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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-04-17

Mrs II. Harris, Of Louisa County is
dead. She was a sister of Rev DR.. James
Nelson of Richmond.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-04-17

Landon Randolph Mason. son of Stew
en- Mason. of Fauquier county, died Sun
day night OF typhoid fever
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-04-17

Frs not singular that a match
game of baseball sometimes ends
with a strike.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-04-17

Mrs. f. NJ Singleton. a well known
lady died at Bealton, Fauquier Comfy
Monday night
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-04-17
SOME DEATHS.

Mrs Murphy, wife OF Mr.. John Murphy
proprietor Of Murphy = Hotel, Richmond
died Monday
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-04-17

The report that the Southern Railroad
has purchased the Louisville & Nashville
line il incorrect. A controlling interest
in the latter has been secured by John
W Gates and other capitalists Of New
York.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-04-17

Senator Hanna has arranged to fur
aish bail for 100000 in Havana for the
release from Jail of Estes g. Rathbone
who, with Neeley and Reeves wascon-
victed of participating in Cuban postal
frauds.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-04-17

:ont.~a ssEE~SPstunias, China Pinls,
Z .9rbei&se. 'Kinnias, Portulacas.
Autumn-Asters. Sunflowers,
1iums, Snapdragons, Annual
VIZ. Lvhemums.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04
DUTIES OF CITIZENSHIP.

ONLY COURT OFFICIALS apprecf-
- ate the number and character of
American citizens who try TO evade
the duties Of citizenship. Every sort Of
pretext is used to escape jury. service
by the very class of men who are most
interested in a proper enforcement of
the law. An eminent Judge recently
had a contractor on a jury venire. The
man pleaded for release, saying that
if he were compelled to sit on the jury
several hundred men would be thrown
out Of employment
IF you had a case in this court would
you like to have it tried by a jury of
loafers2' asked the judge. The con-
tractor was not a dull-witted man. He
saw the point and he stayed on the
jury. Average citizens are like the
guests in the parable, OF whom it was
written: And they all with one con-
sent began to make excuse" And yet,
when the prominent citizen has law
suit on hand he wants the most intel
ligent and representative men he can
find to serve on the jury.
The legislature Of the state Of New
York has devised a plan for solving this
problem. and its workings viii be
watched with keen interest in other
states. The new law is aimed primar-
! lily at citizens who fail to exercise their
/ right to vote. In New York the juries
are drawn from the lists of registered
I voters. 1t follows that those who are
not registered escape jury duties. The
/ statute provides that hereafter juries
/ shall be drawn from among those
whose names are not on the voting reg
listers. Until these names are exhaust
/ ed the voters are not to be summoned
BY this method those who neglect
one Of the duties of citizenship will be
compelled to perform the other. Tbe
law seems eminentIy proper. Every
citizen should take an active interest
in his government, local. state and ma
tionaL The man who does not vote
has no right to complain when officials
OF doubtful character are elected. The
man who evades jury duty gets only
his just deserts when his own case is
tried by an aggregation Of block
heads
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04
NOT DR.. ILIFF.
Mr.. Mabry Says That lie Was Not
Meant.

Mr.. Mabry Says That he Was Not
Meant.
To The Salt Lake Herald:
Referring to your review Of When
Love Is King" in your issue OF April
%, L feel constrained to say that while
the circumstances attending my mis-
fortune at Salt Lake City suggested
the plot, your reviewer is wholly in
error as to most Of the characters.
Nothing was farther from my pur-
pose than to attribute to DR.. Tiff the
vices and crimes portrayed in the ca
reer of the Rev. Augustus Toplif. The
name itself was suggested to me by
hotel of the same name at Elyria, o.,
where l often had occasion to stop at
the time when / began the writing Of
tie story. While I have suffered much
at the hands OF Dr-Jliff ] would not
knowingly do him an injustice.
Nor did I intend that the virtues and
mplishments set forth in the Rev.
Albert Armby should be attributed to
myself He is simply my ideal Of
Christian minister, in spirit, in faith
and in work-an ideal up to which I
make no pretensiOn Of having meas
ured.
The two poles are not further apart
than is your reviewer from the truth
in the suggestion that Edna Lee was,
il any respect. intended to represent
Mrs. Reilly. There is absolutely moth
ing in common between the two. Very
truly, W. D. MABRY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04

