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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-02-24
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be somewhat encouraged by his
weeks work, for 1t is announced
that an agreement has been reached
for the passage of the following bills,
as a partial fulfillment of campaign
pledges: Commerce, Pos
tai saving banks, Anti-Injunction, and
Statehood for New Mexico and Ari-
iona. This announcement, however is
based on the promises of the same
men who have made the previous pro-
misses. They may keep all of these,
yet-far be 1t from me to say they
won't, for they are all Hon" men.
The law provides that title But some
how their actions at the Capitol and
their words at the White House, don't
seem to jlbe very well.
Perhaps it is not entirely the fault
of the leaders, however, for II is a
fact that the leaders are not as strong
with their old men as they once were,
and of course they have the insurgents
in the fight, tho there is no insurg-
ing on these bills. But as | have said
before, the leaders are finding that
their real power came entirely from
the rich men and corporations behind
them. and as soon as they try to go
off on their own hook, those of the
rich men who do not agree get busy,
and their support falls away. So the
Senate machine is not working we'll.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the leaders
really would not be able to keep
their promise IF they wanted to.
AS matters stand, 1t looks to the
outsider like a game of freeze-out.
The Congressman are making promises
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-02-24
MAIL CLERKS
WANTED
The Government pays Railway Mail
Clerks $500 to 81 200. and other en-
ployees up to So. 500 annually.

Uncle Sam will hold spring ex-
aminations throughout the country
Tor Railway Mail Clerks, Custom
House Clerks, Stenographers, Book
Keepers, Departmental Clerks and
other Government Positions. Thou
sands of appointments will be made.
Any man or woman over Is, in City
or Country can get Instruction and
free information by writing at once
to the Bureau Of Instruction, 258 @
Hamlin Building, Rochester, N. Y.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-02-24
LIBRARY MOVEMENT

After a few years. during which
time tho Progress Club will secure
travelling libraries from the Commi-
sion on different subjects. they will
begin to ask themselves whether
they cannot support a library them
selves. The Progress Club and the
teachers and ministers In the place
take up that idea with enthusiasm:
they get certain people TO pledge so
much year for a period OF five
years towards the maintenance Of a
library and an additional sum for
the first purchase OF books and one
OF the merchants offers a good-sized
room back OF his store free OF rent,
to be used by the library.
They send again 10 the Secretary
Of the Commission who has by this
time become much interested in this
progressive little town. telling what
they are ready for now, and she comes
TO them and helps them make
wise selection Of books, showing
them where to purchase 30 that they
get the best discount.
After their 500 books have arrived.
she spends about a fortnight with
former teacher. who because of III
health has given up teaching and has
Offered TO take care of the library
and keep II open certain hours each
day The Secretary instructs this
lady how TO classify and catalog the
books, and how TO keep records. so
that the books viii not be lost.
And after few years more the
town will vote some day that every
body should have a chance 10 draw
books. just as much as every child of
this republic has a right to 20 TO
school. SO they ask Mr.. Carnegie for
money for library building. and no
gives thom $4,000 By this time they
have about 5000 books, the citizens
vote 10 levy q small tax for the main
tenance Of the library and also de-
vote the dog tax TO that purpose. thus
the library Is fairly established. All
this time the town has been grow
inc apace, the children are using the
library as well as their parents, and
this teacher-librarian feels that she
must have more instruction to keep
up with all the additional response
biiities which is coming to her. So
she goes TO summer school for lib
rary training which the Commission
conducts each summer at the State
University, stays 8 weeks. and returns
TO her library with broader view OF
her work and knowledge which helps
her to make the library OF greater
service to the community.
All this and much more a Library
Commission will do for Kentucky. Il
has done II for other states. Library
progress goes hand in hand with
progress in the schools Kentucky has
had her "whirlwind campaign"
VIII each voter who reads this not
urge upon his senator the passage of
this bill to create Library Commits
ion. Governor Wilson is in favor
OF Il.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-02-24
WHY EDITORS ARE LIARS


