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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1900-02-05

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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22
Go,pel.I In scottish Dialect.

The religious world of Great Britain
is greatly interested in the forthcom-
ing publication at Paisley. Scotland.
of a Scottish version of the New Tesla
ment.
All the gospels, the Acts and the
epistles win be rendered into the pure
Scottish dialect. The publishers are
confident the new book viii find its
way into every thorough-going Scot
fish home throughout the world.
The clergy generally look with favor
on the innovation, believing it viii add
thousands to the number Of Scotch
men and Scotchwomen Who now read
the New Testament.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22
THE AVENGERS WRATH.
Il Was Vented in Strong Words With
out Any Blood Being
Spilled.

The brother of one of the victims Of
Jim" Cullen certainly had reason for
his wrath, says the Denver Post. Gull
len had hacked to death the Presque
Isle deputy sheriff and his companion,
who went out into the woods TO arrest
the big hulking scoundrel. Twas a
particularly brutal and unprovoked
crime, and Jim" Cullen was lynched
by the Infatuated citizens of the Sec
tion-but that is story that have no
time to tell here.
When the news OF the double murder
came out to Pressure Isle, the brother
of one of the victims became fairly
frantic in his rage. He stormed, he
cursed and raved, and he begged to be
allowed to get at the villain who had
done the deed.
The people said to one another:
"We mustn't have another tragedy.
What 's-his-name will be sure to kill
Cullen if he gets at him, and so we
must keep them apart"
Therefore two or three men were
detailed to keep guard over the raw
ing brother and look to it that he
didn't form any connection with Gull
len.
The murderer was guarded in a lit
tie store all the day after the crime.
He was to be kept there till arrange
ments could be made to take him to
Presque Isle village. The store was
filed with curiosity seekers and the
posse that had arrested him.
All at once the door of the store
few open and in STROBE fierce and
wild man. His eyes were rolling, his
face was convulsed with rage and
grief. 1t was the brother of the VIC
tim. He had in some manner es-
capped from those that guarded him,
and here he was, ten miles from
Presque Isle, looking for the man
whom he had sworn to chew into
mincemeat.
So fierce was the brothers de-
meanor that the crowd instinctively
broke before him. a clear aisle was
left between him and the covering
Cullen.
The brother strobe forward. Some
of the bystanders turned away their
heads. They expected to see blood
fly all over the place. The men were
face to face. The brother-the
avenger-raised both his fists. Then
he shouted:
"Whang blank you to blanllnation,
I'm a good mind to kick your jaw
off'n ye!"
That was all there was to it. Then
they led him gently away and shut
the door on him.
I've seen men a great deal like that
myself. Have you?
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22

strings of 25 at 16 yards rise. scoring
first rs, II; second IS, IS, and third
25, 10, or a total of "a. On January
"a she shot at rs targets, breaking 81
at 16 yards rise, making a straight
run of 30 from the tenth to the thir-
ty-ninth bird. On January 81 she shot
at so targets 81 yards, scoring 81. On
February she shot at so targets, I'M
known angles, known trap. 16 yards
rise, and scoring 80 breaks. On this
day a stiff north breeze made the
flight of the targets very irregular.
The score which Miss Edith has
made in the field and marsh is also a
most excellent one and shows she now
possesses more skill than the average
sportsman. 1t is not an uncommon
occurrence for her to come in from
the marshes with plenty of game, es-
pecially rabbits. Recently she re-
ceived an English setter dog from the
well-known kennels of w. R. Lyons,
of Piqua, o., and to say that she now
thoroughly enjoys the sport is mild
expression. 1t is predicted by To-
cal sportsmen that, with no fatality,
few months hence, Miss Edith will
rank among the best trap shooters of
her sex in America.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22
Use of Hot Water Bags.

