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Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-23
The Triumphant Cooks.

It was Captain Cook who first sailed around the world and it was Dr. Cook who first hitched his sled to the North pole. It is the cooks that rule the universe.-St. Cloud (Minn.) Journal Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-23
Fine Place for Him.

w. T. Stead says he may yet have to go to the North pole himself And the civilized world hastens to remark: Second the motion. 'AP Pittsburg Gag ette-TimeS
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-23
Flyinu From Them.

Secretary Ballinger claims to have come out of his row with Pinchot with flying colors, but he hasn't exhibited the skins of the snakes he promised to kill.-Houston Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-23
Other Kind of Kinos.

The Springfield Republican says that "all the kings in Europe might abdicate tomorrow and, as a sensation, it would fail.' At the same time, four kings at certain moments have their value.-New Haven Courier.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-23
And You can,t Swat HimI

When man tells you he wants to say something to you "as a friend" you know he is going to criticise you Tn way your enemy would not at tempt.-CEicago Evening Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-23
Not a Roosevelt PrincipIe.

At any rate it was very bad form for Dr. Cook to go off there all by his lonesome and discover the pole with out giving any warning.-Philadelp North American.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-23
Gives It a Chance.

George Fred Williams having an- nounced that he is done with politics for the present, there seems to be some hope for the democratic party in Mas sachusetts also.-Providence Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-23

and in the ordinary course of nature he cannot expect to last great while longer, but he seems utterly unre->nt- ant.--Chicago Tribune.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-23
Building the Polar Sled How the Wood and Iron were Se-
 lected and Dog Harness Made.
 EVERYBODY TURNED HUNTER

To Improve the Last Few Days of Fading Sunieh-Chase of Shore Game-Hares and Caribou Ragged for the Expedition-Dr Cook Learned Much from fiis Pre- decessors in Polar Search-At Noon on October A Every Man of the Party Sought the Open to Take a Last Glimpse of the Dying Day.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-23

The Fifth lnstaIIment of Dr. Cooks Story will be printed in The Bulletin of Saturday, September 25:
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-23

A Hardened Sinner. MT. Aldrich is well along in years,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-10

/ JnaL eaCl is OlSLlUcG anu conducted OF
a large scale. The machinery of ad
ministration and distribution reache:
out in many instances to scores and
even hundreds of branches, subbranches
| and lesser stations, embracing not alone
| the large collections of magnificent
branch buildings, but placing smaller
| deposits in schools, store rooms, fire and
police stations, factories, settlements
| It sends visitors and Braille books to
the home of the blind, and home library
collections to neighborhoods distant
from any other distributing point. II
conducts story hours for small children
and clubs for boys and girls of more
mature years. It gathers and presents
exhibits. artistic and industrial. II
prepares photographers and displays
them ON lastly made bulletins. II
adverfises itself in street cars, in news
papers, in leaflets slipped into the pay
enyelops of business firms. 1t loans
to distant libraries volumes which for
any reason they may lack. 1t may
even send a wagon laden with books
over a rural route. All this in the eff
fort to multiply the number of points
at which the library, through its work
ers, may come into personal touch with
readers.
State as well as city has its function.
The pioneering of today is being done
largely by commissions authorized by
our legislatures. Such bodies aim to
supervise and encourage the establish.
ment and maintenance of Libraries in
the smaller communities. They employ
organizers to advise interested citizens,
to assist in beginning the-work, and to
instruct unframed Librarians. They agis
tate in the press and on the platform
the need of support for public libraries.
They conduct summer schools for
library workers. They bring about
closer relations among Librarians and
among the various institutions of their
state. They act generally as the cham
pion of the small library in meeting
problems of business or technical man
agement. A quotation will make clear
their scope g Tt includes giving infor-
nation and advice on library economy,
advice on book selection, advice on
plans and furnishings for library build
ings, conducting Of training schools,
sending out travelling Libraries, organ
izing and classifying Libraries, main
tanning clearing houses for books and
maintaining state document
publishing book lists and
other helps"
Such is some Of the mechanism of the
modern library. Perhaps no one insti-
tuition can answer all the calls or COM
mand all the methods Indicated. The
vastness of the field calls for coopera-
ton. which in turn implies division of
abor. What is the place of Cooke
library in Punahou, in Honolulu, in the
rerritory9 It's aim should certainly be
10 measure the need. take account of
1ther resources. and fit itself as well as
may be into the gap. Plainly the Pu.
Continued on Page Teu.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-10

