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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-04-15


most valuable COW on earth, from
butter making point of view, died last
Friday. She was known as Pedros'
Estella, and had record of having
produced milk which yielded 712
pounds of butter in one year. She
died by falling into a ditch.
STORM KILLS SIXTEEN A
storm which ran across several mid
die western states early last week
killed sixteen people. injured twice
as many, and caused damage estimat-
ed at several millions.
REVENUE COLLECTIONS IN
CREAsE.-TheI Internal Revenue Blu
reau reports that its collections for
March we're $6i,717 larger than during
the same month last year.
GEO. T. ANGEL DEAD:-Geo. T.
Angel, editor OF Our Dumb Animals,
and famous the world over for his
efforts TO alleviate the sufferings OF
dumb animals. died several days ago,
at a ripe old age.
DEAD:-Four deaths OF famous per
sons occurred late last week. The first
TO die was Nine. Helen Mojeska, for
years considered the leading actress
in this country, the second, +. Marion
Crawford, the famous novelist, the
third Il. A. Hitchcock. Secretary OF
the Interior In the Mckinley and
Rooseveits cabinets. and a great fight
er for law enforcement and the pro-
lection OF the government domain. an
the fourth Algernon Charles Swim
burne, the famous English poet.
WHEAT WAY UP:-wheat reach
ed the highest price In mans memory
In Chicago Tuesday when the staple
touched si.3t% for May delivery. The
corner held by a prominent operator
has something 10 do with this ire
mendous price. but there Is also an
immense outside demand, and II IS
reported that Europe will have 10
buy millions OF bushels to live on
thru the summer The price of flour
is going up rapidly, with signs Of
further increase.
ROCHESTER, BURNING: - Fire
broke out In two places in the city
OF Rochester, n. Y, Tuesday after
noon. and before II could be checked
had burned over several acres and
done damage estimated at over a
million.
TURKISH REBELLloN:-The at
tempt to start reforms in Turkey Is
meeting with trouble, and there are
two reform parties which are Sight
ing each oher. They are 1.-THE Lib
erals and the Young Turks. The
latter are now in control. but the
former are doing all they can TO
make trouble. Recently they have
stirred up a rebellion OF some troops
in the city, there has been fighting,
and IL is likely that there will be
real disorder before the rebellion can
be put down.
CASTRO KICKED OUr:--Cipriano
Castro. the former dictator in Vene-
zuela, who came back to this hemis-
phere to regain his power In the
little republic. has been met by troubl
and is now on his way back again. II
was denied permission to land at
any port OF Venezuela; England drove
him away from Trinidad; and he
finally landed on French soil. at
Port de France. France soon decided
that she did not want him there,
however, and he was forcibly put
on shipboard, and is now on his way
back to France. He is making an
awful fuss. The powers are all afraid
20 have him down near Venezuela,
for fear he will start something go
ing again,
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-04-15
MONEY.

What it can buy
Material independence.
Leisure.
Opportunities.
The homage of interiors
Society.
What ii cannot buy
Mental independence.
Culture.
Friends.
Health.
Love.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-04-15

Although an eminent physician de-
clares that corsets do as much harm
as alcohol, women are prone to be-
lieve only half they hear, when they
so desire
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-04-15
ThIbetan rest Of Character.

The Thibetans have some strange
tests for ascertaining the character
OF a man. One is by means OF hole
in block Of granite. through which
the individual has to crawl. II an
honest man he will, according to the
theory OF the Thibetans, creep through,
but II a scoundrel he will stop in the
middle.-Dr. Sven Hedin's London Ad-
dress
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-04-15
THINGS TO THINK OF

To sell rum for a livelihood is bad
enough, but for a whole community
to share the responsibility and guilt
OF such traffic, seems worse bar
gain than that of Eve or Judas
Horace Greeley.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-04-15
NEW DEFINITIONS.

by AHHd WyHHt.
Bluff is not assurance.
Recognition is not success.
Prosperity is not owning an auto
mobile and owing money.
Generosity is not promising.
Truth is not politeness.
Taste is not following the fashion.
Divorce is not a desire for freedom.
Sensitiveness is not cowardice
Indifference is not good nature
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-04-15
Keen Honey in Dark.

