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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-09

stage. She will travel with a "Ten
Nights in a Bar Room" Company, in
Kentucky. Temperance societies, ia
order 10 Offset orators that the liquor in
terests sent into local options districts,
have organized several "Ten Nights In q
Bar Room" companies, and it .as for
one OF these that Carrie was secured.
Carrie Is planning building 10 Washing
ton home for inebristes, with Che money
she makes on the stage.
Senators Martin and Daniel we're both
here yesterday looking after matters OF
interest to their Virginia constituents.
The thirty-fihh annual convention Of
the International Association of fire
Eogiresrs met in Washington yesterday
TO: three-day session. Upwards Of 400
dtl-gaies from all parts Of the United
States and Canada are in attendance.
There was a parade yesterday ard today
q test of engines and other fire apparatus
was held. Large crowds witnessed the
parade and test.
A report from the Isthmian Canal
Commit sion says that 100 feet of the
main line track of the Panama Railroad
sank in the mud Of swamp or "Sink
hols" about three weeks ago. 1t was
then discovered that under the French
management, old dump cara and rocks
hsd been used as filing to make the
place sroDg enough to support the roll
Ing use, so line of piles have been
Iriven 10, and the railroad now runs
long the top Of these.
Itdeveloped today that Chief Srsie-
gist Russell OF the New York Telegrs :
pliers Union has been in conference here
with Labor Commissioner Neil. The
result OF the conference has not yet been
made public.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-09
Car Barns DESTROYED.

New York, Oct. 9 -N.arly 81 COO,
900, loss was done early iolay By s Ire
which partly Destroyed tn. New York
City Railgsy Company's car barns at
Fourteenth street and Avenue b.
The flames threatened to spread 10
adjoining tenemeuis some of which were
badly damaged by the falling OF the wall,
OF the barn. Hundreds of tenants were
driven from home half clsi. Tas Church
of the Immaculate Conception, on FOu =
zenith between Avenues A and B, VS.
thrown open to tbes' refugees.
The FIRE started On the fourth % top
floor of the barns TO wh'ch there WAS 40
access except by singl, narrow sai'-
way, and much time WAS lost by the fire.
men in reaching it with 6re-fghling sp-
paratus.
The fire completely wrecked the third
and fourth floors of the barn aud dee
troyed $50 electric cars worth SO, 500
each and 80 horse cars. Four hundred
and fifty horses in an "L" adjoining
were rdshed from the stable just before
a topping wall crushed the roof on the
building.
Fire Chief Croker had q narrow es-
cape while rushing in his automobl lie to
the scene of the FIRE, The left front wheel
of the machine coming of while the
chief was making nearly sixty miles az
hour. Though power was cut of al once
the automobile was going 50 rapidly that
/. continued TO run on three wheels tor
more than block, the missing wheel
bounding ahead. The chief was not
thrown out, bat jumped from the auto
mobile as soon as 1t stopped.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-09
Children Murdered.

Providence, r. l.. Oct. g. Discovery
of fourth chilli murder within five
weeks has set the police sssrching for a
criminal of the most degenerate type.
The latest victim found yesterday was a
two-year-oId baby, whose body had been
enclosed in an old suit case aud hidden
in the noahsrn part Of the city. Finger
marks on the body indicate that life WIGS
crushed out By q strong hand. Several
ribs were broken. The other bodies. all
OF which we're found in the same neigh
borhood, werA treated in the same way.
The police believe that the murder is
either degenerate or one for hire that
puts unwelcOme child'en out of the way.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-09
Virginia News.

There is said 10 be strong probability
that SIS soon as Secretary Cortelyou gets
back to Washington, the government
will take over the financial management
Of tho Jamestown Exposition and try to
get back part Of the 81, COO, 900 loan.
The battlesbip Kentucky, stranded on
a mud bank at Lsmberts Point, while
passing from Hampton Roads to the
Norfolk navy yard, shortly after s
o'clock yesterday morning, but was
hoated by ten or twelve powerful tugs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-09

ATTORNEY GENERAL BONAPARTE has
revised his views of the immigration
law Some months ago he held that
South Carolina has not violated the law
in paying for the transportation OF a
sbipioad of immigrants and apportion-
ing them among the localities where
farmers we're most in need Of lsborers.
But he now holds in the case of Cuban
Shose passage to New Orleans was paid
for cut 0! Louisiana State funds that the
State he's DO greater privilege than an
individual 10 assist immigration.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-09
TOday's Telegraphic News
DIR. Rlackford Injured.

