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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18
OUR TEACHERS DEPARTMENT
Edited by Prot. Charles d. Lewis

When you have handled the whole
course in this way, and have provid-
ed supplementary Readers for sight
reading, you will find that the five
lessons are not a bit too little.
Go through the whole course IN
this way and you will find that you
have plenty to do. and yet not more
than you can do II you really work.
II the parents complain that you go
too slow, or that you teach what
they do not see the use of, or do not
give what they want taught when
they think 1t should be given. you
have solid wall behind which to
hide. Tell them, "The state demands
It," and every one is doing the same
thing" and you will be all right.
They will see the reason for your way
before the end Of the year IL you
put your whole soul into the work.
Following up this plan will in the
long run tighten your work as well
as increase your efficiency. Make a
large daily program as nearly like
the one given by the state as posi-
BILE and have 1t on the wall where
every pupil and visitor can see 1t,
and then follow 1t to the second.
Keep your course Of study by you
day and night, know what is in 1t,
and stick 20 its general plan, even
though you have to slightly modify
II In detail.
IL you strike a difficulty which
seems more than you can surmount
send Hurry CALL" to the writer
IL there is no nearer source of help,
and a personal letter will come ut
once II The Citizen will not get
there soon enough. The irregular
pupil will be a problem, but the new
compulsory law will confine them
to the higher grades. The child
which has been allowed to grow I'M
even because of the sins of the
rast will be another, but remember,
you can IL you will. Once see the
great importance of order and sys-
tenn in allowing you to do your best.
as well as in its effect upon the char
acter of the child, and | am sure
that you will.
c. d. l..
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18

Home Course In
Health Culture
XVII. Stimulants and
Drugs In the Home
By EUGENE L. FISK. N. d.
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.
By EUGENE L. FISK. N. d.
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.

s far back as the memory Of
~ man runneth not TO the con-
trary alcoholic drinks have
been termed "stimulants," and
yet alcohol is not stimulant, but a
depressant.
Exact laboratory experiments have
determined that alcohol acts as an
anaesthetic upon the higher brain cells
that preside over the more complex
mental processes. In other words, the
man who wakes up" under the infiu-
ence Of alcohol is really going to sleep.
so far as the more useful part Of the
brain is concerned, and thus the lower
and simpler mental processes come
more into evidence. Analyze the con-
versation at some convivial banquet
and note how trivial and inane II ap-
pears in the clear light of day-puerile
when compared with some splendid in.
tellectual debate or discussion bringing
into play the higher faculties. But
these higher faculties are sometimes
overworked and unduly active, deny
ing proper exercise to the simple brain
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18
CARPETS FOR ROADS.
An elastic Skin" Recommended by
English Expert.

An ELASTIC Skin" Recommended by
English Expert.
A lecture was recently delivered by
q member of the road board before the
Royal Institution Of London on THE
Road-Past, Present and Future" The
lecturer said the problem was to find
the best mode by which a road should
not be broken by traffic. 80 that the
transit might be easier for both pas
sengers and goods, road which would
form neither puddle holes nor exude
mud from vehicles and create no dust
when the weather was dry.
One thing was universally recognize
ed-that the road Of the future should
be a truly bound road in which. what
ever kind OF stone was used. the stone
should be held together so that 1t
would form a crust. The lecturer sug-
gested that what he called carpet or
an elastic skin should be adopted as
the covering.
The carpet, he thought, should be
made ,of bituminous material mixed
with sand and placed on the roads in
various thicknesses according to the
nature Of the traffic. II should go on
in liquid form. solidifying quickly. but
always remaining resilient and com
pressible and 50 integrating with the
crust of the road that there could be
no shifting Of the surface below.
The advantage Of such carpet. II
was said. would be to permanently
protect the crust, and just as carpet
on the door softens the step so would
this carpet for the roads silence the
noise and reduce the shock of rolling
vehicles. II was admitted that the
original cost of road so laid would
be more than that OF mud bound
road. but spreading the cost over
series OF years Il would probably not
be so great, since the crust OF the road
itself would not have TO be renewed.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18
.1A&SAlnzZqRggt
.KasgEJDT1tS
SE&kA-9-
<Cusduoted BY tls National wonan's
Christian rumperance Union)
TO ABOLISH LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Money Put Into Twenty Necessities Of
Lie Would Furnish Employ
ment eps All Men.
Ry MARnAREr n PLArrl

