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The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-26
When George SpurIOCk
Shot Charles Smith.
WRANcLING OVER ATTENTIONS
BEING PAID BY BOTH MEN TO
THE SAME WOMAN, BROUGHT
ON THE DIFFICULTY, WHICH
BROUGHT ONE TO DEATH AND
THE OTHER TO PRISON.

Jealousy rests at the bottom OF an
other murder which Is chronicled in
records Of the criminal history of
this city and charged up to the &C
count Of George Spurlocl for the
killing of Charles Smith. The "pro-
verbal woman in the case" holds true
in this, 1t is said, and the result is
the same old tale. Such tragedies
are to be regretted, but they are inevi-
table as long as men and women al
'ow the passion Of jealousy to over
NHlance the sober dictates OF reason.
The dead man and his slayer, 1t Is ru-
mored, had been, before the tragedy,
7uitors of the same woman.
The shooting of Smith by Spurlock
occurred Saturday night April 81, at
or near the corner Of Sixteenth ave-
me and Pearl street The men
ruarreled over the matter between
them, growing more and more
Neoted with anger until finally Spur
lock reached his word limit and
whipping out pistol fired at his an
tagonist. the ball striking him under
the arm and passed in his body so as
70 cut in two his spinal cord. Smith
was taken to the City Hospital and
here examined by the surgeon
IN charge, his opinion was that the
wounded man had practically no
chance of surviving. This opinion
was onlv too true and was soon to
Ne verified for Smith succumbed to
the effects Of his wound during the
night and passed to his account.
The charge which had been lodged
against Spuriock for assault with a
0istol with intent to kill, was changed
70 murder and he was committed to
iail without bond He must now ar
Swer the PEOPLES demand to know
why he has done this, and hereafter
he must answer Gods Injunction,
"Thou shalt not KILL"
Tn moralizing on this bloody affair,
It Is not out Of place to say that the
men and women who feed and pamper
jealousy hover in their hearts the
most cruel and deadly Of all the hui
man passions; they are nursing a
lions whelp so TO sneak which, when
rrown will be bevond the power of
control, and will demand carnage, yea,
md will have it. Some one has said,
and truthfully SO, that jealousy is as
natural as love, and like love, 1t may
he curbed or cultivated. One thing
which the records of crimes bear out
rs a fact. and that Is this: Jealousy
unleashed, is demon that drives
under it's lash the victim, in whose
soul it is lodged, to the commission
of the most horrible deeds.
In conclusion, it may be reasonably
predicted that the killing of Smith is
the beginning Of another series Of
homicides.
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WALDEN UNIVERSITY NOTES.

The Improvement Committee Of
Walden University alumni had their
business meeting in the Office of Me.
harry College on Monday April %.
This committee has only been in ex.
istence two years, yet they have raised
over five hundred dollars in the way
Of Improvement. Their work has been
somewhat handicapped by the suits
which were pending, but as they have
now been dismissed, the committee
will go to work In earnest.
It was decided at this meeting that
al moneys raised by them hereafter
should 90 toward a building fund. The
work for the coming year was care
fully planned and all entertainments
to be given under the auspices of the
alumni will he in the hands Of this
this committee: Eddie Dickerson.
chairman; Vera L. Moore, Secretary:
Tillie Llovd, treasurer; DR.. T. H. Ell.
lott, DR.. ]. H. Mcmillan,
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NEGRO CAUSES APPREHENSION.
American Naval Officers and Norfolk
Society Fear the Coming Of
Haitian.

