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The Detroit times., 1908-05-29
ILLUSTRATES THAT THERE is AMPLE MONEY T
FINANCE AN HONEST PROPOSITION WHEN
HONESTLY PRESENTED. 8a
Mr. E. L. Buell. and Mr. R. H. Evans both of Detroit,
gentlemen who accomplished this crediable work.

| II 10 one thing to have a proposition
or good business value. but 1t IL quite
distinct and different task to organ
ize and finance such proposition sue
cessrully even in boom days" but
when the whole country IL In the throes
or financial crisis, when every line OF
business 10 depressed. when capital is
In hiding, when all investment propo-
sitions are viewed with suspicion and
distrust--to conquer these conditions
Gnd wiring out successful termination
In, In itself. tribute to the business
ability and integrity OF character OF
the promoters.
In September. 1907. the proposition
OF the Marengo Portland Cement Co.
was presented TO Messrs. Buell. and
Evans, OF Detroit. TO be financed and
stablishcd- There was the ground
work OF fact. Investigation by these
gentlemen proved that the claims OF
the Marengo people were worthy; that
here was solid ground for investors.
Because Of previous experience. these
gentlemen realized that large sum OF
money was necessary 10 the establish
ment on a responsible basis OF a cement
plant. and they were likewise alert to
the fact that one of the greatest draw
backs would be capitalization.
They therefore formulated their plans.
made the Marengo Portland Cement Co.
strictly high-class. frst-class invest
ing proposition. They placed the cap
ital stock at $1,000. 900. They knew IL
would require at least three-fourths of
a million TO build the right kind OF a
plant. and they knew there must be
sufficient money on hand as operating
capital
On this basis they organized the
company and began a canvass for cap
ital. They had no inducement apart
from that OF a, good business invest
ment. Beginning practically In Sep
TENDER. during the following six
months they placed $5l4.o0o worth OF
period when the financial crisis was
keenest. They sold 5000. 900 OF stock in
the month OF December Most OF this
was sold IN Detroit, Ypsilanti. Coidwa-
ter. Hillsdale. Hudson. Birmingham and
other places In Michigan. When other
propositions were being laid on the
shelf. and many promoters were giving
up every effort to do business. these
gentlemen went right ahead. meeting
with success every day They had the
goods TO deliver" They were not SELL
ing 'watered" stock. They were alert
10 opportunity. TO the value of straight
forward business methods. and prob
ably the best testimony 20 this IL found
In the directorate of the company. be-
cause the quality of the men. their high
standing in the financial world. Is most
practical evidence tn good work &C
The Detroit times., 1908-05-29

Going 10 compile his life and let
ters?"
There were no letters. I arm go
ing to compile his life and post cards -
louisville Courier-Journd.
The Detroit times., 1908-05-29
The
Edison
Illuminating
Company,
Main 5222.
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.
INTERURDAN LINES.

Detroit united Anteruroom L.HDeA
notice. Central Standard Time.
FLINT LIMITEDs-Daily, s:ls a. m.
and AIS p m. Locals for Rochester:
R so1psS oiiGn and o1f0I For Flint and
m. and every two hours until p; m.
Fer wyanAotte .na Tressea, s:ss e:
m. sos q. IA. and every 20 minutes
S:o1 p. m. then overy 20 minute. until
sos .. m. then half hourly until 1l:js
p. m. On Sunday. nrst car starts at
Pontiac. $50 a. m. then half hourly
First care ne-haif hour later on Bun
For Fsrmingts., Worthwhile, Orchard
Lake and POnttae-e a. m and hourly
until II .. m. First car one hour later
on RAPID APIS RAILWAY sysrnn-eer..
and s:45 y. m. Locals for New Balti.
more; AiSO1ssc Marine 90 CITY and r e'.S
"A 2s TO @sF'2s cl Ss: s:s' h sss
hOY5ly ESQ m 70 r. 2 nc c, snS Sou r,s
Shore Line. hourly. s:as a m. to o:as
D. m. also IL o: m:
.n TErFo LIVE M1 1yTol.So Emissss
sa!y D ' M Locals for ao Rocf~ood .Y Ses e
T 20 sso and T0I also s s9Sr and
% m for Monroe.
DETROIT, JACKSON q CHICAGO
Ry.-Limiteds. 7:45 Q. m. 1915 and 3:4e
p. m. Locals. for Jackson. a. IN. and
every two hours until p. m: for Ann
Arbor. a. m. and hourly until IL p.
m: for Saline. $50 a. m: and every two
hours until S:30 p. m, also 10 y. ~; Tor
every two hours until $3.50 p. m. also
IL y. m. -
Interurban cars pass waiting sta
sts, last cars awaiting the closing OF
theaters.
AHI a an nINII Sl1r A MERS.
The Detroit times., 1908-05-29
GIRAFFE HAS
NO VOCAL ORGANS

