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Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-22

tell them apart by the way they wear
their peignoirs. Custom insists that
young French unmarried girls should
be mighty timid. With eyes downcast
they scamper to the surf all muff1ed
in their peignoirs. Married ladies-hav-
ing paid their tribute to the English
let their peignoir flutter in the breeze,
or drape it over their left shoulder. Or
they sit on it.
The canvas shoes are to protect the
feet against the millions of small
boulders, from the size of a birds egg
to as. big as your head, which take the
place of sand so often on these beaches.
Amateurs of cultivated taste and long
reach opera glasses set their camp
stools on the edge of Trouville's far off
mystery beach. The young girls of
high society, completely enveloped in
her baby blue or pale pink sheet, ac-
companied by her mamma, trips along
the waste of sands-the Trouville
beach is getting to be three-fourths of
a mile deep at low tide-until at last
she throws her peignor off and her
heart futters with the knowledge that
a hundred glasses are directed to her.
These are big girls not yet married.
they are marrying later every year
now. Later, when emancipated from
their mammas, they will patronize the
ously to the ropes dividing it from the
exclusively mems" square.
The Real Swimmers
Here at Dieppe have yet to see the
first girl swim out without a swimming
master, or otherwise amuse herself un-
aided in the water. But further down
the coast, at Sainte AndresSe and in
like little "trous pas chers,' there is
a different bathing population.
In these places you see the true ocean
dabblers, brown limbed girls in skin
tight jerseys, girls who sprawl upon
the sands where trippers are as rare as
the sea serpent. All this coast is well
protected, being on the English chan
mel. The average sea is smooth as
glass.
Here you find the true swimmers.
There are girls who swim out so far
that their cousins have to hurry out
and bring them back. l saw such a
rescue last week. and it was rendered
untragic only by the charming inno-
cence with which the young thing,
when brought half way back, stopped
to fix her Understanding TRANQUILITY
waist deep a quarter of a mile out!
All the life is healthy on this beaute-
Gus coast. Up to the very waters edge
the charm is that of the rich Norman
countryside. 1t is a land of milk and
honey, of cider, cherries, cream and
berries, oats and apples, where dank
woods and meadows alternate with
white and winding roads.
The roads are lined with graceful
Lombardy poplars, or the squatter and
more grateful apple, and as they wind
ana turn they cross streams green with
cress, until the road turns once again
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-22
DIDN'T STAND HEAVY MUSIC
High Notes of Little ltaly's Musicians
Suddenly Become Pianissimo
When Band Stand Falls

Special to The Herald.
PHILADELPHIA, July 21,-The nu-
sic was so heavy the stand couldn't
stand it! And a tragic end came to the
red coated band of Little Italy last
night while it was at the height of its
triumph.
A band stand was erected in Chris
tian street, between Eighth and Ninth
streets. Today Is a religious holiday
among the Italians, and they started
the celebration last night by illumin-
ating Christian street opposite TO the
Church of the Lady of Good Counsel.
Hundreds of persons Were crowded into
the street about the band stand and
groups of merrymakers We're dancing
on the pavements
Suddenly there was a crash, to which
no note in the leaders score cor
responded. Tmbers ripped women
screamed and faintetd, uniformed legs
slipped through holes In the stand
floor, and the music was no more.
Nobody was physically hurt, but the
members Of the band suffered a fall in
their dignity,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-22