At all times and on every occasion
old "cuffy" is causing some body to
loose sleep. The latest is report to
the effect that the little black republic
is to accept the invitation sent out by
the United States Government to the
nations of the world to participate in
the celebration at jamestown. The
alarming cry reads as follows:
Chicago, April pa special to the
Tribune from Norfolk, Va, says: If
the Republic of Hayti carries out it's
threat there will be more trouble at
the jamestown exposition than all the
old English pioneers put together ever
encountered in the strenuous times
the big show is intended to commemo-
rate.
A report from Washington, which
Just got out to Rear Admiral Evans
fleet to-day and gave the officers seven
different varieties of brainstorm, says
the Haytian Government is trying to
borrow warship somewhere with the
object of sending it to the naval re-
view as the flagship of Vice Admiral.
A Haytian Vice Admiral would be
black and probably short and extreme
ly black.
That, though bad enough, is not all.
The Haytian Vice Admiral, black and
short and fat, would be the only Vice
Admiral, with the possible exception
of the commander of the Japanese
squadron, at the exposition. And, &C
cording to the etiquette of the navy
ali the other naval officers would have
to knowtow to him and give him So
cial and official precedence.
Such is the emergency with which
Admiral Evans and the officers of his
fleet have been suddenly confronted
The prospect of Haytian Vice Admir-
ais coming spread CONSERVATION all
up and down the long line of battle
ships anchored off the city.
No official action has been taken as
yet, but there is talk of sending a fly
ing squadron out to sea with orders tC
see that the Haytian warship and Its
Vice Admiral loses its way between
the black Republic and jamestown.
Scarcely less than the commotior
caused by the report among the off
GERS of Admiral Evans fleet is the
commotion it has caused in social cir
lies here. There will be a good dea
Of official and unofficial entertaining
Of one kind and another while thu
fleets are here, and social leaders are
wondering how they will have to trea
this short, fat, and extremely blacl
Vice Admiral if he should suddenl!
appear and claim all his privileges.
1t is a question which they refuse
to discuss, but they hope the Haytiar
sailor will stay at home.
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DID NOT PARTICIPATE.

The fire department of Woodland
Street, East Nashville, did not par
ticipate in the exhibition which took
place on Deaderick street, Tuesday
morning as a part of the program for
the Spring festival. 1t is learned that
they were stationed at headquarters
to take the place Of the Deadrick
Street Company in case an alarm was
turned in. They witnessed the COM
petitive exercises as they were carried
out in front Of the fire department.
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cRAZED BY CIGARETTES.
Boy Puffs Like an Engine and Sings
Like a BulIfrou.

Hopldnsville, Ky. Especial Char
lie Roach, boy of this city, 16 years
of ace, has been adiudged on unsound
mind and sent to the Western Lunatic
Asylum here for treatment. 1t was
the excessive use Of cigarettes that
caused the boys reason to give way,
until he could no longer be left at
large.
He labored under two very peculiar
delusions. One of these was an idea
that he was a railroad locomotive,
and he would whistle, puff and blow
Just like an engine using his arms to
perform the duties Of piston-rods. He
also at times imagined that he was a
frog and would roll and turn his eyes
like one and make a noise like bull
frog,
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MISS ANNA T. JEANEs' MUNlFI.
CENT GIFT.

Miss Anna T. Jeanes, Of Philadel-
phia, Pa, has made a generous and
magnificent gift Of S1,000,000 for the
educational uplift Of the Southern Ne
gro in the country and rural districts.
Miss Jeanes is a Quakeress and has
long been interested in the welfare Of
the Negro, contributing to institutions
of learning where he Is being fitted
educationally and morally for the
work of life. Too much cannot be
said in praise Of this noble-hearted
woman in giving in perpetuity this
large sum Of money to help dissent
nate the light of enlightenment,
through the practical medium Of edu-
cation, to the masses Of our people in
the rural communities, who are de-
pendent solely upon the limited and
sometimes meagre appropriations Of
state and county funds for whatever
educational advantages their children
receive. This splendid gift was most
gracious and magnanimous, coming at
most opportune time-a time when
there was lull in benefactions for
educational purposes Of the Negro
While the Negro is not stopping to
whine and play the baby In the alb
sence of liberal benefactions as have
heretofore been given yet he is most
grateful for any material evidence
that the philanthropic spirit Of inter-
est in his well-being is not dead.
Ever and anon along the highway
Of his racial life some generous souls
who, ascending to that height of dis
interested nobility which shuts out
narrowness, shuts out color, shuts out
prejudice, and only looking at us rs a
part of common humanity striving,
deserving and needing assistance, lend
us substantial aid and bid us rise to
the full stature Of highest usefulness by
persistent and unfagging industry.
From the tablelands of God, as 1t
were, they fling out to our upturned
faces the banner of Hope upon whose
white folds is inscribed in radiant
letters this significant encourage.
ment: Onward and Upward. This
awakens in our anxious souls a newer
fresher hope, a saving faith in the
ultimate outcome Of a grander
brighter day, if we but labor on and
wait
The Negro is so constituted that he
is as grateful to his friends as he is
forgiving to his enemies; he never
forgets manifestations of kindness
and soon curbs the rankings of bit
terness for inflicted injuries: these
are known characteristics Of his
elastic nature, not that he is a fawn
ing sycophant for favors nor an in
sensible dullard to injuries, but that
he has learned to take the most hope
Continued on page ~
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MRS. MARY HUMPHREY RErIREs

