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The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-03-12
SO Free Music
Lessons

To every purchaser OF
Starck Pianos, We give free
music lessons. In one Of
the best known schools In
Chicago. These lessons you
can take In your own home.
by mail. This represents
one years free instruction.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-03-12

Starck Player-Pianos are
the best and most beanti,
ful Player Pianos on the
market. You win be de
lighted with the many ex-
elusive features Of these
wonderful Instruments, and
viii be pleased with the
very low prices at which
they can be secured
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-25
m STIRRED THEM uP

Of course, that New York earth
quake shook the scientists up to
studying things at a great rate and
what they are saying about earth
faults" down East would make
Westerners keep on living right
where they are, even on Valencia
street, Frisco.
What holds them strongest is the
fact that Buffalo felt that quake pref
ty considerably. There is fault
running from Brooklyn to Buffalo,
but at Buffalo there is evidence that
there has been no quake since the end
of silurian times say S5 million
years ago. Now, if this old fault
has gone to faulting, after that neat
little rest, there's possibility of
quake on Manhattan Island that will
put your hair in curl papers, since
there were real quakes of Manhattan
as recently as Triassic times says,
million years ago.
Just figure it out yourself. Here
you are working in room 1889, floor
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-25
WHAT HE NOTICED

An Inspector, examining a class in
grammar, wrote a sentence on the
blackboard and asked if anyone no.
ticed anything peculiar about it. Aft
er short silence a small boy ex-
claimed:
Eyes, sir; the bad writing. st.
Louis Post-Ditpatoh.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-25

AZ, of one of those New York sky
scrapers, and down under you is an
earth fault" that hasn't had an in
nings in good long time. The scien-
lists say that the hoary-headed Buff
falo end of your earthquake POSSIBLE
ity is waking up. Do you stay up
there, waiting on that fault which
has been storing up business energy
for 35 million years? No. You take
the elevator-down And, if wise,
you'll come West and buy some real
estate. There isn't a community in all
the great Middle West or Far West
but will welcome you and your invest
ment.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-25
BENTON COR WHAT FE WENT AFTER


iby excited socaed EngHshnan of the w.
who lived Mexico 20
decided beard the lion his That he blew into Rebel Gen. Villas
singing wahful
Villa Nobody suspects Mexican and especially Mexican of Villas type
Latin the quarrel did Ikhe
o Engisher.
al Washington n a
fact killing to- similar
happening
another
ne thinks =
short
what he after" Il
of all
year
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26


purtenances when completed should
become the property OF the govern
ment There was no provision for
compensation 10 the government for
This extremely valuable franchise, and
there was no provision by which the
government could regulate the rates
20 be charged 10 consumers for pow
er and light. The grab was exposed
in these columns some months ago.
Representative Henry It. Rainer OF
Illinois will appear before the rules
committee OF the house this week 10
advocate the passage OF the resolu-
ton introduced by him Dec. 10, which
directs the committee ON interstate
and foreign commerce of the house
10 inquire into the charges made
against this power company, with a
view 10 determining whether or nor
said act ought 10 be repealed or
! whether or not said act ought TO be
altered OF amended SO as 10 provide
for an adequate compensation to the
government for the valuable privilege
granted by said act and also SO as TO
provide for the regulation OF the cost
20 consumers OF electric energy and
power derived at that point from the
Des Moines rapids on the Mississippi
river. and also as To provide for such
operation OF said dam and the locks
constructed Herewith that the naviga.
tion OF said river shall not be him
dered"
Representative Rainey's resolution
sets out the charges against the com.
pany. II recites that "it IS claimed by
steamboat companies navigating said
river that said dam is hindrance 10
navigation" and that steamboats,
proceeding up said river are compell.
ed TO await the pleasure OF the com
pany operating said dam" sometimes
for hours; and 1T Is claimed that un-
der some agreement with the war de-
partment said company is permitted
70 store water In the nighttime IN its
pool above said dam. thereby render
ing unsafe and often impossible the
navigation In the nighttime OF the
river for many miles below said dam Z"
The resolution further recites that the
company IL engaged In buying up cleo
tric-light plants within its sphere Of
operations in Illinois, Missouri. and
Iowa. paying exorbitant prices for the
purpose OF obtaining a monopoly; that
II is rendering poor service at excess
siye charges that II is charged with
having built a bridge across its dam
in defiance OF law and without the
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
Diary OF Father Time