separate department, requiring its OWE
quarters and presenting peculiar prob
lens. It's circulation constitutes q
large per cent of the total in many
institutions. And whatever the doubts
of theoretical pedagogy, the policy has
been emphatically endorsed by Young
America. Children s rooms are thronged
by boys and girls longing not only foI
stirring records of travel, adventure
history, legend and biography, but foI
the sympathy which the library fur
nishes beyond all other influences in
their lives. Similarly, the library
| reaches out it's hand to the alien. TIC
the child of the immigrant there opens
| every opportunity which greets the
! offspring of American parents. The
adult, however, is less happy. He is
a stranger in new land. His chances
to learn the new tongue are few. He
may hear little of the dominant Ian
guage beyond a mill foreman $ pro-
family and abuse. Too often he knows
American institutions only as he in
noeently comes into conflict with them.
Such an individual may find in the
Polish, or Slavic, or italian collection
OF a city library veritably new world.
1t this heart hunger in the alien is
keen. it must not be imagined that 1t
is nonexistent in men of our own race.
Often the borrowers file tells of many
whose burdens of drudgery and toll and
perplexity are such that only as they
read can they escape from themselves.
personal library adequate to their
needs is an impossibility for such read
ers. They crave variety, and nothing
but a large collection can afford it.
Lastly, the library has awakened to
the need of the worker. 1t puts to
the fore the utilitarian as well as the
cultural side of it's resources. The home
builder who desires information as to
the laying out of his grounds, the house
wife, who seeks hints on sanitation, the
electrician who feels that his theory
should keep pace with his practical
knowledge, the farmer who would war
against insect pests-these
which the modern library is deluged
with appeals. To many of this class
knowledge is money. Such users have
the idea of education as an
unending process. Their purpose is to
use their university indefinitely.
So viewed, the library is social
force. The channels through which it
exerts its influence are manifold. 1t
has ceased to be mere stack-room.
The city library of today is more prop
erly system, the head of which is
not only a librarian, but the director
Of a great institution. 1t has its or
Ter department, its eataloging section, |
It's supply roome it's distributing ap-
paratus, its bindery-each of which is
Kept behind the scenes, but neverthe- |
ess a business in itself. And even
me who sees the workings of the cir |
sulating. children s, reference and
special departments, may not realize |
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-10

less eager is the great band of adult
aliens, finding in the library their first
voluntary contact point with American
institutions, and possibly their one
refuge from the thraldom of foreign
tongue. Then follow the housewife
the farmer, the mechanic, the unskilled
worker, seeking now to increase their
power to earn, now to escape the in.
cubus of daily routine and lift them
selves into the timeless and limitless
world to which the library corridor
leads.
Such is the clientele. A glance at
conditions III the library world shows
that noble effort is being made to
meet the needs of this constituency.
The demands of the scholar are of
course comparatively constant. hence
recent years have seen little read inst
ment here. The great European IL
brarles are open to him as always. Our
own Library of Congress surrounds him
with every facility and convenience.
Moreover, throughout our country great
state reference libraries are being built
up, making federal and general material
more widely available and specializing
on local sources as no national collee-
ton could do. For the less thorongh
student the university and college Il.
brarles suffice. They furnish him fairly
exhaustive collections in the commoner
branches of research. Here and there
they present the most complete libraries
N existence on particular subjects. as
Id the case of the Fiske Dante and
Petrarch collection at Cornell and the
semitic museum at Harvard. And al.
though not favored as rule with anv
large stock OF manuscripts, such H.
brarles are usually equipped with the
best in the way of fac SMILES and re.
prints. The browser or the casual
reader perhaps for the most mart finds
ms paradise in the public library.
such reader requires a considerable
amount OF ephemeral material. He
calls for variety in subject. His in
terests demand treatment of matter
winch the scholarly library cannot offer.
lie turns, therefore, to the institution
whose purpose is TO suit a cosmopolitan
"a, This means usually the public
library, although where the old sub
form of library still exists it
Is IN some eases more to his liking than
the public collection.
AT TINS point we pass into fields |
which the modern library claims as new
territory. While widespread discussion
has waged as to the merits of the cues
ton, work with children has become a i
tremendous force throughout our eoun- |!
try. It's development has created a |
new profession, as distinct as that of /
The kindergarten teacher. 1t works |
both with the school and independently |
# it. 1t has established itself as a /
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-10

