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The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

The census of 1900 reveals the fact
that of the 100000 people in New
York City only 49,. AT are white per-
sons born of native parents. or 21.4
per cent. of the population of the city.
New York City's foreign born exceed
in number the foreign born in Chi
cago, Philadelphia, st. Louis. and BoS-
ton combined, and exceed in percent
age ali of those cities and every other
city in the United States except Fall
River
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

The invention of all kinds of labor.
saving machinery is occupying the at.
tention of inventors all over the world.
American inventors set the pace for
the world in this field. and that is why
we are able to undersell foreigners in
the markets of all nations. American
manufacturers Will pay literally for
tools and machines that will reduce
the cost of production. Go into any
factory, and you will see work being
done by hand that could be done by
machinery, and work being done by
machinery that ought to be done more
rapidly and at less cost. In the de-
velopment of power its transmission
and its transformation into heat, light
and electricity, there is an unbounded
field of work for the greatest inventive
minds. We want cheaper power; we
want to catch some of the nine-tenths
of the energy we lose in burning coal
We want new fuels. We want more
economically operated motors for sta
tionary work, and also for fast loco
motion on land and sea, states Frank.
lin j. Forbes, in Success.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

Max Seminal, millionaire sugar
dealer of Germany, has bequeathed to
matt, $4,000, because he was brave
and loyal to his country in time of
trouble" Otto was one of the first
Spanish-American war. and it was his
loyalty to the Stars and Stripes then
that so pleased his grandfather in
the bonds keep growing stronger
urges the Chicago ord-Herald.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

Whereupon everybody laughed and
repeated Mayor Jenkinss joke. Then
the wagS out Grants way began to
put up jobs" on JethSon. They
would stop by and ask casually If he
wanted to lease any more land. and
when they realized that he was dead
in earnest about getting more acres.
that he wasn't particular about the
quality of the land, so long as it was
near Pimly. and could be leased for
ten years or longer. they began to
get Il vague idea that ''mebOe Pete
was up to suthin'." Then Tor Il while
old man Grant was waylaid on the
corners in Pimly and at intervals
along the road. by farmers who want
ed to know what Pete was to do with
his leased lands. When Grant said
he didn't know. they either disbe-
lieved MIN or pitied the necessity of
yelling his son-in-law's mental frailty
and went their ways. But the old
fellow was now bent on knowing. He
refused to accept the theory that Pete
was 'daffy," preferring to estimate
his eccenrricities as pure ornery lazi-
ness" AT last he got the young man
into Il corner of the sitting room. when
Sophie was away. and quizzed him re-
lentlessly.
Now | kin keep secret Pete" he
concluded; folks is beginnin' to think
yore daffy and IT'S agoin' to hurt Sole
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

away whistling. while Sophie in the
kitchen smiled confidently and her
father grumb led in his whiSkerS.
1t was like that all summer and fall.
Pete didn't do anything in the way of
work except what he did secretly in
his shop or on his well. The neigh
bors would stop at his road gate some
times and shout at him: Hey, Mis-
ter JethSon, struck waiter vii ~
Whereat he would smile gently, shake
his head and answer. Not yet
Sometimes. if they happened to ask
him. How We gettin' along?' he'd
crack his little joke by Swering
Getting a long well, thank you" and
then he'd laugh like Il pleased boy.
And so it came about that the folks
at Pimly and rounda bout in Hoke
County came to talk about Peter Jeth-
son as Poor Pete" the women plying
Sophie and the men plying old man
Grant, who had given his pretty
daughter 10 a ''half-wit
1t was along in the spring when
everybody found out that Peter had
taken ten-year lease on the Brown
son place adjoining his own untitled
acres. Mayor jenkins of Pimly voiced
the public sentiment about this trans
action when he said:
'BrOwnSon has just took advantage
O pore Pete. Them hundred an sixty
acres O hiS'n amt with two dollars
Il year. Won't raise nuthin' an yit
come / think. they can't raise no less'n
Pete'S eighty"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

