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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-01-06
WHERE METALS GO

OF a total annual gold output
of 20,OOO,OGO. the arts and
industries consume 25 per cent.
The baIance is added to the gold
reserves in the Various treasures
of the world and in the metallic
supplies and reserve banks, says
the Wall Street Journal.
In silver a large proportion of
the annual product is used
industrially. From a product of
POP, 100000 ounces produced in
1909 it is figured that probably
65,OOO.OOO ounces are consumed
industrially and for coinage
purposes among The chief silver
producing nations in North and
Soi.h America. Coinage demands
just now represent comparatively
small part of this total.
An cnlarging feature of the
industrial demand for both gold
and silver is found in the takings
of India. The United States mint
bureau estimated that out of Sll3,.
99G,0 of gold consumed in this
way, British India took S35, ,976,.
206, or 26 per cent in 1908. OF
81. .S35, 900 ounces of silver. India
alone took 81, ,84O,5O0 ounces as
her share.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-01-06
THE LATEST ILLUMINATION

At last the lid is raised and the
public is invited to gaze upon the
first member of tho Association of
Crooks. He is A. B. Anderson.
circuit court judge of Indiana,
appointed by President Roosevelt
in 1902. According to the
published reports, which seem to
be amply substantiated, Judge
Anderson was pronounced guilty
by the Judge of Judges, while,
greatly agitated," in the Columbia
club Of Indianapolis. His offense
lay in a decision he had rendered IN
the famous Panama libel case TO
the effect that there was no
warrant in law for hauling Elitor
Delavan Smith to Washington ioi
trial under the wrathful eyes of the
monarch, whose supersensitiveness
had been outraged by aspersions
upon His Own brother-in-law.
The decision was sound, if Elihu
Root and other lawyers of repute
are to be believed, but what was the
Constitution between friends
when the family was involved? Did
not the minion owe his very
position to the Gaek war? And
was not the Gaekwar's desire made
clear when he had the Tribune
announce that "he president is
deeply interested in this case, and
tn ose charged with the prosecution
realize that they will earn his
gratitude If their efforts are
succssful?" What, then, did the
fosilized creature mean by drag
ging in legal suhtleties and statutes
that did not meet the spirit and
needs Of the time? There could be
but one answer. The man wa @
crook. Also a damned jackass."
Roosevelt declines to say whether
or not he applied these opprobrious
epithets. He wants to talk about
thing else. 1t is just as well.
Anything he might say by way of
denial would carry no conviction, in
any case unless fully subsantiated.
But how can any decent American
contemplate even his silence with.
out experiencing deep humiliation,
disgust and shame? How long,
0 Lord, how Harper's
Weekly.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-01-06
WHERE HE WAS QUEER

The negro, on occasions displays
n fine discrimination in the choice
of words.
Who's the best white washer
in town." inquired the new
resident.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-01-06
SOCIAL HORTICULTURE

sowing wild oats.
cultivatlng friendship.
Looking after ones stocks.
Wedding out acqusintances.
Raking the servants over the Goa
Narrowing people with ones III ter
per
Digging up the coln.-- Boston Trun.
script
Planting ones foot down on extra.
agance
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22
MUCH INTEREST.HERE
IN EXPERTS COMING

Mr.. Maynard who will demonstrate
Lights and Lighting at the Bever-
ley Theatre on Tuesday is one of the
foremost Illuminating engineers of
sile country. Ten years ago there
,ere no specialists in this branch of
en- rincefing Architects frequently
laid out the lights and fixtures were
ie5iencd with an idea of beauty
alone. The invention of the power
full 1lun gsten lamp opened the field
ana brought out many unheard of
possibilities.
The big stores learned that success
and light went hand in hand and
they began to pay fabulous prices
for lighting arrangement which
would attract business from their
competitors.
The Holoplane Company, then a
small concern, began series of
scientific Investigations and expert
ments and Mr.. Maynard was in
charge of the big installations that
made New York's business district
over. The brightness Of the Great
White Way" known from one end of
the country to the other is due in no
small measure to his ability as an
Illuminating engineer. His coming to
Staunton is of peculiar interest to
those who are concerned in the fur
Their development and the modern
practice in this field.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22
SHOE MEN INDICTED
BY FEDERAL court
Big United Machinery Off
GERS Are Accused Under
Terms of Trust Law
REPORT OF THE Grand JURY
Defendants are Charged With
Conducting Great Business in
Restraint of Trade

