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Semi-weekly herald., 1909-12-20

not to be down on their luck, but to
struggle on in the hope that the fu.
ture would be brighter for them.
Oklahoma ia to the front with two
Estate and one national bank failure
during the week.
President Of many universities and
college declare football should be con-
tinued in modified form.
Millionaire Brokaw's wife. who asks
$4,000 a year aiimony, says marriage
made her an expert on intoxication.
The Smithsonian African expedition
headed by former President Roosevelt,
up to Dec. 10 had taken 6.6G3 skins, CT
which less than one-haif have been
received at the institution al Wash.
ington. The collection consists o, 943
large mammals, 1900 small mammals
and 1856 birds. The collection has q
seiies OF human skulls picked up along
the line Of ancient sla,e trail.
Organizers have begun work in New
York city to recruit members for an
international union of stenographers
and typewriters. The organizers say
that there are 100000 stenographers
and typewriters in the United States
and Canada eligible for their union,
the principal object of which will be
to bring about uniformity of wages.
The fact that Miss Lizzie Siegel OF
Chicago, while baking cake, mad.
vertently used arsenic instead of bak.
Ing powder thereby nearly causing the
death of Andrew Loloff of Kearney
did not break up the romance, and
the two were recently married in Den
YER. The bride lad come west for a
visit at the home of LoIotf's parents,
and last July baked the cake that
nearly killed young Loloff, herself and
n man employed on the ranch
Despite strenuous efforts on the
| part Of professional bears in the grain
trade to squeeze them out of the
corn market by repeated onslaughts
on that cereal in the local pit during
the last two weeks, country traders
| and farmers, aware of the serious con-
dition OF the crop, have had the nerve
and sufficient wealth at their com.
mand to cling to their purchases of
future. The farmers of northern II
linois, Iowa and Nebraska, however,
where heavy rains and winds, follow
ed by a freeze and snow. had blown
down the unhusked corn, and put 1t
in such bad condition that it is esti.
mated that so per cent OF the crop
will not be harvested, started 10 bu>
the cereal on the Chicago board. A
clique of farmers In one Nebraska
town of less than 5000 inhabitants
sent In buying orders for over 1.0OO,-
900 bushels in one day. Iowa and
Illinois towns also sent in enormous
buying orders. James A Patten is
credited with being short from 1O,-
100000 to 100000 bushels of De.
cember corn, at present. That house
Monday made strenuous efforts to
cover at least a portion of its out
standing short stuff, selling 1000, 900
in the pit and buy $50 cars corn on
track, which will be sent to drying
establishments in an effort to make
contract grade out of it.
Semi-weekly herald., 1909-12-20
\ TRAGEDY FOR GUM c4eweas.

Baltimore Sun.
Not only to economists and states
men, but also to psychologists, physi.
oiogists. sociologists and the great
masses OF the plain people in general
The reported decay of the chicle for.
ests of Yucahan offers food for profit.
able speculation. Without chicle there
can be no chewing gum. and with the
exit of chewing gum there must in
evitably arrive a radical change in
the daily life and habits of countless
human beings. The exact nature of
this change. of course, is beyond all
possibility of accurate prophecy. but
1t Is certainly not improper 10 point
out that. at its best, II Will modify
profoundly the whole course of civili
zation, and that, at its worst, il may
stagger humanity,
Chewing gum is no longer toy
and no longer luxury, The world
needs II and the world must have IL
and II the ohicle trees dry up. then
more chicle trees must be plantedd
There Is no necessity for combining
them to Yucatan. Let a million acres
be set aside in every American state
Tor their growing. Let them be plant.
ed In all the public parks. and along
all the public roads, and let the con.
Victs In our prisons be let off to cult.
vate them. Not poppy, nor man.
iraagora, nor all the drowsy sirups of
the east can take the place OF chew.
ing gum in civilization.
Semi-weekly herald., 1909-12-20
Ladies tailor made waists, skirts,
suits at KRUSCHKE'S.
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

