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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-09-04

Santa Fe. y. NJ, Aug. S0.-Close
friends OF Solomon Luna in this city
among the Spanish-American people,
| express doubt as to Mr.. Luna's death
being accidental. They assert that a.
thorough investigation will be de-
manded and express fear that he may
have been killed by enemies. They re-
call the case of Francisco Chayes
who occupied like position in New
Mexico affairs and who was shot from
ambush in Torrane County about eight
years ago. His slayer never had been,
found.
Jose ID. Sena and other friends of
Mr.. Luna assert that he frequently
had received anonymous threatening
letters and frequently had been en-
treated not to visit his sheep camps
without guards. 1t is likely that the
State mounted police will be called
upon to investigate the mater.
Additional facts tonight show that
Mr. Luna's death was accidental. He
did not have any enemy in the State,
it is believed. and was on most cordial
terms with his employees.
His final affairs are in such ex--
cellent shape as to discount any hint
at suicide. He was worth no less
than a million dollars and had sever
al large projects under way and in
contemplation. He had suffered from
hardening Of the arteries for sever
al months, and to those close to him
his sudden death was not great sur.
prise.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-09-04

true lIlWdTuneSS or tnlnRS ana men,.
To think that the very men for whom
l have done most, the poor farmers
and factory people. should turn and
rend me this way! l gave them
Clemson College and Winthrop. At
least / had more to do with it than
any other one man. l gave them the
primary. for l. in conjunction with my
brother. George ID. Tillman wrote the
Democratic State Constitution with
my own hand and made the rules
governing the primary and safeguard
ed in every possible way their rights
so that now every citizen has voice
In the Government and can protect
himself If he has sense enough.
All pleasure and satisfaction in my
| reelection to the Senate is gone be-
cause of the desertion Of these old
friends and followers of mine. 1t
makes me doubt seriously whether |
nave not erred gricVouSly in giving
the power of self government to these
people and teaching them their rights
They show such woeful lack Of graf
itudc. 1 feel that when | am dead
and in the grave that they will realize
and understand the criminal folly of
their action and the cnormity of the
betrayal of their best friend. | know
If could have spoken to them this
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-11-21


Il charge. and am willing and read
to prove II necessary. that emlsslSr g.
OF these corporations. who. by Oar
and damnable Goods. tried their be-
to prevent the Board OF Valuation AZ /.
Assessment from making proper a.
sessments OF their property. are tod
meddling in the matter o. the empl
ment OF special counsel TO assist "a p
Attorney General in these case
against the State. and II they can cor
troll the selection they may be d.
pended upon TO pay amy man OF stra
more than the State will agree to pa
There are men who have said 10
places to our Attorney General ina
IN the employment OF Attorney Jo'l
l. Rich. the state had gone far enoue %
but TO slch men would say; is YOU
Continued on Page %
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-11-21

TOO MANY FIRES

October Sth was set aside by the
governor of the state as Fire Pre-
,ention Day, and The Citizen and
practically every other paper in the
state made mention of the governors
proclamation, and called attention to
the necessity of doing the things
that the governor insisted upon -
a thoro examination of flues, stoves,
and furnaces to see If they
were out of repair before starting
the fires in the fall, and the clean
ing up all rubbish about the prem
Uses.
In this proclamation the mayors of
the cities and towns were called up
on to enforce the observance of the
day, and all the citizens were asked
to cooperate in the matter OF pre-
venting the terrible fire loss that
the state and nation are subjected
to every year-a loss, which though
in many cases covered by insurance,
is for the whole people as much a
loss as If the value of property In
money were sunk in the middle Of
the ocean, where it never can be re-
claimed.
Notwithstanding this proclamation
and the insistence on the part Of
the press, so far as The Citizen is
able to discover, nothing whatever
was done, at least in Berea, and since
that time about seven buildings have
burned within the city limits, the
origin of the fire in each case being
more or less mysterious, but presum-
ably from flues, a thorough over
hauling of which might not only have
saved the buildings. but have saved
the occupants a good deal of dis
tress, and the local population con-
siderable nerve strain. Certainly this
care would have been appreciated by
the insurance companies.
There is some complaint about
rates, now, but we need not be sur
prised. unless greater precautions
are taken, IL it soon becomes impos-
sible to get insurance in Berea at
all. Fires will occur sometimes, how
ever careful and cautious people may
be, but it is fact that ordinary pre-
cautions would reduce them at least
seventy-five per cent.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-11-21
LETTER TO THE CITIZEN

