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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-12-18
Oriain OF an Old Sayipa.

"a feather in ones cap" carries With
1t a suggestion Of light heartedness
and gayety. Yet this phrase seems to
have had its origin in war and blood
shed. 1t was the custom Of the Hun
garians In their wars with the Turks
to wear feather in their caps for
every Turk whom they had killed.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-12-18
Balancing tho Eco.

For q variation Of the old trick OF
making an egg stand on its end. emp;
~ the egg Of its contents and then
All half full of sand. Cover the hole
with paper. Your egg. with very lit
lie balancing, will stand readily upon
its end.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-12-18
A Trick EXPLAINED.

A person may, without stirring from
the room, seat himself In place
where 1t will be impossible for an
other person to DO so. Explain TINS.
Answer.-The first person seats him
self In the others lap. N@&y&
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-12-18
crickat,s Song.

Crickets Song.
what's the song the crickets sTnE.
Summer, autumn. winter, sprfngf
When take my little broom
And 60 busting through the room,
sweep, sweep. sweep. sweep
When go to bed at night G
Then hear them out OF sight, M
"Sleep, sleep. sleep. sleepl" tss2S
when I waken every day NMia
IL It's sunny then they say, n%2Xs
Peep. peep. peep. peepr NE
But they feel az bad MS I
when It rains. Ter then they cry. Y
A '.Wsep. wssR weep. weep"
] RxN -cAicase 4N1u.e
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-05
CARP A PROFITABLE FISH

The most interesting thing disclosed by cen sus report just issued, giving the extent of the fisheries of the United States, is the great i'm portance that has been attained by that Chino Teutonic immigrant the carp. A catch of near ly 43,000,000 pounds is shown, and for this quan- tity the fishermen of the country have pocketed the neat sum of $1, ,135000.
 As commercial commodity, the carp is nov ing in respectable company The native fishes that are more valuable than the carp may be counted almost on the fingers of one hand. They are the cod, the haddock, the halibut, the Pacific salmon, the sea trout, and the shad. Such i'm portant economic fishes as the alewives, blue fish, herring mackerel, menhaden, mullet perch pollock, sea bass, red snapper, striped bass, and white fish are left far behind.
 Illinois, long famous for its suckers, has be- come the leading producer of carp, and is reap ing most lucrative harvest therefrom. The H. linois river literally teens with carp and yields larger annual crop than any other stream in the country, if not in the world.
 The general condemnation to which the carp in America has been subjected is only partly
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-05
GETTING AT THE FACTS

Professors at the University of Chicago have never been noted for their conservatism, and as result the reputation of that great institution has suffered in the eyes of the educational world. But not even in their most irrational statements have these professors gone further astray than did Professor Frank Albert Fetter of the department of political economy and philanthropy at Cornell, Tuesday, when he told the students that Chicago was a city of delapi- dated homes, a shanty town.
 According to press dispatches, which are req sonably certain to be correct, Professor Fetter said "'The visitor sees veneered city of brick covering wooden tumbledown shanty town. y
 Along in his lecture he turns to sanitary con- ditions, and then is quoted as follows: ''Chica- go has a luxury of alleys The garbage cans would not be so bad if they were empted once week, but if one visits an alley in August. when the cans have not been emptied since July, he realizes that here is sanitary problem of some importance
 Had the Cornell professor taken time to in- vestigate, he would have found that Chicago aI- ley conditions are no better nor worse than in any other large city. Garbage collections in Chicago are made daily, and the alley gets it's share of attention. The death rate of Chicago goes far to disprove this criticism of the city,
 As fitting climax to the horrible conditions which only college professor or philanthropist seeking for text for a uck-raking lecture can find, the instructor of youth and the guiding spirit in uplift work and reform concludes in the following words, again quoting him from the press dispatch:
 'Lcdgers sleep III relays, and the bed clothes never get cold The day workers sleep during the night and when they go to work in the morn ing, the night workers take their places D
 Had the professor of philanthropy said that such conditions could be found among the very poor oi any city, he would have been truthful, for so others tell us This lecturer, however, makes sweeping statement that this is a GUS tomary habit in Chicago.
 It is such use of language that makes the col lege professor the discredited man that he in many cases is. The good work of 100 rational speaking gentlemen can be undone by one or two men who talk on topics with which they are not familiar, or use such exaggerated language as to invalidate anything else they can say
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-05
A DISAPPOINTED MAIDEN