have not sent millions of dollars to
destitute San Franciscans I'm order that
young ministers and young doctors
should go into their own packets to aid
those whom poor methods have pre-
vented from obtaining their evident
right to decent physical comfort. did
not want the aid of charitable indi-
viduals. l wanted the help that gem
erous- hearted brethren throughout the
land had extended to me, Margaret Jen-
nings, homeless, needy, self-respecting
victim of one of the worlds great dis
asters. All the Individual kindliness of
half a dozen sub-offiCials could not
atone for the failure Of the whole great
machine to answer to the calls of need.
| wanted the bed the mattress. the cot
and the blankets which the people had
bought for me, and lol when, after
subsisting without public aid for nearly
three months | made a call upon the
relief fund for temporary shelter their
warehouses were empty Nor must it
be understood for a moment that
alone needed blankets. / found dozens
of others who were waiting for bedding
no one seemed to know when it would
arrive.
When DR.. Booth had assigned me to
the tent between As and 40 of section
6, camp Z, near the conservatory. Mr.
Ruess took me over to the barracks
camp in the baseball grounds, where
was the Office of ID. Chenhall, who is
sues the orders for supplies l was
turned over to Mr.. Chenhall with the
understanding that should get food
card which would entitle me to eat in
the soup Kitchen which the experienced
call the "slop Kitchen" and a general
supply card which would obtain me
blankets and whatever necessarics
required. | was given my food card.
together with a formidable paper,
which / was to ill out before a girl i'm
the adjoining Office. giving an outline
of my history and of my plans l told
her that l must have blankets for the
night. and that Mr.. Ruess had said l
would get them when my food card
was given me. and that l had no bed
ding. She merely answered, II am very
sorry, madam, but 1 don't know what
you can do. You will have to get an
order for them" So out [ went to
hover vainly with the motley lot about
Mr.. Chenhall's office. hoping to get a
supply card and hoping that he might
obtain covering for me out of the skies,
since there seemed to be no chance of
any coming into the warehouse that
night.
But while Mr.. Chenhall never tagged
in his duty and attended carefully to
one after another needy, weary lin
gerer, all l and a hundred others re-
ecived at the end of our siege were
numbers indicating the order in which
we would be served the next day.
Tired and hungry, this self-elected
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-22

huddled crowd wanted to get mattresses
or cots Many | spoke with told me
that they had slept on boards since the
earthquake. As for pillows, some few
might have them but the great major
ity didn't seem so much as to think
that they ought to have them. Little
complaint was made of Mr.. Chenhall.
Most of the walters realized he was
doing what he could to help them. But
the mutterings through the crowd
showed a dissatisfaction with a some
thing they could hardly name. where
does the money go that's sent to help?'
was the burden of their cry. why
don't they have people enough to look
out for us and things enough for us?''
over and over again | was assured
that days OF waiting had brought not a
quarter Of the things on the precious
order secured by so much effort. | was
reminded that as Mr.. Ruess and | had
passed the string of women stretching
away from the warehouse he had said,
you would think that these people
might earn enough to buy what they
need in the time they spend here. y
But his argument seemed unintention-
ally fallacious now that | had learned
how many were already earning small
sums and yet needed what could be
bought only with a goodly number of
dollars. and what was bequeathed to
them by sympathzing fellows.
While we waited for our turn a wiry
little woman with a long, inquisitive
nose came dancing about the crowd. 'I
know you all | know which is repeat
ers." she cried, waving one of her ex-
pressivc arms II can tell new faces
and | know the old. See that woman
with the sleeping child in her arms.
Poor thing, to stand there with sleep
ing child i'm her arms-a -year-old
boy Soon they'll take pity on her and
let her in and give her orders. all the
orders she wants. That's her game.
bringing around her sleeping boy in
her arms. and she has a tent loaded
with things while some of the rest of
us haven't been able to get anything
we wanted. There's another woman
over there. Her husband and son have
clothing store out on Kentucky street.
and more than one suit have they sold
that came out of the relief warehouse,
while I haven't been able to get one
suit for my boy"
Come. come" said the supply officer,
appearing at the door. didn't l offer
you a tent once and didn't you refuse
it?" The mob ieered and the woman
snickered sheepishly Now come in, "
he said, land I'll try to fix you up"
Reward for the Brazen
That's it," muttered a gaunt Great
ure on the fringe of the crowd near me.
He means all right, but those showing,
impudent ones are the ones that get
everything and the rest of us get Moth
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-22

and brings you back by magic to the
sea. 1t is far down below-the sea-be-
meath the great white cliffs. You see it
like a picture, through frame of YER
dure, shining white and blue, with tiny
sails, with pink and gilded sails
Kansas City Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-22

