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Cañon City record., 1905-03-30
Sprhnstime Necessities.

Plows, cultivators, hoes, rakes and
harrows. Smith Mere. Co.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-06-07
WHO RANG III BELT
Incident For the Society Of Psyehieai
Research.

Research.
For thirty-one years Harrison Elmer
had rung, precisely at IL o'clock noon
and 3 o'clock p. m, the toH'n bell.
which hung in the belfry Of the old
Congregational church. in the town of
Ashfield, Mass. A most peculiar man.
having very little to say unless one
solicited speech of him, he made few
friends and no enemies.
On the evening of Jan. Is, 1890, the
old bell did not ring at . o'clock as
usual. The people waited and won
dered. Harrison had been always
punctual at his post. That night. just
as the clocks in the village struck ~,
one long, wierd stroke of the old bell
rang out, awakening the sleepers Of
the Plain" Harrison had that night
passed away. Who or what rang the
bell3
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-06-07
The Blood Of the People.

o blood Of tho people! chanseless tide.
through century. creed and race!
0ti0 one as the sweet salt sea Is one,
though tempered by and place;
Tho same in the ocean currents. and b
same in the sheltered seas:
Toeover IN fountain Of common hopes
and kindly sympathies:
Indian and Negro. Saxon and Celt. Teu-
ton and Latin and Gaul-
MOI surface shadow and sunshine: while
b sounding unines all!
love. 0ne hope. one duty theirs! Ho
~. matter tho tepne q ken, J
There never Wus 46eparate heartbeat Il
all tia Races Of amen! Z
Thank God for q land where pride -
clipped, where arrogance stalks
apart: fwAS x.
wlere law and song ana bathing Il
wreNG are words Of the common
Wlere the masses honor straightforward
strength. n know. when veins are
bled.
TIT the blusst bloed p putrid blood
that the peoples blood 10 red.
John Boyle O'Reilly.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-06-07

We all take life too s&renuously. Of
course. but to some 1t Is . mountain
Of duties that must lever be lost
sioAt Of. Some day I I'm going to
remain in bed and rest to my hearts
content" said a tired roma one day.
a. she went W the list Of things
that she thought must be done. That
was i've years ago. and recently she
WIS asked IL she had found some
day" and she confessed that she had
not She will. for she viii new.
er be able to dig through that noun
tain she was foolish enough to build
up years ago. She has forgotten how
to- live. That is the trouble with
many Of us.-Montreal Herald.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-06-07
DYSPEPTIc PHILOSOPHY.

Necessity knows a lot Of lawyers.
Some men are ho-r ~c.-nics, and 9TH
ers live in boarding houses.
We can forgive a great deal in the
man who minds his own business.
Fortunes wheel won't turn for you
unless you put your shoulder to 1t.
e is always harder to patch up .
quarrel than to make a new one.
Conscience is a still. small voice
that tells us when we are found out.
The only spilled milk worth crying
over is the milk Of human kindness.
We are never too old to learn, but
lots Of us are O young to realize 1t.
The trouble with tombstone inscrip-
lions is that they come too late to Nat.
ter US.
A mans earning capacity seldom
keeps pace with his wife's yearning
capacity.
The girl who uns and tells her
mother everything is apt to remain an
old maid.
Family pride is all right, but q ped
igree won't keep a dog from having tin
cans tied to his tail.
Some fellows seem to think they are
not being well treated unless they are
being treated every ten minutes.
know a man who occasionally, in
q At of Observation-Disclosures, tells the
truth. but he always tries to lie out Of
It afterward.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-06-07
Uistnterested.

@Are you in favor of an extra SEES
- Of congress?"
%%Yes," answered Farmer Corntossel
We sent . Teller to congress to keep
hin out o. this neighborhood an I'm
iM&Iavor Of anything thatm promote
~ ob~ject."-Washington Star.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-06-07
Wtil,s's rhsesv.

little WiIlie-Say, e, what 70 .
6rnkard?
PA man who gets drunk. my
Lattle WillieeThen ! suppose .
tsaAard 10 . man who gets tankeA,
isu.t he. %?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION.