A woman who has rejected five suitors has written an essay upon "Some Faults of Amer ican Men" Needless to say, no man would have the courage, even if he possessed either the imagination or the facts, to discuss a theme so rude as "Some Faults of American Women ]" But she at least has as material negative basis, even if she consistently declined matrimony It appears that all those who wooed in vain this maid severe were men of collegiate education and professional training. What requirement did they lack? Their fault it appears, was that they did not sympathize with the interest of this fair one in music, art, literature, and social life They were all conventionally moral, but also ex- asperatingly dull. They had not the savoir faire of the European gallant They did not discov- CT little corners where to take tea they did not plan moonlight rides or play the piano. Their ove-making was too direct and practical, devoid of romance; and so this strict Portia judged them adversely
 It is to be noted that this severe critic is her self, college graduate Perhaps she has had more leisure since she emerged from the classic shades to retain their charm and to cultivate the graces of scholarship than have the men, forced to confront the concrete problems of the work
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-05
THE NEW TARIFF SCHEDULE

Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota, who is every day becoming more bitter in his criti- cism of the recent tariff revision, declares that revision upward of the rates on a few things has the tendency to advance the cost of every necessity.
 "You will hear it said constantly" said Sen ator Clapp, with reference to something on which the price has been advanced, 'Oh, that isn t in the tariff at all. That increase has noth- ing to do with the tariff But the fact is that the tariff reaches all along the line. You can t raise the cost of living to man producing some thing to se without forcing that man to raise correspondingly the price of what he has to sell.
 ''The new tariff law has cost, and is costing the American people millions on millions of dol lars, in increased cost of living. And if the Payne-Aldrich bill had been beaten, those mil lions would have been saved to the people. The increase in import duties did not affect every thing, of course; but when the prices were raised by the people whose rates had been in- creased, other people were compelled to raise their prices in keeping The thing started with the tariff increases, and is increasing the cost of living all along the line
 We must have no legislation that will re- enforce the combinations. Tariffs so adjusted as to protect combinations at home against con- petition abroad must be lowered. The con- binations are eliminating competition just as Sherman and Blaine twenty years ago. saw that they would. It is now problem of how to save our market from being controlled by the domes- tic combination, just as formerly it was prob lem of how to protect it against control by the foreign producer.
 ' A lady in Washington told me of going to a crockery store and pricing set of dishes It was $5O and the tariff bill hadn't been report ed yet. Later, when it had become generally known that the revision was being made upward rather than downward, she went back and asked about those same dishes. The price had gone up to $79
 '' But, she protested, it was only $50 few weeks ago."
 But the tariff is being revised, was the response, ''and things like this are going to be higher "
 Il looked up that description of goods. It wasn't increased in the tariff measure But the understanding was out that manufacturers were increasing prices because of the changes in the duties; everybody knew that cottons and wool ems were going up on that account; and so the tendency was to push up the prices on other things''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-05

ports were carried in American bottoms; sec ond now, after nearly half a century of repub- lican misrule our merchant marine has practlc- ally vanished from the high seas; third, we can re-ereate our merchant marine without a sub sidy by the following means: (a) by discrim- mating duty in favor of merchandise carried in American bottoms; (b) by so legislating that foreign-built ships when owned by American citizens can be placed on the American registry
 under the American flag on reasonable terms (c) by recasting our antiquated navigation laws, so that American boys will take to the sea with enthusiasm.
 ''The ship subsidy promoters will make noth- by the foul slander that those opposing their scheme are bribed by British ship builders "a islander they make at long range and which they would not dare to make within three feet of the honorable and honest men about whom they lie. The signs of the times indicate that if there has been any use of money in the fight for and against subsidy it has been used by the ad- vocates thereof and not by its opponents.
 "They have been trying for years to dragoon senators and representatives into the support of ship subsidy, but have never been able to mus ter a majority of both houses in any one con- gress. Now, seeing the next house slipping away from them, they have become desperate and seem to have adopted islander as their chief weapon."
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-05
THE SHIP SUBSIDY BILL,

