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Daily picayune., 1908-10-07
LETTER FROM JIM SNODGRASS

To the Honorable Sons of Rest
 According to promise, l am again for the good of the order. l am just in off another long trip and find we stand pat. Our calling and election is sure.
 The only thing that embar- ases me in appearing before you is that I was educated in an ear ly day, which is not modern and up to date with the with the smart Alex" of today. Out side of going to school at Fay etteville a short term in 1873 when Prof. Gates was President People at that time were big hearted. They were not stingy. When they built a school house they cut down trees, split them one half open and made the walls without ever taking the bark off, had rib poles for raft CTS, weight poles for nails to hold boards on, split logs for seats. There were no patent seats. Tue only pupils that leant back were those that got in first when thu teacher hol- lered books, and got seat next to the wall. We dare not look up while in the school room for the sawyers would throw saw dust in our eyes.
 Look at today. These sudden changes are what give us the grip, yet the doctors can't ac- count for 1t. l can. It IS said by the smart Alex of today that the people are wiser than ever
Daily picayune., 1908-10-07
CAMPBELL IS POISONED

Little Rock, Oct. 7.-Some- thing eaten last night by Prose- cutting Attorney Roy D. Camp bell caused ptomaine poisoning before morning, and for several hours the physicians remained at the home of the prosecuting at torney before they were able to assure the family che poison would not prove fatal.
Daily picayune., 1908-10-07

before but it is not acbording to the Bible. The good book tells us that what is to be has already been, and that what has already been is to be. That shows that people in ancient days had the same smart spells we do today. They did not know what was best TOT them to do and what they did do put them out of bus mess.
 They were right where the farmers stand today. The farm CT reads so much about Andrew Carnegie, the Rothchilds and others that they want to get rich quick and they undertake to raise cotton to get wealth but verify l say unto you that their last state is worse than their first for they now find them- selves without corn, without meat, without God and without nope in the world and that to come. The bible tells us that those of us who do not provide for our own households are worse than Infidels, and a large per cent of us are not doing it. The northern farmer tells us he cannot afford to feed any more corn to hogs with the fancy prices they are getting for corn. That means that during 1909 we will have to live on bread alone. This is the initiatory degree. next year will be the first. That will be one of the most impress sive degrees. It teaches us to work out our own salvation with
Daily picayune., 1908-10-07
NIGHT RIDERS
 AT JONESBORO
Burn Three Houses When Demands are Unheeded-
 Warning at Dumas.

Jonesboro, Oct. 6.-News has reached here of the burning of two residences and one tenement house by night riders. causing a loss of more than $4,OOO. The fires, which occurred Sunday night at Leslie, followed the receipt of warnings from night riders, the demands of which could not be fulfilled by the farmers warned.
 In this instance the price of cotton had nothing to do with the depredations of the night maraudeas who demanded that better and more houses be built for tenants and that better fen. ces be built.
 The houses burned were the property of William Stewart and Andrew Schug. Both live near Lester in the northern part of Craighead county. The fires were set Sunday night while the families were at church. When they returned they found their homes in ruins.
 Dumas, Oct. 6.-John H. Brad ley, a prominent farmer living at Avery Postofice, 10 miles west of this place, brought to town this morning the first evidence of the existence of night riders in this part of the country.
 The following notice was found pinned to his front gate:
 MT. Bradley: will tell you for your good, don't gin or sell any cotton that is made on your entire place. Be sure and read this carefully, for you will be re- sponsible for your own or any cotton raised on your entire place. Burning.
 Mr. Bradley says the message worries him very much and he came here for advice from the business people as to the proper course to pursue.
Daily picayune., 1908-10-07
PRICE: TWO CENTS.

