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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19
ATHENS ATTENDANTS ARE
AGAIN LOCKED UP

Athens, o., Feb. 10. Herbert
Reeder and Henry Harkins, two OF
the former attendants charged
with the murder of Inmate Barnes
at the Athens State hospital last
Tuesday are again confined in the
Athens county Jail awalting the
action of the grand jury which is
now in session.
b. +. Knowlton one Of the
bondsmen, appeared in court to.
day and withdrew his name from
each bond. Judge Wood fixed new
bonds in the sum of $4,000 each,
and neither man was nble to
furnish bail.
The grand jury will investigate
the killing Of Barnes this week i.
1t Is expected that Assistant At
tolncy General Miller of Columbus
will come here to assist Prosecuting
Attorney Foster in the grand jury
orct5c.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19
WILLIAMS
SUCCESSOR
DR.. Almond of Missouri As
pires to the Democratic
Floor leadership.

Washington, Feb. 10. Repre-
sentative De Almond Of Missouri
said, when asked about rrunors that
he Is slated by some of the Dem
ocrats to succeed Representative
John Sharp Williams as the Demo-
cratic house leader in the next
congress, that he is not making an
avowed campaign for the leader
ship but he had stated that he
would accept the leadership if a
majority OF the Democratic men,
bers desired him to take it.
81 feel" said Mr.. DeArmond,
"that the place is one which 10
man should seek for the purpose
of advancing himself and for sell
fish motives of any sort. Party
interests are considered first by me
and if | should be selected | will
accept the place. 1t has been many
years since have made any effort
to become q party leader. "
Mr.. DcArmond said he did not
stand fw any faction i'll the Demo.
cratic ranks and is not fighting the
battles of any members who are dis
satisfied with Mr.. Williams, be-
cause they did not get the commit
tee assignments they desired.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19
FIRE RACES IN LARGE
GOV. FOREST RESERVE

Lawton, Okla, Feb. ia for
est fire is raging i'll the 100000
acre government forest reserve
in the Wichita mountains. 1t
threatens to dcvastate the entire
tract.
Despite the efforts Of the super
visor, his assistants and hundreds
of citizens from near by towns,
the damage already amounts to
thousands of dollars to trees, grass
and livestock. Forester Mortissey
has appealed to the citizens for ad-
d.tional aid and the military au-
ness to send soldiers to fight the
Flames.
"A high wind which famed the
flames eastward tbs morning is
beginning to quiet down, and If it
docs net come UP again complete
devastation may be forestalled.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19

For the past few years L$hc
Farmers have been very prosperous,
their crops have been good, hot
winds have been quoted, floods
have not damaged the crops and
drouth has not visited the farms.
Now the farmers propose to reap
a double benefit from these rCpd
given blessings by forming u
trust and boosting the price of
their products so that the less for
tunate brother must empty M his
pockets for their benefit in order
to feed his family. Il
In the way Of the world, there is
nothing to hinder the farmer fqan-
ing q trust and sending the prices
of food stuffs sky high, but nior-
ally, he has no right to attempt
to secure an cxhorbitant price rfor
the blessings which God has given.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19
With a Real Octopus.

Here is an octopus adventure. The
crow Of the Perle, "A fishing boat hail!
ing from Cancalo, France, between st
Malo and Mont. ST. Michael, were
about to pull in big net, when they
encountered sudden resistance. The
net was simply crammed, not how
ever, with good mackerel, but with
vast number of octopi, each provided
with tentacles more than six feet in
length. The Shiny wretches swarmcd
mp one side of the craft. giving the
fishers frightful experience Tho
men had at last to cut the rope of the
not, sacrificing It altogether and then
TO free the side of the boat from the
octopi which stuck to IT,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19
n
THE UNWRITTEN LAW
(Communicated)

