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The Lamar register., 1905-07-12
BOARD OF PARDoNs
Grants cIemeney to Four Prisoners at
Canon City.

Denver, July 9.-Peter Miller and
Thomas Dowd, Denver election fraud
convicts. will have to go to the State
Penitentiary for year at least. The
State Board of Pardons divided on its
vote on the applications of the men
for pardons. The rule being that the
cases may not be brought up again
for year.
A large number OF applications were
acted upon by the board Friday. but
only four received clemency in any
form.
George Bond. who killed his sweet
heart in Denver in 1898, will be able
to leave the prison next month. His
term was ten to twenty years, and
this was reduced to nine to twenty
years. 1t was represented that he
had been a good prisoner and that in
wounding himself at the time he killed
the girl terrible Injuries were inflicted
from which he has suffered much.
Daniel Randolph, sixteen-year-old
boy. who was sentenced in Denver to
from thirteen to fourteen years in the
penitentiary for robbery. was released.
He is now nineteen years old and can
try to make new start. Father Ma
lone made a plea for him.
John r. Smith. sentenced from Routt
county. had his time committed so
that he will be out in a month. He
was sentenced for an attempt to blow
up a house with dynamite.
Robert E. Rowe. sentenced in 1902
from Denver county to a term of from
five to ten years, had his sentence
commuted to three to ten years. He
was convicted in Judge Malone's court
of the crime of forgery.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12
IsWson's Agent Murdered.

Urique, Mex, July 9.-Gilbert John
son, chief mining engineer for Thomas
w. Lawson in California. has been
stabbed to death by peon named
Rocha. Louis n. Rain, manager OF
the Lawson company of Mexico, was
stabbed by Rocha and left for dead.
but will recover. Rocha quarreled
with Rain over SO. which the Mexican
claimed to be due him. and Johnson
came to Rahn's aid.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12
Standard Oil Defense.

Topeka, July THE Standard Oil
Company has filed an answer in the
Supreme Court to the custer suit
brought against the company by the
state of Kansas. The answer denies
everything alleged by the state against
the Standard and in addition. as its
main argument, attacks the validity of
the Kansas antitrust law.
II the court again declares the law
to be valid the case will be appealed to
the United States Supreme Court.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

How did the splendid word royal
ever come to be applied to the blood
in human beings veins?" asks the
Los Angeles Times. This reminds us
of the old lady who was enthusiastic
about Adams discrimination in pick
ing out such a fit name for the hog
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

''Smacks Of Treason" is the caption
of an editorial in the Washington
Post We have not read it. but pre-
sume 1t treats of the kisses bestowed
by married man on the pretty house,
maid
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

A French engineer thinks a railway
could be built around the earth. in
cluding tunnel under Bering strait
for $250.0 .000 900. Probably a few more
thinks might cause him to alter his
figures little.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

Perhaps the young English scientific
man who by putting radium and ster
ilized bouillon in a test tube has sue.
ceeded in producing some of the phe
nomena of generation is on the verge
of a great discovery, and perhaps he
is only enthusiastic.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

The Boston Globe invites us to
Imagine daily newspaper written
in the style of Henry James" But If
they cannot imagine such thing in
Boston, we don't see how we can be
expected to do so.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12
Wonderful New Explosive.

New York July s.-That a twelve.
inch shell loaded with only small
charge of dHnite, the worlds most ef-
fective explosive. will crumple in the
side of the heaviest armor-clad vessel.
though the shell falls short of its mark
twenty feet. has just been demon
strated at the beginning of the series
of tests at the government proving
grounds at Sandy Hook.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

The Birmingham Age-Herald says:
"a Richmond pastor has induced the
women members of his congregation
to leave their hats at home The plan
will work all right until next April
Then there will be trouble"
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

Young Willie Ziegler proposes to
use his s30,o00,OoO for the purpose OF
discovering the north pole. In this
cool manner probably he will be able
TO escape the accusation, when it is
all over, of having burned up" his
money.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

A literary critic says in painting
women. she must be made either an
gelically radiant or heroically dia-
bolic." . Let us strike the golden mean
and say "angelically radiant"
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

