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The bee., 1913-10-07
ANOTHER RAILROAD
FOR MARZsoNwTxE
COaI Road From Central cItys-Ml-s,
Within Twelve Mics. Extended

Central City, KY, Oct. 2-MS1
rumOred here that there are Sousu.
prospects Of the Kentucky Mid
land Railroad Company huildEmg.
its line through MadisODviiEe ahRs
coming year. M. M. Wheeler.
general manager and chief ezEE--
neer of the Kentucky BNdlAna..
who has had full charge of the
construction and developmane oES
the Kentucky Midland eDterpSIs-
es in Kentucky, and who. 2ows
has full charge Of the eperasioEa,
of the same, has made surveys
and estimates the cOet of'th0-ez-
tension of this liney and TO- RaV-.
orably impressed with the conn
try through which the line wa,
pass, and has reported favorablE
on the extension
The bee., 1913-10-07
THE GREATEST EVIL

This great elimination Of the
herds has been the result of Pc
lagic sealing-the killing of sea S
in the open sea. Whole fleets
would sometimes lay OF the seal
islands while their crews killed
the female seals which swan out
to sea seeking food
At sea the sexes ~annot be dIs.
tinguished, and the females pre-
dominating the pelaRic catch is
made mp largely of this class, the
percentage being from IS to $50
of females. The death of a fe-
male seal was not the only evil.
She was out seeking food for her
Dup which che had left on shore,
so that her death meant also the
death Of the young one.
The United States, Russia, ia.
pan and Great Britain have made
pact which stipulates that no
longar shall the fur seal be killed
on the high seas.
The bee., 1913-10-07

formerly. Secretary Rsdfield
has ordered otherwise. After a
thorough investigation ne has
ordered that the eutire quantity
be sold in the United States.
After a close study Of the for
markets Of the world he selected
Funston Bros. & Co., OF S.. Louis
to act as agents Of the govern
ment in their disposal.
BOW IT AFFECTS PRICES
In 1887 seal skin fetched
from 50 to So; in 1890, $i7 to $50
while in 1909 the price reached
the $40 mark. The prices on seal
garments, however. have indica-
ted fictitious value, due to the
heavy duty entalled by London
shipments. aud fur dealers have
had to dema"d an expr bitaut 6g
ure for an article whichis a home
product and should, aud could
have been, bought for much less.
So that naturally this signal
recognition by the U. S. Govern
meDt of the commanding position
held by st. Louis in the fur MAJ
kets of the world cannot fail to
have it's effect on the fur bust
ness in this country as well as IN
time reduce the price to the con-
sumer. At the present time st.
Louis is the largest primary for
market in the world, and it is es-
timated that three-fourths Of all
the fnrs trapped on the North
American Continent are shipped
to st. Louis houses to be sold.
The books published by the U.
,. GOvernment on THIS INTEREST
ing subject can be obtained free
by writing the Departments ei
Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries,
and will afford enjoyable and in
structivs reading. Dealing az
they do with the purchase Of
Alaska by the United States
from Russia, and comprising q
veritable natural history of the
for bearing seal, as web as set.
ting forth the economics of the
sealing industry, these books can
not fail to be a source ofreal in
struction to any good American
citizen.
The bee., 1913-10-07
Sunday School Rally al Christian Church
Great Success

Sunday School Rally al Christian Church
Great Success
The Team Work for the Rally
at the Christian Sunday School
Welded splendid results Sunday
when three hundred and twenty
people assembled at the Sunday
School session. 1t was an en-
thusiastic crowd that taxed the
capacity of the building.
After the study period there
were a number of features that
made the program an attractive
and interesting Que. Mr.. Jas. r.
Rash the Superintendent of the
School for perhaps twenty-five
years, and Mr.. Henry O. Bour.
land, secretary for twenty years
were both present and made
talks. A unique feature was the
presentation of those who at
tended Sunday School 10 Earl.
lngton IN the days of the Union
School. Quite a number stood
until it was asked who attended
as far back as 1874. This left
only three standing: Mrs. Elsie
Robinson, Mrs. Fannie Day and
Mr.. Dan M. Evans.
A handsome new testiment
was presented to the Youngest
person present, the oldest and
the largest family. The first was
to the baby of Mr.. and Mrs. Jno.
Prather, aged eight months.
The secCnd to Mrs. Lou Gillnm,
aged eighty.four. The third to
John Davenport, who, with seven
children was present. A song by
Nevaline Blackburn was greatly
enjoyed.
The bee., 1913-10-07
10Y RIDE

