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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-09-23
MANY INTERVIEWS WITH Gx.
PLoRER IN COPENHAGEN
sIFTGp IN REVIEW.
NEVER GIVEN TO ROASTING
Only Conflict OF Statement Was on
Whereabouts Of Documentary ev
idenee, Which Journalist De-
lieves Due to Mistake.

New York. Sept. iG.-william T.
Stead, the London journalist. who
went TO Copenhagen to meet Dr. Cook.
has long review Of his several inter.
views Of the explorer. He says:
by way OF Introduction. let me say
there are certain things upon which
Dr. Cook insisted without variation
or without the shadow Of a turning
from h-st 10 last There are other
things upon which he might have
made different statements. or at least
formed bis statements differently.
The statements he persisted in
were these:
/. He had discovered the North
Pole.
2. lie had his data. in the shape OF
scientific observations. a diary and
the like. by which he could convince
any competent scientific authority as
TO the truth OF his assertions.
g. That until he had made good his
claim by the production Of these data
he asked for nothing more than 10 be
left alone 10 complete his book and
present his case as a whole 10 the
scientific world.
The points upon which his state.
mcnts varied were few. as they re-
lated almost exclusively to the ques.
ton Of where he had his documents
upon which he relied for his vindica.
ton.
Question Of Papers whereabouts"
see by certain newspaper reports
that he Ia represented as saying as he
left Copenhagen to 40 aboard the os-
car II. that all hiS documents were
aboard the Jeanne and we're well on
their way 20 New York. This may be
mistake on the part OF some OF the
correspondents for Il certainly does
not agree with statement made 10
me BY DR. Cook last Sunday at lunch.
con AT the American embassy
said TO Dr Cook: Considering
the immense Importance of the docu.
ments containing your observations,
suppose you have insured them.
What rate Of premium did you have
10 pay"
There Is no insurance Office in
Greenland which would undertake
such risk" he replied. smiling
Then when ! asked him what he had
done TO safeguard them. as Il was OF
vital importance that he should be
able 10 produce them. DIR Cook re-
piled:
In order to avoid any risk OF their
loss I divided them into two portions.
The finished result Of my calculations
! brought here 20 Copenhagen; the
rough material upon which those re-
suits we're based sent to New York
by the Jeanie"
unhurt by Loss OF Half.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-09-23
Letters from Prominent Physicians
addressed to ChaS. n. Fletcher.

DR. Halsd Scott Chicago Is Il have prescribed
Castoria often for infants practice find satisfactory
William Belmont Cleveland Ohio. your Castora stands
first its class In thirty Of practice can never have
found anything that filed the place."
Dr. H. Taft, Brooklyn N Castora and
found excellent remedy household and private practice for
The formula Is excellent"
Dr. r. J. Halen Of Detroit Mh prescribe Castois
extensively have found anything for hndens
troueo limitations the field but
zee that patients get F1etchers"
Dr. McCann of Omaha Neb, the father thirteen
children certainly something medicine
family practice found
toria popular efficient remedy almost home"
r.
has itself the thousands homes blessed the
children
men Of the medical profession but for most heartily endorse and
believe excellent remedy"
Dr. NJ Ward Of Kansas City, No. physicians generally do not
prescribe proprietary Castoria expert
like that Of other physicians
ceon prescribe
thoroughly reliable
who has raised family will heaest
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