CBy MARGARET n PLATTD
We are sometimes told, You can
never get rid Of the saloon by talking
sentiment Faota are what count
The saloon brfngs In q big revenue
ment. Talk busfness." Well. II money
talks. let us talk money.
II Ia claimed that to abolish the
liquor trafilc would throw out OF en-
ployment large numbers Of people and
an army Of idlers would be the result.
In comparison Of thirteen leading in.
dustries OF the United States. with
the combined brewing companies. II is
found that In proportion to the amount
OF capital invested. the brewing bust
ness should give employment to ESQ.,.
6S7 wage earnsF8 instead OF only a..
at.
In the thirteen leading industries Sc
lected, Sl.7S3 cspftal invested gives
employment to one wage Garner and
each dollar Of capftal purchases eighty.
seven cents worn Of material each
year.
In the brsvSry trade II requires
$10,505 capital 10 give employment to
one wage Garner and q dollars worth
Of capital purchases only . fraction
over twelve oeut1 worth OF material
each year. whfls IN the entire liquor
manufacturing business In the United
States II takes $4,000 to give employ
ment to each wage Garner and each
dollar Of investsd capital purchases
only fraction 0v1 Is cents worth Of
material annuai1y.
This business therefore. deprives
212.17o laborcrs from earning Ss12.-
sSs.<1o0o annun1ly. Instead OF pur.
chasing s39s.172lSs.00 worth OF raw
material. they purchase only s7o.512.-
o<,.o0 worth. n the liquor business
were abolished and the money spent
for drink were put into twenty Of the
necessities Of life. employment would
be given to all now employed in the
production OF ltGnor and 1,347,l2s over
and the farmer would have q market
for all he nov sells and $500, 56s. GA
worth besides.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18
UNCLE SAM VERY WATcHFUL
Reason Given ~ More Federal L.
eenses issusd Than There Are
Dram sAeos In Country.

Some one sa1a: How Is ~ There
are more federal licenses issued than
there are dram shopsr' There GER
tainly are Ths government is the
hardest prosecutor Of all II costs only
SIS to get a so0iled government H.
cense." therefore all who handle aico-
holic liquors pay this TO the govern
ment to be let a1one It's Hands or
after the s25 10 padd. The saloon pays
II. 30 does the brvver. the wine grow
er. the drug stora. the madame" the
bootlegger. the Cub room and tho ho-
tel bar. That nobody pretends to sell
liquor. legally OF Illegally. without
first paying the government tar, proves
that prohibition will prohibit-when
the United States government wants
II 10.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18
PROTECTION FOR THE SHOES
gear From Being Rubbed and
Worn by Pedals.

Those OF us who are fortunate
enough TO own automobiles know how
hard they are on shoe leather. This
sounds paradoxical. but It is true
where a man drives his car himself.
In using the pedals and various other
foot mechanism a mans shoe gets
badly scuffed along the sides and on
the heel. A California man has de-
signed a shoe protector TO prevent
this. A leather nap with broad. stud
ded ends fits under the ball Of the
foot and comes up on both sides. a
narrow end crossing over the top Of
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18
What AmssAra Has TO Fear.

The worst thing with which we
have to contend IL not the borer IN
the apple trees. nor the river floods.
nor the summers droughts, nor the
rocks. nor the hnla. nor the clay. nor
the mud. nor tho sand. II b not our
raw winds and Cur cold winters that
make men poor. II IL the dram shops
OF the land. witch steal FIRST the
workman's MONEY and next his vigor.
Maine. once the poorest o: states. ban
ished her saloons once for all. Now
she is the richest state in the Union
In the amount PER capita In her say.
tngs banks.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18
THE SALOON BAR.

bar to heaven. . door to he'll,
Whoever named II named Il we'll
bar to maniineo and wealth.
door 20 want and broken health.
bar TO honor. pride and fame.
A door 20 darkness and 20 shame,
bar that shuts nFom useful life,
door TO brswfAg. senseless strife,
A bar to all that's true and brave.
A door 60 every dSunkard's grave.
bar TO Joy that homo imparts.
A door 10 tears and broken hearts.
bar TO heaven and door to hell
Whoever named u. named II well.
Well bar this bar from every stats
BY i9eo-mark the dnte.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18
Susiyi