We have noticed that since the re-
suit of the ocean yacht race was an
nounced. Sir Thomas Upton isn't
talking so much about taking part in
the next one.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

The London academy says that it
knows of at least one man who has
no literary ability whatever and yet is
able to make moderate livelihood
out of the construction of plots which
he sells to professional writer's Ques-
tion: What is literary ability?
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

of people now would like to see those
photographs with the newspaper girls
picture in them that the president has
ordered to be destroyed.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

Garden seed four thousand years
old have been discovered in Egypt,
but Egyptian Congressman are not
sending them out to their constituents
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

Who knows? II Russia's dream of
m alliance with Japan is realized.
some day the czar may be friendly
enough with the mikado to call him
Mix"
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

I'VE owe an immense debt to medi-
cal science" says the Detroit Free
Press. Same here. brother. and the
doctor is beginning to get disagreeabls
about it.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

Men do not die of hard work." says
the Boston Globe. We knew a man
once who died of hard drink, though.
A cake of ice fell on him.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

Fashion struck death blow to the
waiting hoopskirt industry when 1t de-
creed that only women who are over
thirty should wear the things.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

The Italian singer who mistook nj
trate of silver for water must have
been in the habit of taking his drinks
solid.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

Now old Pelee is impolitely elbowing
in between the dove of peace and Tom
lawson for front seat in the glare
of the limelight.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

Here's hoping that a sudden turn
of events won't make the dove of peace
feel that it has got mixed up in a
piseon-shooting match.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

It cost an Ohio man 500 to swear at
n woman over the telephone. Here
is a case where long distance bravery
did not triumph.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

invented the next thing is to have 1t
famed and made the servant of man.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

War is a serious matter and not
picnic. as you might imagine from the
way some European nations behave.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

A monument is to be erected to
John Smith. Not you, gentle reader
the Pocahontas Smith.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

Henry James may be right in saying
that the American newspapers use
sloppy English" but at least 1t can
be generally understood
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

There is in New York policeman
who has made s250,OOO in real estate.
Evidently he was not always asleep
on his beat.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

In Japan it is extremely bad form
for woman to contradict her hus-
band. Banzai!
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

DIR. Wiley has gone into executive
session to pursue an investigation of
limburger cheese. Science also has
its martyrs.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

A German chemist has invented a
kind of beer that contains no alcohol.
But why should he call 1t beer?
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

France and Germany should note
how Sweden and Norway settle their
little differences.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

woman hasn't any doubt you are
a good man when you can remember
the ages of her children.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

Many a man wastes enough perspir-
alton praying FOR c'mes to earn ten
times as many dollars.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

Some men are as hard to get along
with as balky horses.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-12

Secretary Morton has approved the
report of the board of naval officers
which selected the officers who are to
be retired 10 create the vacancies nee
essary under the naval personnel act.
Fifty-seven officers from the grade of
captain down have been named for re-
tirement.
A bulletin of the United States
Bureau of Labor states that wages and
the cost of living have risen in the
Philippines since the American occu-
patton and that dissatisfaction with
industrial conditions in the Philip
pines is manifested by all employing
classes and reflected somewhat amon6
the laboring population.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has decided that the Northern Pa
cific railway and its subsidiary COM
panies, operating stage lines and hotels
in Yellowstone park, are violating the
interstate commerce act by establish
ing a railroad rate which includes
stage transportation and hotel accom-
modations within the park.
A Lisbon, Portugal, correspondent
says that in view of the bad harvest
prospects, owing to the drouth and
the storms. King Charles has sane
toned the importation of $4,000 tons
OF American wheat and has ordered
the reduction of the customs duties
by nifty per cent.
John Moffet, known throughout the
country as "Steeple Jack" who had
climbed many steeples and stacks
without accident, was killed in New
York City July Sd by fall from a
staircase. He was thirty-two years
old and came to New York from San
Francisco about a year ago.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11
THE CORN BACKBONE,