Boston, Sept. 19.-An Indictment
was returned today against the Off
GERS of the United Shoe Machinery
Company, and a second indictment
was found against the company itself
by the United States grand jury. The
defendants are charged with conduct
ing business in restraint of trade.
The individuals indicted are Presi-
dent Sidney W. Winslow, Edward P.
Hurd, George w. Brown, James j.
Storrow, William Barbour and Elmer
P. Howe, directors.
Both indictments charge the defen-
dants with working through the in
strumentality of the United Shoe Ma
chinery Company in way to make
them as individuals criminally liable
under the Sherman act.
Proceedings Were Brief
The court proceedings today oc-
cupied less than five minutes, for the
grand jury merely handed in the for
NAL documents in the case and were
then excused.
None of the officials Of the COM
pany was in court at the time, but it
was expected that they would appear
later and plead to the indictments.
For an hour previous to the COM
ing in of the court the grand jury
held an extra sitting to hear two
witnesses in the case. Following this
the members filed into the circuit
court room before Judge Dodge.
There were present United States
District Attorney French and William
S. Gregg, special assistant attorney
general, and Oliver E. Pagan, repre-
senting the Department of Justice at
| Washington.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22
THE TARIFF

Some people have endeavored to
Identify the name with the acts of
certain celebrated robbers of anti
guilty; but at any rate 1t now means
list of things with the duty to be
paid either as imports or exports.
It also means the law relating to
such charges.
The usage is very old, and it is
evident that the tariff question, like
the poor, will always be with us. It
was a vital factor early in our his
tory. In our tariff act approved
July 4th, 1889, the preamble states
that one of its objects is "The en-
couragement and protection of manu-
features" The tariff acts of 1916
and 1924 showed still further pro-
tective leanings; and that of 1928
went so far in this respect as to be
called the Tariff of Abominations, "
and led to the Notification move
ment.
In 1888 a compromise tariff was
promoted by Henry Clay, for grad
ual reduction of duties until after
1912 no article was to carry more
than 20 per cent duty. But in 1912
a protective tariff was established,
to be replaced by the Walker tariff
of 1916, which reduced duties; and
these duties were again greatly re-
duced by the tariff act of 1857.
The Morrill, tariff of 1861 was a
war measure for revenue, but at the
same time it was along protective
lines, and notifications were made
from time to time in the same direc-
ton. The Mckinley tariff Of 1890
>still further increased duties; while
the Wilson tariff of 1894 reduced
them as a whole, somewhat, and
made radical changes in certain di-
rectfons.
The Dingley tariff of 1897 was
along the line of protection, and we
all know that the tariff has again
been revised by its friends"
What we are going to do with it
at the next turn of the wheel is the
most important economic political
question before us today.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22
LIFE A STRUCTURE

Those who would build for them
selves a happy life must work by
plan. This plan may wisely embrace
many particulars, SO that if one part
fails another may be carried out. II
a man marks out program en-
bracing a professional career, happy
domestic surrounding, pleasant So
cial life, public influence, interior
growth in virtue, in knowledge, in
power, whatever disaster may over
to fall back upon. Some men are
permitted to work up to their plans
in life, and to realize largely the sue
cess they aspire to. But these are
comparatively few. A great many
men and women find themselves in
middle life in circumstances very diff
ferent from those which at twenty
years of age they had anticipated.
Death, revolution, bankruptcy, sick
ness, and a thousand lesser causes
have changed the whole current of
their lives and opened to them car
GERS of which their youthful imagin
atiOns never conceived. Every day
we meet clergymen who began life
as farmers or mechanics, journalists
who began as clergymen, politicians
who from every avocation under the
sun, aspire to practice the high art
of craftsmanship, artists who at first
were only artisans and capitalists
who began as errand boys. But we
shall find in almost every case that
he who makes his mark in life has
not worked at random, but, as far as
he could see into the future, has
been guided by the best judgment he
could use in the circumstances which
surrounded him. The young are
apt to be discouraged by lack of sue
cess in the first thing they under
take; but they should remember that
defeat is half the time better than
victory. Some of the most lasting
benefits to individuals and to nations
have sprung from what seemed at
the time overpowering calamity. The
man who refuses to be daunted by
difficulties, and is ever ready to try
again, is the man who succeeds
Exchange.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22

