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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09
New Work Stock Market.

New York, Feb. 10 After the re.
action which followed the higher open
log the tone became strcng sgein and a
msjorily Of the stocks moved up steadily.
The market ruled quiet but firm during
the lat halt Of the forenoon, except for
the strength shown in few specislties.
The general list reacted slightly from
the highest range of the day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09

As heretofore slated another call ws'
issued by Secretary of the Treasury Cor.
telyou for the return of funds in the TEN.
porary repositories to the amount of $50,
900, 900 to be paid on or before February
"a. Owing to the existing deficit, which
is increasing day by day, it is expected
that all of the temporary repositories
will be abolished by March 4.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09

Miss LIND-AF HAGEBY, the Epglisb
snti-viyisectioDist, spoke before a large
audience at Carnegie Lyceum, Ne"
York, Wednesday night. She was In
fenupted repeatedly BY doctors IN the
audience, aud much disorder prevailed
Miss Lind said, however, that the meet
ing, her fret in this country, was tame
compared to some Of her English meet
ings. She denied that any good bad
ever come from vi7isection, and quoted
many authorities to the effect that e1'
perimenis tried on animals were useless
when applied to human beings, She al
so denied that any good had ever come
from Koch's discovery of tuberculin as
cure for consumption. Diphtheris anti
toxic, she said, had done more harm
than good.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09
Mr.. TUCKER ON PROHIBITION.

Mr.. TUCKER ON PROHIBITION.
Harry st Gaorge Tucker, candidate
for governor, arrived 10 Richmond yes
terday, leaving yesterday afternoon for
Norfolk. He bad just been to Roanoke,
where m organization was effected with
S. S. Brooks chairman OF the committee
in that city. Lexington was also visited,
aud the candidate expressed himself IS
eminenlly pleased with his reception
wherever he has been. He said that
when be srrived 10 Richmond he found
many lett rs awaiting him, all inticat'
ing that he would be successful at The
polls.
Mr.. Tucker was asked whether or not
he stood for statewide prohibition. He
said his views had been well known on
this subject by his scqusintsnces through
out the state; that he Was preparing a
platform on the public questions which
would be before the people in the can
vsss, and he had thought best to In
corporate his views as a whole and sub
nit them Sc q whole to the people OF
the state. Those who knew him knew
veil that be tad always stood for the
democratic principles OF local self-gov-
eminent, IS exemplifed in the local op
ton laws; that he still believed 10 it,
and was not 10 favor of statewide pro-
hihitiOn
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09
ability.

EIGHTY million persons in the United
States use as many matches as the $780,
600, 900 10 the rest of the world, accord
log to statistics just complied by tbs
National Fire Protective Association.
This is d startling commentary upon. thu
American nation, and supports the con
tention that this is tbs most wsstefu
and extrevsgant nation 10 the entire
world.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09
Dreyfus's tiouse Attacked.

Paris, Feb. Investigation by the
police today showed that last night an
attack on the hume Of Major DrsYfus,
on the Boulevard NaIesherbes, wa, par
ticiDsted in by 500 youths who were
inspired to the act by attending meet
log 10 honor of Joan of Arc. The
Youths marched to the residence. They
smashed windows and derided the major,
but we're prevented from doing more
serious damsge by the basty arrival Of
the police The youths posed as royal
isis. Several we're arrested.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09

ENERGETIC protest to the proposed
production of "Salome'' by Oscar Ham.
merslein al his Philadelphia opera house
thls week is being made by the clergy
men Of that city. This protest is the
beet advertisement Mr.. Hammerstein
could possibly secure and guarantees for
him crowded house when Selome is pre-.
aapfod
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09
Sampson Found Dead In Bed

Lyons, n. Y, Feb. 9. -Gsorge sanp
son, sged 81. brother of the lfte Admiral
Ssmp:on, and father OF Harry Simpson,
for the alleged murder of whom, his
widow was indicted, yesterday, was
found dead In bed at his home 10
Palmyra ioisy lie hsd been witness
before the grand jury 10 the case against
bis dsughter.in-laW.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09
Assign nent.