There may be an unwittten law.
There have been Nunwritteh TRACE
dies. Many times has the ficndish
crime perpetlated by the wretch,
Stanford White, been enacted
through different methods. To my
n4nd,, the act of drugging the vic
tim, and accomplishing her ruin
while unconscious, is more mcrciful,
than by more clrcuitious way, to
gain the love and confidence of
the poor blinded victim and Is by
weaving a tissue of falsehoodsgand
lying superstitions and deceit
around her senses until thcyssarc
deadenci as surely as by a drug
until a false sleep OF conscicnco is
one day awakened and not pnly
terror stricken by the physical
evidences Of ruin, but with q brok-
On and bleeding heart which Scan
never DE healed. No tardy restitu-
tlon can ever smooth away gthc
scar. Stanford White Thought tYn no
one would find him out. NoSonc
had power to avenge the wrone..
But like all such, he rcckoncd With
ont God. And when he tho1pbt
himself safe, his punishment c5me .
quick and sure. No time to re,Sont
ifetIlbution Is as sure as thatHtbe
world stands. And lit will So,ne
sooner or later. Signdf
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19

y The farmers who have been
complaining so Of the trusts which
have been operating against them,
have now formed n trust which
promises to be q most formidable
one, since it strikes directly at the
food supply Of the people.
While it is established morally,
that no person has n right to spec
ulate upon products which the
whole population needs for subsis-
tence. little blame can be attached
10 the farmer tor taking a hand
in the game. The products OF his
farm are the bass for speculation
in the grain and live stock mar
kets, the grains which he raises
,garc colnered and the stock from his
pastured by the beef trust, yet
two wrongs never make a right
The trust formed by the farmers
Will not affect the bulls and bears
OF the market. The only result can
'be a boosting OF the prices which
auust be paid by the consumer.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19
PAVING
CONTRACTORS
Held to the Grand Jury I'm,
der a Bond of 81, ZOO
Each.

Columbus, O., Feb. 10. Nelson
Cannon and IL. Il. Lang, OF the
Tiinidad Paving company who
were arrested yesterday, charged
with bribery, appeared in police
court this morning, waived cxamina'
ton and were bound over to the
grand jury under a bond Of $2,-
600 each. Neither secured bond.
Mayor Badger Will probably
await the action Of the grand jury
before filling charges with the city
counGl against the accused SER
vice board directors. The grand
jury has been called to meot next
Monday and in addition to an
investigation Of the bribery charges
may probe the alleged shortage Of
supreme court clerk, Emerson,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19
FIGHT THE TRUST WITH
ITS OWN WEAPONS

Lima, O., Feb. 10. The war be-
tween the Standard and the Pure OIL
Co., its only serious rival, was
launched yesterday. The trust will
attempt by higher prices for crude to
crush the lesser corporation, which
has now invaded the new Illinois
field with purchasing agencies and
pipe lines.
The Pure Oil Co. yesterday ad-
vanced light oils in southeastern
Ohio, West Virginia and rcnnsyl-
vania 10 cents per barrel, 10 meet
last weeks quotations of the Stand
ard.
The rival also declared all petrol
cum in the famous Mcdonald dis
tiict would be classified as. amber
at s1.73 the barrel.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19
InllammAtory Rheumatism
Cured In 3 Days.

Morton L. Hill, Of Lebanon, Ind,
says: "My wife had inflammatory
Rheumatism i'll every muscle and
joint; her suffcrings was terrible
and her body and face were swol-
len almost beyond recognition; had
been in bed for six weeks and had
eight physicians but received no
benefit until she tried the Mystic
Cure for Rheumatism. 1t gave i'm
mediate relief and she was able to
walk about in three days. am sure
it saved her life. +" Sold by The
Dumblc Pharmacy, OPP. Kcr House.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19
|SALOONIST
IS SHOT
Friends of Murdered Men
Shoot the Man While He is
Being Taken to Jail.

Maiden, Mo-, Feb. 19.-"Doctor"
A. l.. Brannon, u saloonkeeper, who
shot and killed Attorney d. X. Cox
and DR.. J. w. Beall in the latter's
office, was shot and killed himself a
few hours later, while being removed
from the jail at Maiden, to Kennett
fol safekeeping. The killing OF
Brannon was by unidentified persons
standing in the shadow of a build
ing near the Maiden Jail.
The trouble leading up to the kill
ing of Cox and Bcall is said to have
been over the liquor question. Bran
non, who Is member of "a well
known family in this county, came
here several years ago and started
to sell liquor near the city limits
|across the New Madrid county line.
He recently erected a distillery, but
II was not yet in operation.
Cox was mayor of this city four
times and was prosecuting attorney
OF Dunklin county for two terms.
He was shot through the heart and
back. Dr.. Bea!l was shot through
the head. Brannon snapped his re-
lvolver at Dr.. r. H. Beall, father oi
the dead Beall. but the weapon waf
empty. He then proceeded down
1.-THE street and walked into the arms
oe City Marshall Barnham, who
locked him up in the police station
DR.. J. w. Beall was a division
surgeon for the cotton belt railroad
and an officer in the Masonic grani
lodge of Missouri. He was abou
80 years old and married. He wa'
an ardent temperance and local-op
ton advocate and was a close frient
lor Attorney Cox.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19
TURPENTlNE TRUST is
FINED $50, 900