Did you ever read the wedding no.
tice that departed much from the
following: Miss EST Mabel Good and
Mr. Sterling Worth were married last
evening at the home Of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Swell on Pros
perity avenue. Rev. Mr.. Big Fee off,
ciating Or did you ever read OF q
school entertainment where the exer-
cises did not, reflect credit on the
teacher" or of a social gathering that
was not most enjoyable affair."" or
of a red headed girl whose auburn
tresses" were not much admired or
oC funeral where the deceased was
not the embodiment Of all virtues and
where the bereaved relatives did not
have the sympathy of the entire COM
munity? asked the Mayfield Mirror.
No and you never will, so long as
you will insist tearing the printers
eyes out or wreck his office or stop
ping your paper every time he tells
the truth about you. You don't want
the truth, unless 1t Is something bad
about your neighbor, and then you
are mighty pleased and come around
and tell the editor. THAT was a hot
shot you gave old Brown. Served
him right, too" But if you stop to
notice, you will remember that you
never told the writer such a thing
when anybody else could hear you.
You were afraid to, weren't you? And
you don't want the truth. II is an
item of news when your child fails to
pass an examination in school, just
as much so as when he succeeds in
passing. But Lord, how mad you would
get If the editor mentioned II. Your
daughters running after be-oiled
haired dry goods machinist is town
talk in fact, but when the wedding
notice appears YOU don't want the
paper man to give a notice something
like this: After several months Of
hard work Miss App Aren't Fraud has
succeeded in landing that young rake.
Mr. Oy Lee Tough who is hustling dry
goods for Jones. The Lord knows
she has angled long enough for
beau, and the whole town rejoices
that she has at last succeeded in
landing a sucker" You don't want
that. If it is so, even If you are a
good Christian yourself, you want the
poor journalist to risk his immortal
soul and lie about your daughter
You want him to go TO hell vicarous-
ly, don't you? And when you get a
Job after asking every man in town,
you want us to say you accepted a
fired you want us to get up on our
behind legs and say that you have
resigned a responsible place" No,
the Lindborg News is exactly right
and the poor editor cannot hope TO
have any great reputation for truth
and veracity so long as you insist on
his being a constant liar about your
own petty, little contemplate affairs.
And when that sort of a husband
dies, all we can possibly say, "he had
his faults when, as matter of fact
the morality of the town goes up for
ty-two per cent, at his demise And
when your poor, hard-working wife
goes sixteen miles out in the coun-
try for the first time in eighteen
years, you don't want us to call at
tention to the fact that you have
been a brute so long. oh, no, you
don't want the truth. Did you know
that before?-Eliazbetht News.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-02-24
FASHION NOTICE

A Detroit girl has recently been
found TO suffer from leprosy, the
famous "unclean" disease Of the
Bible, and the doctors agree that she
caught it from a "rat" which she
had. Hair for the rats" the girls
use is imported from all parts of the
world, and much Of the stiffest, is
from Chinamen's queues. 1t is impos-
sible to disinfect such stuff, and so
Is made up into rats and switches,
and sold out to the girls, disease and
all.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-02-24
Record Fiiaht for a Kite.

The words record flight of kite
is 2S,111 feet above sea level. The
kite started ;om a mountain top
where the ten, crature was 20 degrees
above zero cII at its highest point
reached 4 des. ees below zero.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-02-24
Bank of ENGLAND Salaries.

The director of the Bank of England
has a salary of only $4,000 a year.
OF the 1900 employees, about 100 are
women. The first cashier gets nearly
twice as much as the director and the
the total pay roll amounts to over
s1,O00,O00.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-02-24
Answer to Problem No. IS.

If a hound covers 6 1-2 feet at one
Jump. it will cover 10 1-2 feet in
three leaps. The hare will cover -
feet while the hound covers 10 IL
feet. consequently the dog gains IL
feet. or 1-2 yard in three leaps, or
IS of 1-2 of a yard, that is 1-6 Of
yard, in one leap. 1t will take as
many leaps for him to catch the
hare as 1-6 is contained times in 40
yards. that is 27O times. Answer, go
leaps.
Miss Eliza Ogg, Berea, Ky.
Other correct answers:-Miss Mar
garet VanWinkle, Berea, and Mrs.
Cynthia Flanery, Posey, Ky.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-02-24

some hope for his life. but little that
he will ever appear again on the
floor OF the Senate. A born fighter,
he has nearly always managed 20
be on the wrong side. but has al
WAYS made his enemies suffer.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-02-24
HARD PROBLEMS
BY. Prof. e. c. Scale.
Problem No. Fl