and today it is bringing 6.62. 1t is
possible some reduction will result
when the local crop is harvested
which will be in October, and specu-
lation may have carried the price too
high; but if the shortage abroad is
as great as is indicated, sugar will
not return to normal prices until a
favorable condition for next years
crop is assured.
The American people eat more SUI
Ear per capita than any other peo-
pie in the world. 1t is a pleasant,
healthy and valuable food, and gran
ulated sugar is the one food stuff on
the market that approaches very
closely chemical purity. 1t looks
like we must eat less sugar and pay
more for it during the next year.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22
DISCUSS EXTRA FARE

st. Paul, Mimi, Sept. 19.-The
f,.ty-sixth annual convention of the
American Association of General Pas
senger and Ticket Agents began It's
sessions here today with Colonel
Samuel Moody, passenger traffic man
ager of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
presiding. The convention will con-
tinue for several days. One of the
timely topics to be discussed is the
recommendation that railroad passen-
gers be charged extra for using high
class equipment. 1t has been sug-
gested that quarter of cent a mile
be added to the price of ticket for
q passenger using an observation or
q parlor car. In support Of the pro-
posal 1t is contended that the rail-
roads expend large amounts to fur
nish this class of travellers fast train
service, luxurious surroundings, and
special attention of various kinds.
The association will thoroughly dis
cuss the matter, but any action it
may take will be purely advisory in
it's nature.
A notable feature of the conven-
ton will be the banquet tomorrow
night Among those scheduled to
speak at the banquet are James J..
Hill, President McCrea of the Pennsyl-
vania system, Vice President Daley
of the New York Central lines, and
several representatives of govern
railways in France and Germany.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22
FUGITIVE WILD MAN
CREATES CONSERVATION

South Norwalk, Conn.,, Sept. 10
Lamps were lighted in every home in
Wilton last night, and in many cases
vigils are being kept, through fear of
''Tony" Sabine, the demented man.
who has shot two men, killing one,
besides engaging in running fight
with constables. Two months OF
hunger and exposure, together with
haunting fear of capture, have turn
ed Sabine into a wild man.
From the time he shot his brother
in-law in New Canaan and afterward
killed Harry HI. Maudlin, Jr., Sabine
has been living in the woods. He
has outwitted the united efforts of the
state, county and local officials. He
lodged the trap set by posse which
took up his trail after he made his
appearance in the yard of Herbert s.
Ogden on Saturday afternoon, shoot
ing his pigeons and eating his corn.
Yesterday the wild man showed
up near New Canaan, five miles to
the westward, where he was tracked
down in the woods by Edward Ferris,
a woodsman. He caught up with
Sabine as he was about to enter the
cellar of an abandoned house and re-
ported to the place, but Sabine had
fed.
Trained police dogs were placed
upon the scent this morning.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22
STATE COURTESY

Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia,
will be one of the Glidden Tour party
and proposes to ask the governors of
each of the states through which he
goes to join him in the ride from
boundary to boundary of their re-
spective states. This tour is one of
the greatest advertisements the
states through which it runs can pos
sibly have.
Will our governor be glad to take
this ride if the Valley Turnpike COM
pany charges these visitors double
toll because theycannot turn around
and 60 back the same day; and if it
charges them half as much on these
90 miles as they have to pay the
balance of the distance from New
York to Atlanta?
We think not.
And three-fourths of the stock of
the Valley Turnpike company is own
ed by the State of Virginia!
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22
THE WORLD GETTING SMALLER