To these folk l was merely a fell
low victim of dire trouble and theiI
talk was only their usual exchange OF
personalities, the ripples on the sur
face which indicated great struggles
beneath. Here they were common and
illiterate, side by side with well-man-
nered and intelligent, just the sort OF
mixture of people found in any small
town, yet almost all had one subject
| in common, dissatisfaction with The
| administration "There are always
chronic kickers and / must make al
lowance," had been my starting argu-
ment, but the kicking was too gem
eral. and where it came from the better
class demanded respectful attention.
Thursdays close brought me no bed
ding and on Friday morning. determin-
| ing that 1 would test the night camI
| life once, l went into town and pur-
chased a mattress and blankets. On
my return in the afternoon l foun6
that the long -looked-for coverings had
arrived. together with several wire
cots, but that great row of people
had been assembled since O'Clock or
the chance of its coming and most Of
the shipment had been distributed,
| ! hurried over to Mr.. Chenhall and
my number "34" got me an interview
with him at 4 in the afternoon.
urged him to try TO give me a special
order as / had positively no shelter
but my bare tent and had heard that
no more bed materials were being is
sued at the warehouse He gave me
a slip calling for a wire cot, mattress
and three blankets and a wash basin
and ndorsed II across the corner with 8
| request to DR.. Sexton, the officer In
| charge at the conservatory warehouse
The Brandon news., 1906-01-25
RICH ON STORK MONEY.

With every visit Of the stolk to his
home in Butler county, George
Gramer, farmer, gets q check for
$1,000 from his father in Germany, and
the stork has paid twelve visits.
Although he has not been moro than
ordinarily successful in raising crops.
Gramer has cleared $l2, 900 raising
babies. Gramer came to Iowa from
Germany without . cent. He bad
rioh relatives back IN the old country,
but he preferred to make his own way
as 3 tiller Of the soil. When the
first little one came to the Gramer
home the old father in Germany was
SO we'll pleased that he forwarded hia
check for $1,000, and declared that he
would duplicate il with each visit Of
the stork ~ thrift and economy
Gramer has invested the stork money
from tho fatherland nntil today be Il
the possessor of comfortable bank
oocount. and nowhere ii tho state Il
there ! happier family than that d
the German Who Wonld delight Presi-
dent Roosevelt'a heart. Eldorado
Di6potoh.
The Brandon news., 1906-01-25
A. M.
SHIELDS,
Blue
Front
Store.

the profits the railroads themselves
were getting from the smaller ship
pers. The railroads were, for the
most part, helpless, Mr.. Baker points
out. There weren't many Of them
that could afford to lose Armour's
enormous business. So if he said:
''Either use nothing but my refrigor-
ato1 cars, or MAKE up your mind to
get along without my business. -
What were they to do? Most OF them
knuckled under. Immediately icing
charges jumped up until IN some in
stances they were more than 500 per
cent greater than they had been before
Armour coveted what little his rate
Determinations had left the smaller
shippers. A non Armour line charges
only $50 for icing from New Orleans
to Chicago, a distance of 925 miles;
a line bound to Armour charges $50. 63
for icing for distance of 216 miles.
Charges elsewhere are in proportion,
and this is Only one of the
points that Mr.. Baker makes. Before
Armour stepped in the railroads
charged the shipper the cost of icing.
Some shippers refused to pay the
greatly increased charges, and they
were openly told by Armour's agents
that unless they did "come up Ar
mour- bound railroads would not carry
their stuff. Mr.. Baker gives an in
teresting account of how these men
are revolving and fighting Armour
tootL and nail. Armour, Mr.. Baker
shows, takes all of the profits and
privileges of common carrier with
out any Of the duties and the RESPONSE
bilities.
Mr.. Baker tells of Armour's ma
ohinery for breaking the law; his
codes and ciphers for instructing
agents. He tells how armour tried to
enter the produce market himself. !,
underselling his competitors who had
paid his freight for him. But here
he overstepped himself. And how,
and what the revolutionists are doing,
and how Armour is digging back, Mr..
Baker tells in an astonishing narra-
tive.
The Brandon news., 1906-01-25
YARDAMAN
KNOCKED OUT.
Supreme Court Sustains the Board Of
Control in Leasing Sandy
Bayou Farm.

