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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-07-13

per, but the girls are just like the
cayenne pepper, so warm that you want
to throw water on yourself after they
have touched you. Gee, but l wouldn't
want to live in a climate! where girls
were torrid zone, cause l should melt
like an icicle that drops in stove, and
makes steam. and blows up the whole
house.
Well old man, you talk about
churches, but you don't know anything
about it. Dad and | went to st. Peters
in Rome, and it is the grandest thing in
the world. Say, the Congregational
church at home, which we thought so
grand, could be put in one little corner
Of st. Peters, and would look like 30
cents. st. Peters covers ground about
half mile square, and when you 60 in
side and look at grown people on the
other side of it, they look like flies, and
the organ is as big as block of build
ings in Chicago, and when they blow it.
you think the last day has come. and
vet the music is as sweet as a melodeon,
and makes you want to get down on
your knees with all the thousands of
good Christians of Italy, and confess
that you are fraud, that ought to be
arrested
Dad and I have been to all kinds of
churches, everywhere, and never turned
a hair, but since we got to this town. and
got some of the prevailing religion into
our systems, we feel guilty, and it seems
as though everybody could see right into
us. and that they knew we were heath
en-, that never knew there was a God
Sure thing never supposed there We're
so many people in the world that wor-
SHIPPED their Maker, as there are here,
and / don't wonder that all over the
world good people look to Rome for the
light Dad keeps telling me that when
we get home we will set an example that
will make people pay attention, but he
says he does not want to join the church
until he has seen all the sights. and
then he will swear off for good.
He said to me yesterday: Now, Hen
merry, l have been to all the pious places
with you. the pope's residence. the cata-
combs and st. Peters, where they
preach from 40 different places, and
make you feel Ike giving up your sins
and I have looked at carvings, and
decorations, and marble and jewels. and
seen the folly of my ways of life, and
am ripe for change but before give
up the world and all Of its wickedness,
want blood. want to go to the other
Nxtreme. and see the wild beasts at the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-07-13

Coliseum tear human beings limb from
limb, and drink their t.ood, and see
gladiators gladiate, and chop down their
antagonists, and put one foot on their
PROSTATE necks, like they do in the
theaters, and then / am ready to leave
this town, and be good"
Well, sir, l have been in lots of tight
places before, but this one beat the band
Here was my dad who did not know that
the Roman gladiator business had been
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-07-13
Different Now.

Biggs-Your friend Enpeck speaks
four or five languages, doesn't he?
Diggs-He did before his marriage,
but he seldom gets a chance to speak
any now.-Chicago Daily News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-07-13

The Bad Boy Makes Friends with Some
italian Children-Dad Is Chased
by Lions from the CoIiseum-"N Not
Any More Rome for Papa" Says
Dad.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-07-13

The cause Of "the ad-
vancement of woman"
IS steadily gaining
ground. Every year
brings its triumphs. In
the coeducational col
leges it is the girls who
have carried off all the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-07-13

By HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
Governor of Wisconsin, Former Edit
or of Peck's Sun, Author Of 'Peck's
Bad Boy" etc.)
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25

There is no better distributing
point In North Carolina than Greens
boro. From that point a morning
parer can reach practically every
daily post-office I'm the State 1t
can reach Elizabeth City and New
Berne On the same train with the
Raleigh papers. 1t can reach Ashe"
vile and all Western points On the
same train with the Charlotte pa
pers. So II would command the
whole State for its field.
Besides the extension Of the rural
free delivery system has doubled
the number Of readers of daily news
papers in North Carolina. There
fore, such a morning daily newspa
per, as ii is proposed TO be established
would not only have the support
of people over the whole State and
have wide influence, but it would
have the support of the whole town
OF Greensboro and would necessarily
be financial success. We congrat-
uiate the whole State upon the pros
pect Of the esta blishment Of such a
journal.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25
MIR. WOOTEN ON THE A. a. n. {
X. II. LEASE.

