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Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-09

AsheviIIe had more arrests in the
month of August than any month fof
two years. Some high livers in Ashe-
vile this season.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-09

Count Won Bernetorff the German
ambassador has shown true diplomatlo
s'kultur" of the right sort to be spell
ed with a C.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-09

Of the applicants for admission to
the bar in this state only one is We-'
man. Her class mates say there is
no doubt of her passing and becoming
a full f1edged "Portia,'', North Carroll
ma already has three women lawyers.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-09

The Supreme court has been asked
to rehear the petition of the now fam
GUS woman's notary act case. Where
by woman can be appointed to the,
Office of notary public.
IS
Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart has start
ed the moonlight school movement In
this state which has done so much TO
drive illiteracy to the wall in Ken
lucky. 5000 teachers in North Carroll
ma have volunteered to help.
Miss Hilda Schweiger proved that
love overcomes the perils of war when
she landed in New York last week en-
route to Norfolk, to mary her gallant
lover. the chief officer of the interned
German cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich.
- g So
Those persons living on the border
line of North Carolina and Tennessee
may feel when the matter is settled
and the line moved little into ono
State or the other like an old woman
who lived on the Virginia line. When
the line was changed which put her
house in Virginia instead of North
Carolina she assured her friends she
was much improved in health since
she was living in Virginia.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-09

London Banker Says 1t Is To Become
Greatest of Lending Nations. >
New York Special to Philadelphia
The Irish standard., 1915-09-01
THE IRISH STANDARD

work with the club and is now with
the agricultural extension division of
the State University. He went out
among the farmers introducing new
methods, obtaining the standardized
ton of crops and by making those
already on the land successful, at
tracing others.
St. Louis County won premiums
on potatoes and grasses at state and
national exhibits and now not only
that co,lnty b ut all of Northern Min
nesota is recognized as one of the
great stock districts of the country.
Grasses grow like weeds and obtain
ing good stand of clover or alfalfa
is the least of the farmers troubles.
There is sweet water everywhere, the
rainfall is ideally distributed for pas
turage and cooperative and private
creameries are springing up all over
the district as result. Staple vege-
tables, such as potatoes, rutabagas,
peas, carrots, grow unusually we'll,
while there is a large production of
head lettuce and celery, especially on
drained land. In fact, there is hardly
any crop except those of a tropical
nature, that will not grow in the cut
over lands around Duluth. In con-
sequence from an importer of pota-
toes and garden products, Duluth has
become an exporter, and large and
prosperous population has been add
ed to the city's immediate trading ter
rltOry.
The immediate future for Duluth is
bright. The city is on the eve of a
great industrial development. North
ern Minnesota is being settled faster
than any other part of the country,
and cry farmer in Northern Mime
sots. } an asset to Duluth through his
addiuon to the trading population of
the city. The readjustment of rates
and service on the railroads and on
the lakes has made Duluth a most
formidable competitor for other trad
ing centers and in the next few years
Duluth should grow in population,
in industrial Importance and in COM
mercial influence
The Irish standard., 1915-09-01
WIELAND SHOE co.

The numerous handsome retail es-
tab1ishments to be found throughout
the downtown section of Duluth, pro-
claim the fact that the residents of
this northern Minnesota metropolis
are discriminating buyers and that
quality rather than price is the pri-
mary consideration in all lines of mer-
chandise. Of the high class stores
to which the Standard has called spe-
cial attention in this review of the
city's business establishments is the
shoe emporium of the Wieland Com
pany, located in the heart of the shop
ping district at 222 West First Street.
This company was established in 1886
and moved into their present mag
nifcent quarters January, 1911. This
is essentially family shoe store and
they handle all grades, quality and
prices of footwear. Some of the lead
ing brands handled are the Stacy
Adams line and the best makes of
Duluth manufacture This store car
ries a very fine line of ladies' shoes,
among them being the Wiekert and
Gardner quality, which are made in
The Irish standard., 1915-09-01
ST. LOUIS COUNTY

