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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-29
HONESTY in CHINA.
You Can Trust Native TO eersorl
Whatsver He Promises.

You Can Trust Native to eerssr
Whatever He Promises.
Chinese life or the phases Of Il
that you see along the highroads Of
the northwest would appear to be q
very simples honest life, industrious,
methodicaE, patient IN poverty
writes Samuel Merwin IN his book,
Dragging a Nation @The men,
even Of the lowest classes, are coura
teous to a degree that would shame
a Frenehman.
Il have seen two soldiers, writes
Ar. Merwin, swho earned 10 or %
cents day greet my cook With such
grace and charm Of manner that ]
felt ike a crude barbarian IS ]
watched them.
You soon learn IN China thai
you can trust a Ghinaman 70 cal1y
through anything he agrees 70 d
for you. When I reached Taiyuan-
III l handed my interpreter q Chi
nese draft for $500, Mexican, paY-
able to bearer, and told him to -.
to the bank and bring back tie
money. | had known John q little
over q week, yet any one Who knows.
China viii understand that ] Nas
running no appreciable risk, and
the outcome justified my faith.
@The individual Chinaman =
simply part Of a family, the fanli-
" is part Of a neighborhood, the
neighbcrhood is part Of a village q
district, and so on.
"In all Its relations with the cen
tral government the province IS ~
sponsible for the affairs Of its larger
districts, these for the smaller dr.
tricts, the smaller districts for tie
villages, the villages for the neigh
borhoods, the neighborhoods for
the family, the family for the ind
yidual.
'If John had disappeared WITH
my money after cashing the drLf3
punishment would have been swift
and severe. Very likely he would
have lost his head. II the authori=
ties had been unable to find John
they would have punished his famf-
". Punishment would surely have
fallen upon somebody.
sThe real effect Of this system,
continued as it has been through
unnumbered centuries, has natural
ly been to develop a clear, keen
sense of personal responsibility. For
whatever may occur somebody +
responsible. The family IN order
to protect itself trains its individ-
uals to live upito their promises or
else not to make promises. The
neighborhood, well knowing that It
Will be held accountable tor Us
units watches them with a close
eye:
"When a new family comes into
aneighborhood the neighbors crowd
about and ask questions which, IN
view of the facts, are not SO imper-
tinent as they might sound. In
deed, this sense Of family and neigh
borhood accountability is so deeply
rooted that it is not uncommon on
the failure of a merchant to meet
his obligations for his family and
friends to step forward and help
to settle his accounts. It is the
only way in which they can clear
themselves"
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-29
Just As Good q She.

"John," said Mrs. Parvenu vea1i-
", but with decision, Il must have
consultation Of physicians"
EBut, Maria," he protested, @you
have nothing but a cold in the
head"
Cant help it" she answered.
@When Mrs. Brown was sick last
winter she had a consultation Of
physicians, and I guess We can af-
ford anything that the Browns
can Chicago Post.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-29
HAVE YOU SEEN IT?
THE LAST ISSUE OF THE CINCINNATI
ENQUIRER.

or. any recent issue? If not, you
know nothing of the wonderful bet
terments its pages exhibit, or what
valuable, instructive, and cheer Civ
ing weekly visitor you are missing.
We are aiming and will make it
the very
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-29
SICK PASSENGERS DEMAND CARE.

Contentious that special care given
by railroad employees to passengers
who become i'll is merely voluntary
courtesy and it not regarded by law
as duty of public carriers, received
blow in the opinion given out by
counsel of the Pennsylvania railroad
for the benefit of officials. 1t indi-
Gates sick passengers can demand
special care as a right. Trainmen are
warned if passenger is permitted to
go on a train when he is known to
be either physically or mentally IL
or becomes helpless during the jour
ney, it is the company's duty to care
for him as well as possible on the
train and see that proper accommo-
dasion is made for him when he is
tlken of.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-29
RAILROADS MUST OBEY.