OF all strange animals OF the earth.
the giraffe takes the lead. No men
ton of II is made In the scriptures, yet
naturalists say II existed many nun
dreds of years before the Christian
era, and science tells us that nature
provided the animal with a long neck
that 1t might browse from the
branches OF the tall fg-mulberry trees,
the leaves of which are It's best nour-
ishment.
The giraffe can utter no sound as
II has no vocal organs. 1t does not
breed In captivity and the slightest
change in temperature from warm to
cold Is usually fatal. The CRATES
with Ringing Brothers circus. which
exhibits here next Monday, are kept
in a padded wagon. one end Of which
Is diviled off into sleeping apart
ment for a keeper. that they may be
ever under a watchful eye They live
on mulberry leaves. fresh clover hay
and a peculiar tree moss imported
from Africa.
The Detroit times., 1908-05-29
Joseph GILLESPIE Dead.

Joseph Gillespie. resident Of De-
troit since 1862. died Tuesday after a
brief illness in the home OF his daugh.
ter. Mrs. James B. Forsythe, No. 31S
Helen-ave. Mr.. Gillespie came to this
city from England when 20 years OF
age. making his home at No. II Jones'
ST.. where he lived AZ years. At one
time he was proprietor OF the Enter.
prise Engine works. but for eight
years he was employed by the county
auditors In the county building. lie
is survived by son. w. II. Gillespie.
circulation manager Of the Detroit
Free Press, and three daughters, Mrs.
James B. Forsythe and Mrs. Clyde
Smith of Detroit, and Mrs. James ,.
Verney. OF Toronto.
The Detroit times., 1908-05-29

II you have a large factory
operated by any other power
you will gain much by using
ours.
The Detroit times., 1908-05-29

If you have a small shop
and are not using our power
you are losing money.
The Detroit times., 1908-05-29
oheYed Directions.

do you know said Cholly, II new
err had played game OF golf In M
life, and when asked the Scotchmen
what was the first thing for me TO dc
he looked at me just like this aid said
"Hoot, monl'" Then what did you
dor" Il booted. Of course. "-ChlcagC
Tribune.
The Detroit times., 1908-05-29
axe Bay City Division

Depart foot Of Randolph-st.
Leave Detroit Tuesdays and Fridays NJ
6 o. m, for st. Clair. Port Huron, Lex
ington. Port saniiac, Forester, Forest
vile. Hsrbor Beach, Port Hope ana b"y
City.
The Detroit times., 1908-05-29
30 YEARS OF
AGE, SHE COULD FIGHT

GAINESVILLE. O.. May 2s.-Despite
the fact that she is so years OF age.
Elizabeth Smith, an inmate of the
county infirmary. who was adjudged
insane. displayed wonderful strength
and agility when she caught another
inmate and hurled her to the floor.
She was dragged away by attend
ants. The aged woman has broken
up all the furniture in her room and
has made repeated attempts to XIII
other inmates.
She was ordered committed to tie
State Insane asylum at Columbus.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-03
DISEASE AND WATER.
Necessity That the Beverage Should
Be Free From Taint.

Present cholera scare in distant
parts" said DR.. James B. House OF
Pittsburg, to New York Telegram re-
porter, only reminds us Of the value OF
pure water in large cities.
TT is not unprecedented that some
one should turn up claiming to possess
scientific knowledge that typhoid is not
disseminated by impure water, and
that filtration will not prevent that
cause Of the disease. Persons imagin-
ing that they have wisdom have pro-
fessed readiness to disprove that the
earth is globular or that day and night
are caused by its revolutions.
Nor is 1t remarkable that medi-
um should be found to give currency
to the alleged claim that filtration ex-
penditure is wasted, since notorious
desire to establish that conclusion has
been powerfully assisted by cheerful
and complete ignorance Of the facts
that were established beyond all pos
sibility Of dispute at the inception or
this discussion. Therefore, a little
thing like the proof from scores OF ci-
ties in Europe and America that ty.
phoid and cholera have been distributed
by impure water supplies; that they
were wiped out when the supply was
purified: that in such cases as those
of Berlin, Hamburg and Paris, wnen
there was break in the filtration the
disease reappeared, and that when the
breaks were repaired the diseases again
disappeared-al these we'll established
facts are trivial beside the high purpose
of trumpeting an alleged failure or
filtration"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-03
"Here l am" answered the veritabl

