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The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1906-11-09
Dead.

Mr.. W. J. Galloway of the
"A. q M. College departed this
life last Sunday morning about
Z o'clock.
Death in his case came not as
| Surprise for he had been a
sufferer for, perhaps, more than
year with kidney affection
which made it certain that it
was only a matter of time to
succumb to the terrible malady.
Mr.. Galloway had served most
efficiently, faithfully and salts
factorily in the capacity of Col.
lege Steward for the last Is Or l6
years. His many friends scat
tered throughout the State and
in different sections wheresoever
students in the past reside all of
whom will be really panied to
near OF his demise.
His remains were tenderly
borne to the Ills. Cent. Depot
Monday morning followed by
the Professors and their fanatics
the College Band and Student
Body, attesting the love, esteem
and friendship in which he was
held. Also many of his friends
of the town, ladies and gentle
men.
The remains were shipped on
the 9:2O o. m. passenger train to
his old home, Kosciusko, and
there inferred, accompanied by
the family, the widow and an
only daughter, Miss Mary,
relatives and numerous friends
who mourn his loss. Indeed the
family, society and the college
have sustained an irreparable
loss in the death of Mr.. w. j.
Galloway.
The friends of the family truly
sympathize with them in the
hour of Sheir sorrow.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1906-11-09
Nine. Katherine Fisk.

All lovers of music and song
Who can will not fail to hear the
most illustrious and celebrated
sweet singer at the A. M. Col
,eoe next Friday night. Every
one will be more than compen-
Gated in every way on this most
nleasant and rare occasion.
Tickets may be procured at the
Corner Drug Store, J. J. Gil.
convenient for all. Remember
the time and place and your
friends.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1906-11-09

Henry Ward Beecher, the
greatest preacher, While station
ed at indianapolis. edited an
agricultural journal. Under the
caption. Spring Work on the
Farm" he wrote the following:
"Seed are sprouting, trees
budding, flowers peeping out
from warm hooks. Everything
grows in springtime.
Youth is springtime, habits
are sprouting, dispositions are
putting out their leaves, opinions
are forming, producers are taking
root.
Now, take at least as good
care of your child as your farm,
you break a colt and break a
steer, and break a heifer, and
break the soil, and if you wont
your children they will be very
apt to break you-both heart
and pocket"
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1906-11-09

DR.. Snedecor, Superintendent
of Missions for Colored Evangel-
.ization, will.deliver his discourse
on the End Sunday of December
in the Presbyterian church. in
stead of next Sunday as er-
roneously announced.
II. r. RAYMOND.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1906-11-09
Tuesdays Election.

The voting was light through
out the county.
For Congressman 3. S. Cand-
Ter, Jr. was cast 235 votes.
For constitutional amendment
Yea 1856.
Nay 3.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1906-11-09
Are Ordered Out.

President Roosevelt dismissed
battalion of negro troops from SER
vice without precedent, the result
of an investigation Of the race
trouble at Brownsville, Texas.
Good for President Roosevelt.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1906-11-09

| well IL ClC CuI ICulutI VI -illSS IL
schools recognized this period OF
evolution for both boys and girls
by course of study less exact
ing than that which usually
maintains. Pleasant and suita-
BILE menta, employment is a ne
cessity, and is also light physical
exercise, but both should be un-
der the direction Of those who
understand the strain involved
in the process of evolution from
childhood to maturity.
People often remark of some
boy that he has reached the
"smart age," and when he ven-
lures an opinion he is frequently
sarcastically told that he ''knows
more now than he will when he
is older" The manifestation Of
conceit in the growing boy is in
reality an evidence not of self
conceit, but of the dawning of
individuality. He is beginning
to think, and naturally this is to
him a wonderful fact. These
original ideas asserting them
selves in his mind are the most
marvellous things in the world to
him, unimportant as they may
seem to others. The boy is
right. They are marvellous.
1t is a wonderful thing to be an
individual to originate ideas, to
have opinions, and it is better
that these ideas should be crude,
these opinions false, than that
the mind should be uttrly inert.
The wise parent will not
"snub" the boy because he has
not the wisdom Of the man, nor
| silence him because he is some
self -assertive, but will treat him
With courtesy, will show him
that as his father and elder friend
he is willing to show him due
consideration at the proper time,
to give his opinions weight and
to discuss his ideas with the gen
erosity he would show to any
other gentleman. use the word
other advisedly. When the ia
ther treats the son as another
gentleman he will find the son
responding by gentlemanly con,
duct.
The moral dangers surrouding
the adolescent boy are both from
within md without. New emo
tions, new aspirations, new ply
sical feelings are manifesting
themselves and opening up be-
| fore him new avenues of temta-
ton, arousing new susceptible
ties to evil. These dangers are
not adequately met by specific
warnings, by detailed descrlp.
tions of vices to be stunned or
sins to be avoided. The surest
safeguard is wise scientific
knowledge of facts concerning
himself, together with the friend
ship, sympathy and confidence
of his parents. He should be
taught reverential regard for
life in all of it's manifestations, a
respect for himself as guardian
of the race. He should know
that to guard his treasures OF
virile power is not only to guar.
antee a better heritage for future
generations, but is also to insure
for himself storehouse OF
strength and energy for mind
and body. Mary Wood-Allen,
| M. D., in the Congregationalist.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1906-11-09