The world at large has given too
religious persecution in England,
growing out of the refusal of men and
women to nay the tax levied for the
support of church schools Many of
the non-eonf ormists refused to pas
the tax and organized what is called
the Passive Resisters." On Saturday
Miss Johnston, the first woman sent to
Jail for refusal TO pay that tax. was
released after having served sentence
Of five days She was the first woman
jailed in England for conscience sake
since the reign of James II. Her
father, Rev. j. Johnston, was released
en- the same day from another Jail
having been imprisoned for the new
to the established church. 1t was just
such attempts in Virginia more than
/ hundred years ago that aroused the
eloquence of Patrick Henry and did
more than all else to make Thomas
Jefferson the zen OF the leaders of
liberty. This incident shows that in
the true idea of religious liberty, Eng
land is moro than an hundred years
behind America.
Loud cheers welcomed the father
and daughter upon their release from
Jail. In closing an interview, Miss
johnson, who may be compared to
Bunyon and others who have suffered
for conscience sake. said
But you can say this, / am going
again as often as necessary to protest
against the placing of education under
The tyranny OF the priesthood"
1t is just that spirit that enabled
Martin Luther to cry ION to Worms
though there is devil on every
roof-tile" and to make possible free
dom of conscience.
The placing of education under the
tyranny of priesthood--the stain upon
the twentieth century England-can
not stand. If there were not. thou
sands Of others as determined as Miss
Johnston. her martyr spirit alone
would in time cause the repeal of that
measure, lineal descendant
of the religious persecution that
damned England for so many years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18

morning following l started one hour
before day, the moon showing us the
way, and, at about seven or eight in
the evening, was at Raleigh. being full
fifty miles. 1t was a hard days jour
ney, and greater than will be made
again on this trip. The fatigues of
the day were i'm some measure COM
pensated by the very hospitable re-
ccption which / met from the negroes
of the capital OF North Carolina. L
reposad till nine the next morning
and came the next day only to Louis,
burg (twenty-nine miles,, where
slept i'm the little upstairs room which
you once occupied; but there is a new
landlord The Jew is broke up. The
wind had been two days strong aC
northeast threatening a storm, and
raining a little from time to time. Last
night it came on i'm earnest raining
and blowing vchemently. SO | lay
abed again till nine, and, after break
fasting for two hours, set off at eleven
i'm all the storm. At twelve it began
to snow, and continued to snow most
plentifully till night. The ground
looked like the depth of winter i'm Al
bany. Poor Andrew was almost per-
ished, and camps hands We're nearly
frozen; still we kept on, and got here
about five, being twenty-five miles. IL
will take me full three days more to
reach Richmond, and perhaps longer,
for the roads are so quilted as TO be
barely passable. This afternoon, stop
ping at a tavern and calling for the
hostler. the man told me that, fore
seeing the storm he had sent him for
a load Of wood.
A gentleman who passed here yes
terday says he left Major Butler on the
way, going to Georgia by land. When
l sat down to write my head was full
of totally different matters; but, hav-
ing gone on so far with road incidents,
the other concerns must be omitted.
NY landlord has just been telling me
that Swartwout passed here eight days
ago. They were three in the stage, all
very apprehensive of being oVerset, as
they were to start at two in the morn
ing. In the excess of caution, they de-
sired the landlord to give no run TO
the driver. The landlord promised,
and gave orders to the barkeeper.
When the driver arrived, he called for
a drar1; was refused, and told the rea-
SON. Resenting this indignity, he
swore he would get drunk: went to q
store, bought rum. and got drunk Set
out at two, and overset the stage the
first hour. The passengers were bruis,
ed but not very seriously injured
A. BURR.
The question which arises is, in the
days Of the stage coach, did the driver
hold his job under bond and. when
there was wreck, did the passengers
sue the company?
J. o. ATKINSON.
Elon College. N. c.. June 10, 1905.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18