sharks notes and disputed bills in
Chicago prove by official exposure
bold and ingenious beyond belief.
fSystematic mental blackmail" is the
characterization of the methods de-
vised by some of the more unscrupu-
lous. Arrest, prosecution, dlsbarment
and refusal OF the mails are impend-
ing as a result of discoveries made,
particularly discovery that court sum
n5ones and notices of suits have been
faxed by some seliectiof agencies to
bring debtors TO time. Both CHIEF
Justice Olson of the Municipal Court
and Postoffice Inspector Stuart are
sitting the matter to the bottom.
Complaints against some collection
lawyers may be presented to the Bar
collectors bear big red seals and so
closely resemble court instruments
that thousands of dollars of fake
court cost have been extorted from
frightened debtors. Complaint was
lodged against a collector for the
Rothschild department store that one
OF its collectors had impersonated an
officer by means of a big star and serv
ed a Summons" and that later an
execution was secured without notice
OF suit being served. There have
been some most brazen uses of the
Municipal courts name TO frighten
debtors" Justice Olson has said. 1--WE
have had complaints against the coll
lection agencies ourselves in the past
and have put the intinidating practic
es of a number of them out of business
Inspector Stuart has said. A sample
notice of one agency contains this, in
very formidable dress: Your re-
mittance here is absolutely necessary,
because the hour is come when the
most vigorous officer. who makes a
specially Of handling executions, only
making lnvies thereon. has arranged
with our client to take this out of our
charge and proceed in his own way to
enforce the writ by carrying out a
strict and rigorous requirement OF the
law at your home"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10
y y X =
CHICAGO LETTER

Chicago, Nov. 10-The quarter cent
ury anniversary of the steel skyscrap-
err, which marked an epoch of progress
toward fireproof construction the coun
try over, has brought the worlds first
steel skelton building again into the
spotlight, the Home Insurance build
ing in Chicago, where the Armour
general Offices have been for years
1t was the success of this building
erected under the supervision OF w
H.. B. Jenney, designer of the sky
scraper, which gave the name "Chica-
go construction" to the steel frame
building the world around. Since its
completion billions of dollars have
been invested in skyscrapers and yet
they have not reached the point OF
security against flames that climates
the fire hazard or Uncle Sans an
nual fire waste of $1,000, 900 more
than under European standards, the
contributes enormous sums
Fire insurance interests have been 1ac-
tive in improving conditions but an
official report OF the National Fire
Protection Association says: "A
standard for building construction,
particularly for any sort of flreproof
type, Is an important matter to many
business interests, and 1t would seem
that the best result could only be OBJ
tanned by these various Interests
working together for the production
of such q standard. The question of
a general conference for this purpose
has been under discussion. .ssof archi
tects. engineers, builders and fire pro
lection engineers" Among the sky
scraper's features to be considered
by such conference would be, first
the regulation of height and area of
buildings, second, the safeguarding OF
all inside vertical openings to prevent
spread OF fire from one floor to an
other. Third, the design of really
fireproof partitions. Fourth, the pro-
lection of all outside wall openings in
cluding front windows, against fires
and against the tapping of fire from
story to story OF the same building.
Notwithstanding the increase of fire.
proof buildings since the first sky
scraper was built, Chicago's average
fire waste has not been materially
reduced and the cost OF fire fighting
and other measures to put out fires
greatly increased at the same time.
With an average annual fire loss of
hye million dollars Chicago makes a
pitiful comparison with Berlin, where
the average annual fire loss is only
about s15O,0O0. The fire loss per capi
Ia in Germany, France, Switzerland,
Austria, Denmark, and Italy combin-
ed In a stated period was 33 cents. in
the United States for the same time
the per capita loss was more than
1925, II is no wonder that European
insurance rates are found TO be much
lower than those in this country.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

Oculists have pointed out that our
ancestors who were required to read
by the light of the candle were not
troubled with defects of sight as the
people Of today and the bright lights
are said to be responsible for the
prevalence of glasses today. Looking
on the bright lights has proven the
undoing of many a person.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

If Senators Aldrich, Cummins and
LaFollette have drop of blood in
their veins which carries with 1t the
nourishment for the brotherly love
cells of their make-ups, they will get
out Of the lime light and give Char
lie Dick an opportunity to get into
the center of the stage and try to
square himself with the people OF
Ohio.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