1t was remarked by a prominent
cotton man last week, that the day
is approaching when the cotton
season will extend through the en-
tire year" This is contingent upon
corn surplus crops. The general
tendency Of producers is to hold
against low markets, and this rule,
whether good or bad, will always
prevail among farmers who are well
backed by corn cribs, smoke houses
and hay stacks, A short corn crop
means an early, rushing cotton mar
ket, and this early rush always means
sacrifice of crop. The universally
fine corn crops Of 1904, held back a
large proportion Of last seasons cot
lon crop and prevented a disastrous
slump in price.-A berdeen Elk
amIner.
Tho Examiner is correct. Far
mers who have full corn cribs, plen-
ty Of hay and other food crops, are
almost independent of the cotton
crop, which they use as their money
crop, Short corn crops, scarcity Of
hay and food crops, make them de-
pendent upon their cotton for not
only family necessities, but also for
their stock and cattle, the result be.
Ing that the staple must be market
ed to get supplies. When the time
comes that every farmer will be in
dependent Of the West for his corn
and hay, then can he take his own
time about marketing his cotton
la2oo Herald.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11
OUR PLANTS.

The Greenville Times says theiI
light and water plants don't pay
under municipal ownership. The
Greenwood Commonwealth says the
same thing Of their plants and Thai
too under the direction of three Of
the best business men Of the city as
a committee; and a rate twice as
high as those in West Point. Those
towns where private ownership
abide are charged a rate that is
truly ruinous.
Now we find that committee con-
troll of municipal ownership is a
failure and that private ownership
is worse; 80 we must admit that the
management Of these affairs by our
own city authorities is practically
faultless, for il is a fact that West
Point enjoys the lowest light and
water rate in this State, and SO far
as can be learned the lowest Of any
city or town in the United States.
In addition the street lights come
free and on dark days in winter the
day current is free,--indeed last
winter the total day current amount
ed to a full thirty days run, all
without money and without price to
the consumer.
As to the plants not paying, we
find that they in addition to paying
operating expenses have paid for
$4,000 worth of extensions and
improvements. As before stated it
was never intended to have the plant
pay a dividend but to apply the
proceeds to extension and improve
ment, no reasonable man could ask a
rate.
The only complaint that can be
laid at the door of the Board is the
reinforcement Of the prompt and
regular payment Of light and water
privilege by the consumer and this
we think should be insisted upon.
We do not believe that there is a
municipality in the country where /
The peoples business is handled
with such rare ability and sacred
honesty as is exercised by the most
EXCELLENT officers OF our city and any
Illusion whatever to political corrup-
ion along this line is nothing less
han a personal insult to them.
Our city government is doing ex-
well. The city taxation
5 meeting the bond payments
promptly and the people profit by
he earnings of the plant in a peer
ess service--a service far above the
rdinary and a rate far lower than
70 have ever heard of.-West Point
'imes-H Herald.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11
Justices Blanks.

The Commonwealth office has printed
a complete line of Blanks for Justices
of the Peace, and is prepared to fill all
orders for same promptly.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11
Summer Tourist Rates.

On sale daily May 18th to Sept. Both
inclusive. final limit Oct. 31st.
Round trip Summer tourist rates to
different points in all portions of the
the United States.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11

While crop prospects have bright
enod considerably within the past
week or so in this section of the
Delta, still, the outlook ar present is
nothing TO boast Of. The cotton
crop will evidently fall at least forty
per cent, below that Of last year, and
the fall of in corn perhaps greater.
However, there was a large acreage
OF late corn planted which, if the
seasons are favorable, will probably,
to a considerable extent, make up
the deficiency in the early planting.
The pea crop is excellent, promising
a heavy yield Of hay Belen Quill,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11

Speaking of lynchings reminds us
that up TO the present time, under
Governor Vardaman's administra-
tlon, there has been more lynchings
than in the same length Of time in
any other administration, Now we do
not hold the governor responsible
for these things for they are unfort-
innate circumstances that no one can
control or anticipate. But the Gov
ernor's friends have been in the
habit Of abiding to previous admin
lstrations with their CHASTITY records
Of lynchings, but they have become
very silent on these affairs here late
ly while the senatorial bee is buzz
ing uncertainty over certain heads.
-Sunilower Tocsin.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11