1t was the wish of Richard Wagner
that his sacred drama, Parsifal, should
be limited in production to the festival
theater at Bayreuth.. No doubt the ar.
lists thought was to insure for his
masterpiece the impressiveness Of it's
setting at the great shrine of Christian
music. AS one of Wagner's biograph-
ers has pointed out, a journey to Bay
reuth encourages in the pilgrim the
spirit Of reverence in which the opera
was conceived and executed. Certainly
the composer was right in desiring to
safeguard this. Yet his decree savors
of an aristocracy to which the world
gives little consideration. While it is
true that the success of syndicate in
staging the jealousy guarded opera in
cities of the new world argues rather
for American enterprise than against
wagner $ position, it is nevertheless
IN accord with soeiety's dictum as to
its claim on the work of it's prophets.
Certain laws of property which men
brand as revolutionary when applied
TO material possessions pass without
question in the realm of the intel
lectual and the ideal. How humanitv's
great souls have come into communica-
ton with the sources of knowledge and
Inspiration is the deepest of mysteries,
butt that these great souls are less re-
cipients than transmitters history in
sists, The handiwork of her master
workmen the world claims as her own.
One of the essentials of progress is its
absolute democracy.
For this sort of democracy the IL
brary as an institution traditionallv
stands. From the cuneiform age to
the Carnegie regime its purpose has
peen 10 appropriate and preserve that
winch individuals and races have con
tflouted to humanity It's record well
entities it to recognition as the .speo- |
PIES university. Here, however, a |
distinction must be noted, distinction !
winch discloses the motive of modern
library policy. 1t has been remarked |
that whereas the university of history
mas eontented itself with being sought
by the student. the library Of todav
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-10
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The LIBRARY AND THE Community :
By e. T. Reece, Librarian Oahu Cole &c Library

- " " " ~ ~ ~ " ~ " ~ y. ~ ~ ~ y ~ :
puts itself in the position of seeker
It not only appropriates and preserves
the wealth of ages, but aims to make
that wealth available to all men. Il
essays to tempt humanity to its halls
assured that its offerings are sufficient
ly Catholic for all tastes. Tt estab
fishes outposts among those who hunger
uneonsciously for learning. 1t stand:
for the extension of privilege and op
portunity. It has adopted as its motto
the password which the world whispers
TO its favored sons--service. It's pur
pose has been summarized by one who
knows well the motive of it's activity,
1.-The function of the library is the de-
velopment and enrichment of human
life in the entire community by bring
ing TO all the people the books that
belong to them. -
This new democracy implies broad
ening Of scope, and entails an increase
of labor and expenditure. Instead of
few. many classes of readers and in
vestigators must be supplied each with
its particular need. The scholar must
be able to find at his disposal doeu-
ments and authorities. He must have
his text, on which, as Hinsdale has
put it, the most ingenious and elo-
quent of modern historical diseourses
can, after all, be nothing more than a
comment. - Moreover, the scholar
must secure the advantages Of an at
mosphere favorable to his labor. The
student of more modest ambition like
wise presents claim. He demands
secondary sources in abundance as the
basis of less intensive specialization.
The browser, the desultory reader. the
reader of leisure constitutes class that
IS also awake to its title to library re-
sources. These three groups enumer-
ated, we pass from the ancient to the
modern age in library annals. The
readers still to be considered embrace
those who have more recently become
alert TO the treasures of the book. and
to whom the library as an institution
has only lately begun to extend its well
come. Most numerous among these
are the children, bringing imaginations
% be directed, minds to be moulded.
PASSIONS to be discovered. Scarcely
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-10
We Met Opportunity at the Door Sill

chance purchase manufactures stock clothing 4 the right and
epd the market and had ready tor delivery more goods than his could handle The
andq clothes than this big buy NomHavht
younny depend having the Bargain Of your life
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-26
Ladies' Suits and Goats.