Mrs. Ruth Bryan Lenvitt has start
ed on lecture course. opening in Chi
cago. She advertised to good purpose
So did Cook and Peary.
Capt. Fred Fornoff of the New Mex
leo mounted police has gone to Lyden. |
Rio Arriba county. to investigate the
murder of S. Conover. postmaster at
that place, by A II. lGossett who has
charge OF the eating house on the
Denver, e Rio Grande at Embudo, six
miles north Of Lyden. Gossett, while
drunk. went to Conovers store and
renewed quarrel over the delivery OF
a bill of groceries. Without warning,
it is reported, a drew revolver and
shot Conover through the neck and in
the chest.
One of the liquor ordinances OF the
state is to be carried to the supreme
court of the United States in a test
case. Notice was served upon the at
torney general Tuesday by the attor-
neys of Homer Walt, ]. c. McCreary
and w. H. McCreary of Loveland that
| they would appeal the case of their
recent conviction of running a blind
tiger to the United States supreme
court. Sometime ago they were fined
in Loveland and the case was carried
to the supreme court, of the state
and sustained and it will now be car.
ried to the supreme court of the Unit
ed States.
Tammany is celebrating its finish
at the city hall with the biggest clean
up in its history Made desperate by
its four needy years in prospect. ev-
cry branch of the administration is
rushing through all the fancy schemes,
contracts and legislation that have ac-
cumulated in the municipal garret in
the last six years. since election day,
when it became known that Tammany
was relegated to obscurity for four
years to come, almost every scheme
that was thrown into the discard dur
ing the panic of two years ago has
been revived. Schemes amounting in
the aggregate to nearly St00, ,000, 900
have been exhumed. Appropriations
of nearly s55.OO00O0 have actually
been made since Nov 1. Boss Mm.
ply has revived his building code
and is making desperate attempt to
jam it through before the present ad.
! ministration ends. Panic has seem.
, ingly seized the water supply board
charged with the expenditure of $751;.
100000 for the Catskill water supply
As if 1t feared that the new mayor
would exercise his power to interfere
! with its extravagant management, this
. board, by working Its engineering
force both night and day. has had pre-.
pared the plans and specifications for
no less than eight huge contracts, all
of which will have been let before
Jan. /.
After speaking in Carnegie hall al
5 the diamond jubilee of Methodist mis-.
sions to Africa. President Taft motor,
ed through a driving rainstorm to the
, Bowery mission. where he made an ad
dress to typical Bowery audience
, He afterward inspected the bread
line room, where each night hundreds
OF the unemployed are given food. The
president. in immaculate evening
clothes, presented striking contract
/ to the men of the mission. who rose
, to their feet and cheered him as he
, entered the long, church.like room
/ from the rear. In his talk to the men.
delivered in an earnest conversational
tone, the president urged his hearers
Semi-weekly herald., 1909-12-20
Charles and Princess Marie Jose.

I Charles and Princess Marie Jose.
There Is no sorrow today over the
old kings death. Signs OF mourning
are exposed. but In reality. however,
there is but little grief. The kings
escapades and the many scandals OF
the latter years OF his reign thorough.
ly divorced the love and sympathy OF
his subjects from him.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17-At least
| Ave girls who were employed in the
six story building occupied by Schrack
& Sherwood. manufacturers of under
takers supplies, which was destroyed
by FIRE last night. are missing and 1t
is feared they lost thei.' lives. One
fireman. Joseph Toner, was killed. He
gave up his lille In searching for the
| missing women In the lower floors
OF the building while the upper part
OF the structure was aflame. A score
of persons suffered from burns and
minor injuries. About twenty women
were at work on the fifth floor when
the fire was discovered ON the floor
below Most OF them with the assist
ance Of policemen and fremen es-
capped but. some were carried out un.
conscious.
MADISON. Wis. Dec. 17.-'Tf the
president expects to advance the
Roosevelt policies. he will do well to
go about 1t promptly and not leave
congress and the public to infer. as
well they may, after the experience
Of the extra session, that he is wait.
ing on the program of Aldrich and
Cannon
In these word United States Sem
ator LaFollette closes an editorial
sharply criticising President Taft and
his recent message, which is printed
in this weeks isue of LaFolette's
magazine.
The editorial expresses keen disap-
pointment at both the presidents mes
sage to congress, the brief one to the
ment read a few days ago and satiric-
ally indicates the belief that the pres.
ident is drawing away from Roosevelt
policies.
ST. PAUL. Mimi. Dec. 17.-Levi
Frank, his wife and nine children
were brought in. an exhausted condi-
tion to this city from a point several
miles up the Mississippi river
In the recent big blizzard three open
rowboats in which they had fought
their way for 400 miles down the
Father OF Waters. became stranded
on an island in midsiream. Frank
braved the crush of river ice. endured
privations of cold and hunger and
struggled in vain for days to swim
through the chill currents of the Mis.
sippi to secure help for his 13year-old
daughter Letia who now lies in the
city hospital at Minneapolis with ty.
phoid fever. Frank was coming to ST
Paul to get work, being unable to
support his family in the northwest.
AURORA, Ills, Dee. ia husband
need not now arise In the cold, raw
dawn of the winter morning, grope his
way to the kitchen and light the fires
n. the behest of his wife
SO far twelve good men and true"
today in their verdict granting Frank
]. Fahrman, well known Elgin mer.
chant, a divorce from Jennie Fahrman
in the circuit court at Geneva.
In the cross-complaint Mrs. lTahrman
said she believed IL cruel of her hus-
band to lie abed while she pattered
over the cold floor to build the fire.
Semi-weekly herald., 1909-12-20
4 lost inch of gold may be found