A hint in the use of hot water
bags is gained from a trained nurse.
Very little water is used, not more
than coffee cupful in a three-pint
bag, but it is very hot. Before the
stopper is screwed in the air is pressed
\out of the bag by quick smoothing
of the hand toward the opening; in
this way the weight is considerably
lessened. This particular nurse in at
tending a pneumonia patient kept in
use during the severity of the attack
six of the bags, three of them upon
the patient at one time. During pc
RODS of the critical two or three days
the bags were changed every Is min
utes, but so light were they that their
weight did not in the least incon-
venience the sufferer.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22

self-evident that some remedy is an abb
where the school goes out in search OF
it's scholars, and settles down comfort
ably for the time being in whatever
locality the prospective pupils are
found in sufficient numbers.
ST. Louis has found much difficulty
in providing room for all its school
children. Rented rooms were expert
mented with in many parts of the city
with more or less success, but the gen.
eral result would hardly be called q
satisfactory one. In districts where
the population was scattered the plan
seemed scarcely applicable. After
much consideration and many expert
ments it was suggested that school
house or schoolhouses of such nature
that they could be readily removed
from place to place, set up wherever re-
quired, and when no longer needed
taken down and removed to some other
field of action, would fill the bill. There
fore consultation of local carpenters
was called and school building such
as desired was the result.
These buildings have been construct
ed in such a manner that when no long
err required at one site they can quick
ly be taken apart and, if need be,
moved to another. They are "a by Sc
feet, inside measurement. The floors
are constructed in eight sections, the
sides in six sections, the ends in foc-
sections and the roof in 16 sections.
Each section is strongly put together
on frames, and these are bolted in such
manner as to make it perfectly tight
and secure room. The joints between
the sections are covered both inside and
out by movable pieces, which are held
in place by screws. The heating and
ventilating are furnished by an indi-
rect furnace with double casing. The
fresh air is taken directly from the out
side, and the supply cannot in any man
ner be cut off or reduced beyond prop
er limit. The vent is at the opposite
end of the room from the furnace. The
smokepipe from the furnace is carried
through the upper part of the vent
pipe, thus making perfect ventilation
and also preventing any possibility Of
fire.
When these novel schoolhouses are
set up and ready for occupation they
will accommodate 60 desks, and have
been found to be satisfactory and COM
Portable in all respects. The cost is ex-
tremely moderate when the results
achieved are considered.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22
A ST. LOUIS IDEA.
Movable SchO0lhOuses which, 10 One
Writer Puts 1t, Go in Search
of Scholars.

St. Louis is congratulating itself just
now upon having successfully solved a
difficult problem and upon the carrying
out of unique and interesting idea.
In fact, she has wrought out new ver-
sion of the old story of Mohammed and
the mountain and new application.
Like the mountain, it has been found
necessary that when scholars will not
come to the school, the school must of
necessity go to the scholars. This, on
the face of it, might seem matter of
extreme difficulty. AS it is, however,
the problem has been solved, and the
solution has been found not to be hard
to arrive at. 1t might be little mis-
leading to say that the scholars are not
always DESTROYS of going to school.
But when the school is too far distant
or there is not room enough in those
already existing for the accommoda-
ton of all who apply then it becomes
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22
GRATITUDE DEMANDED.
Million Out of the Nickel
We Give Him.

1--WE are a queer lot when it comes to
charity" said the man who had been
looking over his pocket dictionary for
the last half hour, relates the Boston
Globe. I'VE give a tramp a nickel to
buy food and then because he doesn't
make 100000 the next week and tell
all the papers that he owes everything
to us we cry out that he is migrate
full"
do you think tramps know the
meaning of the word gratitude?"
asked the hard-faced man ON the oppo-
site side.
PLENTY of them. sir"
you've encountered the grateful
tramp. have you?"
Il have. yes, sir. 1t was only last
week that a tramp died for me, and
presume there are others left like him.
Perhaps you read of the man Clark.
hanged in the Columbus penitentiary
last Tuesday. He was my tramp. Six
months ago he called at my house one
night and asked for cash. | gave him
Is cents. He was much affected and de-
clared over and over again that if he
could ever do anything to prove his
gratitude he would"
"And he found way?"
He did, sir. l was having lawsuit
with a neighbor over a COW and was Ii
able to be beaten. Hearing of the in
cident the tramp laid for the plaintiff
and killed him with a club"
"All in your INTEREST,""
"All in my interest. sir. Yes. sir; he
fixed things so that instead of losing
the case won. When am home am
milking that COW twice day with my
own hands,"
But about the tramp7" said the
hard-faced man. He was arrested,
tried and convicted for murder, you
say?"
He was"
"And what did you do for him?"
Nothing whatever"
"And they hung him?"
"They did"
And didn't you at least send him q
bouquet to hold in his hand as he stood
on the Drop"
Not even that. He wanted me to be
present at the execution, but made .
aimsy excuse to leave town"
"And where--where was your graft
tude?r asked the hard faced man.
20, I'm a gentleman and not expect
ed TO have anyl It's the poor devil Of a
tramp who must turn up that commod-
ity by the carload in return for sur
pennies!"
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22
Hi. Presence nj Mind.