Here l am," answered the veritaple
Jonas, close behind her. "By gosh!
Molly, you're a smart one! The cow
ardly rascals were afraid to tackle us
last night, though we wasn't but two
agin a dozen. They promised not TO
harm US If we give up, and so we give
us, and they chucked us down cellar,
and brought us out here this morning
to breakfast on cold lead-blast their
prof1les! They're got peppered some'
this time, and there's old Travis on
the grass, as dead as mutton!"
1t was the truth-the unerring rifles
Of the rangers had stretched a dozen
forms on the ground of the garden, and
among them was the old inn-keeper,
with a bullet in his breast.
But little more remains for me to
tell George Thornton, in attempting
to escape from the American camp
few days after, was shot dead by
sentinel Jonas White attached him
self to the service Of Campbell, and
fought with him in the army of wash
ington till peace was declared and our
country recognized by the world as
free republic. Then Jessie became
C;ampbelps bride, and Jonas welded his
faithful Molly. For many long years
they lived to enjoy the liberty they had
helped to win, and rejoiced in the
knowledge that the "Star-Spangled
Banner" waved bright on every sea-
respected and honored by every nation
God bless its glorious folds forever!
THE END.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-03
SOME MARRIAGES WRONG.
St. Louis Minister Says Solomon Set
Bad Example to Posterity.


Solomon, with his 700 wives and 300
concubines, set a mighty bad example
that is being followed even to this day,
according to the Rev. DR.. W. c. Bit
ting. who, before the Baptist ministe-
rial meeting here, says the st. Louis
Republic, also attacked matrimonial
brokerage" and marriages for wealth,
physical attractions and social position.
He criticised American girls who mar
nv abroad for titles as baneful blots on
modern society. DR.. Biting, who Is
pastor Of the Second Baptist church,
gave a remarkable and unusual inter-
pretation of 1.-The Song of Solomon"
AS the voluptuous king, assisted by
his harem women, tempted the pure
hearted mountain maid from northern
Palestine with the glamour OF his court
by wealth and jewels, and finally by
offering her the place of queen by his
side, so DR.. Biting declares there Is
system of matrimonial brokerage" to-
day.
What about our women who marry
abroad for title and honor" he de-
manded.
Are we in this age free from these
same temptations? Do not men ana
women in our day marry for money
and purely physical attractions, or So
cial advancement? Do we never see IN
modern marriages the potency OF the
dollar in making alliances, and the am
bition for social distinction? These
Identical temptations still exist. the
rich, the handsome, and the artistocrat
still present attractions. Thousands
are weak, and their yielding has slain
millions Of hearts and homes and has
affected the church and society in the
most baneful way.
You wretched matchmakers must
fail in YOUR schemes. You cannot force
love. You cannot compel it. All your
devices are condemned. Spontaneous
generation is the law Of pure human
action. Matrimonial brokerage is an
insult to the pure heart. No external
treaty of love was ever negotiated by
ambassadors of expediency."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-03
MT. VERNON NJ. E. Church
Story of a Notable Old Methodist
Sanctuary
The FIRST BUILT AT HICKORY GROVE
Records Destroyed During Civil War;
But Some of the History of the Fa-
nous Building Has Been Preserved
In the Memory Of a Septuaaenarian.

But Some of the History of the Fa-
nous Building Has Been Preserved
In the Memory of Septuasenarian.
Written for The Yorkville Enquirer.
1 have been requested to furnish an
historical sketch Of Mount Vernon
church.
Several years ago 1 wrote for The
Enquirer a series of letters under the
caption "reminiscences Of Western
York" but was never able to give a
full or satisfactory write up" Of Mount
Vernon church, for the reason 1 could
never find the records. These with
others data that might and would have
aided greatly in the work, had been
lost or mislaid during the war, when
people Of that section had been forced
to hide out most of their valuables,
papers, etc., in order that they might
escape the torch and touch Of Sher-
mans army vandals of the nineteenth
century.
The records of the church books,
papers, rolls, etc, were kept by the
late Perry Dye or William Berry, the
latter better known to the people Of his
day as little BILLY Berry" However,
these records were never found that I
know of, and as Mr.. Berry was killed
or died, the information they contained
could never be produced. Hence only
such matters as were retained in the
memory was the only available mate
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-03
Would Be No Easy Matter In These
Days of Bustle.