Keep honey in the dark, AS it quick
ly graduates II allowed to stand In
the light. Also keep 1t in a covered
dish, as its sticky surface attracts
and holds dust in the air.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-04-15

When a boy gets to the time that
he wants to wear clean collar, child
hoods careless days are over and
the responsibilities of life have be-
gun.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-04-15
France Is Not singular.

There are persons in France who
respect nothing. They spend their life
in trying to prove that Louis XIV.
was a poor maniac, Napoleon degen-
crate, and Joan OF Arc suspicious
person. Perhaps we talk too
much Of our national pride.-Paris Le
Aatfp
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-04-15
IN WASHINGTON

Tariff Changes Planned BY Senate
Give Line on Final Law-Taft Fam
lily Followed to Church BY Crowds
Edwards and Bennett Speak on
Tariff.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-04-15
Slams and Events.

In the beginning the world was
made SO that certain signs come be
fore certain events.--Cicero.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-04-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Record Breaking Butter Producing
Cow Dies Castro Kicked Out OF
West Observation-Disclosures on Fire
Four Prominent Persons Die in
Week.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-04-15
Washington ID. C.

washington ID. G.
April II, 1903
Mr.. Taft goes to church every Sun
day. During the campaign many criti
cisms were made of his religion,
CONTINUED on fourth pagel
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07
Power for Ca.cnde TunneI.

The tunnel by which the Great Northern
railway makes its way through the Cascade
range of mountains has been equipped for
operation by electricity, and the plant has
now been put in service, with four three
phase locomotives each Weighing lis tons,
and equipped with four 5O0-horsepower
motors. The power plant is located on the
Wenatchee river, thirty miles from the
tunnel, where a 40OfoOt dam, varying In
height from eleven to fourteen feet, has
been built. The generating apparatus has
been designed to meet great fluctuations in
load, as the grade through the tunnel is
1T per cent for two and three-fourths miles.
the whole electrified section being about
four miles, and on account Of the grade II
is expected that at times the services Of
all four locomotives may be required upon
one train. The penstock Is 12OO feet long
and eight and one-half feet I'm diameter.
OF this u.OO feet Is composed o. wood
stave pipe and 1000 feet OF rivited steel.
The wood pipe at the upper end is strapped
with three-fourths-inch steel bands spaced
ten inches apart. and the fastenings gradu-
ally increase to seven-eighths-inch bands In
the middle and one inch at the lower end,
where the spacing Is decreased TO two
inches. Al one point the pipe passes for
600 feet through solid rock, and near the
plant Il Is carried across the river on steel
slings underneath a 9OOfoot Tiveted steel
truss bridge. on which the difference Ia
expansion between bridge and pipe Is taken
up by roller bearings az one end. In the
power house there are two forty-two-inch
Victor Francis turbines with horizontal
shafts and Sturgess hydraulic governors
and tWenty-foOt draught tubes. giving a
static head OF 30 feet These are directly
connected 20 2Oo-kW. nOamprO General
Electric al~ternators- Two direct-cerrent
General Electric four pole so amReFo
twelve-volt dynamos driven BY sixtsen-ineh
Victor wheels under 80 foot head furnish
exciting current There are In the plant
two large water rhoostata. the function Of
which h 10 absorb eHoess current generated
when The motora are running d9Nn srade
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07
Successful Experiments in the Field of Electricity;

easy. Various ways of Matching eggs arti-
ficially have been used, but evidently cleo
tricity provides the bestway of getting
close to natures conditions. The principal
advantage OF electricity seems to be that
It provides a way for m%aintaing a con-
stant temperature.
This is accomplished by the electro
plane" the most important features Of
the device. 1t is an asbestos board placed
at the top of the incubator, metal bound
and electrically heated by a heating coil
underneath it, through which is passed
a current from an ordinary lighting circuit.
In the circuit is included a thermostat
which. by the expansion and contraction OF
strips of metal used. sbreaks the circuit
when the temperature reaches the de-
sired high point and makes contact again
when the temperature drops. BY this ar
rangement the temperature can be reg
ulated to a part of a degree. The heat
is continuous and there is no smoke or
smell or lamps to take care Of.
In the London Zoo electric light is used
to initiate sunlight to max the birds
feed earlier. A flood Of light is turned on
several hours before sunrise and the birds
wake UP, hop about and begin to feed
A gamester in London in this way takes
advantage of the habit of quail to feed
only at sunrise. They are kept In cellars
and a number of times a day the electric
sunlight is turned on, the quail wake up
n feed, according to their habit and
after a time the light is turned off and the
birds take to their nests. In this way
they can be made to take half a dozen
breakfasts a day, and are kept fat and
plump for market.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07
Nature FnkiHk Electricity.