Cleveland, o., Feb. 9.-Lamprtcht
brothers & Co., one Of the largest
brokerage houses in Cleveland, 10 lay
made an assignment for the bentft
of creditors. Judge Thomas b. Bush
nell, assignee, who is under $50, 900
bonds, says the assets will prove to be
between $50, 900 to $4,000 more then
the liabilities.
President VIM. H. Lamprecht and Treas
urer Geo. y. Lamprechv Of the company, also
f ed individual deeds of assignment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09
Looking for Assailant.

Tampa, Fla, FEB. 9 Posses deter
mined on lyncbiug, are securing the
country fer negro who bru ally assault
ed the l4-yesr-old daughter Of George
Newell, farmer, az the girl was on her
way to school this morning. The girl
is 10 a critical condition.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09
Ask Yourself the Question.

Why not use Chsmberlsin's Lioiment
when you have the rheumatism? We
feel sure that the result will be prompt
ard satisfactory. 1t las cured ohers =,
Why not you? Try it. 1t costs but
triAe. Pfice % cents; large s'z', so
cents. For sale by W. F. C:eighlon
and Ric hard Gibson.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09
Sixtieth Congress.
Washington, Feb. 9.
SENATE.

bEMAIhs
Ser ator Aldrich today reported 10 the
Ser ate 8 resolution offered By Senator
Cummins, calling on the Secretary OF
the Treasury for detailed information IS
10 the cost Of collecting the revenues on
imports where specific or advaloIem duties
are charged. The purpose OF the resolu-
ton is 10 demonstrate how much less II
will cost to collect the revenue on inn
ports II the duties were all specific.
Senator Kittredge, e. d. } asked that
the Hopkins bill authorizing the Issue OF
Panama Canal bonds to an aggregate Of
$500, 900, 900 be referred to the commit
tee on iuauce. He seid that the bill
would increase the limit OF cost to $500,
900, 900. The Senate went into execu-
tive session aud resumed consideration
Of the Crum case. Il is expected that
the nomination will be permitted to go
over without action until the adjourn
ment of Congress.
HOUSE.
The prospect for legal holiday on
February IL, the centenary OF the birth
of President Lincoln WAS further dimmed
by action of Representative Underwood,
(dem., Ala }, today 10 the House 10 OBJ.
jecting to consideration Of the measure.
The bill as originally passed by the
House provided for holiday this year.
when It went 10 the Senate that body
added a provision for survey OF
memorial road from Washington to
G ttysburg. Mr.. Mccall, who has
fsthered the measure today moved that
the library committee to which 1t was
referred after the Ssnate's action, be dis
charged from its consideration aud that
the House disagree to the Senate amend
ment
Mesgrs. Sims, Madden and Under
wood all declared 10 favor of the memo
rial road. and objected to disagreement
of the amendment,
The bill went over. There still re-
mains q chance that the measure will
get through, but each days delay makes
it more unlikely.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09
Many requests from Catarrh sufferer

many INQutoto run Ahielth ouuSifia
who use atomic rs have caused US to pat Up
Liz aid Cream Balm, q new and convenient
from tf Ely's Cream Balm, the only reuejy
for CatsrTh which can always be depende d
on. 10 power to sllay Inflammation, u
cleanse the clOgged sir-passagea. to promote
free, natural breathing, the two forms Of
Cream Balm are alike. Liquid Cream Balm
is sold by all druggists TO- rs cents, including
spraying tube. Mailed by Ely Bros,
Warren street, New York.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09
Blizzard In Nebraska. .

