The Meridian Tribune. (Meridian, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, December 13, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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CANNONOPPOSES MOVE
DOES NOT SEE HIS WAY CLEAR
TO HELP WATERWAYS.
FAIRBANKS MOST COURTEOUS
Lakes-to-Gulf Project Called Down
Hard Ly Uncle Joe, Who calls it
Chimerical.
Washington, Dec. 6.—Such delegates
to the Rivers and Harbors Congress
as have had the temerity to tell Speak-
er Cannon of their hopes have been
badly frost-bitten. The Speaker has
made it plain that he is disposed to
regard the plans of this gathering as
chimerical, if not in fact, a design to
raid the Treasury.
The convention held in Memphis in
October adopted a resolution endors-
ing the Lakes-to-the Gulf project, and
appointed a committee composed of
W. K. Kavanaugh of St. Louis and
Mayor Malone of Memphis to present
copies of the resolution to Vice-Presi-
dent Fairbanks and Speaker Cannon.
It fell to the lot of Mr. Kavanaugh
to present the resolution to the Vice-
.President, and he is glad that it did,
.for he was received affably and as-
sured that the document would be ful-
ly considered, whereas Mayor Malone
is not quite sure as yet what hap-
pened to him. He recollects, however,
having heard the word “foolish,” and
he is certain that Speaker Cannon
glowered at him, from which circum-
stances he infers that Speaker Can-
non is not in favor of the Lakes-to-the-
Gulf project.
At all events Mayor Malone is mad.
He thinks that the Speaker treated
him discourteously and he is sure that
the Speaker will do. all in his power
to prevent the accomplishment of what
the Memphis convention resolved
ought to be accomplished at the earli-
est possible moment.
* The rebuff of Mayor Malone, of
course, signifies only that the Speaker
is not in sympathy with the desire to
have a ship channel from Chicago to
New Orleans, but other members of
the Congress who have talked with
him will testify just as positively that
Speaker Cannon is equally opposed to
the desire to have an annual rivers
and harbors bill of $50,000,000. The
Speaker still regards the rivers and
harbors bill as a “pork barrel” to be
opened now and then, when there is
' no other convenient way of getting rid
of the surplus in the Treasury.
MIGHTY GOOD SIGN.
Great Railway System Employs Army
of Men.
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 6. — One of the
most hopeful signs that the financial
stringency is disappearing came in the
announcement yesterday from General
Manager Mohler of the Union Pacific
that that road is resuming construc-
tion work on its lines. When the banks
shut down payments five weeks ago
the Union Pacific was quick to fol-
low with an announcement that prac-
tically all of the construction work on
that system then under way was to
be stopped because of the inability to
secure cash to pay for labor and ma-
terial. Mr. Mohler says in his an-
nouncement that all the men that can
be employed will be kept at work as
long as the weather permite. It was
announced that 6000 men have been re-
employed within the last few days.
They will be kept at work on the
Northern lines while the weather is
mild, and later will be taken to the
Southern Pacific, where work will con-
tinue through the winter.
Boyd Again Visited by Fire.
Boyd: Fire broke out between 1
and 2 o’clock Wednesday morning, and
four buildings were destroyed; esti-
mated loss $11,000. The losses were
as follows: S. W. Lyle & Company,
$6000, with $3100; Walton & Harring-
ton, $2600, with $1100 insurance; I. E.
Bond, $2000, with $1500 insurance; A.
L. Campbell, $1500, no insurance.
Three of the burned buildings were
the property of the Bobo estate, val-
ued at $1500, no insurance.
Laying Track to Snyder.
Snyder: At the rate of about three-
fourths of a mile every day, the Ros-
coe, Snyder and Pacific track is be-
ing laid toward this place. Hereto-
fore the work has been delayed be-
cause of scarcity of labor, but now
that a crew of seventy-five men has
been secured and placed at work the
promoters say the line is expected to
be completed to this place within thir-
ty days. Twelve miles of track have
been laid.
Shot Himself Through the Head.
Caldwell: After breakfast Thurs-
day morning Will Pape, who lives with
.Ernest Homeyer, three miles north of
here, went upstairs to his room and
Blew his brains out with a rifle. He
feed two shots. The first ball grazed
skin of his forehead, but the sec-
went through his head, kill-
instantly. He was 45 years
and unmarried. These are the
gneveloped at the inquest held
Heslep.
JHT WATERWAYS CONVENTION.
