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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-02-16
MISS MAY NASH
Succumbs to Long Illness In
Texas.

Miss May Chambhss Nash youngest
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Chas. H.
Nash, of Temple, Texas, died We'd
nesday night, of spinal trouble re-
from an injury sustained
several years ago. She had been i'll
for several weeks. DI. Nash's many
friends here profoundly sympathize
with his family in their great sorrow.
Miss Nash was a young lady Of
lovely Christian character, a mem
Der of the Baptist church. The flu
neral took place in Temple. Her
brother, Charles Nash, of this citys
had been in Temple week or more.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-02-16
EXPOSITION
Seven Contestants Increase
Their Vote.

The voting in the jamestown con-
test still goes on. though the total
vote for this week to be registered
is somewhat smaller than usual.
Quite a number Of subscribers have
been given certificates of their vote
and these can be cast at any time.
The following is the standing of
candidates:
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-02-16
DISTRICT NO. A.
Udo-Lyle.

Evert lido, Jr., and Miss Bobbie
Lyle, daughter of Mr.. q. B. Lyle,
of Church Hill, We're married in the
county clerks Office yesterday morn
ing. Judge Jas. Breathitt performed
the ceremony;
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-02-16

Following our usual custom of buying direct
from the factory we placed an order last Au-
gust for THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
YARDS Tobacco Canvas. This lot was divided
between three stores so the quantity is limited
The ruling prices today are much higher than
we paid-but we have always sold canvas for
less than it's value, and we will do it again this
year as long as the lot lasts. If you can't come
to town now, telephone us your order and we
will reserve what you want
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-02-16
The Council.

The city council met last night
with a large volume of unfinished
business to be disposed of.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-28

laws were, were yet the means of
staring things up in the new world
and eventuating the greatest nation
of modern times. Occasionally those
murdcrous Pharisees slew an old
woman for no greater offense than
owning black cat; they would in
fict dozen lashes on Eye barre
back" of the man guilty of so helm
Gus an offense as kissing his wife on
Sunday woe betide the wife guilty
of scolding her husband-she got
hers in an adjacent pond by means
of the ducking stool. Suppose that
were in force nowD A good man
whose wires happened to cross with
theirs in the matter of orthodoxy was
banished to the wilderness to take
his chances on the other brand OF
savages. And so on. Some of the
laws of congress are about as SEN
sible and just as rams horn is like
cucumber-.in shape only-but they
are laws nevertheless, and like "She"
must be obeyed And as to our own
and only legislature-oh, well, forget
it, There are proper and usually
adequate means to modify or nulify
unjust or inadequate laws, and among
these is not the plan of render
ing them imperative and emascu
lated by officers whose highest duty
it is to uphold them according to
their tenor and effect.
ESSAY CAIGH.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-28
BRIEF ANR BREEZY.
ESSAY CAIGH.

Fire Alarm Foraker is bringing
out Chief Taft on the run.
The firm of Cannon and Gompers,
labor leading and legislative business
attended to-" has not been formed in
Washington.
Senator Tom Plat has Introduce
a national corporations bill but is as
mum as clam about the Presidents
suggested parcels post
Tom Johnson now has the credit
not molly of having defeated Burton
and Roosevelt, but of having made
an almighty hole in the Taft boom.
The Birmingham Age Herald says:
"All Alaska is covered with empty
cans" AS soor as Alabama is in the
clutches of her prohibition law, that
state will be in similar fix.
A North Carolina man recently
stole a box full of sermons from a
preacher in that state. Possibly he
thought that the preacher, like
Shakespeare, should never repeat.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-28
DECEMBER EXCURSIONS EAST

