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AB0f11N OF f00I IID6Hs MAF Be ABSOLUTE 50
Expected Tat Louisiana mn ,,,, l,h;ht
-1eeey S'us stss Every Means ussd lneudiI
7e1ned Woisne, 10 Keep Information Secret. tS.

I Brooklyn N. Y.-Abolition i, fd n . ;
poolroom fot good end all thrs h,,,t
the country is expected 500 yter
January 1 nsxt. Action bagunhv q !
Jockey Clui Of New York 81 n, IT,
conforming TO the now 'f&no nai AZ
mont-Slicer agreement maze f @ me
to keep NETS from the tract - 80
been FOLLOWED officially in othetS = as 90
permisSing facing and prbhab Iii
be in the Last two strongholds vha
poolroom mem Louisiana ant csii.
fornia. 5. - Esy "a ;
I, In both these States the I,s,o
stures are expected to pass acts aat- @
ing State racing commissiena SSii-
eled along the lines Of the ~
and Kentucky bodies. Thee Is S;|sr
probably will be asked to. xe Hfs
censes to tracks which do not resS
to suppress information t0 the
II this be done poolrooms WI bed
things of3the past.
New York and Brookl1h fcikyho |
are betting this winter bn thsSew
Orleans races, Tor on the Oaklhnf on.
tests, are doing soon the Englisl sys-
tenor, handbook way The let
no advance information FexceptfT a
few instances, and rely entire. on
the morning papers for the les.
4 Following Of the Belmont Ulcer
agreement has cost the Jockey Club
thousands of dollars and has saxed
the ingenuity of the best detctive
forces in the country. VipienG has
been used unscrupulously IN mel ar-
fare, though no actual deaths lave e
CURED as far as is known. ne whole
story of,ithe war between fns tTacks
and poolrooms probably SngyeEMtl pc
told, but If written woF ke the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
II Field of SpoFt. )

cy YoYg, the grand q; alSa Gld "a Of
Mai task E the earl. : ss11g: sMg.. &c is
Military Academy. 4
somet4 hg like tveax ssIyics seebail
major LED tues and then mn spped
to the n1 NC will be glieu q cance
with the! Or a;ors again ns. seam.
1t is al .,,ced that RoDert eady,
SE sP5!Pz; s?ss 5,,'s:s;s:ss;ss :: @ss:::: Sss::
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Old Sleuth and DeadYeod DN
look like Sunday-scfloo lool booH
I, Armed invasion Of premia
poles overlooking the trad
erected; cutting down of
servation towers while n
drawn pistols stood over
men; blowing up a steel to
Belmont Park with dynamic
cutting Of eyeryf wire lead
a town (Saratoga) } !, were
Of the. fight. For weeks arm
guarded every foot OF every
ing. into the tracks and
spies were employed to
.rooms and from there
sources Of information II III
complete.
The heliograph and Tho
the Wigwag system OF arm
Esignaas kitesRSlpg and th
scipIe 0f The Camera }obscurs
ressart ed % To stl the ne
Hghtin6 III hee{ nd other d
JOCKEY iiup bQt6 even
elemente. M5t throwi{
rays tn tne Sof the1
men spol!eq ~ acheme;f 81
rents OF lectEhettx thrown in{
at various 81 nkement1R +
the wireless; iar7sst ofltae|
gers on allsort of chaDkes
Kites spoiled those sShe1n8
probably the ! niost sdarinxs
sending Ok Heavy glsctf{ e q
over phone Firss lzs j5y i
men. It Mag b aeht ~ Sfs &
II the ffsddeu$ers 6 I'D q
Of the bust aras tn D1Ile
|. J9ckey CIu5 Won.xk8 q
Sfcer agTeen cut will be sytol
as rigor9usls III the, raq&g s
1868, II inecfSsAfy z
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
The Labor World.

Half a dozen unions are In pro-
cess OF formation in Fargo, N. D.
Minneapolis will entertain the
1908 convention of the Bartenders'
Union.
Samuel Gompers was unanimously
reelected president of the American
Federation of Labor.
. President W. D. Mahon and other
officers were reelected at the recent
convention in New Orleans Of the
Amalgamated Association of Street.
and Electric Railroad Employees Of
America.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
Prof. VIM. James Finds psychic
Marvel in New Hampshire.

