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The DeLand weekly news. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1887-190?, 1903-12-11
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A TRAVELLING man, Georg
~ Walker, of Cincinnati, tell
~ the Courier.Jourual the fol
lowing story concerning tn
manner In which the jury which &C
quilted J. Fl. Tillman for the murde
of N. G. Gonzales was secured. 1t i
unique among the multiplicity 0
methods whereby the ends of justice
are continually defeated.
81 will tell you how he did it.
was told about 1t by man who ha,
been in that state and who is thor
oughly C0nversant with the facts. l,
was one Of the shrewdest pieces o,
work on the part of lawyer of which
I have ever heard and is perfectly
legitimate; at least, no prosecution
could follow even If the facts were
shown in court.
LAS soon as it was known In what
county of South Carolina the case
would be tried, men representing
themselves as agents for large pic
turS enlarging establishment made
their appearance In the county. There
were dozen of them and each mancar.
ried with him as sample of the work
done by his house an enlarged chrome
of Tillman which was so natural that
no one could fail to recognize it as the
Lieutenant Governor, who was as well
known by his picture as Governor
Beckham of this state. The agent
carrying his picture of Tillman would
20 to house, ask for the head always
and with the man would begin to talk
about securing a contract to enlarge a
picture Of any member of the family.
After few minutes conversation ne
would display his sample, the picture
of the slayer of Gonzales. This would
inevitably bring the talk around to
the Tillman case, and the pretended
agent would draw out of the man an
expression of opinion on the case. He
would obtain the name of the man,
and after leaving the hOuse-always
without accepting any money, but
with promise to call later for an Or
der-put down in a note book the
name of the man and whether he was
for or against Tillman.
"This was done in every house in
the county, no one was missed, and
at the end of the time when the trial
was to begin the attorneys for Till.
man we're furnished with an alphabet
cal list of the entire male population
Of the county eligible for jury service
and opposite the name of each man
vas a memorandum showing how be
stood on the case. When the man was
called who was on the list as being OPP
posed to Tillman and being In favor of
him, this man would be
'orced to state that he had expressed
IN opinion in the case, and was there
ore ineligible for service ON the jury.
This was the way Tillman's attorneys
occurred jury which was composed of
men who had all expressed themselves
beforehand as favoring an acquittal.
t shows what brainy lawyers were de.
ending the Lieutenant Governor and
low much money Tillman spent to be
reed. For that cavass cost money,
he men employed, from the necessity |
f the case, ha wing to be men of quick |
tits and shrewd judges of human
haracter."
The DeLand weekly news. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1887-190?, 1903-12-11
HowSs Great London Shows.

Travelling in its own palace rail.
road trains will exhibit at DeLand on
Monday for one day only. Be sure TO
see che grand street pageant At IL
e,sloek = The atenias. Z
The DeLand weekly news. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1887-190?, 1903-12-11

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The DeLand weekly news. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1887-190?, 1903-12-11

L. @. Horne, of Tallah assoc, has
secured a $4,000 verdict for
damages from Tallah. ssee jury
against the Seabord Air Line Rail
way and The Carrabelle ITALIANS as zee
& Gulf Railroad. Mr.. Horne was
crippled for life in a railway wreck.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11
The Re-Union at Cassvllle.

On Aug. %, 26, ~ and %, 1903,
promises to be the best one yet
held. From year to year this an.
nual reunion has grown until ii
has assumed immense proportions.
The excellent grounds with splen-
did spring thereon makes it a de-
lightful place for such occasions.
It 10 an ideal place for four days
pleasant outing. Many prominent
speakers will be present, and many
new attractions are expected. Tents
can be rented on the grounds.
Come and have four days of real
solid enjoyment. Privileges can be
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11

The Coffeyville city council has
passed an ordinance which puts
them in the lire of statesmen. They
will fine in the sum of 500 and
costs anyone who sells any "malt
liquor, under any name whatever,
whether intoxicating or non.intox-
icating," and If the fellow or fell
lows found guilty does not pay the
fine will Jail him or her, as the case
may be. Let us ali sing!
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11
SATURDAY, JULY II.