fear and trembling. This trem- bling this time will be caused by weakness. from having to work on bread alone. If us farmers don't quit our foolishness we are goners. Thesmerchants have been trying to curry us along so long that they find it useless. They have been.hereiof late turn ing us out on the grass the first of June. Next year they will turn us out the 18th of April. l can't blame them. They are the only people that can help us and if we don't make a chance at once we can only live from the time vegetation puts up in the spring until it dies out in the fall.
 The jay birds and peckerwoods are beating some of us making a living. They do put food enough in hollow trees to last till spring and we don't.
 Now if the editor can digest this through his press, the next article will be especially to the auxiliary of the Sons of Rest. Brother Orr has done a wonder fui word in that line. Hoping this article will meetlthe hearty approval of President Hitchcock, I remain, Yours Truly, for the Good of the Order,
 JAS. SNODGRASS,
 Campaign Mgr, Sons of Rest.
 JnUUa | ID Conway of ToYar-
Daily picayune., 1908-10-07

Jngge J. D. Conway of Texar- kama was in the city yesterday afternoon.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06

face of their fellow Moslem.
Amid Kisses and shouts and the ~clapping of
hands Hifsi Bey, the man who escaped when
Shimsi Pasha was shot. and who made his way
secretly from Monastir into Albania. there at
tempting to stir the ignorant tribes against the
new regime-Hifsi Bey. the palace spy" was
dragged back to the train which would take him
down to Salonica and to prison. AS the train
moved on its way, conveying with Hifsi the re-
turning exiles whom he and his like had caused
to be driven from the country, the ragged band
struck up the Turkish "Marseillaise."
When the soldiers started back to their bar
racks high above the Varder (the Axius of ancient
times) they were cheered everywhere, even by
Bulgarian and other kommittajes, revolutionists,
still armed, whom a few weeks ago under the sui
tan's government they would have shot on sight.
The following of -Mohammedans who trailed
through the dust on the heels of the soldiers, did
not now, as in other days. go out Of their way to
push Christian women off the f~ootpaths. Even
the Albanians-a wicked-looking crowd Of bril-
gands recently let out of prison in the general am
esty-did not swagger as they hitherto were
wont.
l went with the mob out over the Roman
bridge that spans the river and up to the heights
Of the citadel; for the telegraph office is there, and
/ had a dispatch to send on. knew the old censor
from other days and was greeted as of old, with
proners of cigarettes and Turkish coffee. Around
him were the same old satellites, sitting on divans,
legs crossed under hem-the civil administration
has not yet been purged of its unnecessary num-
bers.
There is no censorship now; you may send
what you please, efendi. We are now all Young
Turks.P said the old frock-coated villain.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06

the ominous shout of "Padishahimiz chok ~yasha!"
('The Padisha, long may he live!"), which one
could hear up to a few weeks ago, delivered horri-
bly, over the ruins of massacred villages.
The lunch had begun and every one was put
ting questions-"What does Europe think of us
now?" What is the latest news here?"-when
a loud, significant murmur from the crowd without
lulled the chattering and all eyes turned toward
the door.
With curses, two other young officers stumbled
into the room dragging a third, a tall Turk with
a terrible nose-a bald-headed man with a heavy
white mustache. No fee, no sword had he, and
has dark blue jacket was rent at the shoulders,
where his epaulets had been torn on. He was
pale as death and sweat rolled from his hooked
nose and his chin and chung in drops to his thick
gray eyebrows.
This is Hitsi Bey," the newcomers told to
their fellows. All the army knew Hifsi Bey, a
trusted man of the saltan.
In the center of the room, under an oil lamp
to which were hung little Turkish flags, the word
Liberty" in Turkish, sewn in below the star and
crescent, was a square table covered with a white
cloth. though uDoccupied. Someone shouted TO
put the frightened prisoner there and, half-dragged
by his captors, up he went.
His head struck the lamp, for, as l have said,
he was tall, and set 1t swinging over him, taunt-
ingly waving the blood-colored flags, now no
longer the emblem of CHASTITY despotism. The
two young men on the table with the prisoner
showed his bowed head back upon his shoulders
and spat into his eyes.
80 be it to spiesi" they shouted, and spat
again. $50 be it to enemies of their brothers."
Again and again, muttering phrases like these,
which the whole room cheered, they spat into the
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06

