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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-15
HEREDITY IN CRIME.
Manifested in Many Prominent In.
stances on the Pacific Coast.

The contempt Of law and low tone OF
public morals in the state of California
and particularly in the city of San
Francisco has passed into a national
proverb. Nobody is hanged for MUIR
der in California. Durant probably
will be acquitted for want of conclus-
i've evidence and it is just as well that
he should be. Were the evidence ever
so complete he would escape execution
by some legal trick, and secure a par
don through political influence after a
brief Imprisonment.
California does not take crime seri-
ously Public law is held in as great
contempt as private morals. The lax
social customs that winked at making
a church an designation house before
it was made a slaughter house have
the same root as the diseased public
sentiment that makes heroes OF train
robbers and murdererS, and the intel
lectual degeneration which makes that
community a prey of every fantastic
delusion, from Christian science to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-15
COLORADO'S GLORIOUS CLIMATE
Paradise for the Lovers of Outdoor
Life.

The fastener, bred and born at sea
level, has a very vague idea Of that
part Of his country which is at a cloud
height, and he has scarcely any con-
ception of the governing climate Of
such a section. The purely picturesque
appeals to the tourist and he gives
hardly a thought, surely not serious
one, to the high altitude section
through which he passes.
The AdirondackS have accomplished
wonderful temporary healings and per-
manent cures for certain pulmonary
troubles, yet their beneficial results do
not compare in extent with those Of
that section which lies at an altitude
varying from $500 to 5000 feet above
Rocky mountain belt, whose heart is
Colorado.
From a statistical comparative
weather bureau report little idea could
be formed of this climate, for in these
comparative statements the dry and
rarified condition Of the air is not
fully appreciated. The dominant
feature Of this high altitude is light,
dry and electrical atmosphere, with it's
abundant sunshine and clear weather.
This is true of all seasons at the 5000
foot level, for while rain falls in tor
rents for an hour nearly every day
during May, June, July and August,
the sun always shines the rest of the
day, and ten minutes after the rain has
ceased the sandy roads are dry and
the air does not retain moisture. After
these months not a drop of water falls
from the cloudless sky and snow
storms are few and light
The mercury occasionally drops to
20 degrees below zero during winter
night and rises to sc degrees in the
shade the following morning, while in
summer, although a blanket is always
4 nightly necessity, the thermometer
often registers 90 degrees during the
day, and the heat Of the sun is always
intense. These extremes are much
less keenly felt than they would be at
sea level, owing to the drynesS of the
air.
1t is a region of Out-Of-dOOr life,
where regaining of health is a bust
ness. Thousands of beings, whose eX-i
istence would be measured by weeks
if they returned to the dampness of
sea level, here are we'll and active. 1t
is true that some cases Of pulmonary
trouble are not benefited at the 5000
foot elevation, but either the disease
has advanced so far that the invalid
could not live more than a few weeks
in any climate or he is afflicted with
some heart trouble. Cases of the lat
ter sort migrate to an extension Of
this dry belt, which descends into New
Mexico, along the Pacas and Riol
Grande valleys, were the elevation is
from 5000 to 1000 feet. There -theI
action Of the heart is modified and thei
patient is more benefited than in the
higher portions of the Rockies.-NewI
Science Review.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-15
EACH HAS HIS DUTY.
Servants in Large Households and
What Is Required of Them.