Excellent build 'ngs. Wanted 100 stu
dents. Located a t Oxford, Miss. Limi
ted so as to be able to stimulate,
arouse, and in even y way give personal
attention. Persona lily behind the books
so as to make q wei 'l-trained, practical,
symmetrical characte { out Of the boy is
n motto. DISCIPLE ne firm. Oxford is
n Of the most healt hful towns in the
State. Safe place an d flrst-class advan-
tages, physical, ments | and moral. APP
ply for catalogue to ]. NJ. Wyatt, Or
ford, Miss. ]. r. Pre- ston, ]. M. Wyatt
and ]. c. Morrison, I ,wners and mana
gers.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11

Further and full information cheer.
fully furnished. Either write or tele.
phone
]. L. POWERS, Ticket Agent,
Greenwood, Miss.
Jno. A. Scott, A. G.. P. A., Memphis.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11
Y. ( N. Y. R. R. SPECIAL
RATE COLUMN.
Excursion july 9th to Lake CHATEAU
qua, N. Y.

Rates $2S.56 for the round trip, good
to return until August 10th.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11

Southern farmers should be the
last TO hcave stones at Secretary
Wilson Of the Agriculture Depart
ment, for he is the first incumbent
10 that office since its foundation TO
exhibit intelligent interest in our
products or methods, and to use the
resources at his command for the
betterment Of southern agriculture
on southern ines .-Aberdeen Ex-
aminer.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11
Scholarship For Sale,

The Commonwealth has q scholarship
in the Grenada Business College which
can be had at a bargain. 1t will pay
anyone desiring to take a hrst-class
Nurse in bookkeeping or stenography
to see us about this at once.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11
Pacific Coast Points and Return.

Various dates, return limits and round
trip rates.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11

President Kincannon was in Jack
son a few days ago and was inter-
viewed as to his candidacy for the
Governorship. Mr.. Kincannon
stated that he was too busy cutting
the grass on his farm in Noxubee
and preparing for the next session
Of the College to consider the matter.
Evidently the president is making
hay and saying nothing columbus
Dispatch.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11
Franklin MAILING Machine For Sale,

The Commonwealth has for sale a
Franklin Mailer In good condition; also
full case of s point type to 60 with
same. Write US for particulars.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11
hAISSIS S | PI
V PUBLIC OPINION

The Blanchard Vardaman-Sou-
chon controversy adds a spice Of hui
moi 10 the grim situation. Biloxi
Herald.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11

What the governor or North Caro-
lima said to The governor Of South
Carolina is no comparison to what
the governor of Mississippi and
Louisiana have been saying to each
other. ~-kosCiusko Herald.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11

Society note; Among those pres
ent was Madame Stegomyia, whose
singing ways impress an company.
Columbus Post.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11

From battle and murder, from
plague, pestilence and famine, from
Blanchard and Vardaman and all
hot headedness, Good Lord deliver
us.-Biloxi Herald.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-05-18

What a Chinese can do in that regard
a Jap can do. Our laborers cannot
stand competition with them in starva-
ton. Hence this awakening of Amcri-
can laborers to the yellow peril.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-05-18