Yes" I wanted to say, because it is good for
your skins to be Young Turks" l could not say
this, of course, but an opportunity came in a mo-
ment.
What do you think of the way our young men
have treated Hifsi Bey today? Do you approve?
Do you think we do right?" There was a good
deal OF audacity in that "we;" none of them
would have dared to use it had any Of the young
officers been present.
I'm my opinion it was very gentle treatment"
I replied. "In America we would hang spies"
Hang them! You mean" and the former
censor gurgled. and put his fingers significantly to
his neck.
Yes" 1 nodded.
A shudder went through the room; the old
Turks looked at one another, and there was a mo-
ment of significant silence.
There have been several we'll known palace
men brought down from Albania this last week,
among them Muzafer Pasha and Ismail Pasha,
scoundrels of the old regime. They had to fee
somewhere when the Young Turks began shooting
spies and went up into Albania, and in a last des-
perate effort attempted to rouse the Albanians
Ito save their sultan"
Their mission had a certain effect, which for a
day last week seemed threatening to the youthful
reformers. Stirred by the stories of the spies, the
old Albanian chiefs sent for the members of the
Young Turk committee at Mitrovitza, told them
that they had heard that the sultan would be as
sassinated, or at least dethroned, and demanded
assurances that he would not be molested and
would be allowed to remain Padisha. supreme re-
ligious head Of the nation. To this the ever con-
c~iliatory Young Turks agreed, giving assurance ia
writing. FREDERICK MOORE.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06
Work for Union Pacific

1t has been given to few men in the advertising business to
exploit interests of such far-reaching importance a those which en-
crossed the efforts Of Darlow. In the first place, here was the great
est of transcontinental railways just released from the bondage of
financial strtngency, reorganiIed and set on its course of develop
msnt 1t traversed the most rapidly developing empire of natural
resources In the world. With its main line and tributaries 1t pene-
trated the remotest corners OF this kingdom of agricultural and min
eral wealth. Its tracks were the arteries that permeated a system
OF untold and unfathomable riches. Beneath its roadbeds lay gold,
silver and coal in inexhaustible volume, and along its right of way
stretched land and reared mountains pregnant with undevooped
fortunes. Its terminus on the east va the gateway to this realm
OF wealth, its extremity on the west led TO the Golden Gate, which
opened On the trackless trail to the Orient, the objective point of
the kings OF American and European commerce,
1t was such a subject that invited the efforts of Alfred Darlow,
an opportunity few could have Under the new regime the Union
Pacific a destined to become a vital element in the development
Of this empire, ana on its advertising department much depended.
A campaign of colonization was one of the means decided on. Irt-
cation was another. The physical reconstruction of the road was
still another. The people of the United States, of Canada, Mexico,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06
High Exponent of Business

Alfred Darlow, the advertising agent of the Union Pacific, who
completed twenty years of service with that company and resigned
September /, S a high exponent of the advertising business. He
is one of the men who has gwen to it and derived from it those eN-
ments of constructive and productive value that have made of it a
the same influence on any business, for his is a jealous, faithful
character, impatient Of success, intoerable of failure, thorough, ex-
haustive in whatever the task may be.
Fortunately Darlow was eminently fitted for his work; and yet
not trained with any reference to it. He received a thorough classic
prodigousy. This, experimenting a natural craving for knowledge,
a discriminative intelligence, ability to read men and things with
prompt decision, and the power to gather and present facts in their
most formidable manner-theee elements are a few of those that
enabled this man to succeed in the advertising world and leave for
himself an imprint which will require a longer period than that he
has devoted to the business to efrace.
Railroad advertising requires a wider range of research than
does many another line of trade and demands a more varied class
OF productions. For this reason It really is necessary for a man to
devote some years to his work before he can hope to become of any
great value to his road. And yet the task of the average railroad
advertising agent today, under the new order OF things, is not to be
compared with that which confronted Alfred Darlow when he took
up the work on the Union Pacific or at various stages of its progress.
It must be remembered that the Union Pacific has had an unique
history in the railroad world. From a government-subsidized rail-
way 1t became a bankrupt line and went into the hands of receivers,
where II remained for several years The crucial test of advertising
came when this road was redeemed from the receivers, purchased
by e. H. Hartman in 1897, and by him reorganized. Darlow took
full charge of his department at that time and entered upon an
epoch-making campaign of advertising. When he, rather unexpect-
eddy, handed in his resignation a few days ago and the matter was
brought to the attention of Vice-President Mohler, the operating head
of the Union Pacific, the comment was:
cit will be a keen loss to the Union Pacific"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06
No One in His Place