Washington, Dec. ss "A SHARP
notice has been sent out to the rail-.
roads by the interstate commerce
commission, warning them that
failure hereafter to obey the orders
of the commission either through
misunderstanding or negligence Of
employees will be treated as an an
intentional violation. This comes a.
a result of the action of several rail.
roads which have failed to comply
with the commissions orders and
then excused themselves by blaming
some employees.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-29

If people only said what they
thought there wouldn't be near the
amount of talking there is now.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-29

Passenger Con branch line)-say
Why does the engine always set up
such a piteOus howl at this particular
spoti
Guasd-Ah!itw was here heengineer
frst met his wife.-Kansas City Jour-
nal.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-29
A FAMOUS STEAMBOAT
TIE STORY OF The OLD MISSISSIPPI
RACER. ]. n. RHITE.

! A4ASAlAs - Alls
Steamboat days on the ohie
and Mississippi have given rise to =.
mythology entirely American, II
which certain famous names are re.
peated endlessly. One hears old nv.
er men accounting tales that seem tc
have to do always with the Eclipse
and the Shotwell, the Lee and the
Nasehez or some other pair of IA
nous racers which were the fastest
in their day. But there Is one name
which always stands alone, that d
the steam packet, ]. N. White, fol
many years the unrivaled holder Of
records of river speed.
There was but one ]. NJ. White,
and no other could be built. The
story Is related by Archer B. Hull
bert in his book on the Ohio river.
The J. N. White was built at
Elizabeth, Pa, in 1874. Billy King,
bOatman famous for many years,
drew the plans. He figured to nj
cety the contour of the hull so that
there should be but two waves drag
ged by it when under way. Then he
SO located the side wheels that they
should strike the second wave at its
crest and SO convert this obstacle to
speed into benefit.
Mr.. J. NJ. Converse, who was to
build the boat, objected strenuouslY
to this plan of putting the wheels 60
feet aft of the accepted place
I win make her this way or not
at ALL said King. Converse APP
pealed to Mr.. Chouteau of St. Louis,
who was furnishing the money.
Let King do what he thinks
best, . was the owners answer. So
the White was built as planned, al
though river men scofed.
On its first run it placed the de-
signer at the head of his profession.
1t ran from New Orleans tost. Louis
against the full current of the Miss
issippi in three days, twenty-three
hours and nine minutes, fully day
under the best previots time.
River men in St. St. Louis fairly
besieged Billy King to design them a
boat to beat the White. They Of
fered him unheard of sums. To all
his his refusal was the same.
when any man designs boat to
beat the time of the White, then /
will draft one to beat his
The builders draft of the White
was lost, and until the boat was worn
out and cast away no one thought to
take another from the hull. So after
a few short years-for the life of
river boat is brief-the only draft of
it was that which the designer had
kept, and this he refused to let any
man see. He had gone to St. Louis
and from there he wrote home to
friend.
Bring my wife to St. Louis as
soon as she can get ready. Go into
the attic of my house, and under the
comb of the roof you will find model
in box. Bring that box with you.
Do not open it or allow any one to
see it. Lock it in stateroom on
the boat and leave it there till you
reach St. Louis. l will pay all ex-
penses.
When they reached St. Louis his
first inquiry was for the model, and
upon securing it he took it at once to
his house. He opened it in the pres
ence of his wife and his friend and
showed them beautiful model of
the White in walnut and pine several
feet long.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-29

A girls idea of having agOod time
is to do something she Thought would
b. fun because she wasn't allowed to
do it.
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issue carrying quantity and quality
of reading equal to best Monthly
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clubs of 5 at 75cts each.
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Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24
Ben B. Lindsey
on Work Of the
Juvenile Court
Says it Will Not Stop Crime, but Can
Do Much to Lessen Number
of 0ffenses.