Decatur, ILL.,, Nov. 18th, 1912.
Dear Mr.. Faulkner:
We look forward to receiving a let
ter from home with great anxiety.
Receiving The Citizen is like re-
ceiving a letter from home.
j read the daily papers of this
city, which give me the daily events
of the world, but The Citizen, be-
sides giving the home news mot
directly from Harlan my native
home, out from Dear Old Berea COL
lege, which is like home to mel,
gives some OF the best thoughts OF
Berea's teachers and officers. | won
der if they are realizing the fact
that they are teaching and lecturing
to thousands Of students and learn
ers although many miles away.
call The Citizen the home paper
because it was around the hearth
place" of Berca College that l was
inspired and awakened to the idea
of greater usefulness in the world.
1t was the daily devotional exercises,
the Sunday evening sermons, and
the mid-week dormitory prayer-meet-
ings and Bible study that spurred me
on toward better things. Many sta
dents opposed some of these require
ments, but they were aud are rounds
by which we did and may ascend 10
a higher and Iobler plane of life.
Many are wondering what am
doing out here II they could see the
boys and girls as they flock to the
rural school house and church each
Sunday, they would know. / am
trying to saw the boys and girls
through the Sunday Schools.
During the summer. under the aus
riches of the American Sunday
School Union | organized several
new Sunday Schools, and now am
Eeeping watch over them during the
winter season. If the world is ever
won for Christ, we must first win
the rural youth for Him, and know
no better meThod than establishing
Sunday Schools and young peoples
organizations.
Wishing you well in the great work
you are doing end awaiting eagerly
the good things in The Citizen, j
am,
Very cordially,
Wolfcrd r. Johnson.
Missionary
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-11-21

State. Corporation lawyers have boast.
insly said The death OF william Goe.
bel was a benefit to the corporations.
II this were true. the question Ia, how
much longer shall the people be held
In boniage because OF his death7
God knows the corporations now
suing the State have been able to
procure land the word procure Ia used
advisedly) immunity long enough from
paying their Just share OF the taxes.
People Are Awakening.
"A hundred million dollar increase in
the value Of corporation property for
taxation opens a new era In the States
Affairs and has awakened the people
and brought them TO a realization Of
what has been done to them through
all the years OF the past. As certainly
as truth, though crushed to earth, will
rise, Just so certainly will there be a
further awakening which will correct
abuses equally as great as unequal
taxation, and It's effect will be that
henceforth every man who would hold
Office by preferment of the people must
be a progressive. and no imitation, no
mere pretender will satisfy them.
they will sweep aside and into OBJ
livion as old chan any man who hest
tates or dares TO stand in the way
OF improvement and betterment OF
conditions for the whole people.
mo one doubts, had William Goebel
been permitted to live. that that which
was recently done by the Board OF
Valuation and Assessment would have
been done more than decade ago,
and today. instead OF the large public
service corporations fighting In the
courts and by sinister methods ell.
deavoring TO perpetuate unjust and un
equal taxation; attempting TO throttle
the action OF the present State taxing
board. the first to act fully In the in
terest OF the people. such corporations
would long ago have been paying into
the State. county and city treasures
their just proportion OF the taxes
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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-11-21
Bloomington, H..
Missionary.

Dear Editor:
Please change the address OF my
paper from Green Valley to this place
| have just received last weeks
Citizen, which contained the last in
stallment OF "Freckles." / am sorry It
is ended. l have read every word Of
1t with the greatest delight. and ]
wish 1t could go on and on. read
every line of the paper and my chill
dren do also. Furthermore, loan the
paper to my neighbors, and have
many questions from them concern
ing Berea.
| do not often meet people who
know much about Berea. There was
one lady in Green Valley, my former
home, however, Mrs. DIR. Kelley, who
has a dear friend connected with the
school,.
My son was in Berea last spring.
and was allowed to go with the ex-
cursionists to Cincinnati, since he
was at one time Berea student. He
was delighted with the trip.
Wishing the paper great success. ]
am,
Very truly yours.
Martha Durham Mcclure.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-11-21