| MIR. WOOrEN ON THE A. Il n. G
| II. r. LEASE.
In this issue will be seen an inter
esting article from Col. G. S. Woo
ten on the Atlantic and North Ca, O
lima Railroad.
The reading public know Mr.
Wooten through his many delight.
full publications, and he is estimated
highly by all who know him for hi,
sterling worth. integrity and hi.
marked talent.
This article from his pen is {
most interesting history of the State
"Mullett Road" but the most inter.
esting feature of the article is that
part in which he shows conclusively
that the road was making a net earn.
ing Of about $4,000 year at the
time that it was leased for a rental
OF only $53,916 and besides, he says
that the net earnings of this road
are increasing each year at the rate
of over $4,000. At this rat. the
road will in few years be making
net profit of two, three and four
times the amount for which it was
leased.
Now, the question arises, why
did the State lease the road at such
figure in view of these facts? AS
Col. Wooten says, eff the Fusionists
had leased it at that rate the Demo-
crat leaders would have said, "get
your red shirts and your guns and
drive out the incompetent rascals."
This is sample of "Democratic
good Government" If the Demo-
cratic machine had leased this road
for what it was worth, had employed
fewer needless helpers around the
last Legislature, and had not created
new offices, and increased salaries
for Democratic officers, they would
to-day have had enough money to,
at least, take care of the insane with
out locking up white patients in the
same cell with the negro patients.
Is this not still greater provocation
for red-shirters to again get their
guns?
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25
HUNTING ron ASI-s-

1t has leaked out that the ts-u.
cratic machine Is now much -,
cerned abou: finding an leu, firm.
next campaign.
When they wore red shirt ,,4
carried shot guns aud tried to .BA
stitute mob violence for la~ md
der, they promised the people ,h,,
If the Constitutional Amepdrs,,
was adopted, disfranchising All -
groes tsave democratic n,vr5.~t
that they would never appcal again
to race prejudice. But breaking
promises has gotten TO be b,b,,
with that political machine. soi,
the last campaign they decided tina.
the only issue they needed -.
"Booker Washington aud TeIdIe
Roosevelt" But they reckonei with.
out their host. They underc.,im..
ted the intelligence of the chsrac,e,
Of the sturdy yeemanry of our fine
old State. The people rebuked them
by giving "Teddie" majority Of
eight thousand more than the Re.
publican State ticket received.
The machine was dumfuunded
But they seem to realize at last ths,
they must now take a new track.
1t has leaked out that Simmons
and his machine are getting ready
to make an issue, by attacking the
Internal Revenue system OF the
State.
There are certain apparent defects
In the Internal Revenue service 10
certain quarters, that we think need
correcting and which We hope will
be done soon, but as q comparison
Of the present system to the service
under Democratic rule, when Mr..
simmons was himself Internal Rev.
9nue collector, we invite the issue
by comparison. Mr.. Simmons aud
his record would "look like 80 cents"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25
1905 Is NOT FAR OFF.

Each day the white voters of thu
State are realizing more and more
the danger to them and their chill
dren in the constitutional amend
ment. 1908 is not far off, and
when that time comes every Door
white boy, when he reaches the age
of Fl, If he has not been fortunate
enough to get an education and to
meet the educational requirements,
will be disfranchised along with the
most ignorant negro voters.
In the meantime the negro chill
dren are attending school more
promptly than ever, while thousands
OF poor white boys are forced to stay
away from school to work for the
support of their families. When
1908 arrives there will be q reckon
ing with the politicians who are re-
sponsible for this thing.
The Democratic machine has
made much fuss about the public
school system, but they have de-
voted more attention to increasing
the peoples taxes and using the
money for increasing salaries and
creating new salaried officers than in
helping the poor white boy to get
IN education. The poor unfort-
innate Insane have been as badly
neglected by the Democratic ms
mine. as has been the poor white
BOY, whose political liberties thew
nave pat in jeopardy If not stolen
rom him.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25

holder. high or low, who Ia fsiiirg
10 do bis duty either through negii-
gence or wiifully, he should be ex-
posed and punished to the limit.
Will the democratic o-gans give
the names Of such revenue officers,
and also take the same position to-
ward the state officers who have
failed most not ,riously In perform
Ing their duty, If what said state or
gans charge IL even half true?
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25