At its sitting Monday afternoon the
supreme court reversed the decision OF
Chancellor r B. Mayes, of the Kinds
county chancery court, in the famous
Sandy Bayou case, and thereby re-
Dukes the governor for his attempt to
direct the affairc of the prison board
of control by injunction.
The supreme court disposes Of the
subject by divided vote. Justices
Truly and Calhoon concnr in the deci-
sion which declares that the contract
entered into by the board of control
and State Senator H. j. McLaurin for
the lease Of the Sandy Bayou place is
valid and binding. The decision is
one Of exceptional length, strong and
forcible throughout, and fully sustains
the board Of control in it's action
which provoked the governor to resort
to the courts, hoping thereby to have
his own way about the matter.
Chief Justice A. FL. Whitfield read
a dissenting opinion Of remarkable
length, in which he took view on
nearly all points in the case diametri-
oally opposed to that of his associates
on the bench. The opinion Of the
chief justices consists of forty five
typewritten pages. One Of its fea-
lures is declaration that the COVER
nor has right to institute legal pro-
ceedings in the name Of the state.
The disposal of the Sandy Bayou
case consumed nearly two hours of the
afternoon supreme court sitting.
Briefly summarized, the board Of con-
troll has achieved signal victory,
and the states convicts will be work
ed for another year on the Sandy
Bayou place.
The Brandon news., 1906-01-25
ARMOUR'S PRIVATE CARS AND
THE FRUIT INDUSTRY.

You can't realize how the big ship
pers and the railroads have been max
ing the public pay the freight. and
how far their attacks against small
competition have gone, until you read
Ray Stannard Bakers fourth Install
ment Of ''The Railroads on Trial. in
the February McClure's. Nobody
would blame you for mot believing it
without the proofs sMr. Baker gives
you. This article deals with the
methods by which Armour monopo-
lized the fruit transportation business
Of America, and made all who have
any use whatever for refrigerator cars
pay 500 per cent more for icing
charges than they did when the rail-
roads were permitted to attend to
their business as common carriers. It
tells how Armour played the men who
evolved the idea Of refrigerator.cars,
against each other, ruined them fnan-
cially, and gobbled their business
hungrily. But Armour was not sat-
isfled with this. There were some
American oitizens who haon' felt his
rod. DETERMINATIONS from the rail-
road Wexe not enough. He wanted
more than 70 have his products car-
ried. ii defiance q tho Law cheaper
than anyhody e1re's, md he wanted
The Brandon news., 1906-01-25
CARD FROM THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL.

jackson, Miss Jan % Editor
Clarion Ledger: Chief Justice Whit.
fidld in his dissenting opinion in the
Sandy Bayou case said, the attorney
general declined to bring the suit.
.This statement is not warranted by
the allegations Of the bill or by the
facts.
was never requested to bring the
suit, or to allow the use of my name
to bring it.
The bill was sworn to by the gov
ernor, and the fat issued by the chief
justice before knew any litigation
was contemplated relative to the leas-
ing Of the Sandy Bayou plantation.
VIM. WILLIAMS.
The Brandon news., 1906-01-25
CITATION NOTICE.

No. 1913. Estate of j. d. Walker,
eceased; Emma B. Walker Adlnx. In
5ancerv court, Rankin county, at the
ent term 1905, in said court, said estate
as declared insolvent: 1t was ordered
At the clerk Of this court give notice by
kvertising for three consecutive weeks in
ae Brandon News, published in the
Il creditors of said estate to file their
inns with the clerk, on or before the 4th
Sndav IN March 1906, and that all
Ldifors NAV attend in that state, as the
me will Be taken up for examination
adimdication. January 18th 1906.
SOL DOBSON, Clerk,
By ], q. Bruce n. G.
The Brandon news., 1906-01-25
JUSTICE TRULY,S OPINION.

