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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-07-26
A GREAT
Bargain Sale Now On

Having bought the stock of DR.. H. L.
LONGS, consisting Of Dry goods, Shoes,
Gents Furnishings, Groceries, and Drugs at a
reduced price, shall put same on sale for
thenext few days at cost.
TERMS STRICTLY CASH.
have complete line Of calico, percal, and
lawn that you can buy for S cents per yard.
Towels 7 cents each and upward.
Best Ladies and Gents Hosiery, Isle lace
and plain, rs cents sellers at 10 cents.
Muslns, Lawns, Cotton vol, LINN, lawn
and all other high-grade goods will be sold at
your price,
The well known PIEDMONT mems shirts
s1,OO and 81 rs sellers at 80 cents, Under
wear at price that can't be duplicated by
the wholesale merchant.
complete line of ties from cents to 50
cents
Ramon's, Groves, Longs, and JOhnsons
chill and fever tonic "a cents per bother All
shoes at Is per cent off. Double thick To-
bacco 30 cents per pound.
You can see for yourself better than we
can tell you. If you see anything you want
you can't be better satisfied.
COME EARLY AND GET The BAR
GAINS.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-07-26
The Citiaena Bank.

Cairo, Ga, May zs, 1907.
Prof. G. W. H. Stanley, Macon. Ga.
Dear sir: Yours Of recent date to hand,
and in reply beg to state that itaught school
three years prior to the time began your
commercial course. You secured position
for me before graduated. MY sshry has
been on an average SO per cent. greater since
took the course than 1t was while l was
teaching school, and In addition to that. Of
course, have had employment for the entire
year, iuStead Of for only portion as when
teaching | was highly pleased With In
StruetiOn received at your school.
with best wishes for the future, Ian:
Yours very tTuly,
r. M. Brannan, Cashier.
Evening journal., 1907-10-09
FINE FOR POWDER
THROWER AT DOVER

BY THE JOURNALS Special Wire.
DOVER. Del. Oct. 9-Since an ex
hibition here showed a boys prank,
giving a man violent sreezing spells,
the bad boys of Dover have been per-
petrating the same prank on the
streets and in the Opera House. They
throw sneezing powder. The man or
woman who gets good inhalation of
the stuff IS thereupon out of condition
for the rest of the performance.
Before Magistrate Wood last even
ing the Opera House management got
busy and the police court was filed
with bows summoned either as wit
nesses or defendants Several Of the
suspected ones were compelled to
swear that they did not throw or aid
and abet the throwing of the torment
ing powders.
Harry Galloway was proven/guilty
on one count and was fined 1915.
Magistrate Wood served notice on the
defendants and witnesses that any
repetition of that disorder would be
seriously dealt with.
Evening journal., 1907-10-09
A Protest bv mr.. Hooan.

Editor THE EVENING JOURNAL.
Dear sir wish to make a brief
statement through the columns Of
THE EVENING JOURNAL concern
ing the actions of the Salvation Army
while the anti-prohibitlon meeting was
in progress.
1t is inconceivable to me how men
and women who profess to be Chris
tians. and demand a respectful hear
ing at their meeting, could act i'm such
a scandalous manner as the Salvation
Army did, reinforced By about one
hundred prohibitionists. The hoodlums
Of Frisco would not have done worse.
They but proved our claim that they
are fanatics and not capable Of adj
ministering government. They re-
minded me of a picture 1 had once
seen of "The Mad Muilah and his CO.
horts"
After our meeting was adjourned a
citizen informed me that he had in
tended to vote prohibition, "but," in
his own words. These uniformed
disturbers have convinced me that
prohibition is wrong"
Another citizen said the Salvation
Army reminded him of a band of
Apache Indians on the war path.
Yours truly,
William John Hogan.
Wilmington, October Q.
Evening journal., 1907-10-09

