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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

of wheat or corn or SO many bales of cotton. And-provided the warehouse was properly and conservativeiy manageable was SUITS that any bank would be glad to loan money up to a good percentage of the market value of the product called for by the receipt. using that document as collateral All the banks would want was to be certain that the crop would be kept in good condition and that 1t would not be moved from the warehouse until after the loan was paid. In that way, n time of low market. a farmer needing money could get 1t and at the same time wait until prices rose before finally selling his crop.
 Another object which Mir. Yoakum had In view in taking his guests to the east was to demonstrate to them by an actual object les son the great value to the rural community of good country roads. To that end the part was taken by automobile over hundreds of miles of smooth. hard highways and was ad- dressed by experts who demonstrated by ac- tual figures that money invested in good roads Is the best investment farming com munity can possibly make. Mir Yoakum. going for the instant outside the borders of his beloved Texas. gave @ striking specific instance of just what he means.
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 Garden Waiting for Roads.
 In the Ozark region of Arkansas. along the line of his road, there Is a strip of country ex- tending for three miles on either side of the rails Wnich IS unueF ngn cuitiShton. III this narrow strip, embracing about 10000 acres, both fruit growing and field crops are vastly profitable. it being estimated that the annual net gain to farmers within its borders is upwards of million dollars. The land outside the three mile zone Is just as rich and the other conditions as favorable, but with the present soft dirt roads 1t is often impossi- ble to get the crops to market, especially in wet weather. Consequently 1t is yet almost uncultivated. lying idle and unproductive.
 By the building of few good highways for a distance oN ten miles on either side the roadbed nearly f25,000 acres would be brought into thssmarket. Op this additional acreage the profit should be s3, 800 900 yearly, to say nothing of the fact that the value of the land itself would be multiplied by three or four.
 As Hartman won his greatest fame as . constructive railroad builder by cutting down grades, rock bailasting his tracks, and mak- ing 1t cheaper to haul freight across the con- tinent-with the result that his railroads came to be the greatest dividend payers In the con, try--he advised the farmers to in- crease the value of their lands and doub.e
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

water clam are the Mississippi river from Keokuk to Muscatine, Ia., and the Illinois river between Beardstown and Chillicothe. III. Between the value of the creature for coat shirt buttons and the chance that he has a reai pearl secreted about his person. the clam in these districts Is showing evidences of extinction in the nearfuture.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26
Ykum

which gives them every possible assistance in securing the location of new factories and other industrial enterprises in their respec- tive cities.
 Thus the Missouri Pacific was instrumental in locating 422 new factories In towns which it serves during single year. The total capitalization of the plants thus located wat about $20,OOO GOO That MT. Yoakum Is q firm believer In this branch of development work also is sufiiciently demonstrated by the fact that in the same year the joint Rock Island and Frisco systems helped to establish 736 new factories. But the most remarkable statement of all comes from a.southern roa6 the Southern and Mobile and Ohio. Almost . thousand-989. to be exact--is the number of new industries which 1t assisted in locat- ing within a twelvemonth.
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 Where the ..Antis Are Stronsest.
 It might be expected that with all this development work done by railroads. espe- cially in such states as Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, thexe would spring up feeling of mutual confidence and helpfulness. MT. yoakum and other railroad magnates have addressed the commercial clubs In scores Of towns and have attempted to point out that the interests of the railroads and of the peo- pie are really mutual-that what hurts she corporations must inevitably hurt the people also. But strangely enough, 1t Is in just
  the most development work that the anti railroad feeling has been most bitter and the flood of anti-railroad Legislation the deepest. One of Mir. Yoakum's recent guests from Texas gave him a new angle on this puzxiing situation.
 The Texan had been benefited by an espc- cialIy low freight rate which allowed hiin and his neishbors to get their fruit to mar ket without paying most of their margin for transportation. But no sooner was the rate made than complaint was made to the state railroad commission on behalf of a farmer who raised other products and who wanted z his freight rates cut down accordingly. Freight rates can. never be made which will suit everybody" said the fruit grower in response to a puzzled inquiry. It's likethe duel between Mcclure and o'Brien. When they got out to the dueling grounds Mcclure took his second aside for moment.
 :. There's jist wan thing want to ask av ye,' said Mcclure appeaiingly. Whin 1t comes time to do this shootin' want ye to see that I'm tin feet further oil from O Brien than he is from me That's the way we all feel about freight rates"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

