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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31
BANK OFFICERS KEPT ALERT
Crooks Have Many Cunning and Oar
ing Ways Of Gaining Entrance
to Strong Rooms.

What banks fear is not so much .
burglars gaining access to their prem
Uses by forcing doors, but by tunneiing
and other equally cunning and daring
methods, the Strand says. A few
years ago a cashier in one of the ma
tional banks of the United States, in
New Mexico, was busy ut work one
evening in the ONCE when his quick
ear detected some curious sounds.
They seemed to proceed from a sub
terranean region; and he was not long
in concluding that robbers must be
tunHeling from an adjoining building
to the vault in the bank.
Guards were Immediately posted in
and around the building. Soon they
observed the masonry Of the bank
giving away. Meantime the robbers
appeared to be hard at work and quite
unaware that they were being
watched. At one o'clock in the morn
ing a Mexican volunteered to descend
into the bank cellar so as to discover
the actual situation. Scarcely had he
gone a few PAGES down the stairs than
he met some one coming up. The
Mexican fired without saying a word
and shot the man dead. 1t was OBJ.
served that he was one of the ma
sons who had built the bank and
therefore was acquainted with its vul'
nerable points. The report Of fire.
arms alarmed his accomplices, for
they fed and escaped. The tunnel
gave evidence of long and patient
work on the part of the wouldbe
thieves. 1t was 60 feet in length, con.
structed on scientific principles, con.
tanned provisions, water and full
outfit OF mining tools, and must have
been three months in operation. The
robbery appeared to be planned for
the time OF the month when the bank
received large remittances of currency
and coin.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31
FIRE IS THE GREATEST
FOE OF OUR WOODLANDS
Kind1ed by Sparks from Railroad Locomotive
and by Settlers Farmers IN Clearing
O Burning Brush.

fully watched. A sudden change of
wind may check a fire, or may turn 1t
off in a new direction and perhaps
threaten the lives of the men at work
by driving it suddenly down upon
them.
When all the conditions are favor
able. forest fires sometimes reach
gigantic proportions. A few such
fires have attained historic import
ance. One of these is the Miramichi
fire of 1925. 1t began its greatest
destruction about one o'clock in the
afternoon of October z of that year,
at a place about sixty miles above the
town of Newcastle, on the Miramichi
river, in New Brunswick. Before ten
o'clock at night it was 20 miles below
Newcastle. In nine hours 1t had de-
stroyed a belt of forest 80 miles long
and rs miles wide. Over more than
100000 acres almost every living
thing was killed.
The Peshtigo fire of October. 1871,
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31

OF all the foes which attack the
woodlands of North America no other
Is so terrible as fire. Forest fires
spring from many different causes.
They are often kindled along rail
roads by sparks from the locomo-
Ives. Carelessness is responsible for
many fires. Settlers and farmers
clearing land or burning grass and
brush oftens allow the fire to escape
into the woods. Some one may drop
half-burned match or the glowing
tobacco OF a pipe or cigar, or hunter
or prospector may neglect to extin-
guish his camp fire, or may build it
where 1t will burrow into the thick
duff far beyond his reach, to smolder
for days, or weeks, and perhaps to
break out as a destructive fire long
after he is gone. Many fires are set
for malice or revenge, and the forest
is often burned over by huckleberry
pickers to increase the next seasons
growth OF berries, or by the owners
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31
Birds Bear Love: Mail Slow.

Winsted. Conn.-David Cohen, who
recently came here from New York
to manage a clothing business, will
send love letters to his fiancee in New
York by carrier pigeon instead OF by
mail. He has received a dozen pi.
geons for that purpose, one of which
took prize at recent show in New
York. Mr. Cohen refused to divulge
his sweetheart's name or street ad
dress. BY rail to New York 1t is lis
miles. and it takes four hours for the
fastest trains to carry letter there
BY air line the distance is consider
ably shorter and Mr.. Cohen has fix
ured that he can beat Uncle Sans de-
livery system by more than an hour
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31
Wages of
Women
i'm
New York
By L. c. ODENCRANTZ

AT the end of dull business sent her out to look for again
During working period of six she worked scarcely
SAYS L. c. Odencrantz in the Survey.
trained in millinery trade school, began her
position which lasted weeks when the
another position millinery which lasted weeks She
a month.
began again January she found place
weeks later for by her previous employer
whom stayed until May when again the
returned November office slack
Moie who took off uchng from machine year and
a half.
$3.50 week. but left because nighwork
sewing curtains for
left there chance for advancement
chren months place and weeks
other skirts three
another She earned Sc week. but each time left
business slack
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31
WILD STEER LOOSE IN
STREETS OF new YORK
HE INvApEs A SHOP, scATTERs
A CROWD, AND Is FINALLY
ROPED AND CAUGHT.