The action OF Missouri minister
who recently censured one OF his con
gregation for gong TO sleep during
the sermon reminds me- OF the expe-
rlence OF Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson, In
making his first budget statement be-
fore the Calcutta. India. council. SIR
Guy blAmes Il on the climate, which
he says has much TO DO with the
amount OF sleep u man requires. In
India sleep oyertakes people at the
most unexpected moments.
On the occasion in question, the
room was abnormaily hot and close
when Sir Guy got up 70 read, Partly
due To the heat OF Calcutta summer
day and partly 10 WEAKNESS at the
length OF the report one by one. every
single member OF the council dropped
or into deep sleep. Finally, Sir
Guy says. ne himself actually Tell
asleep Ia the course OF the delivery
OF his statement RMS surpasses the
feat OF the late Duke OF Devonshire
who paused in the middle OF his maid
en- speech In parliament 10 yawn.
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
How Dare You, Mothers,
Let Your Daughters
Take the Risk

In behalf OF the Jersey stenogra-
pher who was lured by her married
employer In disastrous elopement
which ended In their arrest charged
With violating the Mann white slave
act, relative says:
She believed what was told her
She had an implicit faith in everyone's
honesty; a sort OF girltSh innocence
which is expressed In the old saying;
TO the pure all things are pure.
In other words, she had not been
nightly educated: she had not been
fortified To make way amid the perils
Of an unshelteroj life.
II is too big a risk, mothers: you
have no right 20 force your daughters
TO take II. You know what life Is.
You know its hazards. How dare you
let the tender blossoms OF your own
affection go forth from the home circle
into the stress OF wage-earning Win
out the knowledge OF good and evil?
One does not like TO speak unkinuly
20 a mother who IS suffering, but
upon the basis OF fact as set forth
above, surely this mother, not her
uniformed daughter, Is most to
blame.
The idea which many parents have
that II is difficult 10 teach children
the great truths OF life and sex--df'
fcult and somehow shamefuI-is not
true The shame is in not PUTIN :
them in their right light: the dirncul-
" Is In allowing knowledge 10 be
learned at the cost OF tears and nu'
initiation.
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
Apples Destroy Whisky Habit
the Editor Of The Times:

To the Editor Of The Times
VIII you permit bartender OF %
years experience in his business to
give your readers what he believes
TO be an antidote for the liquor
habit?
tie simple Eat apples The man
who eats three apples day will soon
lose his desire for drink II boys
were taught 10 eat them each day.
they would be in little danger.
| know, for have tried II on
many OF my star" customers. IL
lost trade for me. but there are some
decent men in the business. In nay
experience I never sold a drunken
man or a minor a drink-and nevel
took one myself And | have solo
drinks all the way from frontier
towns to the big cities.
OF course, il will not always work
But. as a rule. the apple habit ant
the whisky habit clash. To dodg'
whisky. try apples--then more apples
BARTENDER.
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26

Michigan Telephone all that might
a II Mlehi
Of the Of h against the aegandfzsnnt
Of nonresident
Whom II right tacks, should
Bell oosporauon7 Why should susngb
place a nonprosesaVe
holding Albeit sophry
subs by stststIeanS
very
c
the council chamber Wednesday
morning.
Every telephone user Hughes ought
TO get TO this meeting If he
The hasn't been evidently with the idea
attendance.
CAN and fail to be present will absent yourself
in the interest of the phone company
IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER IN THE CITY HALL WEDNESDAY
MORNING
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
A Dream Sandwich