and running down Into the state on ten days trip should play during that time to a total of 10000 people 1t would break all rec- ords. Yet that Is the number of farmers who visited one of the seed and soil 2 trains sent out by the Illinois Central to hear ex- to get more bushels of corn land oats from the same number of acres. And many of the 20 900 had to drive eight or ten miles to get to the stations where the train stopped.
 Out in Iowa the Rock Island ran special dairy train on flat car attached to which a fancy Jersey COW was mixed twice a day by electricity for the education of the dairy men, who gathered by the thousand to see and learn. All through Kansas, in a specia, train of three cars, travelled a couple of ex- perts with their startling exhibits. teaching and preaching the sole gospel of bigger pota- toes and more to the hin.
 Half dozen railroads have run good roads " trains over their systems, stopping at frequent intervals, while the expert road makers sent out by the national and state governments built sample stretches of road from quarter to half mile in length and pounded home the great truth that the ruts and mud holes in country roads cost the farmers more money every year than their produce pays in freight rates in ten years.
 One of the most recent developments in the work of educating the patrons of railroad company has to do with people who live in towns and cities rather than on farms. At the inspiration and under the direction of the industriaFdepartment of the Missouri Pacific. for instance, nearly 200 commercial clubs have been organized in as many different cities along the line. The leading business men in each community are thus brought Into close touch with the railroad management.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

capital and men to establish canning and preserving factories along their lines which easily and, proitably absorb the surplus
 Nor do they stop there Having established the canning factories they make themselves also responsible for finding a profitable mar ket for their product. All ever the country the railroad representatives become selling agents for canned goods from Texas. Tie triple result is that farmers. canners. and the railroads themselves all make more money.
 MT. Yoakun's connections with important eastern financiers also make 1t possible for him to assist in securing capital needed for the construction of many great development works. In the territory served by his roads there are now completed or under process of construction hundreds of miles of irrigation ditches and drainage canals, to many cf which projects he and his associates have been of the greatest assistance. That means the turning of thousands of acres of land formerly covered with dense thickets of chaparrai or tfickly dotted with prickly pear trees into productive orchards and truck gar dens which, in turn. pay large amounts in freight charges to the railroads thus con- pieting the creative circle.
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 Results of Policy Evident.
 The most remarkable results of this policy may be seen along the route of the Gulf Coast line between Brownsville and Corpus Christi Here along stretch of 15S miles the only in- habitants six years ago were coyotes and cowboys. Today there are more than sev- enty towns and stations on the road and its branches with dozen cotton gins. four large sugar mills, canning factories. and nearly 100000 acres of formerly desert land under irrigation It is probable that no section of country in the world has been SO swiftly transformed into a populous and prosperous agricultural and manufacturing community. What 1t means to railroad company is in- dicated by the official statement that the Frisco system, to which. since leaving the Rock Island, MT. Yoakum will devote his at tention, originates more freight per mile of its trackage than any system in the country, Which is a most remarkable statement when it is considered that the Frisco does not tap any such source of tremendous freight ton mage in a manufacturing way as Pittsburg.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26
Las. Rim for Shirt Buttons. :.

As we have indicated. however. there are buttons-and buttons In cutting up clam shell for buttons for the omnivorous coat shirt. the last rim of the shell is sufficient. For the globular pearl button, with the bored eyelet in the back or the brass stem in the end. thicker, better grade of shell is nec-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26
Coat Shirt the Cause.

The trouble with the clam In these years when the globular button was out of style was largely that the coat shirt broke out wide open, with five to nine thin shell but tons from the waist line up to the collar
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

w= COULDN'T 1t make you tired if just IA about the time you had established
 \" @ nice little paying manufactory w somewhere. some change In style Of
 mems and women's dress came about causing you to close up shop awhile and wait till the old style " came back "7
 Having the factory and knowing that the blame fool fashion would get around again. sure as the hands of the clock. you wouldn't want to sell the establishment Tor olo Junk. Until the style did return, naturally you couldn't rent the shop for either drug store or dehcateesen plant. All you possibly could do would be to board up the windows, house the machinery. and
 Wait till fashion came around again and knocked at the front door.
 This is the situation of friend of mine who several years ago set up pearl button manu- factory in a little Illinois river town.
 This friend of mine. brought up on the hanks of the Illinois river knew the Illinois clam like book Years ago he used 10 cut his feet open on shells of the open ones Tn the old swimming hole and occasionally trleo roasting the closed ones to some degree or edibIlity that was impossible He had opened thousands of them looking for the $S,VOo pearl that wasn't there
 