The proponents of the ship subsidy are go- ing entirely too far when they charge a lack of patriotism upon those who oppose their raid upon the public treasury. Not to put too fine a point on 1t, they are liars. Patriotism does not consist in helping them levy tax upon the pub llc to hire Americans to do that which they would rush to do without hiring if they were given fair chance''
 Tn these words, Minority Leader Champ Clark fired the opening shot in momentous war that will soon be waging on the floor of the house of representatives over the passage of a ship subsidy bill MT. Clark's interview is of importance, particularly because, coming from the leader of the democrats in the house, it indi cates that the forthcoming struggle is to be a bitter one. The democrats, assisted by several insurgents, will fight to the last ditch any at tempt of the Cannon machine to open the "pork barrel" for the benefit of private ship owners.
 "Those opposed to ship subsidy" declared the minority leader, "are just as much in favor or rehabllitating our merchant marine as those who are whooping it up for subsidy. but we are in favor of doing it in sensible and natri- otic manner
 "Ihe situation is this: First, Democrats built up such magnificent merchant marine that Tn 1861, 72 per cent of our exports and i'm
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-05
DAILY ARIZONA SILVER BELT

a-day world. But a more plausible conjecture is that precisely the right suitor has not put in his appearance There are men who contrive to
 fight the battle of life and yet to retain the apti- tude to please characteristic of the parlor knight This fair lady may rest assured that chivalry has not vanished, even if Don-Quixote tits only in the pages of ironic Cervantes.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-05

justified The carp does not belong in clear, cool streams and lakes, where the trout and bass thrive; it was not imported for such waters, and its introduction therein was a mistake.
 In the numerous and extensive warm, slug gish, muddy waters of the interior the carp fourishes best, does no harm, and compares fav- orably with the native fishes that inhabit the same situations.
 The carp is evidently here to stay, and the economic results of its standardization have been greater than in the case of any other water product in the worlds history.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-05

"Why is Henry Cabot Lodge the most talked amout man in Massachusetts!' inquires the Springfield Union. As problem, we decline to consider this in class with ''What is demo- cratP'
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-05

The Silver Belt has larger paid circula- tion than any daily newspaper nj the world published in city with ,000 or less popu- lation.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-05

A sad-hearted, oft-disappointed and despond ent citizen of Roswell N. M, pens this sorrowfu ditty:
 New Mexico! New Mexico!
 The land of blasted hopes, The land of snakes and centipedes
 With weeds that make good soaps, When will your dream of statehood come,
 And things we wish to see? About the time that Cook proves up,
 And Ireland is set free! Which causes the Fl Paso Times to remark There may be question as to the poetic merits of this effusion, but its pathos and bathos arc above all doubt.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-05
25 Cents

Wrapped, ready for mailing
 Photographic orders will be shipped by ex- press or mail as weight may make necessary. Every resident of Globe should send one or more of the SILVER BELTS SPECIAL MINING EDITION abroad.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-10-28
Cards Out.

We are in erceipt Of an invitation to
a wedding reception issued by Mrs.
Henry Clay Colbert, formerly OF this
city, now living in the city OF Hunting
ton, West Virginia, of the marriage OF
her daughter, Miss Josephene Tan
quarry Gilbert, to Mr.. John William
Mason, sou of Judge John w. Mason,
of the Fairmont district. The bride
Is very accomplished youEg woman
and has many friends in this section
where she was born and raised and the
groem is rising your lawyer.
The reception will take place at the
Colbert homs No. 1917 Sixth avenue,
Huntington on the evening OF Novem-
Der 7th. and the happy couple VIII be
at home to their friends et Fairmont,
Marion county, on and after Novem-
Der y We join the many friends OF
the couple in hearty Fluctuations.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-10-28
Sunday School. Convention.