Sayannah, Ga, Feb. i9.-In the
United States court yesterday the
Sholter company, the Patterson
Downing company, the Standard
Naval Stores company and the Bel
gian company, corporations, and S.
=. sholter and J. II. G.. Myers. In
dividuals. known as the turpontine
trust entered pleas of guilty TO u
violation of the Sherman antitrust
act.
Judge Emery Spear fined each in
dividual and corporation $4,000, max
ing an aggregate Of 100000. The
other individuals indicted had their
indictments nOllied.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19

Harry Thaw has decided hc
would prefer going to the electric
chair, to Sing Sing for life or to
being sent to mad house. De-
yelopments at the Cleveland and
Athens State hospitals could hardly
be said 10 have influenced ham in
arriving at the decision.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19

At last they have found the
head of poor Pearl Bryan. a half
dozen CT so of her heads were
found during the triad of jackson
and Walling and workmcn are still
digging them up.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19

The people of Columbus do not
think they have discovered the first
case Of "grafting" in the city.
Some have a slight suspicion that
the practice has really been going
cn for a week OF two at least.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19

The christian name of the Colum-
bus director Of public service
should not operate against him
when his case comes on to be
heard,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19

The looseness of the purse
strings of John D. Rockefeller Is
a pretty fair indication Of what
the oil market will be the following
wcek.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19

Council has held another meeting
and yet the resolution to pave
South Prospect street to the cor
poration line has not been re-
pealed.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19

Rockefeller gave away $32,OOO.-
O0O for education and within a
week boosted the price Of oil and
crushed out a few competing com
panics. Yet colleges are being built
to perpetuate the memory OF such
a man and place the stamp OF APP
proval upon his methods.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19

"ILoncst George" Sheldon, Ne
braska's governor, has sued him
self for 800 rent for the states
executive mansion and if he sue
ceeds in winning the suit he will
have TO move from the masion be-
cause his salary of $1,000 and no
perquisites, will not permit him to
live in SO expensive house. To
be real consistent now, the governor
should sue himself for the rent for
his office room in the capitol
building.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19
To Cure . Cold in One u

Take LAXATIVE BROM0 Quj |ns
Tablets. Druggists refund mon4 Ii
II falls to cure. q. w. GROT f's
sisnsturs y on each box. 80.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-19

There is always battle between
rheuamtism and Electropodes. ,Asl;
your druggist which wins.
Evening star., 1907-09-02
Labor Day.

Labor day has become an established in
stitution, distinctly devoted to the advance
ment of the welfare of one OF the most i'm
portant factors in the American prosperity
and progress. 1t Is a wholesome thing thus
to set apart a certain day in the name of
the workers Of the country, as a recognition
Of their contribution to the advancement
of the country and a tribute to them. 1t
arrests national thought and concentrates
attention upon the fact that this is a highly
complex Organization, with all the elements
mutually dependent. The day is more than
holiday for the sake of rest. 1t affords
an opportunity and 1t furnishes an incentive
for reckoning up the situation at large
from the broadest possible viewpoint 1t Is
calculated, too, to make for a more intelli-
gent appreciation by both sides Of the
great productive combination the employer
and the employed, of the conditions which
should in Justice and equity govern their
relations. Every celebration of the day
should score an advance toward practical
lasting harmony, and thus toward the ideal
state of social organization.
Evening star., 1907-09-02