The Meeting Is Large and Enthusiasm
Is Tremendous.
Washintgon, Dec. 5.—Between 1900
and 2000 delegates are attending the
Rivers and Harbors Congress, which
is very largely in excess of last year.
That fact is accepted as evidence that
the demand for waterway improve-
ment is becoming more widespread
and imperative. The temper of the
convention is undoubtedly more insist-
| ent that it was last year. Then the
' proposal to demand an issue of $500,-
1 000,000 of bonds for the purpose of
waterway improvements met formida-
ble opposition. Now every allusion to
that proposition brings forth thunder-
ous applause, and it is thought that a
resolution demanding an annual rivers
and harbors bill of at least $50,000,000,
with a bond issue of $500,000,000, if
that would be necessary to assure the
annual appropriation, will be passed.
It is estimated that it will require
six years and from $350,000,000 to
complete existing projects.
The most gratifying feature of yes-
terday’s session was the speech of
Secretary Root. It is doubtful if he
ever received a more thunderous ova-
ation that when he declared that the
bridge had been reached. The signifi-
cance of this remark can be appreci-
ated only by recalling that at last
year’s convention when the effort was
made to learn Speaker Gannon’s senti-
ment’ as to this proposition, he replied
evasively that this bridge would be
crossed when it was reached. Secre-
tary Root’s declaration was construed
as meaning that the time had come to
do this great work in a great way
rather than piecemeal.
While there is no doubt that this
body will demand an annual rivers and
harbors bill of at least $50,000,000,
there is just as much certainty that
this practice will not begin by this
Congress, nor,, perhaps, do those who
demand it expect it. But they are en-
couraged by the belief that the growth
of public sentiment in favor of this
policy will be doubled next year, and
that then it will have attained a vol-
ume to move even Speaker Cannon.
It Is Now Mosquito Fever.
City of Mexico: Delegates to the
third International Sanitary Confer-
ence, representing the principal coun-
tries of North, Central and South
America, were almost a unit in decid-
ing that the name of “malaria” should
be changed to “mosquito fever,” so
that the public might know the real
cause of the disease, and work in har-
mony with the sanitary authorities for
its extinction, as mosquitoes are re-
sponsible for malaria, and it it could
not exist without them.
Dead Body of Infant Found.
Palestine: Wednesday morning, as
some negro women were picking up
trash near the gas plant, they found a
white infant about two or three days
old wrapped up in a bundle. It was
the body of a boy and weighed about
nine pounds, and was wrapped up in
a part of last Sunday’s Houston Chron-
icle. It is believed that the body was
put there Tuesday night.
PLENTY OF CASH MONEY.
Banks of Texas Show Up in Gooa
Shape Everywhere.
Dallas, Dec. G.—Statements from all
National banks in Dallas, Galveston,
Houston, Waco, Austin, San Antonio
and Fort Worth, made to the Con-
troller of the Currency, as of date
December 3, except one bank in San
Antonio and four in Fort Worth, show
total deposits of $45,947,889, and cash
in vaults or with other banks, $23,-
668,814.
To Develop Lignite Mines.
Dallas: To develop the lignite mines
in Limestone County the Trinity and
Brazos Valley Railroad has let a con-
tract for a spur five and one-half miles
long. Approximately the cost of the
spur will be $50,000, and it is there-
fore evident that the Valley Route has
excellent prospects of getting a very
large tonnage from the lignite fields,
to justify the expenditure this largo
sum in reaching the mines.
Federal Troops Ready.
Washington: President Roosevelt
issued orders Wednesday to have Fed-
eral troops in readiness to aid in re-
storing order at Goldfield, Nevada.
This action was taken from represen-
tation from Governor Sparks of that
State that the miners at Goldfield are
in revolt and riotous. Nevada has no
State militia. The Governor regards
the situation as likely at any time
to get beyond his ability to control.
Jack Ryan Hangs Himself.
Port Arthur: Jack Ryan, aged thir-
ty-four, was found dead in his room
Wednesday afternoon. Joe Maitre-
jean, residing at 317 Shreveport Ave-
nut, at whose home Ryan was room-
ing, entered Ryan’s room and found
the corpse suspended by a small leath-
er belt hanging from a coat hook in
the wall. The Coroner returned a ver-
dict to the effect that deceased died
of strangulation at his own hands.