The size of the world Is relative.
A Frenchman has just circled 1t in
less than forty days without causing
a ripple of excitement. 1t is only
half as large as it was when Jules
Verne wrote" Around the World in
Eighty Days" as an extravagant
statement of what might happen. An
order can be given on the New York
Stock Exchange to purchase stock
in London, 5000 miles away, and the
purchase can be executed in less than
three minutes. So far as the trans
ference of thought is concerned, space
and time have practically been eli
minated. 1t is only when the trans
ference Of material in mass is con-
sidered that we are still limited and
may expect to continue to be so. But
the changes which have already
taken place have brought the inhabi-
tants of the whole world very close
together. They are bound together
by lines of communication which vi
brate at the slightest touch, and what
affects one in some degree affects all
The French Prime Minister may have
q bad tooth and his note to the Ger
man Ambassador may have a tone
which he did not anticipate. In less
than an hour the banker in New York
commences to call his loans, and be-
fore the day is over the Staunton real
estate man finds that a shadow has
come over his negotiation to sell a
suburban property to rich north
erner. The man who does not take
hold vigorously of what is at hand
and expends his time in the contem-
plation of distant events over which
he can have no control is a dreamer;
but no one can afford to neglect the
signs of the times and fail to rec
ognize that there is no event in all
the world which should not interest
him. 1t may directly affect him.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22
ANDERSON AND EMMERT
HAVE BEST kept STORES
DR.. Kenneth Bradford So Decides
in Making Civic Club Awards

DR.. Kenneth Bradford So Decides
in Making Civic Club Awards
DR.. Kenneth Bradford yesterday
announced his decision in the con-
test for the best kept public building
and most attractive grocery store, the
awards going to the Y. M. c. A., the
C. & o. Station and City Hall as the
cleanest public buildings, and to w.
B. Anderson, City Grocery and EN-
merits, the best kept grocery stores.
At meeting of the Civic Improve
ment League, yesterday, it was de-
cided that the Y. M. C. AS condi-
ton was due more to the Ladies
Auxiliary than to the new janitor,
SO the prize will be divided between
the janitors of the City Hall and C..
& o. depot.
No decision has been announced in
the case of private homes. 1t is no
doubt very difficult matter to de-
termine which of the hundreds of
nicely kept yards and lawns shout be
favored with this much-sought-after
recognition. DR.. Lambeth's selection
prize-winners is awaited with much
interest.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22

illustrating attitude life
activities Of
Ill III Mrs. Greeley Of New York
II n Mrs. practicng the courts
she considered women entered
I'm
criticism undertake.
extremely puele that crcisns For time simply
fields She successful
abilities the field in which
consequently She
Of this She happily married. fond of hemef when
this it. But that
caring for her home and her home-lhe
horizons
carefully conceptions
brushed
beautiful
but she practical
tcally.
three kinds
comradeshp
the
than without This third Mrs
thinks considering
initiating gradually
the
receive half her.
first the ideal marriage and bound out the
Each the they
pioneer hew
But breaking fields thought
which about better happr ideals Of living for
i l-zSti-
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22
CHARGE BUTCHER
WITH VIOLATION

Five or six cases for failure to con-
meet with sewers, as provided in city
ordinances, came up for trial in Po-.
lice Court yesterday morning, the Of
tenders being given until Monday
morning to comply with the law. At
this time an inspection will be made
and any remaining violations will be
prosecuted without further delay.
The case of Charles R. Knowles,
charged with slaughtering calf in
the celler under his meat shop, was
heard, Mr.. Knowles admitting that
the calves had been butchered there
and giving as his explanation that he
was 'pinched" for veal and did not
have time to take them to the slaugh-
ter house. Justice Glasgow reserved
his decision until this morning.
Other meat shops in the city were
inspected yesterday morning but no
butchering was found to have taken
place in them.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22
THREE MEN KILLED IN
FIGHT OVER WHISKY