Monday evening about 5'o'cl6ckt
several little girls chartered the
running gear of an old bnggy.,.
thinking they would have good
time riding down the hill near
the colored school building AN
were so delighted over the ride
they could not heed the danger
ahead, when two little boys
wanted to aid in their fun Paid
some sticks in the road and when
the old trap ran upon them the.
girls either got so excited aBn
tried to jump off, or the JOSEF sCs'
great that it threw them off, b1t
at any rate they were foGAa IN a
pile asking one another, "whEa'
did thst2-3 l2h? ~ Jamie
Blackwell, Gladys Whitford and
Mary Parker were sEinned MP, n
little but none we're seriously
hurt, and all seem to take 1t As N
Joke but will never try 1t again..
The bee., 1913-10-07
Painfully Injured

Virgil Fox, of Mortons Gap,
employed by Robt. Stein baugh,
as carpenter in darlington, met
with an accident Friday by fall
ing off of a scaffold while at
work, breaking his left arm and
bruislng his head and face.
The bee., 1913-10-07

You can get the Semh--
Weekly Bee and the, Farrn
Guide one year and a nice
carving set for SLIGO. ThH
price Of the three if bougIIkE
separately would be $S-Oo-
This offer is good for 20 days.
only. Cali and examine thu
Carving Set, 1t is well wOTth
the money. The offer is good
on New and Renew SubsczR
bers.
SEMI-WEEKLY BEE
Darlington KY
The bee., 1913-10-07
NNs OF The HAREM

The seal is a polygamist. The
lager and stronger males have
Harems, ranging from 20 to 40
in number according to the fight
ing strength Of the "King of the
Harem. - One bull has been
known to have 200 cows in his
harem.
Naturally there is a large sur
plus of matehless males whose
one object Rife is to get a har-
EN- of their own, entaIling con-
tinuous warfare and bloodshed in
which often the female is torn 20
pieces or manned in the struggle
for ownership. To kill off a
goodly number of these disturb
ing bachelors of the herd is there
fore necessary-not only for the
good of the herd itself but also
for the good of the skins, for
naturally mutilated skin or an
old one has but very little mark
ct value.
Nearly two years ago Congress
made law stopping the killing
of seals entirely on U. S. Islands,
for five years, except seals need
ed for food by natives on the Is
lands. While from the usual
standpoint of misrepresentation
this seemed a good thing, zoo
logists and experts on seal life
are not in favor of it. They say
that the ruling regarding the
preservation of deer or grouse
does not apply to the seal. They
claim that if the number of male
seals is not kept down they will
continue to fight and kill each
other, aud the pups and females
of the harem as well-that only
a small percentage of male seals
is needed to increase the herd.
But besides this if the killing is
closed for five years thousands of
skins will be lost, because skin
older than four years aud a half
is worthless. Scientific men say
that killing rightly governed,
with none on the open sea, will
mean a quick growth of the herd.
However Congress decided the
other way, and closed the season
FORT We years. The skins Of the
several thousand seals killed uu-
der the law as food for natives
are not 10 be sent TO London o
The bee., 1913-10-07
ST. LOUIS
GETS ALASKA
SEAL CATCH
Important Decision BY Secretary
Redield
WORLDS FUR CENTER
NOW MOVES TO AMERICA