q lost inch OF lime, never
In the PFC. perity and decay of the
state common man has his share.
Rebuke yourself as you rebuke 9TH
ers: love others as you love yourself.
Words spoken in the fields, some
one on the road hears.
The door of charity is hard to open
and hard to shut.
great man is one who knows the
times.
He has mounted tiger and cannot
get down.
Plant melons and you will get mel.
ons: plant beans and you will get
beans.
First Impressions rule the mind.
Heaven never cuts off mans way
Mischief all comes OF much opening
of the mouth.
A word once spoken. the fleetest
horse cannot overtake it.
Every sect has its truth and every
truth its sect
The good are short lived; the evil
last thousand years
Being good is like climbing; being
bad like falling.
IN good works don't yield place 10
others.
The work being adequate, the result
Is matter of course.
1t is homely fare that feeds and
coarse cloth that warns.
To the believer it is fact; to the
unbeliever fiction.
A boy without ambition is blunt iron
without steel.
A kind word keeps warm for three
winters
| Deep waters run slowly.
| All human affairs are my affairs
| Happiness and misery are not fated
but self-sought.
When there is care ahead there is
track behind
! A near neighbor is better than
| distant relative.
The hairless lip in managing affairs
| is apt to slip.
| WlluOut SOTTOW uOue DtCOUle SAINTS
Ice three feet thick is not frozen In
a day.
Obedience is better than reverence
A teacher can lead us into the porch
but culture depends on self.
| 1t is the good swimmer that gets
drowned.
One piece of bad meat makes the
whole pot smell.
| Soldiers may not be needed for 100
years, but cannot be dispensed with a
single day
An image maker never worships
idols.
A crow is black the world over.
| Don't ask your guest If you may kill
a fowl for him.
In beating a dog have regard for its
master
A good hearer is better than a
good speaker.
When the lafaRtis-e catches. the cicada
he does not know that the orfo1ic, n II
Just behind
The ten fingers cannot be all one
length.
Murder may be condoned. but dis.
courtesy never.
| When no money is spent there no
! grace is gained
The biggest hand cannot hide the
heavens.
4 Water may run in thousand chan
nels. but all returns to the sea.
Better be alive and poor than rich
and dead.
| A good general has no bad soldiers.
We wed wife for her virtues,
eoncubine for her looks
One cash may overthrow hero.
Mems minds are as unlike as their
faces.
Aims done openly will be repaid
secretly.
| The cabbage grub dies in the cab.
bage.
4, Rotten wood cannot be carved.
Old ginger is the most pungent
cnllnpfan IN nI.&hnr
Semi-weekly herald., 1909-12-20

Durango merchants are enjoying a
hne holiday trade. They are catering
TO the wants of the people in fine
shape.
Semi-weekly herald., 1909-12-20

Forebush. bench-mads shoes at
KRUsCHKEs.
Semi-weekly herald., 1909-12-20

collegian tailor-made clothes at
New-York tribune., 1909-09-09
WINS WILL CONTEST.
WidoSc of Prot. Il. w. Berg to Re
ceiUe Share IN Sons Estate.