Boston, Mass.-Professor William
James, the Harvard psychologist, has
examined the strange case of Mrs.
Nellie M. Titus, of Lebanon, N. H.,
and has discovered in her, he says,
a psychic marvel" He gives three
explanations of her power and ex-
presses the opinion that she has a
super-normal faculty Of seership.
Mrs. Titus in a trance located the
body Of Bertha HUI, Of Enfield, who
was drowned OFF Old Shaker Bridge
nine years ago.
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DEAF MUTE 9AlGHTER oF b
. .:5, MILLIONAIRE TO BEG85ME FAR
Miss Mary Crane, Heirss OF chicasa Manufaetur
Study Is Ready For Her IfelNurk

Chicago. - Announcement that
Mary Josephine Crane, daGhter! OF
the multi-millionaire iron panufac-
turer, Charles R. Crane, ends to
become farmer, is arous gS much
interest in Chicago.
Miss Crane, who has bee Reaf and
dumb from birth, Is twenty bars old.
She is, about to finish a Il 8esyears'
course in agriculture in u Hniver-
sity of Wisconsin, at Madishf Her
proficiency as student has attracted.
favorable attention from theafembers
of the university faculty~nd stu
dents. ~ a.
Miss Cranes companioI, Miss
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Halls of Congress.

No currency bill is to be considered
before January
Speaker Cannon read a greeting
from the new State of Oklahoma.
Representative Charles N. Fowler
pointed out the need of currency re-
form in an interview in Washington
through the credit currency" sys-
TEN.
The President sent to the Senate
the nomination of Colonel Charles II.
Whipple, assistant paymaster-generai,
to be paymaster general of the
army. = - - -..-.-.------
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Far Eastern Note

The Russo-C Chinese Bank
good profits since the. war
Korea has borrowed
from the Hypotheo Bank d
Nearly all Of India's lal
production of cottonseed !
the country.
The Full paper mill, d
being fitted with Americana
machinery Of the latest tytl
Armstrong & Co., of Ed
establishing a branch cord
in Japan. This is officially
by the japanese Minister d
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wcSld be equal to only seven per cent.
more than the energy of two twelve
inch guns in one battle-ship. And If
the total energy Of those 100000
men could be concentrated, it
would not be more than $4,000
horsepower, about fifty per cent.
more than the horsepower Of the
Maine. The 100000 men would
weigh about 1900 tons, about half
the weight of one large battle-ship."
e. But, as Captain Fiske adds, the
fire of 100000 men cannot be con-
centrated, neither can their energy
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
Professors Calls Fraternity
Houses DEVILS Instruments.

Chicago. - Charles w. French
branded high school fraternity houses
as instruments Of the devil and
a plague spot" and the fraternities
as being surrounded by score or
more Of degenerating influences.
Who that has seen the chapter
house open day and night, with its
tobacco and profanity and too often
orgies lasting into the small hours,
can fail to see a vicious influence
which tends to ruin those who parti-
cipate," he said.
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Camp, wb acts as. an !,
when necessary, accoml
young Wo5an into the clas)
taxes noSS Tor her. a1thoj
ter can HI afstand almost
OF a speaybr BY watching
OF the mcath. Miss Graz
ATTENDS Examinations alo
not yet tislsd, 80 pass with
She mas Sade D special 81
to diet sAep and care foi
AecentY Miss Cranes
her a lam mar the Cr}
home atiLake1 Geneva.
persohaiy y to 3direct the
next sumner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
FIRST MAN ELECTRaCUTED.
New Jerse ey's New Execution Law IN
Force at Trenton. '.

New Jers fy's New Execution Law in
Force at Trenton. =.
= Trenton, N! 1.-THE death Witch
Sayerio di Giovanni, murderer, know
he could mot avoid, the death in fear
of which, he had lived many days of
indescribhble terror, came to him in
the electric chair in the New Jersey
State Prison. A few moments before
he was put to death he was awakened
from tb4 hideous nightmare he had
suffered for three weeks. Death vas
his relief. ~ -
The 4onth in which di Giovanni
was to die in the electric chair for the
Staying IF Joseph Sansone, in the lat
ter's frlit store at 'Raritan, COM
menced three weeks ago, and since
then thd prisoner. has been mentally
tortured in living hell. go.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01

orcers Dr goods are full
a yer lgo when the deI
noIma The effect Of
strinxS gym Holyoke wa
to- be yan6t ticeable.
.Porsrnodth, N. H., ex|
t1 lest winter in its
tf5tmafIR Rptland and Bal
j, ,ss,,.sr,s,doR Ifs described az
I'm Brockton, theI
raanhtao nring place II
Gomez the report that t!
months of the
greater than the whole
Lynn and Lawrence d
have the same story to t
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01

nor their weight. So it would seem
that the battle-ship is machine of a
higher order, possessing, in her gum
fire, a greater amount of concen-
trable energy, in her engines an
energy more than half as great as
that of all the men and horses in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01