Especial Dispatch to the Alexandria Gazette
Richmond, Va, Oct. 9. DIR. L. NJ.
Blackford, president of the Episcopal
High School, located near Alexsndris,
was struck by an automobile in front OF
st. Paul's Church at 1890 this morning,
and painfully Injured. He wss removed
to the Memorial H spits!. The auto
that struck DR.. Blackiord is the proper
ty of Robert @. Pruyne, a lay delegate
to the Episcopal Convention from Abs
ny, N. Y, who was riding up to the
church door when the acc dent happen
ed. DIR. Blackford stepped from The
side walk ia to the street 10 from of the
machine aud was knocked down, receiy-
ing three-inch cut over bis left eye.
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Dinner to Mr.. BRYAN,

Especial dispatch to the Alexandria Gazette !
Richmond, Oct. 9.--Tbe council COM
mittee on entertainment of distinguished
visitors met again this morning and re-
versed tbs action it took Yesterday. L.
was deci led today to give diuuer 10
William J. Bryan and visiting Virgins
editors a Murphy's Hotel on Friday
night. TodSy's acton was unanimous.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-09

CoEsUL- GENERAL GUNTHER writes
that the police supervision of Frankfort,
Germany, over the dealers in milk had
for years endeavored to protect the con-
sumers of milk against adulteration b7
frequent examinations. The courIe,
however, were usually very lenient and
imposed only Aues, which bad little eff,
feet. Lately, however, in view OF the
many cases of milk sdulterstion, the
courts deal more severely with offenders
and impose jail sentences. Recently
three milk dealers were sentenced to i'm
prisonment and were Gned for selling
SKINNED milk as "full" milk. If pure
milk regulations were enforced in this
country the Golfers of the various muuici'
paliiies would be enriched and there
would be less sickness.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-09

Jesse d. Smith, OF Washington, and
Miss Ida Msy Lindsay, d tighter of
William w. Lindsay, of the same city,
we're married in Lsesburg Monday st
the residence of Rev. w. L Dolly,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South.
The committee ofthe Richmond conn
Gil appointed to arrange for the reception
on Friday Of William Jennings Bryan,
who will make political address there,
yesterday announced the plan of giving
dinner on that occasion 10 honor oil
the city's guest.
The annual stockbolders' meeting OF
the Southern Railway Company was
held yesterday in Richmond. Col. A.
B. Andrews first vice president, presid-
ing. Tie annual report OF the opera
tiols for the fiscal year ended June 80,
was approved, and Messrs. Adrian
Iselin, it,, Charles Lanier. Edmund ID.
Randolph snd JamesT. Woodward were
elected directors of the third class for the
term Of three years.
Roland Hubbard and Robert Burnett,
two white boys, were fined in Police
Court 10 Richmond yesterday morning
for distributing quantity of the connie
dity known as 'cschoO" powder among
the audience at the Bj)u Thester Mon
day night, practically putting a stop to
the performance for time. The actors
on the stage caught the contagiOn,
making their performance in some in
stances ridiculous. The same youngsters
operated also among the crowd on the
street during Salvation Army service,
causing that to brssk up entirely.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-09

MAYOR PENNET, Of Fort Dodge, Iowa,
wlo recently gained fame by Issuing a
ukssa that all bachelors within The city
must wed within a year or pay a fine,
was taken at his word Monday by Nolan
Snow, chauffeur, who eloped with the
Mayors daughter. Those who issue
orders mus, stand the consequences.
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Ont ofSIght.