The late Edward Morris. the Chi
cago meat packer, was worth over
$4,000 900, and contributed every
year 10 charity as much money AZ he
spent upon bis home.
Mr.. Morris, like most charitable
souls, had a host OF anecdotes that
threw a quantity pathetic light on
poverty. Thus, at r Christmas dinner
In Chicago. Mr.. Morris once said:
Every eater OF Christmas dinner
should think OF the little urchin who
stood In front OF rich mans base
ment kitchen, inhaltns rapturously
the rich odor OF roast turkey that
gushed forth from the open window,
and muttering over and over to him
self
" Gee. / visit / had a slice o
bread to go with that there smell
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
Congress Aroused by
Water POUer Grab

permission OF congress. thereby fur
Their obsuuctiong the navigation OF
said river"
Representative Rainey was = mem
Der OF subcommittee OF three mem.
bers OF the Interstate commerce com
mittee OF the house with Adamson OF
Georgia and Stevens OF Minnesornf
which has just returned from a Der.
sonal inspection OF the Mississippi
River Power company plant. He mas
pointed out that the act which Is orig.
inally made this grant TO this cor.
poratlon expressly retains in congress
the right 10 alter, amend, or repeal
the grant.
There is every likelihood that he
viii be able to force the rules com.
mittee TO order the investigation ask.
ed In his resolution. The whole coun-
Try In the Mississippi valley where
this dam Is located Is aroused at the
treatment IL has received from this
branch Of the power trust" and pro-
tests and petitions have been dood-
ing tho members or the senate and
house who come from the states and
cities affected.
Rainey himself IL leader In his
own party. lie Is the ranking mem
Der OF the ways and means commit.
toe and viii probably succeed To the
chairmanshlp OF that committee when
Underwood Is either defeated or goes
TO the senate. The house leaders.
therefore. are compelled TO pay atten-
ton 10 his demands for the opening
up OF this matter
The power interests are doing all
they can through their publicity hu-
reaus TO prevent the investigation
which seems now almost certain To
occur.
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
The Joke

Manhattan chuckles at Kalamazoo
And at Oshkosh and Kankakee;
II laughs at Railway and Goshen, too,
And bowls at Tombstone with raucous gee
And yet the fellows who win to fame
In Gotham city II you would know.
Are live-wire hustlers who up and
From Oskaloosa or Kokomo
Manhattan chortles at Pottsve, Pa,
And roars with laughter at Cairo. ILL.,,
And mirth goes rolling along Broadway
AT Ashtabula Waterville;
And yet the people who make things hum.
Who build its bridges and buildings,
To old Manhattan have blithey
From towns like Bethel and Baraboo
Manhattan snickers?-well well let il snick
Why should for its smile frown?
The boys who came from the towns called "Hick'
Are cleaning the platter in Gotham town;
So let IL chuckle-for what We;
The jokes Little New York all through.
And not Trenton Kankakee
Or Milton Junction Kalamazoo.
-Berton Braley.
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26

pires from the American league. the
Federals may go as far as they like.
There is one thing sure to count on,
always, and that Is the January thaw.
II manages TO get here, if II takes till
July.
Highwaymen on Orleans-st. went
through mans pockets and got only
10 cents The man seems to have
beaten them 10 It.
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26

The Wetern high school commence
ment program reads: The audience
are requested to remain seated at the
close until the class have passed
Which seems TO evidence a great re-
spect for the opinion of the parent
who wrote the teacher that he didn't
sec no sense TO grammar.
Robbers down east overlooked three
onethousand dollar bills In the fam
ny Bible. Pretty good place 70 keep
money.
Indiana's constitution bars minis
tiers from the state senate. On the
ground. presumably, that state SEN
ate IL no place for a minister.
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26

investigation a n q
perhaps some dras
tic action by con
gress In the mat
ter OF the Mlssis.
sippi River Rowe
company grab NJ
Keokuk. Iowa.
This is the Stone
& Webster corpor
alton TO which con.
gress on Feb. 5.
1905. granted a per
petual franchise 10
construct a dam
across the Missis-
sippi river. with no
restrictions OF any
consequence except
q proyiso { b a [
locks should be
constructed 10 keep
open navigation,
and that these
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
A "Merracle" Indeed