Mr.. Smith to Mrs. Smith: The city
Is poor. II We don't have licenses.
we've got to have higher taxes. And
we can't stand that. We're all pretty
near broke. as II Il. We can't raise
another dollar by taxation. So the
only way We can get the $1,000 We
need for repairing pavements and re-
moving garbage u by having saloons,
and squandering 100000 a year In
them. and having them give us back
$1,000 In license fees. See,"-Wil-
liam Hard.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18

Father" asked eight-year-old Alice,
returning home from school. ARE you
good at punctuationr
Yes" replied the father.
"well. tell me. please, how would
you punctuate, The wind blew a Ave
dollar bill around the cornerr"
why. daughter. | would simply put
q period at the end OF the sentence"
Il wouldn't" said Alice misohiev.
ously. Il wosld uasks a dash after the
fiyedollaI BILL
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18


IT IMPAIRs MENTAL AND MUSCULAR EF-
FICIENCY 1T sHORTENs LIFE.
elements that control the emotions, the
play instinct, the tendency to mix with
ones kind in relaxing good fellowship.
Something might be said for alcohol
as an agent for suppressing that part
of the brain which Is overworked in
the daily struggle for existence and
thereby affording opportunity for the
nervous balance to be restored by exer-
else of the simpler faculties.
That some influence Is necessary to
poise is evidenced by the example of
philosophers and scientists who have
become mentally "lopsided," as It were.
by overuse Of one portion Of the brain
or disuse Of the other portion. Oar
wins loss OF the aesthetic faculties and
the power of appreciation Of music and
poetry is a familiar instance. HIS
weird taste In literature, which enabled
him to enjoy the lightest and trashiest
novels, was merely the call of his sim
pier brain elements, neglected and sup
pressed by the constant exercise of the
higher reasoning powers. But is 1t nec-
essary to employ a poisonous drug for
such purpose? 1t would appear not.
10 Alcohol a Food7
Atwater showed that alcohol In
small quantities was utilized by the
body as food. 1t has long been
known that alcohol is burned in the
body with the production of energy.
but poisonous mushrooms also furnish
states. human flesh is digestible and
nourishing. but that is no reason for
using 1t as food.
Experience Of Life Insurance.
Life insurance companies are quite
particular to exclude not only heavy
drinkers. but those whose habits show
trend in this direction. They are tax
ing no chances with alcohol, and they
do not want to insure people who
feed" on II. This is a business mat
ter with a life insurance company, and
the moral phase is not considered,
which means that its action Is based
upon the facts developed by expert
ence.
The most comprehensive experience
that has been published is that of the
United Kingdom Temperance and Gen
eral Provident institution. In that
company the total abstainers were sep
arated from the temperate drinkers In
the mortality experience. with the re-
suit that a difference Of 81 per cent
was shown in favor of the abstainers
Alcohol is no longer used In medicine
as a direct heart stimulant. II is OF
some value as a rapidly available tenn
porary food In the crises OF severe i'll
ness, fever. ETC., when II supplies ener-
gy TO carry on the body work. but even
here 1t must be used with caution be-
cause of Its toxic effect on the heart
muscle and the fact that II lowers the
resistance OF the body to the poisons Of
disease.
Excluding the moral phase Of this
question. therefore, medical judgment,
considering solely the scientific evil
dence available. must pronounce
against the daily use Of alcohol.
Whether the occasional use OF alco-
hol as a relaxing beverage or anaes-
thetic for overactiye brain centers Is
permissible each man must decide for
himself 10 is right. however, that the
grave risks Of even occasional indul-
gence should be known and remem-
bened. Certainly no man OF feeble
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18

the foot and buckling to the other
side. A strap also passes around the
heel and buckles TO the back part Of
the one side guard. Thus the automo-
bihst's shoe is amply protected from
rough wear and he may wear much
better shoes than he would otherwise
care to do.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18
Har Club.