Statement Issued
President
Changed all
the Decision
Washington, D
ment was given
al; the President
House: =
"On the night
the following an
deeply sensible OF
by the American
pressing their &C
have done and h
appreciate to the
sponsibility this
upon me, and I sh
power lies not to
4th of March next
three and a halfjy
and a half years.
term. The wise |
the President tot
the. substance and
under no circumt
candidate for or +,
nation +
II have not eli,
change the decisi 9
In this n1anne.o
the pressure that ,
from all over l.,
last few weeks r.
declaration whiG,
certainty ,everyJ,t
what he would t.
loud demand, pst :,
manufactured, W.,
for his renoniny Il
can National CT
next June.
Throughout Ah
third d-termers II -
well understood :,
than at the Whit
from several ella ass. sst
composed of thbsSss
sincerely belieT a. a.
would be the no
date to succeed
Republicans col, ia
One was md do
plants who thd 81
for his. renomHe a.
please the Preidl
their own purS,o,sses
matter of patton,
composed of Mon
posed to MI. Zoo,
stands for, AND wI
use of his name { q $ :
serve to. conces, +,
and desires,
Among the cIous
friends Of tn D.
never been AMI do
the sincerity e. h
by the declaht
night of his e ecti,
But the men uh,
their commqn qn;tie
created a new s;t,,
Had it beef on
mics of the p Prea;d
in the cry fl. /. q !
nouncement Imiei
made. But l. aTT
the Union mfn reT
of Roosevelt mad
circulate the, story
were tendere tn
not decline il
In decidint to I.
the PresideR act,
of Secretary Roo
eral Mayer and Sc,
of whom are stanr
tary Taft, AID of s
ia an e0uall,.I-
Taft. 4!
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
Kilbourne Commended F'o2
-. Fine York in Target Pr.i

washingtoI- Official comnnda-
tion has beenmade Of CaptainI r.
Kilbourne, irpommand OF the 9iriy-
fifth Compar. of Coast ArtillsySat
Fort Monroe Virginia, for isnits
achieved In trget pract;ce at Bttery
Parrot. (twtwelve-incI rlnes. loo
per cent. of its was maue, tnenean
range being to41 yards;
Four shot were fired In ont min
ute and NIP seconds. n,!s.,, 3hrss :, Ehe
four shots fould have paisea sa tESagh
a rectangutr target 3 Oyl " yazsa
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
Republics Reward Ohcd
Who

Washington. D. c.
sent to the Senate a
tions sought to be cf
foreign, powers to An Boa'
Included in the list -,
shape sf a large silve ~
by the Central Ameriha ~
Commander R. RichaN "a
command of the Yorkto@
friction arose between tt
American republics last
which he was largely In!
in removing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
Owen and Gore Elected Senators.

o"eh "tu 0oie EASCteu oehnCoio'
At Guthrie, Okla, Robert Latham
Owen apd Thomas Prior Gore were
elected TO the United States Senate
after long wrangle over the ques-'
tion whether the Speaker of the
House Or the President of the Senate
should preside over the joint session.
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Commission Sent to Goldfield.
President Roosevelt appointed a
commission to go to Goldaeld and re-
port to him the exact status of affairs
there.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
Trolley Car Searchlights Hyp-
notize Delaware Rabbits.

Wilmington, Del.-Rabbits are en-
shared by trolley cars in Delaware:
The capture of many animals would
be easy for the crews Of the West
Chester, Kennett and Wilmington
Electric Railway.
The cars ara equipped with power
full electric searchlights, and When
the intense rays appear, at n1gnt'
rabbits make for the light. AS the
rays strike them, they perform all
sorts of gyrations. and when hit In
the eyes are completely hypnotized.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01