Three recent inventions for the produc-
ton and application OF electricity show
that it is the next thing to nature itself.
reports the ST. Louis Times. The first
gathers electrical energy direct from the
suns rays, the fountain head of everything
in nature. The other two seem TO show up
electricity as a master hand In the bust
ness Of nature taking. The second uses 1t
to fake the mother hen in Matching chick
ems, and the third to fake the light Of day
in awakening quail or similar. game birds,
causing them to feed ofen and become fat.
An inventive genius in New York City
has made a discovery that enables him to
gather electricity from the rays Of the sun
and bottle It in storage batteries, so that
it can be turned on or off and used for
light, heat and power the same as II It
were produced by artificial means. It is
called the solar electric generator and
transforms the electricity that lies in the
SUMS rays directly into energy for commer-
cial uses.
The primary cell-of this generator is
simple. 1t is a rod or plug about three
inches long made Of an alloy of several
common metals. on one end OF which the
sun shines in a glass enclosed space con-
tanning stll air heated by the sun. The
INV - 70 Al u G0AlPO1ANAOh VI AotlIOn~
ductors OF heat, light or electricity. and IL
is placed so that it will be In the shade
and cool moving air. The rod forms part
OF a circuit wired in the regular way to a
storage battery.
When the sun shines on the end OF the
rod and heats II a difference in tempera-
ture is produced between It and the other
end that sets up an electrical action which
is transmitted by the wires to the storage
battery. While the energy thus gathered
by one rod Is small, it is a comparatively
simple matter to multiply the number OF
rods and consequently the amount OF en-
ergy.
The device now IN use consists of a
frame similar to a window sash with
sixteen panes of glass, each pane inclos-
ing sixty-one plugs. whose ends are ex-
posed 10 the sun. making a total OF 976.
IL is claimed that enough electrical en-
ergy can be gathered by this device Ia
two days OF sunshine to light an Ordi-
nary house for a week IL Is not costly
and lasts for years. An automatic mechan-
ism shuts off the battery when the sun
ceases to shine and opens IL up AZ once
when the suns rays touch II again.
The business OF the old hen Ia hatch
ing chickens Is satisfactory. but slow.
Man found hat Il would be 10 his ad-
vantage TO Increase the output away be-
yond hen Matching possibilities. But the
nature takers found that the old hen
knew her business mighty well and that
10 initiate the ways of nature we're NOT
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

Charles W. Morse, former ice king and
millionaire, will not have an uncomfortable
In thef federal prison at Atlanta lie
may write letters 20 family and friends.
subject 10 supervision o. the prison au-
Once IN two weeks he may re-
ceivo visitors. He will be furnished with
tobacco and smokinE material, and al
lowed a certain number Of books each
week from tho prison library containing
1909 volumes. He will be allowed 90 re-
celve magazines. books, and newspapers
from friends. He will be given tine best
treatment aud accorded every possible
liberty consistent with prison rules a.
long as he behaves himself. Lapses from
good behavior are punished By drops in
grade, the third grade prisoners being de-
prived OF practically ali their privileges,
a. well a. their good time. which with
most prisoners q a big item lie viii be-
required 70 work eight hours a day, ana
given a. much ~open-air recreation -
possible u keep him healthy
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