This county was created March 3,
1855, with the county seat at Duluth.
In area this is the largest county in
the state, having 6,611.75 square miles,
or 4,230,52O.4 acres, of which 1885,
846.26 acres are land and 4o5,674.68
acres are water.
The population of the county in 1910
was 1924, of which 1886 were ma
tive born, the foreign population be-
ing as follows: Germany, 1896; Swed-
en-, 1928; Norway, 7,546; Great Brit
ain and Ireland, 2,9o1; Denmark, 552;
Finland, 1881; Austria, II ,44444; 44444;; Rus
sia, 1896; France, 166; other countries,
1884
Their occupations are the various
agricultural pursuits, numbering and
mining, together with manufacturing
industries, of which the county has
5O4 with an invested capital of $11,-
6oo,793.
The county has five cities and 10
villages within its borders, viz: Du-
luth, city, population 8,466; Ely, 3,572;
Eveleth, 7,O36; Tower, I'LL; Virginia,
1O,473; Aurora, 1919; Biwabik, 1850;
Buhl, 1,O05; Chisholm, 1884,; Fall
Lake, 426; Floodwood, '481; Hibbing,
1882; Iron Junction, 76; Mckinley,
All; Mountain Iron, 1,343; Proctor
Knott, 2,243; Brookston, 100; Gilbert,
1,7OO; Mesaba, "a; Castin, 231.
The Irish standard., 1915-09-01
WESTERN STATE BANK
OF DULUTH.

Guided and managed by citizens of
sterling worth, character and integ-
rity, properly describes the manage
ment of the Western State Bank of
Duluth, which is located at 317 Gen.
tral Avenue, West Duluth, Minnesota.
This bank was organized in January,
1904, and has a capital of $25,OOO with
a surplus of $4,000, total resources of
$232,463.76, and it's last statement is
sued June 23rd, 1915, showed it to be
in safe and sound condition. Its Of
fcers are H. R. Elliott, president; A.
H. Donald, vice president, and L. A.
Barnes, cashier. These men, as we'll
as the directors of the bank, are
among the most prominent of the
city's financial and business represent
tatives. The officers are gentlemen
of the widest practical experience in
the banking business, and are ever
ready to offer responsible persons
financial service of the highest char
acter. This bank pays 3 per cent. in
terest on time and savings deposits.
Exchange is bought and sold and COL
lections promptly attended to. The
slogan of this bank is "Safe, cour-
teous, accommodating" and they live
up to it in every particular.
The Irish standard., 1915-09-01

to residences, the main business Sec
ton is in the middle of the twenty
five mile distance and the western
part is devoted to industries.
The boulevard drive of Duluth is
famous among travellers. 1t traverses
the brow of the hill above the city,
at places 800 #. above the lake. The
whole drive is about twelve miles in
derful views of the city, the lake, the
panorama. The parks of the city
are natural g1ens running from the
boulevard to the lake shore. The
park policy of the city has been to
facilitate enjoyment of the parks
without impairing their natural beau-
ty and their lack of artificial adorn-
ment is their greatest charm.
The development of $4,000 h.p. by
the Great Northern Power Company
on the St. Louis river fourteen miles
from Duluth supplies the city with
light and power for all purposes.
Power rates are low and electric
lighting rates in the city also are low.
The water supply is drawn from Lake
Superior and is pure and wholesome.
The city owns the gas distributing
system as we'll as the water plant and
gas rates also are unusually reason
able.
In connection with the new plant
of the Minnesota Steel Company an
interesting enterprise has been en-
tered upon by the company. The site
purchased for the plant consists of
1000 acres on the banks of the St.
Louis river within the city limits of
Duluth. On one part of the site, at
some distance from the plant, the
company has erected 10 concrete
block houses, with 100 more to follow.
This location, Morgan Park, is one
of the most advanced ventures into
industrial townsites The buildings,
which are arranged for one, two, three
or four families, are of the latest con-
struction and finish. The streets
have been paved, parks have been laid
out and a veritable city within a city
has been established The houses
will be rented to employees of the
company at low rental and on ac-
count of their convenience and COM
fort are eagerly sought after.
Agricultural development has made
some marvellous advances in the coun-
try around Duluth in recent years.
The Duluth Commercial Club some
years ago became convinced of the
agricultural value of the soil and eli
matte conditions in the country
around the city. 1t obtained the SER
vices of A. B. Hostetter, a practical
agricultural worker, who through his
employment by the club became the
first county agent in Minnesota. Mr..
Hostetter devoted several years to his
The Irish standard., 1915-09-01