they conceive TO be the honor attend
ant on public Office. They are aetu-
ated in the beginning by thoroughly
honest and sincere motives. but men
Of that character usually quit at the
end Of their first term. The others
stay on and on until they are kicked
out in an upheaval Of public indigna-
ton. And really the men who are
bribed are not so much to blame as
those who do the bribinE.
Many men start out with all the good
intentions in the world. Then the
tempter comes along in the form OF a
corporation lobbyist. Money is offered
for a vote. Perhaps It is refused a
dozen times. but the amount grows
larger and larger Until at last the de-
sire for wealth overcomes weak ma
lures. Then the dishonest official is
punished while the man who made him
dishonest escapes.
81. Louis had an opportunity to make
an example Of Kratz, an example that
would shock other bribe givers into
inactivity. The action Of the Mexican
authorities in refusing 10 surrender
him TO justice makes this impossible.
Kratz will stay in the domain of Presi-
dent Diaz until the memory of his
crime has become dimmed in the recol-
lection of st. Louis citizens. The wit
nesses for the prosecution VIII move 70
other cities or go the way OF all flesh.
Then viii Kratz return and be tri-
umphantly 'vindicated."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04
HARD-wosKED wALLsTREErERs

n ALL ITS LIST OF correspondents.
The Herald as it has before as
sured its readers. has none that il val
ues more highly than Henry Clews OF
New York A degree Of intimacy. say
about the thirty-second degree. has
been established between The Herald
and Mr.. Clews as a result Of the many
entertaining missives with which he
has favored this paper. He always
says something breezy, something 10
the point, the Wall street point. Here
is his latest scintillation, culled from q
column or so Of gossipy chatter.
Henry has been talking about crop
prospects, which he says are more than
favorable. Continuing: Farmers hold
and own the lands that produce these
crops, and they have been getting very
rich as a result Of the prosperous con-
ditions we have had for several years
past There would be something rad
! ically wrong if Wall street. TOO. did not
occasionally have a good crop season
TO make the constant and hard-work-
/ ing men Of the Street also prosperous"
The capital IS" in street is Mr..
Clews', not The Heralds. Henry has a
habit Of caDitalizing anything he
adores, such as Money Bond, Trust.
! Credit Merchant and the like. Now
] let US turn to the poverty-stricken op-
orator in Wall street. for whom Mr..
Clews is always manlfesting the keen
! est sympathy. He believes Wall street
should occasionally have a good crop
7 season to make the hard-work-
ing men there prosperous. Yes, in
deed. Anybody will tell you that
the hardest work in the world is
shearing lambs. They jump about
So the mischievous things. that
the shearer is sadly put to it, some
/ times, 70 get all the fleece without cut
/ ting himself or injuring the lamb so
badly that it can never be driven into
the corral again.
The strain Of getting up at 10 o'clock
in the morning, after spending half the
night in dissipation and the other half
/ in planning new schemes for the en-
tcement Of lambs. must be avvfnl
{ Truly, the Wall street operator is en-
tltled to rich harvests. So is the faro
oank dealer, so is the man who pre-
sides at the stud poker table, so is the
impressive gentleman behind the roul-
cite wheel Each and every one of
them is working so hard for the good
OF his country that he doesn't have a
minute to spend on himself.
Whenever The Herald thinks of its
friend, Mr.. Clews, being tossed about
IN that Wall street gambling hell. it
can hardly restrain its emotion. Poor
man poor man! In the words Of the
old hymn; What shall the harvest
be-ee-ee-ee, oh, what shall the har-
vest be?''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04
ENCOURAGING BRIBERY.