VIA the Colorado Midland Rail
way Co., to Colorado and Missouri
River points greatly reduced rates,
December 10Th and goth. Ticket Of
fee II West end South St. Tele-
phone 678
Yours truly,
L. H. HARDING, GenI Agt.
T. G. W.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-28
TRUTH

worse than death-solitary conflne-
ment with the absolute abolition OF
the pardoning power in such cases
Those who are on the kill could by
no possibility have gained from such
a law as that would have been the
measure of encouragement which
they receive from the action of the
pardonng board in re Day, becaus:
this scape-g allows and his fellows
are not subjected to any worse treat
only grand larceny and have ever
before them the hope of ultimate If
not imminent escape; indeed, the
worst one of the lot spoken OF has
already been interceded for several
times, and but for righteous indigna-
ton vigorously expressed, would no
doubt be now on an equal footing in
point of law with those Of Our race
who are not monsters, free to go
or come and to crafty his blood
thirsty disposition upon whomsoever
he might see fit, and with some meas
ure of encouragement thereto. The
malefactor should be removed from
the pale of society, preferably by
such means as do no, excite the mind
while pandering to unhealthful emo
tons and indurating sensibilities, es-
pecally among the rising generation;
a.. IaI
and the criminal element should be
made to understand that when they
violate its provisions they will surely
receive the penalty provided, not the
one that ought to exist. AS it is,
they come off all the better by having
the sterner measure provided for, as
hereinbefore set out.
The law, good or bad, should be
lived up to, whether it cmanate from
the high-priced rulers of the land at
Washington, D. c., or from some re
mote precinct road supervisor, act
ing by authority of a statute. Here
in is general safety, even though i'll
some cases injustice. The means by
which Britannia became the power
Of the earth after being licked 2ooo
years ago successfully by Romans,
Scandinavians and Frenchmen, was
by rising from amid her tribulations,
shaking the clods and wiping the
gore from her bedraggled skirts and
beginning a new career upon the SOL
id foundation of enacted and diffused
law, any violation of which was
Learned to mean condign and speedy
punishment. Sometimes the punish
ment was little too speedy and the
determinations little too precipitate
and unyielding, in which respect, her
offspring on this side of the Atlantic
has left her long way to the rear
She has no doubt occasionally, not
often, however, hanged innocent men,
but on our part, we have let more
guilty rogues escape than all other
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-28
FIAT LEX.
Being a Dissertation on Law AS 1t
Is, Was and Ought to Be.

headed for the grand finale and those
who are furthest off are near
enough. That answer is too palp-
able and common to fit specific
question having reference to condi-
tons this side Of the last knockout;
and in orde rto separate it from many
others just like it that do and don't
find their way INTO print, with the
editors permission the conundrum in
the connections which it is desired
to have it occupy will be elaborated
as it were.
To begin with, the startling but
true proposition is given out that
this state is the paradise of murder
els and this city the headquarters of
criminals of every grade ard shade.
Those who see fit to pooh-pooh or
deny outright can have the satisfac-
ton of doing so without opposition
They can also butt against stone
wall otherwise on the same terms it
it affords them any satisfaction.
Did it ever occur to any reader
Ito ask another question: that capt.
tai punishment here is almost. a name
without substance or form? Further
more, that when an example is made
of man-slayer it is, or has been for
generation, when he had been con-
victed on purely circumstantial evid-
ence; that out of a score or more
that have been taken red-handed each
hes been acquitted on the trial or had
his sentence committed after convic-
ton? Look at that foulcst of all
foul murderers of recent times in
Utah, Both; at the slayer of the
two carmen who gave no greater
provocation than having some little
of their employers money which the
the negro Day, whose wanton STAY
ing of Voss was without the ques-
tionable defense of provocation of
any kind-all properly convicted, all
properly sentenced to death, and all
improperly let off by the board of
pardons. Which prompts the sug-
gestion: The writer hereof agrees
with a recent expression in Truth
that capital punishment does society
10 good in the long run; also a par
doning agency with full power to
intervene is an indispensable factor
of civilized communities. But we
have law which provides the death
penalty, and it is a much more per-
nicious thing to suspend that laws
operation when the evidence supports
it fully than it is to parade before
the mental gaze of society the de-
tails of an execution-much more be-
cause of its inevitable tendency to
cmbolden that part of the criminal
class who are restrained only be-
cause Of the fear of losing their own
lives as the penalty and of the grad
ual but sure growth of disregard foI
penal regulations, this growing BY
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-28

