
European governments have had the en-
terprise to buy for their own stately build
ingS large tracts in the most desirable
sections Of these cities. Our consuls have
thus been shut out Of all properties save
those where the increased rents are far
in excess OF what they are permitted by
law to pay.
Annoy Post a Hoodoo.
Our only aforementioned consulate
in China is that at Annoy. big city about
the size Of Pittsburg. built upon an island
at the mouth of a river. We own there
two pieces of land. mile apart. and
upon one of these-an irregular tract-our
present consulate Is located
This consulate has been Inflated since
1t was built in 1871. In the first place,
one end of 1t encroaches upon an ada
cent property. and just where the dividing
line runs through 1t nobody knows. It
was almost totally burned in 1904, and
after some local talent-the best that
Uncle Sam thought he could afford-had
made botch of its reconstruction, 1t was
hit by typhoon in 1906. The soft wood
beams and flooring are badly damaged by
white ants. while the tiles of the Office
floor and the plaster of the inner walls
reek with dampness from the AUDITING
river and the rains.
Secretary Root asks for $3.50 with
which to purchase an adjoining property
toward the high land and for the erection