CHARLES KRAFT. an ex-councilman
~ OF St Louis. who is under indict-
ment for bribery in that city, has found
a safe asylum in Mexico. If Kratz is
not guilty OF the charge against him
he has succeeded most admirably in
making himself seem TO be guilty. He
has forfeited a heavy appearance bond
and has deported himself in other re-
spects as a man with a burden Of crime
on his shoulders. His escape into
Mexico and the refusal Of that govern
ment to permit his extradition are
most unfortunate.
The Kratz case win be an encourage
ment to others who contemplate crimes
OF similar character. The bribing OF
counciImen, members of the legislature
and other public officials is altogether
too common in this country. Men have
been known to spend far more than
the em0Iuments OF a councilman OF
legislator in order to secure such posi-
tons. This is not in itself prima facie
evidence of an intent to defraud some
body. but when poor men wax wealthy
in councils and legislatures, just
ground for suspicion is afforded.
Cases there are, of course, where men
VIII sacrifice much money for what
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04
a DISCIPLE OF MuLHATToM.

z ONE TIME AGO it was announced
~ that Joe Mutation, who was just
lv entitled "the prince Of liars" had
passed away. This report is either IN
true or the lameuted Mr.. Mulhatton
has a successor and disciple who is in
every way worthy Of him. The last
stopping place of the gentleman was
Toledo. O.. where he sent out to the
world the story Of some most remark
able operations performed by Doctors
Lawless and Bodman Of that city. Here
is one Of them:
"The sight OF James AcAfee, aged 20,
who had been totally blind for a num-
Der Of years, was restored today. Mr..
McAfee's eyes had been destroyed in
an explosion of gunpowder about
twelve years ago. and since that time
he has been totally blind. The physi-
clans yesterday removed the blind eyes
from their sockets, rubbed them. cut
off a scum that had accumulated.
brushed the eyes. cleaned and replaced
chem in their sockets. Mr.. McAfee
blinked for a few seconds, rubbed his
eyes, and, 10 the establishment Of ev-
erybody present, announced that he
could see as he did before his eyesight
was destroyed"
And another operation described was
like unto this. The historian who is
responsible for the story omitted a few
nice details that would have added con-
siderably to the credibility Of his re-
port. but. all things considered, he did
fairly we'll For instance, he might
have let the doctors play ping pong
with the AIcAfee optics for a few min
utes. He might have turned the orbs
over to a small boy to use as ''taws''
in a game Of marbles. IN the excite
ment Of the moment, however the
promising author neglected these fancy
touches. When he has acquired a lit
tie more experience his work viii un-
doubtedIy lose much Of the roughness
which cbaracterizes it at present.
About the funniest feature Of the
whole business is the gravity with
which certain Of The Heralds es-
.teemed contemporaries are publishing
it. To all appearances they are labor
ing under the impression that it is just
about as easy to lift an eye. polish it.
clipp of an accumulation Of scum
scrub it with I've soap and replace it as
TO lance a boil. Modern surgery is IL
Of the marvellous. Operations are COM
mon today which were undreamed Of
less than 8 generation ago. No science
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04

alton of the French presented There Is
nothing in this example of military Sc
verify that the defenders Of American
Wevlerism In the Philippines can draN
consolation from. Those who seek 70 eN-
cuse General Smith. and therefore mol
rectly the administration, may find some
favorable argument by comparison Win
the SmithneId buTninEs. Bartholomew
massacre or the military exploits Of Cor
te- and Pizarr0. They can find nothing
bv an appeal to an enlightened CHRISTIAN
policy. civilization or American manhood
So long as talent and brains continue 70
be an object of human traffic there Will
l5s no extremity of outrage and barbar-
itv TO which the party in power may
descend but that viii be defended by tne
crOuching and subservient tools OF lhe
money power .s,. 90
torch OF enlightenment and hiCher civil
ization. and masquerading in the vest
ments OF the gospel Of Christ We nave
converted the country into hoWhhs
wilderness. strewn with war raNases
and desoIations. We have succeeded IN
t1e short space of three years Of erect
inc 10 our memory in the far-oft Ocel-
dent a monument Of blood and tyranny
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04
THE PEsslmlsrlc SUN.