New York and for which there is a
large demand in Duluth. They have
a complete line of children's shoes
also, and this department affords very
good satisfaction to their family trade.
The proprietors and managers of
this establishment are ever courteous
and obliging and have built up a very
high class trade, many of whom are
readers of the Irish Standard.
The Irish standard., 1915-09-01
Continued from page 1917

\COUCtUuoU JfOHG PuJ0 1O'/
ly, rates gradually increased and the
natural result was that the traffic was
diverted to the all-rail routes over
lines which owned the boat lines. The
Interstate Commerce Commission re-
Gently, under the authority of the
Panama Canal Act, ordered the dl-
vorcement of the lake boat lines and
their railroad owners and the next
year there will be a new deal in the
package freight business on the lakes.
The harbor of Duluth is formed by
a natural strip of land extending from
the Minnesota to the Wisconsin shore
a distance of about ten miles. The
natural entry is near the Wisconsin
shore, but in 1870 an artificial chan
mel was dredged through the point
on the Minnesota side and most of
the traffic of the harbor is through
that entry.
The area of the harbor is nineteen
square miles and it has shore line
of forty-nine miles. Its shores are
lined with docks and grain elevators
of the most modern construction and
equipment. The steamers that use
its channels are immense carriers, the
largest over 600 it, long and having
carrying capacity of $4,000 tons of
ore or coal. The ore docks are from
1900 #. to a half mile in length each
and have loading capacity of 10000
tons into steamer in 30 minutes. The
ordinary loading time is about one
hour but a steamer has been loaded
with 10000 tons in Is minutes. The
coal docks in the harbor have a COM
bined storage capacity of about ten
millions of tons, and the larger and
most modern docks will unload 10000
tons from a steamer in ten hours.
The machinery is operated by electric
ity and is the most efficient obtain
able. The harbor has a grain stor-
age capacity of 100000 bushels,
some of the elevators holding 5,OOO,-
GOO bushels each.
Duluth occupies beautiful position
on the slope of hill. The city has
an area of sixty-seven square miles,
the extreme length being Is miles
along the shore of the lake and bay
and the extreme width three miles.
The extreme eastern part is devoted
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-15

The Cupboard Was Bare.

The late Doctor Masters. who was
formerly a missionary in Canton,
China, afterward lived in Berkeley,
Cal. His friend and fellow-missionary,
Doctor Boone, returning on furlough.
was expected to arrive in San Fran
cisco IN a certain day. Doctor Mas
ters crossed the bay to the city; he
meant to meet Doctor Boone and his
party, and. after spending the day In
sightseeing, to take him to dinner at
q well-known restaurant.
The steamer, however, had reached
port earlier than had been expected,
and when Doctor Masters got to the
dock his friends had left. He made
inquiries at the principal hotels, but
could not find them. In order to notify
his family in Berkeley of the neces'
sary change in plans, Doctor Masters
sent them a telegram. Here is the
somewhat damaged message that Mrs
Masters finally read:
"Can't find the bones. Will come
home to dinner."-Youth's Companion
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Mysteries of krypton.

It is usually supposed that at great
heights the pressure of the air is al
most negligible, but the application of
an ingenious method indicated by
Ramsay gives interesting results. He
asserts that the green line character
istic Of the spectrum. of krypton re-
mains visible under q pressure Of
0.000035 millimeters of mercury.
Now this green line is found In
the spectrum of the aurora borealis
and it seems to be well established
that this exists frequently at attitudes
between 100 and 200 miles, and even
sometimes up to nearly 500 miles.
But krypton is n of the heaviest
gases in our atmosphere. 1t would
seem, therefore, that the density of
the air at these attitudes is by no
means negligible, as, whatever the
cause may be of the presence of kryp-
ton there, 1t could not remain there
unless the air possessed an appre'
eiahle density.
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TOO QUICK WITH HIS ANSWER
Response of Court Witness Put Him
Unnecessarily In a Somewhat Un-
favorable Light