Justice Truly delivered an elaborate
and very able opinion, concurring in
the result reached by Judge Oalhoon.
that the decree appealed from should
be reversed and the suit dismissed.
Judge Truly, like Judge Calhoon,
thought that the governor was with
out power to institute or to maintain
this suit. He said, however that had
the bill of complaint charged that the
members Of the Board of Control were
acting corruptly and that the Attorney
General was in collusion with them,
he would not commit himself to the
position that in such state Of case
the suit could not be brought by the
governor, but under the record no
such case was before the court
Justice Truly til rght that the ex-
egencies of the case made it proper
for the court to pass on the merits Of
the controversy and he therefore dis
cussed at length each of the propo-
sitions arising upon consideration
of the merits of the litigation. He
took up, first the sections of the con-
stitution of 1890 on the subject of the
penitentiary and prisons Sections
312, 224, 225 and 226. the only sections
Of the constitution having any per-
tinency to the case, and he considered
their meaning in the light of the
conditions under which they were
adopted, and the accepted canons of
construction approved by the wisdom
of the ages as proper guides in reach
ing conclusion as to the true intent
and meaning Of written laws, and he
announced as his conclusion, that the
purpose Of the constitution makers in
the adoption of said sections was to
prohibit, as therein expressed, the
hiring Of convicts to private persons
or corporations, and that it was not
the intention OF the constitution to
prohibit the Board Of control from
leasing land and working of the con-
victs under state supervision there
on.
Justice Truly was quite compli-
mentary to the able men who COM
posed the membership OF the con-
stitutional convention in 1890, and
showed by the. ordinances Of that
convention the leasing Of land upon
which to work convicts. was approved.
This. Of course, led up to the question
as to whether section 320l, code 1892,
was constitutional.
This section authorized the. Board
Of Control to lease lands upon which
to work the conyicts under the oon-
troll, management and discipline Of
the officers and employees Of the PEN
Iitentiary, and was claimed BY the
Board Of Control as it's warrant Of
authority for the lease Of Sandy
Bayou, involved ii the suit The
governors counsel claimed that the
section was unconstitutional, hnt
Judge Truly decided otherwise and
held tho section valid. He pointed
|out the fact that under section ana of
tho constitution tho governor hads
mon the adjournment of the con-
The Brandon news., 1906-01-25
CITATION NOTICE

State Of Mississippi: To Porter Rus
sell and Grover Russell (minors) de-
fendants. You are commanded to appear
before the chancery court, Of the coun ty
Of Rankin, ii said state, on the 4th Mon
day Of March A. D. 1906, to defend ths
suit in said court Of ] !. R. Patrick, for SALE
Of land for petition, wherein you are de-
PENDANTS. ThisI6t day Of January A
p. 1906. .oncr,>, <,,.-,.
BY !. G. Bruce.
4 u ] sol. for Comp.
The Brandon news., 1906-01-25

three learned lawyers, all Of whom
had been members Of the convention,
to prepare and draft such general laws
as were contemplated in the con.
stitntion and such other laws al
should be necessary and proper to put
into operation it's provisions, and az
might be appropriate to conform the
general statutes Of the state to that
instrument. That the section under
consideration was prepared by said
commissioners, fresh from the con-
vention itself. that it was adopted by
the Legislature in 1892, when the
history Of the constitution and Of the
evils which it sought to remedy were
fresh In the minds Of the entire
people, and no one then pretended to
say that the code section violated the
fundamental law. Judge Truly
showed further that in 1926 in q case
tten in the supreme court, the section
was held to be valid and that Chief
Justice Whitfield, in that case rested
his opinion upon and cited in support
Of his decision the identical section
3201 OF the code, now assailed for the
first time.
Judge Truly on this branch Of the
case announced the conclusion that
the section of the code was valid and
fully empowered the Board of Control
to lease land.
He next took up the question which
had been argued by the governors 8
lawyers, as to whether or not subse-
quent legislation repealed the code
section and demonstrated conclusively
that neither the act Of 1894, nor the
act Of 1900. had any such effect; nor
could any other act be found which in
any degree affected the right Of the
Board of Control under the code
section to Lease land for the working
of convicts thereon, under direction
and control of the offers and employees
of the'penitentiary.
Judge Truly took up and paid his
respects to that part of the opinion Of
Chancellor Mayors, wherein that
officer held the contract between the
Board Of Control and Mr.. H. j. Nc
Laurin not to be contract Of lease,
but one by which McLaurin hired
convicts from the Board of Control.
No man who heard Judge Truly s
opinion on this point could help from
wondering how the chancellor could
have been so badly deceived. Judge
Truly sl<wed that the parties to the
contract, McLaurin and the Board Of
Control, thought it was lease and
intended it for a lease; that the
governor himself had sworn to the bill
in the case, which charged that it
was lease that Chief Justice Whit
field by the very terms of his fat in
this case had treated it as lease, and
that in reason and common sense it
could not be held to be any thing but
a lease Of lands.
Judge Truly further showed that
ever since 1890, under all the gov
ernors, just such leases had been made
by the Board Of Control, beginning
with Governor Stone, and followed By
McLaurin, Longino and Vardaman,
and that not until now had anyone
questioned their validity, and he
adjudged the lease in question to be
valid jackson News.