New York.-The story of the bull
In china shop was practically retold
with variations the other afternoonI
when steer escaped from the stock
yards at Fortieth street and North
river, and in mad race through the
streets in the vicinity dashed into a
store, knocked down policeman and
tossed man into a crockery shop be-
fore the frenzied animal was cap
tured.
The wild antics of the steer on re-
gaining it's freedom as it galloped
along Fortieth street to Tenth avenue,
caused scramble of women and chill
dren for safety.
When the steer reached the store
of Demarest & Ereckman, 1t dashed
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31
Immense Iron Deposits in Mckee.


According to an iron trade bulletin,
devoted to Mexican development, il
appears that the iron industry in that
country is capable Of wonderful ex-
pansion. The celebrated iron noun
tain Of Durango, the Caro- del Mer.
cade, is of worldwide fame and it is
claimed to be one of the most valuable
iron deposits in the world, both as to
quality and quantity. 1t is estimated
to contain 3oo,O0O,Oo0 tons of 70
per cent. ore above the level of the
plains. There is another mountain
near the mouth OF the Balsas river
which is valuable largely because Of
it's accessibility to the sea, and, there
fore, to the markets OF the world.
This mountain is believed to contain
over one billion metric tons of ore
low in phosphate and averaging more
than 60 per cent. of iron. other de-
posts in the mineral regions Of Mex.
leo indicate possible yields of sew
eral hundred million tons of high.
grade ore, and along the Pacific coast
there are equally valuable deposits.
New York Financier.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31
Snake Cuts of a Town.

Tullahonla, Tenn. "A common
chicken snSke about four feet long
cut Tullahoma off from telegraphic
communication with the outside world
for several hours, but paid the pen.
atty with his life.
The snake climbed a pole after
birds that had flocked there and
crawled out on the wires. When he
had connected several of them with
his body the current was strong
enough to kill him, but his body lay
across all the wires, cutting out serv.
ice to this place for several hours
while the linemen were locating the
trouble.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31
To Combat Cancer.

A national organization has been
formed in Belgium for the purpose Of
combating the ravages of cancer.
One of its many tasks will be to &C.
quirc and systematic all knowledge
of the disease. 1t will endeavor to
give the medical profession the re.
suits OF it's research in order that the
disease may be combatted with bet.
ter results. 1t was also proposed to
establish one or more institutions in
Belgium to be devoted especially to
the study of cancerous diseases.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31


rural communities for the better
Each year the number of farmers
sons and daughters attending ouI
higher institutions of learning i.
growing larger. Educational stats
tics, we are told. disclose that the pro
portion OF farm-reared students found
in the colleges and universities /,
larger than that of students comins
from other walks of life. either from
the wealthy or working classes.
There is very good reason for the
presence OF the farmers son anC
daughter in the halls of learning. Ag
ricultural education has become the
favorite theme with the wide-awake
farmer and his family, and as a result,
those institutions are being patronizee
almost to overlooking by students
eager to make farming their life
work. New conditions must be met
in our progressive age, such as the
remarkable increase of our population
and an ever-increasing demand foi
farm products at high prices; the rush
of so many country people to live in.
the city, impelled by the erroneous
thought that farm life is debasine
and that urban existence is more at
tractive than the monotony of the
farm.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31
The Child Critic.

THE child" says a writer in the
Daily Chronicle, lis q natural critic.
It was at a Lyceum matinee; scene.
Red Riding Hoods Nursery and lit
lite Miss Marjorie Carpenter IL re-
firing to bed The tiny actress takes
on a dressing gown, and caressing the
inevitable Teddy bear. Stimulates slum-
Der. The silence of the scene In sud
denly broken by a surprised protest
in a shrill boyish voice: oh, mummy.
she's gone to bed with her boots on
That youngster should follow in VII.
liam Archcr's footsteps some day
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31
Sardou Trophies Sold.

At the sale of the first portion of
the collection OF the late Victorien
Sardou 342 lots brought a total of
nearly $155,000. Three sets OF Au-
bussoa tapestries were sold for 324..
600. Sardou was an interchangeable and
intrepid collector. He bought the
porte-cochere of the house in which
Danton lived, for the house was pulled
down to make room for the Boulevard
st. Germain. This doorway was pre-
scented in the name OF the Sardou fam.
lily to the Carnavalot museum.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31

Nooouy Pcfs0n
cate this backing up of the clock for the alleged pur
pose of frightening the day. AS matter of fact,
person of Importance in the business world favors the
plan.
L think, therefore, that these clock-shfters a
puerile bunch of bores and should be suppressed
may add, too that it is a safe prediction to state
that if the trade unions give any counenance to this
movement they will live long enough to regret it.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31

Music is Common and beautiful as
light and air." There is no better exponent
of this belief than NJ Camille Bellaigue.
In his opinion music is the most social and
sociological Of the arts. He remarks how it
has always appealed the most strongly to
apostles of the people who make social re-
generation the object and hope of their
lives. The people, he says, are by nature
musicians. They are not architects, or
painters, or sculptors. Music exists for the
people, not the public, and the decadence of
music means the triumph of materialism
and the loss of social faith
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31
Feed for Pics.