Judgment was entered in the County Clerks Of
fce yesterday On the report OF Edward c. Wag-
ner as referee in favor Of Mrs. Helen Morse Berg.
of No. S56 West 10Th street. for sl692O against
the estate of her son, Walter G. Berg, who died
in May. 1905
Mrs Berg. who is the widow of Professor Albert
w. Berg, alleged that after the death of her hus-
band, in January, 1867. her Walter, I'm con
sideraton OF her promise that sne would not again
so into the business of canvassing for advertise
ments for schools because of her age and physi-
cal condition. entered into agreement 10 pay
her SEQ month life She said he paid her this
allowance regularly until his death. when his ex-
ecutOrs discontinued her allowance. She named
as defendants MOncure Burke Robert n. Nalen-
tine and Philip De Witt the executors of her son
Walters estate The defendants denied the exist
ence of any agreement, and also claimed that 1t
was abrogated because Mrs. Berg had continued
10 keep boardeTs at her home, although 1t was
said she had agreed to give them up when her son
promised maintain her for life.
Mrs. Berg alleged that she had not received any
money since May u, 1905 and the referee found
she entitled TO 500 a month for fifteen months
from that date and 10 the val Ie Of that annuity
for the expected term OF her life She is now sew
enty-nine years old. and according to the mortal
ity tables, will live i've and eight-tenths years
more The capitalization OF her annuity for this
period amounts TO Sl392O. which, with the 5000
now due her. makes up the amount Of the judg-
ment I'm her favor
Albert Ellery Berg, another OF the plaintiff.
said the stand:
My mother had at various times large sums of
money She had brother who was member of
the Stock Exchange. and who had been very sue
cessful financially, and he had given her house
in 18Th street. between Fifth and Sixth avenues,
and had given her money 10 take her children TO
Europe 10 be educated. My father also had very
good income. My mother always fond Of so
ciety and used give dinners and receptions, es-
pccially the Daughters Of the Revolution of
which she was a member. My brother had
tomobile, which he allowed her to use"
New-York tribune., 1909-09-09
FAVORS CENTRAL BANK
Mr. VreeIand's Remedy for Defects
IN Currency System.

Bedford Springs Penn. Sept. S.-The feature OF
to-days session of the State Bankers Association
Of Pennsylvania Convention was an ADDRESS Dy
Representative Edward b. vreeIand OF New York
chairman Of the Banking and Currency COMMITTEES
Of the House He said. in part:
Panics are merely the elimination OF long con
tinued disease. The defects in our system are
sion almost certainly results in panic So much
so that many of our people ff accept yeaPs pane nt we
have the example of the other great 1t Gol,e end
e%pspson do not Necessarily result in money
panics. They may be avoided by better oankdng an a
and currency methods. The greatest defect IN our our
currency system is its lack Of response 20 sine sne
needs of business We need this element Oh tIr eI,s
There are those who think that the trouble
during the panic of 1907 and preceding panics
might have been averted If the banks were COM
pelied to keep their cash reserves In thelr OWL %
vaults. This would be true to the extent that the
bankers Of the country would not then 81 oeG9the cone
draw their balances from New York in cash rms
the New York banks in 1907. But the thought OF
those who advocate this change is that hanks with
fed against panic. This is not to any considerable
extent true We need greater further sentraIiza-
We need rather Capitalization of reserves so that
all the money needed to pay off its depositors. OF
course. Capitalization OF reserves would only be
possible if the banks knew that. beyond question,
their money could be obtained, If needed. the
banks Of England France and Germany know that
can be obtained of the central bank.
/ am opposed to the DranCh bank syStenL inc
branch bank system will drive any other system
with which it completes out OF existence The es-
tablishment of the branch bank system In the
United States would in time, mean the exter-
mination of the small Independent bank
1t to that one hundred years Of ex-
perIence covering a very wide field point ire
sistibly toward the centralization Of banknote
ISSUE and Of bank reserve. II seems to me that
If we have safety and stability and still have
hexsbility in our system. it must be in the hands
of form of central authority and with
measure of government control
I would have diStinctively American institution,
would have an institution which would round out
and complete banking system, which would
he the keynote Of the arch and which
would enter the field as the rival and competitor Of
the banks which have.
I would have it's dividends limited to a small
amount. say 4 per cent, and the remainder Of it's
earnings go into the national Treasury for the
security of its note circulation, the paying of Of
the greenb2cks or similar purposes for the gen
eral good. The result would be that it's manage
ment would direct it's policy In relation to note
circulation. and rates Of interest for the
general welfare and not with the hope OF making
increased profits for the bank.
New-York tribune., 1909-09-09
TRATELLERS POUR IN.
Extra Men To Be Retained by Rail
roads for Hudson-Fulton CrOzcds.

