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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-08-20

The Inland Printer. one of the
leading trade journals of the United
States, says:
"The directing genius of The Elm
Tree Press, Woodstock, Vermont,
whoever he may be, is craftsman.
We have just received a package of
specimens from that firm and a care
full review of them bears out the
assertion that The Elm Tree Press
regards printing as fine art. The
best of stock, careful typography,
and excellent presswork, all combine
to make all of the work uniformly
good"
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-07-14

deal 81 Cleveland panlcs and other
panics. how bad they were and what
idleness Of smokestacks and what
hunger there was In the country, 1
have waited for somebody 20 name
this one. In the mill business since
! began working. I have never seen
such a time and ! don't see how II
could be WORSE
The trouble has been solely in the
difference Of purchasing and selling
prices. The market has nj appeared
TO te glutted but ror once in their
lives. farmers have been able to hold
their cotton and force high prices,
The mills had done such time prior
70 this unaccountable inequality be.
tween raw and finished cotton, as 10
have the market on the selling side
fairly supplied.
The mill men do not see the end
now because short crop will IN.
eyitably play into the hands OF the
cotton raiser, while the finished arti.
Gle Is correspondingly low. a heavy
crop may drag the raw price down but
u doesn't move the manufactured ar.
tlcle from the shelves.
This, however. isn't an IoteryIew
and is only the reflection Of what pa.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-07-14

The new mill doubling as Il does
the population Of West Durham. will
make necessary a new school and 10
every place whore there has been an
Erwin mill erected, there have fol.
lowed schools and churches, the gifts
largely Of that company Just now
the county board Of education has in
mind the building Of $4,000 school
in West Durham. The tax money OF
the mill and the subscriptions Of the
stockholders win give the mill town
az good graded school as Il can have
At this time no superintendent has
has been chosen. Not an officer OF
the new institution has been named.
Finishing work is beng done upon
every unoccupied place on teh floor
and there Is quite deal Of work not
directly connected with actual apera,
tIon.
In square acres. the mill covers an
enormous territory. II shelters near.
ly six acres Of land, with continuous
buildings and as II parallels the
main line Of the Greensboro oids
boro divisionofthe Southern, It Is a
beautiful thing 10 behold. IL intro.
ducesth passengers 10 a townof in.
dustry, beginning with great cotton
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-07-14

manufactures. proceeding with the
enormous tobacco sactoriees a1d
warehouses. touching en- route the
magnificent school buildings .Of
Trinity and the city. casting vagrant
gazes at the pretty churches and end.
Ing with more cotton factories AT
East Durham. Three miles Of almost
unbroken industry, in which Durham
Is unsurpassed.
In connection with the million dol.
lar enterprise, Is TO be observed the
general paralysis Of the cotton lndus.
try oyer the country. There Is not .
state in the union that hasn't been
touched by II and more than ten mil.
lion splndlcs have been put on cur.
tailment. Last year New England
mills set the pace which has been
very generally followed and perhaps
every mill IN the south. depend int
upon brokers for placing It's product,
has been forced 10 reduce fhs run.
ming hours. Isist year II was the
sense Of The mill owners and mana.
gers that day each week be knocked
of and the curtalIment has been
made more thaa that more recently.
In an interview yesterday, PresI.
dent Erwin said Il have head good
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-07-14

|pers and textile writer's are saying.
Specializing and coming back to the
original proposition. the new Erwin
mill will have capacity OF more
than fifty bales daily when running
on full time. putting into cloth some
thing like $4,000 pounds of cotton
every eleven hours.
Though these unexpectedly difficult
conditions the new mill has been
built and just when new town Is to
be started by its employees, It's open.
ing Is delayed. That clearing up
OF these incidents to many years Of
great success, Is early to come. IS
generally believed. The new mill Will
have much to do with the coming here
of the Southern Power company and
its size is such that West Durham
will always be valuable place OF res
idence and furnish good investments
And there is not merchant, nor q
real estate dealer. nor a tobacco man
whose property and business have not
been enhanced by its coming to this
community.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-07-14

slble attention From whre / was
poised was a slanting course down to-
the hut. hoped that she might be
outside. but she was not, descended
to her door. All was silent. l was
about to leave the machine to enter
The hut when saw her face at the
window. and In another moment she
was sitting beside me on the machine
had provided for starting by fitting
my machine with apparatus especially
adapted to-the purpose. and, though
keepers were by this time running
toward us from every direction, we
rose above them and the shots they
sent up in time to save ourselves.
After ride in the air We came
down In Sweden. nearly frozen. From
there we Travelled southeward. not stop
ping till we reached Marseilles. where
We took q steamer.
We are now both in America and are
soon to be married
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-07-14
SEABOARD
AIR LINE RAILWAY.