There are sporadic performances
which indicate that the craze for the
Japs and things Japanese which has
been sweeping over this land for about
two years has somewhat run its course.
For several months any man who hesi-
tated to assert that the Japs were the
highest type of humanity, only little
q very little-lower than the angels, be-
came at once persona non grata to any
company in which he happened to be.
There are signs-not many. but never
theless signs-that some folks are wax
ing up to the fact that the little yellow
men are not what imagination painted
them. Not long since reference was
made in these letters to the fact that
the scales had fallen from the eyes of
Californians to such an extent that
they were demanding an anti-Japanese
law similar to the anti-Chinese statute.
OF course that agitation will upset the
equilibrium Of all those who desire to
see an alien race wallop nation OF
Caucasians-the only nation of CaE-
casians, indeed, who were friendly to
the federal government when its need
was the sorest: but japanese eXclu-
sion act will appeal with great force to
all who have at heart the good of our
laboring classes and the good of the
country
There is also trouble over the Japs
out at Omaha in the packing houses.
The white men working in that bust
ness are not much stuck on the little
yellow men. Quite the contrary. They
are demanding their expulsion. This
the bosses refuse to grant, hence the
trouble And the end thereof is not vet.
Why do these white men demand their
expulsion from the Omaha packing
houses and why do the white Califor-
mans demand their exclusion from the
country? For sentimental reasons?
No; but from the impulse of self pres
eryation-the first law of nature The
plain, unyarnished truth is that the diff
ference between Chinese and a Jap is
the inappreciable difference betwiXt
tweedledee and tweedledum. When
the anti-Chinese bill was before the
house foreign affairs committee three
or four years ago 50 eminent person
age as Mr. Secretary of War Taft testi-
fed that, If put to it, Chinese can live
on cents per day, and WI Ting Fang
once boosted that Chinese could work
with equal facility and energy on the
equator or at the poles and that all he
needed for sustenance is a bowl Of rice.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-05-18
Governors and vetoes.

Governor Lanham of Texas is almost
as free with the veto as John Tyler,
Andrew Johnson or Grover Cleveland.
He appears to be governor who gov
ems. Governor Folk of Missouri also
does not hesitate to kill bills. SO far
these two seem to have pleased the
people with their votes. Not so, how
ever, with Governor Myron T. Her
rick of Ohio. No other Buckeye gov
ernor ever had the veto power, and
Herrick will in the days to come at
tribute his political demise to the fact
that it was conferred upon him and
that he used it once barely once but
once too often for his own good.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-05-18

E$% euueS was SJ,ZlL4lJ, anu II Is
@ still growing, like Jonah's
gourd vine What will the stand
patters do now poor things? How
long can they stand pat on an increas-
ing deficit? They will be compelled to
haul off from gloating over events of
1S93-unfortunate events caused by
the Mckinley tariff bill, but falsely
charged to Democrats-and fix their
thoughts upon this growing hole in the
treasury caused by the blessed Dingley
bill. OF course it will be like pulling
eyeteeth for General Charles Henry
Grosyenor, Hon. John Dalzell, Colonel
William Peters Hepburn, ct id genus
omne, to confess, as confess they must,
that there is d deficit and that some
thing must be done to remedy it. Dur
ing the campaign Republicans swore
that there was no deficit or if there
was one it was merely temporary and
by the end of the fiscal year it would
be completely wiped out. But that
was for vote getting purposes, and,
strange as it may seem, deceived some.
1A6y play St Oll Lie u Guilty VI Liz
people and won. But there is an end to
credulity, as to all things else The
deficit can no longer be denied, and
the only question is, What are we
going to do about it?' Perhaps it
would be more correct to ask, what
are they going to do about it?" They
made the deficit. 1t is theirs. They
have beastly majority in both houses
of congress and can do as they please;
but they must do something, and do it
at once, and it must be a satisfactory
something. Otherwise they will have
their majority in the senate will be
cut down. AS to what they will do
the rest of us can only speculate or, to
use a less majestic word, guess. Here
are the things which might be done:
% Cut down expenses; q lower the
tariff; 81 increase internal revenue
taxes; a. issue more bonds. The first
is out of the question so long as Re
publicans rule the roost. The only way
to cut down expenses is to kick them
out and put us in. But they are in until
March 4, 1907, in every branch and de-
partment of the government. In the
meantime unless something is done the
deficit will continue to grow. Will they
cut down the tariff so as to increase
the revenue? Not if the tariff barons
and trusts can prevent it, and they
furnish large part of the money with
which to buy elections and must be
consulted. Will they increase the in
ternaI revenue taxes? Not if the brew
ers and distillers can prevent it, and
they, too, must be consulted, for they
are liberal contributors to the cam
paign chest. Will they issue new
bonds? That's what they would like
to do. But do they dare to do that
particular thing? SO, taken by large
and small the stand patters are be-
twixt the devil and the deep blue sea.