At what time between seven and
c hit O'Clock are the hour and min
r.a hands Of a watch exactly togeth-
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-02-24
BUSWELL'S GOODBYE
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protect the entire body at once, but
when danger came, the soldier would
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-02
Cure Sick by Burning.

ment was over, picked up his load and
proceeded cheerfully on his way.
Among the Mohammedan natives of
Nigeria the mullah is medical prac-
titioner as well as priest. As the
Watoro, when unable to account for
disturbance in his inside, always
ascrfbes it to a snake, so the mullah is
always sure the indispositton is due to
a worm. When Nigerian has tooth
ache, therefore, he knows that it is
entirely due to little worm which
has made it's nest in the tooth If a
man goes blind it is very likely be-
cause worm has eaten the sight. A
boil is regarded as sort of worm
hill.
The mullah, though he makes use
of herbs and drugs on occasion, has
a much simpler plan. The patient ex-
plains the awkward sensations inside;
the mullah listens profoundly, pro-
duces a fiat piece Of wood or stone
and inscribes upon it various caballs-
tic signs. The patient places the
wood or bone against the troublesome
region and goes away, and his faith
is SO great that, as matter Of fact,
he is frequently cured.
If, however, the desired effect is not
produced back he goes to the mullah,
who probably makes him wash the
lettering off the charm and drink the
liquid. Should this fail then it is adj
visable to extract cup of blood.
Should the trouble not then be abated
the red-hot poker is applied. After
that he is fairly certain to be cured;
but IL he persists in proclaiming that
the aches have not departed he is dis
missed by the 1nullah-who has peck
eted a fresh fee for each different
treatment-with the information that
he has offended Allah and will have to
put up with his trouble way OF
punishment.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-02

to the condition of the bed. Fishing boats and
divers from the neighboring coasts of Malabar
native Indians, Malays, Arabs, Polynesians
and pearl merchants by the thousands from all
parts of India assemble shortly before the ap-
pointed day until as many 1000 people are
gathered on the fishing grounds. At midnight
when the wind freshens the boats start for
the banks in groups of so to 20, so as to arrive
there before sunrise Each boat carries from
ten to twelve divers, who work In pairs one
diving while the other tends the signal line
and who relieve each other from time to time.
At sunrise signal gun Is fired and the fish
ing begins. The diver usually carries a stone
or other weight Of about SO pounds attached
to the haul line to facilitate his rapid descent
and In addition carries a basket made fast
to the girdle about his waist in which he
places the oysters as found. Some divers work
ing In shallower water use no weight in de-
scending, but while at work at the bottom
make good use of both hands and feet to seize
upon and wrench loose any oyster seen within
the limited area over which they can work.
The diver who works without diving apparatus
and who is called head diver" working in
from 35 to 45 feet of water, which is the aver
age, can make from 40 to so descents in a
morning and can bring up from Is to 80 oysters
eacn trip. The native Indian, Malay and Poly
nes1an divers remain under from so to so
seconds, according to the depth at which thew
are working but some can stand a much
longer submergence.
AT the firing of another signal gun about
noon the diving is suspended and the boats
race ashore and beach, ready for unloading
On their arrival there the oysters are carried
into the government corral and there piled
into three heaps, each boats load being kept
separate, the government taking two heaps
or tWothirds of the catch and the remainder
being divided among the divers and the crew,
the divers usually receiving the largest por-
tion There are about $500 divers at work.
the daily catch averaging 100000 oysters,
which are often found clustered closely to-
gether.
me governments share is then auctioned
on by the inspector in lots of 1000 and usually
bought up by small merchants, divided into
smaller lots, and resold.
The true Indian diver never descends with.
out nrst providing for attack against sharks
or other dangerous fish by invoking immunity
through the shark charmer's lamentations a
hefedltary endowment among the East Indians
one Oh these charmers usually ACCOMMODATING
each boat. Aside from this danger which i1
these waters, however, is comparative1v small
the diver working under a tropical sun and
exposed to rheumatism and often paralysis Is
usually short-lived man
Up until few years ago this was the
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-02
RED HOT POKER
CURE FOR SICK
SAVAGE DocToRIN0 AMONG THE
WAToRo IN AFRICA.
THEIR PAINS BURNED OUT
Tribesmen With 'Tummy" Ache Has
Friend Apply Hot Iron-BIood
Letting Panacea for New
Guinea Ills.
THEIR PAINS BURNED OUT
BIZ JOHN FosrER FRAzER.