ONE OF THE HERALD's sprightli-
- est and most esteemed contempo-
raries is the New York sun. 1t may
usually be depended upon 10 state
facts briefly. breezily and brightly. not
to mention truthfully. Even the Sun.
however, sometimes exaggerates, and
it is with the deepest pain that The
Herald calls attention to a recent in
stance. In its issue of Tuesday, April
%, appeared this paragraph:
''Regan looked in the mirror behind
the bar. took aim, and blew the top Of
his head off. He was taken to Gouver-
neur hospital, where it was said ne
might die"
Here is manifested a pessimism not
usual with the Sun. The disposition
to make the worst of everything is
entirely too pronounced in most news
papers and The Herald is extremely
sorry TO see that the Sun is falling
into it. To quote the hospital authori-
ties as saying that man might die
from a mere superficial injury like
blowing the top Of his head off is surely
over-stating the case. 1t is hardly
probable that the house physician in
dulged in any such doleful prediction.
The Sun reporter, in his desire to make
a readable story, must have thrown in
the touch Of righteousness by way of
embellishments.
Out here in the bounding and bound
less west lots of men shoot off the tops
Of their heads every morning Just for
amusement. It is considered one of
the safest and most healthful forms OF
exercise, and besides, it keeps the cart
ridges from rusting in their chambers.
They don't need any mirrors to assist
them in the operation, either. Any Oh
place or time suits Just as well as any
other.
II is 70 be hoped that the Sun viii
cheer up. In this day of prosperity,
when the clear, spring skies aad tn,
genial sunshine are making all the
world better and brighter and happier.
neither man nor newspaper should be
dolefuL OF course, when a citizen does
something really hurtfal to himself it
is all right to mention it, but a simple
little performance such as the one de-
scribed by the sun does not warrant
any prophecies Of death in the near or
the remote future.
Its story reminds The Herald Of the
account Of an assault on a Chinaman
written by a student" in Chicago.
After telling how the Celestial had
been chopped with an AK, how his ribs
had been kicked in and his face
stamped, the reporter gravely added:
1T is thought the Chinaman would
have been seriously injured if the po-
lice had not interfered."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04
ROOSEVELT AT ANNAPOLIS.

president ROOSEVELT has been
1 talking to the Annapolis cadets
about war and its glories. AS the
young men listened to the patriotic
words Of the nations chief executive,
their thoughts must have wandered far
afeld. In fancy they must have seen
tins battles Of Santiago and of Manila.
where the bravest men in the worlds
greatest navy, viewed from the stand
point Of fighting qualities, won for
themselves renown that can never per-
ish Then, with the optimism of the
young. the thoughts of these boys
leaped into the future and they saw
themselves flying the admirars flag
while the booming Of the great guns
beat out a rumbling accompaniment to
the music Of their dream.
Let us all hope another war may
never come. but. mingled with that
hope, win be pride in the young sea-
men, faith in their ability to accom-
plish great achievements The Ameri-
can navy. from the time John Paul
Jones ran up the first American flag
on an American man-of-war down to
the moment when the echo Of the last
shot died away on that Sabbath morn
ing in a summer sea, has always given
a good account of itself. John Paul
Jones in the Bon Homme Richard.
breasting the storm-swept Atlantic;
Perry on the Great Lakes. with his
I'VE have met the enemy and they are
ours; Farragut on the Mississippi,
Dewey at Manila. Schley at Santiago
These are the links in the chain that
binds a glorious past to a glorious pres
ent; these are the names that in naval
history win ever be reckoned the
greatest
At Annapolis. DR.. George T. Winston,
a member OF the board of visitors, re-
ferred to Sampson as the hero Of San
tiago. His remarks were applauded
and the president set the seal of his
endorsement on them by warmly con-
graduating the speaker. It was the
one unfortunate touch to the picture.
This indirect revival Of the Santiago
controversy must have brought to the
minds Of the cadets another picture, a
picture Of the attempted humiliation
Of a fighter who had done his best, a
best that won for him the undying
gratitude of his country. It must have
reminded them Of the snub admins
tered by the president to that other
seaman who pounded to pieces a Span
ish fleet on the other side Of the world.
If anything could quench the brightly
burning fire of patriotism in those
young breasts il would be the recol-
lection of the administration treat
ment Of Schley and Dewey. But moth
ing can dim those fires, for If their
country needed their services. no mid
shipman in Annapolis would respond
more promptly or more cheerfuTy than
Dewey and Schley. So it is with all
Of the nations fighting men. They
may make mistakes, as all men make
mistakes, but no mortal can deny their
love Of country and their devotion to
the flag So long as the nation pro-
duces such men,
the star-spanSled banner in tri
umph shall wave
Ger the land OF the free and the home
Of the brave.
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that win be transmitted down the cor
ridors Of unfolding time through many
generations vet 10 come.
Our effort 10 acquire the Philippines
IS a crime in point of magnitude entitled
to rank with England's attempted subiu-
CATION Of the South African republics
The spectacle Of the two most Christian
lied and foremost liberty-loving nations
OF the world consecrated 10 the over
throw Of the independence Of unoffendng
peonIes wiz ever stand forth as an un-
imbeachable indictment Of the mora. and
spiritual bankruptcy Of those nations
Some day they must answer for Their
crimes Ii is so written imperiShahly. -
the very constitution of human nature
As no Individual can escape punlshmert
who stains his hands with the blood 81
his fellows. so likewise a collection Of in.
dividuals. organized with governments.
functions. cannot escape. Rctroull
will overtake the trausgressor OF any Jaw.
Ii has ever been so from the beginning
lid is the verdict pronounced By the mis-.
ceUaneous experience Of mankind, aaa
some day England and America viii real
the Justly deserved consequences OF men
deuredatiOns. ELlJAh fAtlf~
Ogden.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04