First in order in activities of this
Kind come cleanliness. Clean streets
and public places. clean private prem
iSeS-with these secured the first great
transformation in the community takes
place. When nuisance breeding rub
bish heaps are cleared away, and va
cant lots covered with all sorts of lit
ter are cleaned up. everybody notes
the Improvement and is interested in
seeing it maintained. Orderliness. of
course, goes hand in hand with clean
illness. The latter cannot be secured
with good order. And with good
order there is an aspect of neatness
that commands popular respect 1t
pleases the public eye. Nearly every
body will desiSt from throwing rubbish
in well kept place, and from scatter
ing torn up paper. or other litter in 4
clean street. Public sentiment is easily
cultivated in favor of public cleanli-
ness and order. A notable instance
of its growth is to be found in the
agitation against splitting in public
places. since it was determined that
the practice was a danger to public
health. The posting of notices with
regulations against it, and the fire.
quent discussion of the subject in the
press, have made Il strong impression
upon public sentiment, and in conse-
quence the offense is not practiced to
anything like the same extent in com
munities where there has been such
gitation.-Sylvester Baxter, in the Cen
fury.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

Parliamentary attention has been
called to the growing evil of betting in
England, which has long had a far
tirmer hold on the average English
man than on any class in America.
Not long ago it was discovered that
the Elton lads We're wagering their
spare pocket money on the horses, and
now it is declared that gambling goes
on in the very nurseries, with or with
out the knowledge of parents. Little
fellows of seven play betting games
with their elders and back the favor
ties at the races. What the juvenile
custom, SO far as it exists, means, of
course, is that playing for money has
become such Il commonplace among
adults that many of them no longer
shrink from seeing their children
practice il
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

Engineering estimates that the pop
ulation of the United States and its
dependencies now exceeds S4,O0O,OO
inha bitants. The Philippines contain
more than 100000 inhabitants.
Porto Rico has 900. 900. Hawaii 1J4. 600
and Alaska 63,o92. China stands first
in population, the British Empire sec
ond, Russia third. and the United
States fourth
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

an the baby when that comes. Jest
own up. what is your idea O. making
leases when you amt so much as
farmin' truck?"
"Gas, dad" said Peter, quietly
Just keep it as secret as you can, but
there's gas under every foot of this
ground"
1t was not very satisfactory eX-
PLANTATION to Grant. He didn't see
what particular good gas might do.
and the next time he saw DR.. Jewett
in Pimly he let slip the secret about
Peters idea. From the doctors Of
flee the story spread. reaching ears
that We're not Indifferent to the story
of a possible gas belt under Hoke
County. Strangers who had snick
cred at Jethson began to cross-ques-
ton him, but he put them aside with
childish smile and a harmless joke.
How you goin' to git the gas?' they
asked him.
Dig for it," he would say, laughing.
An if you git it, what them"
Then it's up to you grinned Jeth-
SON. as he walked away.
Some of them did dig or rather bore
into their farms. Ashamed of their
enterprises. they kept them secret
from each other. blu. when they had
vainly gone down 200, 800 and 500 feet
through rock and clay and water, rage
against the innocent Peter took hold
of them. and they watched for a
chance to get even. George Hough
set the pace by actually leasing the
gas privileges of his farm to Jeth-
son for ninety-nine years for the cash
| sum of 500, which was paid the mo-
ment the deed was signed After that
there was rush to do business" with
| Peter. The indictments who had spent
| work and money sinking for gas
wanted revenge. but they were afraid
TO give the victim long termS,' for
fear when his mental condition was
discovered his engagements would be
come valueless, so they did business
with him on a cash basis until his
| money was gone and he had the gas
privilege on every farm and free
holding near Pimly.
What air YOU goin' t do naow?"
sroaned Papa Grant when Pete admit
dollars.
I'm going to give Pimly a fire
works exhibition" he answered naive
card in the Banner announcing show
over at my place
And he did. The erratic announce
ment drew every man, woman and
child for miles around. The fire
works was all gas, it is true, but
from hundred jets along the drive.
around the lawn. in the house and out
side. it tlared in clear white glory.
Peter showed them his lathe and his
pumps all run by burning gas. The
men who had ridiculed him aside, ad-
| mitted that they had dug for gas too.
Just on his say So but that they
want no gas within five hundred feet.
an. Pete, eff We want to stan from
| under that lease. why all right
But Peter didn't want to stand
from under"
Digging for gas, boys" said Peter,
radiantly, lis like sizing up your fell
low men. Its no use unless you go
deep, say Il thousand feet or So
And they smiled with him. but they
didn't mean it.-John II. Raftery. in
the Chicago Record Herald.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09
Vermont has had less than its propo

Vermont has had less than its proper
tomato share of representation in the
Cabinet. In 1919 Jacob Collamer of
Vermont was for one year Postmaster
General, and in the Harrison Admins
tration. from 1889 to 1891. Redtield
Proctor, now one of the Vermont Sen
ators, was Secretary of War. These
has received recognition in the Cab
inpf
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT.

