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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11
NNI[o10l4E SCN0ECR0N mn R4yfYNfN1W MZFChHENT

mon the scarecrow the better It scares. well let
II go at that.
woman from Chicago recently visited Mrs
Holland and commented favorably upon the farm
except for chose rubes In the back yard who are
continually staring at a person"
Usually the agriculturist has use for every gar
ment They are made over for the children and
the oldest son. rule. retreats into the fathers
dscards at least while doing The work about the
farm When the clothes have passed the period OF
usefulness they handed over to the silent senti-
nell where the elements play with them until there
is little to remind the farmer OF his ex-apparel
That is the elements play with them II the
knights OF the side door Pullman don't happen up
on the scene and divest the scarecrow Of Its cloth
ing before storm and wind do.
There are dozens and dozens OF farm stories
about invasions of hoboes and their art OF ef
fecting steathy clothing trades with the guards OF
the cornhelds, In which the friends OF the
crows always come off second best and far more
tattered
In such cases It takes the scavengers of the air
some time to mako the acquaintance of the re-
vamped sentinel anew and thus the farmer is aided
despite the fact that he and his dog hate the DO.
But the scarecrow is absolutely and positively
to make his final appearance soon, 1t is said and
modern methods of saving the crops are taking
away one of the most picturesque features of the
American farm, the poets murmur.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11

THE PRICE OF A DRINK.

give cents glass;" Does anyone think
That is really the price Of drink
Five cents "A glass" hear You say;
why. that isn't very much to pay.
Oh, no. indeed. tits very small sum
You are passing DER 'twixt hnger and
thumb.
And II that we're all that you gave away
II wouldn't be very much TO pay.
The price OF drink let him decide
Nho has lost his courage and lost his
pride.
And lies a groveling heap of clay.
Not far removed from beast to-day.
The price OF drink? Let that enc tell
who sleeps tonight In "a murdrer's cell
And feels within him tho fires Of hell
Honor and virtue, love and truth.
All the glory and pride Of youth.
Hopes OF manhood. the wreath Of fame.
High cndcavor and noble aim
These are the treasures thrown away
As the price OF a drink from day To day.
"Five cents n glass" How Satan laughed
As DER the bar tho young man duaffcd
The beaded liquor; for the demon knew
The terrible work that drink would do.
Aud before the morning the victim lay
with his Hfc-blood swiftly obhing away;
And that was tho price he paid. alas
For the pleasure OF taking "A social glassi
The price Of drink II You want 10
Know
what some arc willing n pay for Il, 10
Through that wrotchcd tenement over
there,
with dingy windows and broken stair.
Where foul Disease like vampire
crawls
with outstrctchcd wings DER the moldy
walls.
There Poverty dwcils With her hungry
brood,
Wlld-cycd ns demons fer lack OF food.
There Shame in a corner crouches low,
There Violence deals It's crua blow,
And innocent ones are thus accursed.
To pay the price Of snothcr's thirst.
give cents glassr' oh. IL that were
all.
The sacrifice would. indeed. b. small.
But tho moneys worth Is the least
amount
We pay. and whoever will keep account
win learn the terrible waste ami blight
That follows this rulnous appetite.
"Five cents a glass" Does anyone think
That that is really the price ~ a drink
Josephine Pollard
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11
THE SALOON IN OUR TOWN.
Wh=; Il c!d 10 Ruin Many Of Our Men
OF Promise.