is more progressive, but It has not yet
reached the stage when eyes can be
handled like apples.
The moment an eye Is removed from
its socket its sight is destroyed forever.
All the peeling and washing in the
world isn't going to save IL. The Her
aid is prepared to rejoice with the i'm
aginary Mr.. McAfee over the excogi-
tated restoration Of his sight, so long
as the report thereof is labeled ro-
nance, but it declines 70 take him seri-
ously.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04
x VTGf STATE 7EAGE 70ErW

Josephine Spencer at request Of the of the Na
tee to be reeted at the peace demonstrations on Nav IS %
We lift our voices in note grown strong
With gathering cadence Of word-sung chord
To hush the ancient dissonance Of wrong,
And drown it in the of the Word
Whose lulling sound the Syrian shepherds heard
Haunting the spaces on that star-choired morn
When heavens new covenant with earth was born.
Peace. the first mission OF the sphere-sung King.
Peace, the sole message of the chanting stars
That Pleiades loosed from her happy ring
To light his pathway to earths prison bars
Yet since that time the crimson light of Mars
Has dimmed its whittier flame with earth's own voice
Yielding the willing dietum Of her choice
So long its pleading like an echo swung
Nainly among the chambers Of lone hills
Down the worn highways Of the world has rung
To harass needless ears and idle Wills
That hardly its rising clamor stills,
The old dscordance Of the war-throned hate
Wanting itself dynasty Of Fate.
Yet strong. and clearer than Iarlss high notes
That herald mornings dominant young light,
The message. taken into myriad threats,
Already ROBBED and chariOted for flight
War sits, and watches for the protocol
Soon to be written or the nations scroll
Only the ambush Of weakened will
The parey Of a traitor faith may say
The hope that brightens the cloud-crowned hill
Where yet Wars all but vanqushed legions stay,
other might than this may give the day
Long vainly battled. to Wars struggling hosts
And yield Gods banner still to Evlls boasts
So many crying causes need our aid
Bereavements murmur long without reply,
And all the bitter wrack the curse has laid
Wherever earth's stained pastures face the sky,
Shame lays its cloud on hands that idly lie
Letting the blight drag out its hated dole
To darken coming ages as they roll
Eyes that look on, while Science. hand in hand
With Art and all her noble ssterhood
Join 10 build up a second Eden, planned
BY Progress, working towards the eternal good
To see its great delverance W!thstood
BY this one Iaggard, jealous of the tears
Yielded as earth's tribute through the years.
Yet ours to say If still the alien state
OF the dark monarch burden coming uIne
While other evils crumble, and the date
OF each years cycle builds into the rhyme
OF Right and Beauty nurtured in the slime
OF greed and hate, shall still this despot hghl-
A recreant tool against the hosts of light!
No giant lists like this has earth yet seen
Brought the crisis OF a last ARRAY
Not Marathon or Leuctras or the green
Young fields OF freedom in the newer day
Vaunted a cause whose widening, neaNen-ed way
Promised this peerless guerdOn for their grace
To lift Wars shackles from the human race.
And we shall hold that guerdOn-not as one
Gained hardly through a frightening span OF years
But quickly as a thing nearly done;
Even now we sight its place Soon, too the cheers
OF many peoples watching through their tears
Shall rise and, men, loud haiing EarthS release
Shall tune their Hfe-strings to the Psalms OF Peace.