At a session of county court in an
outlying country, a village merchant
was prosecuted for arson" 1t de-
veloped that the business men of
the town had retained a special
prosecutor" to assist in the case. The
attorney for the defendant invariably
asked each witness If he had ever con-
tributed anything toward the support
of the special prosecutor" One old
man was very jealous in his efforts
to convict the defendant. The attor-
ney started to ask him the regular
Contribution" question, but the wit
ness interrupted him and gave his
answer in the middle of the question.
with the following result:
20. Have you aver contributed any
thing toward the support
"A. No. sir; I never did-not q
cent!l!"
of your family?"
The witness was excused amid the
laughter of the court, jury and audi.
ence. He left the room, mad as q
hornet, and was heard to mutter: 81
amt got no family."-West Publish
ing company.
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CHAPTER VI.

Mrs. Slade won't sign over the cot
tage," Hayes began abruptly. 81 can't
do anything more"
"She must" Slade uttered the
words through set teeth. she can't
live there. Robert, you are the only
person who knows US both thoroughly.
l want you to bring this matter to a
finish quietly and kindly and-now."
why don't you see her and have
1t out with herr" Hayes suggested.
I'VE had it out the night l left the
house and told her not to wait up for
me-" Slade reminded him. 81 never
quarrel with anyone more than once
He eyed Hayes critically for q min
ute. You're with me. aren't your
as If an idea had just occurred te
him.
I'm awfully sorry for Mrs. Slade,'
Hayes began, when Slade interrupted
Look here, Hayes--I want q di
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tions and blood-stained ~dfe&ators, va.
ried by tyrants who proclaimed them
selves emperors and set up fantastic
nobilities, with all the ~trappipgs of Eu-
ropean courts. Haiti had never re-
ally known the white mans civiliza-
ton, 1t must be remembered. The
slaves were kept ignorant by their
masters, because it was argued that
in this condition they were less
formidable; and the French system of
slavery in Haiti has been described as
the most brutal in the Western hemis-
phere-far more brutal, even, than the
Spanish system which obtained in the
southern portion of the island. This
is testified to today by the difference
in moral tone still perceptible in the
two races, brought up side by side,
and mostly of the same West African
stock.
Haiti today has q population prob
ably slightly in exces of 100000. 1t
is held by scientists to be the richest
island In natural resources n FER
tility of soil in the entire world, with
the exception Of Java. The similarity
of the two islands is striking. Both
are tropical, both have much the same
physical formation, ever the climates
are not unlike. Java, with its depend
ent islands, however. has an area less
than twice that OF Haiti; but under
Dutch rule it supports a population OF
81, 600, 900, which is constantly increas-
ing-and observers are not inclined to
regard the Dutch system Of colonial
administration al an unmitigated
blessing.
Some Monumental Architecture.
The truth of the matter is that the
people of Java are mildly industrious,
' where the people of Haiti are almost
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PRESIDENTS PALACE, PORT Az PRINCE