Cumberland, Nd, Sept. 2O.-For
a drink of whisky three men are dead
at Dodson, Garrett county, Md. Two
were shot to death and the third,
with his body slashed almost into
ribbons, died a few minutes after he
had fired the fatal shots.
The uneven duel was waged 1.-the
darkness early today along the line
of the Western Maryland railroad, a
few miles south Of Westernport.Th
dead are Larry McDade, thirty-eight
years old, miner, formerly of West
ernport, now of Dodson; two I'M
identified Italians, miners, of Dod-
son.
McDade was sitting near the rail-
road tracks drinking from bottle
of whiskey when the two foreigners
appeared and demanded drink.
McDade refused and the fatal fight
followed.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22
THE VALLEY PIKE

1t has been ascertained that the
State of Virginia owns three-ffths OF
the stock of the Valley Turnpike COM
pany. The original charter was grant
ed in 1888 and the State subscribed to
$50, 900 of the stock, and citizens tax
ing $40, OO0-the further provision be-
ing that the State should take $50, 600
additional, when the citizens took
$4,000.
Perhaps if the officers of the COM
pany were located at this end of the
line Augusta county would have in
the Valley Pike road which in sur
face and tolls would be comparable
with the lines which have been built
by county officials.
Why not?
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-22
SUGAR PRICES

1t is unfortunate that the high
price Of sugar should come at this
time of the year when it is SO largely
used for canning and preserving pur-
poses. 1t is most. probable that so
thrifty concerns as those refiners
who stole water in Brooklyn and
were convicted of custom frauds by
the United States Government and
mulcted of over a million dollars,
have found some way to profit by
this increase; but they do not seem
to be primarily responsible for it.
Apparently there has been scarcity
in the European market of a million
to million and a half tons; and this
has led to excessive speculation. On
June Is raw sugar could be gotten
for 3.89 cents pound. The price
today is 5.75 pound. On June Is
yranulated sugar was bringing 400
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friday. September % 1911
CHURCH-GOING

We would be called chuFcn-so-
ing. a church-building, and churcn-
supporting community; and yet tne
attendance at our services Is often
woofullv small! 1t wouldbe OF IN
forest and value if everyone could
he induced to keep for a short time
q written record Of the regular ser
vices of his church, and note IN each
instance the services missed and the
reasons for doing so. We venture 10
saw that everyone would be surprised
at the number missed, and shamed
and disguised by the list of excuses.
To many, church-going is duty;
To all a privilege and an opportunity
and to not few a pleasure.
Those who have named the name
of Christ and who have identified
themselves with any organization
whose object is to save the souls OF
men and to spread His kingdom,
cannot escape from the obligation to
attend the services of their church.
II is not a question of comfort, con-
venience or pleasure. 1t is the duty
of the members of the organization
to be present where two or three are
gathered together in His name.
But whether one is a member OF
a church or not, and indeed even it
he does not believe in the tenents OF
the Christian religion, he cannot be
hurt and must be helped, by utilizing
the privilege of going to church.
Every one must be helped by putting
aside for little while the cares of
the world and associating with those
who, confessing their unworthiness
and the transformers of human at
fairs, have come together to worship
a supreme being, to do Him homage,
and to ask His blessing; and that
under surroundings best calculated to
produce elevated thoughts and feel
ings.
The pleasure of church-going will
be largely measured by the way in
which the duty is performed and the
privilege exercised. There are many
kinds of enjoyments and pleasures,
but there is probably nothing more
deeply satisfying that the feeling
which comes from the consciousness
of duty faithfully performed, and the
sense of an earnest, honest effort to
develop the better side Of our ma
lures. If one goes to church, not
grudgingly nsr of necessity, but with
a cheerful determination to do his duty
and to make an earnest effort to
realize all of the advantages the op-
portunity offers, he will derive a
peace and pleasure which will other
wise be lacking.
The great difficulty is that many
people inverse the order and put the
question of pleasure first.