Efforts to unite friends of the post
al savings bank measure in a nation.
al, concerted campaign have brought
to the Postal Savings Bank League
headquarters in Chicago specifice
cases showing the results of Uncle
Sans conspicuous failure to provide
any saving -made-easy system. One
woman contrasted of conditions in
the United States with those in Great
Britain, where the postal savings de-
positors number about 100000 and
the deposites totaled no less than $76C
474,125 in 1907 She wrote: I'm 1880
my husband, self and seven children
landed in America from England with
$500, after paying our fares, with the
money alone saved in postal savings
bank and in the Cooperative Society.
i can truthfuily say since came here
owing TO conditions or the country,I I
have not been able to save anything.
1t is disgrace for such conditions to
exist" A Chicago bank is advertis-
ing for deposits saying. "A little
iron savings bank. said to contain
$3.50, disappeared in the ruins of a
house destroyed by fire the other even
mig in Fremont, Nebraska-and a
search mas failed to find it. Money is
so easily yost by carelessness, theft
or fire." Nevertheless the inability
conveniently TO reach a sound bank
to make the deposits or distrust OF
banks or natural reluctance TO en-
ter palatial bank with an insignlfi-
cant sum to start savings account
have been reasons potent enough to
make the total sum withheld from
banks no less than 5000 100000. 9th
er countries and Uncle Sam himself
in the case of the Philippines have es
tablished the postal savings system to
care for the beginnings of paying ac-
counts--'seedling savings they have
aptly been called.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

Senator Aldrich was applauded by
st. Louis businessmen but they were
reticent about pledging him any as
sistanoe. Just on the same principle
as many men will applaud Jim JET
fries, but few would undertake to
go into the ring and help him fight
Jack johnson.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

A deaf man in Sandusky who was &
scoffer at religion, went to hear Q
sermon and while there was healed
of his deafness, yet there are many
who will tell you that the day oi
myracles is past and that demonstra,
tons of this sort are never made in
these days.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10
NO ONE MAN CONTEST

!. d. w ONE MAN CONTEST
., Already there is some talk among
citizens to the effect that the school
K board, both the hold-overs and the
: newly elected members are tied UP
for the election of a new superintend-
dent For number of years there
mas been quite a lively fight on hand
over the school matters OF the city
and in the recent election the mat
ter came to head and the voters
registered their verdict in such un-
mistakaole terms that there is no
room for any doubt. This fight which
began as one man fight grew to
such proportions that it practically
embraced every question concerning
school policy and school government.
The schools were made to suffer, to
a certain degree and a condition
which was far from desirable re-
suited Now the matter has been set
tied and let us hope settled to stay
settled.
II is generally understood that
new superintendent for the city
schools Is to be selected at the close
of the present school year. There are
many men who are both capable and
available Marion is a city of more
than twenty thousand inhabitants
and her school children are entitled
TO receive the best instruction obtain
able. The city is able to pay for the
very best instruction and the board
owes it 20 the people to obtain the
best man for the head of the schools,
As yet no applicants have applied
tor the position, yet it is reported
that the school board is tied up to
one man and that he will be the
choice. We do not believe such re-
port, for the reason that the board
is composed of men who are not mar
row minded enough TO pledge them
selves to any man without knowing
all OF the men who are available.
The selection OF man on this basis,
OF personal pull or political afiliation
would only precipitate another fight
like the one which has just been
closed. Marion people have had
enough OF this sort OF thing and the
schools rave been made to suffer
enough because of differences in the
board.
While we do not attempt to out
dine a course OF action for the board
members to pursue in selecting
superintendent of schools, most GER
tainly all interested persons will
agree that Marion is entitled to the
very best man who can be secured
and that personalities and politics
should both be laid aside in making
the selection. When all of the men
who desire the position have made
application and the record and quail
hcation OF each has been thoroughly
investigated, it will be time enough
for board members to make up their
minds as to who Is the right man
for the place and if the members
will pursue policy OF this kind,
the public will be with them, but
AZ will not sanction the playing of
favorites Tor personalities or politics.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10
A WISE PREcAUTIoN