was in my twenty-hrst year when
saw the dead body OF Abraham lin
coin lying in state in Ct James hall
Buffalo. n. Y. The lines Of his face
were noble even in death. A. that
time was employed as night clerk
IT, one OF Bu1alo's largest hotels. The
proHrietor--a good looking. middle
aged widower, with a small family OF
grown-up sons and dauFhters--was ad
dlcted to gin cocktails. Ills order In.
sariably was: Gin oocktail-consld
cradle gin and little water" A few
years arerward he died in an insane
asylum In New York state. In 1867
served in a similar capacity In a
hotel In Erie. Pa The proprietor ac-
quired quite a fortuno-somethlng
over $4,000 lie became a gambler
and drunkard. lost hts fortune. and
about ten years afterward. while act.
ing as a porter in the same hotel. he
fell out OF thirdstory window and
his neck was brokcn-all this owing
10 The Saloon in Our Town" In 1854
engaged in business In Cleve-
land. o.. and in ten years accumulated
about $4,000. Now. In these years I
drank occasionally. and never imag-
ined that, at some future day. should
become one OF the worst drunkards In
the United States. Yet such, alasi
proved to be the case. Why. I used TO
sneak along the streets. feeling so
mean and low-as II ! dared not meet
the folks used to know. left Cleve-
land in 1899 and have never been
there since. travelled through Mich
igan and Indiana, and worked ms a
salesman In various lines. In 1900 I
came 10 indianapolis and got strand
ed; so here I've been ever since.
The Saloon In Our Town" has
made Of me n physical. moral and
financial wreck. A broken right arm.
a sprained left ankle. a dislocsted left
wrist, dishgured right eye. and sew.
eral minor cuts In various parts OF my
anatomy are the results OF frequent
visits to "The Saloon in Our Town"
Many a night, In hot and cold wealth.
er. I've carried the banner" Mann
night I've slept on the grass. on
frelght-house lodges, back stoops or
school-houses, empty house porches,
stair steps. ON the grass In parks
In fact, any old place that seemed
safe retreat from the policeman or
Waterman. And often-oh. how often!
I've turned my face away when I'd
read the signs: big lunch for ten
cents"
THE Saloon in Our Town" in this
twentieth century enlightened age
SHOULD not DO in evidence. Why
nurse I"C.iie within your bosom
except 3Cu love suffering and death?
In yodr future elections see 20 IL that
nc man receives your support except
be is fully pledged to the suppression
Of that hideous monster-"The Saloon
in Our Town.. r. Spike, in Col.
liers
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11
Widow shot BY Rejected suItor.

Pittsburg. Pa, March S.-Wadng at
4 O'Clock Sunday morning at her home
in Beaver. 30 miles west Of here. Mrs.
Mamie Mckee, a widow. found Will
lam G. Wilmer. rejected sutton, stand.
ing at her bedside. and when she de-
clared again in answer TO his question
that she did not love the man, he fred
four bullets into her head. Wilmer
killed himself by taking poison and
then shooting himself.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11
Action Of the MAGNETIC Needle.

The magnetic needle comes to rest pointing
north and south because the earth acts as II It
were a great magnet. compass needle would
come TO rest pointing lengthwise Of bar magnet
placed under the compass needle, Just it does
under the influence OF the earth. For this reason
we think of the earth as a great magnet The north
pole and the north star have no Influence over the
compass needle.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11

because of the fact that
his grandson is now
holder of a high office
at Portland, Me, dis
covered that the crows
flew away at the sight
of him and be soon
grew tired of his work.
So he riggedup a crude
imitation of a twentieth
century scarecrow and
put the invention TO
work Then he spent
his days snoozing I'M
der a tree in the apple
orchard, his employer
believing him still on
duty at the feeding
ground of the crows
Since thattime his idea
has been greatly i'm
proved, but then it was
the pinnacle of Yankee
ingenuity.
He tied two sticks
crosswise and simply
rested his tattered coat
over the device. This
scared the crows worse
49, l. a
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11
Church DESTROYED.

Kittanning, Pa, March S.-The First
Presbyterian church, considered one
Of the finest houses Of worship in
Western Pennsylvania, was destroyed
by fire Sunday morning. Loss 100000;
$3.50 insurance. The fire started. II
is believed, from the heating appa
ratus.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11
To Probe Drua Evil.

Secretary Wilson is about to take
steps to investigate the uses TO which
cocaine, caffeine and certain choral
hydrates are put, with a view to put.
ting stop to their use In any way
that will tend to fasten the drug habit
upon their consumers.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11
Ends Life With Poison.

