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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14
PROMINENT CITIZEN DIES

Deep sorrow came in the Barber
home last Friday when death took
away the husband and father, Mr..
John Brooks Barber.
Mr.. Barber was seriously Ill for
few days only before his death when
occurred early Friday morning in
the Berea Hospital.
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday afternoon in the Christian
church by the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Wat
som, and the body was laid to rest
in the Berea cemetery.
Mr.. Barber was born in Hopkins
County in 1865. He came to Berea
three years ago from Nicholasville
and accepted the position Of manager
OF the Spoke Factory here.
Tho he lived here for a short time
only, he won the respect and admir-
alton of all his fellow-workers and
neighbors with whom he came IN
contact.
He was a man of few words, yet the
influence Of his strong and simple
Christian life drew hosts OF friends
10 his side.
Mr.. Barber leaves a large number
of relatives and friends who mourn
his loss. Among his relatives are
his mother, one brother and two sis
tiers in indianapolis, Ind, and his
wife and six children, Leila, Halle
and Nina, Emil, Naoma and John.
The family will remain in Berea,
and Miss Leila has accepted the posi-
ton of cashier and bookkeeper Of
the Spoke Factory. The entire COM
munity give their full sympathy 10
the bereaved ones.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14
S. S. PICNIC

The Annual picnic of the Sunday
School OF the Berea Baptist church
was held last Saturday in the beau
tiful grove on the Gabbard Farm lust
east Of town. The day was perfect
and the attendance large. After a
big picnic dinner there were many
games for young and old. A number
of balloons were sent up and all had
genuinely good time.
An unusual and striking feature
was the parade with which the day
began. The entire Sunday school form
ed in marching array. class 10y class,
sixteen classes in all, and marched
to the string music of the College
Band from the Church up Richmond
Street to Main Street, around the
Square and down Center Street 10
the Picnic Grounds.
This Sunday school has an enroll
ment of about 800 and although
there were not this many in the par
ade there we're enough to make a
great showing. The companies while
marching in double column, extend
ed over two blocks. All the classes
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14

wore special costumes or carried
special colors and carried class BAN
ners, while in addition everyone in
the parade carried an American flag.
The first prize for making fine
appearance in the parade was award
ed to Mrs. w. II. Porter's class.
There were some thirty girls march
ing in this class, all dressed in white,
wearing yellow oxford-caps and carry
ing a daisy-chain which reached from
shoulder to shoulder Of each girl.
The second prize was awarded to
Miss Mamie McWhorters class.
The parade and picnic were both
a great success and are characteristic
of the enthusiastic endeayor~an en-
terprise of this Sunday school.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14
LENGTHENlNG LIFE.

The average length of life Switzerland has increased from
10th century 397 in the Goth In other words
it has practically doubled in 400 years.
average life 500 years. Denmark 502; in
England and Wales Al in Prussia Al o. in India
a. while for the of the union ranges down
in the sos.
the general average of life in the 10th
century between Is and 90 little lower than now India
but il stands at the present time between 3S and 40.
The length life with the practice Of sanitation and
medicine and Germany where sanitation has reached
its highest development % added the span life
In Massachusetts, lengthenng the of about
II a-century
people desire live long, there 1t is the
cleanliness sanitation. We need wait
fury the 10 years added could eliminate the deaths
from consumption typhoid the other filth would
than the 10 years And these deaths will
wit cleanliness
We suggest this health program:
No spit; consumption
No flies; typhoid
milk and pure diphthea scarlet fever
cholera infantum diarrhpa.
cold sponge bath morning winter and cold plunge
bath morning and colds and less pneumonia
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14
ca from Ham. to Hs,r N.w..