plants that the Watts Law Ia not
being honestly enforced? One thing
IL certain, that the Illicit distiilers
have been having = great err OF un-
molested prosperity which, we are
informed, they refer 10 - an .sera Of
protection
This Il another sample Of "Dem-
ocratic good government
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25

punished.
IL is IRE b in the minds Of the
people that the Democratic LeEisla-
ture not only repealed this Section
or the Code to protect ballot box
suffers from Indictment and convic-
tion. but that the same Democratic
Legislature went further and spprc-
priated the peoples taxes as . fund
to be nsed In protecting every red
shirt ballot box thief who might b
indicted.
II Is such wrongful use and waste
Of peoples money - this and the
creation Of new Offices for D~mocrat
politicians and the increasing Of
their salaries that has forced the
Democratic party to increase the
burden Of taxes on the people and
still not have enough money left 10
take proper care Of the poor unfort-
innate insane and be forced to lock
up the white insane with negros In
the same cell.
The people Of North Carolina are
too brave and intelligent and patriot.
ic to be longer induced to give their
support TO such political machine az
now controls the Democratic organ
iZatiOn.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25

and one Of the largest ta..s.u
The State. stated 10 The H.
mitsee On Education dursn, -
session of the Leyisla,u,... -.
Legislature Of 1903. .ps,s-.,
Board Of Eiuca,ioa e.. b.
that vas made up of tar.
Democrsts. bat that one -,
and another one had t.xn ,,...
years when he va. .p.-p.a,c,
you suppose the people ~og.4
excited such a trio as ,ha, e..
age the public schools of -
IL IL safe TO trust the Peep \. =,
age their own affair. and AK
that stauds In the way of l-. -.
selecting their own oalg,...
making their own lass, canu..l
command public respect and c..
denoe.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25

Why don't the State officers en-
force the Watts law? They can, If
they would, do rs much to stamn
out illicit distilling and other VIC.
lations of the State and Federal Law
as the Federal Revenue officers.
Why don't they do it? Did ali of
these. distillers contribute whiskev
to the Democratic campaign?
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25
THE SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL CON
GREss.

GREss.
There will assemble in Washing
ton, d. c., this week Southern In
dustrial Congress, composed of rep
resentatives from all Of the South
ern states. The great resources of
the South and the rapid develop
ment now in grogress makes such a
meeting not only timely but Of
great interest to the South and TO
the whole country. Much good will
no doubt result from the coming to-
gether OF the delegates from these
states and the exchange Of views.
1t is to be- regretted, however,
that some Of the Governors In sp.
pointing delegates, seemed to have
been under the impression that
they were appointing delegates to a
Democratic political convention. In
appointing delegates to such an i'm
portant industrial meeting, Cover
nor, no matter even if he is a parti-
san democrat about political matters,
should be broad enough to be able
70 see prominent industrial factor
even though he should be . republican
In looking over the list Of delegates
appointed by Governor Glenn of our
State, we notice the name of but one
Republican, and he Is more Of pol
ltician than an industrial factor,
while 1t seems that . large number
d the democrats appointed as dele.
Eates are not known to be connected
With any industrial enterprises at all
cnis should not have happened,
"nen some Of the strongest. most
intelligent and progressive business
actors In the State are Republicans.
Some Of the persons appointed by
Governor Glenn to attend this In
ustrial Congress are not much more
ppropriate than would be the selec-
lon Of Col. (?) Waddeli (who never
red gun nor smelled gun powder
uring the Civil War;, would be as
speaker at an old soldiers reunion
there there would be many empty
eeves and wooden legs.
The great business and industrial
lterests Of our State demand that
9 should send to Congress and
ect for Governor, men who are
more than machine poll
clans. Of the "Negro Calamity
,Wiing sort" The quicker the
lange the better.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25
WHEN IS BALLOT BOX sTUFFING
A CRIMEs