Capt. H. r. Saunders is now
putting the second story up on
the new brick building on Wash.
ington Street. When completed
Starkville will have an up-to
date Opera Hall.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1906-11-09
Dangers to Growing Boys

| the need or SympaGnetlc care ana
guidance for the adolescent girl,
few realize that the boy who is
passing through the transition
period between childhood and
manhood needs the same consid-
Grafton. His physical evolution
is as marked and as important,
the mental changes as signifi-
can't, and the susceptibility to
moral infiunces as great. The
period for both boy and girl is
one of "storm and strain" but
the girl has more help and posi-
bly, fewer temtations.
The majority of criminals be
gin their immoral life between
the ages of sixteen and twenty
one, and most men who become
| Christians do so between the
same years-facts which indicate
the impressionable period, when
the boy is most easily moved in
the direction of either good or
evil. Upon the influences which
surround the boy at this time of
life will depend to great extent
his future health and happiness.
The influence of the development
of the special functions of sex is
observable througout the entire
organism. His very rapid bodi
ly growth makes HIM awkward
and self-conscious, his develop
ing mentality renders him appar-
emily self-conceited, and his a.
Weakening soul is manifested
sometimes in unaccountable emo
tions as Well as in altruistic inn
pulses.
1t is of great Importance that
he should be understood in all
these phases of developing vir
ility. and equally important that
he should understand himself.
Self-ignorance is to him a source
of great danger; it surrounds him
often with unfounded fears.
Quack doctors are reaping rich
! harvests from the ignorance of
growing boys concerning their
normal physiological functions,
while the boys are overwhelmed
with the thought that they are
subjects of some dread malady
that threatens their very life.
The ignorance of boys cannot
be better illustrated than by a
letter lately received by me.
The writer, lad Of sixteen, had
been taught an evil habit in his
childhood, and had only lately
become aware that it was a NOR
al wrong and also that the ply
sical effects were injurious. I'm
pressed with these ideas he had
become morbidly anxi, US. He
was growing rapidly and fancied
that this in some way was con-
nected with his former habit,
and the idea made HIM afaid to
meet people, fearing that in his
very manly growth they could
read the story of his sin. That
boy was suffering untold mental
anxiety and was being seriously
injured through lack of knowl-
edge of himself in the process of
becoming man.
During the stage of rapid
muscle growth there is danger
of excessive muscular effort, and
the boy needs to know this, not
/ in a way to frigh ten him, but in
a way to appeal to his judgment.
At this period he may manifest
mental indolence-nature's way
of indicating that the brain needs
repose in order to secure it's per-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-31
Facts and Fnncies from Book Land
By W. r. KIRKWOOD

inal Law Reform" in which he points out
clearly the source of the trouble In GRIM
inal procedure. from which lynchings
spring, and proposes a remedy: Charles
M. Harger has picturesque paper on
THE Lodge" setting forth the place Of
the lodge in the social and intellectual
life of the American people; DR.. c. W.
Saleeby, the English scientist, has a paper
upon 1.-THE Testimony Of Biology to Re
ligion," and there are other articles Of
equal note.
Stlckney Writes About Railroad Leufs.
Iation.-In the March number of the Po-
Iitlca Science Quarterly, A. B. Stickney
gives the views of a railroad president on
''The Legislative Regulation of Railway
Rates. indicating the necessity of reeu-
lation, but pointing out that further in.
yestigatiOn is required to determine what
are just rates. P. l.. Allen writes ON
Ballot Laws and Their Workings" and
demonstrates, by a careful analysis of
election statistics. the effect of different
forms OF ballot upon independent voting.
F. J. Goodnow shows what matters real
lily belong to the city government and how
Municipal Home Rule in these matters
may be secured c. H. Hartshorne takes
Nottingham as an example of THE Man
agement of English Towns and compares
it's administration with that of two typi-
cal American cities of the same size.
Other articles are Sovereignty and Gov
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-31

suit, and the farce Of equalization may
be ended by putting all taxation on a
local option basis. But as Mr.. Daily
we'll says in the paper referred to, new
tax laws will do little good unless peo-
pie generally decide to obey the laws
when passed. We are greatly in need
of a higher moral standard on the tax
question. n
The local option method ought to
work improvement on this line. When
the question of paying taxes becomes a
sort of neighborhood matter, and the
fiction of lodging state tax is done
away with, every taxpayer will be per-
sonally interested to know what the rest
are paying, and in time it may become
a point of honor as it is to large ex-
tent in England, for each man to make
a full return and bear his honest share
of the burden.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-31
Examining City Finances.