Some OF you may think this is mere
speculation but to those who so think
I say know whereof / speak, and
believe the railroads well understood
what he would do we're he permitted
TO live.
William GoebeIs Way.
Had William Goebel been per.
mitted to live. one OF his first acts as
Governor would have been a demand
on the State taxing boards to delve
into the matter Of values OF the prop
critics OF the wealthy public service
corporations OF the State. and further
that those properties be adequately
assessed. IL the Railroad Commission
or Board of Valuation and Assess.
ments had failed or declined to make
assessments according 10 what was
Just and fair he would instantly have
called an extra session Of the legisla.
ture and had II appoint a committee
with directions to thoroughly inyesti
gate. to find and report the true fair
value Of the property OF such corpora.
tons The facts thus obtained and
presented by that committee and its
experts he would have given to the
public and Simultaneous Herewith
would have gone forth his demand
upon those State boards TO assess
those properties for taxation in &C.
cordance with the truth; II then the
State board had still failed or refused
to do their sworn duties to the people
he would have lmpeached them ana
driven them from office. II the present
Board OF Valuation and Assessment
had not done It's full sworn duty By
the people, that Is just what should
have been done to them. but, thank
Cod for once II has acted In the In
Iterest OF the people
Necessity for action in the interest
OF the people has grown as years have
passed. until II has developed into
what is today a crying shame from
which relief must come.
1T 10 very evident that in Kentucky.
a. In other States, big corporations
will never pay a cent more OF taxes
than they are made to pay.
"oentiemen, I am going to prove II
In Q few minutes. Take the case OF
the c. q o. Railroad. Where 10 Mr..
WALTZ would like for him to hear
me.
Low Valuation OF c. a o. Railway.
Take the case OF the C. & o. Rail
road. In 1911 that road on Its entire
system in Kentucky paid taxes on a
total valuation Of only $9,3l3,27O,
whereas. the street railway COMPANY
OF the city OF Louisville was made to
pay on a valuation OF slO.S00. 900
Think Of II, gentlemeni
The G. & o. X. X. In 1901 paid
taxes on a franchise valuation OF only
s2.171, 1S9, and In 1871 on a valuation
OF only s2.743.35O; whereas. the board
found that their 1912 assessment
should be s1s.79S, $50. The c. N. o. &
T. p. X. X. In 1901 paid taxes on a
franchise valuation OF only s3,llO.l97,
and In 1911 on a valuation OF only
S3.S6s.320. whereas. the board found
their 1912 assessment should be $40,
674.2oo. The !. C. In 1901 paid taxes
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-11-21
MORAL USURY

IL you lend money and collect more
than the legal rate of interest ynr
are guilty of practicing usury. II dis
covered, you must suffer the penalty
Well
DO you know there is such II thing
as moral usury?
When you collect from those about
you more OF service. or attention. or
sympathy, or assistance than you are
properly entitled to you are guilty OF
practicing moral usury.
To Illustrate:
You are a husband and you require
Of your wife more than the marriage
compact provides. You demand of her
more Of self denial. or patience. or for
giveness. or affection. than you are
willing to extend to her. Or you are
a wife and you ask Of your husband
more OF labor, OF anxiety, OF economy
than you are willing to give.
You are usurer.
Or you are a son. or daughter. and
than you should-of your fathers
money or assistance, your mothers
care or kindness.
You are usuriOus
Or you ask OF your friends or ac-
quaintances more time and sympathy
than you are willing TO extend 10
them. You expect more than Is your
due and complain II they do not freely
give
That Is moral usury.
Your friend, for instance, without
intending TO do so. Offends you lie
shows by his manner that he Is sorry
he hurt you. You refuse TO meet him
half way, requiring n formal apology
and cherish your grievance.
Rank usury!
Or you refuse TO exercise charity to
your friend who has his shortcomings.
Or you require OF him more OF self
denial than you would suffer for him
He will do all that may become a man.
You want him TO go farther.
Usurerl
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-11-21

A Kansas editor sarcastically an
sounces that he wants to buy a sack
Of -four. pair Of three-ply button
trousers. and a straw hat, and that he
is ready to receive bids on the same
He says that is the way the merchants
do when they want two dollars worth
Of Job work-Atchison Globe
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-11-21

Now the law provides severe penal.
ties for him who II guilty Of legal
usury. Should there not also be penal
ties for the practice Of moral ueuryf
There arei
They are not written In law books,
but In your moral constitution. And
unlike the written laws OF men. bound
In sheep or buckram. these laws are
always enforcedl
Whatsoever man soweth- whether
Il he OF selhshness. or greed. or In.
gratitude. or stubborn lack OF kind.
ness-that also shall he reap
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-11-21
Aaa and Death.


