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The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-01-01

Memphis.-C. S. Booker, a vet
eran mail carrier, committed suicide
Friday by shooting himself through
the heart. Booker is a native OF
Memphis and is of middle age. De.
spondency is given as the cause OF
the deed.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-01-01

S. NJ. Brewer. of Sharon, Tenn /,
claims he was robbed of $40 Will
entering the Yazoo aud Mississippi
Valley train Friday night at vicks-
bur. The police are investigating the
affair.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-01-01
EXPLOSION ON HOUSEBOAT.

Steubenville, O.-Near the Gill
,hrist coal works across the Ohio
liver, an Austrian woman living in
/ houseboat tried to start her stove
With gasoline. An explosion fol-
owed and she was burned to death.
Ter husband and boarders escaped,
,ut were unable to secure her body.
One Of the boarders went back after
he money he had hid and was killed
~ the explosion of powder he had
stored there.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-01-01

Congressman Ewart the Republican
representative from North Carolina,
has written a letter TO President Roos-
evelt bitterly denouncing Ex-senator
Marion Butler for interfering with Re-
publican politics in that State.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-01-01

The educ .tional reports from all OF
the county superintendent except
one or two have been receive | by the
State superintendent anil the Office
free is now engaged in tabulating
them. Enough has been done to show
that the schools of thu State will make
a very encouraging showing for the
year past.
There has been an increase III
nearly all the items embraced iu the
report said Superintendent Whit
field "and taken as q whole the scboo.
situation in the State is very crafty
ing to all the believers in educltiona.
progress. Iu the first place, the va,,
majority of the scdoo,s report increased
enrollm.nts part Ct which is due no
doubt to increase in population, bul
also o part to the awakening to tn,
ed itself so strikingly in this Stat,
within the past few years. Bette
Than this there is at improvement in
the average a.~tendanco, which can be
ascribed to ths latter Cause alone.
The problem of getting the school
chi dred In rural districts to atte al
regularly is a v,ry troublesome one
and it Is gra flying to note that tn,
awakened sense of the Advantages t.
be received has made the first stop Ia
this direction possible.
"Ihe funds available in the ~various
counties for educational purposes are
showing up mach better. This is ii
a sense natural because the State M.
preparation was larg ;ly increased a
the last meeting OF the Legislature
But it is also duo to active local CO
operation, the levying of special take
by boards of supervisors who hav
realized the i%ustice of the public de
mand for an Improvement OF count,
school conditions. In this conHecl
ion may be mentioned the fact that tn,
aberage school for of the State ..ha
be n greatly extended comparatiyel,
speaking aud in a large number o
counties the children are given til
advantage of longer scaool terms.
with the beginning. of tn, nea
year we expect to %inaugurate a move
ment which will further improvement
Tho work this winter and in the Spriny
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-01-01

DIR. Ale xander Graham Bell, the in
y%entor, is at work on a flying kite
which may solve the aerial navigation
problem.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-01-01

London. Premier Balfour is con-
fined to his bed at Whitti1gham,
Scotland. He is suffering from q
sharp attack Of influenza,
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-01-01

John Williams. a negro, shot ard
killed Ben McFadden. a negro fire.
man on the Gulf and Ship Island rail,
read, near the shops 10 Gulfport,
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-01-01
CULLED AT
THE CAPITAL
Crisp Jackson News Of State IL.
tereSt.
INSPECTION TOUR
Or President Mclnnis and Score.
tary Webb. Re-
ports Received.