many years in the Senate. and died in har-
ness at a great age. a useful man to the
last. The case of Mr.. EdmundS Is almost
as distinguished. He also served his people
many years. and would be in the Senate
now but for personal reasons, which in
duced him to retire. He wearied of Office.
and resigned And Mr.. Proctor has long
been on deck. and is now a veteran in the
Senate.
How comes it then that a state which has
shown such wisdom in selecting and re-
warding national Legislators should have
erred so with regard to local men? Why
have made so many changes at home after
observing the value of making so few here?
Not all OF the states have been as wise or
as fortunate as Vermont in this matter as
respects the national legislature. Too many
of them. and especially with regard to the
House. have changed their commissioners so
often as practically to have been repre-
sented for years by novices. New faces
here have been appearing and disappear
ing. A member no sooner finds his way
around and Is able to do something more
than make motion to adjourn or raise
point Of order, than he has to yield to some
Industrious rival, who, in turn. and in about
the same time, yields to his rival.
And so it goes. The new man always ap-
pears loaded down with promises and
schemes. He has persuaded his people that
everything is wrong in Washington. and
that he is the man to set things right.
Promptly therefore he introduces his little
cure-alls, log-rolls them through, and
thereby, instead of helping the situation,
adds to the confusion.
Undoubtedly in state as in national af-
fairs. we suffering as a people from
hasty diagnosis and hasty prescription.
Too many cooks spoil the broth. Too many
newly made doctors are at work on US for
our own good.
Evening star., 1907-09-02
Shaken Confidence.

Oar ain no mo- dependence to be placed in
old-time friends
De ground hog, he done fool US in de
spring.
An dat's de reason why
I'm afraid to prophesy
When de katydid is stahtin' in to sing.
Dey tells us dat it's jes six weeks befo' hot
weather ends
When de katydid comes tellin' bout de
fros.
But dem signs we had before
Has worked out SO mighty pore
Dat my confidence in dem has done been
los.
So go ahead, Miss Katydid, a-singin' to
de moon.
l likes to hear yoh music, anyway
Though l mus confess l doubt
Dat what you talks about
Is gwinter come to pass jes' like you say.
But dar's lots O. human folks dat tell what
gwinter happen soon
Who finds deir bes predictions overdue.
Oar ain no reason why
You shouldn' prophesy
Cause de bes' of US goes wrong, de same
as you.
Evening star., 1907-09-02
Promotions in the ARMY,
rom the Army and Navy Life

rrom tue army ana Navy Lie.
We see all around us in the service to-
day the unhappy results of the selection
principle? Until the promotion Of Lieut..
Col. George Crook in 1873 to the grade OF
brigadier general for exceptionally bril-
liant, meritorious and long continued work
against 1ndians-promotiop by selection,
from juniors. was never dreamed Of in our
little. hardworked but splendid and con-
tented army. Since the Spanish war pro-
motion by selection has become the Gus
tom. And who selects, and who are Sc
lected?
Is 1t not those whom fortune has placed
under the eye Of-and in personal contact
with-the authority having the temporary
power to seiect; the one who has the good
luck to be placed. at the time, where his
activity, energy. usefulness and fitness can
impress his deserts on the selecting power?
But in this selection when made what
Justice Is there to those others Of equal II
not greater, activity, energy. usefulness
and fitness. who are at distant posts doing
their allotted duty Loyalty. without the
chance OF being seen, heard of or known
to those Of power to give prizes?
Evening star., 1907-09-02
Wall Street and the South.