compartment back Of the explosive charge
contains the Hertzian controlling instru-
ments, sufficiently effective to act even
at eight to ten kilometers five to six
miles) from the transmitting station.
The two masts carrying acetylene lights
serve to show the position of the torpedo
at every moment. and indicate every
change in its course. To show what is
going on inside, the torpedo lanterns have
been disposed about to flash signals in
such a manner that the operator, placed
on shore or on a ship, may recognize the
nature of the directions received by the
torpedo. In short, every time the torpedo
receives waves registered by its instru-
ments, the lanterns show signals to indi-
cate the direction Of the torpedo. II these
signals lead the operator to believe that
the waves come from the enemy. he does
what is necessary, to rectify the course Of
the torpedo, and he n~ullifies the disturbing
waves.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

gated the matter say, one in every 100
should be able to read, and during the
following year. II the school scheme is
carried out, one in every fifty should be
able to both read and write, while at the
close Of the nine years, when the first
members Of Parliament are elected. the pro-
portion Of literacy should be about enc to
twenty.
The new schools will practically create a
new language for China and a new system
OF phonetic writing. Schools are now being
organized by the thousands, and there are
tens of thousands Of the old Chinese pro-
fessors who are fitting themselves to be-
come modern teachers. At the time the
edict was sent forth 10000 went to Japan
and spent about six months there fitting
themselves for the new education. The
most of these have returned, but there
are at present something like 5000 Chinese
studying in Japan, and there will soon be
in the neighborhood Of 1000 studying in
America.
1t is a wonderful evidence Of the good
citizenship of the Chinese that the intro
duction of schools and the abolition Of the
old examination system W been made
without causing a revolution. Suct a
change would have created a war ia al
most any other country, necessltating as
It did the loss Of jobs by thousands of the
old tutors and the making of their classical
education Of no value.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

the preparation Of the people for the pro-
vincial assemblies by the viceroys and gov
ernors. including the opening of schools
for the studying OF self-government in the
cities, market towns and villages.
During the second year members are to
be elected to the provincial assemblies, and
in the third they are to be organized and
in working order.
BY the fourth year there will be a new
code OF laws and new courts, and in the
fifth a new system Of taxation will be en-
forced.
The sixth year continues the preparation
Of the people for the national parliament,
and during the seventh the reorganization
Of the government revenues and expendi-
lures will be taken up.
The year following the officials will
begin to consider the imperial household
expenses; they will establish a judicial
bureau and will begin to issue certificates.
In the ninth year the imperial constitu-
ton will be finally enforced and the i'm
perial parliament will be in session here
at Picking.
This Is the bare outline of but a few
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07
school,. and Constitution.

Take, for instance, the plan laid out for
the new school system. The year 1905 was
largely devoted to the composition Of easy
text books along modern lines. This year
the text books are being published, and the
laws have gone forth that they must be
used in all schools. At the same time
modern schools are being started in all the
large cities. Next year the same program
is to be pushed, and by 1912 It is expected
there will be a public school in every VIII
lage and market town. Today the proper
ton of Chinese who can read and write is
exceedingly low. The nation is not an
educated one, as many suppose, and I
doubt whether ten men in 1000 can read
and write. BY 1913, those who have investi-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07
where Uncle sam Comes In.