The city council, at an expense OF
5000 for the examination, has learned
that there is nothing radically wrong
with the city finances. This verdict
Is given by the public examiner, who
has spent three months diagnosing our
case: Nevertheless, the state exam
ination of city finances is useful
thing. It tends to bring things to light
j which might otherwise slip along IN
the dull routine and gradually grow
into abuses. For example, overdrafts
in a number of departments. This IS
not exactly a secret. 1t is known and
has been known so long that 1t has
grown to be not merely tolerated. but
approved. The city comptroller IS re-
CURED by an order of the city council
to make quarterly reports of the amount
spent and the amount remaining 10
the order IF each department., but
these reports are merely advisory. They
do not bind the departments. They
NAV spend all Of their income IN one
day if they choose. The only thing
thew must not do is to draw more in
the year than, was appropriated. But
even this provision of the law is
s1asyaded. Several Of the departments
which find themselves oyerrunning
toward the, end of the year hold up
their bills for the last month and re-
turn a so-called balance on Dec. 81,
when, as a matter of fact, they are
several thousand dollars in debt and
are depending on the board OF tax
levy to help them make it good out OF
the next years appropriation. The
practice is Objectionable from every
standpoint, and it is good thing 10
have the public examiner call attention
to it.
Another thing that the examiner has
taken up is the payment OF rebates on
taxes in the matter of the building OF
sewers and watermains. He thinks the
taxpayers who have voluntarily over
paid on these improvements, cannot re-
cover and that the city is foolish to
part with it's money voluntarily IN re-
hates. Others who have been over the
matter consider that the city is clearly
held by the Pillsbury decision to the
refundment of the overcharges. The
/ examiners argument that the sewer
system as whole has cost more pei
4 foot than the assessments levied prob
4 ably does not affect the case, since the
Taxpayer does not participate in the
building of general sewer system. He
4 is taxed for the piece of sewer in front
of his property and is not concerned
with the average cost Of the whole
4 system.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-31
No Circulation Lie Here.

According to the report of the post
office department for the fiscal year
1905. there are 9,708 postoffces in the
United States from which second-class
matter is mailed, and of this amount
80 per cent was furnished by forty-fve
cities. In that list Minneapolis stands
eighth, with total Of 13, s52 ,S12
pounds. St. Paul comes tenth, with
8,861,612 pounds. Lower down in the
scale are Milwaukee, Detroit, San Fran
cisco, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Baltimore
and Buffalo.
Second class mail matter is chiefly
publications, such as newspapers and
periodicals, exclusively in print, which
are issued regularly at stated intervals
as often as four times year and sent
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-31
A Case Without a Precedent.

After District Attorney jerome had
made his argument in the Perkins case,
Justice Greenbaum of the supreme court
asked him: "Have you any authorities
to submit in support of your views; any
authorities relating to any similar act
or gifts to other than political organi-
zations9'
81 have not,'' replied the district
attorney. "We have searched diligent-
ly but this appears to be the first in
stance Of such an issue having arisen.
It would appear that your honor will
have to pass upon the question whether
there was a felonious attempt without
the assistance of such authorities
At first blush this state of affairs
must prove discouraging to the learned
Judge, because decisions are SO much
matter of comparing cases past with
the case in hand that authorities be-
come the very ifeblood Of an opinion.
Without authorities the average judge
is all at sea. Yet there must have been
first authority in each case and JUS
tice Greenbaum has the opportunity to
establish a first precedent in this case.
He is not bound or hedged by anything
another judge has said, but he has the
responsibility of knowing that the next
Judge to consider a similar matter will
be in measure at least bound by what
he SAYS in this case. The absence OF
| presidents is not an insurmountable OBJ
stacle, since it is as much the duty OF
the courts to make presidents as to
study those already made. In this way
only can the law have every possible
relation of life covered by case.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-31
A. Reversible Argument.

