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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-12-30

five hundred gallons Of whskey handled thru
erea week honor of the celebration
Christ the heartaches borne by thousand women
suffering children the needed
aud food by those to whom than all
the liquor from this place alone And call
ourselves a Christian nationl
What this the which Chicago
spread like wild fehe good fellow Thousands
men, acting the newspapers found Christmas
hundred poor suffering little children and played Santa
These all church by good deal and
gave their Christmas drunk for the sake the little
ones Doesn't that look Christian TO your
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-12-30
WASHINGTON LETTER i'm OUR OWN STATE
Corbin Remains Dry-kit Carson
CentenniaI-Pittsburg Miner Gem
mits Murder-Mrs. Youtsey asks
for Divorce.

Burnley SOCIETY AGAIN:-There
was considerable interest last week
in regard to story that the U. s.
Government planned to prosecute the
Burley people for conspiracy in res
traint of trade. OF course the peo-
pie at once stated that they we're not
a trust, as any one would in the same
circumstances, but there seems to be
no foundation for the story.
YOUTSEY DIVORCE:-M Henry
Youtsey has at last applied for a
divorce from her husband, who seems
to be pretty we'll located in the Pen
at Frankfort.
SEE MOTHER BURN:-Mrs. Ida
Ferrill of Danville was burned TO
death in a horrible manner last We'd
nesday. Her clothing caught fire from
an open CRATE, and she jumped into
bed to try to smother the flames The
bed too, caught fire, and she was burn
ed to a crisp.
CORBIN REMAINS DRY:-Corbin
was again carried by the dry in the
local option election held there last
week. A contest has been started by
the drys at Somerset, who claim that
the wet victory there was obtained
by fraud.
MINER KILLS THREE:-A triple
murder and suicide occurred at Pitts
burg, Laurel County, on Wednesday
afternoon of last week. VIII Murray
miner, shot and killed Ebert Cole,
then his own wife and her mother,
and ended by taking his own life. He
began the shooting without warning.
KIT CARSON CENTENNIAL:-One
Of the most famous sons of Madison
County was Kit Carson, and the hun
dredth anniversary of his birth In
this fine old county occurred ON Dec.
"a of this year. He went to Howard
County in two years, and remained
there till he left for the West where
he began that career as a scout
which put him at the head of that
rough but important profession. He
was the greatest plainsman. hunter,
scout and Indian fighter that ever
lived, and one of the most remark
able men that Kentucky has ever
produced.
ROCKCASTLE WEALTH.
are on foot fort he opening of a new
industry near Pine Hill, Rockcastle,
County, namely the manufacture of
Portland cement All the necessary
elements for the manufacture of this
valuable product are to be found
there. Mr.. b. r. Hutchcraft recently
went East to obtain capital for the
enterprise and on his return announ-
ced that a company would be organic
ed in the near future.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-12-30
IMPROVEMENTS
Berea College as Usual, Better
Equipped This Winter Than Ever
Before-Pearsons Hall, New Pow
or House, and New Dining Room.