was some of his doings he said that
while he had done everything he could
towards getting the university to ac-
cord this honor to Aycock. like every
thing else nothing of this kind was GER
tain until it was done. He said the
University of Maine conferred this de-
gree upon oily two men, and he was
afraid that at the last moment. as
such things go, some member of the
board having a local or State favorite
would slip a cog and the North Caro-
lima man would get left. DR. Stetson
remarked two or three times that he
was delighted and he would sleep bet
ter than he had in several nights and
that If ] had come up to him and pre-
scented him with a $500 check for edu-
cational purposes i'm the State of Maine
could not have made him feel bet
ter than the information / brought
him of the honor his State had done
our Ex-Governor"
The funniest thing / have seen
was a group of lovely Charlotte ladies
in Kluttz and Parrish drug store. They
never failed, none of the Charlotte
folks from Prof. GraIam down or up,
to let people know where they lived
and worked. They all sat down and
called for ginger ale Being a pro-
hibition clerk he was terribly fustrat-
ed and came back with four great big
schooners of lithia water. 1T doesn't
sZ like it does at home, said one. 1T
hasn't got our color either" said an
other. Ugh" CALCULATED q third who
had dipped her lips against the brim,
"colorleSs and taSteless, too Then
went up a confused chattering of out
ragged feelings the confused clerk hur-
ried to the rescue, removed the Of
fensive representatives of innocuous
aquaesity, and returning with four bot
ties of the genuine ale he opened them.
The cork popped, the stuff fixed, the
foam flowed and overlooked, and those
lovely women were the happiest and
the loveliest looking sight / have seen
during the whole assembly, next to the
beaming happy face of DR.. McIver
sitting every moment of every body S
lecture. greedily drinking down other
folk s thoughts.
Among the many courtesies which
were extended by the people OF
Greensboro but few could be availed
of because of there being no time al
lowed
However. Col F. B. Arendell. Of
Raleigh, managed 20 capture the
whole assembly for little while yes
terday afternoon, and in conjunction
with the Greensboro Electric Company
gave them a trolley trip over the Whole
system, embracing short stops at the
Normal College, Lindley Park. White
Oak Mills and other points of interest
in and around the city.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
ECHOES FROM THE ASSEMBLY.
\ Number of Things Said and Done
Gathered mp by An InduStri-
Gus Scribe.
Especial to News and Observer.)

Greensboro. n. C.-That nothing
can be done IN this world satisfactory
to everybody the following overheard
random remarks from teachers at
tending the sessions of the Teachers
Assembly here will attest. This cor
respondent solemnly asserverates that
each is an exact reproduction of eX-
pressions caught on the fly from
prominent teachers at various times
during the week IN the lobby OF the
Benbow Hotel:
why we should be made to rise
when voting thanks for Greensboro's
hospitality, when we are paying $3.50
q day at this hotel. L don't under
stand"
81 have a perfectly lovely home in
two blocks of the city hall, at one dol
lar day, and knowing the members
OF the family is worth the trip
''Dr. Hughes, of Toronto, is perfect
ly splendid His talk on Dickens and
his child characters was the sweetest
thing / ever heard"
Il was crazy for him to stop, for it
was eight o'clock and l was hungry
and knew l would have no supper"
80 much of this everlasting heavy
weight talking and lecturing and
scolding by imported celebrities at
big prices, has gwen me mental dys-
ton p Yes l will give you one tor
thai. if you will give them one for
verbal diarrhoea. Exeunt both to the
corkerage for antidotes.
Wouldn't you think Walter Page
would get tired coming to North Caro-
lima and telling us what fools we have
become since he left"
He is tired. but he is invited so
often, he feels it his Christian duty to
keep cutting us"
II have never known such miser-
able poor reporting in my life. l have
made seven speeches and the papers
haven't even heard of it and my name
has not been mentioned by single re-
porter"
You forget that Kilgo and Gattia
had the boards in Raleigh, the Ply
thians and Judge Boyd were regaling
Charlotte. while the Greensboro Fe.
male College and half dozen other
big things were going on in Green's
as much as they did and the reporters
could stick as close as they did"
secretary Carmichael should feel
proud of having pulled off the biggest
and best meeting of teachers and edu
Gators ever held in the South.
He is entitled 20 all that can be
said in his praise. And President
Foust has made an ideal president,
while the city of Greensboro has COW
cred Itself with glory b. contributing
one thousand dollars and unbounded
hospitality to make this meeting the
wonderful success it has been.
The happiest man | have seen IN
q long time was DR. Stetson, of Name,
Just as he was leaving for home Thurs-
day night. He had not heard of Ay-
cocks receiving the degree Of Doctor
of Laws from the University of Maine
until | told him. He was delighted and
when | told him that l had thought 1t
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
NO MORE sTAMPERING.