"a woman can't sharpen lead PEN
ell or throw a stone" read Mr.. Meek
ton, aloud.
whats that?" asked his wife, rath-
er sharply.
Don't mistake me, Henrietta" was
the quick rejoinder. 81 am not gloat-
ing. l was just rejecting on the wis.,
dom of nature. There is no reason
why woman should sharpen pencils
or throw stones, when there are
plenty of men hanging round, whose
time doesn't amount to much any,
how, and who might as well be doing
that as nothing."-Washington Star.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22
and kiss her classic brow and stroke

and kiss her classic brow and stroke
her raven hair. That is where she tri-
umphs over me. Not a gray hair ON
her head, nor a dark one on mine, but
she is catching up pretty fast. l re-
member when l was six times as old
as she was and six years later was
just twice as old, and now l am "a.
Now let the school boys and girls do
that sum and tell how old my wife is.
Put the sensation of the day rs
about the negro. Like Banquo's ghost.
he will not down. DR.. Lilly, the able
secretary of the Stillman institute for
negroes at Tuscaloosa, reports to the
Presbyterian general assembly that
no progress has been made in coiored
evangelization, and that industrial
training is failure, and out of 1913
negroes educated to mechanical pur-
suits only three are following the
trades they have learned. He de-
clares that agriculture is the only
calling open to the negro, and the
only one that will keep him out of the
cities and out of crime and the chain
gang. These are the results of Still
mans and Booker Washington's
schools. We are glad to find one
preacher who has got good hard sense
concerning the negro and dares to
speak it. OF course, we can't stop
Booker Washington from teaching,
nor the north from giving him money,
but we can stop the Presbyterian
church from wasting our money on
the negro. There are 1000 in the pris-
ons and chaingangs of Georgia now,
to say nothing of those we have
lynched, and most of them have been
educated. Let them go to farming.
That suits his better nature and will
keep him out of crime.
Just the biggest sensation is the SER
mon of Rev. Henry Frank, of the New
York Metropolitan church, preached
last Sunday, in which he declared that
giving freedom to the negro has
proved disastrous failure. That he
is rapidly lapsing into barbarism, and
will soon become extinct. He speaks
of him as brutal beast, more danger
GUS in community than wild bull.
He advises that territory be set
apart for them and there they must
go again into slavery and choose their
masters, and in the meantime the
franchise be taken from them. That
out Herods Herod. don't know what
to make of it and am afraid of any
thing that comes from a Yankee
preacher. l haven't forgotten Henry
Ward Beecher yet. Maybe those peo-
pie would like to own them again and
work them in more congenial cline
than New England, and they would go
to making cotton and take our labor
ers from our farms and coal fields and
iron mines. We will have to watch
them fellows, for they are always up
to some devilment.-Bill Arp, in At
lanta Constitution.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22
IS 'f s
1GEs!!2l !|!: III
S
MAKES GOOD SCORES.
Indiana Girl of sixteen Has Shooting
Records Which Have Already
Won Fame for Her.