Deacon Ephriam Core was on his
way home IN Nottoway county. Vir-
ginia, one beautiful Sunday morning
when Squire Allen stopped him.
We'll, Uncle Eph." he said. what
was the sermon about today?"
"All about q merracle. Mars John,
the old darkey answered. II ain
never hearn befo' oh sech nerracle
dee twelve erpostles eatin' five
thousan' loaves an three thousan'
fishes"
But that isn't quite right" the
squire began. The real miracle"
A" Scuse me. Mars John" interrupt
ed the old man, but dats tes'
ezackly whut de merracle wuz-de
merracle wuz dat dey didn't bust. -
Harper's Magazine.
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
POOR PHONE SERVICE COSTS DETROIT
ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN A YEAR

n Won know that you are working for the Michigan Telephone
The question came frOma prominent Detroit phyiGan-
No, didn't know it
you are he insisted
Lows hatp hit.
booth nunber and walt minute
altar miuute for a be madeP
( Yes had had that experence-often
DO you known why you had to wait so longg0
We did noth hazard guess
Because you calling busy and the company didn't
want to lose your operator waiting in the hope
that phone dngg She had orders NOT Lot
you escape without paying your nickel
YOU that spend waiting IN the tse
phone how much youf And
you working Yourself the telephone oonpany~
friend of The Times mind turned in
figures that run like this:
There telephones with the Detroit exchange
Each telephone the three calls day
24o0O0 mistaken calls that put through each day. by
the operators
Estimating that each mistake he
tell his number wait for
and receive word that he had been given hs wrong pte
calls Detroit 10000 minutes day
people end of those mistakes The in
errupon their work play leisure has surely averaged
minute. That makes 100000 minutes.
telephone of 100000 minutes
every day.
sixty mnutes-they and
bigger wOrdmean $1,000 hours Sixteen thousand hours wasted
day because of the inefhciency a telephone company
Suppose Of all the people whose has thus been
interrupted be 20 houra low figure for telephone
higher pay than that-bu call 20 hour
That loss $4,000 day which caused Detroit
citizens by poor service.
In year, a loss o 100000.
this money taken by the city through taxaon would be
onetenh Of all the collected through would enough
to build eight 2oom school houses $4,000 each would build
miles Of sewers II would pave miles of streets
Az 1t is simply disappears The telephone
the Gty doesn't get it. It
Michigan
What viii ts be to the petitions readers Of The
Here the commissions Hughes Brothers,
estate dealer No II Washington blvd mailed petition directly
fmm letter
Michigan . srouso ali
Information
Che Michigan State Telephone
change sssst h pesdina
l.
WIN . us TO the
imeY II tho
reasonably satisfactory TO
fact n q fe~
sos
Respectfully yours
So hscAioAN RAILROAD COMMISSION
BY LAYTON 7.
In reply, Ben Hughes wrote the following letter;
the service furnished 70 a..
~ NJ
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
Editorials by the People

Communications must bear name
and address or writer. must not
contain personal abuse and must
not be over 500 words I'm length
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
The Look

me LOOK
Jtrephon kissed me In the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.
Strephon's kiss was lost In jest.
Robins lost in play.
But the kiss In Collins eyes
Haunts me night and day.
Sara Teasdale. In Harper's Maya.
zine.
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
SAYINGS OF FAMOUS MEN

Mayor. Marx want the char
ter to pass and you may say,
the refore, that | shall vote against
IL"
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
POPULAR SONG SUGGESTION

"When an Ocean liners Leaving
Port. Everybody but the Fireman
and the Sad Sea Waves"
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26

Princess Eulalle, aunt OF King AL
fonso OF Spain, has beauty shop In
Paris
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
Told the Truth.

Fortuneteller-You are going Il
have money left you.
Customer-Glad 10 hear IT, Pve only
got dollar 10 my name
Fortune teller-Well after payini
me YOU will have one left you!
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26
From Another Point of VieW

home OF Dearborn minister charged persons
sermon ne mad announced minister
Aocah
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26

Missouri man advertIses for wife
who weighs 800 pounds and is six
feet tall. Some men seem TO be abso-
lutely fearless.
In this matter OF taking over UNI.
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26

By gibson GARDNER.
WASHINGTON, Jan. s6.--It begins
TO look as IL there would he real
The Detroit times., 1914-01-26

Governor Glynn has demanded New
York officials 10 "jau every sneaEng
thief" Chicago ought 10 take nrst
place now, easily.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-05-05
CHOSEN FOR FEDERAr n
- NvsNN
McAdoo and VIII - Jffioic
Members ..Os NstiOn.
FORMER SECRETARY is HEAD
President Wilson Announces Ap'
pointment of Boston Man.
HE MAY REFUSE TO ACCEPT
Financier IL Seventy-NIne Years Old
and Retired from Active Life
Several Years AEO-wRrburE
IL Another Member.