They. tell us that the saloon is the
poor mans club. When | hear that,
often say to myself. What is his
wife's club. wonder?" Alas too often
she finds that hers Is his shillalahl-
Frances 4. Willard.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-07-18

Alcohol Is not food. but poison;
not stimulant, bat an anaesthetic. II
impairs mental and muscular efiicien-
ey. II shortens life. even IL used in so
called moderation.
Narcotics mask pain and trouble, but
do not remove the cause. They destroy
the will power more effectively than
alcohol, but DO not cause the same It's
sue degeneration.
Alcohol AMI narcotics should not be
used in the 'Ome. except on a physi-
clans orders
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-26
CRIST FROM
The WIRES
Latest Dispatches Ground Down
For Hasty Consumption.
WHOLE WORLD CLEANED
The Four Corners of the Earth n
the Seven Seas Are Made to
Yield a Tribute of Inter
estinQ News.
WASHINGTON

Congress adjourned as a tribute 10
the dead of the Titanic; flags were
placed at half mast on the federai
buildings at Washington and through
out the country.
AS a sequence to the labor and anar-
chist troubles in states on the faclnc
Coast, Representative Smith, of Call
fornia, introduced a bill in the house
providing that no person believing IN
the doctrine of anarchy shall be ad-
mitted to the United States.
A bill to regulate wireless communi-
cation was favorably reported TO the
Senate by Senator Hepburn. 1t is In
tended to provide for government con-
troll Of wireless telegraphy.
Oficers of the navy resented crltl-
cisms Of the ability of its wireless op-
orators. declaring the fault-findlng was
an effort to cover up the poor work
of Marconi operators in connection
with the Titanic disaster.
President Taft, members OF the Ca
binet, Senators and many other men
prominent in public life in Washing
ton Joined in praising Major Archioalo
w. Butts record and in mourning for
his~loss in the Titanic disaster.
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oOverno, DIX sailed with his wife

Governor DIX sailed with his wife
and secretary fer Europe.
The strike at Lowell was declared
OF; the workers gained q partial vic
tory.
Miss Rose Edmands, sister of the
former hs1cee Of c. v, T. Richeson,
was married to the Rev. G. H. Holt.
Stockholders Of the Virginian Rail
way were called to authorize a bond
issue not to exceed SIS, 900, 900.
William Jennings Bryan left Florida
to take the stump for Governor Will
sons Presidential boom.
Miss Julia c. Lathrop Of Chicago
was named by President Taft as head
of the Children's Bureau of the De
partment of Commerce and Labor.
The Republican State Convention in
New Haven, Conn, chose a solid Taft
delegation to Chicago, of which all but
two were instructed for Taft.
Accident insurance companies esti-
mated that their losses because of the
Titanic disaster would run up close to
$4,000, 900.
Mayor Gaynor started a fund for the
relief Of the survivors and ordered at
half-mast the flags on all New York
buildings.
General Horace Porter was the prin-
cipal speaker at the unwilling of the
memorial to John Paul Jones at Wash
ington; President Taft also took part
in the ceremonies,
Thirty wealthy New York society
women have organized a committee to
aid the Titanic steerage survivors.
Contributions of money and clothing
are solicited.
1t was learned at Washington that
the military authorities had completed
the details of a military campaign to
meet fully any contingency which
might arise in Mexico.
An appeal on behalf Of the Red
Cross for funds to aid the flood suffer
ers in the Mississippi Valley was made
public by President Taft at Washing
ton.
State appropriations for 1912 total
ing $45, 726,00O were approved by Gov
ernor Dix, it was announced at AL
bany, making a net increase for this
year of $1,000, 900.
The twenty-first Continental Con-
gress of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution closed at Washington
after passing resolutions on the death
of Major Archibald w. Butt.
Bruce Ismay announced that here.
after all ships Of the International
lines would be equipped with lifeboats
and RATS enough to carry crew and
passengers.
1t was said that there would be a
long delay in settling the estates of
Colonel Aston, Mr.. ~Guggenheim, Mr..
Straus and other rich men lost in the
Titanic disaster.
John Thompson, fireman IN the Tt
tanic, said the liners engines were rae
ing at their utmost capacity when she
struck and that the orders were to
break all records on her maiden voy.
age.
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Personal