AIR LINE RAILWAY.
Effective Sept. 18th, 1903, and
subject to change without notice.
Trains will leave Durham as
follows:
No. 238. -10.S5 A. NJ. connect
ing at Henderson with No. SO
which will arrive at Portsmouth,
Norfolk at $40 p. NJ, resuming
connection at Weldon with A. C.
L. for Eastern Carolina points
and at Portsmouth Norfolk with
Steamship lines for Washington,
Baltimore, Cape Charles. New
York and Boston. This will also
connect at Henderson with No.
66 for Richmond, Washington
and New York.
No. PAL will arrive in Durham
at 4::30 Pm.
No. 22l will arrive in Durham
at 1905 A. M.
No. 222 will leave Durham at
O.UU r. M.
The Durham 4 Southern train
No. Al leaving Durham at 3,15
P. M. and arriving at Apex ~
AIS p. M. connects with Sea-
board No. Al and 43 for Char
lotte. Wilmington, Atlanta, Biz
mingham, Memphis and points
West and Columbia, Savannah,
Jacksonville, and. all Florida
points.
For Timetables, rates and any
information desired apply to F.
w. Woodward, Union Ticket
Agent. or r. l.. Montgomery
Agent. Phone No. IL. or write
to.
c. H. CATS,
Taveling Passenger Agent,
Raleigh, N. c.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-07-14

Our corn friends need not necessa-
rily view the future with alarm
unless the lay Of the land IL such as
to permit Of overfiows. One OF our
Oldest inhabitants is authority for the
statement that It rained during one
summer season several years ago
every day or during the night for ~
days. and that he never saw a finer
crop than was raised that year
Asheville Gazette-News.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-07-14

FOR SALE BY
TAYLOR PHIPPS Co.. Durham, N G
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-04-28
Victorian Gods,

II ThaSkeray, with a brain weigh
Ing Soh ounces, had the biggest head
among Victorian writer's, who had the
best features? The choice would
seem 70 lie between Tennyson and
Henry Taylor. THAT man must be
poet" remarked one of his Cam
bridge contemporaries when he first
saw Tennyson come into the hall at
Trinity, and another friend describes
him IN his undergraduate days as six
feet high, broad chested, strong
limbed, his face Shakespearian, with
deep eyelids, his forehead ample.
crowned with dark, wavy hair, his
head finely poised, his hand the ad,
miration of sculptors. But time dealt
none too gently with Tennyson, where
as Henry Taylor, always a distin.
guished looking m2u, seems to have
grown singularly majestic with years.
Grant Duff, meeting him when he
was ever 80, notes that Taylor looks
more like Jupiter than ever" and con-
temporary memoirs are full of refer
eAcSS 10 his Jovelike appearance.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-04-28
Carmen Items.

Edgar Johnson has sold his lane
on Crooked Creek.
Earl Rexford is listing corn.
Frank Stout took dinner with Ell
Bargar last Sunday.
Ye scribe had the pleasure of meet.
ing his old friend Jim Clemmen.
last Friday. Mr.. Clemmens is pro.
prietor of the store formerly owned
by ]. |. Stamper.
Mrs. Jefferson of Jasper, is visit
ing in Liberal this week.
V. D. Peoples and A. L. Snyder
were in Meade last Friday as wit
nesses for Tom Brown il making
final proof.
MIR. Hamilton is building por, h
to the residence of A. J. Elliott.
Kew. Keasling breaches at the
school house next Sunday.
Charles Moody of Santa Fe has
the new addition to Mr.. Bowers
new house almost completed.
Miss Carroll, teacher in the Mer
TILL district, will give an entertain
ment Friday night May 9th. Miss
Carroll has taught very successful
school.
Mr. Hayden, wife and son ,,,r,
to to-. Colorado, in a few days, with
Ci'l'ord Bowen as chauffeur. The
trip will be made il the white
steamer.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-04-28
The Children's Eyes

onua DC carefully watched and any sign of weakness promptly at
&c. n carefully fitted pair of glasses will in cases correct
~ o vision In child short time and
neglected will wearing besides
complications which lead trouble and old ace
v" VIII be pleased to examine chldrens eyes free give
duVlce without charge State licensed
We give guarantee that guarantees
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-04-28
Seeks Lost als.sr.