All our ladies' suits that sold at 500, in
perfect condition, at ........... $6.98
ALI of our ladies' suits that sold at $500
in perfect condition, at ..........$ SO 90
All OF our ladies' suits that sold at from
$50 to $40 at .... 1898
Ladies and Misses Coats that sold up to
$40, all perfect at ................ 1898
Ladies' and Misses Coats that sold up to
$18, all perfect at ...... $4.98
Ladies and Misses Coats that sold up to
$50, all perfect at ... 1898
Rubberized Silk Rain Coats sold at 1880
all perfect at... ......... ..... $398
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-26
ovERCOATs

Lot 1-Overcoats that sold at $40 and
$3.50 in perfect condition at. 49,. 1898
Lot 2-Overccats that sold at Is, 18 and
$40 all in perfect condition at 80. .$698
Lot 3-Overcoats that sold up to $50, all in
perfect condition at . 1898
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-26
TROUSERS

Lot Amy pair pants, however slightly
damaged, some sold up to $4 at 29c
Lot 2Trousers that sold up to $3.50 in
perfect condition, at .......$1 98
Lot 3-Trousers that sold up to $3.50, all
in perfect condition at .. 1898
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-26
SKIRTS AND WAISTS

$3.50 Panama Skirts, all perfect at S1.O9
20 to $8 Panama Skirts, all perfect at $3.48
$1O-$12.50 Panama Skirts all perfect $5.48
Very fine quality silk, voile and panama
skirts that soldup to 500 all perfect at $8o8
] lot of waists. slightly damaged. These
up to $3.50 at. .79c
Lingerie waists that sold up to So, all per-
feet at ......a - . $1.98
81 Silk Waists, all perfect at . $193
So and So Silk Waists, all perfect at $2o8
$3.50 and $40 New Waists all perfect 1898
HOSE
lot hose slightly DAMAGE sold UP to SOC
OF g. Ii LIZ
lot Soc hose in perfect condition at 29c
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-26
Ladies Shoes

Lot No. kid and Canvas Slippers that sole
Lot No. 2-Shoes and slippers that sold at 3d.
Lot No. 3. Shoes and slippers that sold at s.
aC'.''"'''.. .-'..-..... ..r........... .....
Lot No. 4.--The Red Cross and Sanatorium s
Lot No. 5.-The Sorosis $4 and So Shoes and lC
condition ...,.,...
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-26
ODD COATS

Lot 1-35 Single Coats, in good condition
belonging to suits that sold up to $500
Gpants and vests were destroyed, at .$193
Lot 80 Single coats, in good condition
belonging to suits that sold up to $2250
at ............ ..... $50. 1928
Lot $50 Single coats, in perfect condition
belonging to suits that sold up to $1,000
at :. $3.50. ...... .$498
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-26
Ladies Underwear,
kimonos, Corscts, etc.
UNDERSKIRTS

So Silk Understands in black and colors,
all perfect at ..$2.49
$3.50 Silk Underskirts in black and colors
all perfect, at ..,.. .. -. $40
1920 and $15 Silk Underskirts in black
only, all perfect at .$7.49
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-26
Mems Clothing
SUITS

Lot LIS Suits, slightly damaged that
sold up to $500 at ........... $698
Lot 2-115 Spring Suits in perfect condi-
ton that sole at $3.50 $500, and $4,000
at ............... ..... .. 1898
Lot 3-175 Spring weight serges and fan
cy worsteds III perfect condition that sold
up to $1,000 at. .... ..... $500. $1198
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-26
KIMONos

81 Kimonos, slightly soiled by water at 39c
$3.50 and So Kimonos slightly soiled by
water at ... ...........t. SOC
$500 and $3.50 Long Crepe Kimonos very
slightly soiled by water at CSC
1886 Silk Krmonos, all perfect at :. . $3.50
$12.50-$15 Silk Kimonos all perfect $7.48
$3.50 Silk Kimonos, all perfect at 1898
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-26

IN the Thneof Fire albePt
utny Newh
very fno
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-26
Mems Furnishings
DRESS SHIRTS