One point made by the railroads in
their protest against the proposed re-
duction in merchandise rates for Min
nesota was that the lower basis would
make local rates lower per mile than
the present Interstate rates in this terri
tory. MIR. R. I. harrington of the
Great Northern testified that the rail-
road commission Is schedule would make
the rate from Minneapolis to East
Grand Forks lower, according to the
distance, than the rate is from Mime.
apolis to points in Montana.
This was adduced as an argument to
show that the proposed schedule is too
low. Doesn It it indicate, rather, that
the rates to Montana points are too
high9 The rates in question are on
business that does not need any foster
ing. The merchandise that is shipped
to Montana has to 60, no matter what
the rate is. The rate is anything the
railroads conclude to ask, since there is
no competition for the business any
where along the line west Of the 500.
1t is quite likely, therefore, that the
present rate, being subject to no regu-
lation, contains plenty Of "velvet" for
the company. If for such a long haul
the rate is higher per mile than the
Minnesota schedule, ism It it as fair to
conclude that one is too high, as to say
that the other is too lows It is a poor
comparison that won't work both WAYS,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-31
A STUDY IN THE FINE ART OF

A STUDY IN THE FINE ART OF
REVENGE.-Eden Phillpotts' story,
The Psortreeve, is study in the fine
nr5 OF tale ii t5 Is an nendor Dart art
Devon. can wear, as Mr.. Phillpotts is
SO well able to paint it, but in the
center as dark and fearsome as the
shadow of an eclipse. The setting sug-
gests peace and joy such as the birds
know. The reader g attention is called
to this setting first. - 5r.;r -"
HBeneath Dartmoor northern wing,
removed from its central wilderness by
! some miles Of forest, fallow and fertile
land, a little church town summed itself
and basked under the rare weather.
! Only in corners unseen sorrow lurked
and suffering hid it's head; content
was at doors and windows; the hollow
smiled and chimed with the music Of
So the author lays his scene. Then
he draws his tragedy, gradually darken-
! ing like a storm to a climax and then
Frightening only to disclose the after
chaos and wreckage.
"Not but what there's been trouble
here an there,' says one Of the Devon
| folk, discussing the events Of the year
in which the story falls.
"a plenty without doubt replies
luere was du emu OIL DOQu WOlIeTSCan
cut off like a mad dog, poor soul!
! Tho what set his wits roaming the very
| day they made Portreeve of him, only
God knows.'
The portreeve "stood for the COM
munlty, controlled transactions of sale
or barter. and represented power,
Dodd Wolferstan as young man held
the position at Brigetstowe. He was
a capable young man, making progress
| - h. H. of
mind, and taking joy in his progress.
u uni 1t not Only BY the woman Won AN
he loved but by another, and the wom-
an he loved was also loved by another
man. The other man and the other
woman plotted against the portreeve,
and so successfully that the other man
dentaliy Killed in time to save the
portreeve from marrying the other
woman: Then the other woman began
a revenge, conceived and executed with
devilish cunning, and extending from
defeating him in a prize contest at a
sonee of fair his re Feg G1nnf Faith Tim when P6 the
needed it most. The office he had
held, and lost thru removal, had just
been restored to him when the end
came. a.-.t
Mr. Phil potts disclosure of the de-
generation of the character of Dodd
Wolferstan, the real fruit of the cum
ming revenge of the other woman, is
masterfully done. 1t is psychological
study of much more than usual power.
| Hardly less satisfactory is the draw
ing of any of the other characters.
/ Mr.. Phillpotts' has shown himself not
/ only a fine landscape artist but por-
trait painter as well, and at the same
4 time a good deal of dramatist: He
the reader, but they are lost sight of
in the general effect of the picture.
/ The Macmillan Co., New York.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-31
THOSE CONFUSING WINSTON

THOSE CONFUSING WINSTON
CHURCHILI.S.-Winston Churchill, the
American laYg tor was born at St L9 9gh;
from the United aG states Naval acad
envy. For a year he was editor of the
Army and Navy Journal, and later
managing editor of the Cosmopolitan.
tablished for him an eneviable position
among American writers of fiction; but
it was his second book, Orchard Car
vel,' which gave him a place very
near the top among novelists of the
present day. He was elected to the
New Hampshire legislature in 1908,
and served with distinction during two
terms. Herewith is new and hitherto
unpublished portrait Of him.
The Hon. Winston Spencer, Churchill,
MP, who has just. accepted the post
of undersecretary for the colonies in
the new liberal government of Eng
land, was born Nov: 80, 1874, and is
thus three years the junior of his
American namesake. He entered the
British army in 1895, served with dis
tinction in Cuba, the Punjab,. Egypt,
and South Africa, taking part in many
hard-fought battles. In 1900 he was
elected to parliament to represent Old
ham. His first book showed him a
writer Of considerable power and clever
ness in describing military Gperat7TSbhs
English Winston Churchill, who is Of
course half an American himself, has
just published the biography in two
volumes Of his father, the late Lord
Randolph Churchill, which is esteemed
in England one of the two OF. three
most exciting political biographies in
the language. 49,.