W
THE VOGUE O/
CS TRI PE©
Much of our interest is now cen-
tered in frills, and here I find myself
again conceitedly exulting in my suc-
cessful knack of prophecy. You may
be deceived in the cost of a coat and
skirt, but the frills are of a more tell-
tale disposition, and the eyes of the
least expert can detect at once which
are made of fine muslin or batiste,
and which of mercerized lawn or any
of the cheaper sort of fabrics which
can be called upon to do such serv-
ice.
A very superior specimen has a
hand-embroidered center plait, flanked
on either side with a lace frill; and a
very attractive model has an insertion
of lace down the center of the front, a
plaited lawn frill on either side being
edged with lace, while the collar band
is of transparent lace, and the base
of this is finished with a naiTow black
tie.
Doubtless we shall suffer consider-
ably from the machinations of the in-
experienced or willfully wicked wash-
erwoman, and those who are going
to indulge themselves in frills of fine
quality had best set about it at once
to find a successful clear starcher.
And having discovered her, teach her
how not to starch.
It seems quite right and proper that
these dainty-laced decorations of
tuckers and rufflings should accom-
pany the beaver and panne hats,
trimmed with feathers and well allied
to velvet gowns, they may pass for
what we should have called in the
early days of the century “brave ar-
ray.”
I confess myself much in love with
the notion of the plain dress which
looks simple, with an elaborate shirt
and frillings and ruffles, and crowded
with a very expensive hat with beau-
tiful feathers upon it. And, talking
of beautiful feathers, I would refer
once more to those new elaborations
of the ostrich feather.
The manufacturers have contrived
now to extend the length of their
fronds, so that they have a shaggy
appearance, and they are as delight-
fully attractive as novel. Indeed, by
the side of them the ordinary ostrich
feather, even if it be of very good
quality, seems quite uninteresting.
Sometimes these feathers are
shaded, two dark colors being most
successfully used, such as peacock
blue and brown, and two tones of one
color will also do good service.
There is a great rage for the satin
hat, and this shares favor with the hat
of silks. An excellent model which
is enjoying much favor having the
brim of white silk, bound with brown
velvet, and the crown very full and
large and made entirely of brown vel-
vet; innocent of any trimming whatso-
ever, and somewhat in the old beef-
eater shape, is this crown.
The striped tweeds and the striped
velvets are no longer threatening—
they have arrived. A coat and skirt
of dark blue and black velveteen I
met recently looked extremely well
under the influence of a dark blue vel-
vet hat with masses of black wings
at one side, and over this fell a veil
of dark blue soft chenille net.
X have by no means exhausted my
affvction for veils, and wish they were
more general. They lend special
grace to the head and exercise a be-
nign influence on the extravagances
of the millinery. A short brown
tweed skirt and a brown velvet coat
and a dark purple hat with a purple
veil over it achieves a charming ef-
fect, and again I may quote as being
particularly admirable a dress of mole-
gray, with a mole-gray hat and a
mole-gray veil, with blue Japanese em-
broidery forming the low double-
breasted waistcoat, which was cut in
a V at the top to exhibit the indis-
pensable jabot frill of muslin.
A CHARMING DRESS
One would have to search far to
find a dress more tasty or elegant
than the one pictured here. The ma-
terial of which it is made is of the
palest sky blue satin, cut in a sort
of combination of the pinafore frock
of our summer’s affections and the
new princess dress which is draped
across the figure and opens all down
the skirt slightly at one side. The un-
der-vest is of fine white tulle illusion,
encrusted with large flower motifs,
HOME INDUSTRIES
ECONOMIC LESSONS TAUGHT BY
EDITORS OF MANY PAPERS.
COMBATTING A COMMON EVIL
Practices of Sending Dollars from
Communities Where Earned Helps
Along the Centralization of
Business.
HAT OF VEVEQUE’
FELT
Apparently the press is now fully
aroused to the importance of combat-
ting the evils of patronizing other
than home enterprises. Editorial and
local columns of the papers, especial-
ly in the western states, are filled with
common-sense articles setting before
the people such facts as appeal to rea-
son and patriotism. Some editors in
their zeal to accomplish good, perhaps
go too far in abuse of systems that take
money from their neighborhoods, and
by severe criticisms of patrons of out-
of-town concerns “overshoot the
mark” and fail to accomplish what is
much desired.
None will gainsay that the wage-
earner has the inherent right to spend
his earnings wherever he desires. If
he wishes to buy his clothes in some
distant city, he has that privilege.