Now that Paris has been deprived
by a fire of its telephone service, the
city is heartily to be congratulated
on the fact that its service was ex-
tremely bad, says the New YORK
Times. Had it been better the pres
ent situation of the Parisians would
be more desperate than it is, for they
would have come to depend upon the
telephone much more than any OF
them except their humorous para
graphers and cartoonists have ever
been able to do-would have come to
depend on it in almost every relation
of public and private life, as have
New Workers, for instance, and in
hardly less degree the inhabitants OF
every American city, town and VII
lage and Of a not very small minority
of American farms
Even in Paris, however, the burn
ing out of the great central station
has so interfered with the conduct or
business that the French capital is de-
scribed in the dispatches as practically
prostrated, commercially" and the
suddenly increased demand for means
of transportation through the streets
for men carrying messages that hith-
erto have been sent over the wires
has thrown everything into inadequacy
and confusion.
Many of us can remember the ante
telephone days and people hardly
middle-aged can recall when tele-
phones began to come into anything
like general use, even in the larger
cities. Their employment was con-
fined, long after they had ceased to
be a novelty, to business houses. In
homes, except of the rich, they were
rare until only a few years ago. Now
they are to be found in every resi-
dence of what is called the better
sort and the very thought Of getting
along without them is almost appall-
ing to multitudes Of people who re-
gard themselves as poor.
That the telephone makes it as
easy to talk to a person ten miles
away as with one in the same room,
marvellous as that would have SEEM
ed to the parents Of most adults and
to the grandfathers of all Of them, is
now taken as a matter of course, but
we can still experience a mild thrill
of wonder when the distance reached
by a gently spoken word covers the
better part of a continent.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-03
TARDY JUSTICE.
Canadian Jurist Comments Upon the
American Court System.

American Court System.
Colonel George T. Denison of Toron-
to, Canada, a police magistrate OF the
Canadian city, said to Washington
Herald reporter that the cause OF the
high percentage Of crimes in the Unit
ed States was because justice miscar-
ried in many instances, and that, con-
seuuently. there was no punishment.
"There is too much temporizing with
Justice and the course Of the law IN
the United States" said the Canadian
Justice. "and this fact being known to
the criminal classes, they do not re-
gard the law with the same awe as we
do in Canada When a person COM
mits a crime in Canada no influence OF
any kind can protect that person from
receiving the punishment which the
law provides It seems to me that Ju-
ries in the United States are too OF
ten tampered with, especially by the
wealthy law-breakers. There Is only
one way to stop crime, and that Is TO
enforce the law and impose sentence
and enforce the same. We used to have
considerable trouble in Toronto with
sneak thieves who would force thelr
way into vacant houses, cutting. out
all the lead water and gas pipes and
selling the same to junk dealers for
trife. I made it a particular point to
impose the limit Of the law on these
thieves when they were brought be-
fore me, and I have succeeded In stop
ing this kind of thievery entirely. AT
one time we suffered much from bicy-
Gle thieves. There were too many COM
plants entirely, and decided to put a
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-03
LIABILITY PROBLEM.
Something That Gives the Employer
Food For Thought.

Food For Thought.
"One of the hardest problems we
have to solve" remarked George Wat
son Ham, Of Atlanta, Ga, to a New
York Telegram reporter, "or rather
that we will soon have to solve, If we
are going to keep up with the countries
of the Old World, in the protection Of
the life and health Of the individual
worker, is the employers liability.
"A human life was very precious
thing in 1875, but few hundred years
Of refinement have placed one life at
a minimum value. When a man Is
blown into the air by a noontime blast
Of dynamite in some great building ex-
cavation the idle lunch hour crowd
rushes to the. scene with an eager,
morbid interest, but the man who is a
block away and does not hear the blast
never learns Of that mans death.
About this time every year the sta
tisticians tell us how many men were
killed in our coal mines during the
last twelve months. The figures are
increasing, as are also the fatalities on
our railroads, and yet I doubt very
much If the American people will be
willing to pay more for coal and more
for railway travel simply because the
miners and trainmen must be protect
ed.
You know when you give protection
to millions of day workers in our ha-
zardous branches Of business you
add millions to the cost Of the necessi-
ties of life. At the end we must esti-
mate the value of a human life by the
amount it costs us to protect that life.
So 1t comes down to this: How much
are you willing to pay for the protec-
ton Of the life of a workman whom
you never saw, never will see and who
is Of little consequence to your"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-03
MORAL STRENGTH.
A Necessary Element to Success on
the Field of Battle.