When General Passenger Agent Lomax was asked who would
take Mr.. Darlows place, he replied:
mo one, the passenger department will look out for the work"
Mr.. Lomax, OF course. meant no reflection upon the man who
was to take up the details of the work, but he spoke a great truth
when he said mo one would take Darlows place" A man who could
not make a place for himself in such a capacity would come far short
of measuring up to the possibilities of the office. And Darlow made
that place. 1t was because of this fact and the general appreciation
of 1t that prompted the epitomized tribute from the vice president
of the company.
Darlow has a faith in the power Of advertising that is Is simple
and sound as the faith of a child in the unerring rectltude and wis
dom of its parents To him there is no Limitation to the possibilities
of printers ink. And why should there be2 Why should a man
who has wrought such results with legitimate advertising doubt the
magic of it's charm or the power of Its possibilities? Il Is no untried
experiment with him; 1t is a proven fact, a demonstrated principle.
He knows, for instance, that the widely circulated newspaper is the
voice that speaks with a million tongues to tens of millions Of ears.
He knows that men depend for their information very largely upon
what they read in the press, the daily press taking precedence in his
judgment as the most potent factor in this system OF education. But
in the vast and varied campaign OF railroad advertising the little
pamphlet, the folder, the chart, map, book and brochure have their
place, and they were employed to excellent advantage by this man
in his many years OF service. Indeed, the fine, finished skill of his
talents found much Of their best play and versatility in the wide
scope given them by this interesting line OF work.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06
His Private Life

Mr.. Darlow was born and reared in London and educated at
oxford, taking a classical course. He travelled extensively over
Europe and other portions of the Old World and came to the. United
States when a young man. He went to st. Louis, and from there
came to Omaha in 1888, beginning his service in the passenger de-
partment of the Union Pacific, He held a subordinate clerkship at
first, was later ticket agent, cashier, and finally became the adver-
Using agent. His scope of authority and operation was much wider
than that usually given advertising agents. He was in fact, though
not in name, manager of the advertising department.
Mr.. Darlow was married to Miss Anna Borglum, daughter OF
DR.. and Mrs. J. M. Borglum of Omaha, some eighteen years ago.
They have three interesting children. Ida, Clarence and Dorothy.
who is a sister of the distinguished artists and scup-
tors, Gutson and Scion BorgIum, is a talented woman. and she and
Mr.. Darlow went from the altar before which they became man and
wife to the hearthstone and there established another altar, an altar
of the most genuine, beautiful domestic felicity. Their nome. their
children constitute a world of comfort that grows bigger and
better each day to them. A large and well-ordered library is one Of
the chief features of this home. That library has been selected
with studio discrimination as to the tastes and needs of each member
of the family. Each child, as 1t comes into a new stage of childhood,
finds the exact food for thought best calculated to nourish and de-
velop its mind. II is one of the largest, most complete and valuable
libraries in the city.
Mr.. Darlow IL a member of the Omaha and Commercial clubs
and is decidedly popular among business and social acquaintances.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06
Student of the West

Well, Darlow had already been a student of the west, but now
he redoubled the intensity of his zeal to know this country. In short,
he became an authority on the west. With its early and current
history, Its resources, its development, topography and population
he became familiar. He exploited the country more thoroughly,
perhaps, than has any other one man, This great kingdom became
the playground of this mans energies and talents. Over every mile
Of its boundless area he has travelled and retraveled, and on 3very
phase of its character he has written. having his work illustrated
with artistic excellence, and to every quarter of the globe his works
have gone. Today he has a library Of several hundred books per-
tanning to the west. and many of them are his own production.
Natures Observation-Disclosures along the rolling prairies of Ne
braska, up the lofty SUBMITS of the Rockies and Sierras, in the
wierd wnds and fantastic hooks of the Yellowstone, or even on the
placid waters of the Pacific and the lakes and rivers Intervening
has been made more vivid and precious to hundreds of thousands of
people by the power of this mans pen and his artists brush or cam
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06