Sometimes he may have cause to do
so. His home merchants may not
carry in stock what he wishes to se-
cure. Others may charge him what
he considers an exorbitant price.
Quite often he may learn that he
makes a mistake by buying goods
without a careful examination of
them. When this is the case—and it
frequently is—the purchaser becomes
a better patron of home institutions
than ever before. But there are a
few things that the average man and
woman overlook. It is that the dollars
that they send away means money
taken out of local circulation, and the
consequent impoverishing of the com-
munity to that extent. Say that there
are 2,000 people in the community.
Five dollars a year from each one
sent afar amounts to $10,000 a year,
and in ten years $100,000. Supposing
that a fifth or sixth of this represent-
ed the profits that should be left in
the community. It would be quite
enough to establish a business enter-
prise that would support several fam-
ilies. But from some communities the
average amounts sent away for goods
is from a third to a half and often
more than the total, paid or needed
supplied. Think of what a great loss
that is! Think that this trade, given
to the home town, would immediately
increase its business from a third to
a half! How many years would it
take if the home trade principle was
adhered to strictly before your town
would be more than double in size?
It would only require a very few
years. And with the growth of the
town everyone living within its limits
and its trade radius would receive a
benefit.
All the residents of a community
have common interest in it. The la-
borer, the farmer, the merchant, the
doctor and the lawyer prosper in com-
mon. Their interests are parallel.
The community is cooperative. If the
merchant employed men from some
distant city to do his work, would
patronize an out-of-town doctor and
the town doctor send away for the
help he needed, the laborer would suf-
fer, and suppose that the laborers
would send away for their eggs, their
vegetables, fruit, butter, etc., would
not the farmer be affected? Suppose
that the merchant is compelled to do
business without profit; can he pay
as good wages to his help as they
should be entitled to? So it goes
down the line. The better the home
town can be made, the better it is for
all. Be a patron of home industry,
and by being such you assist yourself
and all in your neighborhood.
D. M. CARR.
MISUSE OF THE MAILS.
How the Law Reads Under Which the
Postal Department Excludes Frauds.
which are embellished with little em-
pire wreaths in blue ribbon work. To
increase the princess effect the entire
dress is bordered with a fine pale
blue passementerie, which outlines
the bretelles of the bodice, descends
along the opening on one side of the
skirt and borders the hem. Our art-
ist gives a little sketch of the pretty
way the fullness of the bodice is held
by the stitched bands rising back and
front, centered by an oval em-
broidered motif in the shape of a
buckle. The sleeves are of net, like
the vest, and are finished with a twist
of blue satin ribbon and flounces of
valenciennes.
Section 5480 revised statutes of the
United States pertaining to illegal use
of the mails reads as follows: “Any
person, who having devised or intend-
ed to devise any scheme or artifice to
defraud or to be affected by either
opening or intending to open corre-
spondence or communication with any
other person whether resident within
or without the United States, by rea-
son of the post office establishment of
the United States or by inciting such
other persons to open communication
with the person so devising or in-
tending, and for executing such
scheme or artifice, or attempting to
do so, shall place any letter or pack-
age in any post office of the United
States, or take or receive therefrom,
such persons so misusing the mails
shall be punishable by a fineof not
more than five hundred dollars ($500)
and imprisonment of not more than
eighteen (18) months, or by both such
punishments.”
Costly Dog Collars.
Five hundred and fifty pounds was
paid by a nobleman at the beginning
of the eighteenth century for a dog
collar of gold. A collar of silver, with
four small diamonds, costing 200
guineas, was sold to a society lady for
her pet dog. It is fashionable in
France to put gold bracelets studded
with jewels on the forelegs of poodles
The plain gold collars with jeweled
settings cost no less than £20, while
the jeweled collars run to £100. The
bracelets run from £2 to £70 each.
Is Concentration Desirable?
He who thinks that a 10,000-acre
farm under control of one man, who
reaps all the profits of its operation, is
better than 100 100-acre farms owned
by 100 men, each of whom reaps the
reward of his labor reasons erroneous-
ly. If the big farm is not for the best
why then build up big stores in the
large cities that do the business of
1,000 small stores in the smaller
towns? Why kill off the business of
the local town and help make
wealthier the proprietors of the big
concerns in the great cities? Does
this question call for an answer?
HOW SCHEMERS WORK.