As usual, Berea College will open
the winter term with a goodly num-
her of improvements In her plant. Supt
Burgess and host Of workmen have
been busy for months. and improve
ments costing many thousand dollars
will be ready when the new term
opens.
The biggest OF these, OF course
is the new mems dormitory, Pearsons
Hall. Unfortunately, while 1t Is COM
pleted, II cannot be occupied for a
couple of weeks or 50 after the term
opens. This Is because the steam
connections between the building and
the power house have not been made,
and cannot until that time The build
ing is all night, but II will be too cold
to live in for a while. AS soon as
II "a warmed the rooms will be open
ed for student boys.
Too much can hardly be said in
praise OF the new dormitory. II is
undoubtedly the finest building for
the purpose in the state. and is
hardly surpassed by any other of its
kind anywhere. The finish is first
class thruout. and every modern i'm
provement has beer introduced, steam
heat, electric light, hot and cold
baths. and so on. The flooring OF
the halls and bath rooms is OF ter
razzo, and the walls of steel lath and
plaster. making the building almost
fire proof. There are four rooms for
guests. as well as the boys rooms.
and there IL a splendid reception hall
on the first floor. Prof. Marsh will
become the resident teacher, and is
soon going 10 move into the suite
Of rooms reserved for him and his
family.
The new power house is about as
nearly completed as IL wiz be this
winter. The boilers have been Unstable
and the chimney completed, and by
opening day tires will be started in
the big hundred horse power furnaces.
The new engines will not be installed
this year. the old ones being depended
!. on 70 do the work The new boilers
simply will be used TO supplement
the work of the old ones, and 10 sup
ply the heat which goes TO the big
college buildings.
Ladies Hall is one of the buildings
which has been put on the heat line
this year. Only the first floor has
had steam heating apparatus INSTALL
ed, but the other floors will be sup
piled with II next year. At that time
all stoves except In the kitchen will
be taken out. Electric lights will 90
in about the same time
In the space In the cellar left va
cant by the clearing out OF the fur
naces. will be built dining rooms TO
accommodate the constantly increas-
ing number OF boarders. Under the
northwest corner Of the building has
already been constructed for use this
year a new room which will seat CON-
fortably one hundred and eighty young
people. This room is large. light and
airy, and well heated The serving
room from which food is brought to
the tables, is between the new room
and the other end OF the building.
so that when IL ia needed another
dining room can be put there.
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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-12-30
News Left Behind by Congress-Bal-
Iinger-Pinchot Fuss Likely to Start
Trouble for Taft-Insurgents Serve
Notice They Won't Stay Hitched
Much Longer.
Washington, ID. c.


Dec. "a, 1909.
AT the time of writing last weeks
letter II did not seem likely that
there would be any reason for one
this week, but several things have
happened which seem worth report
ing This letter will be short, but
the final end of some of the things
that have started will be a long time
coming.
The first thunder clap came In a
sudden order for an investigation OF
the Balllnger-Pinchot controversy.
Mr.. Ballinger decided that he wanted
an Investigation and announced that
he would resign without one. Altho
this puts Pres. Taft in a hard place,
there was nothing else for 1t. and
Congress was asked for and voted to
have a commission investigate. 1t Is
true that soma of the men who seem
likely to get on the commission are
opponents of the things Pinchot
stands for, and friends OF the things
Ballinger is accused of standing for,
but still a coed deal of real informa-
ton is likely to come out
But Mr. TAFT is really in hard
place. While there is, of course, no
such conspiracy to discredit him as
has been talked of, there are good
many people who supported Roosevelt
who think that Taft is not doing all
that he ought to in the way OF re-
forms. These people, who are parti-
cularly strong thru the middle West,
are watching carefully for any sign
that the administration is falling
from the straight and narrow path.
They have not been pleased with the
discharge from government service OF
SO many men who did fine work I'M
der Roosevelt, but have been willing
to wait. There is no possible ex-
cuse. however for the discharge of
Pinchot, whose only possible fault
has been that he has been too zeal
GUS in the peoples interests. He has
been by far the ablest man who ever
held this place and Mr.. Taft himself
hes been very high in his praise of
him.
On the otEcr hand, Pinchot and
Ballinger carrot possibly both hold
their places. Pinchot's charges against
Ballinger are clear and concise, and
so sharp that there is no possibility
of their being explained to the ere
dit of both men. So, when the inves-
tigation is over Taft will have to
ask for the resignation of one or the
other of these two men. III Pinchot is
let out, the reformers will take 1t as
pretty strong evidence that Taft is
with the "reactionaries" and is go
ing to work for the Interests" and
not for the people. If, on the other
hand Ballinger is dropped think
what a place Taft will be into have
to admit that one of the men he him
self chose has helped the thieves
and has been entirely unworthy OF
his trust That, too will injure
him with those who think he is try
ing to do his best by the public inter-
ests Taft has got trouble coming to
him. either way.
And here is another bunch. The
insurgents have got tired of wait
ing for him to move. In spite of the
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knowledge is power-and the
way to keep up with modern
knowledge is to read a good
newspaper.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-12-30

And here is another bunch. The
insurgents have got tired of wait
ing for him to move. In spite of the
CONTINUED on fourth pagel
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
Simple Water Distiller.

