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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-05-31
Enrly Day Christians.

'The methods, not the motives. of ths
American of the earlier part of the cen
fury were ut fault writes AN Ameri
can Mother" in The Ladies' Home Jour
nal. The Almighty. you must remem
Der. was always present with him. III,
appealed TO God when he lay down L
sleep and when he arose. when he at,
or when he tasted. when he wanted rain
and when he had tDo much rain Ii he
should die suddenly. il would be by tn,
visitation of God Ii he sent out cargo
he invoked God. on the bill of lading. te
bring the good ship into Il safe harbor
He held that this supreme power took
personal interest III his crops. his rheu
matism and his choice OF wife He
tried. naturally. to make his children
the servants of this omnipotent ruler
Whether he sci his boy in pulpit OF
took him 10 the barn and whipped him
like Il dog. his motive was the same-to
make him Christian aud a faithful fol
lower of God. Candidly. is that our pur
pose now in the rearing of our children
Or is il to fit them to make moncyT'
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-05-31
Town Sold over and Over.

Somerville. Me-, is in a queer plight.
Farms have been sold for delinquent
taxes. and the property has been sold in
this way again and again. No one will
serve the town as collector, and even the
sheriff of the county cannot make the
people pay their taxes. This bankrupt
town has valuation of $685. and owes
about $4,000, which is half the town il
worth on liberal valuation. Most of
the town debt is in the shape Of bonds.
on which the interest has not been paid
for some time.
When. some years ago, the people in
the town got discouraged and gave up
paying taxes, the usual course of adver.
Using and selling the property at auction
was pursued. But-and this lends hu-
morous feature to the case-the inhab-
itants of the town bid in the property.
And then as the years have gone by the
property has regularly been sold and as
regularly bid in by the inhabitants. So
all the property has been sold over and
over again To pay the taxes. and now all
the farms and the real estate in the place
stand thus:
II has been bought in at nominal sums
by the inhabitants of the town. and there
fore the people are where they started
from in reality. They have raised no
money by these operations. 1t will puz.
zle a Philadelphia lawyer to untangle
and set in shape the affairs of the town.
mixed up as they have been by this re-
markable rotation OF auctions and sales.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-05-31
A Doer-EngIish Nix Tn.

There is German in Danville. Ills,
who has an English wife and an English
man who has Il German wife. The four
got into a dispute the other day on the
South African war. and the list of casual
ties was thus reported.
The German. stabbed three times with
pitchfork. may die.
His English wife. badly bruised and
scratched.
The Englishman. badly beaten and
scratched.
His German wife. scratched and hair
torn ont.
When the fight began. the English
woman stood NJ for Tommy Atkins and
the German for the hur.hers. but as the
battle wa.cd the EugliSh woman was
found On I'll" side of h"r t;-. man hus-
band. and the German N"man fought he
side her lord and master on hcha: OF the
queen
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-05-31
THE WIFI OF BULLETS.
How the sound Strikes the C0rre-
spOndents at the Front.

II see that the South African war cor.
respondents seem Ia be having good
deal of trouble in finding the right words
TO describe the uproar of modern bat
tie" remarked an old reporter last even
ing. 1t is tolcrably certain, for in
stance. that the disturbance created by
an automatic machine gun hiccouShing
its way through Il belt of .32 caliber
cartridges is somewhat different from
the note of q inch tieldpiece clearing
its throat of lyddte shell, yet | have
seen the same terms applied indifferently
to both. which is confusing to the aver
age reader. In the old times there was
an accepted standard for use in war
yarns. and all writers who knew their
business agreed that
RIFLES cracked. cannon reared.
Shells screamed. bullets whistled.
"By common consent they did those
particular things and didn't do anything
else. and there was consequently pleas
ing uniformity in pen pictures of scenes
of carnage. Moreover. the schedule was
of great assistance to young writers. who
kept it pasted III their hats. OF late,
however, there seems to be a craze
among correspondents for weird pyro.
sechnic effects Yesterday in looking
over the cablegrams | kept tab on Max
inns and Mausers. Here is the way they
sounded to different fellows:
Crash of Maxims. zip Of Mausers;
Rattle OF Maxiins shrek OF Mausers;
Throb OF Maxims. buzz Of Mausers;
Howl OF Maxims. whine OF Mausers;
Bang OF Maxims. roar Of Mausers.
after the cruel war is over am in
favor of calling convention of CORE
spondents TO determine officially what
these different things sound like. Let
everybody have respectful hearing ex-
cept men known to have used the express
sion. hail of lead New Orleans
Times Democrat.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-05-31
PRESIDENTS FLAG.
Eagle Design Made Arbitrary by
the Navy Department.