Judge Ben b. Lindsey OF the Juvenile
court OF Denver, while on his wey to Belle
willie, Kan. to deliver a c~hautauqua lecture,
was taken slightly i'll on a train and stop
ped off at Omaha to rest up. He is due to
lecture at Belleville Saturday.
Laws enacted by the recent Colorado
legislature have given the Denver juvenile
court much greater power to deal with
youthful law breakers" he explained, and
increased immensely the efficiency OF its
work. Under the new law we have a
chancory division of the court through
which the parents are made to cooperate
with us in making children obey the laws
Of the state. Formerly, we had a chancery
division for the children, but now the work
is with the parents. and all cases are done
In this division of the court.
This juvenile court can never stop youth
ful crimes, but it can do a great deal to
lessen the number of offenses. All we
plan to do in Denver is to use Christian
nae. hods in dealing with the children We
pan 10 get at them through their parents
by making them obey their elders. The new
Law forces the parents to lend us their aid
and we already have done much this sum
mer that was impossible before"
Judge Lindsey spoke of the omaha juven-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24
George Orr Loses
Life in Breakers
Son of Attorney for Missouri Pacific
Drowned While Swimming
in San Diego.

George Click Orr, son Of James w. Orr,
general attorney OF the Missouri Pacific at
Atchison, was drowned Thursday morning
on the beach at San Diego, Cal. Mr.. Orr
was married on June q to Miss Florence
Guerrier Of Atchison and they were on
their wedding trip. He was bathing on the
beach and was carried out to sea by a
breaker before help could reach him. His
body has not been found.
Mr.. Orr had just been appointed local at
torney for the Burlington and Rock Island
at Atchison, He was Is years old. His
father and mother are now in Canada and
have not been reached by a message. A
new house, all furnished, was awaiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Orr's return.
Mr.. Orr had been repeatedly warned
about the danger of the breakers, but as
he was an expert swimmer, he did not heed
the warning until It was too late.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24
NOT FOR FlDo, FOR IRWIN, YES
Intelligent Dog Aids Master in Fight,
but EVades Arrest by TAX
ing Flight,

VIII Irwin, a teamster living at 221S Paul
street, has an intelligent dog that places
such trust in it's master that whatever is
done by Irwin is regarded by the dog as
all right for 1t to do.
So when Irwin, TO celebrate the Inaugural
ton Of the fourth week of enforcement OF
the s o'clock law, became duly hilarious
Thursday night after %quenching a large
number of thirsts and got into a little
squabble in the Palace pool hall on Four
teenth street, the dog did likewise.
Only Fido was smart enough to get out
of the way when Policeman Flynn hove in
sight, whereas Irwin was taken to jail
He was discharged in the morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24
GASOLINE STOVES SET TWO
FIRES EARLY IN MORNING
Housewives Disturbed in Getting
by Explosions of
the Tanks.

Two fires starting from gasoline stoves
were bit out by the fire department dur
ing the twelve hours ending at 6 O'Clock
Friday morning. No persons were burned
in either and the losses were nominal.
Mrs. Joseph Grippando, 1871 South Fifth
street, was standing almost over her gas
oline stove filling it while 1t was lighted.
The flames caught in the fluid and did
500 damage to building and contents before
the fire was extinguished.
While Mrs. Lee G. Moore, 1925 North
Seventeenth street, was getting breakfast
Friday morning, she discovered that the
gasoline tank on her stove was empty.
She took the tank off and filled It out
doors, but a~ccidenty spilled some OF the
gasoline on the stove when replacing the
tank. The resulting blaze entailed a loss
of 500.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24
Call Of Harvest
Field is Heard
Army Of Workers Fits to the Coun-
try to Bring Home the
Sheaves.

The army Of unemployed has heard the
call OF the farmers in the Dakotas for har-
vest hands and are hurrying there in
answer to the appeal from the wheat fields.
For two days trains going north from
the Union station to the Dakotas have
been carrying scores of men bound for
the harvest fields Of those states. Accord
ing to the depot officials the men seeking
work in the north outnumber those of any
previous summer for the last three years.
It is a motley crowd that is going north,
too, being composed Of former farm laborers.
tramps and college students wanting work
until the middle Of September.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24
New Rails Delay
Job of Repaving
Cunning Street Must Wait on Street
Railway Company's New
Equipment.