A boatload of shipwrecked mariners
having few panes of glass may col
lect from the ocean enough fresh
water to sustain life. The great rain
less area of Chill had some brackish
water, which, however, neither man
nor beast can drink, and drinking wa
ter is now obtained by means of
novel desert distillery containing TO-
900 square feet of glass. The panes
are formed into V-shaped troughs.
which are placed over shallow pans of
the brackish water. The vapor of the
water evaporated by the suns heat
is condensed on the lower side of the
glass, and runs down into little chan
nels, which conduct the fresh water
to the main receptacle. A supply of
about 1000 gallons daily is thus pro-
Yided
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
Criqin of Caucus"

Caucus" is said to have arisen
from a corruption of the term "calk-
er's house" After violent fighting be-
tween the military and the ropemak-
ers of Boston in ITO the ropemakers
and the calkers, the better to meet
the soldiers. formed themselves into
a society. at the meetings of which
infammatory addresses were delivered
and the most violent resolutions
passed against the British govern
ment and its agents and instruments
In America" The tories scoffed at
the calkers' meetings and the term
became ia time softened into caucus
However. DR.. Murray declares that
the word existed previously, and ae
suggests the Greek "kaukos," a cup
perhaps because at private meetings
the flowing bowl is sometimes found.
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
WAS JUST ONE DOLLAR AHEAD.
What Little Financial Transaction
Had Melted Widow.

More than year ago" said the in
surance man, 81 received letter
which said that the writer was a
widow and asked for a little financial
assistance. She wasn't very greedy,
but would let me off with a dollar. 1
showed the letter into a pigeon-ho
and paid no further attention to it.
Next week another came. Then a
third and a fourth, and as matter Of
fact one came for each week in the
year until 1 had So of them. The
widow had spent $1.04 in her efforts to
obtain a dollar from me. 1 thought
such persistency deserved an answer
of some sort, and so 1 wrote her:
"'All your letters received 1 send
you the dollar asked for, but can't
you figure that you are still four cents
out?'
'As promptly as if she had been a
business man closing up $4,000 deal
she replied:
Thanks. No, 1 can't figure that
way. AS 1 begged my stationery and
stamps from the neighbors 1 am just
81 in pocket in your case
Il have always had tender heart
for widows" smiled the insurance
man, but in this case 1 don't think
there is any call for my sympathy"
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
BLESSINGS of IdIeness.

Perpetual devotion to what a man
calls his business is only to be sus-
tanned by perpetual neglect of many
other things. And it is not by any
means certain that mans business
is the most important thing he has to
do. To an impartial estimate it will
seem clear that many of the wisest,
most benefcent parts that are to be
played upon the theater of life are
filled by gratuitous performers, and
pass among the world at large as
phases of idleness. For in that the
ater not only the working gentlemen,
singing chambermaids and diligent
fiddlers in the orchestra, but those
who look on and clap their hands from
the benches, do really play part and
fill important offices toward the gen.
eral result.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
ALWAYS SOURCE OF WEAKNESS.
Pretense Detracts from the Power
to Accomplish.

There is nothing which will add so
much to ones power as the conscious
ness of being absolutely sincere, genu-
ine.. If your life is a perpetual lie,
if you are conscious that you are not
what you pretend to be-that you are
really a different person from what
the world regards you-you are not
strong.
There is a restraint, a perpetual
fighting against the truth going on
within you, struggle which saps
your energy and warps your conduct.
If there is mote at the bottom Of
your eye you cannot look the world
squarely in the face.
Your vision is not clear. Everybody
sees that you are not transparent.
There is cloudiness, haze about
your character, which raises the inter
rogation point where you go. Char
acter alone is strength, deceit is weak
ness, sham and shoddy are powerless,
and only the genuine and the true are
worth While.-EXchange
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
"The Devil and the Deep Sea-"

Hazlitt's English Proverbs" gives
the proverb as "Betwixt the devil and
the Dead sea-" and quotes it from
Clarke's "Paroemiologia," 1889, and
adds. this note of explanation: ION the
horns of dilemma In Cornwall they
say deep sea, which may be right"
Reddalls Fact, Fancy and Fable"
gives the following explanation of the
proverb: This expression is used by
Co. Monroe in his Expedition with
Mackay's Regiment printed in Lon
don in 1887 The regiment was with
the army of Gustayus Adolphus and
was engaged in a battle with the Aus
trians The Swedish gunners did not
elevate their guns sufficiently, and
their shot fell among this Scottish
regiment, so that we were between
the devil and the deep sea-"
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
HABITS AND BRAIN RECORDS.
A Noble Personality the Result OF
Noble Desires Inscribed in Brain.