A rug said to be worth more than
E1t,e0o and the Ansst in the vsrld
has been presented 70 the White House
at Washington BY a wealthy Armenian
merchant Of New York. This precious
rug Is imperial silk. heavily tswelod
vita rich pearls. turquOisos. rubies,
and Othsr precious stones. II has been
framed as a screen for the adornment
of the presidents psrloS.-L0ndon Tit
Rita
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14
TEACHERS INSTITUTE

Do its fruits justify its existence?
Does it deserve to live any longer?
What a price should be placed on
the head of any man or woman who
would raise such a question? Well,
you are at least half way right. But
is it properly appreciated? Our
Teachers Institute is an old institu-
ton. II is a wise and beneficial pro-
CONTINUED on last Pagel
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14

AN ADVANCED SrEP:-lt is re-
ported on good authority that the
government proposes TO take an ad-
vanced step In the prosecution OF
trust offenders No longer Will civil
suits only be brought against these
law breakers, but the government will
institute criminal proceedings. This
conclusion is reached after the con-
yiction that the law breakers are
inclined to wink at civil prosecutions
and are often glad TO pay their
fines and continue 10 violate the
law. Il is believed that II they are
confined TO Jail or TO the peniten-
tiary. they will think twice before
continuing their law breaking career.
A WOMAN AT THE HEAD:-The
National Educational Association,
the greatest educational organization
in the world. has elected Mrs. Ella
F'lagg Young president for the next
year. During the session held at Bos-
ton. which has just closed. some fine
political maneuyering was done by
the women OF the organization. Mrs.
Young was defeated before the nomin
ating committee but her name was
carried before the convention at large
and she defeated her opponent. Profess
sor Snyder, president of the State Nor
NAL School OF Colorado. two TO one.
In her inaugural address Mrs. Young
suggests some important innovations
which she hopes TO put through dur
ing her administration. She IL one
OF the most noted educators Of the
country, being superintendent of the
Chicago City Schools.
WANTS TO BE GoVERNoR:-Mrs
Marilla NJ. Kicker. prominent attor-
ney OF New Hampshire, has announ-
ced her candidacy for the Republic
can gubernatorial nomination.
AERIAL NAVIGATION;-lt is an
nounced from st. Louis that COM
pany has been formed to establish
an aerial navigation line. Ships are
TO be used that will carry over one
hundred passengers and make a
hundred miles an hour in forty mile
wind. 1t is claimed that this is the
result OF a new invention that is TO
be exploited.
II is also announced from New York
that Walter Wellman will attempt
TO cross the Atlantic ocean in the diri
gible balloon, America. This is the
air craft that Mr.. Wellman was plan
ming to use on his trip to the pole
which he was prevented from making
by the announcement of Peary's dis
covery.
PICTURE MEN PROBABLE
LOSERS:--It seems likely that the
moving picture men who planned TO
reap such vast fortunes from their
films of the Jeffries-Johnson fight,
are going to be disappointed. Pro-
tests have gone up all over the coun-
try and city after city has debarred
these shows.
OLD SOLDIERS GOING:-It is esti
mated that ninety names are dropped
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14
Rivers and Harbors Bill.

President Taft has had plenty to
do besides discuss matters with his
callers. Some of the bills passed by
congress awaited his signature, and
one in particular required a great deal
OF attention before it could be dispos-
ed of. II was the Rivers and Hsrbors
Bill which provides an expenditure
of fifty million dollars on certain
designated Improvement projects.
The president does not like the bill
and at one time thought very serious
ly of vetoing it, but concluded not
to do so, contenting himself with
severely criticising it, warning con-
gress that he would never sign an
other like it, and indicating the
kind of measure that should be pass
ed. The chief objection to the bill
is that there are too many projects
included and not enough money APP
propriated to complete many of them.
Congress thus puts itself in the posi-
ton Of being forced next session TO
make additional appropriations 10
save the work already done, and in
many cases the delay occasioned by
the wait for appropriations will en-
tail tremendous waste. Bills of this
kind are popularity dubbed, Pork Bar
rel" measures, for the reason that
much of the money appropriated is
handed out by congress as kind Of
sop TO more or less doubtful constitu-
eRcies. The Press of the country is
Continued on Fifth page
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14