Mrs. Mary Humphrey, well known
in Nashville as the proprietor of the
uD-to-date boarding mouse, corner
Eighth avenue North and Gay street,
has retired from business on accoun,
of failing health. She has successful
ly conducted this establishment fol
years. Since her retirement she has
turned the house and its contents over
to her niece, Miss Alice Carter, who
is now busily engaged in renovatina
the place. Entire new furniture will
be installed. The house will be re-
modelled neatly and all conveniences
will be added. Nashville has needed
for a long time an establishment of
this kind run on modern basis. Nash
vile has long suffered because Of not
having one. The new management
has promised the public the best ac-
commodations. lust under what name
the new house will be known has not
been given out They have decided
however, to give special attention to
their meals Oh Sundays, and assur-
ance has been made that the rates of
boarding and lodging will be within
reach of ALL
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PAYNE CHAPEL.

Last Sunday at the II a. m. service
Bishop B. F. Lee preached an able ser
mon. The Allen League, at $50 p. M,
under the leadership Of Mrs. S. NJ
King, had a grand meeting. At 8
o'clock the Payne Chapel Choral
Glass made its first appearance, with
Miss Eta Lee Bradford, organist.
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as if be magic into tn autymobill an tn alimony. Blessed spot, where gather tn signs iv our premachurely old families to revel in tn pleasures iv refined wealth an belt each other over tn heads with tn flowin' wine bottle.
 "It was there that Prince Willum thraveled nachrally, an Newport made up its mind to rayceive him as be- come his ancesthry if he wint far enough back. It's too bad ye didn't read 1t in tn pa-aper. I've read nawthin ilse fir a week. Glory be, but it's been a fine ginteel scrap. An so e.;citin Tn shindig started whin Mrs. Slosh, tn acknowledged queen iv New port s'ciety, handed 1t out that amy body that wanted to larn whither tn Prince ate with his knife or not wud have to look pretty good to her Tn challenge was bravely took up be Mrs. Splosh. another acknowledged queen iv Newport s'ciety. who passed back remark to tn gin'ral effect that though she'd known Alfalfa Slosh since her father dealt faro bank in Butte, she'd have to inform tn wurruld that no lady with cast in her eye an much iy her hair rented wud iver see Prince Willum onless she peeked through a hole in tn Splosh fence. Well, sir, that started it. An now l skip iv'ry- thing in me daily pa-aper to get down to tn fight news. 'Tis tn on'y readin':
 'Mondah; Mrs. Slosh scoored a signal
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viethry yisterday be sindin' her for mer husband to Prince Willum to teis him that if he didn't appear at tn Slosh manisoin Thursdah mornin' at nine o'clock he'd have his head punched 'Choosdah, Mrs. Splosh had tn betther iv yisterdah's manoovers. Be some means she managed to con vey to his rifle highness hint that tn pie-plant at tn Slosh's house was full iv Paris green Winsdah: A tur-rble affray took place in front iv tn readtn' room this afthernoon whin MT. Splosh an Mir Slosh, tn divorced kings iv tn acknoledged queens iv Newport sciety met an umped into each other. All Newport s'ciety is wurruked up over tn dreadful affair. Tn socyal capital iv tn counthry is divided into two rival camps. Fights are iv daily occurrence in tn sthreets. In siv'ral instances hat-pins have been dhrawn. So far it's annybody's battle Thurs dah: The Princes boat appeared in tn offing this mornin' an in tn prisince iv a tumulchuse crowd iv cheerin' shriekin' arrystocrats, tn two socyal queens swan out to meet his rile high ness. Both ladies are sthrong swim mers. an they were over tn rail about tn same time. A furious battle ensued between tn queens, but tn supeeryor socyal address iv Mrs. Slosh prevailed. Afther fifteen minyits iv infightin' she put her right acrost to pint iv jaw.
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MT. Dooley on the Subject or Work