"Out Of sight, out Of mind, +" in an old say
ing which applies with special force TO sore,
burn or wound that's been treated with Buck
mind and out Of existence. Piles, too, and
and ehilblain disappear under its healing In.
huence. Guaranteed by druggists. Csc.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-09

If ONE gets in the wsy Of the Sultan
off goes his head; that is the Oriental
way of maintaining official dignity. 1t
Is getting to be very much the ssme
thing here. A chauffeur attempted in
Washington to go past the Presidents
carriage, and Mr.. Roosevelt had him
di missed. A Mississippi pilot ran his
boat too near the Presidents, aud Mr.
Roo ,evelt telegraphed to havehis license
suspended for ninety days. The in
speclors in tina. district. wishing to make
themselves "solid" with the President,
went him one better and suspended the
pilot for six months, though reliable pas
sengors on the steamer say the pilot did
nothing to warrant any such treatment.
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The Market.
Georgetown. Get. 9-Whest 7Sa7s.
MARRIED.

On Tuesday evening, Ostober9. by Rev. C..
d. Bulla, a: the resIden'e Of the brides
father. NJ. T. v. Richeill, No 2l9 south Pitt
street, ROBsRT N. PRETTYMAN and
SALLIE L. RISHEILL.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-09

Stomach troubles, Heart and Kidney all
ments, can be quickly corrected with pre-
script'on known to druggists everywhere as
DR.. Shops Restorative. The prompt and
mediately brings is entirely due to its Resto-
ratiye action upon the controlling nerves OF
the Stomach, etc. Sold by E. s. Leadbeater
& Sons.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-22

few years ago on the hanging Of the Moa House muir
derer less than three months after the discovery OF his
victims body, surprises and admiration generally
pressed by the American papers the speed OF English
justice. The Philadelphia Ledger remarked that SINH
lar case in America would have occupied many years.
and the history Of the American abundanty supports
this opinion. In Vermont for instance woman MUIR
dered her husband August 13, 1902, was arrested
few days latter shortly afterwards condemned death
but in consequence Of several appeals not actually
hanged until December g. 1905. New York lawyer,
arrested for murder in September 1900 was indicted in
May 1901, convicted in March, 1902 and remained
under sentence OF death from that time until December,
l9O6, when his punishment committed by the COVER
Of the state to that Of Imprisonment for life.
A Judge Of the New York court OF general sessions,
when recently pronouncing sentence OF death on con-
vced murderer and naming date for the execution de-
clared his own sentence farce. There is only one
instance he said of Of death being carried
out the date fixed by the lower court That the
case Of the slayer Of President Mckinley" The captain
Of the General Slocum which burned in the East
river in June, 1904 with the loss OF LOCO lives not
tried until January 1906 and the Of the
boat though pronounced equally cuIpabe by the govern
ment inquiry, have not yet been placed in the dock At
the beginning of 1906 the manager Of the oquos theaer
Chicago burned in December 1903 was at last notified
that he would have stand his trial. but his attorneys
mediaey declared they would attempt secure change
Of venue and this notion the newspapers reported
will be argued within few weeks" 1t was not until
March Of the present year that the anticipated trial actual
y began In all serious criminal trials by the way
amazing time is consumed in forming the jury in the
notorious Thaw trial.
In civil courts also American administration appears
to be modelled on Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce A boy in
Cleveland. o. was injured bya railway train ten years
ago, when he was IL years old. The case has been
banded and fro between the until he has
Of age and it is now ruled that whatever results have
far been reached invadaed by the fact that he is
adult and must therefore plead in his own name. By
careful study Of averages has been found that year
must elapse for jury case to be reached for trial IN
Indianapolis and San Francisco two years in Boston, and
three years in Chicago and New York. 1t has been
estimated that an English Judge disposes Of twice many
cases in the time as his American contemporary.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-22