The United States Govern
ment through Secretary Of Com.
merce Rsdfield has just made a
decision that will make st. Louis
the fur center of the world.
That is. to change the sale of
all the Government catch of seal
skins, foxes and other Alaska
furs, from Lon Ion TO st. Louis.
This is the first time in history
that the American seal catch has
been marketed through Ameri-
can channels, and the action Of
ASecretary William @. Rekfeld is
Regarded by the commercial OF.
CARNATIONS and bureaus of com
merce with great favor; partic-
ularly as being significant of the
activity Of the Wilson admins
tration in paying close attention
TO all manufacturing and trade
interests
The United States thus will
dispose of several thousand raw
seal skins constituting the 1913
catch. And under the protect
ing laws favOring the increase of
seals, the sale will increase many
a Din the coming few years.
The next step will be the re-
novel from London to st. Louis
of seal skin tanners and dyers.
established IN America a great
new manufacturing industry.
Thus will trade of great pro-
portions be fostered. But more
than this it will mean the elimi-
nation of the present heavy duty
now paid on dressed and dyed
skins prepared IN Europe; while
the skins will be dressed and dyed
in America just as well, if not
better, according TO the state
ment of the best European dyers
themselves.
The economy thus effected by
this home industry and by the
absence of the former heavy du-
ty will eventually mean a saving
of several hundred dollars gar
-2eent to miladY in the purchase
Of the aristocrat of all furs.
The Government furs, by the
decision of Secretary of Com
merce Redfield, wall be sold at
public auction by Funston Bros
& Co.,, of st. Louis, who are en-
inently qualified for the spespon-
sibility.
The first sale is scheduled for
some time in December, at which
time the representatives of the
great turner's OF America and
Europe will assemble at the Fun
stem Fur Exchange where this
wonderful collection of seal skins
will be sold to the highest bidder.
Philip b. Fouke and A. M. Ahern
of Funsten's will conduct the
st. Louis firm.
SOME SEAL HISTORY
The history of the seal is one OF
the most absorbing and romantic
of all the great American indus
tries. While the u. =. Govern
ment has produced wonderfully
interesting books on the subject,
and which can be had free OF
charge, the whole country will
be interested in few facts bear.
ing on the seal history of North
America. especially in the light
of the recent action Of the De-
partment of Commerce, winch
stamps s.. Louis as the fur cen
ter of the world.
The price paid to Russia fol-
the whole Of Alaska was 81 ,OOO.-
600 The revenue from the sea-
islands alone-rough, barren, for
hidden spots that comprise but
infinitesimal area Of the Alaska
The bee., 1913-10-07
Not LrkeN:

Il wish you would shout at me. iuSr'
the same as you shout at the animals
you are going to kill.' said Judge
Moss. at the Carnarvon CWales).
county court, to a butcher who was
giving evidence N quiet tones. ',Ie
you were going to XIII an obstrepsf-
GUS bull you would not whisper 1ikss
this" added. his honor.
The bee., 1913-10-07
CITIZENS
URGED TO WORK
ON COUNTY ROADS
Gov MeCreary Issues PrOcIama,
ton Under Great Seal.
ALL HIGHWAYS INCLUDED.

frankfort, Ky., Oct. 1.-Gov.
McCreary issued a proclamation
to-day designating October "a
and 25 as Good Roads days and
calling on all citizens on those
days to get out and work the
roads of their counties between
the hours of 8 a. m. and 5 p. m.
The proclamation reads as fol
lows:
II have received letters from
various persons requesting me to
issue procla nation designating
two days for work on the roads
of the State; and the Kentucky
Good Roads Association, held
September IS, 1913, at the State
Fair, Louisville, KY, unanimous
ly adopted the following resOlu-
tons
"Be it resolved, that this asso.
citation request the Governor,
James B. McCreary, to designate
two days in the latter part of DC.
tober to be set aside for the pur
pose Of work on the public roads
in the State of Kentucky, and
that Messrs. Harry Summers,
Joseph Bosw1rth and r. @. Ter
rell to be appointed as a commit
tee to wait upon the Governor
and present this resolution to
him.
Pursuant to these requests, /
now issue this, my proclamation,
calling upon the people in every
county of the State of Kentucky
to work on the roads in their res
pective counties, on Friday and
Saturday, October "a and 25, 1918
commencing at s o'clock in the
morning, each day, and continu-
ing until 3 O'Clock in the after
noon.
''The county judge and engi-
neer of each comfy are directed
to aid the people in compl ying
with this request and in circuIat,
ing proper notices; and they are
authorized to select such persons
as may be needed to assist. Ii
every county where there Is no
engineer, or where they fail tC
act, the sheriff or other persOnl
are authorized to organize anC
comply with this proclamation.
"Good roads facilitate the la
Dor of farmers in bringing Their
products to market; increase the
benefits Of rural education by
providing means by which the
children of the State can go reg
ularly to the neighborhoOd school
furnish a better and easier way
for the people to go to church
and greatly enhance the value o.
farm la0ds.
"This proclamation refers K
dirt roads, turnpike and grave
roads, and, as Kentucky Away
takes the lead in every movement
aud as Kentnckians desire the
betterment of our highways, they
must come forward with enthusI
asm and energy. and show the
people Of other states that they
can equal or surpass them in the
Improvement Of their roads.
'iln testimony whereof / have
caused these letters to be made
patent. and the seal OF the com
monwealth to be hereto affixed
Done at Frankfort the first day
Of October, in the year of oul
Lord one thousand nine hundred
aud thirteen, and the one hun
dred and twenty-second year o.
Commonwealth. JAMES b. Nc
CREARY.
"By the Governor; o, F. GRE
CELlUS Secretary Of State"
The bee., 1913-10-07