PHILADELPHIA the Watoro.
tribe living in the Uganda protec-
torate, burning is the panacea for all
ills. Whether it be headache, stom-
ach ache or ache in the big toe, they
employ what l may describe as the
red-hot poker cure.
A bar of iron is heated and then
pressed hard against the place where
the pain is supposed to be. 1t may
not exactly remove the cause of the
suffering, but the pain of the burn is
SO severe that the native becomes un-
conscious of its existence.
When native has been eating
something which does not agree with
him, and he feels knots in his interior,
he is quite convinced that he has a
wriggling snake inside him. The power
of the African natives to bear pain is
extraordinary. They will have bones
removed, feet amputated and missions
made in the flesh without uttering a
single groan.
Sir Gerald Portal relates how, when
marching through Uganda, he saw
what he thought to be abominable
cruelty being practised upon one Of
his camp followers. 1t was, however,
nothing but an example Of the African
method of doctoring. The victim, it
appeared, was suffering from severe
pains in his interior, and in order to
relieve him two of his comrades were
dragging his legs and arms in differ
ent directions with all their might,
while fastened round each ankle were
cords, frightened up with a piece Of
stick till they cut right into the flesh.
The man lay face downward on the
ground, apparently past struggling,
while another big black promenaded
on his back, occasionally giving a
stamp to emphasize the treatment.
When asked what they were doing
the grinning Wretches replied with
the single word "Tumbo," which
means much the same in Uganda as
''tummy" does with US, while the
PROSTATE victim also murmured softly
''Tumbo."
This stretching of limbs and rude
kind of massage is the favorite native
treatment for pains In that region and
is apparently successful In this case
the man jumped up when the treat
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-02

Iish cornoratiop under 20-year lease for
stipulated sum per year, in addition to the
proper care and cultivation of the beds under
government supervision
The world has never known richer pearl
fisheries than those of Ceylon. The pearls of
finest orient and color come from these waters
and the mother-of-pearl shell is the largest
and most iridescent. 1t was from here that
La Pellegrina came, said to be the finest and
most perfect pearl in existence and which
weighs 112 grains, well as most of the
crown pearls of European royalty. For cen
turtles the Indian princes have amassed great
wealth IN pearls and those of the Rama of
Dholpur were valued at $7,500,000.
The most extensive pearl oyster grounds of
the world are situated on the northern and
western coasts Of Australia.
The richest pearl fisheries in the Americas
at the present time are those of the Gulf of
California, centering around La Paz and along
the outer coast of Lower California in Mexico.
THESE fisheries were discovered by fernando
Cortez when he marched across Mexico in
1926. The principal beds are near La Paz. in
the Gulf Espiritu Santo Lorenzo Point off
the island of Cerrabro, Los Coyotes and Mu-
lege bay, and, In fact, along the entire west
coast OF the Gulf of La Paz to above the island
OF Loreto and Tfburon, the east side In
addition to those found along the outside coast
OF Lower California pearl oyster beds are
found at points along the southern coast of
Mexico and Nicaragua
Cortez and the Spaniards after him Obliged
the Indians to work the La Paz beds and to
give one-tenth Of their catch to the church
and onetenth to the crown. The beds were
soon depleted and later abandoned. Over fifty
years later, after having recuperated, fishing
was renewed, and 1t is said that a Standard
who later worked them took yearly from them
300 to 500 pounds Of pearls, which he packed
on mules and sold by the bushel.
Up to 80 years ago ''buzos de cabeza" or
mead divers, only were employed but on the
revival of the fisheries about this time mod
ern diving apparatus was introduced and TODAY
they are being worked under concession nv
san francisco firms, who employ from 800 to
LOO men and number of run scbooners
which collect the oysters from smaller boats
WORKING On the beds and carry them to the
companies, sheds on shore, where thew are
opened and the pearls found sorted by passing
them through small brass sieves of graded
sizes.
In the gulf the season commences in Jn1v
and continues to October, but while along the
unprotected outer coast it commences earlier
in March, it is terminated by the hurricanes
that sweep this coast in June
Most of the diving is done by divers usine
the most improved diving apparatus. helmet
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2NER M DRESS DESCENDING 70 M RE4R sos