Jackson, iss.-President McIn.
mis- of the Railroad Commission and
Secretary Webb began the inspec-
ton of the Southern Dee. 10Th,
leaving Jackson ,Suudly night.
They began work at Birmingham
and will go from there to State Line.
Two magnificent oil paintings
were received by the department of
history, n of Judge Alexander NJ.
Clayton and the other of Gov. Alex
ander g. McNutt. The first was
presented by Mrs, Nj. L. Hull and
Mrs. John W. Ross OF Memphis, both
daughters of Judge Clayton. and
the second by A. G.. Paxton of Hol-
landale, Miss. Judge Clayton was
for many years a member of the
State Supreme Court and a most &C
compiished %jurist. He was a member
of thu original Bolrd Of Trustees CT
the State University, having been
appointed in 1914. He held this po-
sitioa for almost half o century, at
tending the meetings regularlr up
to his death in 1899. Gov. McNutt's
name is i~nscparably connected with
the attitude of the State toward the
Union Bank bonds. He was elected
governor on that issue, and in his
message to the legislature he urged
that they did not constitute a bind
ing obligation, inasmuch as they
wera issued in plain violation of the
State Constitution with a knowledge
OF which the buyers were legally
affected. He gave other grounds for
their reputation, and his views
finally prevailed. He was one of the
ablnst Executives the State had. He
died while making a canvass for the
United States Senate.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-01-01

A movement is on foot in the Sena'e
to defeat all of the r, cipl ocii, treaties,
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-01-01

A%diutant General Corbin received a
cablegram from General Davis, at
Manila saying that Captain Robert
McGregor, Corps of Engineers, died
in the Manila hospital ON the 23d
inst, OF acute appendicitis. Captain
McGregor al a native Of Michigan,
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-01-01

There are thirty-five vacancies in
the grade of assistant surgeons in
the army and little prospect of fill
ing them. The next examination,
to be held in Washington, will oc-
II seine time in April, and an ex-
animation is row being conducted
in the Philippines to fill some of the
places.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18

/ AT the recent meeting of the Massa-
committee reported in favor of I'M
graded schools as reaching the needs
of the child better than the graded
ones. This is not the popular view,
but it is the true one. The massing of
pupils into larger groups for instruc
ton makes it possible to obtain better
teachers and educational facilities
than could be had in the old fashioned
district schools; but the instruction
given Is necessarily general and slips
off the intelligence of some of the pu-
pills like water off ducks back. The
doesn't fit all the children. The best,
most helpful teaching is personal rec
ognizing and adapting itself to indi
vidual requirements. This a teacher
of fair intelligence and judgment and
with enthusiasm for the work, can give
in small school especially when re-
tanned year after year to follow out
her methods to some fruition. The
old district system had its defects and
conditions in some localities made
school Capitalization almost impera-
tive, but the educational principle at
the bottom of it was sound and the
farmers are finding it. out by exper-
fence.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
Progression the Thing.
TBarre Times. |

The leaders of the Republican party
must be brought to realize that the
party must be progressive, that it must
recognize new and proper legislation
and that it must be Jealous for all that
pertains to the well-being of the state
Happily the day is passing when Yer
monters can safely sit back, satisfied
with merely the old, and still maintain
their position. The Independent voter
and he is really a blessings creep
ing into the state, and will not be
beguiled into voting for a candidate
simply because he represents a party.
The candidate must represent not
simply the tried doctrines of the
political party but he must stand for
progressive ideas in legislation-ideas
that look for the upbuilding of the
state. So let the party be looking for
the platform as well as the candidate;
let it secure the shirt at the same time
that it gets the button.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
Illegal Liquor Selling Not In II.
Woodstock Age.1

The News knows as well as any one
of the extent of contemptuous evasion
of the prohibition law. True the PEN
alties made and provided were fright
full in some cases, but without the
backing of public sentiment their in
termittent enforcement made life COM
paratively easy for the average dealer
and an occasional fine was his only
hardship. He kept on doing business,
IL not at the old stand, at another in
conspicuous and III Lighted apartment.
There is some Illegal selling now, and
there always viii be, but liquor deal
ers who go beyond the limit. who don't
keep within the law, are put down and
out of business, and they don't resume
the next morning. We repeat, that un-
der the present law Illegal liquor traf
fic offers no inducements to ambitious
and aspiring young men of Vermont,
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18