actually reached It.
The pardoning board has no right
to let itself become a society for the
promotion of crime by giving heed
to the appeals of the sentimental,
class which is invariably in evidence
on every occasion, here and else
where, when murderer is awaiting
the supreme judgment of the law, no
matter how dastardly and borrowing
his crime. Those considerations are
not to be treated with Indifference or
heedlessness, became those who make
such appeals have a right to make
them and are entitled to a respect.
full hearing thereof, but il is not the
part of the final arbiters to yield to
such supplications, their office being
to consider such defects in the course
of the trial as have direct bearing
upon the case which, through mis-
management, misfortune or subse-
quent happening were not presented
at the trial and have not and cannot
come within the purview of court
having power to act; otherwise the
law which the board is presumed to
subserve and uphold is ignored and
overcome. This is not designed as
an arraignment of the gentlemen COM
posing that important department of
our state government, all Of whom
are upright, learned and honest; but
alack! they are also human 10 a de
gree which makes it in their places a
dangerous asset. Why can't tn y
consider that us fellows who don't
kill and don't believe in unlawful
killing have some right to consider
alton? The law is presumed to be
system by means of which sub
s.antial equality under its provisions
is not only provided but as nearly as
practicable is maintained; but it can
neither interpret nor enforce itself
ror can we, the populacc, enforce i,
without becoming law-breakcrs our
selves. When such condition does
obtain, as it does at times and III
places, what is the invariable cause
of it? The utter failure of those to
whom the people have right to
and do look for the upholding and
administration of the criminal stat
u.es is the chief cause, and this long
suffering and slow-acting community
is being pushed into such condition,
against its will and under its protest,
but yet yielding to that highest law
which finds justification in court as
we'll as out of it-self-dcfense-the
bulwark which we choose judges and
governors, sheriffs and policemen to
maintain in Our midst having utterly
disappeared or failed!
As previously suggested the scraw-
Ter of these lines is not a defender
Of capital punishment. While doing
time in the legislature he introduced
and advocated a bill to abolish it,
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-04-10
THE NORTH POLE.

Commander Peary's achievement
IN getting nearer the north pole
than any other human being has
ever before succeeded In doing is
deserving of all praise, of course.
Nevertheless the fact remains that
it adds practically nothing to our
general geographical knowledge or
10 our special Typographical ac-
guaintance with these desolate re-
gions. 1t is as sure as anything
can be that the north pole is merely
a frozen foe in a frozen sea. Land
it a hardly be, unless, perchance,
some isolated rock juts up by some
curious coincidence at Just that
spot from the bed Of the shallow
polar ocean basin. For we now
know for an absolute certainty that
Greenland is an island and that
the Arctic ocean consequently is
merely a circular eternally frozen
Mediterranean sea. We also know
that no corresponding sea but an
sternally frozen antarctic continent
exists at the opposite pole. Thus in
this twentieth century the specula-
tons of the g~eographers of the
twelfth are proved to be correct
sea at one pole, land at the other
London Mail.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-04-10
The Potato In ireland.

Statistics prepared by the Irish
department of agriculture relating
to the potato crop reveal some in
teresting results as to the popu-
larity of the different varieties
throughout the country. 1t is in
dicative of the conservatism of the
growers that Notwithstanding the
numerous selections of high class
new varieties that are now available
the Irish farmer continues to ad-
here faithfully to the old Cham
pion. This old variety still occupies
more land than all the others put
together, notwithstanding its liabil-
ity to failure through blight or
other auses The Up to Date may
be said to be the only new variety
that is making appreciate Roadway,
and, although it is steadily gaining
in favor, it seems unlikely to super
sede the Champion for many years
to come, if ever. = Dundee Adver-
tiser.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-04-10
An American Fooled In Poland.