the nation leading religious workers. cultured preachers and
profound thinkers With the material aid Of several pro-
minent Hebrews he keeps that the forefront in
every big liberal movement there and in the country Dis
cussnG weeks since, Some Jewish Problems and
reviewing the prosecutions which the Jews have endured
for the past $500 years, he says that the Jew
is passing away. The greatest difficulty with which the
Jew has had contend for the last 35 centuries is that
Of prejudice and that because all nations have objected
the Jewish Interpretation Of the Ruler Of the Universe.
His history throughout all the ages has shown him TO be
intense ndviduas believer in the unity Of God and
in this belief he will accept no compromise.
1t because OF his seadEast devotion to the faith OF
his fathers that he has been made the victim OF prejudice
unworthy OF Christianity, and OF manhood and
hood. The Jew race has practically passed away,
and he to-day the cosmopote OF the world The pure
blood OF Abraham does not my veins than in
yours The Jews Of to-day are descendants from two
tribes numbering 420O0 who returned after their wander
ngs to Palestine. How much pure blood is left their
descendants who for the past $500 years have been put
to the vilest prosecutions
Though It is said Jew is known by his racial char
aceristcs his desire to acquire money his determination
to exact the pound Of flesh and an eye for an eye and
tooth for tooth, the world beginning realize that
this racial characteristics rapidly passing away and
that the Jew is Of that country in which he resides an
American German, Frenchman or Russian. These
nations however, refuse accept him because OF his be-
lief that God is unit The time has come to think Of the
Jew human being, and to realize that all the persecu-
which he has been subjected have done the world
good.
If the descendants Of the two tribes who returned to
Palestine responsible for all the laid their door
BY Russia and other countries Of Europe what would be the
result the tenost tribes resurrected? The task
OF the Jew to-day is not to burden himself with the toub
les Of his race, or following the dream Of the prophets
return to Palestine there to found nation respected by
the world but to make that country which he lives his
nearest and dearest possession.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-22

years legislatures are adiourning it is timely to take
mental measure Of the difference between what the country
is and what would be if the laws governing the daily life
Of the people made by these legislatures were absorbed
into the jurisdiction Of the Federal government
Measures regulating the liquor traffic, state and local
taxation the protection Of game support Of schools colleges
and universities and Of eleemosynary institutions laws reg
uanG marriage and divorce inheritance and conveyance
Of property elections and thousand others have been
dealt with by these legislatures each in ways deemed best
for the state for which it has made the laws.
These legislatures have made laws providing for road
building laws defining the relation Of the state to the
poraons and the municipalities within it. laws relating
public and private wrongs and for the regulation Of local
police.
The tendency Of the Republican party at the present
time is in the direction Of denying the states the right
govern themselves their way that way happens not
suit the views convenience Of the dominant party
Washington.
In nearly every utterance President Roosevelt indicates
desire medde in all state affairs that are not conduc
ed he thinks they ought to be- Federal political ma
chimes dictate and control the action Of state
political conventions Step BY step Republican aggressions
upon the rights and powers Of the states are growing
precedents to justify still further usurpations
The South has throughout its history been the defend
Of the rights Of the states Il must continually reairm
its championship Of them as fundamental part Of its his
tory
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-22
everywhere.

life with deformed feet
One side Of my body has been partly paraIyzed for
the past ten years.
My right hand has been ruined by an accident.
4 have been sufferer from neuralgia.
i have been up against Of financial misfor-
tunes"
The very first Of the six reasons is sufficient to prove
that with all Of his physical disabilities his real trouble
was chiefly mental He was dissatisfied since he was
child Without doubt the deormed feet had much to do
with this morbid condition Of mind and it is very natural
that weak and chaaceress should so brood over
such misfortune that the world would lose something Of
its beauty and the soul itself resentment The
unfortunate man began life badly handicapped ii is true
yet had he sought for happiness he might have found it
How many there born suffering all their days who
still find great Joy among the shadows Frai and broken
men and all about who fighting splen-
did fight with cheer and aboundng fortitude Helen KeI
Ter gazed the sunrise did she drink
in the ringing melodies Of woods and fields vet her char
acter beautiful that she is the admiration Of the world
Bliss carmen in exquisite essay upon The Music
OF Lite dwells upon these manned and delicate beings
who refuse yield the burdens placed upon them 1t is
easy to recall in human history says the essays menor-
able names OF characters who verify permeaed with
the music OF lite That tor modern instance was Steven
sons distinction There the fraest Of mortals
in way exceptionally favored in worldly circumstances
an invalid all his days. yet absolutely refusing to live with
out abandon. IN spite Of sickness or hard fortune he
would not dance without accompaniment, and made
music every nour ne was alive here are myrads like
him unknown to fame. CHEEKY brave dgent souls Who
will not succumb drearness WEAKNESS skepticsm Or
despair"
Outside one Of the Kansas Civ. Missouri heaters
during the beakest nights every winter man without feel
sells chewing gum the crowds that pass III and out o
the place Of amusement The vendor creeps about on His
knees. with his wares upon tray hung on his neck With
all his awful burden this cripple cheerful smiling and
gets all o lies beauties Ne reach What reproach
Is such character to the misanhrope Who With the tall
and equipment necessary for success in the battle o
life Yet snars and complains because c pey trials TIE
world IS hne and splendid or the receptive SOUL and those
tempted complain Of their own misorines should look
about them at the physical martyrs WHO s fnd te com
pensatons of life luminous and abundant
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-22