Boston. March S.--Mrs. Bertha
wildes Elton. AZ years old, a prom
inent club woman of Dorchester, short
story writer and well-known student Of
sociology, committed suicide by drink.
ing poison at her home Saturday
morning.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11
Quite Eittino

January %. LaRue county. Ken.
tucky-Abraham Lincoln's native
county-voted dry by a majority OF
1,0s5-a fitting step to take ca the
eve OF the anniversary of the birth OF
80 great temperance advocate.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11
Foundry plant Destroyed BY Fire.

Admission, Ala, March SAN inoen-
diary fire early Sunday morning in the
plant of the Central Foundry Co here
caused a loss of 100000 and $50 men
were thrown out of employment.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11
Law win Hit Jams.

Honolulu, March s.-The territorial
senate, by vote Of 10 TO 8. has
passed to its second reading the
anti-Japanese bill, which prohibits
aliens from fishing in Hawaiian
waters.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11

tNHI ms sOTt OF EUdIuIdH OF IHY
fields so little resembles the farmer
az work that the crows and
other enemies OF the agricul-
turist would perchance pluck the
flower from his buttonhole. but the
expert argues that the more uncom-
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11

AVE the agriculturist and
the venerable scarecrow
reached the parting Of
the ways?
Men who claim to
know say they have. The
farmers silent bluff
against birds of the air
which prey upon vege-
1911. rae .nI h.ostg 90 81,
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11

TO say nothing Of a pair Of tan shoes and an
occasional posey in the left lapel Of light
gray overcoat. and you have Holland scare
crow I'm holiday attire. Critics might declare
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-03-11

clinatons likewise is doomed, it is declared.
CHARGED barbed wire fences shoguns and special
sraons OF poisonthe modern andote for dumb sinners
being such extent that the scarecrow
has nassed the period of in many sections
Professional iokers farmers who employ electricity in
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Following Is q list or real estate
transfers IN Kotenai county, as fur
nlshed by the Panhandle Abstract
company:
United States to William Edwards,
ny sen, sEA NEA, section "a,
BO-4W.
United States to Joseph La Foun-
tain. sen NWA and lot 3, section
Q. 49-4W.
James II. Whitfield to Nels Nelson
swA section So, 5S-SW,, $1,000.
8. p. Deggs to Nels Nelson, Sh
Ma. section 20. NWA section So
63-SW., $1,000.
Alfred b. Chute to John Bear. lots
IS and IA, block II, Harrison
$500.
Spokane Valley Land & Watel
company to Louis Otterson, tract u
and "A, plat z. Greenacres. S1,1s0
q. L. Lyon to Albert q. LeFurze
lot s, block 4 Harrison. $40.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28
am Lincoln Said.
'Neighbors, Give Your
\ Boys and Girls
"A Chance"
These
N
are the words
used by the great

emanclpator IN MS Aas
nous speech, delivered at his old home to
his friends and neighbors at Springfield, Ill.
Recalling what little opportunity he had in
his early youth to get an education, and look
ing back to the days when he walked miles
and miles for a book (for he then owned none
of his own, Abraham Lincoln pleaded with
the rural and village people, his old friends
and associates to give their children better
chance-a chance to fight the battles of life
successfully.
SURELY YOU want to give your boys and girls bette
chance, not necessarily college education, but better still
home education. 1t is NOT always the school that gives 10
education you give this opportunity better
your family right in your own home. Good books-vsuab
books. Obi how Lincoln cherished these.
What would Lincoln have said had you asked his advice
on buying great History of the World entsrtaininl
and educational Library for your home. "The Library
Universal History" and especially IL offered it at
less than half of the regular price and easy termsf
We want you to these volumes, examine them in
your own home without any expense your part then
you can decide. That is what the family in the picture
below have done Mail the coupon before forget
it. SEQ the volumes themselves-it costa you nothing
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28

and conductor, saved themselves by
jumping as the train rolled over on
the curve. where the ride to destruc-
tion was ended All the trainmen
sustained slight injuries and were re-
moved to a hospital upon their ar
rival in this city.
All day long special crews battled
with the flames which have practi-
cally consumed the immense cargo
OF coal and the pile OF wreckage, but
their efforts have been unavailing.
Trafic on the main line was sus-
pended owing to the obstruction and
passengers were transferred around
the wreck.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28
BANIsHEs SLOT
MACHINE DEVICES
sheriff Moffatt, Of shoshone County
issues Sweeping Order.