WASHINGTON. ID. c., May 25.-The
Presidents flag has been arbitrarily es
tablished by the Navy Department
Congress has never legislated OH it.
While the President flag is 100-year.
old institution, the first regulations
prescribing it were issued by Gideon
Welles, Secretary of the Navy, April Is
1865.
With the consent of the President, the
design is now pure white eagle. it:
feathers heavily outlined with black, the
constellation in white. with the rays in
heavy stitching of yellow. on blue
ground. This flag is of bunting. II by
l0is feet, for outdoor use. and of heavy
taffeta silk, gold thread and embroidery
for indoor decoration.
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Stew authors" says the Kansas Cit,
Independent. earn their living by au
thorship alone" And here follows a lis
of some of 'em who have side issues"
Thomas Hardy and Hall Caine.-Archi
tects
kiplng. Stephen Crane. Julian Ralph
William Black.-Newspaper men
james Whitcomb Riley.-Sign painter
journalist.
Brander Matthews. James Lane Allen
Edwin Observation-Disclosures.
John Burroughs. Waterman in treas
ury department. Washington: country
postmaster.
Winston Churchill. Bliss Carman. Jesse
Lynch Subeditors.
Charles Major. Francis Lynde Stet
son.-Lawyers.
+. t. Bullen.-Sailor. billiard marker
street preacher. picture frame maker
street hawker. tigurehead carver. artist.
model. government clerk.
Louis Becke. Sailor.
Cy Warman aud T. W. Hemblen.-Lo
connective engineers.
But James Whitcomb Riley doesn't
paint signs now. and he's been out of tn,
newspaper business for years-the same
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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-05-31

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nal of the City of MeNic". has III ,I>I un
maSkrd a part ii the hrinohi> design IL
William Mckinney. |, has d.sc"vc cd
that if President l'iaz visit. IL" United
States this fall Mckinley VIII kdnIl. and
control the appointment Of h;S >lcc,.Ssnr
Mekinly's sacc'Ss in r"inuvin.. D:. Crn-
min. Mrs. i.i'Hgrrt. 'haii"y i;uSs and
Jasper \. Snilh ma dniih' ha-, siv"n him
away To- IT Tichpn. Its w,.tl .n4u h ia
let ii Z" a. a ease of ki,!nupn.; hu' ~
a matter of fact. We understand M.-i[iu-
ley intends Ia lure IiaZ To th. = hite
House. have hi thr"at eat a> hr >laeI.s
aed then appoint .Tnha l.. Sullivan chief
b. der Mexico.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
Tightening the Stoker's Work.