COMMISSION GOVERNMENT AS
SURED:-Reports from Lexington in
dictate that the commission form of
government, that has been agitated
for weeks, has met with such appro-
val as to insure the calling Of an cleo
ton to vote on the plan. 1t is claim
ed that more than As per cent of the.
city's voters have signed the petit
ton and it is thought that the scheme
will carry in the election.
STATES FINANCES IN BAD
SHAPE:-The state treasurer an
nounces that the income for the last
fiscal year is much less than during
the previous year while the expendi-
lures have increased enormously. The
exact figures given by the treasurer
are: $6,S3S, 6SOO9 for 1909 and $685.
59S 60 for \191O, a difference a little
more than $1S1 900, while the eXpen-
ditures for the state for 1910 have
/ been S976, 006.34, more than receipts.
THE MAGOFFIN COUNTY FLOOD:
News continues to arrive of the tre-
rible flood in Magoffin County. 1t
seems that the first reports were by
no means exaggerated. Numbers of
| homes were swept away and farms
devastated. Six lives were lost and
some $50 are homeless. A re-
cent account descibes the narrow es-
cape of the wife of Representative
Langley, of the tenth Congressional
district. Only her steady nerve and
marked heroism saved her life and
that of the household of her mother
in-law at Spurlock, Floyd Co. The
governor has issued a call for aid
to the sufferers.
i THE DREADED PELLAGRA:-Pel-
lagra, which is fast becoming a scour-
ge, has claimed another Kentucky
victim in the person of Mary Hall, a
negro woman of Franklin, Ky. In con-
nection with this news item it is
interesting to note that a report
from North Carolina announces the
discovery of the cure of this terrible
disease, in the form of a blood ser
UNI. 1t is to be hoped that this report
is well founded.
BIG FIRE AT Mt. VERNON:-Last
Sunday morning the town of Mt
Vernon was visited with a destruc-
tive fire. The stores of U. G.. Baker,
f. Kreuger & Son, and S. w. Davis
were burned. The merchants sustained
a total loss of buildings and stock
with the exception of Baker who
saved some of the goods in the store.
The loss is estimated at $4,000 but
the insurance amounts to about $685.
OOO
FIGHTING THE DUST:-Bids are
being let in Fayette County for oil
ing the roads to allay the dust null
sance. The work is to be done diff
ftrently from last year. Only one
side is to be oiled at a time leaving
the other side for traffic until the
oil has taken effect. This is only
another movement in the direction
of the work of general sanitation.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14

opening school throughout the State this week suggests
special emphasis that important No should fail read
by the Teacher and the First Day. by
Prof Scale the Opening Day. by Prof Dney the Institute
Industrial Education for the Public Schools
Attention called the following Editorials for this week.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Prosecution Of Trust Officers-Wo-
man for President Of National Edu-
cational Assoc iation-CompanY for
Aerial Nsvigation-Protssts against
Prize Fight Pictures.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14
THE POLITICAL ARENA In OUR OWN STATE

Commission Government for Lexing-
ngton-Defieit in State Finances
Bad Flood in Magoffin County
Another Victim of PeIIagra-Big
Fire at Mt. Vernon.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14

In the political arena events seem
to be taking the direction suggested
last week in the artiele entitled,
1.-THE Pot SINNERS"
There is news from the summer
capital, and there is news from Saga
more Hill, the latter rather holding
the stage in point of interest.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-07-14
The Presidents Callers.

The president has had many call
ers, the chief of whom has been Sec.
Ballinger who came away very much
assured, it seems, and rather def
ant toward all the critics of himself
and his policies. The rumor that he
carried his resignation along to hand
to the president must have been all
off. At least he did not present it,
and that seems now to be very far
from his thought. He says he is i'm
the fight to stay. That he is still
very much in the saddle, or is though
to be, is evidenced by the widespread
belief that another prominent Forestr
official is soon to go-Mr. Newell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-02
BIG FREIGHT RATE
 FIGHT ON HAND

Washington, April 1.-The biggest freight rate fight since the passage of the Hepburn rate bill entered the final stages today when the government filed in the supreme court of the United States n brief in the so-called Missouri river rate cases. This involves the interests of Memphis, jobbers, merchants and rail- roads from the Atlantic seaboard to the Rocky mountains. The two cases which have attracted the most attention are those concerning the class rates on through shipments originating at Atlan- tic seaboard points and destined to the Missouri river cities. The third case in- volved the class rates from Chicago and from St. Louis to Denver.
 The first two cases arise from an or der from the interstate commerce com mission effective March 19, 190s direct ing the rate for transportation of the various classes of freight originating at Atlantic seaboard points from Mississippi river crossings to the Missouri river cities.
 The order was the result of complaints filed by a large number of individuals, partnerships and corporations, as ship pers. jobbers and wholesalers at Kansas City. St. Joseph and Omaha. They claimed that the rates were unjust. un- req sonable and discriminatory and that they discrminated in favor of St. Paul ana Minneapolis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-02
MORE CRITICISM OF
 ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH

London. April 1--Col. Theodore Roose- velt.s speech before the students of tho University of Egypt. at Cairo. last Mon day continues the subject of principal editorial writers of the London news pepers Today the weekend journals fake 1t rp with aWdity, but their opinions |orc extremely adverse. The incursion Of Mir. Roosevelt into Egyptian politics has d.snleased the liberal organs, but Is Is apr,lauded by those of the conservatives which contend the British policy In Egypl lis weekkneed
 The Saturday Review says: "Although Colonel Roosevelt rushed into tho Egyptian problem. he has not at any rate spoken like fool but had he had an idea of the extreme dellcacy of the rositioii In Egypt he would have kept on safe ground It is to his credit, how ever. that having blundered in that ho tlundercd out again in the right direc- tion.''
 The Spectator says it is surprised to sec a speech 50 wise and so honorable to inc man who made it characterized nv inc Westminster Gazette as an indus rrction and adds, 1t thinks all good men should welcome the wholesome doctrine 1t contained.
 The outlook also declared that MT. Roosevelt looked upon tender ground Ii
 savs that the movement for Egyptian in-
 dependence sustained a sharp setba ,k
 | from a quarter from which its promoters
 expected sympathy. if not support.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-02
Standard Oil and Tobacco Cases

The sagging tendencies in the stock market are primarily if not wholly due to fears concerning the decisions of the supreme court in the tobacco and oil cases. There are great misgivings in Wall street over the possible action of the court from which no appeal can be taken However the court may construe the Sherman act, it's views must be ac- cepted. They are final. and no doubt they will be definite and perhaps com prehensive.
 The department of justice awaits the rendering of these decisions. It is a crouched lion ready to spring upon the offending corporations if it finds that the supreme court stands behind it. The times do not favor trust corporations, and every offending corporation knows that public sentiment runs against it.
 The fear in Wall street is that the great court will decide that every hold ing company is illegal. It may say that all combinations and corporations that are monopolies and actually restrain trade are violating the sherman law. It may lay down as final law both of these propositions and Wall street fears this, because it would call at once for a change in present methods in many corporations.
 In the history of the country no decision has ever been rendered by any of its courts involving so much change in meth ods and so much perturbation in Thigh finance as do the two decisions that are about to be rendered by the bench that sits under the dome of the national cap tc1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-02
I'm fo ff,e Public

sIf Birminghams music festival, to be held this month, closes without dehcit the management will feel like undertakir~ . festival on even broader lines next year, said a member of the Festival as sociation.
 ''The five concerts to be embraced in the forthcoming event will make up tone festival unsurpassed in the south. Dam rcsch brings his superb orchestra and number( of excellent soloists. while To- cal choruses and a pianist of local dis tinction will add great interest to the festival
 If festival is arranged for next year no improvement could be made on the orchestra Damrosch has always had frst-rate orchestra, but for two or three years past it has been second to none. He has the same musicians now that he had here last spring, and the orchestra heard then could not be excelled. The only improvement in Damrosehs fes- tival enterprise that might be thought oi would be in the number of vocal artlsts Next year he is thinking of bringing south six eminent artists instead Of solo quartet merely. But no matter no" hard Damrosch might try he could never give us more popular programmes than have been constructed for this festivai'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-02
am not lean enough to be thought q good student. Twelfth Night.
Ston-0Yar Privileges

Atlanta has secured stopovers on round trip tickets. and now it is agitating the granting of stopovers on all through one way tickets.
 This is matter that Birmingham should share in. When the true standing of this city is established under the cen sus to be made this month, a strong ef- fort should be started by the Chamber of Commerce to secure stopovers here There is more to see here that is novel than in any southern town, for nowhere else in the south are steel rails made-no- where else are mines of ore, coal and Aux located side by side. Stopovers would be useful to the through traveller and bene- ficial to this city which furnishes more tonnage to the railroads than any south ern city, including New Orleans and Gal weston.
 The railroads should certainly act justly in this matter, and the Chamber of Com merce should not let Atlanta monopolize the stopover privilege in the southeast. There is not a single reason why it should. l,nfsss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-02
ANDREW CARNEGIE
 TALKS ON GRAFT