sheriff MofKatt, Of shoshone County,
Issues Sweeping Order.
WALLACE, Idaho, July 2S.--That
all slot machines must be banished
to the scrap iron heap is the order
issued by sheriff Moffatt, which goes
into effect tonight or tomorrow morn
ing. Merchandise machines Of every
sort in saloons, cigar stores and other
establishments are affected by the
order.
They are gambling devices ac-
cording to the ruling Of the courts, =
said the sheriff. III gambling Is to
be stopped at all It is better to do II
entirely than half way"
One class of machines is excepted,
Weighing machines and those that
give something every time money is
placed in the slot. Merchandise,
cigar or liquor machines are to be no
more. The step has long been ex-
pected by those who have watched
the process OF eliminating all forms
OF gambling games and also machines
OF the sort that paid money.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28

President Taft appears to be get
ting in his work with the conference
committee on the tariff bill. He
wants law that will revise the tar
IN downward instead Of upward.
Senator Hepburn seems to have the
situation sized up about right when
he says that one interest and indus
try cannot expect all the favors with
out conceding something to the
others. The question involves a
great deal Of seltishness and the con-
iicting interests find 1t dificuIt to get
together, but we believe satisfac-
tory tarift bill will be framed by the
conference committee.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28
LOOK HERE.


TO che Prospective HOmeseekers.
We are at your service and solicit
your patronage, having spent time
and money in cruising the Occur
d'Alene Indian reservation. We can
show you any and all parts Of the
some together with guaranteed esti-
mates OF timber per quarter sec
tlons; also agricultural propositions
and their proximity to railroads,
highways and water, and the eleva-
tion thereof; general slope Of land
and character Of same. Our plat Is
duplicate OF the offieial records Of
the United States land ONCE, show
Ing all Indian allotments as APP
proved. The only information worth
your consideration Is from reliable
cruisers who have canvassed the sit
uation.
]. w. JONES,
Expert Timber Estimator and
Cruiser, 9O2 d. Street.
---------------Hs--
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28

If your store is better In one Of II
a hundred ways, than other stors,
in your line, the reasons why should
be known to every possible patron IL
the city. That Is your publicity
task"
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28

One Of the wise men from New
Jersey predicts the end OF the world
IN September, but we would not ad-
Wise the notaries to quit work or the
landseekers to stop filing on that ac-
count.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28

Each one Of the $1,000 people who
have registered for the Occur d'Alene
reservation expects to draw number
one and secure a $4,000 claim.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28

weekly LIat q narrains.

