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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-07-02
Fourth oil July Comment
Each Fourth Il thousand horrors bring.

Each Fourth Il thousand horrors bring,
YOU say,
Yes. but where are the wrecks of
yesterday!
Omar himself might have burst into
warming notes against the repeated
catastropheS of the eve recurrent day
of hilarity and fatalities, but Il nice
little bunch of Fourth of July dOn'ts
colnc i'll handy. just the same.
This year the celebration comes on
the fifth. The Fourth falls on Sunday,
and the small hoy with the dauntless
look in his eye. must wait until Monday
morn to shatter the peace of the neigh.
borhood with his patriotic outburst in
honor of the freedom of our great and
glorious country.
Remember the Fourth of July and
keep it within reason, is IL nice little
motto to place firmly in mind. Don't
start OH the Fourth of July to celebrate
this year, when the fifth is just waiting
for you.
For the sake of the young idea which
bursts forth with too much fervor on
the Fourth, il might Ike we'll to implant
u few hints gently. but firmly in the
youthful cerebral gray matter.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-07-02

The wind played havoc with the
decorations this afternoon.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-07-02
SOME PRACTICAL DON'TS

''F''' '" bN'N j"
DON'T begin celebrating on July 3 or
July , is the day.
DON'T explode Il toy pistol, toy
cannon, decorating cane or blank
cartridge.
DON'T set off any fireworks contain.
ing explosives stronger than common
black power.
DON'T set off any firccracker more
than two inches in length and Il quar-.
ter of an inch in diameter or torpedo
more than thrcc-quartcrs of inch In
thickness.
DON'T discharge fireworks In back
yards or alleys. ...,.
DONT"T put squibs OF torpcdocs on
street Il or railroad tracks.
DON'T set Oft any explosives within
two blocks of u hospital.
Why should you begin u day ahead
anyway? Sunday Is u nice. peaceful
dahl < Dttr On. DlHj all
day Monday. don't ovcrdo the thing.
AS for the danger of exploding toy
pistols and cannOns-rcnembcr. little
ones, that you might want your eyes or
legs or arms for Use on some future
occasion Of like date. and your genial
%noighbOrs might object to having their
offspring torn limb from limb. SO
don't do it. Just count three and think
before You get too gay with the toy
firearms.
Remember. too. that any fireworks
containing explosive stronger than
common black powder, are not the sort
of thing with which to celebrate
independence day. They are danger.
Gus, and what's the use of mutilating
the livingY
Just remember that there arc n few
don'tsto rccitc on the eve Of tho glorious
Fourth. If you remember them all
you may live to celebrate the next
fourth ~ July.--Dcnver Post.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22

time in long explanations given in the
foreign tongue. The pupils are not
considered as ignorant children, it is
announced, but the teachers resort to
the knowledge already acquired in
their mother tongue to aid in the study
OF a foreign one. without permitting,
however. the pupil to use his native
language more than strictly necessary
to save time and insure clearness.
The pupil is trained to think aud
speak in the language taught. and is
as much benefited as though he were
in the country where the language is
spoken; in addition he has the ad-
vantage of the guidance of an expert
instructor, one who knows the diff
culties to be met and who will assist
by pointing out the differences be-
tween the pupils native language and
the one studied. In careful, palms.
taking, methodical way, ii is claimed.
the knowledge sought is impaired IN q
very much shorter time than by an en-
piric method.
In connection with the teaching of
languages there are courses in litera-
ture and conversation, dictation, COM
position, translation and commercial
and social letters. The school has q
special preparatory course for the in
struction Of pupils to prepare them for
college and the civil service examina.
tions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22