In fashionable household there are
often employed about twelve or four
teen servants These include a butler.
second and third man, parlOr maid,
lady'S maid and valet, two chamber
maids, two laundresses, cook, kitchen
maid and useful man. "A butler, like
the good little boy, should be ''seen
but not heard His actual work is
light, as he is generally Entrusted
with the keys Of the wine cellar and
has the cafe of the silver and of the
china, which is often almost as valua-
BILE as the silver, and more difficult TO
replace. He must see that his dining
room is kept in perfect order and that
the men under him know their duties
and perform them properly. The sec
ond man, or under butler, as he is
sometimes called, often acts as valet
to the gentlemen of the house He
usually serves the lunch alone, and al
ways waits on the table with the
butler, and sometimes the third man
or parlor maid as we'll, if the family
is a large one and likes to be served
QUICKLY. Lie DuIleT uOcS Cue CdrVIUg,
and never allows his assistants to
serve the wine-upon this point both
master and man are very particular;
a good butler would consider himself
in lasting disgrace if certain wines
should be served with other than the
dishes to which they belonged. The
dress suit of the butler is not, as a !
rule, furnished him, as are, Of course, !
the liveries of the other men. These
three receive, respectively, about $40,
$50 and S15 a month.
The parlor maid MIST also be re- I,
sponsible person, for she has the care
of the drawing-roOm, receptiOn-roOm, |
and library, and as these rooms are
often filled with rare and almost in |
valuable ornaments (many Of them so
frail and delica te-fashioned that "a !
breath Of wind would blow them |
Over"), there must be no swishing Of
a feather buster among these treas /
ures. Upon some must be used a |
chamois, and upon others the finest, !
softest silk busters, and all must be
handled with the greatest care. The !
parlor maid wears a black dress and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-15

Did you ever have any sorrow for
these people you hang?"
"Oh, pity them maybe when l see
them weaken, but Childers knocked
all sentiment out of me-
What was the one thing in common
among these eighty-eight men that
you hung which struck you as pecu-
liar?"
'sThey all weakened at the end
'All of them. Indians rs we'll as
whites?"
''All Of them. Indians, negroes, all.
Some were Worse than others. / can
, tell because they tremble when l put
my hand on them. l don't keep them
waiting long. AS soon as / get them
right ON the trap l push the lever.
! They don't know it's coming so
! quickly, for / whisper to them keep
! ing my hand on them all the while and
| jerk the lever with the other. Captain
| Gray got mad because l did not wait
| for him to give a signal, and he tried
/ to get along without me next time
The job made him sick, though, and
|
cured"
"What other peculiarities have you
noticed?"
/ The old Bavarian studied a moment
smoothing down that recalcitrant bit
! of court plaster, and said:
NEARLY every one of them says he is
innocent. Keeps denying it to tbs
end, too"
sAnd you believe they are telling {
falsehoOd?"
81 know they are lying. The cOur
has said so, and my experience tells
me so.'
"Have you ever had any dramatic
episodes on the scaffold, or in connec
: ton with any of the executions?"
,I 'Nothing more than the weakenin:
of the prisoner. Some of them hav'
to be helped along. Jack SpaniarC
tried to delay the execution till afte
: 5 o'clock because he thought that, a
the warrant called for the execution
) between and 5. if he could keep i
{ back he would go free. He tried t
: keep the jailers out Of his cell with ;
= stool. We got him off in time, bu
: there was not a great deal OF time t
5 spare. Then there was the negro
! Charlie Finch. The morning he wa
l to hang he climbed UP in the chimney
5 and I had to burn some old clothes t
| smoke him out. The youngest I eve
| worked off was a boy of Is named Fill
: more, who had killed a school teacher
T. There is nothing in these stOrie
!, about fellows dancing jigs on tn
/ scaffold, taking off their boots an
g, cursing and swearing and carrying or
g was there and saw it all, and
know. They all weaken, every one
, when it comes to the time an
. smoothing out the black patch of cour
e plaster on his forefnger. while tn
T! wild cat in the corner snarled an
: whined at his footsteps, the old exc
:, cutioner went behind the counter t
! wait on a customer that appeared a
e that moment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-15
LIGHTNING IN THE WEST.

During a thunderstorm at Butte,
Mont, the other day lightning struck
the residence of Fred G. Anderson, and
a ball of fire entered the roof and
passed back and forth through every
room Of the house, going through par
titions like a ball of iron, and for fully
two minutes it gyrated about the
house, making eleven large holes in
walls and ceilings, melting picture
wires and other metal in the rooms.
1t finally passed out along She water
pipes without setting fire to anything.
There were five persons in the house
at the time, but the only injury they
suffered was a great fright and tenn
porary deafness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-15