King Alfonso transferred Don Chris
tobe Vallin, the Spanish minister to
Cuba, to Cairo. He will be replaced
by Senior Arroyoy Moret, the present
chief of the department of Litlglous
affairs in the foreign ministry.
The sanitorium erected at AK Les
Bains, France, by ]. P. Morgan as a
memorial to DR.. Blanc, his former pny-
stefan. was inaugurated with approprl-
ate exercises. Mr.. Morgan was pres
ent.
Mrs. Edward T. Cody of Brooklyn
whose husband was run over n Kill
ed by a wagon owned by julius Bro
doy, was awarded $4,000 damages by
a Jury in the Supreme Court.
Word has been sent out once more
hat Senator Simon Guggenheim Will
not be a candidate to succeed himself
In the United States Senate when the
Legislature meets next winter.
Dorothy Taylor, daughter of Bert
rand L. Taylor Of New York city, is
reported engaged to Claude Grahame
White, the English aviator.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-26
Sporting

DaIy, who is covering left field for
the Superbas in the absence of Zach
Wheat, is fast winning his place in the
hearts of the Brooklyn fans"
Frank Mcdowell, the former Column
bia University infelder, who has been
training with the New York Giants
this spring, was released to the Scran-
ton team
Over a soft, sticky course, Mike
Ryan. wearing the colors of the Irish
American Athletic Club, of New York,
won the sixteenth annual Boston Ath-
letic Association Marathon run. He
cut the former record q 2-5 seconds.
Yale defeated the University of Yer
mont nine in one of the best games
ever seen on Yale Field, by a score of
2 to l. Yale scored both runs after
one man had been retired in the ninth
inning
1t is a matter of satisfaction to the
admirers of Battling" Hurley to see
that the veteran "thunderholt" is
striking in his old time form.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-26
General

The shad season has opened on the
Hudson River.
The Hearst Harrison faction in the
Illinois Democratic Convention bolted
after denouncing National Committee
man R. Sullivan, and held separate
convention.
At the conference of the mine own
ers and workers it developed that
hope for speedy peace may be upset
by the miners demand for recognition
Of their union, a proposition the opera
tors showed no disposition to enter
tain.
Major Archibald Butt was bearing a
letter from King Victor Emmanuel to
President Taft, accepting the sugges-
ton of the latter that a peace commits
sion meet in this country to end the
war in Tripoli.
That the entire wireless telegraph
industry is due for a drastic over
hauling and regulating by the govern
ment is the opinion of naval officers
here, who have become incensed at
the slurs on navy operators recently
uttered by Marconi men.
The Taft national bureau issued a
statement attacking the methods of
Clifford Pinchot and Chairman Dixon
in promoting the candidacy of Colonel
Roosevelt; Senator Dixon was accused
of intimidation.
The Catholic University at Wash
ington received $25, 200 for the found
ing of five scholarships to combat So
cialism.
Howard S. Harrington. Admiralty
lawyer, said Ismay's presence On the
Titanic would be a big factor in the
question of negligence of the White
Star Line, which might therefore lose
millions in damage suits.
Twelve incendiary fires in six
hours menaced Waterbury, Conn.
The City Hall was burned and other
losses were heavy
Members CT a party back from
Panama said Col. Goethals was dis
gusted with Congress neglect of Pan
anna Canal interests and he feared for
Il , worst.
Detectives searched Southern Cali
fornia for Sidna Allen and Wesley Ed
wards, the Hillsville outlaws.
In an omnibus veto message Gov.
Dix killed 143 sills passed by the
LEGISLATURE in Albany
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A World Wonder.

Christian service is a wonder IN
the world. Consider how the call OF
the Master finds men, secretly and
powerfully compels them to go and
gives them boldness, assurance and
C There is nothing of the
same character among men as Chris
tan service, for it seeks mot yours
but you" 1t reaches after the souls
OF men and sacrifices its all to gain
this apparently unsubstantial result.
All the men of the Bible have realized
their inadequacy for work of this char
acter and sought to draw back. but
the power of God, the Spirit of Christ.
was with them and they could go only
forward in obedience to His command.
The Watchman.
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NEW ASTOR WILL SOON.
Latest One Made Provision for Issue
by His Second MARRIAGE,

New York.-At the law office of Car
ter, Ledyard & Milburn, it was said
that the will of John Jacob Astor
would be filed for probate some time
within the next two or three weeks.
Just when the will would be filed the
member of the firm who has the mat
ter in charge could not say. The pos
sibility of another heir to the Aston
estate would not make any difference
in the filing of the will.