Remember that the brain is the in
strument through which the real per-
sonality expresses himself; and he
can only express what is already writ
ten there, says a writer in the Nauti-
lus Consequently, the external man
will be just what is inscribed upon his
brain, for all his actions must be die
tated or directed through these brain
records. You cannot saw wood with
a hammer; nor can the soul play
piano with the fingers until the knowl-
edge of piano playing is written in the
music place of the brain. You cannot
show forth a high and noble person
ality until you have written within
your skull a record of noble and holy
desires; according to the tools you
give it, so will the expression of your
soul be.
You .an wind up phonograph,
and you may make it run fast or
slow, but you cannot make it say any
thing that is not on the records. II
some one had put his opinion Of you
on a record, even though you knew
that opinion to be untrue, you could
not make the record tell the truth; the
only thing possible would be to make
another You have written your opin-
ion of yourself upon your brain; you
cannot be anything else until you
change the record.
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
TELE9RARHIc 6REvITIEs.

Bath hauses of the Idaho legisla-
ture adjourned at noon Friday to at
tend Lincoln day exercises.
The Turkish porte has notified Rus
sia OF its acceptance in principle OF
Russia's latest financial proposal for a
settlement of the Turko- Bulgarian
dispute.
President 0'Brien of the American
Asspciation Baseball club Friday is
sued call for a schedule Meeting to
be held at the Auditorium annex, Chi
cago, February Il, at IL a. m.
The earl and countess of GranaFd
arrived in London Friday night after
honeymoon spent in Paris and drove
from the railway station TO their resi-
denee in a royai carriage The earl
of Granard married Miss Beatrice
Mills in New York last month.
Memorial exercises in honor of the
one hundreath anniversary of the
birth of Lincoln were held in the
Colorado hall of representatives at
the state capitol Friday Members of
both branches of the legislature. state
officials and many others were present,
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
~n=r ,n= prKEroLoelsT FErL.
His knowledge of Horses Was Evi-
IDENTIFY a Weak Point.

Mayor Reyburn of Philadelphia told
at dinner horse story.
"A farmer visited a phrenologist," !"
he SAID. He had heard that the phre-
nologist thought of buying horse. He
had his head examined and his bumps
revealed surprising things
Your tastes are the simple, home
ly and pure tastes of farmer said
the phrenologist, and farmer take
you to be. Am 1 not right? Aha, I
thought so. You are unready and fall
tering in speech; you find it difficult
to express the simplest ideas. You
are sadly deficient in judgment and
have no knowledge of human nature.
Your innocent and trustful disposition
renders you an easy dupe to design
ing men, and your own perfect hon
esty prevents you from either suspect
ing or defrauding any one
'The phrenologist the following
week bought horse from the farmer
The horse was knock-kneed, it was 25
years old, it had bad temper, and it
baked. Though the farmer had only
paid SIS for the animal, he secured
without difficulty $3.50 from the phre-
nologist for it.
Its wonderful said the farmer to
himself, as he hastened toward the
bank to deposit the money-it's jest
wonderful that man should know SO
much about men and not know thing
about hosses! Detroit Free Press.
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
A strinaent Anti.llauor Bill.

Topeka. Feb. 13.-The most strin-
gent anti-liquor measure ever serious
j. considered in a Kansas legislature
was Thursday passed by the senate
With but one dissenting vote and with
suit one of it's provisions being ques-
toned. The measure absolutely pro-
hbits the sale of liquor through drug
stores. with the exception the right
10 sell wines 10 churches for COM
'n,union services. An amendment was
adopted giving powers of inquisition
I'D county attorneys.
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
TypeWriters in 1714.

The idea of mechanical letter-writ-
ing seems to have first occurred to an
Englishman. for the earliest record of
a patent for such a device Is of one
granted by the English government
to Henry Mill in TIA. The first type
writer invented in the United States.
called the 'typographer," was patented
Ia 1929 by William Austin Burt of
Detroit, Mich. also the inventor of the
solar compass. The machine was a
primitive affair, and could be manipu-
lated only slo-Tly. No practical results
were accomplished by the Burt ma
chine, and to-day 1t is known merely
as starting point of a great Ameri-
can industry.
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
Gov. stubbs Protests.