Delay in paving Cunning street is caused
by the nonarrival of the heavy rails and
special work which the Omaha & Council
Bluffs street railway will use on that street.
The company has ordered ~1O0-pound rails,
which will be used in the downtown sec
tons wherever the streets are newly paved.
These larger rails will require special work
at all intersections. The street railway
company has ordered these, but has written
to the paving contractor that it did not
know that the street was to be paved until
fall and that the special work will not be
on hand until September l.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24

state generally has not had the trouble
with too much moisture which has troubled
the eastern section, but has had an ample
supply to mature all crops, and the har-
vest is excellent in quality and will bring
a good return to the farmers who nave
been spreading out their acreage of grain
to a great extent every year.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24
Kind Treatment.

It was in Egypt. and the old lady in the
tourist party was much interested in the
camel boy and his camel.
"He is a good beast?" said the old lady,
interrogatively.
Yes, ma'am," responded the boy in
broken English.
And you treat him well?'
"Ah, lady, l have driven that camel five
years now, and never once nave 1 struck
him a blow"
Dear mel Such humane treatment Of
dumb brutes is worthy of consideration.
Here is q silver piece for you"
Thank you, lady, very much, No, 1
never strike Rameses. When he is bad 1
twist his tail."-Chicago News,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24
CUTS DOWN LIGHTING BILLS
More Than Hundred Dollars n Month
for First Six Months of
the Year.

City Electrician Michaelsen has deducted
S747.F for outage from the bill Of the
Omaha Electric Light and Power company
for street lighting for the first six months
Of the current year. For every hour a
street lamp is dark 2.@ cents is deducted
and street lamps were dark 1894 hours
during the last six months. Most Of this
dark period was in February. when storms
d~lsarranged the wires.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24

lie court, commencing its work and Judge
Estelle's success as it's head.
You have 8 good Juvenile court here"
he said, land I think 1t is one Of the best
in the country. I have watched its work
and think 1t is doing much for Omaha's
children. Judge Estelle is a personal friend
of mine and I believe he is one Of the best
judges that could be selected for a Juvenile
court"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24
Nebraska'S Municipal Problems

The Commercial Clubs and similar organ
i~zations scattered over Nebraska must be not
only the directing force but the business custo-
dian of the municipality.
Organization is the chief impulse of this
century; the achievement of any given purpose
with the least loss of time and energy.
Our cities are too young to have yet meas
ured the chief real obstacles to be overcome in
their development. We have not yet evolved a
coherent public opinion through which the state
as a state-can "find voice." We are de-
pending largely upon economic accident, and
personal initiative, for our progress along these
channels in which we have all a common
interest.
The quickest and the cheapest way to build
a state is to build it by associated effort. When
that is realized it will be acknowledged that the
first step is the federation-in some form-of
the commercial clubs of Nebraska.
Such a commercial federation would have
to be developed as expediency suggested. Il
could start with no cut and dried program. But
it would begin, and labor, and be guided by a
mastering idea.
Such an affirmation would foster a watch
full spirit of state pride, an active conception Of
civic honor, a respect for the state, and the
cities of the state, equal to the respect We each
feel for our family and our home.
Civic pride lies at the bottom of the city
beautiful. Every promoter is a booster. Few
boosters are promoters. "The Story of Nebras-
ka," is being continued each week In The Sun
day Bee and from time to time will speak & of the
different commercial clubs of the smaller cities,
what they have accomplished and what they
hope to accomplish.
NEXT sUNDAY-PoLK COUNTY
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24
Big Harvest Around pierre,

PIERRE, 8. D., July SS.-(Speolal. )-Har-
vesting has begun generally in the central
portion of the state and indications are
for an immense crop. This section of the
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-22
THOUSAND KILLED
BY STORM in india
SCORES or BODIES FLOATING
DOWN THE CANOES CON-
FIRM STORIES TOLD nv
REFUGEES.