Yonson-if Hogan give me tn name
 right-an Dock Nansen an others,
 they thundered at tn gates iv tn pal
 ace. did tn king draw his soord an
 attimpt to defind tn possessions " th'
 great house iv Barney Dot! Faith, he
 didn't do anything iv tn kind. He
 laid down a glass iv lemonade he'd
 been slipping an called: Catch
 fine, hospitable old fellow says I. Tn
 Norwegyans havin' gotten their lib-
 erty wint off an hired a Dane to be
 king over thim. Tn king had to marry,
 so he looked over tn Norwegyan ladies
 an married an English lady, as most
 kings do an always will do while Eng land holds tn supremacy iv tn sea. If England iver blows up yell read iv
 good nanny divoorces in high CIT
 cles. There's wan thing tn English rile family is doin' be marvin into other rifle families. It's putin, tn
 gover'mint iv tn wurruld into tn hands iv tn plain people.
 "So tn old king sint Willum over here to study dimmycratic institutions,
 an he's havin' tn time iv his life
 Since Jeff Erickson he's tn first
 Swede, I bet ye, that iver wint into
 Newport house through tn front dure
 or without a bundle An there's no place like Newport to study dimmy-
 cratic institutions firm. Ye can look right down on thim. Fr'm Newport our institutions all look very dimmy-
 cratic; firm Ar-rchy Road not so much so. if at all. Ye can say what ye like about Newport, but to me, Hinnlssy, it's tn fairest flower iv our ciylllZa- tion. I read about it ivry day in tn
 palaieemses iv our liberties, as Hogan says, an 1t thrills me to tn marrow iv me bones. I've niver been to New port: be tn way tn Jumper counts up iv'ry night I'll niyer get nearer to It thin Saint Joe, Michigan But I'm proud iv it just tn same. Lave amy insolent Euro-peen ask me what this counthry can show but coorse an yul- gar mateeryalism, an I'll pint to New port. Look at that says l, an tell me that we're sunk in commercyalism. Look at that an tell me- says l. that wealth in tn right hands an tn left can't proiooce culture an refinemint akel to annything tn capitals iv Flu
 rope can show! Why says l, 'whin it | comes to culture an reflnemint New port cud give tn coort iv Louis Cans ] cards, spades, little an big caazop, slam tn deck in it's face an bate it fir amy sum firm three to three millyon | dollars. Ye bet yeer life on that' 1 says l.
 1 "Its tn grand place. 'Tis there tn ] gr-reat Caps iv Finance hurry whin 1 wearied with tn chumult iv tn mart
 an tn grand jury room to relax their 1 minds be a meal with a blue-nose man. 1 drill. chimpanzee or an ape. ITS there tn fair decindants iv tn heroes 1 iv tn revolution an tn steel merger l come to an arrystocratic clinch an roll on tn flure in a deadly embrace. 1 Iris there that tn rude rebate, tn
 overcharge an tn short change, thim
 coorse, but nicissory factors in our l industhreel divilopmint ar-re turned
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wan iv tn anointed iv tn Lord, as Hogan says, to bend its head to, Ma polyon was tn boy they wint to see. Havin' met a good nanny kings, or overtaken thim, as ye might say, he had an idee that anybody that wasn't good fir much else was good enough to be king. He was mighty careful about whom he picked out fir cooks, but whin it came to kings he'd just as leave shut his eyes an pull sthrange name out iv a hat He showed how he felt about it be maxim kings iv his brothers. Whin a customer turned up, I can't spare So-an'So; he tells good story; or, Soan' So, he can spell; or. So-an -So he knows all about dogs. But I can let ye have me brother Joe If ye can wake him up, or that old mutton-head gin'ral standin' in tn cor ner. He'd be gr-reat king fir ye. His ancesthry is all right. His father was a tailor. So whin tn Swedes come lookin' fir a permanent boss he give thim Barney Dot because he didn't like him or tn Swedes, ayether An thus was founded tn dynasty that rules over a proud people that has done much iv tn heavy housework iv tn wurruld, rubbed tn roomaticks out backs an give tn name iv Olsen to tn entire population iv tn state iv Min neSoty.
 An there ye ar-re. Tn prisint king iv Sweden seems like dacint sort iv an old la-ad. It's aisy come, aisy go, with him. If anybody wants part iv his kingdom. all they have to do is to cut off a slice. He keeps open hous. Whin tn Norwegyans. thim liberty lovin' decindants iv tn old Vikings, demanded their rights whin undher tn inthrepid leadership iv B. Yonson B.
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WIT. D00ley's Philosophy