The thorough system OF inspection while
protecting the public and insir'ng obe1i-
enoe to the law. is also an ADVANTAGE 10
tho legitimate hotel proprietors by pre-
venting carclesshess and reckless use Of
the privileges granted under the law, as
well as by eliminating those who a.e not
maintaining the standard.
Not the least advantage OF this law
Is found n the creation Of an efficient
state department Shcse records furn-
ish complete data for the study Of the
problems connected with the sale of
liquors, and whose reports to the legisla-
ture being based upon actual condit ons
facts and experience tend to prevent the
enactment of impractical laws or unwise
amendments to the present laws
Until we can reach the ideal, the New
York law may well be considered as rep
resenting very nigh degree Of efficiency
In this class OF legislation.
In Pennsylvania where the law is ad-
m n'stered by the county courts there Is
scarcely a county where some scandal
has not been associated with license
court It has been the cause Of po.t cal
defeat to many judges, who esteemed for
legal ability and judicial qualities have
been deposed by real or imaginary use
OF their powers for unworthy ends 1t has
often become the chief asset OF political
machines and corrlpt bosses, and a ch
mine for the CRATER and biaclS-maEer.
The ermine Of the judiciary was never
so befouled by any one cause as it has
been by the license granting power in
that State.
Contrary wise in New York state where
other departments have been charged
with corruption and collusion offensive TO
honest government, the Department Of
Excise, as every one familiar with New
Pork politics knows, stands free from
charge or suspicion Of wrong.
II we are TO have a system Of regula-
tion and restraint, It must be devised by
combination Of conservative elements
assisted by the men in the trade who
recognize the necessity for adequate regu-
lation and ask only fair treatment of their
business interests.
The extremist and the mere dive keep
ers have both too long prevented syste.
matte, practical legislation.
Yours truly.
Clearield. Pa. October 5.
Evening journal., 1907-10-09

A. S. Meserve. former warden Of the
county workhouse, returned TO Burllng-
ton. Vt, yesterday afternoon after ex-
planning the bills left unpaid by him on
his retirement from the institution Tire
bills were ordered paid by the trustees
after hearing Mr.. Meserve's explanation.
The elimination Of the affair seems to
be a vindication of Meserve's action,
which he eontended was merely according
to custom of the trustees. Several of the
trustees congratulated him after his ex-
planation had been made. To a reporter
Mr.. Meserve said;
Il have nothing TO say as to the criti-
c.sm concerning me. That has fallen Of
It's own weight. will say. however, that
the men I left behind me in The official
force at the workhouse are the best set ci
men that ever drew breath Among my
dearest possessions are the letters of
these men and of the judges Of the coun-
ty court"
Committee investigating.
Speaking OF his visit to Chicago, which
he mentions in his letter to the workh1use
trustees, Mr.. Mesarve sad some person
sent a letter to the National Prison Con-
gress in session there, signing the name
"B. dup. Richardson" which resulted IN
a committee being appointed to come 10
this city TO investigate the charges made
against him and that $500 was subscr. bed
10 defray the expenses OF the commit
tees trip. He said he expected this COM
mittee to visit this city shortly.
Mr.. Meserve is a member OF the associ-
alton In question and he said be Is in bet
ter standing in the organization now than
he ever was. He said he figured out that
the person who sent the letter in signing
the name above quoted had meant to get
the initials OF Delaware's congressman
Hiram r. Button. and Senator'S dupont
and Richardson in the signature. He re.
fused TO divulge the charges MADE in
the letter.
when / rendered my resignation TO tie
workhouse trustees on June 1s last" SAID
Mr.. Meserve, everything was woik kin
smoothly at the Institution and all the
Evening journal., 1907-10-09
More aconsn Eor pnver-

DOVER. Del. oct. 9-The police
force. because Of the midnight fighting
in Dover and disorder on the streets,
which has now become regular every
Saturday night and even through the
week. will be strengthened by the en-
ployment of new policemen. at least
until after the HOLIDAYS. beginning this
week. Council authorized the employ
men of two additional night patrol
men. to serve from s o'clock to in
the morning. These, it is said. win
be plain clothes men and their names
win not be published or made known.
Evening journal., 1907-10-09
MAY BE PARADE OF
SCHOOL CHILDREN