The Indian agents Office at Mus
kogee has asked for $4,000 with
which to prosecute the work of
opening section line roads through
the Greek Nation. This 10 also a
move against the cattlemen who
have large tracts of land fenced for
pasturage purposes.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11

Governor Bailey got his lesson in
taking care of his wife's things
early. When Mrs. Bailey packed
her goods at Kansas City the boxes
were directed to the governor. At
the came time there were scores of
boxes of relief supplies being sent
to him. He had just sent a ship.
ment to the Rock Island to be sent
to Kansas City, when he was told to
look after his wife's goods. Had he
been few minutes later they would
have been on the way back to Kan
sas City to be distributed among
food sufferers.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11
Frisco Excursion Rates.

San Francisco, CAL, Aug. 1872,
National Encampment 6. A. r.
Round trip rate $45 to San Francis.
CO or Los Angeles. Dates of sale
Aug. l to IA. Return Oct. Is. Stop
overs allowed.
Special Excursion to San Fran.
cisco, Los Angeles and San Diago.
Round trip rate $50.35. Dates of
sale July l to TO- Return Aug 81.
Stop overs allowed.
Summer Tourists rates to Color
ado and Utah az follows: Round
trip rates, Denver, Colorado Syringe
or Pueblo $l935; Glenwood Springs,
Colo. $31.55; Ogden and Salt Lake
City $s25s. Dates of sale daily from
July to Sept. 30. Return Oct. 81.
Diverse routes allowed.
Low Summer Tourist rates to Ger.
tain points in Canada, Iowa, Mich,
MINI, New York, Ohio, Wis, So.
Oak. Also to 81 Paso, Tex. Dates
of sale daily from June l to Sept. 80.
Return Oct. 81.
One way colonist rates to certain
points in Ark, Ind. Ty, La, New
Mex, Okla, and Texas at rates of
one-half fare plus So. Dates of sale
July z and q, Aug. and IS, Sept. i
and IS.
Homeseekers excursions to GER
tain points in Ark, Ind. Ty, Okla.
Tex, Mex. Ari., New Mex, La, Ala,
Fla, Ca, KY, Miss., N. Car. So. Car,
Tenn, and Va. Rates one fare plus
So for round trip. Dates of sale July
Z and q, Aug. 4 and IS, Sept. and
IS. Return limit 81 days from date
of sale. Stop overs allowed at Ger.
tain points. For further informa-
ton call on CARL PETERSON, Agt.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11

The following story is going the
rounds, but you need not believe it
If you don't want to: A Crawford
county farmer had a novel exper-
fence. A few years ago he built a
small barn and in it's construction
used green willow posts at the cor.
ners and along the sides. For some
time nothing unusual was noticed.
but after a year he saw that where
as he had laid the floor near the
ground, it was three feet above the
soil. He discovered that the willow
posts, instead of being dead, were
alive, had taken root and were
growing. In their upward move
ment they had carried the barn
along. Last spring the barn was
on stills nine feet high and he put
in a new floor and surrounded the
posts with siding, thereby making
a two story affair. There is now z
inch space between the new floor
and the ground, and the owner ex-
poets to have a three story barn in
the course of time.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11

Once upon a time a Kansas far
mer gave his son a small potato
and told him he could have land to
raise the increase therefrom until
he became of age. At the end of
the fourth year the boy had 400
bushels of potatoes and the man
wanted to be released from his bar
gain. Another man in Kansas gave
one of his children two old hens
and said he would feed the increase
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11

A smooth-talking agent has been
selling prepared lime" to farmers
in certain sections of the country
at $12 per ton. A special merit
claimed for this prepared article is
that it contains ten per cent of sui
phate of lime. Those who bought
could not have considered that they
could buy high class lime at $S.75
per ton, and that a few buckets of
water would prepare" it in good
shape for their land. And they
could hardly have known that sui
phate of lime is land plaster that
they could buy of any home fertil.
izer agent for IS to So per ton.-Ex.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11