oldest business college in the National
Capital-September, 1907, and has estab-
lished one of the Draughon Practical
Business Colleges in this city. The Spen-
cerian was established by III. r. Spencer.
one of the originators of the famous Spen-
cerian system of penmanship. about fifty
years ago. Some of the most prominent
citizens and successful business men of
this city are graduates of this famous old
ner, C. c. Glover, president Riggs Ma
tional Bank; Byron S. Adams, William r.
GUIDE, president Washington Chamber of
Commerce, and scores of others of equal
prominence.
The Draughon Washington College oc-
cupies the large. handsome new quarters
especially equipped for the purpose In
the new Chesley building. 1917 New York
avenue The old Spencerian College desks
and chairs have all. been replaced by
handsome desks and chairs of the latest
type The Draughon idea is to add
everything possible for the comfort and
convenience of the student. believing that
it will be far more conducive to good re-
suits.
Success of New Management.
During the past two years there have
been about loo young men and women
of Washington and surrounding country
vino awaited themselves of the special
advantages offered by this college. In an
interview with Edgar NJ. Hayes, the man
ager of the local school, it was learned
that there are now students enrolled from
ali parts of the United States and many
from foreign countries. 1t is becoming
known that there is a Draughon College
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22
LINK IN CHAIN OF SCHOOLS
DRAUGHoN BUSINESS COLLEGE
SUCCESSOR TO sPENCERIAN.
Great Enterprise Built UP by Plac'
ing Emphasis Upon Teaching
Practical Methods.

Realizing the great demand Of the busi-
ness men for the services of young men
and women who really know how to do
the practical things around an Office
those who have a genuine knowledge of
actual business methods instead of mere
theoretical knowledge or book learn
ing"-Prof. John F. Draughon established
Draughon's Practical Business College in
1883 with handful or ambitious young
men and women and a total capital stock
of only $50 He placed special emphasis
upon the word practical" fully believing
that the business world would appreciate
the idea, and just how practical his plan
has proven is best shown by the fact that
during the past twenty-one years he has
built up the largest chain of business col
leSes in the world and has prepared up
ward of 10000 young men and women to
ill important positions in the business
world. There are thousands of the
Draughon graduates to be found among
tile business men and bankers throughout
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22
Silencing Criticism.
rom the Boston Herald

'You can say all the sighting things
Mrs. Whooper, sarcastically, but it's no
worse for me to have big hat in the
afternoon or evening than for you to
have big head in the morning"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22
Dur MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE
PROF. sIDWELL REFERS TO THE
BOYS AND GIRLS. \
Says Responsibility for Saving and
Developing Youth Rests With
Home and State.

Prof. Thomas w. Sidwell, principal OF
Friends Select School, in explaining
some demands of modern education, says
"Our boys and girls are our most val
liable resource and like our forests and
water supply have been wasted through
mismanagement, or else allowed to go
undeyeloped through Indifference or ig-
norance of their great possibilities. He
considers that the obligation of saving
and developing youth rests upon the home
and the state. The first demand is to
dismiss the old idea about the survival
of the fittest and in it's place put that
of making all fit to survive. The home
is the first and therefore should be the
most powerful influence in the life of a
child.
Next in Importance is the school, and
after that the community life outside
The state should remove the menaceS to
moral health that too commonly exist
1t should prohibit sensational posters and
prevent plays that incite to crime II
should exclude the youth from ques-
tionable places prevent the sale of to-
bacco and liquor to boys, keep them OFF
the streets at night unless attended. and
provide Fairgrounds, swimming pools
promotion OF normal physical develop
ment, Prof. Sidwell states that:
The Best Modern School.
''In our best modern school buildings
there Is a complete change of air five or
six times an hour. Light and sunshine
are admitted and proper temperature
maintained. Gymnastics, athletics and
play under competent supervision are
provided, and medical examinations held
at stated intervals to detect defective
vision. hearing, lungs. heart and BODY. so
that correct treatment may be given.
More important than books, labora-
tories, buildings. courses OF study. much
as they represent in outlay and thought,
are the men at the heads or our schools
and their assistant teachers. Upon them
depends the successful working of every
thing else. They set the standards, create
the environment and atmosphere. They
impress their characters and spirit upon
the student body. Their influence is far
reaching and lasts after the Latin and
geometry they have taught are forgotten.
Strong Men for Schools.
Therefore, the need Of strong. virile,
literally educated men to head our
schools. men in sympathy with youth
and in touch with present movements, is
Unfortunately for the
schools there are too few such men at
tracted to the work. They can and should
be attracted to the schools by greater
inducements. There should be better
ignition OF the value of their services,
with salaries sufficient to insure COM
Portable living, continued growth and
through study and travel,
and for a reasonable participation in so
cial functions and activities of the COM
This is not only due the teacher,
but would, in turn, benefit the schools
through the better service the teacher
would render"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22
Strong Men for Schools.
Famous THAMES Excursion.
From the London Chronicle.