Not including the six destroyers
which are to accompany the fleet,
and leaving out of count the supply
and repair ships which form q part
of this vast armada, the total battle
ship tonnage which Is to make the
voyage from ocean to ocean%is 223,-
$50 tons. There are about $4,000
men attached to the fleet and Its
auxiliaries, and 1t will require more
than 100000 pounds. of provisions
to supply their needs throughout the
three or four months which will be
required for the long voyage. These
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NO Thru TERl| /
\F0A ROOSEVELT
Announces He wi Not Devlato
From Election Nit Declaration.
DECISION THEN hADE STANDS. ID

: 81 pn, White House
Is: 81 Have Not
Will Not Change
Zen A Announced"
oEThis announce.
- for publication
Mce at the White
..E- election I made
. &cement: I am
!, e honor done me
.,Eople IN tnuS eA-
sHence in what I
H tried to do. I
Hi the solemn re-
!. bnfdence imposes
1n do all that in my
sMorfeit it. On the
ID shall have served
Ears, and this three
'fconstitute my first
custom which limits
I two terms regards
D not the form, and
stance will I be a
accept another, NOM
anged and shall not
On thus announced" :"
Mr.. Roosevelt ends
has been put on him
be country for the
, make some sort Of,
would end the un-
here existing as to
o in response to the
.tly real and largely
Itch was being made
ion by the Republi-
ivention at Chicago
ne ciamor of the
has been perfectly
and nowhere better
House, that it came
les of men, One was
e who honestly and
I that the President, ,
ost available candi-
himself whom the
| name.
> up only. of syco-;
hit. that by, shouting
Jon. they could best
ent. and most serve
es, especially In the
lage. Another was
who are really OPP
,sevelt and what he
no thought that the !.
S a cloak would best
heir rea! intentions,
sest of the genuinei
PRESIDENT there has
oubt, however, as to-
lis purpose to stand 4
N he made on the.'
ion three years ago.
10 we're known ins
es as his friends
iation. 1
nly the known ene-:I
lent who, had Joined,
third term, the an
hit not have been
most every State in
ported to be friends
ie it a business to
y if the nomination
Roosevelt he could
issue the statement,
ed with the advice
1t, Postmaster-Gen-
,cretary Garfield, all
.ch friends of Secre-.
Secretary Loeb, who
ng supporter of Mr..
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ship Nebraska, but recently commis-
stoned. In addition to these are the
four protected cruisers Of the Den
yer class; the cruisers Chicago, Al
bany and the gunboat Yorktown. Tne
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Of the Magellan
Strait.
Although the trans
fer of the fleet from
ocean to ocean has
been discussed as no
movement Of a fleet
has ever been dis
cussed before it is
probable that few yet
realize just all it
means. The state
ment that 1t Is equiva-
lent to the transfer
from the Atlantic to
the Pacific seaboard
of a highly disciplined
army Of nearly g.
100000 men may
seem extr avagant,
but, in a sense, it is
no less true. In a
recent essay read be-
fore the Naval Insti-
tute, Captain Bradley
A. Fiske drew an
analogy between bat
tle-ships and armies,
and in which the
author asserted that
a battle-ship Is a
much more powerful
thing than an army
Of 100000 men. "On
land" this author
said, ''an army of
100000 infantry car
ries 100000 rifles. If
those 100000 rifles
were all fired stimuli
taneously, the COM
bined energy of the
bullets at the muzZle
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-02
Fighting Bob and the Kaiser.
San Francisco Call.


When Fighting Bob Evans attended
the opening of the Kiel canal in 1905
Emperor William one day boarded
Evans flagship, and in course of con-
versation asked the admiral how long
it would take him to close all water
tight ports ready for action.
1.-TWO minutes" said Evans.
The admiral was somewhat aston
ished when the kaiser said: Let me
see you do lido it yourself Evans
tried the siren, but there was not
enough steam to blow it.
'.Aha!" said the delighted kaiser.
"You cannot close your bulkheads!"
Evans then touched a general alarm
button, and in an instant men came
swarming up from every part of the
ship, while Emperor William held his
watch. In one minute and half all
doors were closed and the ship was
ready for action.
"Fine!" said the emperor, with a
look of clagrin "Fine!' And then, to
celebrate the feat, wine and cigars
were brought into the admiraPs quar-
tiers. The kaiser liked the wine and
the admiral so much that he stayed
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-02
= - .s-s5' = --.-- 2 . \ Y
The Saloon Ia Our Town.