Ed. Howe of the Atchison Globe
will entertain August 2. He will,
in honor of the Globes twenty.ffth
birthday, entertain with two con.
certs at Forest park by Ellery's Ital.
ian band, the largest and best pro-
band that has ever visited
in Atchison. The concerto will be-
gin at 2 and 6 p. mn and after the
evening concert there will be NOV.
ing pictures and other amusements
suitable to the day. Everything
will be free. Teams can not be ad-
mitted to the park, but the gates
for foot passengers will be opened
and there will be no charge.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11

for four syears. Two years have
passed and the boy has 200 chick
ems and $64 In the bank. The man
says he 10 afraid the boy will own
the place and charge him rent for
living there.-Ex.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11
Armstrong, the East Side barber.

Hello-Had dinner No! Come
to the Blue Front Cafe. Well treat
you right, give you all you can eat
and charge you zoe. Thanks, come
again. The best of everything, the
lowest in price. East side Military
street. Dunham's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11
TERRITORY LAND.

Parties wishing to buy land in
the Indian Territory should address
Chas. L. Smith, Baxter Springs,
Kansas.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11

The editor of the Baxter Repub.
lican and the mayor can't agree
very well, and the mayor wants the
editor to resign as city clerk. The
editor says that before he resigns
it will be the coolest summer ever
known in this latitude" and If he
resigns even then he "hopes his
tongue will wither and decay, and
his right arm become palsied." Ev-
identity the boys better 60 back to
marbles or observation-disclosures
Democrat.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11
PROSECUTION.

Persons hunting or trespassing
in Reunion Park, or carrying away
any lumber or other property will
be prosecuted. This means bust
ness. CHAs. L. SMITH.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11

Geo. Cravens paid fine Tuesday
for disturbing the peace.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11
WtANTED-IOo TEAMS.

I want 100 teams to put up hay.
Good wages. Call on me at Qua
paw, I. T.. w. T. APPLE.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11

practically the entire fiction product Of every America
lowing being specimens, will be offered each month.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-11

We
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The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1903-07-24
FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
REDDING.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mrs Dora Horwitz of New York
City is spending two weeks with Mrs
H. McCollum.
MIR and Mrs Bert Kelley had son
arrive at their home Tuesday, July Il.
Miss Ada Jennings Of Long Hill is
spending few weeks with Mrs Ran
dolph Bradley.
Master Harold Collins of Bridgeport
iSSpending few weeks with his grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs John Carroll.
Mrs Elizabeth Osborne and Miss FL
sic Hawley are stopping with Mrs EN-
lily Hill for number of weeks.
Mr. and Mrs William DeBruycker and
children of New York City are at
Mrs H. DeBruycker's home in Sanford
town for the summer. Mrs August
DeBruycker of New York City is with
them for few weeks.
A subscription paper has been circu-
lated by Henry Osborne and about $3.50
has been raised for the imprOveme MT
of the road between the Ridge and the
Center. This will be put with the $3.50
offered by the State and will put the
highway in good shape.
Mrs Charles W. Bassett of New Ha-
ven is spending few weeks with Mr.
and Mrs w. S. BaSSett on the Ridge.
George w. DaSkam has moved his
w 1pCUlO1 VAC1O LIZ opOACS
a blacksmith shop.
Daniel Sanford and family of Brook.
line, Mass, are at their home on the
Ridge for the summer.
Cornelius O'Keefe has some extra
fine early potatoes which he has raised
for Daniel Sanford. They have al
ready sold Is bushels.
Mrs Seyms and two daughters OF
| Washington, D. g., are with Miss Julia
| Sanford for several weeks stay.
John Moore, who has been spending
several months at Perth Amboy, N. j.
with his son, is at his home here fOl
the summer.
Jesse Cornwall of Bridgeport has be
gun work on the handsome residence
which he will erect in Sanfordtown
Martin V. Burr has the contract TO
the mason work and Eugene Ada m
for the carpenter work.
Hugh McCollum has begun work OF
the new log cabin which is to be bull
in the Glen for New York parties.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1903-07-24
worm of the dust, or riding in an air
ship to some far-away city in our own
native land.-[William W. Welton.
Dated Bridge water Conn.,, July 8,
JOHN WESLEY'S CHARACTER.
HE WAS A RELIGIOUS MAN IN AN IR-
RELIGIOUS AGE.-FROM c. T. WIN.
CHEsTER's "JOHN WESLEY" IN THE
JULY CENTURY.