snsIats@. aHgnted from his regal palanouin,
Win FURNISHED gold and oyershad-
p"eo py canopy of gaudy fea+borvorl, Now.
uerea WIN Jewels and fringed with silver, to
slan1 audience to Cortez, his cloak and golden
ooteo sanoals We're sprinkled with pearls and
0ther precious jewels.
hne palnpered favorites of the rulers Of
SO ~ al" NUNS valued their precious pearls
from the Indies no more higb1T H. di e. 49, -
Indian women of the Aztecs of Noxioo -, 49,
4ncas OF Peru' When the king of Spain made
S1ernando de Soto governor of Cuba with com.
mission 10 conquer Florida the latter nenetra
Ieo lnUo the country of the Yuckees along the
savannah river in Florida to their cbinF vii
aage' Cuntatchiqui where he found their Queen
wearing great strings of pearls. The Gueen
IN welcoming the Spanish explorer tn tho hoe
ptahues OF her nation even removed one of
the most beautiful of her pearl necklaces ond
threw it around his neck
Thus the Spaniards were nor disor,,o;r+o,
in their expectations of finding pearIe sn7oror
other treasure they sought to obtain from the
natives OF the new world, and such adventur
ers as Ponce de Leon PanfiIo de Nayarez Ca
peca de Vaca, fernando de Soto, Coronado
and numerous others were Iured on nv this
nope. 'A'"
member Of Sir Walter Raleighs expedi
zion collected from the natives of VIRGINIA
over 5000 pearls, of which he chose "as many
as made fayre chaine," and the Indians Of
the Mississippi wore bracelets and earrings Of
fine pearls, which, as Father Louis Hennenin
wrote they gave US to understand thew re-
ceived in exchange for their calumets from
natives inhabting the coast of the great lake
to the southwark. which take to be the Gr1nh
of Florida"
For the sake of comparison of the princinaI
pearl fisheries of the Americas with those of
the old world, both as to wealth of production
and methods employed, short description of
the oldest and richest fisheries in the world.
those OF Ceylon, is given. These are located
in the Gulf of Manar, off the western shore of
Seylor and TO the south of the island of Mansr
and on the Madras side near Tinneyel1y. Tho
FMacedonfans of Greece obtained nearis from,
the Persian Gulf and the Ptolemies' slaves
worked the fisheries of the Red sea from
where, undoubtedly. the famous pearl came
that Cleopatra Is supposed to have ground nm
and drunk in wine to her lover.
The old methods employed on the cav1on
fisheries and which continued up until few
years ago are the most interesting. The nearl
oyster beds are under the supervision of gov.
eminent inspectors, who regulate the fishing
When bed is to be fished over, announcement
of the fact Is published beforehand. the season
usually beginning the first part of March and
continuing frop four to six weeks, accordino,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-02
Whv He Quit.

"Bondsonby has given up smoking
Impossible. He's been slaVs
the habit for years"
He's given it up, all right
why? Did the doctor order HIM
do it on account of his nerves
mo, don't believe so; but 2
know that peach OF a stenograp
he's had for the past few weeks? w
l happened to overhear her say 9
day, when Bondsonby was listela
that she would be as willing to ha
pig as to kiss a man who was alVal
smoking"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-02

method employed in gath
ering pearls, and the Brit
ish government of India
derived a revenue of from
100000 to $750,00O annu-
ally from the product of
these fisheries, but for the
last few years they have
honn -n,,nr.ntod hr an Enu
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formed me were to be
procured in their own
neighborhood." AS evil
dence of the truthfulness
OF his statements he sent
the queen an immense
pearl of exquisite orient,
weighing over 300 grains,
taken from these waters.
When Vasco Nunez de
Balboa crossed the 18TH
mus Of Panama in 1913.
he found the Indians
along the shores of the
Gulf Of st. Michael (now
the Bay Of Panama) col
lecting pearls from oys-
tiers washed ashore dur
ing violent storms, as
wen as diving for them 4
SHORT distance from the
shore.
When fernando Cor
Iez IN 1926 discovered
Lower California he found
the natives wearing many
beautiful pearls taken
from the waters of the
Gulf OF California. His.
tory tells US that when
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-02

What can harm US If we are g
to ourselves and do what We tnlnk
right?-Black.