The rush Of incoming vacsttonsts will hardly let
up before the big crowds expected for the Hudson
Fulton celebration start for this city. At several
railroad offices it said yesterday that this was
the greatest year by % per cent Of any on the
records of the companies for vacation travel
At the Grand Central Station trains tapping the
big vacation centres brought IN crowds large
the day before The subway ticket off1ce at
this place was as hard TO get near during the
whole day with few intervals. as is the case dur
ing the regular rush hours. Many went To Brook
Iyn. but the greater number took express trains
for upper Manhattan.
For the four days beginning September it was
estimated by New York Central officials yesterday
that the Central and the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroads had brought in eight hundred
thousand passengers and twenty-five thousand
pieces of ba aggage, which IL per cent over the
four DAYS near Labor Day of last year.
To he prepared for the thrush of visitors for the
Hudson Fulton celebration the I4ackawana Rail
road will keep the extra force It has employed
to take care of the big traffic at present There is
expected to he steady travel to the city of per
sons returning from their vacations until SepCem-
ber o. and as the Hudson-Fulton celebration Is
only five days off from that time lay-oH of
the extra force is contemplated 1t is said.
The other roads all handled big crowds yes
terday. The Erie had many of its limited trains
in six seven sections. The heaviest traffic was
over the Delaware division of this line. and west
of Bnghamton.
Many persons returned from the beaches over the
Pennsylvania and the Central Railroad Of New
Jersey. The ferryboats every trip brought in
hundreds of persons whom the sea breezes and sun
had tanned 10 Indian brown. The boats had
landed than their passengers were lost
I'm the rush of West street.
At Long Island City the number of persons pass
ing through 10 Manhattan from resorts on the
island was about the same the day before No
He-up of baggage is expected during the Hudson
Fulton celebration. most of those coming to this
city at that time will not hamper themselves with
trunks
New-York tribune., 1909-09-09
IRON TRADE CONDITIONS.
The Iron Age" says:


The full reports from the steel makers show that
their make of pig iron beat all records having been
l,69l,99l gross tons in August as compared with
l5l4521 tons made in October 1907. Just before the
panic Their production has risen from daily rate
OF 5000 i'm January to 5l,354 tons in August In
the mean time the output VI the merchant furnaces
has fuctuated since January within the
range of 1900 tens Il day and 226o0 tons day.
having been 2l.llS tons day in August While this
does take into account the recent reduction in
the stocks of pig iron, yet II does show how com
paratvely slowly the merchant furnaces have re-
covered.
firm and IN respects buoyant, but the con-
servative element i'm the trade is beginning 10 bring
forward arguments in favor of caution and mod
Grafton. Prices are reaching a point where impor-
tations possible. At such exposed sections like
the Pacific Coast sales of foreign finished material
have already been made. An interesting fact is
that a large Pacific Coast steamship interest has
purchased 5000 tons of Chinese pig iron and has
already placed considerable part thereof with
melters on the Pacific Coast for forward delivery
Domestic prices on bars ana shapes are reaching
level at Atlantic and GuIf ports which, with the new
rates of duty are very close 10 the importing point
What foreign makers can do in the way of low
gross ton. Recent rail sales are not numerous or
involving large quantities are in progress.
THE Iron Trade Review" says:
The continued activity Of furnaces and mills is
seTyative feeling manifested particnarly in th
opposition of mills to the making OF contracts for
delivery next year. During the last few days
sumers OF steel bars and other iron and steel prod
ucts have been rather insistent IN endeavoring
contract for their future requirements. While in
n very few instances contracts running up to April
leading
interests firmly resisting the making of con-
tracts. although a goody number expire ON Octo-
her !, and many more at the close Of the present
year. Indications point To new record Of pig
iron production this month. Last month the NUM-
her of furnaces in operation was increased twenty
and the prod lotion amounted To 2.232.642 tons. \
number of stacks will be blown in this month ana
at Gary one new stack VIII be ready for blowing
In each month during the remainder of the year.
Shipments of iron ore in August made
ord. amounting to the immense total of il3g199
tons, a larger tonnage than was shipped IN any
entire prior 10 1s@o The present outlook is
that shipments for the year will exceed E00Q.eO
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