Kalamazoo, Mich.-After an abSsne0
Of rs years, during which time he has
amassed fortune estimated at $780,.
900, George Linn returned to Kalama.
eco from Nebraska in search of his
only living relative, sister Mr.. Linn
was born in this county. After he left
home members of the family died.
with the exception of the sister, Ida
Linn, who has since married a man
namod Brown. Linn correspondent with
the sister until IL years ago, when he
lost track of her. Efforts to find the
sister have proved of no avail.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-04-28
SUNNY SOUTH

Henry Cochran and wife were
calling one night last week
Henry Ford, Pearl and Pauline
Keltner we're visitors at Barragrees
Wednesday.
The people of the flats are pleas
ed to see the smiling face of Steve
Smith among them once more.
The Helping Hand society met
with Mrs. S. E. Mathews, Thursday
and will meet with Mrs. Chaplin
Thursday, May Iath.
Misses Pearl and Pauline Kelt-
ner have been visiting Mrs. A. E.
Ford and Mrs. V. 0. Keltner for
the past week.
Thos. E. Kimber is blowing sod
on the west side of the flats.
J.J. Smith is breaking sod for
Mr.. Chaplin.
The box supper at the Fairplay
school house Saturday night was
well attended.
Agnes Senger spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Gertrude
Barragree.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-04-28
Notice For Publication.

0gndp a. of the Interior, U. S. Land
No No,i az lodge City, Kansas April 10, IoIo
,id No.l'e IS hereby given that Bessie F.
100. 'n m ~ Nle[qIia' Kansas, who on April II.
l n,c,- made H. E, No. 2S34s, Serial No.
1I;3o5S, , Tor Lots 3, 4 So NV Section 'G a
d 5owMnsnlP 80 5, Range 20 west of the oh
:, MERIDIAN, has filed notice of intention 70
maze final hive year proof, to establish Slain,
70 % .ne land above described, before CIerr
H U,s.',c' Gourt of Meade, County, Kansas n,
1e C1I;t Kansas on the 7 day of June, TOTO
Gialmant names as Witnesses; Wv
ames NJ, Clements. Meade H,
THEY me,N walter W. Mcdonald and Fred
Firs, n,h,;., II. F. Milli<an, Register
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-04-28
EAST SIDE ITEMS
7 miles east of Meade.

Miss Mable Evans left last Tues
day for her home IN Canton, Kan
sas, after a months visit with her
uncle, B. l. VanHoesen and family.
Quite crowd was present Fri
day to the A. H. II. A. big dinner
and to listen to Mr.. Jackson speak
on the pure food law. All enjoyed
it very much. After the speaking
the Meade ball team played the
Lakeview farmer boys, the game
standing 16 to a in Meade's favor.
N. R. Bishop and family, Miss
Ream and Emery Veatch spent Sum
day at VanHoesens.
Mr.. Gates and family enjoyed
Sunday at o. M. Randolphs.
Geo. Crawford and family spent
Sunday at c. L. Edwards.
Mr.. and Mrs. Osburn, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hurbert Osburn, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Ellis, Mrs, Addie and Miss
Minnie Main enjoyed Sunday at
Arthur Randolphs.
Township board meeting at Jess
McKinney's Monday.
Miss Nora McCampbell and Mrs.
VanHoesen visited with Mrs. Nc
Kinney while the board transacted
business.
Misses Minnie and Mary Van
Hoesen enjoyed Monday at Mrs.
Grace Randolph's.
Mrs. Grace Randolph went to
Fowler, Monday night to take the
train for Pratt, Tuesday.
orville VanHoesen returned
home Monday from his trip to
Belvidere, with R. E. Steels cattle,
John Ragland is spending few
days with the VanHoesens.
Robert Bishop is enjoying him
self visiting with Theadore Nc
Campbell and Lawrence Crawford.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-04-28
Teachers Many Seven Rrothera.


Sacramento, al.-Extraordinary In.
ducements are offered to young and
pretty schoolma ans by the trustees
of Plaskett valley, remote district in
Monterey county, according to the su-
perintendent of public instruction. who
has been asked to find teacher.
The last seven teachers in this dis.
trict have married, each taking a son
OF Amos Plaskett, wealthy raneher,
as husband. Plaskett has one son.
the youngest, left, and although it viii
not be stipulated in a contract. the
next schoolmaam may be expected to
follow in the footsteps of the others.
The only worry is that the eighth
teacher may not be found.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-04-28
The eermanic Museum.