The many voyages on all kinds of craft
made down the Thames during the naval
pageant serve to recall the famous Five
Days Peregrination' of Hogarth and his
friends Of 1892. On the impulse of the
moment the party set out at midnight
from the Bedford Arms Tavern, Covent
Garden, with no more luggage than a
clean shirt apiece. The party consisted
Of Hogarth. his friends Scott Ca land
scape painter), Thornhill tson of Sir
James Thornhill, the artist. Tothall (a
wooden draper) and one Forrest. They
sailed. with various halts at Gravesend.
Sheerness and elsewhere, to Sheppey.
from which place they took another boat
back to London. On the very next
night they produced their book of the
voyage. bound, gilt and lettered, which
was read at the club meeting at the
tavern. The original record OF this in
teresting Thames trip is still preserved
at the British Museum, with all Ho-
garth's and Scott's illustrations, and an
"accompte of the disbursements" which
amount to 46 IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22
KEEPS OPEN ALL THE YEAR
PERIOD OF INSTRUCTION IN
ACADEMY OF LANGUAGES.
Institution in Washington Teaches
French, German, English, Italian,
Spanish and Russian.

The Academy Of Languages at TT
18th street northwest, of which ]. r.
Goetz is the principal. is open all the
year from am. to . pm. Among the
languages taught are French, German,
Spanish. English. Italian and Russian.
BY what is termed the most simple, at
tractive and effective method of in
struction these languages are said to
be acquired in this school in the short
est time.
AS a means of teaching a foreign Ian
guage conversation is employed, but
not as an Interior aim. The same pro-
gression is followed as in the natural
methods, employing things of everyday
use in object lessons, but help TO be
derived from the native language of
the pupil is not excluded. The English
word is given wherever q difficulty in
namnarison forces the teacher to spend
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22
Snow on the st. Bernard.
From st. Nicholas.

From st. Nicholas.
At present the monastery of st. Bernard
costs about $1,000 a year to keep UP. This
money is partly collected in Switzerland
and partly derived from the revenue of
the monastic order.
In the middle ages the monastery was
stripped Of all its wealth, though 1t still
continued and continues to this day to
carry out the work Of st. Bernard.
Over $4,000 travellers pass this way every
lose their lives were 1t not for the guar
dams Of the mountain. When the first
heavy SHOWS come in September the paths
are marked with posts twenty feet high.
But these soon disappear and other posts
are fixed on top of them and so on. Soon
the winter paths lead indifferently over
enormous rocks and buried alpine huts.
The greatest danger comes from the furi-
GUS gales shifting the snow and making
return impossible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22
Man in the Kitchen.
From the indianapolis Star.

From the Indianapolis Sttf-
In several, of the eastern cities, and,
perhaps, some of the western ones, too,
the men seem to have taken up the cook
ing fad. This is especially the case-one
might almost say eAclusively-where the
husband has been left alone to divide his
time between Office and home, while the
remainder of the family whites away the
hours at the shore or in the mountains.
Let the lords of creation have what
fun they can get out of temporary
sovereignty over the pots and pans. If
little is accomplished, little will be the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22
Not Yet, But Sometime.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Man From the City-You intend to keep
bees suppose?
Suburbanite-Some day, perhaps. At
present we are devoting our entire ener-
gies to keeping a cook.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22

The CLIENT thought you left word in
your Office that you were out on impor-
tant legal business?
The counselor-Just So This BAH game
seems to be highly important, and I
can assure you that it is perfectly legal.
Chicago News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22

Scotia Bohemian Is a chap who bor-
rows a dollar from you and then invites
you to lunch with him.
Mott-Wrong. A Bohemian is fellow
who invites himself to lunch with you
and borrows a dollar.-Boston Transcript.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22

Knicker--How much of summer resort
IL It?
Rncker-At present 1t Is a fence on
which you can sit and watch the trains
20 by.-New York Sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22
harm. Perhaps by this time the novelty
has already waned and the summer
widower is again taking his meals at the

restaurants. Even If the man Of the
house keeps on the job long enough to
get his hand in and Is able to turn out
a dinner with even chances that 1t will
not be ruined in the making. he will do
we'll to forget his attachments as soon as
the feminine members of the household
return. Let him indulge in no ill-advised
Boosting, or he will speedily find himself
held UP to ridicule. Ordinary man in
the kitchen is an alien, an exotic; he ac-
composites some things. perhaps. but
usually at prodigious cost of material
and labor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22