Weekly List OF bargains.
szgo-Each for good lots In Taylors
Addition.
sz7B-Each for two nne lots in Lake.
shore Addition; street graded, city
ssoo--Each for two lots in North Park
Addition.
se2g-For double corner on Occur a.
Alene street, in oBrien's Addition.
ssOO-For splendid lots In o'Brien's Ad-
dition. only nine blocks from Post
ONCE.
IMPROVED PROPERTY.
ssOO--Five room house and lot. 6ox14O
feet, on Fourth street.
e900--Nice lot and s-room Bungalow in
Forest Heights an ideal place for o
young couple.
e10OO-For lots, one a corner, and 6
room house In Taylors Addition. This
10 q snap and must be sold quick.
sIOo0-For room house. pantry and
closets, porches. close In.
S1OQO-For 5 room house on Occur a.
Alene street in OBrien's Addition.
SI20O-DoubIe corner and 9 room house,
plastered, in Simm's Addition. Land
IL lO0x140. This Is a bargain.
p15OO-Five lots and room house,
good well of water and gasoline
pump; can irrigate.
eI0O0--s room house and corner lot in
O'Brten's Addition.
SIOOO-Double corner and s room house,
modern, In Tayior's Addition. A nice
home at a reasonable price.
eIs0O-7 room plastered house and one
lot, in Lakeshore Addition. On grad
ed street; good buy.
e2I0O---5 room house and lot, only 4
blocks from center; pantry and 2
closets, 2 woodsheds; and including
household furniture. This IL good.
e2IOO--Good lot on Fourth street, with
good store building; storage and barn
for three horses. Has good income
from rents.
e5OOO-Fiye acres OF fine gardene land
In city limits; Z room plastered house,
pantry and closets, halls, porches,
cellar, barn, OutbuiidingB, poultry
plant for 400 chickens, $50 fruit trees,
grapes, and all kinds of berries; city
water. This Will make q fine home.
Don't Overlook O'Rrien's Addition for
Ffne Residence Lots.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28
TRAIN MAKES WILD
RACE DOWN HILL.
seventeen Oars Laden With Coal Fall
Down HIN.

Down Hin.
SALT LAKE. Utah. July ss.-At
the moment that freight train No.
s0s passed out Of the safety switch
at Media. i've miles west Of Soldiers
Summit. on the Denver & Rio Grande
railway. the engineer lost control.
through the failure OF the air brakes
70 operate properly. and the train of
seventeen cars loaded with coal was
carried down the mountain for three
miles, Gnally crashing headlong over
= curve and against the side OF the
mountain.
Remaining at their posts OF duty
until the last moment the engineer
and nreman, as wen an the brakeman
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28

IA THE GLASS OF PRINTING
WHICH THE PRESS PUB
LIsHING COMPANY TURNS
OUT.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28
CURRENT COMMENT.

spokesman-Review: Portland de-
served q good trouncing for iiEhtine
the Inland Empire in the freight rate
case; 80 the Spokane team made il
seven straight II was d good thing
for WilliametteviIIe that there were
ne more games In the series.
Chicago Tribune: Mr.. Pinchot
gives out that either be or Secretary
Ballinger will have to resign. That
u like the cook who summoned the
man Of the house Into the kitchen
and said that his wife had insulted
him and that either "she or III have
70 leave the house"
Portland Journal: Safe Is the ma
ton that Is rich In home-owners.
Wise Is the counsel that advises null
DUPLICATION and extension OF irrigated
areas. The home-owner Is soldier
for good order. The more OF them
the safer Is the social structure.
Every tenant transformed into 4 land
owner ~ st.halglalon OF large free
hold Is one more bolt to strengthen
the foundations OF commonwealth or
nation.
New York Telegram: Mrs. Minnie
Eckhard. Of Newark. N. j.. has won
her suit for divorce from Henry ECk-
hard, halter. on the ground OF cru
city and desertion. In her testimony
Mrs. Eckhard described her husband
- the champion mean man" She
told that he developed a habit OF
counting every day the number Of
potatoes. eggs and other articles Of
food she used for the family, and II
abe used one more egg or q few more
beans than he thought she should he
would penalize her by Withholding
money from the next weeks house.
hOld expenses.
Dallas (ore.l Observer. Why
should the newspapers give publicity
TO the government land drawingss
The postofEiee department Is prompt
to punish a publisher for printing ad-
vertisements OF any other classes Of
lotteries. and it even goes so far as
to make It unlawful for a newspaper
70 publish the names Of winners In
any game Of chance. This is all right
and proper, for the lottery IL one Of
the most harmful forms OF gambling
known. The government does right
20 suppress the evil. but II has no
more right to turn around and con-
duet the biggest lottery of all in dis
pensing of the public land. II II Is
wrong for private individual to con-
duet a lottery Il Is a much greater
wrong for the government to engage
sn the same business.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28

Lest yoa forget have you regis
tsred7
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Today's news today,
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Rev. d.. F. w. Gunsaulus,

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Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-28

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