With the receipt of Adolphus
Busch's check for $150O0O it will be
possible for the officials of the Ger
manic museum at Harvard to proceed
Immediately with the construction of
the central portion of a structure that
ultimately will furnish handsome
home for the splendid collections al
ready acquired, says the Boston Her
aid. If the generosity of German
Americans only equaled the willing
ness of officials and art lovers in Ger
many to aid in enriching this unique
development of Harvards aesthetic
life, the building fund would soon be
complete. Centers of German-Ameri.
can wealth are beyond the Hudson
Mr.. Busch resides in st. Louisiana
It requires time to educate a constit-
uency to appreciate what the Har.
ward museum will mean to our ma
tional culture, since it will affect
youth coming from ell sections of the
country.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-04-28

Mrs. Tom Walters and famil,
visited Mr.. Griffins Sunday.
c. c. Mendenhall and family
were over to Hamilton, Oklahoma
Sunday.
Garfield and Scott Neese were
seen on the flats Sunday.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-04-28
Ordinance No. 1O1


A. All. f'"'shed April 2S 1910
within the Cor reatlng to Poo and Billiard Hail.
t, It Ordained by the Mayor and co'a "e''us
Section l. That it shall no rn,,,.,, g.. ,n,
or operate MIN Porat'on to establish, MAINTAIN
corporate limit ~ peo or billiard hall within the
Sec D Any ' ~, y, the City of Meade, Kansas.
ing the nroyis' s'S'n, firm or corporation violat-
deemed guiIt,, Oh this ordinance shall be
victon sh,,,L,e. 'nisdemeanor and upon con
Dollars '"eu IN sum not less than Ten
e,ch an, "or more than Twenty-Five Dollars. for
in cong,.. VI u'nahces or parts of ordinances
" >''''''' herewith are hereby repealed.
Attest. 5. ID. Adams, Mayor
E issAf lwehrle' City Clerk
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-04-28
The Limit.

There is 4 blacksmith who has a
shop downtown, who has reputa.
tion for good work. especially in the
making of ice tongs, But he claims
to be an expert on any kind of iron
work.
Yesterday man dropped in on him
while he was working on a pair of ice
hooks.
Il see you are an expert on ice
hooks" said the caller.
"oh. yes, l make ice hooks putty
good" remarked TIE mechanic, ''unt
also shoe your horses or do other
ironwork yust so good"
WELL" said the caller, tive got a
stove on which the hinges need re-
pairing. Can you fix them?"
The blacksmith drew himself up to
his full height and scornfully asked:
DO you think am a dodgasted lew
eler!"-St. Joseph Gazette.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-04-28

T. II. oleaves of Winfield, was
mere this week looking after
property interests.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-02-09
Fools.

Does any man acknowledge he is a
fool? When Carlyle made out the
English to be mostly FOOLS did he
consider he might be one himself?
Did he know that the scientist would
certainly think him a fool for term.
ing Darwinism 1.-THE gospel of Dirt
An apologist for fools suggests, in
the Atlantic Monthly, that every
man is a fool to some one and a
wise man to some one else" Is there.
then, no earmark? Is wisdom merely
relative and judgment simply a mat
ter of your immediate environment?
No. Even the apologist for fools
cannot leave the matter In the air.
The chief mark of fool is indiffer-
ence to results" We are foolish
where we rush in, following instinct.
seeking sensation, disregarding the
danger signals. the busy" signals. the
signs that say Keep off the grass
But the fool is not so much the
man who breaks the rules as the
man who doesn't know he should not
break them. And his smiling indif-
ference, in a world where caution
tends to cowardice and virtue to
mere negatioE. = indeed enough to
encourage us to say: "Strangei
stranger that we are not all fools,
when the profit is so great" A re-
mark essentially foolish.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-02-09
Solemn Senator FRYE