Everything points, II appears to me,
to the essential correctness Of the
view which holds age and death to be
the result OF the greatly increased DIFF
ferentistion OF largar organisms. IL
there. then. any probability that we
shall some time find that In the higher
animals. as In the lower ones. death
need not occur7 Evidently not. II
death is the price OF dlfrerentiat ton,
then after the goods. have been de-
livered the price must be paid. To
prevent a higher organism from I'M
dergolng death would at the same
time prevent him from becoming a
higher organism. And the cell which
remains In the embryonic condition
the cell Of the germ glands-ls even
now as immortal ms the cell OF the In
fusorian. Death. as Mlnot says. is the
price we pay for our more complex
life. Age and death. though not in
herent In life Itself. are inherent in the
differentiation that makes life worth
living II. s. Jennings In
Popular Science Monthly.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-24
KEEP RELAY
III
WILL.
But Another Race Will BE Run by
Three Clubs.


Members of the Westport Club say
they are to keep the cup won i'll the
inter-club relay race at the athletic
carnival. They say Prof. c. l..
Brewer has decided the question of
ownership in their favor.
Another race is to be held, they
say. for the clubs to which invita-
lions were first sent. The Dana
Press Club. Joplin Club, Jefferson
Club. Farmhouse and Westport Club
had teams in the race won by the
Westport Club. All but the Dana
Press Club protested against award
ing the cup to the WestpOrt Club on
the grounds that it was not a recOg-
nized organization and had not been
invited to enter the race.
Members of the Westport Club say
they have a bona fide organization,
the eleven members living at soy
South Sixth street. They say Pro-
fessor Brewer has agreed to recog-
nize their organization but as they
We're not included in the first invl-
tation. a new race will be held among
the other four clubs for another cup.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-24
TEAM CHOSEN FOR X. U. MEET.
Touch Jones Thinks NJ, L. Athletes
Will Win,

The final tryout for the relay
team that will meet Kansas Friday
in the annual Missouri-Kansas in.
door meet at Kansas City was held
Yesterday afternoon. The mile re-
lay team will be composed of Ber-
mond. Hutsell, knObel, and Estes,
All the men except Estes had been
selected. He won in the tryout YES
terday. Robinson and Butler were
tied for second place. Butler or
Robinson probably will be taken as
a substitute.
Others in the track team will be
kirksey and Walton. 5O-yard dash;
Nicholson and Thatcher, high
hurdles; ShOckley and Smith, mile;
kirksey and Nicholson or Thatcher.
low hurdles; Wickham and Moss, 3
mile; BermOnd and Knoble 44O yard
dash; BermOnd and Shockley. half
mile; Elmer Anderson and Thatcher,
shot put; Nicholson, high jump;
Talbot and Haley, pole vault.
Coach Jones said last night that
the Missouri team was in good shape
with the exception of the pole Vault
ers and Catron. Haley has a sprain-
ed ankle and Talbot hurt his shoulder
while vaulting. Both will probably
be all right for the meet, he said.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-24
D HOLD CHURCH FOR PRISONERS
Young People Conduct Services In
Jail Each Sunday.