John Wesley was religious man in
an irreligious age. The religious man
is the man filled with a sense Of the
presence of God and of the force of
spiritual laws here and now. That,
and only that, makes truly religious
man in any age and in any country.
The form of the experience may vary;
indeed, it may hardly be recognized as
religious experience at all. Thomas
Carlyle, for example, was religious
man; whether he was exactly Christ
ian or not, may be question. And
when it is said that the age of Wesley
was irreligious, it is not meant merely
that intemperance, lawleSSnesS, bias
society. That is true; but those flag
rant sins may be found in any age, and
the historian of morals is perhaps
prone to exaggerate them. Certainly,
all through the eighteenth century
there were score of deanerieS and
hundreds of rectories that were the
abOdeS of a decent, sincere and cOmely
Guardianship. But the good men of
this time, the sincere men, were not
in the truest sense religious. Bishop
Burnett, for example, Addison Swift,
were good men, but not in the sense
religious men.
1uc OIGuOuOA CIlufClmduSulp Ol
England when Wesley began his
preaching, needed nothing so much as
that intimate personal sense of spirit
ual verities, which it timidly branded
as enthusiastic. It's belief was an I'M
certain balance of proba bilities. Its
motives were at bottom prudential.
1t could not speak with authority;
it could not touch the deeper springs
of action. Such religion might be
discussed, believed, even practised; to
talk Of experimenting it would be
meaningless. Moreover, a religion
with so little of the contagious warmth
of certainty could make no converts,
could have no missionary impulse.
"What is your religion, my lord?"
some one asked Lord Bolingproke.
''The religion of all sensible men,"
was the reply. eyes, but what is that?"
ga h, that is what no sensible man ever
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1903-07-24
THE PROPOSED EMIGRATION OF
US FOLKS.

Where can we go, us folks, black folks,
where can we go?
Sweet is the sugar corn,
Sweet the rise Of early morn,
Tune the banjo string,
Raise the song and sing
Bitterly, bitterly, where can we 90.
black folks:
Our broad swords we are ready to draw
In defense of our country and law.
Shall we wander and sigh
Under an inclement sky,
l. Unknown, to follow adrift,
Our country to shift?
Oh, bitterly, bitterly, storm and the
seas,
We trusted our lives, and lived but to
please;
Oh, why does gratitude thus linger
the while
And blot out the region that lightens
her smile?
Meath the orbs of the sky,
A home shall we crave,
While the sun rises red
And sets on our grave.
Bitterly, bitterly, us folks, black folks,
where can we go, where can we go:
Mrs l. M. Sharpe, New Milford, Ct.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1903-07-24
tells" The anecdote may be apocry-
phal; but it illustrates we'll enough the