Members Of the Board of Education
will meet with the Halloween civic COM
mittee tonight to discuss the proposal T.
have tthe school children participate I'm
the afternoon parade on October 81. The
board will meet as a committee of tie
whole and whatever business is done viii
be reported at ten regular meeting on
next Monday night
Letters have been sent by the superin-
tendent Of schools TO all the school piin-
cipals asking them to request the schol-
ars to get the views of their parents on
the subject OF paradlng. The idea Is TO
have an the boys in line Of parade ana
the girls massed on the Court Hou O
green Answer 20 these letters are ex-
pected by this evening and the board will
probably be guided by the opinions of the
parents on the subject
Evening journal., 1907-10-09
Mr.. MESERVE HAS NO
COMMENT ON CRITICISM
Letter With Bogus Signature Leads to nvesti-
cation by National Prison
Congress

trouble that occurred came after that.
There was deep laid plot by some people
to gain control Of the management of the
workhouse and those who were made
tools of by these men have probably
found out by this time that they made
mistake"
AIr. Mcserve's letter to the workhouse
trustees which he wrote on September %
explaining the matter Of the unpaid bills
and the list OF the bills satisfied the trus-
tees that everything was all right Mr..
Meserve said he merely came to Whining
ton 10 explain more fully the letter in
case 1t was not understood, but said he
was not given chance, as the trustees
seemed to be satisfied without a personal
explanation from him. The letter and list
Of disputed bills follow.
Meserve Astonished.
In his explanatory letter 70 the trus-
tees. Mr. Meserve. after taking up the
unpaid bills in detail, says Of h's failure
to pay them:
This same system has prevailed ever
since the workhouse was opened. 1t pre-
walls in every institution and won't you
ask yourself If some bill for some reason
does not 90 over from one month to an
other in your business. The case whe
IL does not is the exception and not the
rule
If have committed no crime I cannot
see why I should leave my work which is
pressing me just now as cold weather Is
coming on, and come down there but
when you find sor'eth'~g wrong Let me
known at once and will resign and start
at once.
You speak of my good name I should
think it a wonder If had any left down
there I am astonished at scme things I
hear.
Il was sent TO Chicago by the Pauly
Jal Company and got on the track OF a
large amount Of work. I expect a com
mittee Of the National Prison Ward ms
Association will be IN Wilmington soon TO
look into the matter hope It may have
the opportunity TO examine into my work
and record as wish it TO make a fun re-
port"
Evening journal., 1907-10-09

regions OF the peninsula which has so aptly been
termed the garden spot" But we must be
awake, alert and progressive. Views of barna-
cles, unprogressive and sleepy persons, in this
communicated we have too many Of them
should be kept in the background
Evening journal., 1907-10-09
Peoples Column

Anonymous communications fer tbs
peoples column viii not be printed,
Names Of Contributors TO the column
VIA not bo printed, but must je iur-
nished The Evening journal as an evil
dence OF good fslth ~ .he part Of the
contributor.
Evening journal., 1907-10-09
FINANCIAL
Name

National Bank Of Delaware ...........s......
central National Bank ..........-.........'.
fIst Nationai Eank
Natl Eark OF Wilmington ~ Brsudy wine.
Equitable Guarantee Trust COMPANY ............
security Trust and Safe Deposit co
Mlim;nston Trust company .......-..........
American Nulcanized Fibre. Common
An ercan Vulcan.zed Fibre preferred
1eiaware Railroad Stock
Wilmington Gas 4 Electric Com ....,......s..
Mn5minkton Gas x Electro. pf1 .......,.........
Mllmlng tOn New Castle Co Ry, cOrn.s.....
Wilmington New Castle So Ry. pfrd..........
WHm.ngton Light, Sower & Telephone Cq..'...
Name BOMBS
american Vuscanized Fibre Bonds
Wilmington City Railway 8O1ds
Wilmington Chester Traction Bonds ........ .......
Wilmington Gas Elect Ronde .........,........
Wilmington, New Castle 80. Bonds ...a...... ........
Delmarva Telephone Bonds ...........s,...
Wilmington Light, Power Teephen6 Cos........ 80.
Evening journal., 1907-10-09

TAE EVENING JOURNAL uses the United Press News
eervos, received in its edis7rsl rooms owes sPsoa'
Evening journal., 1907-10-09

This newspaper sale regularly at every newsstand
IN wilmington the principal towns In the state OK
Delaware. also at B-oad Street Station and Twenty
Evening journal., 1907-10-09

Advertising rates application
No attention paid to unsigned communications
Evening journal., 1907-10-09
Yours respectfully,
washington. D. G., october s.

1.-THE registration days are October
II, Saturday nexD and October 10.
The yare the only two days for the
registration prior to the election, which
Is on November 81
Evening journal., 1907-10-09
rnRMs on SUBSCRIPTION.