Topeka, Kan. Feb. 10.-Gov. w. r.
=Stubbs Monday issued "a statement
s.rotesting against the suggestion OF
the bankers of the state that the pro-
posed bank guaranty law Sbe so @orded
as to protect deposits that do not
straw interest but to afford no protec-
lion to interest Sbearing deposits. This
Is the first time Gov. Stahbs has
aaken active. open part in proposed
legislation.
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
carr,a oeierse Reuins.

Marion. Kan. Feb. 13.-The first
s'aY's testimony of witnesses for the
.'efense in the trial Of w. L. Carr
soiied TO reveal the points on which
she defense will base its fight for
4 arr's freedom Several witnesses
taye testimony tending to dmpeach
dae character OF some Df the states
witnesses but little new evidence
iearing directly on the case itself was
developed.
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
A Iona Sentence.

The prize for the longest sentence
ever written may fairly be awarded to
the elder Dumas, who probably holds
a. further record for fertility of pro-
duction In the seventh of the % vol
umes which compose the impressions
de Voyage" there is a sentence de-
scribing Benvenuto Cellini, which fills
three pages, or los lines, averaging
45 letters apiece. The sentence is
broken by 68 commas and 60 semi
colons; but as 1t contains 1875 verbs
and 122 proper names. the reader Is
somewhat bewiidered before the end
is reached.
Meade County news., 1909-02-18
AN OBJECT LESSON
WHITE MEN OUT OF WORK SOLD
AT AUCTION IN A NEW
YORK CHURCH.
A PREACHERS UNIQUE PLAN
A Number of Idle Men Get Jobs
Through Rev. John z. Longs
Scheme-church Wouldn't
Hold the Crowd.

New York, Feb. 13:-An auction OF
white men on Lincoln's birthday was
the spectacle that drew thousands OF
persons to the Parkside Presbyterian
church in Flatbush Friday night.
The auction was in reality an object
lesson of the conditions prevailing
among working people and served to
get jobs for a number of men:
The church was crowded when Rev.
John e. Long began an address in
which he outlined the pitiable condi,
ton of many a man WHO was willing
to work. but unable to secure posi-
ton. Outside the church a crowd al
5000 persons clamored and struggled
to get into the already crowded house
Of worship.
Rev. Long INTRODUCED Edward T.
OLaughlin, who was to conduct the
auction. O'Laughlin outlined his plan
to which the men he would present
had agreed This was to offer them.
as it were. on the block to the person
who would give them job through
which they could earn subsistence and
d lew uOl1dIS OCSluC, ~ pOootO1S. -
money end, however, was an after
consideration as the men WHO had
come to him wanted food and shelter
principally.
ME- OLaughlin then led on to the
platform SO men, young and old, all
more or less shabbily garbed and dis
playing in their ways the pinch OF
want All of the men wore black
masks so as to conceal their identity
to all purchasers. Each man was
numbered and SO they were put on
the block
No. 10 was the first presented. He
was described as an iron worker and
molder, long out Of work and in want
and willing to work at anything.
Several men in the audience
walked to the platform and, as in
slavery days, critically surveyed the
subject. One man went SO far as te
feel of the mans limbs and muscles
1t was finally announced that the man
had been "sold" to w. F. Copeland
who would give him employment in
an industrial association in New
York. The terms were not announced
No: 81 was the next put up. He
was described as man who had
taken part in the Boer war and who
had seen service in the United States
army in the Philippines: He was ar
electrician by trade: No: p went to
a Flatbush family, the name Of which
was withheld by request. 1t was an
nounced that the family would give
him $50 month and board.
No. %, a painter, went to a New
ark, N: j., man WHO promised hin
$40 a week, while No. II, a gray
haired man, was taken away by {
young man WHO said he would give
him home and work at once.
Thus six men in all were disposed
of when, as the hour was waxing
late, the spectators, many of whom
keenly felt the scenes they had wit
messed, formed themselves into
committee, took charge of the remain
| ing A men and promised to fint
homes and jobs for them.