w. w. Christie. in Engineering Magazine
for August.
The operative advantages to be expected
from the substitution of mechanical stok-
ing for hand firing may be enumerated
as-lower cost of firing, greater uniformity
in condition of fires and operation. readi-
ness for burning all grades of fuel, and
less production Of smoke. Considering the
lower cost of firing, it must be realized
that much harder firing is now required
than was formerly necessary. From a de-
sire TO get the greatest possible financial
return out of q given plant. the rate of
combustion has been increased until the
maximum quantity of poor fuel possible
per square foot of CRATE per hour has been
burned. This has been followed by the use
of free-burning grades of bituminous coal.
giving a still higher rate of combustion.
until the work required of fremen has be-
come excessive both in amount and in cost.
A full days work for an able fireman is
the shoveling of not more than ten tons
of coal in twelve hours, or about sufficient
for $50 boiler horse power. If the same
man is required to handle coal into hoppers
for mechanical stokers. he could take care
of two units of 500 horse power each. while
If the coal was fed into the hopDers au-
tOmatically he could take care Of four such
units, or 2,000 horse power.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
Those who resort 10 lawless methods of
executing what they conceive to be justice
should be treated as outlaws.

Men who find an analogy in the growth
of the tin-plate industry for the predicted
of the beet-sugar industry forget
one essential feature. namely. that the
United States has had for years an abund-
ance OF the iron and steel out of which
tinued plates could be made. The difficulty
was in the process of timing the plates.
That became easy with a higher duty on
black than on timed plates. The apparent
trouble with the beet-sugar industry is 10
attain the quantity OF beets necessary,
which corresponds to the steel billets neces-
sary for the tin-Dlate industry. If there
were not an abundance of steel there could
be no ~tin-plate industry. So long as there
is not an abundance OF beets there cannot
be an extended beet-sugar industry. Be
ginning in 1889 the Agricultural Department
has done everything it could TO encourage
farmers to raise beets. but the experiments
which nave been made nave not aroused
much enthusiasm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
THE EAR TO THE GROUND"
Should Not Be Influenced by People
Who Write Letters.
Minneapolis Journal.

Minneapolis Journal.
Harper's Weekly asks whether Congress
really represents the people. 1t is moved
to ask this question by the remarkable fact
that the hercest denunciation of the course
OF the "insurgent" congressman has come
from the very States represented by them.
The Weekly seems to think that while con-
gressmen are very DESTROYS, as a rule, of
keeping in close touch with public opinion,
they take the wrong method of ascertaining
1t. The average congressman pays more at
tention to the letters he receives from his
constituents than he does to press reports
or editorials as thermometers of public
feeling. If he gets ten letters from con-
stituents in favor of some bill, and one or
none against, he concludes that the people
of his district are overwhelmingly in favor
of il. Then the congressman goes home
and, is surprised to find that the majority is
about ten to one against the aforesaid
Ii is easy to understand why a congress-
mans mail is a poor reflector of public
opinion as a 1O-cent thermometer is of the
weather. 1t is only in great political crises,
when the souls of men are intensely stirred,
that they write personal letters or tele-
grams about public questions in which they
nave no direct personal business interest.
Bur the man who has a business interest
that Is affected by proposed legislation
writes early aHd often and telegraphs fire.
Quently-
Take the question Of the disposition of
timber on Minnesota Indian reservations.
The public may have some very pronounced
notions about it, but the letter-writing, tel
egraphing and lobbying largely came from
persons interested directly, through bust
ness considerations, on one side or the
other.
Take the beet sugar controversy. Our
Minnesota congressman tell us that their
correspondence indicated that the people up
here were opposed to reciprocity with Cuba
The chances are that most of those letters
were written by the owners or employees of
beet sugar factories, farmers engaged or
intending 10 ngage in the cultivation of
sugar beets. prospective sugar factory own-
ers or business men who figured some sort
of a selfish interest to themselves. The
general public didn't write letters that bur
dened the mails nor did it send kilograms
that burned the wires. 1t laid low" and
thought. But the general public, not the
l~etter-writers, make public opinion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13