l lot of Mems Shirts, slightly scorched,
some OF our best grades are included in
TINS lot at 80. 19c
lot of Shirts that sold up to 81, slightly
smoked at 20c
4 lot Of Shirts that sold up to $3.50 dam
aged by water only at ......4 400
NIGHT SHIRTS and PAJAMAs
/ lot of Pajamas and Night Gowns. slight
ly scorched, formerly sold up to $500 at
,....'.. ...,.. S9c
l lot of Pajamas and Night Gowns in good
condition, formerly sold up to So at 79c
UNDERWEAR
Spring and Summer Underwear, in per-
fect condition 25c and 35c at 12c
Spring and Summer Underwear, in per-
feet condition sold at soc at .29c
Otis Llsle Underwear, in perfect condition
worth $1.0O and 1925 at ... 55c
Medium Weight Ribbed Underwear in per
feet condition sold at SOC at .29c
All wool Underwear sold at ST 25 and $50
at ............ '........... SOC
The very finest grade Of all wool and silk
underwear, in perfect condition, sold at So
per suit, now. 81 90
NECKWEAR
Mems Neckwcar that sold at 25c and soc
slightly damaged by water, only 49,. &c
Mems 15c hose slightly damaged by water
,.:........., ....... ,........ IT 1-2c
/ lot of Fancy Vests, slightly damaged,
that formerly sold up to 81 at .... CSC
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-26
LADIES' VESTS

Vests that sod at Zoe, perfect condit'n &c
Vests that sold at 15c, perfect condit'n &c
Vests that sold at 35c, perfect condit'n 19c
Vests that sold at 50c, perfect condit'n 800
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-26
CORsETS

The Memo 81 Corset, all perfect at 500
The Memo $1.50 Corset, all perfect at .98c
The Memo 81 Corset all perfect at. .$139
The Memo $3.50 Corset, all perfect at $179
The Memo SD Corset, all perfect at $219
The Memo S. Corset all perfect, at .$349
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-05-14
Real Estate Transfers
jacob Miller to William wemia,
lot $50 Matamoras e40o. "a

Jacob Miller to William Wemta.
lot $50 Matamoras e40o. -
Claeence E. Willis and Olhsrs to
Edson D. Knapp, Ala acres Porter.
James Abercrumbie No 166. tl2Os.
John d. Sieve,s ty George r Doty
~ acres Palmyra near Big Pond.
Leon Schanno to Charles Sepgelcn
32 acres Milford tsp 800.
J. b. westbrook Treas to MOses
anG Wilson Van Auken, l60 acres
Lehmsn assessed to Eva Van Auken
taxes.
Maurice. .ROemer to A. q Roemer
1Oe acres Green and Drehei town.
ships.
Mary A Keller TO William EbSr.
lins 5 acres Shohola.
Mary A. Keller to Charles Bush.
meister, 8 acres Shohola.
John A. Blitz to Joseph W. SWalno
III acres Green. part Of Howe and
Elliot $3.50.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-05-14
Lived l62 Years

Wm PaI--EngIand's oldest man.
the third time at 12O, worked
in the fields till 1872 and lived 20 years
longer People should be youthful at
so. James Wright, Of spurlock, KY
shows how to remain young. 81 feel
just like a sixteen year old boy" he
writes, latter taking six bottles OF
Electric Bitters. For thirty years
kidney trouble made life burden,
tut the first bottle of this wonderful
medicine convinced me ] had found
The greatest cure on EARTH" They're
a godsend to weak. sickly run down
or old people. Try them SOC at all
druggists.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-05-14
NO29
BASEBALL FAN WILL
FIND BIG TREAT IN
SPECIAL N. A. ISSUE

Richer in information, more beaut
iful as to appearance and crammed
fuller of entertainment. The North
Americans special annual basebai !
supplement-, to be issued Sunday
May i6, will eclipse all three Of its
predecessors.
The first page in colors is an at
trachve arrangement, containing
photographs of every player of the
Phillies and Athletics, an illustra-
tIon we'll worth framing. The back
page in oolors shows the difficulties
of making basebal's most dangerous
play, tagging 4 runner.
James G. Isamfnger, The NoftT
Amefican's baseball humorist, con-
tributes q story on the era of the silk
stocking ball player. 1t is illustrot-
ed by Cartoonist Hobsn.
Every player in the Tristste Lea.
que is photographed, there Is q page
devoted to the Atlantic League and
all of the other leagues; New York
State, North Penn, Delaware county
Bucks county, etc, have representa-
tions.
School, college and independent
baseball in state and city the anna.
teur game as played by the young
sters on the lot and in the park come
in for liberal attention, the rosters of
1000 teams being carried.
The batting and fielding averages
of the big leagues will be found only
one of many valuable features that
will make this reference guide for
the whole season.
Orders should be placed at once, as
last years edition was quickly ex-
hausted, and the demand for the
present supplement will be even
greater.