Omaha, Neb., Feb. 9.-Nore severe then the
storm Of ten days ago, blizzard is sweeping
the western section Of the state today. The
Thermometer registered 20 degrees below zero
in CraW ford, with fierce gale piling up the
drifts,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09

State of Virginia, City of Alexandria. 81:
/, Richard NJ. Green, Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true to the best of my kDowl-
edge and belief.
RICHARD NJ. GREEN, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th
day of February. 1909.
J. JOHNSTON GREEN
Notary Public.
COrrect-attest
EDw. l.. DAINGERFIELD,
WORTH HULFIsH, D;.o.,o..
NJ. A. AHERN, Diie0'O'''
CARROLL PIERCE,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09

lle MARKET.
Georgetown d, G., Fsb.s .-Whssi lOS-il
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25

who had attained the most gratifying
results from the use of this simple
but effective device.
Last year the 100000 miles Of poor
roads in the United States cost vast
fortune to the farmers and incidental
ly another to the city men, the added
cost to the farmers of hauling farm
products over the well nigh impassa-
bic roads being in the end paid by the
men who consume them.
Statistics gathered from the leading
countries of Europe prove that the
cost of hauling over the American
roads is far higher than in any other
country, the average in France, Ger
many and England being II cents a
ton mile last year to cost Of % cents
here. That difference of Is cents is
the unnecessary tax burden the Amer
lean farmer is forced to bear because
state and county authorities have long
been blind to the benefits which would
follow an awakening to road impor-
lance
AS the average length of the haul
of all American farm products is "a
miles, it will be seen that every ton
hauled cost the farmer who hauled it
$1.22 more than the hauling Of a ton
Of similar products would cost the
farmers of England, France or Ger
many. Last year nearly S6,000,000,-
100000 pounds of farm products were
har NIL hn Do
duce that vast weight to tons, charge
it $1.22 n ton, and it proves an annual
loss to the farmer of So, 100000.
And the saving of that sum would
be trifie of fraction of the benefits
that would come from an immediate
construction of perfect roads. for it is
but a portion of the weight annually
hauled over these roads, the statistics
of the department of commerce and
labor after liberal deductions placing
the quantity at approximately 250,-
100000 tons. The saving in the han
ding Of that stupendOus bulk would
be $305, 100000 annually.
1t has been ascertained also that the
construction of model highways in a
rural community brings an immediate
increase in the value of the property
which such roads traverse. There are
S40,000000 acres of farm lands in the
United States at the present time.
Statistics show that the improved
road increase in farm values is from
81 to 50 an acre. Were all the acres to
benefit even the lowest amount the
gain would be $1,6S0O0O,O0O, which
might be saved in hauling. and the
total would be amply large enough to
gridiron the length and breadth of the
continent with macadam roads as fine
as those which have given the fame
and wealth to France-the land of
perfect highways.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
Advisory Boards on Art.

In several cities and towns there has
been of late an advisory board Of art
Instituted whose duty shall be to con-
slider and report upon plans for public
structures. monuments. fountains, etc.
The questionable influences too often
brought to bear upon such matters
could, through the work Of this COM
mittee. be cneckmated and great good
done to the country In general and the
city and town in particular. The aver
age citizen. having made little or no
study of art as whole or In any Of
its various branches. is in nowise fit
ted to sit In judgment upon matters OF
such grave importance to the upbuild-
ing Of the clty and town beautiful.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
He laid out several towns. found
lost corners.

baccO and uttered cheap swear words
or not. These things are not half as
necessary as some young chaps think
them.
1t was after he was of age that Lin
coin became a clerk. In those days
the village store took the place of the
Roman forum. There the local wise
acres gathered TO tell yarns and settle
the country's destiny. Young Abe was
good at both. There is no record that
he was an especial star at weighing
sugar and measuring calico, but when
IT came TO manufacturing or retailing
history in the narrative form or set
Ting affairs of state he was in his ele-
ment Boy that he was. he could argue
jackson and Clay politics with the
best Of them. And. as for CONFUSING
his audience with the point of a story,
nois that was worn slick by men fall
ing off it with laughter at Lincoln's
anecdotes. AT least they had one at
last reports. and if it is not in exist
ence now it will not take some enter
prising reporter long to find another.
There was no chance for bump on
a log anywhere in Lincoln's neighbor-
hood.
The future president clerked for
awhile and then bought store of his
own. he had no money with which
to buy it. but high financiers now buy
railroads without money. so why could
be. not buy store in the same way?
For some reason this particular trade
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
GOOD ROAD SUGGESTION.
Kansas Man Says Put State AgricuI-
tural College In Charge.