Tickling IN the throat, hoarseness,
loss of voice, Indicate the need OF
RALLAR n o r e HOUN
SYRUP. IL eases the lungs, outlets
the cough and restores health IN the
bronchial tubes. Price 25c, zoe and
tl.OO per bottle. Sold by st. Bernard
Mining Co.. Incorporated Drug
Department
The bee., 1913-10-07

The Ola Standard general slsenethenine tonic.
GROVES TAorKLRSs chill TONIC. drives %
Malaria and baiids up the system. a True tonic
apdsufe APPstissL FeTaeVlip ana ehilfEsas Sc,
The bee., 1913-10-07
FOR SALE

One good secondhand Piano,
tuned, will sell cheap.
VIM. PARRISH,
Mortons Gap, XIV.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-06
F. H. Rogers & Co.
ia North Main Street, Barre, Vermont

rather than in early October, also max
ing uniformity with other states, al
though perhaps uniformity has not so
great virtue in this case as in that OF
elections. But there is decided ad-
vantage in opening the legislature in
January because the state will avoid
those frequent interruptions which are
due to the interposition OF holiday sea
sons during the last two months of
the calendar year. To be sure, there
are two holidays in February, through
which month the legislature may be ex.
pected to continue, but the observance
of each of them is not attended by such
complete surrender to idleness and in
attention to affairs, either state or pri-
vate, as accompanies the observance of
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.
If continuity of effort and concentra-
tion Of thought are of value toward ex-
peditous and effective legislation, then
Vermont may expect to have such serv-
ice as result OF the change in the time
of the biennial session.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-06

ST. Adams had municipal election
along political party lines last Tuesday
and the result being close, with election
declared in favor of Mayor Selden Greene
it has resulted in threats of contest in
the states highest court. just what
the voters of st. Adams wish to sep
arate into political parties for when they
elect their local officials is not appar-
ent to other small municipalities which
elect their officials without regard to
their national party affiliations; nation
al politics do not enter into the local
problems at all. A small city in YER
mont with merely its own problems
to solve suffers by dragging in national
party politics. For example, there is
Burlington, which elects either Repub-
lican or a Democrat for mayor. appar-
entity with the idea that candidates
views on the tariff affect his value to
the community. However, all the other
municipalities in the state are in the
habit of choosing their officials along
other lines than those of political COM
plexion, and they are usually better of
for it.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-06
SPORTING NOTES.

Tom Jones is the author of the story
that Jim Jeffries is going back into the
game Some of Jeffries' good friends
should advise him to keep out, as the
procession is too far ahead.
The Boston A. A. followers are very
confident that Tom Halpin will beat all
his competitors in the 600-yard cham
pionship race to be held at New York
on Thursday, barring possibly Ted Mere
dith. Hslpn ran a wonderful 70S yards
in the final relay against Dartmouth col
lege last week.
Town meeting was well attended A
Wolverton at Sacramento this week.
Drucke has been looked upon as one of
the mainstays of the Giants for year
or two, but of late his inefficient service
deemed it wise of McGraw to get rid of
him.
Montreal has been favored with two
contracts those of Pitcher Dale and In
fielder Esmond, who have been consid-
cred holdouts. BILLY" Burke, a young
ster from Clinton, Mass, has also signed
with Montreal and will be on hand to
exert himself to his utmost in the in
terest of the club.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-06
URGED BARRE
TO NEW EFFORT
Continued from first pagc.)