Then seiZin' a belayin' pin she moved down body iy marines that guarded tn princess cabin an offered spirited resistance. Manetime, tn craven offi- cers an crew had jumped overheard an drowned thimsilves. Although tn prince fought with all his might he was no match fir his lovely hostess, who swan ashohre with him an car rled him more dead than alive to tn Slosh mansion, where he is now close ly confined. Admission to see him Is be ticket on'y Mrs. Splosh, though defeated, is not disgraced. She is or ganizin' a stormin' party, which will be wan iv tn iyints iv tn season, an she declares she will have tn prince out if she has to blow down tn front wall. But it is gin'rally conceded that Mrs Slosh has rightly gained tn title iv undisputed queen iv our best s'ciety. Noblesse oblige.'
 An there ye ar-re. It's been gr-reat fight an tn best queen won. I'm glad Prince Willum has had a chanct to see how good we are whin we're at our best"
 '"Tis tn likes iy thim that Schwartz meister says provoked tn Fr-rinch rev olution," said Mir Hennessy. gloomily. Don't ye believe it." said MT. Doc ley. we cudden't injye poverty if we didn't see tn way other people inJyes wealth. Iv'ry time I read about a socyal war at Newport I feel less dis turbed about a socyal war in our back alley. Whin ye come to size it up socyal war is tn same thing as what is called in the polls coorts a clothes line row, ony in wan case tn ladies wear tiaras on their heads an in tn other case shawls. An what wud be tn use iv havin' a revolution an de- sthroyin' thim. They'd on'y be more laaRg@rous without their heads
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BY F. P. DUNNE


to be directly traceable. Slipping down of the blankets is followed by dreams of Artic relief expeditions or falling into snow drifts. A gas-distended stomach, pushing up the diaphragm and compress ing the lungs, produces dreams of some thing sitting on your chest or dramatic struggles against other forms of suffo- cation.
 "The common single dream, that of falling falling, falling from great height, to wake with q grasp of relief just as you are about to strike and be dashed to pieces, is probably due to the general muscular relaXtion and fall ing of the head, arms, and limbs, which accompanies settling down to sleep. Care ful studies have shown that 1t almost invariably occurs during the first forty five seconds of sleep A slip, or change of position, of a sixteenth of an inch is enough to suggest the idea of falling to the brain. It does the rest, and pro- vides out of its swarming storehouse or images the precipices, flights of stairs giddy mastheads and other scenic ef- fects. If the impression Is not vivid enough to wake you. you strike bottom with a delicious sensation of restful warmth and repose, just such as your tired body is getting from it's 'downy couch'
 "The next common dream, which we have all had scores of times, which, as Dickens quaintly said, he was sure even Queen Victoria, with all her royal ward robes full of clothes. must have also had, that of suddenly finding yourself in public half dressed, seems almost equally traceable
 ''The dream, and we can all recall It's mortifying vividness, is usually associated with insufficient. or displaced, bedclothes. This gives our drowsy brain-cortex the idea that We haven't sufficient clothes on. Our arms and shoulders being com- pletely covered by the close-fitting upper half of the nightgown, the impression of unprotectedness comes most Ylvidly from our unencased lower limbs Our well trained modesty takes furious fright and hinch lilac lachrumae, hence these weeps.'"
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but. he said during our talk. that he thought every man should follow the faith of his father.
 Royal Monogamsts.
 The khedlves of the past have been noted for their numerous wives. Every one of them has had the four allotted by the Koran, and in addition concubines and slaves. The father of the present ruler was monogamlst. He was true to his one wife, and, far as l can learn she was a most accomplished lady and queen. When l was here before heard many stories of the love which Tewfik Pasha had for this young mans mother, and of the pleasant home they had outside of his official career. It was probably that example that made Abbas TIilmi a monogamst, and peace corresponds favorably with that of any ruler of Europe. Indeed Tewhk, the father of Abbas Hilmi, once expressed himself strongly in favor of monogamy, saying: "In my own fathers harem saw the disadvantages of many wives, and 1 then decided that when l came to manhood l would marry but one woman and be true to her. I have done that and l have never regretted it."
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was black, and as I remember, it was of the butterfly variety, like those that you buy on lower Broadway for 20 cents. His hlghness of today wore a double breasted frock coat and light trousers, with a neclxtie of light colored silk, which he had apparently tied himself.
 In both instances, after shaking hands, these khedives, father and son, led the consul general and myself to seats on the opposite side of the room and each took his own place on divan there and sat down with. one foot under him There seemed to be nothing undignified In this attitude the manners of both be- ing perfectly simple and free from os- tentation.
 Model Lives.
 During the talk of today cigarettes were brought in and the consul general and myself each took one and lit it. His highness refused, and upon my ask ing him If he did not smoke, he replied: No" l asked the same question of Tewfl Pasha and he told me that he neither smoked drank, saying that Mohammedans do not believe it right to drink anything intoxicating, and that he tried to follow the laws of life as laid down by the Koran.