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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-01-30
Nabucos Dinner Hosts.

The Brazilian Ambassador anC
Madame Nabuco entertained at dinner
I'm the embassy. on lafayette square,
last evening. Their guests were the Am
bassador from Italy and Baroness
Mayor des PIanches. the French Am
bassador and Madame Jusserand, the
Associate Justice Of the Supremt
Court and Mr. oliver Wendell Holmes,
the Minister from Peru and Madame de
Pardo the Portuguese Minister, Wis
count de AlUe- the Spanish Minister,
Senior Don Ramon Pima. the Third As
siStant Secretary of state and MRS
Huntington Wilson, the Counselor OF
the FTeECl Embassy and Madame des
ylortes de Ia E'osse, Mrs. Nicholas FISH
Miss Elizabeth kean, Mademoiselie
EabucO. c.. Won Schubert, attaCh6 81
The German embassy. w II. hennart
second secretary Of tae British EN-
bassy. and Mr.. do Am1raL counselor OF
the Brazilian embassy.
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Bake-Gould Announcement.

Announcement is made Of the en-
gagement OF Miss Emily r. Baker,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. James Baker.
OF New York, to Ezra Gould, president
OF the Mechanics Bank, Of Washing
ton, the wedding to take place early
IN the spring. Miss Baker returned 10
her home in New York yesterday after
visit OF some weeks at the Willard
with relatives
Senator and Mrs. Elkins were hosts
at dinner last evening in honor Of their
house guest. Miss Marjorie Gould, Of
New York, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Gould. Covers were laid for
sixteen.
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Mr. de Viauna-KeIsch. the new sec
ond secretary Of the Brazilian embassy,
has lust arrived in Washington to as
sumo his duties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-01-30
Let us cook for you. We are experts
on beans, and we have the facilities

We have IL years learning how best prepare
baked beans with tomato sauce. No wonder we know
But more than knowledge is needed.
Our heated to 245 degrees It requires that
fierce heat to break down the FIBRE you apply
Homecooked beans for that reason hard digest
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-01-30

Mrs. Churchill Caudee left Washing
ton today for New York for visit OF
about ten days.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-01-30
Van Camps pork and beans
baked with tomato sauce

We use Michigan beans, selected by hand, for which
we pay $210 bushe That's seven times the price of
some beans.
We could buy tomato sauce ready made for exactly
fifth what spend to make il.
Then we bake the BEANS the tomato sauce and the pork
all together. That gives our delicious blend.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21
TWENTY-NINTH DAY.

The paramount topics in legislative
floor proceedings today were the anti
bucketshop bill, or the Boddie bill, in
the Senate, and the bill to establish
the county of George in the House. The
former was practically an all-day mat
ter with the Senate, the only other
feature being Mr.. Harper's resolution
proposing to disband the State national
guard in Mississippi. The Boddie anti
bucketshop bin, as amended by Senator
Anderson, passed the Senate by unani-
nous vote, after an all-day round, dur
ing which about half of the senators
spoke for or against it. The bill goes
back to the House for concurrence with
the Senate amendment, which does not
affect a vital principle, and will be
before the governor before the week is
out.
In the House, after a stiff debate, in
which the honors as to argument were
pretty nearly even, the bill to create
George county from two townships off of
Greene and a township and a half off
Jackson, was defeated by a close vote,
the score being SO to 81.
In the House a resolution was Of
fered by Mr. S%tennis, to the effect that
after Saturday this week no measure
reported adversely by a committee shall
be considered, unless called up by 6
two-thirds vote. The object of this is
significant, implying that the members
desire to keep strictly to tho business
in hand, and finish, if possible, by the
date set for adjournment, March 10.
Two bills of Importance to the agri-
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21
TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY.

Neither house was in session in the
afternoon. the time being devoted as
usual to committee meetings, there hav-
ing been well attended sessions of the
two judiciary committees, both these
committees being we'll loaded with bills
and resolutions.
Both houses unanimously accepted
the invitation from the city of Natchez,
extended by the representatives from
Adams county, to attend the Mardi
Gras festivities on March 2, which will
be a repetition of previous legislative
experience.
In the House Mr.. Quin introduced a
bill having for its object the enactment
of a law regulating the holding of pri-
mary elections for the nomination of
candidates for the United States sena-
tor and for judges of the Supreme
Court, chancellors and circuit judges,
which will be quite a departure from
present regulations.
A bill was passed reducing the price
of the Mississippi code of 1906 from
S. to So, the vote being practically
unanimous. Mr.. Gex of Hancock cast
the only negative vote.
The Senate passed the bill carrying
an appropriation for the carrying on of
the departmental work and general care
of the capitol, one of the most urgent
of the appropriation bills, which for
various reasons has hung fire for some
time.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21