Not long ago some Utah farmers
had occasion to organize corupora-
ton, and, desiring to avoid the cost
of a lawyers service, they drew up
their own articles of agreement
Among the provisions was the fol-
lowing. The annual meeting of the
company shall be held on the second
Saturday of July in each and every
year, except when the same falls on
a Sunday or holiday Law
Notes.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

A Youngstown bride who denounc.
ed her husband and turned him over
to the authorities for trial on a mur.
der charge has repented and now
wishes she hadn't. Delilah doubtless.
ly has the same feeling when she
wanted her husband to bring in o
bucket OF water or chop some wood
for the kitchen stove.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

With propriety and apologies to
Mr.. Shakespear we might remark
that the divorce trial hot lunches
might coldly furnish forth the mar
riage feast.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

The railroad men of the East have
begun a battle for higher wages.
What was that campaign story about
everybody being prosperous when the
railroads were prosperous.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10
LUouis Post-Dispatch.
ENTTTLEp TO MERCY.

A man in jail in New York admits
having killed three wives, but argues
that he is entitled to merciful consid-
Grafton because having several more
wives to kill, he did not kill them.
From a point Of apparently large ex-
perience he does not seem to have alb
tainod a favorable estimate OF the val
nus Of wives while alive-Findlay Re-
publican.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

In the rush of work attending his
initiation into Office, President Tart
wholly forgot Roosevelt's policies un-
til he tried some OF his own upon the
people and found they would not
work. ,n,tt-
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

John d. Rockefeller told his Sun
day school class that he began life
with a struggle and has been strug-
Cling ever since. Throttling COM
petition must be very strenuous
work. Rockefeller now looks so
cadaverous that we would hardly
think their was more than one good
struggle left in him.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10
BEATS THE NORTH POLE.

The boarc OF food inspection is now
to turn ID the question"What is the
difference between chocolate and CO.
coa?" There may be some valuable
information when they're through
Cleveland Leader.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10
The Republicans are already start

The Republicans are already start
{ ing the report that the bosses will not
be able to CONTROL he next Republican
state convention. This is the same
dine of talk which has been handed
I out for the past ten years, but when
/. the time comes, the hand OF Cox and
ohers can be plainly seen in every
move that is made.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

President Gompers has ruled the
outlaws from the meeting of the
American Feredation of Labor. Aid
rich and Cannon should get the
recipe and apply it to the "Insur-
gents" when congress assemblies.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

The japanese commercial commits
sioners who are now inspecting the
large cities of this country do not
like Cincinnati, 'tis said. Cincinnati
should either employ Hobson as a
press representative or join hands
with San Francisco and declare war
against the Japs.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10
EVERYTHING SYSTEM NOW.

1t looks as il high society had re-
duced some things to system. When
a Vanderbilt vacates the center of the
stage an Astor promptly takes his
place.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

Thieves used transfer wagon in
robbing a Columbus grocery. II
groceries come as high in the capi-
tai city as in Marion, they could
have carried away enough in a small
hand satchel to make it a profitable
jub.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10
NOT UNLIKE OTHERS.

New. fork's New Theater planned
by public-spirited men to elevate the
drama, is to be opened within a cou-
pie OF weeks. There are pessimists
who look forward to a view of many
empty seats.-Sandusky Star-Journal.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

Travelling cooking schools are be-
ing sent out over the German en-
pire by the government. 1t would be
more appropriate to start out
travelling pantry in this country.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

An Ohio man was arrested on his
wedding day for a murder done forty
years ago. If We remember rightly.
a man named Sampson once had an
experience with a woman who proved
his undoing.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

Senator Dick says he wants to be a
candidate for the United States SEN
ate, under the Bronson primary law
One thing is certain, that fellow does
not know what he is up against.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10
GOD BLESS 'EM.