uniformly shiftless. The Dutch have
built up al export trade and have
promoted agriculture. Scientific agri-
culture in Haiti is practically un
known. The peasant scratches the
marvellous soil with a stick, drops his
seed and lets it be until his crop has
grown up. why should anything else
be done?" he asks, in reply to the
strangers inquiry. IF anything else
was necessary God would do It," In
the Haitian mountains rich minerals
and the best mahogany in the world
lie unworked for lack of railroads to
haul the products to the coast; and
capital steers clear of the island be-
cause of the uncertainty of politics
and payments, and the fact that the
whites as a race are under legislative
penalties-in the Haitian section.
Santo Domingo is much more ad.
vanced in this respect.
Any one who is skeptical of what
these people a accomplish should
visit the enduring architectural mon
uments Of the island-the marvellous
fairy palace of Sans Souci In the
northern hills near Cape Haitien, and
the tremendous citadel of La Fer
riere on the top of the mountain OF
that name, 5000 feet high-both or
them the work of the black King Hen
ri Christophe, who ruled Haiti from
1911 until he committed suicide In
1919, in order to avert assassination.
1t is true that thousands of lives were
paid for these remarkable buildings,
just as it is true that Henri's reign
was IN long chronicle of bloodshed.
But the imaginative capacity and IN
domitable will-power of the black man
who had been a slave and who could
conceive and direct the building of
such structures strike one today as
evidences of IN enormous capacity
which might have been put to valua.
BILE uses under better auspices.
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men. They made it O paradise of Gre
ole culture; a network of fine roads
linked up the stately plantation houses
with each other; Port au Prince, the
capital, was one of the most imposing
cities of the Caribbean, well laid out,
solidly built. The output of the island
was probably larger than 1t is today.
But underneath the outward well-be-
ing and luxury was a terrible state of
human misery and degradation.
The French revolution came. and
the thunder-shock which shook SO
many quarters of the world reused
more than echoes In far-away Haiti.
T~oussaint POverture-one of the
grandest characters produced by any
race In the eighteenth century, yet an
ordinary black man, a slave and the
son OF slaves, with what little educa-
ton he possessed self-taught-Tous-
saint l'Overture took charge of the re-
volt of the slaves. He transformed
bands of rioters into an army, and 1t
is to be said to his lasting credit that
he waged a warfare more merciful
| than that Of his white opponents. But
| when the French found that they
could not defeat him, they employed
| trickery, lured him aboard a man-o'
war, and carried him off to Europe
where he died of pneumonia in the
cold air of the Alps.
After that, and considering the fac
that the French broke their treaties
right and left-proclaimed the aboli
ton of slavery In 1898 and restored il
ten years later-and that LeClerc
whom Napoleon sent W with 30,
900 men in 1903, showed no quarter
to the negroes, it is hardly surprising
that such bloodthirsty monsters al
Dessalines succeeded to the mild ant
equable leadership of Toussaint. VIVA
the Haitians could not accomplish il
open warfare against their white foes
yellow fever and the torrid climate &C
complished for them. In two year
the French lost 10000 men, and blu
5000 surrendered to the English flee
that ~co-operated with the ragged arm.
of Dessalines.
From this period begins the .histor,
of Haitian independence. Truth 3
tell, 1t is anything but a pleasant his
tory nj long succession Of revolr
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days steaming from the
American coast. Haiti Ia
probably less known to
Americans than Albania. ANY
school geography win tell you that
Haiti Is a mountainous island situated
between Cuba and Porto Rico and al
most within sight of both. with an
area OF about $4,000 square miles and
divided into two unequal parts. The
southern t%wo-thirds of the island COM
prise the republic of Santo Domingo.
with a highly mixed population-the
negro element predominating OF
about 700, 200, while the northern third
is Haiti, which, despite its smaller
area, has q population of more than
1,500, 900, almost entirely negro. The
social distinctions in the populations
of the two republics are caused by the
fact that the Santo Domingans are
Spanish by language and whatever
civilization they possess, while the
Haitians derived their fundamental
ideas, governmental forms, literature
and language from France.
The Horrible Example.
The island Of Haiti-by which is
meant the entire island-has frequent
ly been held up as the best example
of bad government in our times.
Strictly speaking, this Is true. But to
blame it entirely upon the fact that
the Haitians are black men is scarce
ly fair, The responsibility is to be
traced back to colonial days. Haiti
was colonized with African slaves by
the French several hundred years ago
and the one idea of the masters of the
island was to make all they possibly
could out of 1t, regardless of the suf
fering they inflicted upon their work
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AVERAGE Stature.

The difference between the tallest
and shortest races in the world is
n foot eight and .one-eighth inches,
and the average height of the worlds
peoples is five feet five and one-half
inches.
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Copyright, III
SYNOPSIS.

Daniel Slade suddenly advances from a
penniless miner to a millionaire. He 10
ambitious to become governor of the
state. His simple, home-loving wife fails
Katherine. daughter of Senator Strick-
AND n sees In her all that Mary is not.
6iade decides to separate from his wife
ana AXE rooms at his club. His deser-
ton OF his wife and his constant atten-
DANCE on Katherine Strickland causes
public comment.
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The Governors
T dxy A Mobilization of
Lazy Alice Bradley's Play
BY GERTRUDE STEVENSON
Illustrations from Photographs of the Stage Production
BY GERTRUDE STEVENSON

Illustrations from Photographs Of the Stage Prod
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Another Malady,

I'm afraid I'm getting tango toe"
remarked the frivolous person.
THAT isn't the worst commented
the heartless acquaintance. When
you try to sing your voice sounds as If
you were getting a p~honograph face