Senator Frye and Senator Hale
don't love each other much. but thew
get along largely because Senator
Frye prefers the quiet of a harbor to
the thrill of the open sea. Mr.. FRYE.
as president pro tenn of the senate
shoulders his duties solemnIy. He
does everything solemn1y. Most of
the senate time he looks solemnIy
scared as though he were afraid that
some one might jump out and saw
boo If any one ever does that if
VIII be unkind, says a writer in suc-
cess magazine in an article entitled
Fighting Faces of Our Senators
Some of those who knew Senator
Frye in his youth assert that he
looked scared and solemn even then
others maintain that the expression
has been acquired by loEa association
with Senator Hale and the constant
lear that the latter may bite him
But anyhow, Senator Frye is a very
learned person, and has been LII. D.'d
by lot of colleges; also he has held
office, with appropriate solemnity.
mass of garden paths to nook, made
since 1861.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-02-09

raise a certain amount of beets il the
factory was built
A special committee OF the wood
County board Of supervisors has con
cluded the purchase OF $50 acres Oh
land. part OF it within the city i'm
its. for a site for the Wood county
asylum. The purchase price was
So, 700. nearly $1,000 less than The
optional price. Work will soon pc
begun en- the erection OF the build.
ing. which is to cost $4,000.
Lieutenant H. W. Torney, U. s. A.,
who was arrested with Miss Inez
MiIholland, the Vassar graduate, and
charged with unlawful assemblage
at recent meeting OF the girl shirt
waist strikers, was discharged in the
police court. Magistrate Herman
denied the motion of Miss Milhoi-
lands counsel to dismiss her case.
and she must appear to offer her de-
Tense on, Feb. 8
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-02-09
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

Effective Feb. /, the price of fir
logs has been advanced along Puget
sound to s14. an increase of 81 per
thousand over the Jan. l schedule.
The referendum vote OF the interna-
rional pressmen and assistants union
on the proposition to establish a
home in Tennessee resulted favorabIy
to the proposition by 1865 votes.
The Legislature of Saskatchewan.
Canada, recently adopted a clause to
the factories act. fixing the legal
working day for women at maxi
mum of eight hours out of twenty
four.
The Keystone Drilling company
has found ore on the Mass farm one
mile north of Taegeville and Will
open up mine. 1t is reported that
considerable body OF ore has been
located.
There is to be a strong efrort on
the part Of the American federation
OF labor to have congress divide the
department OF commerce and labor
and have a cabinet officer for labor
and one fors commerce
A mortgage for $4,000, 900 on the
Missouri Pacific railway was fried In
Atchison county, Kansas. The mort
gage covers S,779 miles OF track IN
Missouri, Kansas. Nebraska and Col.
orado, besides other property.
After an active and successful ca.
reer of more than twelve years. Bos-
ton Bo'lermakers' lodge No Is
about to disband 1t will allow the
members to act as individuals IN the
matter Of Joining the international.
Hugo Bon. secretary and treasurer
of the Gutsch Brewing company az
shehoygan has resigned his position.
Intending TO become identified with
Milwaukee concern, and Beekman
c. Meyer accountant for the c. Reiss
Coal company, will be his successor.
Labor Commissioner McEwen OF
Minnesota Is arranging for an exhibit
next February In Minneapolis OF
safety apElances for the prevention
OF accidents to workingmen. II viii
be held under the ausnices Of the
Minnesota museum OF sanitation ana
eofotv
Jrdeirg by the enthusiasm shown
BY the 200 or 400 farmers at rlear
Lake Iowa. here is an excellent
Chanoe o. q beet SUGAR factory be
ing built there. a large majority O.
the farmers pledged themselves TO
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-02-09

at the junction. For this reason 1t
viii be possible to carry the head
lines, which cannot be on a level
with the ground. but must be built
high on account of greater speed.
from one large city to another in
straight line, without considering
small cities on the way. Stations
should be built only at the most
suitable points for the junction with
the second class speed lines, which
in their turn are surrounded by tnird
class lines, which form connections
between the smallest stations and
connect them with the second class
lines. Special care is taken that the
changing from one carriage TO the
other is done in safety and comfort
and without loss of time.
The metropolitan railways, which
must be built above the roofs of the
houses. will be connected with the
head lines by junction stations.
They will be built on radical perl
spherical system, in the middle OF
winch STANDS the great central ter
minus. which must be also the cen
ter of the city from which the lines
lradiate in all directions.
The author understands that mis-
system cannot be realized at once.
But the necessity of building new
railways arises everywhere. and he
hopes that when his system has been
duly considered new lines may be
laid out in manner t. make It pos
sible to insert them in mis- plan when
the time for realizing it viii have
come. All the faults and mistakes
of our present system of commune
cation are derived from the fact That
1T is not organized with singleness
of purpose.