1t was eight o'clock last night when
the cases against Rogers and Sorrell
were ended and Judge Moore sem
fenced them to pay a fine of $50 and
go to prison for thirty days. They
did not testify, but in their answers
did not implicate any higher up"
parties, taking upon themselves the
authority for the initiative and de-
Claring that they had no corrupt in
tent. Of course they appealed and
every resource that can be employer
will be used to keep them from serving
their time.
The detection of the attempt to in
fiuence the jurors was accidental
ctumbled on. so to speak. 1t is not
ordinary for lawyers to ask men who
come into the jury box if any attempt
has been made to influence" them, but
in this case the question was asked and.
10, there came a disclosure that
startled the Statel An uneducated
man. who esta blished high character.
gave testimony that convicted the ex-
sheriff of the county who had at
tempted 10 l1flu6Iltt MIN. 1ASciiii
another man. an honest farmer God
be thanked for honest men to whom
help" or money is no inducement TO
do wrong), who had been virtually Of
fered q bride, made an affidavit of the
attempt to control him for Kilgo and
Duke.
Judge Moore promptly sentenced the
two men to pay a fine and serve a
sentence in Jail. That was well. But.
behind this attempt at corruption, is
what? Who is safe with such at
tempts TO influence jurors? What other
jurors We're approached? What other
friends Of Duke and Kilgo were so in
terested as to leave their homes, and
travel over the county to urge jurors
to help out Kilgo?"
This thing is not new. The States
vile Landmark tells of somewhat sim
liar attempts in that section. 1t must
be stamped out or our administration
of justice is farce. and is converted
into an auction block where the man
who has the longest purse buys the
verdict.
Judge Moore has shown that such
things will not be permitted in his
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
SLIDE CUTS WATER SUPPLY.
issue of Bonds for Light and Water
to be Considered at an Early
Date.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
Asheville, n. C., June IA slide
at the Beaucatcher Gap, where a
thirty foot cut is being made occur
red this afternoon, sending tons and
tons Of rock and earth against the
1G-inch water main breaking three
joints and forcing the cutting off of
the entire supply Of water from the
intake at the north fork to the stand
pipe. It will probably require six to
eight hours to repair the damage
Water superintendent Francis said at
three o'clock this afternoon that it
was hoped to have the main repaired
and the water turned on by midnight
During an executive session of the
board OF aldermen last night Mayor
Barnard, chairman of the water and
light commission. announced that he
would call meeting Of the commits
sion at an early date for the purpose
of considering the issue of bonds as
authorized by the General Assembly.
the proceeds to be used in building
an immense reservoir and also equip
ping an electric light plant. Mayor
Barnard said this afternoon that he
had decided 10 call "a meeting of the
commission for next Monday evening.
when in al probability some definite
action would be taken. The legisla-
tive act gives the board authority to
sell 100000 worth of bonds for the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
An Amusing Letter From warrenton

To the Editor A few days after
the famous duel between Aaron Burr
and Alexander Hamilton, the former,
because of much hostile criticism in
New York. left the North and went
south IS far as Florida, by stage. for a
few weeks rest and recreation. mere
" TO give a little time for passions to
subside." Burr's lovely daughter,
Theodosia, 50 soon to meet sad fate
and a tragic end. was in Charleston,
s. G. In returning from his South
ern trip, Burr passed through North
Carolina. stopping at Fayetteville, Raj
efgh Louisburg and Warrenton. from
each of which places he wrote his fond
daughter, Theodosia, letters of his
travels and experiences, Fortunately
these letters have been preserved and
the following characteristic and inter-
esting one is taken from q book of
Burr's Memoirs recently falling into
my hand:
Warrenton, n c.. Oct. q, 1904.
We parted at Fayetteville. The
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
GO HIGHER UP.