The new constitution is bound to be Of
great advantage to the United States and
in q lesser degree to all foreign powers.
1t will bring about the reorganization OF
business and trade, and will lead to a
large number of Chinese students going
abroad. The most OF these will be sent
to either Japan or the United States. Hun
dreds will come to our country. especially
as by the scheme adopted for the use of
the Boxer indemnity which we returned
to China a large sun is to be continuously
spent in educating Chinese boys in Amer
lea. Tang Shao " took over the first in
stallment OF students last year. One hun
dred more are to be sent over in 1910, and
fifty more each year for thirty years there
after. This means that for the next gen
Grafton China will always have 200 OF its
brightest young men in the States. They
will be studying American institutions,
making American friends and coming back
here to favor America for China in its
foreign relations.
Talk about a Chinese alliance! The re-
turn of that indemnity was the most
profitable work Uncle Sam ever did. From
now on it will serve as a steady leaven
of Americanism in the dough OF the old
Chinese empire, working for the interests
u OuE SOuAAS IA AN AOAIhhlAOn Vi Nho
new.
Under the new constitution there will
be an enormous demand for machinery
and the other necessities of our western
civilization, and this should aid America.
in its efforts to furnish them. There will
be a demand for teachers. engineers and
specialists OF all kinds, and as far as
friendship Is concerned Uncle Sam has
the call. Even now the Chinese students
who were sent to the United States In.
1870 to be educated there ara among the.
leading officials of the empire. They do.
not hold the highest positions, but they.
are close to the top and are really doing
the work Of the new China 1 meet grad
yates of Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth and
other eastern colleges here and there; and
1 have found several Chinese officials who
were educated in California and other.
parts Of the west. There were about forty.
students taken over in 1870, and others.
have gone from time to time since then.
In addition to the 200 paid for by the ln-
demnity fund. many others will follow by.
force of example. so that the number will
probably be 600 or more. In 1907, before this
fund began to work. we had 800 Chinese
students registered at the embassy in.
Washington. OF these only forty-ninO had.
poeh sent over ny Lhe ihlpeTlH government
and the others were private students, FUR
nished with money by their parents. II.
the same ratio be preserved. China should
have 500 students when the indemnity fund.
is In full force.
This means that during the mex genera
ton thousands Of Chinese will be educated.
in the United States and that they will
form a force in our favor so strong that
no other government or trade element OF
Europe can compete with II. They will
learn to be engineers. railroad managers
and manufacturers, and when they cd
back TO China their machinery and other
SUI plies will be ordered from the estab1
shments which they have know in the
United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

Of the principal provisions. The scheme
is elaborate, and it provides for a thor
ough reorganization along modern lines.
There is one great branch devoted TO the
reforming Of the courts, and this includes
the establishment of law schools in every
great city and at all the provincial capt
tails.
Another branch is devoted to the Great
ing Of a modern army, the steps of growth
going on from year to year, and a third
deals with education and the gradual or
ganization of a system Of. schools which
will make 1t compulsory.
1t is the same with the changes to be
made in revenues and taxation. Every
thing is gradual, and in the end China will
be as far advanced as Japan today and
will have all the government advantages
of other nations.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

bers in these state legislatures, and In Ad-
dition SOM twenty or twenty-five Man
chus. It is probable that from these as
semblies the future parliament will come.
In order to be a member Of the provin-
cial assemblies a man will need far higher
qualifications than those demanded for
election to our state legislatures. The can
didate must have been connected with edu-
~oationsl enterprises for at least five years,
or have graduated from the middle schools
OF either China or abroad. or he must be
a master Of arts or a retired official who
has never been denounced by the censors
or cashiered by the government II he has
a capital Of 5000. and is otherwise respect
able. he may also be a candidate. but II he
is an opium smoker or has ever been in
prison he need not apply. Furthermore. IL
he is elected he will not be allowed to de-
cline unless incapacitated by illness from
serving.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07
Openings for YounE Americans.

In the meantime the Chinese feel 50.
friendly to us hat there should be many
openings for young Americans. Foreign
ers will have 20 be employed In the reor1
ganization Of tho government and in tho
building up OF new Industries. Within al
few years China must have a large force
OF civil, mechanical and mining engineersi
IL will need metsllurgists. chemists and.
other specialists. 10 will probably estab-'
lish national banks and a news system Of
coinage, with minis IN a half dozen prov
inces. It's pOstoffice system will be mod
ernized, and as for he railroads. thousands
Of miles Of new lines are already pro
tected and much new track a. being laid ii
different parts OF the empire. There will
b. government openings for chOoi teach
eFs and college professors. and also OBJ
portuniues from private capital for Hpo-
cislists ia an modern industries.
FRANK O. CAfPENVEM
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

All voters must reside in the district for
more than one year. They must be able
TO read and write, and must have their
family records unblemished. The franchise
is not given to men OF bad character, nor
to opium users. 1t is forbidden to DULLES
and criminals, and there are certain low
professions whose members will not be
allowed to come to the polls. In general
any Chinese will have a right to. the fran
chise, provided he has the ordinary quail
fications, and any boy may hope to be-
come a member of Parliament and to have
part in the government.
The constitution provides for the free
dom of the press. for the right Of public
assembly and for freedom from taxation
except by law.