There will be a grand vention OF
the Sunday School workers of berke-
ley county at this place on November
% and %. Beginning on Monday
night and extending until Tuesday
evening. AT this meeting there viii
be a number of eminent speakers in
GLIDING Hugh Cork, Secretary of the
International Sunday School Associa :
ton DR.. Franklin McEliresh, superin-
tendent of the teachers training de.
partment of the International Sunday
School Association and general secre-
tary Of the State Association of Yves t
Virginia Arthur I. Arnold.
A cordial invitation to all Sunday
day School workers of the county is
extended to attend the meetings of the
convention.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-10-28
Destructive Fire,

A destructive fire occurred at the
farm and brick yard Of Mr.. q. W..
Buxton lying on the Northeast out
skirts of the town on Saturday night
last in which the barn, corn CRIB, car
riage sheds wagon sheds and other out
buildings were totally destroyed by
the flames with 20 tons of hay about
four hundred bushels of corn, lot OF
fodder md farming implements. The
buildings were out of reach of the fire
hose though the firemen made heroic
efforts to gather up hose enough to
reach the fire from the plug at Molei
avenue and finally ST cceeded and saved
several buildings which would doubt
less have been burned.
The loss is estimated at from $4,000
to 900 partially covered by ihsur-
anee in the insurance agency OF T. X.
Harrison.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-10-28
Church Dedication.

The new Presbyterian church at
Tabler's station will be dedicated on
next Sunday afternoon at O'Clock.
The church is quite handsome edi-
flee and will be convenient and COM
Portable place of worship. The build
ing has been done for some months
aud has been awaiting the pews which
have only arrived during the past
week.
On Sunday the dedicatory sermon
will be preached by Rev. j. II. Lacy,
D. D., of Winchester, and Rev. DR..
Woods, of this city Will assist.
A cordial invitation has been ex
tended to the public to attend.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-10-28
MARTlNsRURc VIVA FRIDAY OCTOBER 20, 1910,
Church Notes.

The protracted meeting at the First
Baptist church mention OF which was
made in our last issue Is proving
great success. The church has been
well filled al the night services and
DR.. Wharton is preaching with great
effect.
The meeting at the United Brethren
church on Pennsylvania avenue is
bringing out great many people and
great interest is being taken. DIR. Par
ret is preaching each night and is do
ing good work. 1t Is not often that
= town the size of Martinsburg has at
the same time two such noted evan
geists as Dr. Wharton and Or. Parret
and the christian people are hoping
that real revival may come upon the
town and that there may be great
numbers added to the church.
Rev. JoI n s. Douglas returned last
week from the Episcopal convention at
Cincinnati and on sunday gave his
people an interesting account of the
great meeting. He preached at Hedges
Vile in the afternoon.
Rev. Mr., Leeper, superintendent of
House Of Missions of Winchester P res
bytery preached IN the Presbyterian
/ church in this city last Sunday morn
inp and night ard at the Tuscarora
| church IN the afternoon
! DIR. j. "A. Hofibeins was absent last
Sunday attending the meeting Of the
Potomac Synod at Altoona, Pa. There
we're no services in the Reformed
chu rch Sunday morning but DR.. J. b.
Chamberlain preached to the Christian
Endeavor Society at e.3o in the even
ing.
| An interesting installation service
took place at the Presbyterian church
in Gerardstown on last Sunday morn
ing. The newly elected. church off,
GERS. Messrs. d. Gold Miller and e. $.
Henshaw elders andlL. f. Wilson and
J. M. Hollis deacons were Installed.
An lnterdenominational mission
meeting was held on Monday night at
the First M. Il. church and the meet.
ing was addressed 10y Field Secretary
Watson on the work OF the Lerer Mis-
zion in tue far East. The meeting W az
also addressed by Rev. DR.. Woods.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-10-28

That is the question which has been
troubling some of tn eitiz Of Bunk
er Hill vicinity since the Hagerstown
fair. Miss Anna Ruther ord told her
friends that she ana a young man
named William Rutherford OF the
same neighb )rhooi had cen marrIed
on Thursday during the far and Rog-
ers has said that he knew nothing Of
1t If ne had been m irried 80 some CT
the friends Of the Young people went
to Hagerstown ftv avs aftec the
fair to search the records but could not
ind where any license tal becA III ned
for such marriage.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-10-28
Fine Apple Display.