Several articles have appeared in
the papers recently on the subject Of
good roads, and always with the
thought of a lot of new officers and
commissions. Why duplicate officers
all the time? Instead of creating
new commissions and a new set of of
fcers the sensible and economical
thing to do would be to grant the Ag-
ricultural college funds TO be used for
this specific purpose. writes J. X. Mil
Ter of Manhattan, Kan, to the Kansas
City Star Plans have been furnished
free to county commissioners, town
ship trustees and road supervisors.
Special meetings have been held in
many counties, and the subject of good
roads has been placed on the pro-
grams of hundreds of farmers inSti-
tuteS
A bulletin prepared for members of
farmers Institutes in Kansas covers
the whole subject of roadmaking,
dirt roads, macadamiZed roads. bridges,
culverts, concrete, stone, iron, wooden,
etc. All we need now is q few thou
sand dollars a year to employ spe-
cial highway engineer to work with
the county engineers and commission
ers and others, prepare plans and go
out to the different communities that
want improved roads and help start
the work. The entire expense could
be met by small state license on au-
tomobiles, as they tear up the roads
more than ten times the number of
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
BY James A. Edgerton
Copyright. 1909. by the
American Press Association
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49,

emporium did not turn out well. Some
lay it to Abe'S partner, who belonged
to the fly by night" persuasion, and
others say that Lincoln himself spent
too much time reading and telling
yarns and was not close enough in
driving bargains. At any rate, the
store went under and poor Lincoln
shouldered the debts for the entire
concern. 1t took him years to pay up,
but he finally did it to the last dollar
When man pays his debts like that
he is bound either to become great or
go to the poorhouse. Nearly all the
immOrtalS at some time in their career
get in the hole financially and rake
and scrape till they hand over the last
cent Sir Walter Scott and Mark
Twain are two conspicuous examples
wish more people were ambitious to
be great and felt they could not do it
except in that way
The only man who can become illus
trious and not pay his debts is gen.
fus, and the average genius breaks all
the rules and most of the laws.
With poor Lincoln this was not
joke. He did not get all those store
debts out Of the way till long after he
had become a lawyer. His integrity
was so well known that everybody
trusted him, with one or two excep-
tions. 1t was at about this time that
he gained the sobriquet of Honest
Abe" The title Of honorable is de-
rived from the same root. but honest
means more. Almost anybody can be
an honorable, but Lincoln was SO hon
est that he could not take bad case
and remained poor all his life.
1t was during his mercantile expert
ence that he became a soldier. He
himself has given a humorous account
Of his military exploits. 1t appears
that he was never in battle, but he is
not the only soldier that never smelled
gunpowder except in passing ammu-
milton wagons. Lincoln was elected
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25

captain of his company, which was
quite a distinction, inasmuch as he
knew nothing of military tactics and
neither did his men. AS for discipline.
the soldiers Obeyed when they wanted
10, which was only now and then.
lincoln was more fortunate than most
IF the captains and colonies, however,
IN that he had the respect and good
will of his men, Besides he could lick
anybody in the company, which count
/ for something in those days.
For long and weary miles the vol
Cnteers followed Black Hawk and
finally wore him out and chased him
eff the map. After Abe's company
was disbanded he re-enlisted in a
picked company of sharpshooters. but
Eaw little more of actual warfare than
before At one time he found a man
that could throw him down in a wres-
tie, which is about the only time that
ever happened in his career. When it
came to throwing an adversary either
in q lawsuit debate, a political cam
paign or in the Illinois style of jiu
iitsu. Lincoln was there with the nec-
essary apparatus. He doubtless would
have been a great soldier also if he
could ever have caught up with the
enemy. 1t is hard for man to show
his military prCwess in a foot race
About the only noble red m1n Lin
roln saw during his Indian warfare
>raIne on peace mission. and he then
ad to interfere to save the copper
tolsred ones life. To do tais he had
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
EFFECT OF GOOD ROADS.
Much Easier to Haul Cotton Now In
Lee County, Ga.