For $4,000 an American amateur
had the luck to pick up in an old
curiosity shop in Poland a curious
renaissance piece of furniture In
iron, apparently some sort of min
iature tabernacle, having small fut-
ed columns and a gracefully shaped
cupola. The dealer supposed that
it had been used for the celebration
Of Jewish rites in private houses
during times of persecution. The
curio bore every sign of age, and
the amateur bought it and put it in
a place of honor in his collections.
He has since come to Paris and tax
en- the electric underground for the
first time. On the platform he be-
held new and freshly painted rep
hcas of his renaissance Jewish tab
ernacle. The $1,000 curio was the
top part Of a penny-in-the-slot choc-
olate machine.-Paris Letter.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-04-10
The Herald Wln Issue . Folder.

TIE HERALD has for come time had
in view the publication of an illustrated
folder or booklet advertising "Greater
Brownsville" and the of the
Brownsville country. 1t will be hand
sornely gotten up, published on fne
book paper, and illustrated with a num-
Der of half-tone cuts, showing the lead
ing buildings here, and visws of interest
In this section.
II Is expected that the leading bust
ness men and promoters of various en-
terprises in this section will subscribe fer
these folders in hundred lots or more,
the advertisement of each individual OF
firm being printed on the back of the
number of folders subscribed for. Sew
eral of Dur leading real estate firms have
agreed to take a large number of these
folders, and it is expected that other.
will p~atronize the enterprise with equal
l~iberality. Fuller explanations will be
published shortly, and a nva made
among citizens to secure subscrip-
tons to these pamphlets, which will be
an advertisement of a very high order
for Brownsville and the lower Rio Grande
valley.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-04-10

fine tarpon fishing here, they
would come here in large numbers
to enjoy this favorite pastime."
The speaker was F. A Linden
berg of Columbus. Ohio, president
of the Ohio and Texas Sugar Com
pany. MI. Lindenberg is enthus-
iastic over the tarpon fishing here.
which he, as well as all who have
been here that are versed in tarpon
lore, declares is destined to be one
of the leading attractions of this
coast.
The silver king abounds in great
numbers in these waters, and in
fact the bay at Point Isabel is said
to equal the finest tarpon grounds
on the whole American coast.
n. E. Kendall has, in connection
with his machine shop, an expert
horseshoer and wagonsmith, who
will do work of that class in a FIRST
class manner. Shop opposite
Frontier Lumber 60. Office a3-6t
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-04-10
A Learned HolIander.

Interesting particulars have been
told by the Dutch papers about a
telegraph messenger living at Bre
da who by self tuition has be-
come a master Of languages. This
man, now about fifty years of age,
can speak and write English,
French, German, Danish, Spanish,
Italian, Arabic, Latin, Greek, He
brew and Sanskrit and is able to de-
cipher hieroglyphies and cuneiform
inscriptions. He has also a knowl-
edge of cosmography, astronomy,
physics, the history of art and vari-
Gus other sciences and can write
Greek poems.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-04-10
GIVING OUT.
The Struggle Discharges Many Cit
liens Of Brownsville.

Around all day with an aching
back;
Can't rest at night;
Enough to make any one give
out"
Doan's Kidney Pills will give re-
newed life.
They will cure the backache;
Cure every kidney i'll.
Mrs. L. L. Babers of 912 Semmes
street, Houston Texas, says: I
have good reason to think well of
Doan's Kidney Pills. In the
spring of 1902 they cured me of a
kidney ailment that had chung to
me for several years, with dropsical
swelling of the feet and limbs.
Less then two boxes completed the
cure, and that after various other
remedies 1 tried had failed to even
relieve me. That the cure was
permanent is certain, for l have
never had any return of these
symptoms. l have recommended
Doan's Kidney Pills again and
again to sufferers, and know of
several instances in which they
have done satisfactory work"
Plenty more proof like this from
from Brownsville people. Call at
J. L. Putegnat & Bros and ask
what customers report.
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the ~name-Doan's-
and take no other.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-04-10
ST. |. B. & M. Low Rates