The state fails to show that Rev.
Daniel Mcintyre of Pawlet has been
guilty of abusing a child as charged.
Then the state has been guilty of a
piece of asininity-to speak mildly.
The state has no business to make
such a charge unless it have posi-
tive proof beforehand to support the
charge. To accuse a minister of the
gospel of cruelty to little child in his
care is a matter that should be quite
out of the realm of superstition or
guesswork. If Mr.. Mcintyre is in
nocent of the charge. then he has suf-
fered a monstrous wrong, for such a
charge carries with it a stigma that
can never be wholly removed. He
will be made to feel the bitterness of
it. now and then. as long as he lives,
in this world where men, conscious of
their own evil, are so quick to suspect
its existence in others. There is a les
son in this case that we may all learn
to advantage.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
IMontpeller Argus.l

Names game commissioners are
greatly pleased with the new hunting
license law. 1t brought In revenue a.
mounting to more than the states APP
preparation for the protection of game
and viii enable them to place a strong
patrol in the north woods to watch for
poachers; it did not appreciably reduce
the number of hunters and resulted in
"a better class going to the state; the
guides, who expected to be ruined by
the new law reducing the number of
hunters. were employed more DAYS than
in previous years. and the number of
shooting accidents in the woods was
greatly lessened. Altogether the COM
missioners think the law is a good
thing and want the state to stick to
II
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
The Dark Side.

The story revealed by the testimony
case at Bennington is one unutter-
ably sad and disheartening to human
ity. 1t is in no wise new and should
not be surprising-for it is but rep
etition of what has happened again
and again in the history of the world
and will continue TO happen as long as
human passions are allowed to domi-
nate individual judgment and will.
The fluent analyst will undoubtedly
cite the Rogers case as an example
and proof of the moral decadence in
rural communities so much discussed
of late; but little thought will con-
vince anyone that such conclusion
is mere idle conjecture There is no
more of moral decadence in rural COM
munities than there is anywhere else.
There is always moral decadence
wherever there is idleness or where in
dividuals deliberately turn their
th'u5itS iaibo 6ioso IhtiiiiSiSs anu thAS
happens with as relative frequency in
cities as in isolated neighborhoods:
only immortality is more likely to be
passed by unnoticed in cities than it
is in country towns.
The Rogers case is not one peculiar
to any situation, or stratum of society
1t is the simple outcome of the terrible
scope and power of the temptations of
human passion Mrs. Rogers can not
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18

In It's issue Of Dec. 10, Leslie's Week.
ly pays touching tribute to the late
Silas L. Griffith of Dandy who made,
I'm his will, provision for fund to fur
nish Christmas gifts for the children
in and about Dandy as well as neces-
saries for the children of the poor. It
says: Santa Claus has taken to him
self "A side partner up in the land OF
maple sugar and buckwheat cakes. and
never again will the happy Christmas
season pass and any little child how
ever poor, in Dandy or the country
roundabout, fail to receive some pref
ty gift" 1t describes in full the pro-
visions of the will regarding these two
beautiful benefactions and presents
fine portrait of the warmhearted
benefactor on its page of people talk
ed about"
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
Christmas spruces Growing.
[Londonderry Sifter.l

What's all this rot about cutting
Christmas trees? One reading and
believing some of our state papers
might conclude that we were not only
in danger of a lumber famine but
would soon be obliged to freeze or pat
ronize the coal barons. Nonsense,
Timber grows, and spruce bushes are
no exception. Don't worry, brethren,
there are spruce saplings in this cor
ner of the state, now standing and will
grow, to make little hearts glad in the
metropolis until Gabriel blows his
trumpet. And as fast as they are cut
and the farmer gets the price in his
pocket so much better off will he be
and the next generation can go right
along and do likewise. Try another
tack, lease. This denuding the forest
business ought to be played out.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18