TERMS OF SUBSCkdfIiON'
ny mail. postage prepaid, $500 year, or 70 cents
month payable in advance BY carrier SIX cents Week
Evening journal., 1907-10-09
When 10 Renister

Editor THE EVENING JOURNAL.
Please let me know when I can quail
fy to vote or when will be the last
day TO register. Please put in THE
JOURNAL
Evening journal., 1907-10-09

Gilbert g. Jones. Business Manager
Fourth and Shipley Streets, Wilmington, DelawarS
Evening journal., 1907-10-09

Directors and sole stookhoIdersi Hobert ,. oH''u =
Innna
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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-10-03

These hats are so we'll
known thatWe are sure
the ladies will want to
take advantage of this
offer to- see the fancy
lime they will show.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-02
HUNTING CASUALTIES.

One of our eastern contemporaries
presents the record of casualties due
to hunting, and the list, as usual, is
long. Forty-eight persons met instant
death in the field, and seventy-eight
were more or less seriously wounded.
Among the latter a considerable pro-
portion lost an eye. others a leg or an
arm or hand or a foot. Others, shot
through the body, will spend many
weary weeks in COnvalescing, and
some will perhaps never fully recover.
OF the forty-eight who were killed
companions. Eighteen men were mis-
taken for deer in the woods of Maine,
Michigan, Wisconsin and some other
states. Their companions fired upon
them with deadly accuracy without
first making sure that they We're
shooting at deer. People never seem
to Learn, one great lesson of hunting,
the lesson that one must always know
what one is shooting at. And another
great lesson is that a loaded shotgun
or rife is always dangerous. SO is the
gun that is not loaded, for that mat
ter.
1t is rather gratifying to note that
very few accidents were reported from
western states, and especially from the
states in the intermountain west. IT
is not assuming too much to say that
hunters out here are more careful
that they are better acquainted with
weapons and their possibilities of
harm. This is natural, too, for in the
west men are more often trained in the
use of weapons. They live more in the
open, they hunt oftener, they handle
firearms more skillfulIy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-02

tried in Pittsburg this season for the
first time. An effort has been made
TO start a movement for free football
everywhere 1t will hardly be success
full. and it does not deserve to be sue
cessful The contributions by indi-
viduals for tickets to football games
do not hurt the individuals. But the
aggregate forms a mighty. factor in
college athletics. Without the receipts
from the football games it would be
all hut impossible to keep up the
games that are financial failures. It
would be hard to maintain extensive
and expensive gymnasiums. now a ne
cess ~ feature of college life, and the
rowing crews, the track contests and
other outdoor sports would have 10 be
abandoned. That is, unless the mil
Honaires of the country should get to-
gethe- and provide a huge endowment
fund for college athletics. This is
hardly probable, nor is it necessary.
The present system works no hardship
upon anyone and it is plenty good
enough.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-02
AN INTERESTING POINT.

An interesting legal point has Just
been decided by the Kentucky court of
appeals, the highest tribunal in that
state. The question was raised by
the attorneys for Clarence Sturgeon, a
murderer under sentence of death. A
few days before the date set for the
execution of Sturgeon his attorneys on
some preteXt secured a stay of execu-
ton. The court before which the stay
was granted decided finally against
the defendant and the governor set a
new date for the hanging.
The lawyers set up the plea that the
fixing of a day for the execution of a
criminal is a judicial, not an executive
function. The court of appeals holds
that it was purely ministerial. Had it
held otherwise the execution of Stur-
geon might have been permanently de-
layed. And that the decision was right
enough can hardly be questioned. The
decision was merely in line with long
established practice. Under the statute
the governor had to fix the day of ex-
ecution.
Still, it is just as we'll that the point
has teen raised and adjudicated, even
though il has not been adjudicated to
the satisfaction of the defendant and
his attorneys
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-02
NEVER GO EMPTY HANDED,

That is what mother used TO say To
me many times when / was child. If
I was going upstairs, 1 must look
about me and see if there wasn't some
thing downstairs that belonged upstairs
that I could carry up and put into It's
place; and so on from one part of the
house to another
She always said it would be a great
help in ones housekeeping and save
lots Of unnecessary steps, if people
would just remember that little rule.
and although I fail in many ways 10
practice all the good things she taught
me, / very often find myself saying to
the children as they help about the
house: Never go empty handed"
Children have such a wonderful TN
conscious way of walking right over
things instead of picking them up and
restoring them to their proper places.
So 1 shall often repeat the little rule
to them. partly to help them and part
ly TO relieve my own feelings at their
carelessness, and if they do not always
obey the injunction now while they are
young, they may in after years remem-
Der it as one Of mothers helpful rules.
George A. Chapman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-02
HE WON'T SHUT DOORS.
Enqlishman Prefers to Ride Back
ward on Railway Trains.
Mashinston Post.l