Miss Edith, daughter of w. d. Rick
Ell, of Auburn, Ind, is developing rare
skill with the gun, and promises
soon to equal the average sportsmen
of the world. Miss Rickers expert
ence at the trap only dates from jan
uary 1, this year, and her rapid adj
vancement has created a sensation
among the lovers of that sport, and
her scores have been prominently
mentioned by the trade papers.
Miss Edith's mother died last sum-
mer, and since she has taken the ar
duous responsibility of keeping house
for her father and at the same time
attending school, she incidentally took
up the gun. She is but 16 years of age,
weighs 1875 pounds, and stands five
feet high. She is splendid example
of the best type of Hoosier beauty.
Her large, dark eyes, black curly hair
and charming good nature make her
a noticeable figure wherever she
goes.
Her love for the field sport came to
her like a vision, and, after express
ing fond desire to take up the gun,
she was the recipient from her IA
Their of an exceptionally good Win
chester, weighing ~ pounds. The
services of Mr.. Romeo Tarney, of Au-
burn, were also secured, and he, be-
ing marksman of recognized abil-
ity, soon instructed her in the art. Her
first experience at the trap was on
January 8, 1900, when she shot at so
targets, ten yards rise, known trap
and angles, scoring 30 out of pos
sible So
On January 16, her second attempt
at the trap, she shot rs birds in
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22
LIBRARY AT MANILA.
Opened for Use of Our Soldier and
Sailor BOys-COntains About
1000 Volumes.

Mrs. Greenleaf, wife of Col. c. R.
Greenleaf, nited States army, has sue
ceeded in opening an American library
in Manila, for the use of American
soldiers, sailors and citizens in Ma
Mia.
There are about 1000 volumes in
this library, many of them worn and
soiled, but greatly enjoyed by both
officers and men. About ten papers
are sent regularly from the United
States, which are read at the library
and then sent to the troops in the
field. 1t is the earnest request of Mrs.
Greenleaf that copies of papers from
every part of the United States be
sent to this library.
While contributions of books and
magazines are most acceptable, the
financial question is the serious prob
lem which confronts the library
The salary of the librarian and the
rent of the building as well as other
expenses have to be met each month,
and a letter from Mrs. Greenleaf,
dated March 90, states that they have
only enough money to keep the Ii
brary open three months longer, at
the most. Unless aid comes from the
United States they will be compelled
to close the library. which has been
a source of pleasure to the men who
are enduring the hardships of war in
foreign country.
The Woman's Army and Navy
league, an organization composed
mainly of the wives and daughters OF
officers of the United States army and
navy, have been appealed TO by Mrs.
Greenleaf, and they will act as her
representatives in this country.
Contributions will be received by
Mrs. Marshall Ludington. vice pres
ident of the Woman's Army and Navy
league, care Gen. NJ. I. Ludington,
quartermaster general, war depart
ment, Washington.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22
A Gentle Reproof.

Salesman lin praise of slippers which
he is showing to customer)-You will
find those of excellent material, sir. !
have pair that l got three years ago.
and they are almost as coed as new.
Customer-Thanks.b but I'm not that
kind. 1 spend my evenings at home
Tit-Bits,
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22

Richmond-You never know who
are your friends until you are In
need.
Bronxborough-And even then you
merely discover VINO are not youI
friends.-N. Y. Journal
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22
n. MAKE sueeninr Ea.x.

To lessen the wear on brooms and
make sweeping easier an improved
handle is divided into three sections,
the center section being fat spring
plate set in the same plane with the
broom head, which relieves part Of
the strain on the bristles.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-22

A dash of soda put in the water in
which cabbage IL boiled win prevent
any odor through the house.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-06-27
THE INEVIT1BLE.

The painful and yet not entirely sur prising news comes that for the first time in his life "the Sailor" has gone down to decisive and unquestioned de- feat. He made a hearty struggle against fate and Ruhlin, but fate and Ruhlin were too much for him. So he fell down and stayed down before a man who hadn't earned much of a reputation, and against whom the sports had bet.
 The most conspicuous moral in the sad affair is that you can't most always sometimes tell, and that it isn't always safe to bet on sure thing. Moreover, the prizefghter who keeps on going into the ring is just as sure to be knocked out as is the pitcher who keeps on go- ing into the box, or the pitcher that goes too often to the we'll But only the very wise bet against Sharkey or Yale yesterday.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-06-27
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE IN ENC