According to Napoleon, three-fourths
of an army's success in war Is due to
the moral character Of It's soldiers.
Now more than ever, says General Ku-
ropatkin in McClure's, must sue
cessful war be a popular war. Con-
tinuing, he says:
1.-THE recent contest in Manchuria
was a popular war for the Japanese,
but not for us. The Korean question
and the question Of naval supremacy on
the waters Of the Pacific involved vital
Japanese interests, and the immense
Importance of these interests was so
clearly understood and so fully appre-
ciated by the Japanese people that the
war for their protection was a nation
al war. Japanese soldiers, deeply con-
scious Of the bearing that their exploits
might have on the future of the coun-
try, fought with self-sacrificing de-
votion and a stubbornness that we had
never seen in any war in which we had
previously engaged. Sometimes, In
villages that we had taken by assault,
handful Of Japanese soldiers would
barricade themselves in native houses
and die there rather than retreat or
surrender. Japanese officers who fell
into our hands-even wounded officers
generally committed suicide. In
some cases Japanese mothers even kill
ed themselves when their sons, on ac-
count Of weakness or i'll health, were
denied admission to the army. Hun
dreds of men volunteered to undertake
the most desperate enterprises, In the
face of certain death, and many off,
GERS and soldiers before going to the
front had funeral ceremonies performed
over their bodies in order to show that
they intended to die for their native
land. &" Military history shows that
in all wars the antagonist who Is
strongest morally wins the victory. The
only exceptions are such contests as
that between the English and the Beers
in South Africa and that between the
north and the south in America"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-03
IN CHINA.
Some Experiences Of an American Ex-
plorer.

Some Experiences Of an American Ex-
plorer.
Frank n. Meyer went to China with
a sort of carte-blanche commission
from the United States government.
Here was the proposition for the ex-
plorer: The United States practically
includes every variety of climate and
soil, barring the Arctic. Yet many
sections Of the United States lie fallow,
marked barren" Now Corea ana
China and Russia have areas with the
same climate and the same soil; but
those areas are not marked "barren.
They are cultivated so they support
a population prolific as rats. Meyer
was sent to see what grew in those re-
gions, to see how 1t grew, to examine
gardens and farms, to learn the fall-.
ures and to learn the successes OF
those foreign peoples who have been
cultivating arid soil more centuries
than the United States number years.
to do all this and to send back speci-
mems of plant growth and of seeds
that gave promise of development. IN
the United States.
Very simple, it sounds, doesn't 1t?
It was not at all simple in reality. l.
would take book to give the eXplor'
er's experiences. The quest led hin-
to the far interior, where Chinese
soldiers dare not go. It led him to
regions known as banditti haunts
like the border marches Of England
in the days of Picts and Scots
Coolies deserted him in panic terror.
Horses could neither be bought or
hired. Baggage had to be carried for
ward on RATS and wheelbarrows.
Night after night, weeks and
months at a stretch, the explorer had
to sleep in village inns on earthern
floors where the house scraps and
filth Of ten years stunk in veritable
cesspool. The water was not only bad,
but it was sheer poison-a vile con-
coction of rain and sewage. Vermin
infested every inch Of such abodes
and flies in clouds corrupted food as
fast as it was exposed. Meyers food
was canned meat, biscuits and tea.
What with the smell and the vermin,
restful sleep was out Of the question.
OF course, the mans health went
utterly to pieces. 1t wasn't case or
an illness with a beginning and an
end. 1t was a case Of never being
we'll: and the invalided scientist was
surrounded by banditti ruftians who
had never before seen foreign dev-
H." and treated him to such courte-
sizes as one may guess, staring In at
every crevice and crack, day and
night, in mobs; examining him from
the hair of his head to the soles of his
feet; lying to him and jeering at him
if he asked questions through his In
terpreter; accusing him Of the evil
eve if he examined their gardens; de-
manding extortionate prices when he
attempted to buy seeds and specimens;
in fact, treating him exactly as our
own criminal population might treat
Chinese explorer If we had no po-
lice; and the Chinese police had fore
warned Meyer they could nor protect
him in these regions.
Did Meyer turn back? Not much.
He wore a good revolver and protect
ed himself.-Outing.