How often in our busy life
We speak bitter word;
We care not who the listeners are.
We care not where tits heard
We do not know within OUR heart
To what it may amount,
And truly, it is only one
OF little things that count.
We often wound the trusting heart
BY beng lnsincere.
We do not think that which we do
May cause a lonely tear
We give it but a passing thought,
And bother not about
The little things that rise and cause
The trusting heart to doubt
We often wrong within ourseH
The ones who love us true.
Because they tell us OF faust;
We're all impatient. too.
And do not down the angry words
That to our lips may mount.
But watch and wait; tbs only one
OF little things that count.
-kathryn c.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

How often from our very heart
We let our anger rise,
And never mind the pleading looks
That come from soulful eyes;
We crush, we bruise, in passions hour,
And scorn the falling tear;
Little things, oh, little things,
What sorrow wrought you herei
You count, oh yes, you little things,
You count, but not for gain;
You count to sadden trusting hearts,
You count for naught but pain.
You count as clouds in some ones sky,
You darken some ones day;
y cruel little deeds and words
We can't undo, unsay.
Then ever speak the kindly word
Instead OF one of pride;
Twill Danish sorrow from a soul
And anger turn aside.
The loving word and deed and glance,
Is borne on angel wings,
And angel voices echo true:
Be kind in little things.
ay, in the Hartford Daily Courant.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09
THE oLo.r,Me CIRCUS SHOW.

These here circuses we see
Amt the sort that used to be-
Great big wonderful affairs
Keeps us scatterin' our stares
Long the strung-out row o rings
Irwin to see all the things
Til our rubbernecks git sore
As a bile, an every pore
Sweatin' plum from head to feet
From excitement an the heat,
An our eyes get tangled so
Seems they're swappin' places; 60
Rollin' up an down the tent
Sort o in bewilderment
Irwin to see it all till they
Git right in each others way!
Leave the tent plum certain we
Haven't seen the half, by gee
An around the town we sneak
Lookin' cross-eyed fer a week!
Give us them OF fashioned shows,
Seats a-pilin' up in rows
Round a single throwed-up ring
Where they showed us everything
In bunch, an we could set
Watchin' 'em an never fret
Thinkin' there was somethin we
Wasn't goin' to git to see.
Denver Post.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

The decision of the United States
Supreme Court declaring that discrim-
mating and class laws of various
sented, the States of Georgia Indiana,
Louisiana. Michigan. Mississippi. Mon
tana, Nebraska, North Carolina. South
conSin.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09
A Man who Knows.

Douglas, the shoe man, who spends
more han$1O0, 900 a year for newspaper
advertising, makes this affirmation:
ANY man who has an article of merit
or any man who has IA business in a
good location who will advertise and
keep on advertising is bound to more
than get his money back and to be-
come successful and wealthy.''-Phil-
adelphia Record.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

"While we are wasting our wealth,
energies and manhood in the South AT
rican desert, the Americans are stead
lily securing control of our industries"
says the London Daily News in an
editorial on "The American Invasion"
1T is time the nation aroused itself
to sense of the gravity of its posi-
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09
The late C. p Huntington lent 3d.
600. 600 to friends in need who will
never be able to pay up. He must
have been an approachable man.