Much Easier to Haul Cotton Now In
Lee County, Ga.
A sight was witnessed at Leesburg,
Ga, the other day that would have
been impossible a few years ago. Two
mules from five miles in the country
came into town with five bales of cot
ton. Several years ago the particular
road travelled was in places an almost
bOttomlesS sand bed.
The convicts have been at work on
the road for about four years. and.
while the roads lack much yet Of be
ing what they should be, still the diff
ference is great and markedly notice
able when former times are compared.
The hardest part of the pull was after
the team hit the streets of Leesburg.
Lee county. has about thirty convicts
at work steadily on her roads. 1t is
hoped that she will soon have some of
the best roads in the state.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25

along stretches of impossible thor
Oughfares which had as a basis the
sticky "gumbO" clay of the south,
burnt them to such purpose that the
clay was changed entirely in charac-
ter and then supervised the cOnstruc-
ton of a road that for hauling pur-
poses is little short of the splendid
macadam roads of the north and east.
1T depends entirely upon the-char-
acter of the country through which
the road passes" said Mr.. Humphreys
when asked what it all cost. IF it be
wooded so that fuel can be bought
Tor, say, $1.25 a cord, the road can be
made for $1,000 a mile. I may say
that it costs from one-half to one
fifth as much as a macadam road
costs, and it is as easily and as cheap
1y maintained
/, I'm country where the people
have never gone into the building of
good roads the thought of paying
$4,000 mile seems prohibitive
Where the experiment is once made,
however, we all know that the people,
and especially the farmers, who usual
1y at first are most violently opposed
to the undertaking, demand that the
roads be constructed and are most
willing to bear the tax"
In explaining how easily the bur-
den Of taxation would be borne. even
if the authorities of his county de-
cided to eXpend a half million in the
construction Of a perfect system of
high class roads. Mr.. Humphreys
said: IF the farmer, instead of haul
ing six bales of cotton with two
mules, as could be done with ease last
winter over the burnt clay road near
Greenville (the one built as a model
by Engineer Spoon of Director Pages
Office, could haul but two, he would
be taxed for bad road at a higher
rate than anybody was ever taxed
for good road, not counting the wear
and tear on mules and wagons.
al have seen seed cotton In the
pens in July which had been picked
after the rains had begun to fall in
the previous winter and which had
HUI DCCu udulCQ 10 tic
the gina was located because the roads
were too bad to travel. Think of the
tax that man was paying, and that,
too. for a road he could not travelr'
NJ: Humphreys, who has taken a
great isterest in the splendid work
being done by Director Page and who
Is apparently thoroughly familiar
with the experiments and scientific
Announcements being made by that
scholarly road expert. named a num-
Der of the publications issued by the
Office and told OF the vast benefits the
farmers Of the country were receiving
through their distribution. He refer
red especially to the efficacy Of the
split log drag as road builder and
mainta;cer and read letters from men
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25

A T various times in his life Abra-
10 ham Lincoln was a laborer,
II "a merchant and a merchants
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
shaIe Rock For q Park Road.

About a mile and half of drive
way in North park. Springfield, H.,
was built in 1907 and surfaced with
shale at a cost of 1916 cents per
square yard. The shale was spread
eight inches thick and compressed to
six inches by rolling. 1t was hauled
from mines. one q mile and q half
ing from the former cost 40 cents and
from the latter 60 cents per cubic
yard, two yards being hauled at a
load. The sod cut from the line Of
the road, 4.64S square feet in area.
was used for sodding the sides of the
cuts and fills at cost Of 90 cents
per square yard.