Cooperative Plans Used to Get Dollars
from the People of the Country.
Financiering or promoting has be-
come a particular science. This new
science has taken the broad name of
“system,” and to -“system” is attrib-
uted a Machiavellism that would make
insignificant the chicanery of the
noted Italian diplomat. At present the
nation is treated to illustrations of the
methods of the advocates of “system”
through the magazine articles, and the
disclosures made of the transactions
of many big concerns which have been
investigated by the courts.
When simmered down, it will be
seen that it is by use of money con-
tributed by the masses of people, and
placed in the control of the few that
the masters of finance are enabled to
rob and build up at will, give and
take, and let the people go to the bow-
wows.
It is not the intention herein to deal
particularly with the gigantic institu-
tions, but to show how the principles
employed by them are also brought
into use by promoters of schemes of
lesser degree. And here an anomaly
presents itself, plainly showing how
short-sighted the masses of people are.
the small-caliber schemers who apply
“system” use as their main props the
cry of “trust” and “robbers.” Well
they know the cupidity of the masses,
and by presenting what appears a
plausable scheme of cooperation get
from out the pockets of the people
money with which to carry on busi-
ness. This plan of working is generally
a stock-selling scheme, a membership
plan with promise of selling goods at
wholesale prices, and the-paying of
large dividends. A number of such
concerns have lately come into exist-
ence. Some of them have such mam-
moth things in view that if their plans
could be successfully carried out, it
would be the building up of greater
monopolies than those that they, hold
up before the people as justification
of their own existence.
Do not be deceived by the represen-
tations made by alleged cooperators.
A close investigation will show that
instead of a purely cooperative plan,
it is a scheme simply with the object
of getting from the people money with
which to carry on business for the
personal gain of a few. Don’t invest
money in any alleged cooperative
store or concern located in the large
cities, and of which you know nothing
other than the representations made
by their promoters: Remember that
it is a poor scheme that does not carry
with all appearances of soundness, for
this is essential to the success of it.
WANDERING WEARY WILLIES.
Towns by Adopting Proper Ordinances
Can Assist in Decreasing Vagrancy.
Like unto the poor, the tramps and
the “hoboes,” it seems, we have “with
us always.” With the coming of win-
ter they drift from the north to the
south. The torrid heat of summer
finds them wending their way to the
northern climate. While for the last
decade of years prosperity has been
universal throughout the United
States, and employment for all willing
to work, still the wandering, lonely,
unfortunate, remain as an object les-
son of ignorance and indolence. Still
in America conditions are such and
local laws have tended toward better-
ing the conditions of these “Weary
Willies,” and we find year after year
their number is decreasing. They are
the unfortunates of humanity. Men
with morbid mentalities, with criminal
instincts developed that make them a
menace to the public. There is the
harmless tramp, a proper place for
him should be in the home for feeble-
minded; there is the indolent tramp,
with all mental faculties developed
whose place should be in the work-
house, and there is also the wandering
vampire, who is the criminal at heart
and whose proper place should be in
the penitentiary. If towns should have
ordinances regulating the employment
of those within its confines, and if
such ordinances are properly framed
so as to impose a penalty upon the
vagrant who mayhaps visit the place,
it will soon be found that such towns
will be avoided and the troublesome
visitors to the community will seek
fields elsewhere.
Unsound Cooperative Concerns.
“Self-preservation is one of the first
laws of nature,” wrote some thinker
long ago, and time has failed to prove
it untrue. Yet how many commit in-
voluntary suicide by unwisely follow-
ing the instructions of some quack
doctor in their efforts to cure them-
selves of some ailment? And how
many more bring to themselves finan-
cial ruin by wild speculation in
schemes that they know little about,
prompted by glittering promises of
great returns for little money. Lately
numerous alleged cooperative mercan-
tile establishments have sprung up in
large cities and are seeking the sup-
port of farmers throughout the coun-
try. Don’t take the advice of the
"quack doctor” and commit financial
suicide by investing in them and giv-
ing them your patronage instead of
the business place of your own town.
Progressive Farmers.
The average American farmer is a
progressive mortal. He is always
ready to learn new things. He lately
realizes more than ever the necessity
of education in his business. He no
longer ignores the fact that science is
a wonderful factor in his work, a
money saver that must be considered
if he succeed. The more intelligent is
the farmer, the more interest will he
take in the furthering the interests of
his home town, and building up and
improving the community in general.
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