A Boston physician sends out a
cheering message to the world this
week In announcing his discovery OF
the cause of scarlet fever. One by one
the diseases man has deemed invinci-
BILE are being shorn of their power by
the persistent courage of science.
Small pox. once a deadly terror. is
now generally seen in a mild form. due
doubtless to the immunity given hui
manity by generations of repeated vac
cination. Diphtheria, too, is success
fully handled, now-a days, through the
clear understanding of the disease
which science has spread among our
physicians and the conquest of scarlet
fever viii remove another great
source of dread for the minds of par
ents the world over.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18

A Chicago professor comes out Wig
orously in condemnation of bathing.
He declares that pneumonia, colds and
u hundred other ills come from the
foolish habit of washing the body
thereby making sewer of the skin"
He contradicts the assertions of ply
siologies that death is the result of
closing the pores of the skin. and even
denounces the dry bath" which he
says removes the natural scales of the
skin and conduces to the growth of bac-
terra there. All Difference TO the pro-
fessor, John Dill Robertson, who may
be right; but many OF us would rather
die and die clean than to live ms mem
bers of the great unwashed."
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18

The list of possible gubernatorial
candidates loses a bright, particular
star this week in the refusal Of Hon.
j. A. DeBoer of Montpelier to permit
the use of his name in that capacity.
In a letter to the Montpelier Journal,
Mr.. DeBoer explains that while he
deeply appreciates the honor that
would be done him, he thinks it would
be unwise to drop his work, so pleas
ant and profitable, and the income of
which he needs for the sake of seek
ing opportunity in politics He furth
ermore modestly suggests that since
the woods, on both sides of the noun
tain, ARE full of better men, than he,
his decision can not harm either party
or state. The people of Vermont will
disagree with Mr. DeBoer on this
last point, but much as they will GER
tainly regret his decision, no one will
question the wisdom or good sense it
evidences. When a man has found
pleasant and profitable occupation in
which he is making himself useful and
he can not do better than to
stick to it,
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18

be woman of the very lowest typ,
of intelligence or charm. She strongly
held the admiration and affection o.
at least three men, one of whom Is de-
scribed as intelligent, and IL she hat
married, In early life, a man strong
enough mentally and morally, to hole
her esteem, she might to-day hav,
been a happy wife and mother instead
of an accused murderess against
whose guilt all testimony is pointing
strongly. II is an early injudicious
step that often leads up to situations
that bring out the criminal in human
being.
This philosophy offers no material
excuse for the criminal. If we have
become moral monstrosities 1t does
not much matter how it happened, ex-
cept as wholesome lesson and a
warning to other human beings who
have perhaps, the same germs of evil
within them which it behooves them
to keep in check.
Whatever the outcome of the Rogers
case may be, those who read the re-
port of Tuesdays testimony can not
fail to note that the wretched woman
whether guilty of actual murder or
not, is already reaping the bitter re-
ward of wrong doing. 1t was her por
ton to hear the man for whom, ac-
cording to the testimony, she had done
these dreadful deeds, calmly give her
away" in a crowded courtroom. What
a prize upon which to stake all, even
life! And what a cruelty adequate
punishment for the betrayal of the
man who is said to have blindly loved
her
The story of the Rogers murder
case, full as 1t is of unhappiness. dis
and disappointment is
not one that should be demoralizing
i'm it's influence If carefully read and
pondered On the contrary 1t should
Sicken one of the very thought of
associations and pleasures.
1t is the story of the dark side of hui
man nature. II should make us turn
longingly to the pure and wholesome
in life, to the unequivocal path that
may seem a bit narrow and monoto-
nous, but which is the safest, the
sweetest and most satisfying in the
long run.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18

The coming of the calendar season
Is right upon us. Among the many use
full and attractive calendars which are
sent TO every business office this month
is the familiar Pope Manufacturing Co.
desk calendar, the return of which her
aids. we trust, the infusion of old new
life into the bicycle department Of the
succeeded to the Pope business, the
calendar was discontinued, the adver-
Using was discontinued. and presently
With Col. Albert A. Pope again at the
helm. things will be different.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18