Mr. Duke and DR.. KiTgo have both
at last gone on the stand to testify in
the Gattis- Kilgo- Duke case. Both
solcmnly swore that they knew moth
ing of the attempt to influence and
bride jurors in the case of Gattis VS.
KiIgo and Duke.
Who is the friend who suggested the
visits to the Jurors When did Rog-
ers and SorreIl become such intimate
friends of Duke and Kilgo that they
would as friends visit jurors and urge
them ito help Kilgo?"
Go higher UP.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
\ TRUE ELL RETU RN ED.
The Case of y. Glenn Williams Comes
Up Monday.
Especial 10 News ana Discovery

tSpcCIdI. 10 NEWS anu CJSGl NcI.J
Charlotte, n c., June 1.-THE
Federal grand jury has returned u
true bill against IA Glenn Williams,
the old Nick Williams Company, and
ID. f. Kennedy. The bill returned by
the Charlotte grand jury is an exact
counterpart of the one returned by
the Statesville jury.
District Attorney Holton said this
afternoon that the trial of the case
will begin Monday morning at 10
o'clock.
Judge Boyd adjourned court today
until Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
During today counsel for Mr.. Williams
and the other defendants. have been
busily engaged in preparing the cases
for trial These gentlemen We're in
formed yesterday afternoon of the ac-
ton of the grand jury. also that the
cases would be heard Monday.
District ATTORNEY Holton states that
it will consume nearly all of next week
i'm the trial of the noted case.
The four jurors said to have been
the ones who divulged the secret Of
the grand jury at Statesville, are J,
s. Spruil1. of Statesville, and c. r,
AtweI, w A. Cauble and A. M.
Grouse all of Rowan county. The
action of tho court yesterday after
noon has not been communicated to
these men. in an official way. In
other words no subDOcnas have been
issued and they have not been sum-
moned to appear in Charlotte to an
swer any contempt proceedings.
Whether they will or not is matter
yet to be determined.
The case against D. L. Arey. of
Salisbury charged with defrauding
the government will be taken up
Tuesday Readers will recall that MIR
Arey has entered submission and all
that remains now is for the court to
sentence him which Will be done
Tuesda..
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
GO TO THE BOTTOM.

produced to convict two men of at
tempting to influence and corrupt
jurymen. But, when such things &c
on almost under the very shadow OF
the capitol is it any wonder that PEG.
pie are losing faith in the administra-
tion of justice when one of the parties
has plenty of money?
This matter should be pressed to the
bottom and the men who instigated the
visits to jurors punished.
Go higher up!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
LAW AGENTS, TOO.

a few years ago. when the Southern
Railway wished to bride jurors, law
agents were the men who did the
work Have we another crop OF law
agents? Who employs them? Who
pays the bills?
Go higher UP!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18

establishment of an electric light
plant on the Swannanoa river and
$4,000 for the building of a reser-
vor or less if it be found that these
amounts are not required.
1t is regarded as certain that the
bonds will be issued, the reservoir
built and the city become the owner
of It's lighting plant.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18

court. Public sentiment is aroused in
Wake county and will be in the whole
State, and the result of the crime of
last week ought to be to make a
again in North Carolina.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
WOULD CROWD THE JAIL.

A gentleman said last night: u see
they have caught two of the men whe
tried to influence the jury in the in
terest of Duke and ISilgo. Do you
reckon all have been caught who had
hand in that dirt business? 1t is
my opinion if they could catch them
all. ii would crowd the Jail of Wake
county"
Go higher up,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
OUGHT TO WEAR STRIPES.

Men who instigated the crime of in
fuencing and buying jurors in the Cat
tbs VS. Kilgo and Duke case deserve to
wear stripes. 1t Will not do to stop
with sending two men to jail for d
month.
Go higher up,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
GO HIGHER UPu.

The attempt to control and bride the
jury in the case of Gattis VS.. Kilgo and
sentenced to jail. But were they only
the agents in the gigantic scheme of
corruption?
Go higher up,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
Elon College. N. c.. j
Disfranchising tie Negro.
Secretary Taft.

Secretary TAFT.
The Southern States are engaged in
adopting constitutions which seem in
tended to exclude the negro from the
ballot in fact without infringing the
fifteenth amendment so palpably as
to lead to their annulment by the
Supreme Court. 1 am hoping earnest
ly that experiments of this sort viii
fail, but if they will lead to result
in which the laws shall exclude the
ignorant whites and blacks equally
from the ballot, then no one can quar-
rel with the procedure, which viii be
square and honest
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18

Friendship that causes public OIL
Gals and ex-public officials to at
tempt to influence jurors are of a type
that "sticketh closer than a brother. =
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18

As long as men travel about the
country to influence jurors when a
rich man is litigant. whose reputa-
ton, life. or property is safe?