fiat money. In spite of many indivi1-
ual instances of high intelligence and
moral vigor the community as a whole
lacks the sound fiber of law-abiding,
crime-repreSsing, order-loving, and
self-respecting communities.
The reason is plain enough. Califor-
MIA is under the hereditary curse of a
penal colony. Like Virginia in the
seventeenth, Louisiana in the
eighteenth and Australia in the nine
teenth century, it was peopled with per-
sons of loose morals and small respect
for law, whose capacities and tenden-
cieS are inherited by their descendants.
California, in the fiftieS, was a volun-
tary penal colOny-a place Of welcome,
refuge and willing exile for men and
women for whom existence in orderly
and moral communities had become
impossible or uncomfortable.
ConvictS and loose women were
shipped from England and France to
Virginia and Louisiana. Criminals
were turned loose in Australia after
completing their terms Of transporta-
tries with corruption that generations
of more regular living and wholesome
! admiXture could not cure. 1t took
nearly 200 years to purify Virginia.
| The faint still clings about Louisiana
| in the shape of a tendency to lawleSs
| outbreak and reckless private living;
! to political tumult and a low estimate
! Of human life. Sheridan's banditti are
! the lineal descendants of the French
| scum dumped into Louisiana $50 years
| ago. The destructive socialism and po-
| litical folly that run riot in Australia
| engendered in the morbid human
strata deposited there in penal colony
times to become the basis of a new
i civilization.
! What selfish and brutal state policy
! did for these unfortunate communities
/ the chance Of gold discoveries in Cali
! fornia did for that state. It was fer.
! tile, pastoral country, thinly peOpled
| with inferior races. The belt of gold
4 drew to it such a horde CT reckless ad
i venturers as has never fallen upon 4
! region in modern times. The SOcia
chaos that resulted from this sudder
J occupation invited other hordeS of mel
: and women who sought wealth les:
than obscurity. All manner of Socia
outcasts jostled each other in a fe
vered atmosphere that fOstered il
= them the germs Of moral decay. The
California Of the sos contained more
unpronlising human material thar
was ever found in avOWed penal colo
MES, because it drew not the scum o
: a single state, but the refuse of tht
world.
These people increased and multi
piled after the manner Of their kind
and their physical and spiritual inner
itorS fill California today. There ha'
been a vast moral gain with SubStitu
ton of a settled urban and paStOrl
= population for the rowing gold hunter!
: of the sos There has been whole
some admiXture of blood, too, the evi
: often mating with the sound insteaf
of with each other. But one genera
: ton is not enough to remove the mora
| faint It will probably be a centur.
: from the date of it's settlement befor'
California will be free in public
: standards and private morals from thu
hereditary corruption of it's founders
; Portland Oregonian.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-15
SOME IMPROVED NAMES.

The Jewish-Russians living in New
York city who get their names changed
by order of court very often choose
names that have long been familiar
in New York. Thus, within a short
time, Schiimiowitz has come out as
Wilson, and Podobisky as Benson, and
Iasiewicz as Hamilton, and Schleun-
ing as Swift, and SmitZkowrtz ais Hy-
man, and Jarretsky as Jarrett, and
Shobers as Aspinwall, and Assim as
Raymond. The applicants for a
change of name often give curious rea-
sons for desiring it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-15

stomachs. The Akkas have short
legs and very small hands. Their
senses are ve,y acute. and Schwein-
furth speaks Of their extraordinary
agility. The Monbuttos say that the
little men leap about in the high herb
age like grasshoppers.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-15
OF TEN ON GALLONS
WEIRD RECORDS OF AN ARKAN
SAS HANGMAN.
UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE.

Has Assisted at the Execution OF
Lightweight Men and Does Not
Think That One of Them Died, In
nocent of His Crime-The Greatest
Criminal Court in the World.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-15
CHEROKEE BILL WILL HANG

Fort Smith, Ark, Aug. ID CheTo-
kee Bill has been sentenced to be
hanged Tuesday. September 1.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-15

Mrs. b. III. Anderson died at Fond
du Lac of consumption, aged 80 years.
The young men of Columbus are or
ganizing military company.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-24
Where Are the Prophets.