Katie-Say. auntie. dear. you're an
old maid. amt you?
Auntie-Yes (hesitatingly). but It
isn't nice to ask such questions.
Katie-Now, don't be mad. auntie.
know it isn't your fault.-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-12-02
Open BIDS FOR
THE BIG FIGHT
PROMOTERS PRESENT JEFFRlEs-
JOHNSON OFFERS; TO DE-
eide TOMORROW.

New York, Dec bids for the
Jeffries-J ohnson fight were opened
this afternoon, and because of the
numerous large offers made it was de-
cided to postpone the selection of the
battle ground until tomorrow.
Edward Graney of San Francisco
made three propositions, the best one
being so per cent Of the gross re-
ceipts with a $4,000 guarantee, re-
serving the picture rights. John
Gleason Of San Francisco offered
$125,00O, reserving picture rights.
Hugh D. Mcintosh of Australia $S7,-
500 to each to meet in America, $40,-
900 each in England or France and
$4,000 each in Australia. e. M.
RiclSard of Ely, New, offered $101,oOO
and two-thirds of the picture receipts.
Thomas J. McCarey of Los Angeles of
fered all receipts of the house and
half the picture sales or a purse OF
s110,0o0 and half the picture receipts.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-12-02
EATS CLASS TO
ESCAPE THELAN
FEDERAL PRISONER ATTEMPTS
SUICIDE BY LUNcHING ON
FRUIT JAR IN JAIL.

To beat the process of the law and
escape by the glass fruit jar route
was a new mode of escape or self de-
struction attempted by prisoner In
the county 'ail this morning. Lee Eyre
was the man to attempt the novel II
not the most easy manner Of exit from
the vale Of tears, and his efforts, like
some genius, was nipped in the bud
A mouthful of broken glass was as
far along the route of escape as Eyre
had proceeded when he was roughly
taken by the throat and made to cough
up.
Eyre was arrested yesterday by
United States Marshal A. Dunlap apd
bound over to the federal grand jury
on a charge Of bootlegging. He Is be-
ing held at the county jail pending his
being taken to Davenport this even
ing. He was kept in cell with a col
ored man named Luther Tails, who is
charged with manipulating spurious
paper. Tails reported to the Jail au.
thorities that Eyre had broken a fruit
jar that was In the cell and had taken
a mouthful of the glass with the intent
to commit suicide. When separated
from his crystal lunch, between sobs,
Eyre said that he had done nothing
to be placed in Jail and wanted to get
out of trouble by the powdered glass
method
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-12-02
ESTIMATES ARE
MADE ON TAX
INTERNAL REVENUE COMMISSION
Err EXPECTS BIG SUM FROM
CORPORATIONS.

Washington, d. c. Dec. LIT is es-
timated there will have been collected
from the special corporation excise
tax by July 1910, s15,0O00oo and that
and additional s1O,000,0OO for the cal
endar year ending Dec. 81, 1909, will
be collected subsequent to July 1910,
making the estimate for the total
amount of the collection for fiscal
year. 1910. s25,00o,0O0. This is the es-
innate made by Commissioner of In
terna Revenue Cabell in his annual
report The commissioner estimates
the 1910 receipts from corporations
and other sources at $26S.000,000 and
for 1911, $3.50, 100000. The internal rev
enue received for the fiscal year to-
tailed s246,212,719, decrease of So
453,23O from last year, but the receipts
of the first three months of the cur
rent year were s65.176,62S, an increase
of s2,955,657 over the same period a
Iyear ago.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-12-02
WOMAN SLAIN;
CASE A MYSTERY
BODY OF BROOKLYN RESIDENT,
HEAVILY INSURED, AND RE-
MAINS OF BABE FOUND.