] have been forced to depend upor
my farm for my pork and have
learned that plenty OF rutabaga tur
nips, clover and one bag Of corn will
put a hog through the winter; ther
put to pasture till fall. II makes gooc
pork and at low price. There II
money in it and 10 need to depenf
upon the west for pork.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31

of cattle or sheep to make better pas
ture for their herds.
There is danger from forest fires in
the dry portions of the spring and
summer, but those which do most
harm usually occur in the fall At
whatever time of the year they APP
pear, their destructive power depends
very much on the wind. They cannot
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31

travel against it except when burning
up HILL and not even then If the wind
is strong. The wind may give them
strength and speed by driving them
swiftly through unburned, inflammable
forests, or it may extinguish the fierc-
esq fire in time by turning it back
over it's path, where is nothing left
to burn. In fighting forest fires the
wind is always the first thing to con-
slider, and it's direction must be care
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31

Here are some records of girl workers
in New York City, showing the difficulty
they have in holding jobs for any length of
time. It's come and 60, according to the
employers needs. One girl, now "a years
old, has the following record: Learner,
pcrfumery (probably filling bottles), one
year, So to Sc week; left because work
was slack; packer six months, $3.50 a
week; left because work was slack; opera
tor on switchboard one year and three
months, s. week; left ito advance
which she did by entering a tile factory to
paste paper on tiles, at SIS week.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31

was still more severe than the
Miramichi. 1t covered an area of
over 1000 square miles in Wisconsin,
and involved loss, in timber and
other property, of many millions of
dollars. Between 1900 and 1900 per.
sons persisted, including nearly half
the population of Peshtigo.
The most destructive fire of morQ
recent years was that which started
near Hinckley, Mimi, September 1,
1894. While the area burned over
was less than in some other great
fires, the loss Of life and property
was very heavy. Hinckley and six
other towns were destroyed, about
500 lives were lost, more than 1000
persons were left destitute. and the
estimated loss in property of vari,
Gus kinds was $25,000,000 Except
for the heroic conduct of locomotive
engineers and other railroad men the
loss of life would have been far
greater.
The means of fighting forest fires
are not everywhere the same, for
they burn in many different ways:
but in every case the best time to
fight fire is at the beginning before
it has had time to spread. A delay
of even a very few minutes may per-
NIT a fire that at first could easily
have been extinguished to gather
Roadway and get altogether beyond
control.
When there is but a thin covering
of leaves and other waste on the
ground a fire usually cannot burn
very holly or move with much speed.
The fires in most hardwood forests
are of this kind. They seldom kill
large trees, but they destroy seedlings
and saplings and kill the bark OF
older trees in places near the ground
The hollows at the foot of old chest
NUS and other large trees are otter
the results of these fires, which occur
again and again, and so enlarge the
wounds instead of allowing them tc
heal
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-31
Clock.
ShifterS
Pushing Time
Ahead
Not Favored
BY G. WELLESLEY BRABBIT

OME people push the clock back and literally drag
of bed at unearhy hour in the morning work
- of agitation and umult the world the
"a loss of millions of dollars due to strikes and other
of labor troubles in the effort to shorten wokda
WNM the morning end pretty proceeding the
1871 coc-shfters and undo what
practically necessary and permanent feature of our
~- working lives.
Look around the world and who the people that
most the best only the necessities
but nearly luxury of life with the least possible expenditure OF
physical Why those who their work o'clock
the morning. coursehe merchants the bankers
lawyers and the professions generally their being due to
reasonable and humane of working hours than the
money And that of the skilled trades and n
workers the right utilize extra morning hour
for the after the the favored people above
mentioned why should bakers dozen of irresponsible enthusiasts be
allowed butt in and dsarrange things and turn down hill again
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-12
SILENT ON CANADIAN TARIFF
PRESIDENT HAS NOT INDICAT.
ED HIS INTENTIONS.
Will Not Consider Question
Rates Until He Hears From
Tariff Board.