was soon over and alter the generous response which
the nation made the cry for help was dismissed from
the public mind only 10 be recalled to memory as thing
past and gone.
To the people Of the ated city however the terrors Of
that dreadful shock still present curious IL
was given the other day b. New Yorker who stopped
Kansas City for few hours on his way home from the
Pacific slope. 1t was the first time his feet had touched
ground since he took the train San Francisco and he
remarked that it refreshing to stand on sidewalk
and be assured that building would not tumble down on
you He said the shakngs Of the earth were still going
San Francisco at least fifty having recurred since
the great earthquake heavy enough to do any ap
precable damage, but still plainly felt says the Kansas
City Journal
Such little incident as this enables one to form
faint idea how the people of San Francisco must
feel reminded continually Of their awful calamity and not
knowing at what moment may again. This shadow
OF fearful doom overhangng them must be almost as
terrible the tabled sword Of Damoces suspended BY
hair over its victims head
And yet these brave people going ahead rebuild
ing their city gander scale than before. undismayed
and undaunted, feastng and laughing although face to
face with elemental danger which no human power or
courage resist or avert Many American cities have
had their holocausts Of fire and disease Chicago
Baltimore New York and Boston have been ravaged by
fires; ohnstown Galveston and other places have suffer-
ed woefuly by foods and New Orleans even faces the
danger Of recurrence OF the mpacabe yellow fever
epdemics that have periodically destroy the lives
Of her dearest and best citizens But Of them has
experienced fearful visitation has had to face
such terrible situation the people Of San Francisco
are now enduring; although one and all have displayed
the splendid spirit Of unconquerabe courage energy
and pride which characterize the American people
everywhere. -e--@s
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-22

Going still further back to the huge corruption fund
which the Republican bosses used in 1905 to purchase for
the protected monopoies the privilege Of writing their own
tariff laws Yale and the Of the country may we'll be
shocked BY Mr. Roots defense Of the campaign fund as
it has been used by both the old parties in the past
Though Mr. Root does not exagerate the educational
value to the American people Of the great quadrienna
debate between political parties the Presidency his
audation Of the campaign fund would fall upon more ap
preciatve if he would require publicity Of its donors
and demand the prosecution Of every party agent who
should make other than educational Of any part Of the
money contributed to one party or another.
And if in his Yale lectures Mr. Root as spokesman Of
the administration means to insty for 1908 repetition
Of the sources and Of the uses made Of Republican po
ical funds in 1896 and 1904 all men who desire clean
politics and honest political methods in this country will
answer in a loud chorus Of protest
The legitimate expenses OF Presidential campaigns as
they conducted necessarily enormous. but it
may be doubted il the elaborate machinery of modern
elections is altogether necessary. Party newspapers su
fee for most Of the campaign literature that needs to be
distributed would be better that each speaker should
pay his own expenses and have fewer Of them than that
they should be paid out o fund corrupy contributed in
the expectation o receiving favors from the party to which
il is given.
MI. Roots Yale talk win not reconcile the American
people to another big sush fund year promote the
distribution Of false literature and for the perpetaton Of
the robber tariff under which trusts and monopoes have
hryen at the expense o the people for the last ten years
Money spent next year for the dissemination Of the
false theories o government put forth By the President and
Secretary Root will be spent only to deceive the people to
their undOing For It's proper digestion Mr.. Roots
praises 81 the educational value Of the campaign fund must
be taken with many grains Of salt
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