A few of those pessimistic persons
who last year were wearying the
American people with dismal fore.
bodings of disaster to be caused by
the passage and operation of the Will
son law ought now to get together and
formally declare where they are at.
Every Republican newspaper a year
ago told how fear of tariff revision
had closed industries, and made
others unproductive, while the GER
tainty of change had increased i'm
portation, thrown hundreds of thous-
ands of men out of work, reduced the
wages of those replaining at work,
opened soup houses, reduced railroad
earnings, shrunk all values more than
a billion dollars, given the country in
to the ownership Of British manufsc.
turers, built bonhres all over England
and insured industrial ruin to their
country. We were told after the pass,
age of the Wilson bill that it was a
law for the suppression of American
industries, for the advancement of
foreign competition, for the destruc-
tion of American investments, and all
the other evils that the fruitful mind
of mendacity could conceive. There
was even talk Of treason to the coun
Try in the passage of the law.
That was the picture presented a
year ago and few weeks ago. Wha,
do We see now? Everybody is work
ing or about to work There are
many strikes for increases of wages
instead of against reductions as few
years ago, most of them successful
There are many voluntary increases
of wages, perhaps the most notable
being those at the Carnegie plants and
the Pencoyd iron works. Imports
have not grown IN volume, while new
markets for American products have
been found. The railroads are re
covering their lost ground, interna
commerce is becoming larger and all
investments have recovered the
shrinkage Of year ago.
The prophets find themselves con
fronted with this array of facts be
cause they were not themselves honor
able. They drew upon their imagina
tion, distorted facts, made figures lie
and did all in their power to blacker
the intentions of the party engaged
in the revision of the tariff. Never
theless it is safe to wager that whllt
holding the Democratic party account
able for all the evils CT year ago M
credit will be given it for the goot
fortune of this year. .-PatAiot
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-24

constitution. The constitution does
not say that no direct tax shall be
laid by apporlionment on any other
property than land on the contrary,
1t forbids all unapportioned direct
taxes, and we know of no warrant for
excepting personal property from the
exercise of the power, or any reason
why an apportioned direct tax can be
laid and assessed, as Mr.. Gallatin
said in his report when secretary OF
the treasury in 1912, "upon the same
objects Of taxation on which the di
rect taxes levied under the authority
Of the state are laid and assessed"
The stress Of the argument is
thrown, however, on the assertion
that an income tax is not property
tax at all that it is not real estate
tax, or crop tax, or a bond tax
that it is an assessment upon the tax
payer on account of his money.spend-
ing power, as shown by his revenue
for the year preceding the assessment;
that rents received, crops harvested,
interests collected, have lost all con
nection with their origin, and although
once not taxable subject.matter; in
other words, that income is taxable
irrespective of the source from whence
it is derived.
II it were the fact that there hat
been no income tax law, such as this
at the time the constitution was framed
and adopted, it would not be of con
trolling importance. A direct ta'
cannot be taken out Of the constltu
tioral rule because the particular ta'
did not exist at the time the rule wa
prescribed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-24
THE SENATE.

To day the case is different. The
Senate has become not only clog in
the wheels of legislation it is veri-
table agent of national corruption as
we'll Most of us are reluctantly
losing our respect for an assembly
which acts alternately as tool Of
special legislation, as an obstruction
to popular demands, and as erich
Mans Club"
At present the Senate does little
e'se than multiply the chances for
spoilshunting, and in a general way
add to the alarming array of political
crimes annually perpetrated upon the
long suffering American public.
1t must be understood that the OBJ.
lection to the prevailing millionaire
senator is not his wealth in. itself, but,
his lack Of craftsmanship, of expert
knowledge, of enthusiasm for the
public good. How can man who
has made his fortune by special prlvi
lege be expected to legislate imparti
ally2 The same popular odium at.
| taches to poor men who are pushed
into the Senate from the lobby to
look after certain interests, as the
phrase is. Their conduct is outlined
for them at the start their policy i:
mortgaged, and they simply pay the
interest on their borrowed capital by
voting as they are told W. ID. Nc
| Crackan, IN June LippincottS.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-24

That the members Of the senate
are opposed to foreign building and
loan associations being allowed to do
business in this state was conclusively
shown last Monday night when
Senator Mitchell, of Jefferson, had
his bill passed making it unlawful for
such associations to maintain offices
or employ agents to solicit or receive
subscriptions in this state. The bill
has penalty clause attached making
any person who violates the provisions
Of the act guilty of misdemeanor
punishable by a maximum fine of
$500 and an impri sonment which
shall not exceed two years. AS
originally drawn the bill prevented
foreign companies from doing business
in any county other than that in which
the principal office was located but il
was afterward amended to meet a
growing sentiment in favor of the
total exclusion of the foreign com.
panies. 1t passed by a vote of thirty.
three to two, Senators Green and
McQuown voting against it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-24
1PIJRSlEL 4 HARMAN,
day OF sale with interest on all unpaid purchase
money from day OF sale.