An Indian journal proposes that the
nations hold another peace conference
and bar all soldiers. diplomats. gun
makers and their relations, and sug-
gests the organization of an interna-
tional police to keep the peace after
it is made. The Powers are to abolish
all their armies and navies.
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Employer-'W nat are you luIlHS
your time away for?" Clerk-'I'm not;
it's your time.'-Chicago News.
She always meets me at the door,
My little wife SO sweet;
She always meets me at the door,
To make me wipe my feet!
Philadelphia Record.
Mother-"You must remember, EN-
incline. that fine feathers don't make
a fine bird" Daughter-"True. MAN.
ma. but they do make awfully pretty
hats '-Tit-Bits.
The Teacher-"Without mastering
multiplication we could not go any
further in arithmetic One of the
Pupils-"Gee. Wouldn't that be a
cinch-'-Puck.
Father-"What is the use of my
earning money if you spend it as fast
as l make it?'' Son-"That's all right,
father. l enjoy it just as much as
you do making it.'-Brooklyn Life.
Blobbs-''I shall have to wear
glasses" Slobbs-"Are you troubled
with your eyes, "Blobbs-"What
did you think L was going to wear
them for - bunions? - Philadelphia
''You are indeed my treasure"
| gently said to her;
She blushed and said with pleasure:
Then be my treasurer!
Chicago Daily News.
Hewitt-'Ive lost my best friend"
Jewett-"Why don't you advertise for
it," Hewitt-''What do you mean?''
Jewett-"I thought you said you had
lost your pocketbook. The Smart
Set
Il suppose You had TO study anat-
omy as a preliminary at your art
work Hardly. Why, that would
be a handicap. My business is to
draw fashion-plate figures. Chicago
Post.
Visitor-''You have beautiful place
here. but doesn't one become very
much bored living in the country
alone?" Hostess-"Oh. no! Thank
goodness, we have few callers Tit
Bits.
Mrs. Nexdore-'My daughter. you
know. is quite lover of music" Mrs.
Newcomb Pepprey-"Y don't say,
Then that constant drumming on the
piano in your house must annoy her
dreadfully. "-Philadelphia Press.
Yes said the head of the firm,
Miss Addie is a good bookkeeper,
but she makes some queer mistakes"
What, for instance?" asked the silent
partner We'll, she enters our mes
senSer boys wages under the head of
running expenses - Philadelphia
Press.
This said the fond father to the
Genealogical expert. seems to be a
pretty big bill for the treatment you
have given my daughter" 1T was a
difficult treatment" explained the
skin doctor. You see, We had to re
move all the cuticle from her cheeks
and graft new epidermis upon
them" Well said the father, reach
ing for his check book, Il don't know
which one of us you skinned the
most. '-Baltimore American.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-07
Host Notable Utterances Made by the
President on Trusts and How
TO Control Them.
ANOTHER REPLY TO CRITICS
HE WILL PRACTICE WHAT HE
breaches If GIVEN POWER.
Corporations Necessary in These Days
of Great Industries, but Some
Require Supervision.

LEXINGTON, KY, Sept. 6.-President
Roosevelt and party to-day passed through
the States OF West Virginia. Ohio, Ken
lucky and Tennessee. The receptions during
the day in West Virginia and Ohio were
enthusiastic but uneventful, and 1t was
nightfa1 when Kentucky was reached. All
were asleep before they crossed into Ten
nessee. Stops were made to-day at Grafton,
Wheeling, Benwood. Cambridge, GAINESVILLE.
Newark, Columbus, Washington. c. H., Will
mington. Midland City, Cincinnati, Lex
ington and Somerset.
At Wheeling the President made the only
formal speech of the day. treating of the
trusts and general industrial conditions.
At Cambridge someone in the crowd held
up large picture of Mckinley and called
attention to the anniversary of the tragedy
at Buffalo one year ago. This incident was
looked on by all with dsfavor.
~ Columbus the President paid a touch
ing tribute to Mckinley and at all other
places during the rest of the day, especially
at Cincinnati and Lexington. he refused TO
respond at any length to the calls of the
crowds at depots.
The special train is due In Chattanooga at
$50 tomorrow morning. slow schedule
has been arranged for 1t.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-07