SkUB, Macedonia, Aug. 16.-Some time
between IL and l o'clock each day the
so-called express on its way down from
Servia to Salonica draws in to the rail-
way station here. It awaits then the
coming of a mixed goods and passenger train from
Metrovitza, on the border of Albania, that closed
country. the most westerly of the Turkish empire,
which Abdul Hamid has always kept lawless as a
barrier to Europe.
All Uskub In these days goes to the railway
station for the arrival of the trains, which usually
takes place within the hour. Turks, Albanians,
Bulgarians, Serbs, Greeks and Tziganes (gypsies),
each distinguishable by their dress, made way yes
terday for a line of troops-picked men, chosen
for the scarcity of patches in their trousers, for
there were present also a number of foreign con-
suls and newspaper correspondents, and the young
officers now conducting the Turkish government
are thoroughly ashamed of the ~sultan's ragged
men-of-arms.
There could be, however, no choice of mu-
sicians from the single band of the garrison, an
almost shoeless, threadbare crew, whose martial
conductor leads them not with a mere baton, but
with his sword. The soldiers had been brought
TO do honor to Ave young Turks who had long been
exiles, but were now returning in triumph from
Parts to the new headquarters of their party at
Salonica.
Being a privileged character. the correspondent
Of an American paper, l entered the station
restaurant, where the local committee of young
officers had served a lunch for their FIVE compa-
triots in European dress. There was a brief
speech Of welcome by Jaafer Bey, a thin young
man with a slight lisp, the leader here; a speech
by one OF the exiled followed; then the three long
cheers for liberty, people and country-no longer
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06
Triumph for "a. Darlow"

Simple matter, easy enough. True. How many of those sim
pie, easy things get away from us, though! Strange! To many and
many a man it would not have been a simple matter, and many a
man would have met failure where this man encountered success.
There was a popular personality back of it all, a certain magnetism
that does not radiate from every bosom. Anyway, 1t has gone down
on the records as a distinct triumph for "A. Darlow."
For many years Mr.. Darlow has compiled and issued for the
Union Pacific crop and soil bulletins and reports that have given
Union Pacific crop and soil bulletins and reports that have given him
some claim to being a statistcian, and ingradated him and his
company in the good graces of the farmer and business man. Hyper
critical in the detail of his work, Danow's statements always had
the element of scrupulous fidelity, and this gave to them a standing
of much value. Annually he has issued volumes pertaining to the
products of the various states in Union Pacific territory. They In
volved laborious work, but filled a large want.
Divertng his efforts into such channels a these marked Oar
low as no ordinary hack and showed him.to be not only equal to
his task, but, larger, a man of resource, initiative and creative force.
He raised the sphere of his profession to a high standard and set a
difficult pace for those who follow.
And all this is recognized by the best and most scientific adver-
Using men in the country. A few such. fifty in number, recently
tinguished ST. Elmo Lewis of Michigan. When Mr.. Lewis got ready
to select his associates he called on Alfred Darlow, bidding him come
in. He did. This little company meets once or twice a year in some
city of the country and INDUCES in social intercourse.
With a weather eye always open to the future, Darlow has been
able by making good investments to accumulate until the present
finds him in comfortable circumstances. When he decided that the
end of the second decade would be a good time for him to lay down
the work of the Union Pacific he stepped out of the railroad head
quarters where he was a n employee into another Office uptown, where
he was the employer. Some two years previous he had secured con-
troll of tho Thompson Advertising agency, to which he annexed a
large clipping bureau, and he resigned to take full charge of this
business, which has grown extensively since he acquired it. Aside
from this, he possessed other interests that demanded more time
than he could give them before.