 Boyhood Experience Made Useful
 In consequence of all this knowledge of the fresh water clam, when my friend few years ago decided to manufacture the shel into something else his thoughts turned to pearl buttons Setting up his pearl button plant. he decided upon producing the mftiest thing in the pearl button line-whdch at that time was the globular pearl button, bur nished like diamond and sewed fast to whatever 1t was fitted on by means of single hole bored through the back of the bulbous brilliant.
 Al that time these buttons of first water were bringing top notch prices for vest fronts on the men and for waist backs on the wom- en- You couldn't get many such buttons out of the biggest, thickest shell in the river, and the best grade of these ornamental fasteners were quoted at wholesale about 6 cents apiece There was money in 1t.
 But all of a sudden the bottom dropped out of the demand for the bulbous button. Cloth buttons on the fancy waistcoat were ruled the proper things at some convention of tailora while as to the backs of the fancy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26
Helpfulaess c.rrlsd to Finish.

But the agents of the railroad were In. structed to assure them that if they wou'c plant another crop of melons thM railroad would see that all shipments were properly inspected when they were delivered to the commission men. The growers agreed and the cash returns on their second seasons crop were almost double. Through the in. dustrial departments aiso fruit growers have been instructed as to the best methods Of packing their products for markets and they are kept constantly informed as to the condi- tions in each of the great central shipping points.
 In many cases when commission men dtd not show a disposition to act fairly in the handling of shipments the railroad has itself taken possession of them and sold the fruit itself to the best advantage, with no cost whatever to the grower. More recently, as the crops of perishable fruits grew larger and 1t became practically impossible to sell them all to advantage. the railroads have found
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

their annual incomes by turning mud holes into smooth and level highways.
 So much in earnest is MT. Yoakum in his efrorts to teach the farmerS of Texas the benefits of high finance that in recent ad' dress delivered at the state fair at Dallas he offered to appoint and pay . special expert In every state through which his railroads run who shall devote all his time to the study of problems in which the farmers and the rai.- roads are jointly interested. The only condi- ton he made was that his expert shall have the hearty co0peration and support of the farmers associations and local granges.
 As e matter of fact through MT. Yoakun's influence the railroads with which he is con- neeted have already at work great and expen- sIve industrial departments, which for every dollar they have brought to the railroads have put at least two dollars Into the farmers pocket. For instance. when the melon and fruit growers of southern Texas first seat their crope to market they fell into the hands of interruptions commission men. who re ported that more than half of the contents of each car had been received in imperfect con dition. The returns to the growers conse- quently were go small that many of them were discouraged and decided to go back to cotton or sugar cane.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

~w YOUNG life insurance solicitor faint
 A ed in a Chicago brokers private office &nsAa few days ago because he had had A N nothing to eat since the previous morn
 ing. When he had been revived and helped back into his chair he admitted to the man he was trying to sell that he was desperately hungry and finally that he was 10 lens than the son of one of the capitalists most prosperous business friends. Disagree ing with his father, the boy had left home and, because he did not know'how to hunt a fob. soon was forced to step Into the first opening which presented itself. It happened to be life insurance. He was unprepared to tide himself over the barren apprenticeship which is the lot of the beginner in any com missionsd lob, and 1t was not long before he had stumbled to the end of his financial and physical resources.
 A little later that young nan-now In his fathers favor-said that if he, had to hunt lob again he would do 1t much differently. He would not. in the first place. wait until he had practically spent all of his money before actively beginning to look for work; and, in the second place. he would never again jump into a new line of endeavor without first nt- ting the fob to himself and determining in advance if he could at least live while learn ing the business. There are many elements to consider Tn hunting 6 job. but these two are upperuost in the mind of the boy who was starving at his work.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26


 H system. recently took party of 1e Texas farmers to New York with the
 idea of giving them lesson in high finance One of the most prosperous mem bers of the party wore short. red beard parted in the middle. His name was J. Aller Johnson. Mr. Yoakum took MT. Johnson In to introduce him to prominent New Yort fnancier.
 How do you do. Mr-Mr.--r don't think caught the name" said the New Yorker ss they shook hands.
 U, Allen Johnson is my name" said the man from Texas.
 "whaty' grinned the banker. You part both your name and your-whiskers in the middle and yet claim to come from Texas7 Surely there's some mistake about it."
 MT. Yoakum was delighted to explain that there are plenty of people in the Lone Star state nowadays who can afford anything from appendicitis to row of Roman numer- als after their names. And a good part of the prosperity of the Texan aericulturists Is dus to the far sighted work of Mfr Yoakum. who has spent a quarter of a century as a railroad manager and financial adviser to the farmers in the big state to the southwest
 During the recent visit of Yoakum's Texas guests to New York q banquet was given Tn their honor, at which they had the opportu- nifty of meeting and talking with Frank Van- derlip, president of the City National bank. the ncdIts ctuteIs anu cAithdA oA Whfot oio time popuiists call = the Wall street octo- pus- They found him human person. the closest Inspection failing to reveal sny of the h0ofs, horns. or other marks of the evil one. Mfr. vanderlip was called in as an expert 10 tell the Texas farmers how they might prof itably embark on deal in high finance.
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 Sacrifice for Ready Money.
 It has always been one of MT. Yoakum's pet ideas that the average farmer Is at great disadvantage because of the fact that when he needs money the only way he can get it Is to sell his crops, no matter whether the mar kst happens to be high or low just at that time. Mr. vanderlip pointed out how the farmers had 1t in their own power to remedy that bad condition.
 He said-lndorsing another idea of M.. yoakum's = that cooperative warehouses might be built at prominent shipping points along the lines of the railroads. To these warehouses any farmer belonging to the as- eocintion might deliver his crops at any time, getting . receipt calling for SO many bushels
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26
strikine Appeai che Winner.