In spite of the growing public sentiment
against lynching and other like forms of
lawIessness, such acts continue to be re-
ington, Mo-, one a white and the
other a colored man, seems to have been
entirely uncalled for. even if mob law can
ever be justified. The men were safely con-
fined in the county Jail with every reason
TO believe that they would receive their
nave been orderly and well-directed, but
the fact that every man of it was masked
shows they knew they were violating the
law and were too cowardly to face the con-
sequences of the crime they were willing
to perpetrate from ambush. Every member
Of the mob is. of course, a murderer as
much as If he had killed the victims singly
with his own hand, and it is a pity they
could not be made to feel the penalty of
the law.
Another phase of lawlessness nearer
home is reported from near Nashville.
Brown county. where a mother and four
sons are sleeping with loaded guns to repel
a threatened attack of wallpapers. Some
of the boys, Petro is their name. are ac-
cused of petty stealing. and on the strength
of this they were warned by whitecappers
10 leave within ten days under the penalty
of being. one after another. tied to a tree
and whipped. Instead OF leaving the boys
provided themselves with guns and am
munition, and they take turns standing
watch for the whitecappers. The mother
says: w are going to stay right here. -
That they should do, and if the white
cappers come they should give them a
hot reception. If the Petro boys have been
stealing there is q regular and legal way
of proceeding against them quite different
from the whitecap method. If they are
guilty of the charge brought against them.
as they may or may not be, they are no
worse violators of the law than those who
assume 10 take its execution in their own
hands. Until they are legally convicted of
crime the Petro boys are justified in de-
Tending their home and persons against
whitecappers. and II they should kill a few
OF the cowardly marauders il would tend
TO promote the cause OF law and order.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13

Women of the Hub Who Are Accept
ably PracticinR Law.

Boston Advertiser.
There are a humble Of women lawyers
in Boston who have been very successful
in special lines of practice, such as con-
veyancing, probate, and corporation law,
but I do not consider specialization essen
tiel to success in the practice of law
said Miss Amy Acton. a member of the
bar, in reply TO a question asked by an Ad-
%vertiser reporter. Il take everything thai
comes along, and it seems to com along
all the time. 1 have been practicing law
for the past eight years, and during tina
time have had a general practice.
1T is hardly time yet TO institute com
PARSONS that can be considered valuable,
because there are not enough OF US who
have been practicing law long enough TO
allow a fair comparison to be made. Miss
Bridges. who has an office here. has been
In practice for two years. but has. enough
to do. Among the women lawyers who
have specialized Is Miss Alline Marcy. who
is engaged in conVeyancing, and examining
titles Tor the metropolitan water board.
She has a fine position.
"Of course. some things are open to men
lawyers that are not open to women. and
vice versa. there are things open TO women
that are not open TO men. Some lawyers
think politics help a lawyer who is trying
to build up a practice. Politics do not
aid a lawyer, certainly not from the hnan-
cial point of view. Through politics a
lawyer may get a good deal of business.
but IL Is not always remunerative bust
ness. a lawyer politician, who stands high
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
Tracy Not n Hero.

Washington Post.
Tracy will have thousands of admirers.
His achievements will be enshrined in
maudlin rapture. Hysterical women and
half-licked cubs will celebrate him. Cheap
and vicious romance will envelop the chap
ter he made in history.
All the same, Tracy was a mere brutal
monster. He was about as heroic as a wild
boar or a maddened bull. What the penny
a-liners hail as daring was only ~insensate
barbariSm- What a lot of moonstruck
gushers Will hail as love of liberty was
nothing more than a blind rage for Slaugh-
ter. There are thousands of quiet. unos-
tentatious men in this country to-day any
one of whom would IL he had encountered
Tracy on equal terms have vanquished him
as easily as he would a half-grown boy.
At no point in his career did he rise above
the level of a bully and assassin. The first
blow he received drove him TO the cow
ardice OF suicide. He strOve for no good
end. He represented nothing high or no.
BILE or unselfsh. He threatened women and
children as truculently as he did helpless
men. He was a sOulless rufian. a survival
of BeOtia. He was a brutal anachronism
who might have invaded the Roman Sem
ate at the head of a German horde or
drenched himself with blood as did tt
berius and Nero. ~POlyphemus and the Min
Otaur would nave hailed him as a brother
fend. He was simply a devil in human
shape.
There is nothing more 10 be said of him.
He was an angry visitation. He had no
place in the scheme OF Christendom.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13