It is stated today on high authority that
President Taft has not given the slightest
consideration to the question whether he
will apply the maximum tariff to Cana
dian goods coming into this country. Not
only has the President not been able to
take up this question now. but he Will not
do so until the tariff board recently ap-
pointed by him reports to him the facts
I'm connection with Canada's treatment of
American goods going into that country.
The President will depend entirely upon
this board for the facts upon which to
act in issuing executive orders dealing
with the application of the maximum and
minimum features of the Payne tarifr
law.
1t is known today that the Canadian
problem is the first that will be taken up
by the board, which is just now getting
down to real work. 1t is claimed that
Canada discriminates against American
products In favor OF other countries, and
il this can be shown to be true President
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Taft will probably apply the maximum
Presidents Probable Course.

If it is now true, or IL the discrimina-
ton is one that cannot be avoided, he
will give to Canada the same privileges
as enjoyed by other countries that treat
American goods with favor. The Presi-
dent has been informed by the tariff
board that it will work upon the Ca
madam problem prior to any other that
will come before it, owing to the close
relations between the two countries and
owing to the large amount of Canadian
goods that come to the United States.
The board already has agents in the
field digging into the data that will go
before the President at the proper time.
AS the maximum and minimum sections
OF the law are not effective until next
March the board will have p.enty of time
upon which to act. and 1t will not be
necessary for the President to do any
thing before that time. Personally the
President feels most friendly to Canada
and her people.
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PETIT & CO., 9th & t'Eye'' SITS.

by Secretary Nogel, on his return from
the west. Supt. Tfttman had been ignored
in the matter, and the whole question
has therefore been referred to him for
such action or recommendation as he
finds proper in the case.
1t will be recalled that Mr. Perkins
suspension and Mr.. Gilbert's reduction in
salary from $1,000 to $1,000 a year were
among the last acts of Mr.. McHarg's
official life. Specific charges of conduct
ing the affairs of the bureau In semi
private manner and Of ignoring the de-
partment were given as the reason for
the action taken. The charges were in
vestigated by a committee consisting of
Solicitor Earl. Appointment Clerk Lead
ley and Disbursing Clerk Soleau. who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-12
Col. McElroy Endorsed.

The candidacy Of Col. John McElroy Of
this city for the Office of commander-in
chief of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie has been Endorsed by Henry Wilson
Post. No. IL, G. A. r. Resolutions urg-
ing Col. McElroy's election at the next
annual encampment were unanimously
passed. The resolutions were the same
as those recently passed by the James
A. Garfield Post, No. Z, q. A. r., of
which Col. McElroy is an active MEM
ber
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INITIATED Is CANDIDATES.
Feature Of Past Regents Night a
ROYAL Arcanum Hall.

More than two hundred members OF
Kismet Council, Royal Arcanum, assem-
oled last evening at Arcanum Hall south
cost, il being past regents night for that
body. The council initiated twenty-five
candidates into the order The work was
by the past regents of the
council. who occupied the following sta
tons: Regent c. G. Robertson: vice re-
gent, W. n. Lancaster; past regent. A. Z.
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Cook: orator. r. f. Hess; chaplain, Max
Abel: guide, H. G.. Brinkley; warden, J.
w. Hodges; sentry, l.. s.. Childs; collector.
T. NJ. Hayes.
c. E. Britt, grand regent of the District
of Columbia, in behalf of the council, pre-
scented each new member with a token OF
the occasion. The members were enter
tanned by comic selections by Frank
Steele, plano solos by William Iseil
songs by Lynn Gilcrist and fancy rife
shooting by III. G. Buell.. &. ]. James, the
grand vice regent of the District of Co
lumbia, delivered the Grafton of the even
ing.
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TITTMAN TO DECIDE.
Coast Survey Superintendent to Re-
view McHarg's Action.

Secretary Nagel OF the Department of
. Commerce and Labor has decided that
X r. for Supt. q. N. Tittman Of the coast
and geodetic survey to determine whether
or not former Acting Supt. Frank Whal-
ley Perkins WAS justly suspended. and
John j. Gilbert. chief photographer and
Photographer. reduced i'm salary. by for
mer Assistant Secretary Ormsby McHarg
while acting secretary recently
II develops that until he was consulted
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merely reported to Mr.. McHarg the facts
ascertained by them.
Antique Painting to Be Appraised.

PROVIDENCE. r. l., November I'm
the belief that a seventeenth century
painting OF "Christs Head might prove
OF value, Giovanni Saufilippo a mill hand.
who claims that the picture has been in
his family for more than three hundred
years. sent ii today to New York for ap-
praisement. II is said the painting was
the work Of Guido REM
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Theft at School Building.

Complaint was made to the police last
night OF a theft committed i'm the Stevens
School building yesterday. Thomas X.
jackson OF 1905 NJ street said his gold
watch was taken from his vest pocket
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-12

Mayor c. G. Cushwa of Martinsburg.
W. Va. issued a proclamation for a spe-
cial election to be held December IL for
the purpose of passing upon a special is
sue of bonds to the amount of $4,000
for the improvement OF the water system.