The Burlington Free Press proudly
calls attention, by means of a letter
from President Buckham of the uni
versity of Vermont, to the fact that
Herbert Spencer, the great philosopher
who died last week in England once
stopped over night at the Van Ness
house, We win now listen to remarks
from the st. Adams Messenger, which
has in cold storage a number of bright
ones, designed originally for the nur-
ture and admonition of Brattleboro
mission now abandoned as hopeless.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18

We do not agree with those of our
contemporaries who intimate that the
matter of a good state platform Is of
more Importance than the candidate.
Party promises are not always fulfilled:
but wise and honest man OF mental
and moral vigor in the executive chair
is bound to be a steady source of good
to the state. An unsuitable executive
win not give a satisfactory adminlstra-
ton no matter how good the platform
he stands upon. It's the man that is
the potent factor in the problem.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
why not refer the Panama matter

Why not refer the Panama matter
to The Hague tribunal? Arbitration is
one of our pet principles and has been
labelled correct by the highest au
thorities in the country to say nothing
of popular sentiment. If Colombia
have any complaint to make of the
way we have acted in connection with
the Panama revolution why not let an
cumstances and decide for justice?
Right and justice are what we want of
course.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
Where the Shoe Pinches.

The Wisconsin legislature has sent
to Washington a resolution in favor
of electing senators by popular vote.
This Is well. but this much needed re-
form will not be brought about until
senators are elected who will permit
It, A majority of the senators now
wearing togas prefer dealing with leg
islatures TO taking their chances before
the people No man should be elected
to the national senate who will not
pledge himself to favor the election of
senators by popular vote.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
Thinks It Necessary. Maybe.
fst. AlbansI Messenger.l

Worthy Master C. ]. Bell OF the Yer
mont State Grange told the Patrons of
Husbandry some solid truth in his ad-
dress at Rutland. but he proposes a
pretty radical departure when he rec
commends that the Legislature provide
the state railway commission with full
power OF fixing a maximum rate of
freight and passenger service on all
railways subject to their jurisdiction"
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
Of Course.
Banner and Reformer. ]

With SO much diphtheria and small
pox abroad in Vermont it would be a
good thing If the penalty provided by
law. which Is fine of $500, were APP
piled for the breaking OF quarantine.
Quarantine is the only barrier the pub
lie has in these cases and 1t Is right
and proper that it should be as strict
as possible
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
A Mere Matter of Nerve.
[St. Adams Messenger.I

The Clement and anti-Clement
wings of the Republican party in Barre
have held a love feast and buried the
Ratchet. Which is as it should be.
If all the truth were told about 1902
it would probably be demonstrated that
the line of cleavage in some instances
did not represent so much difference
of opinion as differences in conception
of duty One was afraid but did"
and the other "dasn't" and didn't.
That's all.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
Expensive Fooiishness.

Well, the fool law that was passed
in the state Legislature in regard to
bounties on noXious animals has cost
the state something as may be seen in
the Telegram news columns today, but
there is one source of satisfaction, and
that is that the ones who made the law
win have to stand their share of the
expense.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
Two Sides to Il.
fNorthfeld News.l

The Maine game commissioners state
that the new license tax on deer hunt
ers has yielded the state s2s, $50 On
the other hand 1t is claimed that the
state lost double that money by the
diminished number of hunters who
went down there. The matter is wor-
thy of consideration from both sides of
the question. as the next general as
sembly of Vermont is likely to have
similar license tax bill before it.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
Very Singular.


Every list of Christmas presents sug-
gested for n man begins with articles
used in smoking or drinking. on the
other hand. there is nothing In any
of the lists of Christmas presents sug-
gested for women to indicate that wo-
men have any vices.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
A Wise Admonition.
Ist. Albums Messenger.l

The vacant Craftsmanship of the re-
publican state committee Is IA post of
too much importance to be bestowed
off-hand amid the hustle and pressure
of the next state convention. The party
might well be thinking over the list Of
eligibles in the meanwhile and prepare
itself to make a wise choice.