WHEN IS BALLOT BOX sTUFFING
The other day person named
Rigsbee was up for trial or rather
for a preliminary hearing in Dur
ham on the charge of s.ballot box
stuffing." During the hearing law
yer Fuller is reported to have stated:
"That the reason no evidence was
put on for the defense was that un-
der the laws Of the State there was
nothing covering ballot box stuffing'
and said that the law referred to
was intended to cover .repeating.'n
We notice that several Democratic
newspapers, which have in the past
defended "ballot box suffers" and
encouraged them to commit this.
the greatest crime against Republi-
can institutions, have had the cheek
to say that if this man Rigsbee is
guilty of crime of ballot box stuff
ing, that he should be given the full
penalty of the law. Mr.. Fuller might
have said, and these same Democrat
&c newspapers might have said that
the reason that ballet box stufing
could not be punished was because
The Democratic machine had repealed
the Section of the Code under which
'uch ballot box stufiing could be |
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25

ocrafic good government
WE SHOULD BIZ JUST, BEFORE
WE ARE GENEROUS.
In tbs present condition OF our
State Treasury, We should guard
well all State appropriations. In
the past few years our people have
had to submit to one bond issue af-
ter another, aud they sre anxious to
know If all this money is wisely
and judiciously expended. There
Is one appropriation that is regarded
by the people as sacred and they
are willing TO continue it undis-
turbed, provided the appropriation
is necessary to give all the children q
public education as contem plated by
our State Constitution, and provided
further, that this fund is judiciously
apportioned. We speak Of the $500,
600 annual appropriation to public
schools. One half of this sum or
100000 is apportioned to the coun-
ties per capita, consequently, the
counties having the greatest number
OF children, get the largest appor-
tionment from this fund, and these
counties as rule have already from
five to seven months school term
from the general school fund. This
is especially true in counties with
much railroad and other corporate
property and large manufacturing
industries, and their school term is
now much in excess of four months,
the Constitutional requirement, and
yet these counties get special do
nation from the State Treasury to
supplement their school term, where
as there are majority of the coun-
ties in which there is little outside
capital, invested, and consequently
have smaller school fund, are un-
able to run their schools over three
and yet their apportion-
ment out of this State appropriation,
is less than the larger and richer
counties who already have six or
seven months school term without
State aid. This system is radically
wrong, and great injustice to the
weaker counties and should be
changed.
A bill was introduced in the last
Legislature by Representative But.
Ter of Sampson to change this sys-
tenn Of apportionment so as to give
each county in the State the same
ength of school term, and give each
child in the State the same per cap
ia apportionment, instead of the
present system which give some
counties an eight months school and
'ther counties three months school.
While each is required to pay the
anne rate of taxation, but this bill
vas killed because it did not meet tn.
pproval Of the representatives from
few of the larger and richer coun-
les.
The State Constitution requires a
inform system of public education
by taxation, and this
neans State system that is uni
orm, and not a county system
Which is anything else but uniform.
he entire school fund should be ,
aid into the State Treasury by all T.,
he counties and then each county,s ,
hare of the total fund apportioned !,
} 1t per capita, so that each child In ,
ne State will have an equal oppor-
unity for an education. This plan
not only right, but it is in strict ,
to our State Constitu- 3
on and if adopted will give our
tate uniform school term of, six
lonths and not increase our rate of 4
xatiOn.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25

by Republican members adding Re.
publican counties which amendments
had the effect invariably to kill the
bill, consequently no Republican
county and only two or three Dem.
ocratic counties, now elect their
school officers by q vote of the peo.
pie, but the idea is growing rapidly
among the people, irrespective Of
and in defiance to Democrat
&c politicians, and it is most proba-.
bic that both political parties will
declare in their next State platform
Tor all of these officials to be elected |
BY the people.
Many men appointed on the
County Boards Of Education IRE
wholly unfit for such An important
position. The Legislature of 1909
appointed the various County Boards
d EDUCATION upon the recon- menda-
Ion Of the Democratic member
rom each county and we are reli.-
by informed that in at least tan
'ounfies, these members of the Leg
stature appointed Boards Of Educa-l
Ion. who in turn appointed them
county Superintendent of schools.
nd yet we continue TO pay our L
axes and permit such traders and 1
cnemers as that to control the ma h
hinery Of our schools. A promf. /
ent democrat In Yadkin County ID
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-11-29