poets, however, organization Is one of the
greatest principles OF our time,
He argued for two factors which he
claimed We're instrumental in bringing
people together into communities. First,
the desire for material gain is the basic
principle Of social gravitation, and the
second is the passion for the spiritual.
There are four principles embodied in an
organized, communal effort for business
efficiency. The first is that the producers
and the distributors must work together.
Here in Barre the merchants association
represents the distributors, and the
manufacturers, the men who make
things, are the producers. The speaker
referred to efforts along these lines IN
Boston, Worcester, Chicago, New York
and other large cities.
| In drawing conclusion TO his first
principle of organization, the speaker
said that all men in the community
must get together for organization, using
the motto, Each for all and all for
each"
"The forces that make for spiritual
welfare OF the community must work
with the forces that make for its mate
rial welfare" was the second principle
as laid down by the speaker. We have
discovered that we cannot successfully
make money unless we make manhood
at the same time. Nowadays the prob
lem is to get men who have character
enough to stand the strain, not men who
are willing to put aside their manhood
to get the dollars. The forces that make
for education, social welfare, build up
the body and the SOUL every lawyer,
every doctor and every minister and ey-
cry teacher should be enlisted in an ef-
fort to gain broader conception OF what
really makes for material welfare.
As the third precept, the speaker de-
clared that the community must recog.
nize and realize its wider vital relation
ships. Too often, he said, our relation
ships are only accidental or incidental.
We must pay more attention to Barre's
relation with its rural surroundings, the
state at large and New England. In the
first instance, the time has come when
We must recognize the suburban COM
munities. The county's problem of Sc
curing an agricultural adviser should be
the eity's problem, and the Greater Yer |
mont association in this state should |
make a greater Vermont for the city |
and the rural district. In its loyalty to
the state, Barre should give freely of its
assistance in state advertising, said the |
speaker. He told of the possibilities OF
summer hotels in Vermont and turning
to New England pointed to the common
heredity of all the eastern states
Most of all, he believed that New
should unite to teach its
newcomers the lesson of New England's
past, implant the story of her glorious
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-06

Less than one-third of the women en-
titled to vote in Rutland school matters
went to the polls last Tuesday, and the
proportion, we presume, was even less
in other Vermont communities, If less
than third of the male voters in
any community should cast their ballots,
it would be looked upon as grievious
dereliction of duty. Here is a chance
which Vermont has given women prop
erty-owners-on of the most important
matters of business in the whole civic
life of town or city-and yet the WON
en- do not take advantage of the oppor-
tunity to have their say in school man
agement. 1t raises some doubt wheth-
err they care for greater citizenship priv
ileges.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-06

We read in one sentence that Will
liam L. McCombs, Democratic national
committee chairman, may be appointed
ambassador to France, and in the next
sentence that Mr.. McCombs speaks
French tluently. Doubtless Mr.. Mccombs
has other qualifications that fit him for
this very important post. Possibly the
juxtaposition OF the sentences merely
was unfortunate and they have no real
bearing on each other.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-06

the quarres to good advantage; along
with this, he urged the necessity OF a
market for the waste product of the
granite deposits, In closing, he thought
Barre should have good hotel, main
line connections through the gulf, troll
ley line to the quarries and better freight
rates for building stone, stock and
crushed stone. He hoped they would
come by 1915.
Pres. Eager of the Clerks.
As president of the clerks association,
Mr.. Eager confined his remarks largely
to the relations existing between the
clerks and the merchants, referred to
what had been accomplished by collec-
tive bargaining and pointed out some of
the things that might follow organized
effort. He hoped to see pressure brought
to bear upon the authorities for enforc-
ing the Sunday closing laws as means
of protecting the merchants who do close
their places of business. As for agree
ments between merchants and clerks in
the past, he thought the former had
profited as much as the clerks, and he
spoke of the hearty spirit of cooperation
which should continue to exist between
the two organizations. Mr.. Eager hui
morously referred to the experiences of
some OF his customers in buying their
goods from mail order houses and in the
suppression of this practice he said the
clerks and merchants had much in com.
mon.
Ex-senator John w. Gordon.
Ex-senator Gordon varied the tenor
Of the exercises somewhat by taking
the merchants to task for their atti.
tude on the tax question. He eriti-
eized the mercantile men of Vermont
for favoring the retention OF the offset
law and for turning down the fat rate
lax proposition. 1t seemed to him that
the spirit of selfishness had been up
permost in the minds of many mer-
.hants who came before legislative COM
mittees at Montpelier during the re.
cent session. He thought that such an
as the merchants associa.
ion should appear before committees
If the kind described with the interest
II the whole people at heart.