Pittshurg, April 1.-Andrew Carnegie as the retired general was the guest tonight os some of the members of his former staff in the successful campaign to win pre-emnenee In the steel industry and of the younger generation which is now seeking to maintain it.
 Mir. Carnegie sat with them at an ex- elusive dinner at the Duquesne club, ex- changed "reminiscences with those he knew and made the acquaintance of new lead CTS in steel marts.
 Former Judge James H. Reed presided. John Munger director of the Research laboratory at the Carnegie mills, spoke on the Carnegie eompanys Past and Flu ture,' to which the Laird of Skibo' re- sponded with entertaining "reminiscences and prophecies.
 Charles Schwab, William Palmer, Alfred Corey, Jr., William E. Corey, Azor A. Hunt and others comprising a party of 50 were attendants. Newspaper men were excluded
 Early in the day the Laird of slSiho" admitted in a joke he had missed the mark of his ambition in falling to be a reporter, per Sc, and to party of friends who besieged him at the hotel he talked in epigrams of many topics. He ad- | and his pain in its disgrace by the recent graft exposures.
 "rhey tell me some of these fellows took $8o. 10 for their votes. Oh, my, if were going to be a thief"
 MT. Carnegie ceased his humor here.
 MT. Carnegie echoed the opinion of Gov ernor Hughes of New York that 1t is not in the exposure but in the concealment of corruption that danger turks.
 Mir. Carnegie, speaking of the graft cru- sade in Pittsburg, said:
 Everywhere I go, In glaring letters, have to read of Plttsburgs shame, Pitts burg graft. I have been humiliated and I am today sore at heart I am com forted, however, that the mass meeting planned for tonight shows the true heart of Pittsburg and demonstrates that the mass Of the people stand firm against wrong-doing in any form. The exposure of the graft is a splendid sign, much bet ter than if Pittsburg had concealed 1t. The question is now whether Pittsburg will come through this trial glorioasly or disgra, efully."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-02
LAND-LoCKED

By Celia Thaxter Black lie the hills. swiftly doth daylight
 flee,
 And catching gleams of sunsets dying
 smile, Through the dusk land for mary-a chang
 ing mile The river runneth softly to the sea. o happy river, could follow thee ..s yearning heart that never can be
 still! 0 wistful eyes, that watch the steadfast
 hill, Longing for level line of solemn-sca. Have patience-here are flowers and songs
 of birds, Beauty and fragrance, wealth of sound
 and sight, All summers glory thine from morn till And life too full of joy for uttered
 words Neither am ungrateful-but I dreams Deliciously how twilight falls tonight over the glimmering water. how the
 light
 Dies blissfully away, until I seem To feel the wind sea-scented on my
 cheek,
 To catch the sound of dusky Tapping
 sail s~ And dip of oars, and voices on the gale Afar off, calling low;-my name they
 speak! o Earth! Thy summer song of joy mayd
 soar <] Ringing to heaven in triumph "
 crave c6 The sad, caressiiy murmur of the way That breaks in tender music on thd
 shore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-02
General Lees Statue In S.atuary Hal

While the south is taxed heavily 10 pay a proportionate part of the s160, ,O00,t00 that the government annually distributes among union soldiers, it is the height of unkindness on the part of the Grand Army of the Republic to object to the action of Virginia in setting up in Stat uary hall in the capitol at Washington d statue in memory of Robert E. Lee. Each state is permitted to place two Representative statues in statuary hall, subject, it is true, to their acceptance by Congress. Congress has, however re- jected no statue, and probably never Will
 Virginia is represented in the national hail of fame by statues of George Wash ington and Robert E. Lee, and those statues better represent the old state than any other two statues would do. So long as Virginia is heavily taxed to pay pensions i5 years after the end of the war to nearly a million union sol disrs. Senator Lodge and his array of grand army posts should permit that state to select it's own representatives in efatuary hall. Massachusetts has that pllvilege, and Virginia certainly should  he equally favored, while virginlans are 4 grubbing away to fill the pockets of Massaehusetts pensioners.