San Francisco barber, ID an s<Out Of the everywhere
into the heCe' fashion that caused considerable
comment ct the time.
II was Learned that she had been pcking aimless-
" about toe Pacific coast Ter some days before she
hapPened apon the Golden Gate. But nobody,
least OF all her officers apparently, had the
hottest idea how she came there or what she was
tEying to do-and nobody knows yet. The Lena
was in the position OF the dog In the story that had
sSet his tag, The United States, as much ID pity
obligations, took charge Of the Lena and Was good
to her till the end OF the The bewildered yes.
sci had dong rest, free from worry and care and
her officers had good thine, except couple, who,
not having sense enough to know when they were
we'll oil, broke their parole
But the end of the war came and the Lena wae
forced to resume her weary wandeCings. She start
ed for WladivostOk and that was the last heard 81
her for long perioA-lOng enough for her to
make the voyage to VladivOstok thrice over.
The other day she appeared at Honolulu In the
same sudden and mysterious fashion as ct San
Francisco in daEe, stilI Ia trouble, still !
naatica Mrs. Grummidge "a poor, lone critter,7 =
with when severything goes contrary" Her OH
GERS have but vague ideas rs to where she has been
since she left San FraDciscO. They babbe Of an
indistinct impression that they arrived at Vladivos
tok, but we're told to go away and did 80. But
they probably dreamed that.
The Lsaa, at present. has an idea that ell she
needs TO get her home is little coal. The idea iH
probably delnsve. Alter she has left HODOlnlu she
Is quite as likely to turn up at CharOtte as ct any
Russian pert. At her present rate Of progress #
will take her about twenty years to get home, and
when she arrives the Russian navy willy at last,
have lew sailors used to the sea.
But there is some reason to believe that the Lena
will get home and indeed that there ID no such
vessel now in the Russian navy as the Lena The
real Lena was probably wrecked long ago on some
unmarked isle and the present appariton 10 merely
her wandering ghost--or Vanderdecken's accuTsed
bark in dieguise. What appears to be the Lena is
probably Just mystery Of the sea' about which
Rudyard Kipling ought to write story.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-11-29

WINGED that Senator Joe Blackburn has represented
the Blue Grass country in the north end OF the
Capitol long enough and all the world least all
this part Of the WOrld--knows that Governor JefI
Davis is doing his best to convince the State Of Ar
kansas that the togo st too heavy Tor the shoulders
oi Senator James HI Berry.
They will, accordingly, be something stirring
nightly iD the electOna for members Of the Legis
latnre In these States next year. OF the other
Southern Senators whose terms expire 10 1907,
Senator Daniel Of Virginia Is already as good al
reelected, and nobody has thought il worth while
to ask for Senator Morgan'a place IN Alabama,
while nobody In Texas ventures 70 cast cOvetous
eye toward the seat which Senator Joe Bailey holds
securely nailed down.
It wonld be foreign to the nature and traditions Of
Senator Ben Tillman to be reelected IN South Car
Olina without struggle, but no senatorial nav
ericka seem disposed TO raid the fences Of Senator
Murphy J. Foster Of Louisiana, nor Of Senator An.
selm J. McLaurin oi Mississippi nor Of Senator
FerniiOld III. Simmons Of North Carolina. But the
elections are year Of end there il no telling what
may happen.
But ID the South, including Maryland, West Yir-
ginia and Missouri there twenty three Reppblic
an members Of the House in the new Congress-,
which, BY the way, happens to be the exact num-
Der oi Democratic members Of the House from all
The rest Of the country. In che Southern Etatesf
therefore, where the Democratic lines we're broken
last year there should be considerable activity In
the congressional elections a 1906.