! Every Sunday afternoon the pris-
oners in the Boone County Jail at
tend church services. The services
are especially arranged and conduct
ed by the Young Peoples Society of
the various churches.
In the fall of 1907 a number of
young men from the Y. NJ. c. A.
started a plan for holding religious
services in the Jail each Sunday.
The next fall the organizations of
young people at the various church
es took up the work nd since then
the Christian EndeavOr of the Pres
byterian and Christian churches, the
b. Y. p. L. of the Baptist church and
the EpwOrth League of the MethO-
dist church have taken turns in hold
ing services at the Jail on Sunday
afternoons. The prisoners appear in
tcrested and join in the song SER
vices. The services consist chiefly of
prayer and songs.
A Jail library has also been start
ed here by these same organizations
but they have not succeeded in get
ting many books thus far. Peri
Odicals and newspapers are taken
each Sunday by those who take part
i'm the services.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-24

Catron strained q muscle in his leg
at the athletic carnival and will not
be allowed to enter the Kansas meet
for fear that he might be out all
season.
We think Kansas has a better
team this year than formerly" said
Coach Jones. They have had more
time for training because the meet
Is later than it has been. 1t is hard
to predict who will win and | am
unable to tell how the meet will re-
suit. OF course l Am hoping for the
best"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-24

r. ]. ~Bouchelle, city collector, will
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-24
TO AWARD SCHOLARSHIPS.
Mceuity Brothers of NeOshO, Give
Votes With Purchases.

The McQuitty Brothers Clothing
Company of Neosho, has made ar
rangements to award scholarships
to six young people of the county.
Three boys will be awarded
scholarships of 500 to enable them
to enter the twO-year short course
of the College of Agriculture. Three
girls will be given $50 scholarships
to enter the short course in home
economics. The firm will give one
vote with each dollars worth of
goods purchased at it's store.
Call So for University Missourian
Business Office.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-24

become members of the Society. DR..
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-24
TOO MUCHSP|TT|NG
ON WALKS, They SAY
Tuberculosis Officials Believe
Public Health is
Endangered.
WOULD HAVE IT STOPPED
Columbia Permits Practice
Greater Extent Than Most.
Cities.

Columbia is not keeping up its
name for progress by allowing 50
much splitting on the sidewalks. ac-
cording to local members OF the
Anti-Tuberculosis Society. There is
little good, they say, in paving if the
sidewalks are to be kept so dirty
that no II wants TO walk on them.
The practice is especially bad on
the down town streets Saturday and
Sunday afternoons. Then large
crowds congregate on the corners
Eighth and Broadway, and from
there on down to the pOstoffice the
walks are kept dirty. On the north
side of Broadway west from Eighth
many negroes gather and spit on the
sidewalks. Saturday afternoons the
north side of broadway between
Eighth nd Ninth streets is Used as a
congregating place and the walks
are so dirty that many of the m
shoppers PASS to the south side of
the street for that block.
Bad, Says Visiting Nurse.
Miss Willie Bryant, visiting nurse,
says that in Colorado Springs and
other western cities she has visited
everybody, whether man or child,
is fined s. or splitting on the side
walks. She says this law is much
better enforced in the larger cities
than here.
Splitting on sidewalks belongs to
the hobbledy hoy age of a city" said
Mrs. Walter McNab Miller, and
makes one think of the cross roads
stone where the men sat around and
spit"
Mrs. Miller said the practice is
bad. from an aesthetic point of view
in a city that stood for education and
culture as does Columbia and that it
is dangerous for the public health.
She said people may have disease
germs in their mouth without hav-
IHS IlIt ulStdSc anu III tudl way may |
spread it. She told of a man con-
nected with a University laboratory,
several years ago, who furnished cul-
lures of pneumonia from his mouth
to scientists whenever they needed
them.
A Haven for Germs.
H., ID r~l .-l -..~ i
was carried on here to a dangerous
extent, although it had improved
500 per cent over what it once was. |
When the signs forbidding it We're
put up several years ago, he says
there was a marked improvement
for a time. He said people get the
sputum on their clothes or soles of
their feet. carry it into their homes
where it dries and the germs are set
loose in the house. Grip, pneumo-
mia, colds. tuberculosis and d~iptheria
may be contracted in this way. One
e~XpectoratiOn may contain hun
dreds of germs.
DR.. Cole said it was especially dan
gerOuS in Columbia because there
is so much tuberculosis here and a
large colored population who con-
gregate on the streets. He said there
was an ordinance against it with a
fine of one dollar for the first Of
Tense. This applies to office build
ings as well as sidewalks, but most
of these have been provided with
cuspidOrS. However. if cuspidOrs are
used. he said. they should contain
water or a disenfectant to hold the
germs.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-24

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