Mr.. ID. Gold Miller, one of the lead
ing orchard lists Of tins county made a
dis play of apples at the state fair at
Wheeling and carried off the first
prize with a cup which is now on ex-
hibition in the large show window Of
the store of W. o. Nicklss Il Company
on South Queen street. The cup is dis
played on a stand and Ia surrounded
by the apples which won the prize.
They are artistically arranged, are N.
w. Greetings and Black Bens. The
display has been greatly admired by
all who have seen 1t and 1T Is certainly
worthy Of the pride of Berkeley coun-
tv
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-10-28
Mated Apple Judge.

,-of w. J. Green, of Wooster, Ohio
oo,or Of the State Experimental
,,ion Of that state, has been secured
;,,,re the fruit on exhibition. He is
oted fruit expert and the work has
,htless done right. Last year ne was
;,age Of the fruit exhibit at the
okane exposition; and is thorough
"a on the fruit business in the culti-
ion as well as the quality of ftuit.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-10-28
BIZ Corn.

Mr.. James n. Coils brought us two
ears of corn last Tuesday which are
the best we have seen this season. Mr..
Coils says it is Pine Hill corn but we
do not think it can be equaled by m any
farmers on limestone land. The ears
are ten and half inches in length
with IS rows of grain.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-10-28
s,s Meeting at opera House i.

Arrangements have been made tof
a big meeting at sthe Central Opera
House on sunday night next at which
time DIR. Wharton, who is now mold
ING a revival at the First Baptist
church, will preach The services will
begin at 7.30 and cordial invIt alton
is extended 70 everybody.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-10-28
Sold Out.

Rotbwell & Company have sold out
their ice aud coal business to Mr..
Samuel p. Dorm, the merchant tailor
and Mr.. Dorm has established the of
flee for the business at his store near
the County court house on South
Queen street where any business ie-
latiDg to the ice and coal sales may be
transacted Rothwell d Company re-
tain the building and Mr.. Dorm only
handles the output of the plant. He is
a good business man and the business
will no doubt be run in a very salts
factory manner to the custom ers.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-10-28
TO VOTERS.

Are you registered?
Won certain your has not been ommitted from
the list
u or are not certain you had better investigate.
Monday will chance for to get on you are
mot on -
Tho County court will that day and review the work
grars and if you appear you may have name put
on.
This will positvelybe the last chance to get on the list of
voters
r. Won are not registered you cannot vote.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-10-28

Mrs. John G. Lyon, Of Pittsburg,
Pa, was here for few days this week
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
f.. w. Lupton, near town. Mrs. Lyon
formerly lived here and her husband
was the head of the brass works for
some years.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-27
MRS. WIN. KEEFER LEAD.

She Was Daughter Of the Late J. J
MeIlott, Below Webster Mills.
Funeral This Afternoon.
Julia, wife of Mr.. William Keef
er, died at their home near st.
Thomas, Franklin county, early
Tuesday morning, Of pneumonia,
after an illness of several days.
The remains will reach the home
of Ahimaaz Clevenger, about noon
to-day, and about or 2 o'clock,
the funeral services at the house
will be conducted, after which
the body will be taken to Union
cemetery for lnterment.
The deceased is daughter of
the late J. j. Mellott, near Web.
ster Mills, and a sister ofWilliam,
Rowe, Samuel, and Jacob W., of
the Cove.
She is survived by her husband
and five children, the oldest OF
the children being about twelve
years Of age.