In his party. has told me that he had to
DO a lot of running around. and that it
took a good deal of his time. for which
there was no substantial return.
I don't find that am handicapped in
the practice Of the law because l am a
woman. l go into court and try anything
l nave TO try. / tried a divorce case in
Mlddlesex county not long ago. and l
tried two cases within two weeks of my
ad11isSion 10 the bar, and have been try
ing cases ever since.
IN one way women have the advantage
or men In practicing law. They have the
confidence of women. / have women com
ing in to see me all the time. Some of
them come from Cape Cod, and some OF
them come from the western part Of the
State. and they all express their pleasure
In nndlng that they can come to a woman
10 present their case for them. One of my
first clients was an old gentleman from
cape Cod who had seen the
ment of my admission TO the bar in the
Record.
1T seems to me that any woman who
will stick TO it long enough will succeed in
the law. assuming. of course. that she has
the right preparation to start with. A
mar does not get a good law practice built
up under five years. and il is hardly fair TO
less than that time, if she is doing well.
women lawyers are certainly making sub
stantial progress. Property laws are be-
ing so ameliOrated that women of means
are enabled TO handle their own property
with more freedom than formerly, and
these women are putting their business
into the hands of women lawyers You
know that UP to 1873, when the law was
changed. married women had very little TO
say or do with property. The law of 1902
equallZing property rights in deceased
spouse's estates has widened the scope and
increased the power of women over prop
erty. Then, too. more women are going
into business than formerly. and they are
employing women lawyers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13

The Elkhart Daily Review, which cele-
brated its thirtieth birthday yesterday, has
a record of which it and it's readers may
we'll be proud. From the first it has stood
for progress and the best interests of the
community, and has taken a firm and high
stand on public questions. The marked
ability with which it has been conducted
has not only made it an influence in it's
own State, but has attracted the attention
of outside newspapers, which often quote
from it's columns. 1t has helped TO estab-
lish and maintain the high standard of the
Indiana press. The Review was started
by Messrs. Chase and Kent. Mr.. Chase
was with it until his death in 1899, since
which time Mr.. Kent has been in charge.
the remarkably vigorous leading editorials
which distinguish the paper being, it is
understood. from his pen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
Edwin Abbey's disappointment.

New York Commercial.
Among the many whose work has been
disorganized by the illness of the King
has been that of Mr.. Edwin Abbey, r. A,
who is to paint the coronation picture. He
had already visited Westminster Abbey
on several occasions, and made rough
sketches with the object OF working out a
scheme of treatment for what he desires
to be a historic picture, designed as il is
for Buckingham Palace. Mr.. Abbey tells
me writes our London correspondent that
he was beginning TO see his way to ac-
complishing what he wanted when the
news come of the postponement of the
coronation. AT first, he says, there was
some confusion at the rehearsals. People
naturally did not know their parts. and
there was consequently much prompting.
Gradually, howeved, order was evolving
out of chaos, and things We're going bet
ter. Mr.. Abbey received his commission
TO paint the coronation picture a year
since direct from the King himself. He
does not expect to finish IL for fully eight
cen months after he starts upon il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13

used in manufacturing oleomargarine until
after the new law was passed ii could
hardly be claimed that it was introduced
as a nutriment. and as it possesses colorifc
qualities it is fair TO presume that 1t was
introduced for that purpose. Without ref
erence to the merits OF the law forbidding
the use of any cOloring matter whatever
in oleomargarine 1t seems quite clear that
the use of palm oil comes under the law.
The truth is the consumers as well as the
manufacturers OF ole~omargarine should be
educated up TO the standard of using 1t
uncolored. Anything else is a deception
and therefore demoralizing to both manu-
facturers and users.