On Account
Fifth District Meeting Texas F~ederatiOs
WOmen's Clubs
at Goliad, Texas, April 9th and
10th. 1907, round trip tickets will
be sold as follows:
Date of sale. April 8, 1907.
Limit. April IL, 1907.
Fare, S1O.15.
On Account
Lumbermen'S cAssccia'ion
Houston, Texas, April 9th to 18th,
1907, round trip tickets will be sold
as follows:
Date of sale, April 8, 1907.
Limit, April IA, 1907.
Fare, $13.15.
On Account Meeting
Grand Lodge Sons of Herman
Dallas, Texas, April 18th to 18th,
1907, round trip tickets will be sold
. follows:
Date of sale, April IA. 1907.
Limit, April 20, 1907.
Fare S19.85.
On Account
ThirtyfOurth Convention of K. of p.
Dallas, Texas, April 23rd to 25th,
1907, round trip tickets will be sold
as follows:
Date of sale, April ard p, 1907.
Limit, April %, 1907.
Fare, S19.85.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-04-10
PERSONALS

c. A. Day returned to Lyford
today, after a short visit.
Manuel Barreda was a passenger
on the outgoing St. L., B. & NJ.
train today.
Dick Oliver, the well known life
insurance man, arrived last night
from San Antonio.
Mr. and Mrs. Heustis and Miss
Aotter have returned to Browns
vile after an absence of several
weeks.
W. E. McDavitt left today for
Santa Maria, where he went to
superintend the loading of a car of
cabbage to be shipped from there.
Mrs. ]. w. Davis returned to
camp life at Lyford today, joining
Mr.. Davis there, after spending a
short time here with Mr.. and Mrs.
Boss.
Geo. J. Head, who came lately
from Cameron, Texas, to take a posi-
ton as pharmacist at the Whitman
pharmacy, is expecting Mrs. Head
and baby to join him here very
soon.
Mrs. S. E. Riney, mother of
Mrs. L. F. Layton, who has spent
the past winter here with DIR. and
Mrs. Layton, left today for her
home at Yoakum.
J. O.. Chenoweth, a prosperous
dyer of St. Louis, and w. w.
Candy, proprietor of the Busy Bee
Candy, factory of ST. Louis, are
in Brownsville, being guests at the
Leahy. Both Of these gentlemen
have bought land near Santa Maria
and are here in connection with the
development of the land, which
they will plant with pecans.
J. NJ. Ruhmann and c. w.
Cook of Kennedy, Texas, who came
TO Brownsville Sunday. and have
bought out the business of Geo.
Morgan the plumber here, left to-
day for Kennedy to make arrange
ments for moving to Brownsville.
They expect to return at once and
locate here.
Mrs. ]. Sauder with her grand
son. Master Ralph Schmelling,
left today for San Antonio for a
visit to her son. Oscar c. Sauder,
who went there recently for the
benefit of his health. Mr.. Sauder
has been benefited very much al
ready by his stay in San Antonio,
but will remain some time longer.
Mrs. Sander will spend two or
three days with her son. but ex
poets to leave Ralph with him for
a while.
W. II. Stenger. vice president
and general manager of the San
Benito Land and Water Company,
arrived last night from Jennings,
La, where he has been engaged in
the oil business for some time. Mr..
Stenger comes to assume personal
management of The big develop
meut enterprise which his company
has under way at Bessie, and ex-
poets to spend most of his time
there for a while. He will have his
hands full the next few months, as
all the work of purchasing material
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-04-10
TARPON FISHING AT ISABEL
Said to Be Equal to the Best TarpOr
Grounds Anywhere.

You ought by all means to adj
vertise the tarpon fishing in the
bay at Point Isabel. If Northern
lovers of sport had any idea of the
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-04-10

for the various buildings which the
company will erect Immediately at
Bessie, and the direction of the en-
terprise in general will devolve
upon him.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-04-10
THE DAILY HERALD.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 10, lsm.l
WEATHER FORECAST.

Tonight. fair, warmer; Thurs
day, partly cloudy; light to fresh
southerly winds.