At the same time and place will be exposed
TO public sale, the following valuable Personal
Property tC-wit: Lot OF No. X and No. 3 pig
iron, 81 railroad lime stone cars, railroad Gin
horse wagon, . seighs, lot team harness, lot
blacksmith tools, lot pine lumber, lot oak lum-
Der, lot fire brick, old and new, lot merchant
spikes In kegs, lot horse shoes In kegs, five
ton wagon scale boxed, ropes, blocks and tack
les, chains, cross cut saw, augers sledges,
lot new hemp rope, stove pipe, clocks, lamp
chimneys, window glass, ofllce furniture, and
all other personal property on the premises.
Terms OF sale OF personal property made
known on day OF sale.
II. A. M'KILL1P,
Receiver OF the Bloomsbury Iron Co
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-24
BORN IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
THE DEATH OF ROBERT TYLER JONES
GRANDSON OF PRESIDENT TYLER.

WASHINGTON, May 2o,-The only
male person ever born in the White
house, Robert Tyler Jones, a grand
son Of President Tyler, is dead in this
city. He was the son Of Mary Tyler
Jones, the eldest and favorite daughter
of the president. He served in the
Confederate army as captain, and
was brave and faithful soldier. In
later years he was employed in the
treasury department. Since his retire.
ment from that position he has had
practically no employment.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-24

There is an old soldier in Harris
burg who does the work of six politi-
clans whose names are on the payroll
of the house of representatives at an
average salary of Sc a day. These
fellows probably pay their "sub" a
dollar day and divide the balance
with the member who helped them
get the place. Another ''sub" in the
house threatens to make trouble if he
is not taken care of after the legisla-
ture adjourns.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-24
Is Your
Blood Pure

If it is, you will be strong, vigor.
Gus, full of life and ambition; you
will have good appetite and good
digestion; your sleep will be sound
and refreshing; your nerves will be
strong; you will have little need to
fear disease in any form.
But how few can say that their
blood is pure! How many people
are suffering daily from the conse-
quences Of impure blood, scrofula, salt
rheum, rheumatism, catarrh, nervous
ness, sleeplessness, headache, and
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-24

The death of Hon. Eckley B. Coke,
recalls the fact that he was the last OF
the three original members appointed
by the governor on the Coal Waste
commission of which Col. J. A. Price
was one. The third gentlemen was
Mr.. Schaffer, of Pottsville, whose
death occurred previous to that OF
Col. Price. The three have died
within as many years.-Scrdnton
.Republicdn.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-24
AUDITORS NOTICE.
Esdte Of Miles Shuman, deceased.

The undersigned an auditor appointed by the
Orphans Court OF Columbia county 10 make
distribution In said estate, will sit at the o1iCe
Monday, June 10, 1895, at 10 O'clock a, IN, when
and where all persons having claims against
estate must appear and prove the same, or be
deDarred from coming In on said estate.
5.2i-ta.,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-24
AUDITORS NOTICE.
Estate OF Joseph Eck, deceased.

ESTUtt q JOStpN ECNi utCe0Sed.
The undersigned, an auditor appointed by the
Orphans Court OF Columbia county, TO deter
mine the amount or recOgnizance, counsel fee,
make calculation OF amounts due the parties
legally entitled thereto, will sit at the ONCE OF
q. Q Evans, Esq, In Berwick, Pa, on Wednes-
having claims against said estate must appear
and prove the same, or be debarred from COM
Ing In on said fund
FRED KELLER, Auditor.
5-A-ta
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-24
FRIDAY, MAY "a, 1895.

A republican Senate has appointed
a committee consisting exclusively
of republicans to investigate the mum.
cipal affairs Of republican Phila-
delphia. Not much can come OF such
an investigation.