!
One hundred dollars was offered by
Golfers for the. best article on the
above subject. The winning essay is
published in 1.-The. issue of June n ~. A
woman in a local option town won the
prize. Her conclusion after year with
no saloon in town is:
And now, year without thern-and
what of 1t? Well, no one disputes that
the gross quantity of alcoholics con-
sumed In the COMMUNICATIONS and
quarries and ellis greatly diminished;
a definite physiological gain, anyway
The confirmed drinkers have drunk less
and been drunk more times. The doc
tors tell us that's better for them
Some have shown considerable periods
of sobriety. The wives generally, with
Mrs. Hurd, prefer the "spreed' career
Variety, even in pusillanimity, is worth
something Hard cider has been in in
creased demand. and one thoughtful
tourist son sent to his disgruntled and
dyspeptic father a full hogshead of
jamaica rum. Only the stomach pump
saved some of them after this. But to
our young men with habits forming
(and our girls are, of course equally
involved), with too much mother-feel-
ing yet and blood to sneak for drinks,
who were going to the bar because the
man ahead went--to these we turn and
find such years record Of advance
ment, and social good living, of in
creased town pride and athletic success
and right marrying, that for these
alone we are ready, with the farmers
wife, to go down in the dirt to keep
the saloon from establishment in
our town"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-02
Italy and It's stiIstto Men.
New York Tribune)

"The reign of the knife and the
stiletto, which has been unquestioned
in Italy Tor centuries" says the Rome
correspondent of Berlin paper, "ia
to be brought to an end. For genera.
lions 1t has been the custom to carry
a knife and those men In tho lower
walks who had no knife, carried q
sharpened nail or file, to be used on
the slightest provocation. The wine Is
heavy, the blood Of the people is hot.
their power Of sef-control small. Is It
wonder, then. that, with the MUIR
derous instrument always at hand
there should be so many fatal en-
counters? But the lawmakers have at
last discovered that the morals OF the
whole nation have been Influenced for.
the bad by the knife carrying custom,
and laws will be. passed similar TO-
those now in force IN some parts Of
the United States Of America making
it crime to carry q deadly weapon
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-02
VISITED LEPER COLONY.
Professor c. c. Nutting Says Many I'm
pressions About It Are Erroneous.

Special to Times Republican.
Iowa City, July 2.--The ability of
man to adjust himself and be happy
under any circumstances, was empha-
sized by Professor G. G. Nutting. OF
the university, in all address upon
"The Leper Colony" of the Island of
Molokai, in the Pacific Ocean. Profess
sor Nutting visited the island some two
years ago, and states that the impress
sions now held by the people at large
are erroneous. The people are perfectly
contened; the village Is the best PLAN
ned and kept the nesStest and cleanest
of any in the Hawaiian islands, and
the inmates of the colony are not COM
PEELED to remain there. The authorities
have much more trouble in keeping
people away from the place than they
have in keeping people from escaping.
Also, contrary to the popular idea,
there is no pain connected with the
common leprosy. and 1t is not contag-
ious by mere contact One of the great
est evils of the situation, as stated by
Professor Nutting. is the birth Of
children In the colony, and their con-
tinued residence there.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-02
japanese Love.

Nine Midzuno, the wife OF the new
Japanese consul to New York, told a
young woman reporter the other day
that he believed In the Japanese way
Of marrying out of esteem
and trusting to the coming of love af-
forwards.
with u.s. when love comes, II
lasts" said the charming Japanese
I'VE have song that we Hike to sing
Il want TO live to SO years, and you
must live to be 100. so that we may
be happy while our hair grows gray
"That is better Nine. Midzuna
continued, than the love that comes
swiftly and as swiftly flies away
again. They tell in Japan story
illustrative OF this transitory love =
the love e,f your west.
"a tourist. they say, was touring
Brittany. He came to Quimper, and
he found In the Place Publique beside
the river an old woman selling trink-
cts.
"'What Is the price OF thisr he
asked. taking up an antique ring Of
silver and sapphires.
els 1t for your wife or for your
sweetheart?' said the old woman.
''For my sweetheart
"'Fifty francs
"Fifty francs. Nonsense and the
tourist turned angrtly away.
"'Come back said the old woman.
Take 1t for ten. You've been lying
to me. tho. you have no sweetheart
Had the ring been for her you'd have
bought It at once without regard to its
price
+ az will take It, said the tourist,
smiling. Here are the ten francs
$50 the old woman wrapped the ring
up.
"But you haven't a wife, either
she grumbled. IF it had been for her,
you'd have beaten me down to five
francs. oh, you men,"