Calcutta, Oct. 22.--Their story cor
roborated by the mute evidence Of
scores of bodies floating down the
broad Ganges to the sea, refugees from
the storm-swept territory in East
Bengal arriving today tell tales OF ter
rible disaster. Only a few worn -out
and exhausted natives have succeeded
In reaching Calcutta. From their ac-
counts 1t is estimated that between
5000 and 10000 persisted in a tornado.
which swept the coast and inland
points.
The refugees describe the stricken
territory as Uttered for miles with
heaps Of debris that were once light
native huts. Scattered among tina
ruins and over the storm-swept fields
are scores Of dead natives left where
they died by the fleeing survivors,
Every river in the storm zone Is COW
cred In many places with floating
bodies swept into the stream by the
floods resulting from the rains.
The approximate number of dead
will never be known. The Anglo
Indian press is manifesting its usual
want Of interest in the catastrope for
the reason that few Europeans were
known to be in the stricken district.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-22
City in Brief

A marriage license was issued from
the county court today to Andrew M
Rud of Forman and Olga Gardner OF
this city.
Judge p. 7. Burke in the district
court yesterday granted a decree of
divorce to Harriet Magfll Orchard
from Ernest r. Orchard.
Mickey Lynch accompanied Oficer
Gil Martinson to the police headuuar-
tiers this morning and will face Judge
Ryan for the third time this season
for breaking the moral and criminal
code by collecting jag.
Wednesday evening at Prizes hall
Mckinley lodge, 922, M B. A, initiated
a class of ten. The iniation was work.
ed out in excellent shape and was
pleasing and amusing to all interested,
Following the business meeting deli
cious refreshments were served and a
dance ended the evenings entertain
ment In speaking of the excellent work
the lodge is doing, President Wood
mark said: I'VE intend to place our
lodge in the front rank, and every
member is doing his or her best to in
crease the membership. This is what
we need most at present as in every
other respect tn lodge is all the most
enthusiastic could wish. AT our next
meeting we hope to have a class of flf-
teen for initiation"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-22
couNTRYs SALVATION.
Gen. r. D. Grant Says sordidness Is
Companion Of Vice

companion or Vice.
Chicago Tribune: when people cast
aside sentiments of patriotism and
ideals Of loyalty they become sordid,
and sordidness marches hand in hand
with vice"
In these words Gen. r. d. Grant de-
livered the keynote OF an inspiring
address on patriotism at the York
town day celebration and banquet of
the Illinois Society OF the Sons of the
American Revolution last night.
I'm my opinion. esaid General Grant.
lit is vitality important to increasingly
inspire in the youth OF the country
sentiments of reverence and respect
for the heroes gone before, lest the
noble deeds of the past, which insured
us the blessings OF the present, be
forgotten in this busy. practical age
Let us cherish zealously our own
ideals of loyalty and truth, and pre-
serve all the tablets and monuments
to the memories Of heroes OF the past
who established our liberties in the
war of the Revolution, and who de-
Tended our government in those ter
rible days.
LET us not, In these times Of great
wealth and Injuries. forget our noble
heroes OF the past, and cherish always
their examples for the elevation of
their descendants and of our country
men,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-22
FOURTEEN YEARS FOR BANKER.
clubman and Society Leader Sen
fenced For EmbezzIenent.

New Orleans, La, Oct. 22.-Fourteen
years in the state penitenriary is the
penalty Wyatt FL. Ingram, jr., a New
Orleans clubman and society leader.
must pay for embezzling $3.50, 900 of the
funds Of the Hibernia Bank and Trust
Co. The jury, after hearing the testi-
mony, in only twenty minutes brought
in o verdict Of guilty of the charge of
forgery.
Ingram is the son OF Baltimore
Importer, and is said to have been
short as much as 100000 at one time.
During the months preceding detection
he was exceedinly lucky and managed
to clear off all bur $4,000 of the
shortage. 1t is estimated he made
$4,000 in cotton.
Ingram was trustee of the Hibernia
bank. While half a million short and
with arrest staring him in the face,
DE married a society belle. More than
100000 was fund to his account at
brokers' houses here and the bank lost
only $4,000.