New York, Dec. 1.-The mystery sur
rounding the death OF Mrs. o. w. N.
Snead, young Brooklyn woman
whose body was found In bath tub
In a vacant house in East Orange, N.
j., yesterday, was still unrayelled to-
day 1t has been learned that Mrs.
Snead carried 100000 insurance on her
life. Search OF house in Brooklyn
where Mrs. Snead and Miss Virginia
Wardlaw and two strange women
formerly resided, by detectives to-
day, led to the discovery of blood spots
In various rooms of the house.
In the kitchen stove the police found
two bundles of human hair, while
pushed down in the stove were four
human bones partly burned. The
skull Of a child two years old was
brought forth from the store. Miss
Wardlaw is held by the police pending
further examination.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-12-02
SENDS LIST TO WASHINGTON.
Several Cities Do Not Require Tuber
cular Test Of cows-ottumWa
One That Does.

Council bluffs Dec Council
Bluffs, Marshalltown. Ottumwa, Du-
buque, Cedar Rapids and Waterloo are
the Iowa towns which require a tuber-
culin test of all COWS furnishing the
cleies' milk supply. This list was sent
to the federal authorities at Wash
ington, D. c., yesterday by State Food
and Dairy Commissioner II. R. Wright
of Des Moines, a request for it having
been received by him from the govern
ment. The other Iowa cities which
have milk inspection but not a tuber.
culin test ire: Des Moines, Fort
Dodge. Burlington, Davenport, Sioux
City. Muscatine and Clinton.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-12-02
SCIENTIST TO SHOW WORK
Discoverer of New Anaesthetic VIII
Demonstrate its Use In
Operations.

New York, Dec. 1.-Prof. Thomas
Jonnesco of Bucharest, Roumania, is
in New York to demonstrate the possi-
bilities of stovaine, the anaesthetic he
has used with remarkable success in
surgery. Jonnesco is prepared to prove
that any part of the human frame that
surgeons may extract can be excavat-
ed with comfort to the patient provid-
ed stovaine is used.
He arrived yesterday, accompanied
by his friend George Soutzo. who is
acting as his secretary and interpre-
ter. Mr. Soutzo explained what mar
wells the professor is able to accom-
plish with his application Of stovaine.
The professor expects to be invited
to demonstrate at hospitals and to
lecture upon his discoveries.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-12-02
JUDGE WOULD EXECUTE INSANE.
Saws Professional Criminals Should Al
so Be Killed to Save Money
for Education.

Fargo, N. D., Dec. 1.-Judge Charles
Amidon of the United States District
court for North Dakota advocated the
execution of the professional criminal
and the hopelessly insane in an ad-
dress last night at the Congregational
church. He took the position that it
costs as much to keep a man in the
penitentiary as it does in a university
and said that we'll behaved young men
should not be deprived of an education
by the expenditure of public money in
keeping naturally bad men under lock
and key.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-12-02
SEYMOUR KICKS
UN POOL HALL
MASS MEETING CALLED, BUT
WORKERS ARE TOLD THEY
CAN DO NOTHING

Seymour, Dec. 1-(SpeciaD AT a
mass meeting in the Methodist Epis-
copal church last night protest was
entered against the opening of a
billiard and pool hall in Seymour. The
meeting was called by hand bills in
which a protest was made against per-
mitting the wide open policy" in
Seymour.
The matter dates back to last Aug
ust, when the city council passed an
ordinance regulating the licensing of
billiard rooms and other places of
amusement A petition was circulated
asking the council for the repeal OF
that portion of the ordinance relating
to billiard and pool rooms. The petit
tion was apparently granted, the coun-
Gil voting to repeal the whole ordi-
nance and instructing the mayor to
order the attorney to draw up an ordi,
nance repeating the objectable one
The mayor failed to instruct the at
torney, SO the repeal was not effected
and when the ministers found that the
ordinance was still in effect and that a
billiard and pool room had been
licensed and would open today, they
were very indignant and at once took
steps to stir UP the people to put q
stop to the room being opened as q
billiard and pool room. The skating
rink and moving picture show also
came up for criticism. Rev. T.. M
Beebe and Rev. A. e. Clemene went
to Centerville yesterday to obtain lega
advice. on the subject, but were ad
vised they could do nothing more thar
see that such places did not break the
law The meeting decided to see the
the curfew ordinance is enforced ant
that the new pool and billiard room i:
/ run according to law