limited and individual charac ter of
upon the prOfoundest subjects. In
fact, it is evident that the religion of
this time had little influence even
upon the lives Of most who made an
outward profession of it. No man could
hold any civil office without taking
the sacrament according to the forms
of the Church of England; but it is
said that not more than four or five
members of the House Of Commons
regularly attended church. The uni
versal prevalence of political corrup-
ton during the ministry of Walpole is
proverbial. During the reign Of Anne,
the urbane satire of Steele and Addi-
son had done something to bring into
fashion decent social morality ard at
least an outward respect for religion;
but despite the influences, what called
itself fashionable society grew steadily
more lax in morals and negligent in
manners. All the loud, ostentatious
vices that accompany rapid increase
in wealth, had probably never been so
prevalent in English society as during
the reign of the second George.
or the nineteen children born to
Samuel and Susanna Wesley, only ten
survived the period of infancy, and OF
these only three were sons. John was
thirteen years younger than Samuel
and six years older than Charles. OF
his early boyhood only one accident is
recorded. On February night in 1909
the rectory was burned. The family,
hurrying out in terror, left the boy,
John, sleeping in his little attic cham
Der, and he was, taken out through a
window, only an instant before the
blazing roof fell in upon his bed.
Wesley always retained vivid recOl-
lection of the scene, and more than
half century after, when thinking him
self near death, he composed his cpl
taph, he describes himself as ga brand
plucked from the burning.'
His mother deemed his rescue a
providential indication that her son
was preserved for some great work, and
resolved, as she says, ''to be more par
ticularly careful Of the S oul Of this
child that Thou hast SO mercifully
provided for" There is, however, no
evidence of anything precocious in the
religious development of the boy, but
only a certain stald over-deliberate-
ness, which he got from his mother,
but which to the more mercurial
temperament of the father seemed, in
lad not yet in his teens, half anus
ing and half vexat ious. "Sweetheart, -
said the rector to his wife, II profess
| think our boy Jack wouldn't attend
to the most pressing necessities OF
nature unless he could give reason
for it,
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1903-07-24
FAME.
WRITTEN FOR THE BEE.

I gained Fame's eternal realm.
The loftiest peak of all the range:
With perils Of the blind | fought my
way
To realize my distance from the earth:
Torn were my feet by stumbling blocks,
Rent by the fastneSS of solid rocks,
Step by step released, | fought and
climbed
To reach the outstretched laurel vine.
l looked about me in my celestial space,
Separated by kindred sympathy and
race;
Such things were strangely out Of
place.
Then from the heights l cried in lone
despair
Is't strange one longs for love and SYM
pathy?
My voice in echoes rang in empty air.
Overlook in madness fain would
throw
My shining stars and gems below
My genius proud-my dladem
Shorn of all welded power and grace
AS blots the sun, nor leaves a trace!
Il Mrs l. M. Sharpe, New Milford.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1903-07-24
UNCLE BENNY'S SEDATIVE.

Speeches. with rage, Sam followed
Benny straight to the melon patch, as
Uncle Benny knew he would. Though
somewhat hampered by the comfort
able, which Sam had pinned GU in such
a way that he could not unfasten it,
Uncle Benny managed to climb the
rail fence. After short search, he
secured misunderstanding melon, and
then sat down on a low rail pile to
carve it with his pen-knife, Sam mean
while looking on in silent indignation.
ny asked cordially. "My. but it's cold
and sweet. beats Cruel all out and
out" Sam did not deign to reply; but
though Outwardly stony, inwardly he
was beginning to yield.
"Well, are you going to eat it all
YOURSELF" he asked at length, after
stand it.
ooh, why no. 1 forgot you hadn't
any. Here's a good piece, or shall we
go steal anOther?"
II should think you had enough on
your conscience for one night" replied
Sam severely, respectfully as you're 60
ing to die so soon anyhow"
"Oh, don't be too sure about me dy-
in. I'm pretty tough, anG anyhow, if
l am, l might as well 60 for a sheep as
a lamb" he added irreverently. "Say,
Sammy, just listen to the bugs a-hum-
min'."
The melon finished, hoy fashion, the
two old crOnies still sat on the rail pile
listening to the murmur of the insects,
and the sound of the night breezes in
the trees, and drinking in the beauty
of the moonlight falling around them.
''Sam," said old Benny, atlast," this
is heaps better than the young fool
doctors sedative. l could go to sleep
this minute right mere on the rail pile.
Besides, it's the first time I've had
fellow such satisfied feelin'. If I'm
goin' to die anyhow, Pm glad I had
this lark first. ~ Elizabeth A. Moore,
in August PearSon's.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1903-07-24
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