 It can hardly be denied that there has been a great and widespread movement in the direction of greater laXity. To put it shortly, thirty years ago the Eng fish Sunday, though far less strictly ob- served than the Scotch "Sabbath,' ap- proximated in some degree to that type rather than to the Continental; 1t now resembles the Continental rather than the Scotch, or perhaps we should say what the Scotch used to be for in Scot land too, there has been a vast change. A foreigners idea of Sunday in London was, and probably still ia, the picture of everything that is dull and trests, a day on which locomotion is impossible and amusement forbidden, day which, if not kept holy, is kept stupid' (King- lake, we think in "Eothen,' applies these words to holy days in the easD-- the veritabe triumph for English hy- pocrisy, it's dullness being, as it were, the tribute paid by indifference to. rei- giosity. Conventional ideas often sur vive the facts on which they are based,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-06-27

but any one who observes the streets ot London, or the Thames at Maldenhead, or the great cycling roads on Sunday in summer will confess that the facts on which this idea of the English Sun day was based have very largely passed away.
 For good or for evil? What is the verdict to be? There was, it must be confessed, a good deal which was mar row and repellent about the old concep- tion of Sunday. Something of the at mosphere of the Jewish Sabbath hung around it; and It's motto was too preva- lently Thou shalt not" it was not seldom made day abhorred of children, and it's compulsory observance saVored of the letter rather than of the spirit. But to be weighed against this there are the enormous opportunities for rest and quiet, for spiritual refreshment and freedom from the cares of business and the not less absorbing cares of pleasure, for systematic study of the Bible and instruction of children in holy things in- side the family circle, which have now become, uhaappily, rare. And the ln- creased attractions of pleasure have, we think, undoubtedly had a serious effect upon the attendance at divine service. The old Sabbataranism was largely founded on a false view of what Sunday is, and we are paying the penalty for. the congregations of Puritanism in t1et loss of much that was in practice good, which is now disappearing under the influence of the ideas which are at pres ent fashionable.
 Not that the change is entirely due to any reasoned conviction. Tn part, no doubt, it is so, and chiefly with more thoughtful minds, but a number of oth- CT causes have been at work The in- creased strain of life and pressure of work during the week, the growth of the habit of travel and of facilities for trav- el and the systematlzation of pleasure have combined with decay of faith in some quarters and greater cosmopoli- tanism of feeling, to counteract and override the old sense of obligation. The voice of pleasure calls with absolute clearness in one direction and, if the voice of conscience is heard at all there are always those who will suggest that, in reality, 1t is prejudice or superstition which is speaking, not conscience.
 We should like to see it laid down as an axiom that all profitable discussion of Sunday observance must start from recognition of the fact that the first day of the week has been universally and continuously marked out in Chris tian church as day of worship ever since the Resurrection and that, in the absence of explicit and detailed direc- tions given by the authority of the church, every Christian is bound so to keep it that he may secure for himself and for others proper opportunities of worship and spiritual refreshment.- Guardian.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-06-27
DISTJNY.

The soothing notion that there isn't country isn't very deeply in whatever is going on there, will apparently have to be abandoned. Eight thousand troops, of whom twelve hundred are Germans, have been landed at Taku. Ten thousand Anglo-Indians are eln- barking at Calcutta Russia is mobil- izing the army corps of the Amur. which consists of 50C00 men and eighty four guns. Japan will land 15,000 sol diers upon Chinese soil within fort night Germany and France are mak- ing preparations proportionate to the magnitude of their interests involved in the conflict, and our own govern ment has taken suchs ssteps as seem best to safeguard it's citizens who live with in the zone of disturbance and to aid in the restoration of order Brigadier- General Adna R. Chaffee has been or dered to take charge of the United States troops ordered to China, and he has been ordered to go to Pekin. This action was taken after the State de- partment had declined to aecede to a second request of six viceroys in China that foreign troops be kept out Of Chlna until Lii Hung Chang reaches Pe1in
 Destiny seems to be working. There is evidently going to be much trouble in China, and this country is going to have a share of it.