The few southern newspapers which have
fallen into Wall streets trap and are urging
the south to break away from Mr.. Bryan
and put up a man of her own for President
indulge in language too extreme for the oc-
casion. BY Overstating their case they
weaken it. They are altogether too severe
in describing the situation.
The Charleston News and Courier is of
opinion that if there was a single southern
leader who was not afraid of his own shad-
ow the problem would be solved. Under the
banner Of such man the south would rally
and put Mr.. Bryan out of business And
yet section 50 described by one of its
prominent newspapers is asked to take the
lead in the reorganization of the democratic
party
The Lynchburg (Va.) News says that, as
the result of forty years of subserviency
the attitude of the southern democracy to-
ward the national political situation has
become practically voiceless, if not spine
less quantity"
And yet this voiceless and spineless democ-
racy is the pretended hope of Wall street in
its warfare on the most eloquent and ag-
gressive force the party has known!
Equally severe. too is the language of the
Charlotte IN. c. Observer which says
speaking of the south:
This section has too long come In at the
back door and taken its scanty meals in the
kitchen. 1t has not only made nothing, but
has lost much in the respect of the public
by its exhibition of servility which could not
be construed otherwise than as confession
of inferiority.
And yet the Observer is appealing to men
who for more than a generation, as it al
leSes, have been swapping up crumbs in
kitchen chimney corner, to shake on the
ashes wipe their fingers on their shirt
sleeves, and shoulder their way to the par
lor and preside over the banquet,
All such talk is of course a silly sort of
exaggeration. 1t is mistaken effort to get
the south's mad up" There are lots of
southern leaders tho not only are not afraid
of their own shadows, but are as little dis
turoed BY anybody else's shadow. They
are very able and courageous men, al
though. perhaps. not the best Of politicians;
and while the south has for too long fol-
lowed New York leadership she has not
done with the air of a scullion or a
beggar.
Advice to the south to assert herself In
matters of national moment did not orig
mate with the men who are now In full
voice on the subject, but from those who
had in mind seeing her change her policies
what would II profit her to break with
Tammany Hall only to throw herself into
the arms of Thomas F. Ryan, Belmont and
company? The alliance with Tammany
never meant more than offices for her. and
the proposed alliance with Wall street
would II successful at the polls bring her
nothing else. She would and herself still
very far from leadership. Wall street would
insist on doing the leading
Evening star., 1907-09-02
Parker's Unnecessary Disclaimer.

Judge Parker need not have taken the
trouble to deny that yarn about Parker
boom for next year again. Coming 1t
does just as summer by the calendar was
closing it was but a last futile effort to
entertain-the last of pen-time, so to say.
The public had not enjoyed it, and it was.
unassisted. going the way Of all yarns.
OF course Judge Parker is not scheming
for another try at the presidency, and Of
course the men who put him up in 1904 are
looking to him no longer. -he game played
then will not be repeated so soon after its
failure. Such a thing would be too auda-
cious on the one hand and too absurd on
the other even for Wall street to attempt.
1t comforts Judge Parker to assert and
some of his friends to echo his assertion
that Mr.. Roosevelt's second term was pur-
chased for him. Trust money dishonesty
contributed to the republican campaign
fund carried the election. Had there been
a straight contest, man against man and
party against party, with merit the sole
test, Judge Parker must have won. Such
is the Parker contention, advanced with
effort at a straight face.
If there was anything in Judge Parkers
candidacy but bunco, it was not apparent
then, and it is not apparent to the
naked eye. II Qld not take the country
long to measure the st. Louis performance.
Thirty days after the campaign opened the
democratic cake was dough. All con-
nected with the maneuver, indeed, was
dough" Here, as the great majority of
the voters could see, was a deliberate at
tempt to buy the presidency. The power
behind the throne was composed of a
coterie of very rich men with personal ends
In view. Judge Parker was no more in
their opinion than mask. But the mask
was too thin. The people readily pene-
trated 1t. and voted for the other man. Mr..
Roosevelt was easy winner. not only on
the weakness OF his opponent but on his
own strength as man and leader. .,oE
1t can never be taken out of the reach
OF speculation, but the subject Of what
Judge Parker would have done in case Of
election will always be interesting. Who
would have been his Attorney General.
charged with the duty of looking after the
trusts and transgressing railroads? Who
his Secretary of the Treasury, agreeable
at will to Wall street and to Mr.. Bryan?
We should have seen probably a mess
greater even than Mr.. Cleveland produced
during his second term, and which led
straight and swiftly up to Organism in
1893,
Evening star., 1907-09-02
"Stand-Patism" Confounded.
T~lh

Trade between the United States and
Cuba continues to show a growth which ut
terly confutes the stand pat arguments
Of those who opposed the ratification of the
B.iss-Zaldo reciprocity treaty and who now
oppose the reduction Of the oppressive
tariff duties laid on Philippine products
Reciprocity with Cuba was condemned in
advance by the "stand-patters." first, be-
cause it was bound to prove a failure in
stimulating our export trade with the new
republic, and. second because, even II 1t
did happen to increase our exports, It
would do SO only at the expense Of Ameri-
can industries competing with the Cuban
sugar and tobacco grower. The Tribune
argued. with other advocates OF reciprocity,
that mutual concessions in tariff rates
States in opening larger market for our
manufactured exports while In no way ina-
periling domestic interests.