There are wrong and right ways to look for 6 position-and because many persons take the wrong way many of them secure the wrong iobe One man who would make first class barber becomes mediocre clerk
 Another Is doing a poor job with pick and shovel when he might be successfully show ing a class of students the thirty-seven solu- ti~ns of the Pythagorean proposition. And these men are groping their way through
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

P. YOAKUM. until the other day a
 leading spirit in the Rock Island
 system. recently took a party of Texas farmers to New York with the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

from their berths in the sleeping cars, but they were saved by the quickness of Sam and his nerve"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26
Heroic

ES," said an engineer. one of the
 group of six who were telling of their experiences, have known several exhibitions of nerve that
 have a right to be classed among
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

- COULDN'T 1t make you tired if, just IA about the time you had established W nice little paying manufactory w somewhere, some change In style of
 mems and women's dress came
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

for instance, or as the coal mines or Penn- syivania in the way of raw material IL h the greatest possible tribute to the wisdom of the wet nurse policy of developing and enlsrging real infant industries.
 Mr. Yoakum is not alone in the teaching ct higher and better finance to the constituents of great railroad company. Within the last ten years the plan has been adopted 10 greater or less degree by score of the most enterprising transportation corporations. h more than half the states one or more rail- roads have run at their own expense special trains carrying experts of one kind or ar- other into the most remote agricultural conh munities.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23
SPORTS.
Many Applications TO Coach.
Especial to The Sentinel

Especial to The Sentinel.
Golden, Colo, Dec. 23.-Although
it is scarcely week since Joe Curtis
left the School of Mines. six applica-
lions for his position as coach of the
football team have already been re-
ceived. They come from far and
near and represent topnotchers and
men of questionable ability as foot
ball motors.
The application of Johnny Bender,
last years coach at the Haskell In
stitute in Kansas, is the most promi-
nent of those who have already APP
piled for the place. He was recently
signed as baseball instructor at Ne
braska university, but is open tor
football engagements and seems anx-
ious to come here.
Then there are L. c. Quigley of st.
Mary's, Kansas, and Adolph G..
Shultz of Fort Wayne. Ind, a former
assistant to Hurry Up Yost of Mich
igan, who want the position. Both
of their applications are likely to re-
ceive much consideration.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23
Anti-Betting Law Legal.


ISUttIdI 10 NE 5tH
San Francisco, Dec. 23.-For the
third time within as many weeks, the
Walker-Otis anti-betting law was de-
clared constitutional when Judge
Dunno yesterday overruled a denlur-
rer in the case of Charles Schwartz,
holiday visit to the apital.
baseball game.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23

See what Fred Mantey will sell
you buggy for within the next 60
days.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23

A square blanket for your horse or
yourself will make you both feel bet
ter-Fred Mautey.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23

Joe E. Dulmaine is now located and
doing business at 1915 Stout street.
Denver.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23
Didn't Throw Roller.

match to DR.. Benjamin F. Roller of
Seattle here last night. ZbysZco
agreed to throw Roller twice in one
hour or forfeit the entire receipts of
the match, but he failed to get one
fall.
agreed to do in their handicap wrest-
ling match here, but he was forced
to struggle desperately to prevent his
own shoulders from being pinned to
the mat. At the end of the contest
Zbyszco had not secured a fall and
few believed he would have defeated
finish.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23

Christmas package perfume at Van
Horn Drug Co.. SOL Main.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23

Our soc whips talk for themselves.
You know who we mean.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23

Your last chance. Crown Fur. Co
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23

Big discount sale. Crown Fur. Co.