Women are so resourceful that,
even il the burden of suffrage Is laid
upon them they probably will still
find time to remind us to put on our
overshoes and close the door every
time We go out.-Columbu Journal.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

London has a man who makes
business OF winding clocks for
wealthy people. 1t will soon be that
a man will not have to pick his own
teeth, If he only has money.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10
"A NEW FEATURE.

Wilbur Wright has opened school
OF aviation. The time is probably near
when people will be taught to fly in
the correspondence schools-Mans-
field News.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

Mrs. Astor is to receive a divorce
and s1OOOO,OOO alimony in addition 10
her divorce. There lis some sense to
divorce like that.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

When you see a woman's picture
in the paper these days it is toss-up
whether she has Just been granted a
divorce or Is starring in some new
play
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

The Astors nave kept the cause o!
their divorce a secret, leaving the
public to think that it was secured
on general principles. That is the
most sensible thing the Astors have
done for some time. Mrs. Astor can
doubtlessly explain it all right to her
second husband.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10
GET READY FOR
THE WINTER SEASON
Now is the Time 10 Do Many Things
that Most People Neglect TIL
Too Late

Do not wait until freezing weather
is upon you 10 get your house and
grounds ready for winter, is the
timely council given the Woman's
World for November In hints on
Getting Ready for Winter" by Jane
Barton Mann. Now is the time to
look after the many little things
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

City revenue from rent for the street
space under sidewalks used in Chicago
Tor hundred purposes, by. down
town cafes, department stores, hotls
and wholesale houses, boot-blacls
stands and barber-shops will annually
add to the city treasury funds $780,
600. An immediate collection of $3.50,
900 back rent due the city was author
lied by an Appellate court decision
Just handed down by Judge Julian
Mack. II this judgment in the "cel-
lar controversy" between the city and
tenants of down town buildings, that
has been waged for years. Is upheld
by the Supreme court, outlaying dis
tricfs will also be affected The space
underground that the small fruit deal
er, the news vendor or the peddler
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

A boy ten years old has just been
sentenced to six years in the peni-
tendiary for stealing a horse. When
he is fifteen, he will have been
branded as a Jail bird and criminal
and there will be little use in him
trying TO make anything OF himself
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10

The exodus OF big corporations with
Illinois charters to Maine has become
a pageant, a procession of wealth and
alarming to the state au-
thorities. No less than sixty concerns
rave shed the corporate mantles
conferred by Illinois which the state s
capital stock tax have made burd-
ensome and have appeared at the
same old stand as foreign corporation
doing business IN the state and thus
gain the legal right to hold the stock
of other corporations. AS for the
working of the fereral corporation
tax law advocated by President Taft
1t is still too new to have been con-
structed in the = courts. Companies
have been advised to resist, its
demands for payments and state
ments. Attorneys of standing have de-
clared the statute unconstitutional.
In few cases business has been
taken over by partnerships John w.
Gates, among other wealthy men,
has sold his Chicago home anda re-
moved actually and nominally TO New
York. Men whose wealth is largely in
the form of stocks and bonds are go-
ing to other states to live. The head
OF one corporation which has ex-
changed its Illinois charter for one
in Maine said: I'VE were advised by
our lawyers that 1t was a way to es-
cape the Illinois laws. The corpora
tion laws of Maine are patterned af-
ter the New Jersey laws and are even
more lenient. We have taken similar
action in other states in which we
hold charters the main object being
to get the best possible conditions
and to nationalize and unity our
business"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10
INDICATED.

1t must be great relief to Senator
Aldrich 20 learn that in spite of every
thing Rhode Island has gone Rep
publican again.--Indianapolis News.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-10
SWALLOWED A TRUST

Thomas f. Ryan's Rubber Trust
founded uuon concessions secured
from his graft and good friend Leo
pold .of Belgium, swallowed the
Aldrich Rockefeller Rubber Trust
Now the Congo pickaninnies will
have 10 hunt rubber in real earnest .
The automobile men can pay the, bills
New York World. -tst