impossible The undertaken could not say
whether the dead man had blue eyes and
scar on his left cheek. as did Bartholin.
Three weeks ago the suspect arrived at
Riceville He made his way to the WiIks
Hotel, ard registered as William Ed
wards" The stranger semed jaded when
he arrived at the Iowa hotel and rested
for a few days To those with whom he
talked, he said his name was William and
he did not use the name Edwards except
infrequently. After a week the stranger
began to look for work. He inquired about
Riceville, but found nothing He then
made short excursions into the country
and found work finally on a farm five
miles south of the little town. Out of sight
of the Riceville people the man almost
dropped out of their minds until Friday
DIR. Pratt, the village physician. in pass
ing along a road beside a hempfield no.
ticed a body. He went to the body and
ascertained that life was extinct When
he returned to Riceville he called up the
coroner of Howard county at Cresco and
notified him of the discovery. verdict of
suicide was returned by the coroners Jury
Unable to receive any official informa-
tion from Riceville concerning the finding
of the body supposed TO be that of Bartho-
lin Chief of Police ONeill tonight decided
to send two officers TO the scene of the
suicide. The officers selected to go were
both personally acquainted with BarthoIin
and in case the body is that of the MUIR
derer they will have no trouble in estab-
fishing his identity. The detectives left
Chicago at IL o'clock over the Chicago
Northwestern Railroad, accompanied by
Robert Mitchell, brother of the murdered
girl
The confession which was found in the
dead mans pocket was dated Aug. 81. and
in IL the writer declares that he killed his
mother, Mrs. Anna Bartholin, for her
money, and later murdered his sweetheart
Miss Minnie Mitchell All others who
have been arrested in the case are exon
Grated in the confession, although Bartho-
lin accuses Minnie Mitchell of being a
party TO the plot to murder his mother.
The murder of Mrs. Bartholin, the confes-
sion runs. was accomplished according to
a plot arranged between the two lovers,
and later Bartholin killed Miss Mitchell
The confession explicitly states that
Thompson. Clafy and Counselrnan, the
other suspects-their names are mentioned
in the order given-are guilty OF no COM
plicity in the murders.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-07
FOR GIVING REBATES
FOUR RAILWAY OFFICIALS INDICT-
ED BY THE GRAND JURY.
They Are Charged with Manipulating
Rates on Flour and Feed from
Minneapolis.

MINNEA- lis, Sept. 6.-Four railroad
officials hay, oeen indicted by the federal
grand jury for manipulation of rates by
means of rebates. They are w. r. Burt,
president. and w. II. Bennett, general
freight agent of the Toledo, Ann Arbor &
North Michigan Railway and H. F. Whit
comb. president. and Burton Johnson, gen.
eral freight agent of the Wisconsin Central.
The two roads connect at Manitowoc, Wis,
by car ferry. No attempt has yet been
made to cause their arrest. nor is it GER
tain that any will be made for the present
CHICAGO, Sept. 6.-J. +. Marchand,
special attorney for the Interstate-com-
merce Commission, stated to-day that ca
phases had been issued for the arrest of
the indicted men and will be served upon
Mr.. Burt at Saginaw, upon Mr.. Bennett
at Toledo. and upon Messrs. Whitcomb and
Johnson at Milwaukee. Judge Munger, at
Minneapolis. fixed the bail of each de-
fendant at s., 500.
The act under which the bills were voted
enforces penalties of fine not exceeding
5000, or Imprisonment in the penitentiary
for a term not exceeding two years, or
both, at the discretion of the court. 1t
is understood the documents charge the
officials with unlawful manipulation of
rates, with respect to flour and feed trans
ported TO Eastern destinations. Evidence
is said to have been adduced to show that
lers, and that domestic -four was handled
on the export rate. The bills are also said
to contain clause charging false billing
as a means whereby traffic was procured
for the two railroads involved. There were
summoned as witnesses before the grand
jury thirty prominent railroad officials and
millers of the Northwest, but only three
witnesses were heard. These are said to
have been a Lake Shore agent at North
Amherst, o., a flour and feed dealer at the
same place, and Auditor Smith, of the In
terstate-commerce Commission.
The present case is the first In history Of
the commission where the attention of
that body was directed to infractions of
law by railroad men. Heretofore and prior
to the issuance of the injunctions by the
United States Court prohibiting secret rates
and preferences any cut rate by any line
has always been met by reprisals by COM
peting lines made in similar manner, and
governmental investigation has been
Stunned. The restraining orders issued
against twelve of the strongest lines
east and west-bound from Chicago had
made such action impossible.
SAGINAW, Mich, Sept. 6.-President w.
R. Burt, of the Ann Arbor Railroad stated
to-day that his road had had some diff
ferences with the Northwestern regarding
division of freight rates, but ii was a mat
ter which the traffic department had in
charge and he knew nothing of it, nor did
he understand that the interstate act had
| been i'm any way contravened. He retires
from all connection with the Ann Arbor
road Sept. 16.