WASHINGTON, May L-The federal re
serve board as selected by President
Wilson is as follows; Richard Olney, Bos.
ton, governor of the board; Paul War,
burg, New York City; Harry A. Wheeler
Chicago; w. p. G. Harding Birmingham,
Ala; William Denman, San Francisco.
Secretary McAdoo and John SHELTON
Williams, comptroller of the currency
are eX-officio members.
Acceptances are still being awaited from
Messrs Olney and Harding
Think He VIII Accept
Although the president has offered
the governorship to MIR. Olney his
friends here were inclined to believe he
would not decline. MIR. Olney was Of
fered the ambsssadorship to Great
Britain by President Wilson early last
year, but expressed an unwillingness to
leave the country on account of his busi-
ness interests
Although Mr.. Olney is rs years old, he
is active and has had a long experience
in the business world and finance which
the president and his advisers believe
would especially be adapted for the head
Of the reserve board.
Mr.. Warburg. who was connected with
Kuhn, Loeb Co, has accepted mem
bershlp on the board. Formal announce
ment of his selection. as well as the
other three members OF the board, beside
the governor, is expected to be made
within the next two or three days 1t is
understood that a southern banker is to
be one of the three. but no intimation
has come as yet as TO his identity
salary is Twelve Thousand.
The complete board will consist Of
seven members at salaries Of $1,000 a year.
The secretary of the treasury and the
comptroller of the currency are ex-of-
ficio members and the five other mem
bers are to be appointed by the presi-
dent
With Mr. Olney representing New Eng
land and Mr.. Warburg New York, II is
expected that the other members to be
selected would represent the south, the
middle west and the far west The ap-
polntees will serve ten years.
Senator Owen, who piloted the currency
bill through the senate, conferred with
the president today about selections for
the board. He said he did not discuss in
dividuals. but rather talked over the
general banking viewpoint he believed
should be held by the men to be selected
Senator owen said the remaining appoint
ments would be made from a list of 147
men now. before the president.
OIney IL NOncOmmittaI.
BOSTON, Mass, May 4.-Richard Olney
smiled when informed today that Presl-
dent Wilson had selected him for gov
ernor Of the federal reserve board, but
declined to comment In the announce
ment or indicate whether he would ac-
cept. Mr.. Olney is in his seventy-ninth
year and, though vigorous and active,
was influenced by his advanced years as
well as by his business interests, to de-
cline the diplomatic offer rendered him
year ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-05-05
STEAMSHIP BURNING AT SEA
Unidentified Boat Reported Afire to
South of Sable Island.
NOT BELIEVED LARGE CRAFT
New York Marine Circles Inclined
to Think ship IN FreiEhter
or an OF Tank
Vessel

HALIFAX, N. s., May "A wireless
message, received here this afternoon
from the steamer Seydlitz, stated that
an unidentified steamer was on fire los
miles to the south OF Sable island. The
vessel was enveloped In smoke and its
name could not be assertained. The Seyd-
ltz sent out wireless calls for as
slstance and several steamers responded.
Responses 20 Appeal Received.
Responses to the wireless appeal were
received from the steamers Sachem.
Francona, Olympic and Bradenburg. All
these steamers proceeded TO the rescue.
Another wireless message placed the po-
sition of the burning vessel as ll27 north,
6l.W west. There was no sign OF life on
the steamer, II was added, and no ships
boats could be seen in the vicinity.
DOn't Think IL Liner.
NEW YORK. May A-Marine circles
here we're inclined to believe that the
vessel on fire off Sable Island was a
freighter or an oil tank vessel A num-
Der of ocean liners were first checked up
as being in that vicinity, but the names
of most OF them were promptly mentioned
as among the vessels which went to the
burning steamers aid,
The fact that the stricken ship sent
no wireless calls, but was sighted by the
Seiditz. which asked for help in it's be-
half, further indicated that II was not a
craft OF any considerable size, having no
wireless