Travellers returning from England
tell of two habits of the people of thai
country which impressed them. One is
the average Englishman's aversion tC
shutting the door behind him.
Il don't know how it is in the Eng
fish houses" remarked one who re-
turned recently from abroad, "fOr
was not in one of them, but I stayed
in a hotel in London where there were
a good many English people, and a
dozen times daily had to get up and
shut a door to keep the draft away.
1T didn't make any difference
whether it was a servant or a guest
who went through, the door was left
open. This was in the spring of the
year. too, when the weather was chill
ly. l noticed the same thing in railway
coaches and hotels of smaller towns"
The other English popularity is a
preference for riding backward on
trains The Englishman will make for
the seat with it's back to the engine
every time, plant himself down in it
with every evidence of comfort, and
look wcnderingly at anybody who
picks out a seat facing the direction
the train is going. Not once did one
American travelling in England see a
native choose a seat facing the front
of the train unless there were no other
seats
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-02
WRITE THEM A LETTER.
Unidentified.

AAuluOI CuluChtlA1Cu.J
Don't go 10 the theatre. concert or ball,
But stay in your room tonight;
Deny yourself TO the friends that call,
And a good long letter write;
Write to the sad old folks at home,
Who sit when the day is done,
With folded hands and downcast eyes,
And think OF the absent son.
Don't foolishly scribble, Excuse my
I'VE scarcely time to write"
Lest their brooding thoughts go wan
dering back
To many a bygone night
When they lost their needed sleep and
And every breath was a prayer
That God would leave their delicate babe
To their tender love and care.
Don't let them feel that you've no more
need
OF their love or counsel wise:
For the heart grows strongly sci sitive
When age has dimmed the eyes.
1t might be well to let them believe
You never forgot them-quite;
That you deem it a pleasure when far
away
Long letters home to write.
Don't think that the young and giddy
friends,
who make your pastime gay,
Have half the anxious thought for you
That the old folks have today.
The duty of writing do not put off,
Let sleep or pleasure wait
Lest the letter for which they long have
longed
Be a day or an hour too late.
For the loving. sad old folks at home,
With locks fast turning white.
Are longing to hear from their absent
son.
Write them letter tonight
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-02
POPULARITY OF FOOTBALL.

IT : estimated that close to 500 900
people attended the twenty-five or
thirty so-caIled big games of foot
ball this season. That is. the games in
which the better known colleges parti-
cipated The attendance on football
games generally must have run pretty
well into the millions. for there is
hardly a city in the country that
hasn't its football team, and there are
no enthusiasts more loyal in their at
tendance on games than are the foot
ball enthusiasts.
That football IS popular in Salt Lake
City is attested by the crowds that
went tC see the games in which the
University OF Utah participated The
minor games here were also well pa
tronized. And there was never a day
on which big games here and else
where were scheduled that the FIVE tel
ephones in The Herald Office were not
busy practically every moment be-
tween the hours of 4 and o'clock an
swering inquiries as to the outcome at
various points throughout the coun-
try.
Perhaps one Of the reasons for the
tremendous popularity of football is
that it is a contest for amateurs. Pro-
fessionaI football has been tried, but
il has never been popular. People like
to go out TO see young men engage
in a fierce physical contest with no in
centive other than the winning of
glory for the institution OF learning
they attend. They couldn't work
harder. and they wouldn't work as
hard. f they We're receiving a dollar
for every minute of play. That's the
true spirit
There were many casualties in foot
ball this year, in spite of the revised
rules. but the list was not as long as
In other years. And the play was
more interesting to the spectators be-
cause il was more open. There were
not as many of the crushing mass
plays, plays in which the men become
Unfortunately entangled and make
It difficult for the observer who is not
an expert to tell who has the ball, and
why. The Herald leaves it for the ex-
perts to decide whether or not the new
rules have made football more scien-
tific. We do know they have made the
game more interesting TO the onlook-
ers-
The experiment OF tree football was