escape and started to climb over the
railing, at the same time announcing
her intention of killing herself.
Susan Claw, her negro maid,
clambered out after her, and managed
to grasp her right arm, just as she
was about to drop. The negress,
braced against the railing hung on
with all her strength, and screamed
at the top of her voice.
Mrs. Charles Viohl, who lives in the
next fiat, which opens upon the same
fire escape, opened her front window.
looked out, and then fastened to assist
the maid. The two women held Mrs.
Graft, who squirmed and twisted and
fought with desperate energy.
The husband, rendered helpless
from fright, ran about aimlessly on
the sidewalk, while others prepared to
catch the struggling woman.
When they dropped Mrs. Graft to
the blankets below, Mrs. Viohl dropped
on the fire escape in a dead faint.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21
STRUCK A HORNETS NEST.
This Hobo Will Visit Lincoln Park, N.
j. No More.

Lincoln Park, N. J.-Stung by
hornets, chewed up by a farm dog and
then ho~rsewhipped, a tramp was
triply punished for stealing peaches
and chasing two young women through
the Snyder orchard. They don't like
tramps here. This one did not even
have a chance to shake the lust of the
place from his person. 1t was shaken
from him by a young farmer, William
Jackson, who said afterward that he
greatly enjoyed the task.
Miss Carlotta Snyder, daughter and
heiress of the snug. Snyder fortune,
vas the first to discover the tramp.
She was wandering through her IA
theirs orchard with her friend, Miss
Esther Burridge,of Brooklyn, when
they espied the man in one of the
finest peach trees filling a bag with
the fruit.
That fellow is stealing my fathers
peaches!" cried Miss Snyder, and
then she sternly ordered the tramp to
leave the place.
III otcdl SOu, w, IoI you are Inc
finest peach in the orchard declared
the tramp, al he descended from the
tree and ran toward the girls.
They screamed and fled, with the
tramp in hot pursuit. In their flight
the girls ran past a tree, on a lower
limb of which was a large hornets
nest, and Miss Snyder, with a sudden
inspiration, shook the limb vigorously
and then ran on faster than ever.
The angry insects swarmed out
Just as the tramp reached the tree.
His chase of the girls ended right
there, and while he was fleeing from
the hornets and fighting them off,
''Tige," the Snyder dog. arrived ard
gave battle. He would have killed the
tramp, who had been bitten in a
dozen places and stung in something
less than a thousand more, when
young Jackson arrived and pulled the
dog off.
Then he led the tramp none too
gently to a railroad siding, and lean
ing him against a freight car, soundly
horsewhipped him. Mr.. Tramp was
forced to board a train, from which a
brakeman promised to kick him 40
miles farther on.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21
Sale of Coal in England.

In former times England did not
hesitate to regulate the sale of coal
in the interests of the poor. In 1865,
when the duty on coal in London was
n shilling (25 cents) a chaldron
generally SO bushels), Cromwell
granted the city corporation a license
to import 400 chaldrons duty free
every year for the poor citizens. At
the same time it was provided that
the city companies should lay up
stores of coal in summer (from three
to CTS chaldrons, as they were a-le)
to be retailed in the winter in small
quantities. And, in order to prevent
extortion, conspiracy and monopoly,
retail dealers were prohibited under
penalties from contracting for coal or
meeting the coal vessels before they
arrived in the port of London.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21
Mississippi
Legislature
TWENTY-SEvENTH DAY.


The report Of the judiciary committee
indicated the knitting of a number of
matters, among them the bill to create
a State board of pardons, by naming the
board of p~enitentiary trustees as such,
the Perkins bill to establish a scale of
office hours for county officers, and a
half dozen OF so providing for the reg
istration of sureties on bonds.
The committee OF fees and salaries
reported ~unfavorably on the bill to in
crease the salary of the Supreme Court
porter, and reported back the bill to in
crease the salary of the superintendent
of education, with Il committee sub
stitute.
The feature of the session was the
discussion of the resolution which pro-
poses 10 cut down the salaries of the
chancellor of the university, the presi-
dents Of the Agricultural Mechanical
College and the Industrial Institute and
College.
There was a lively discussion, and at
one time it looked as if there might be
a vote forced on the adoption of the
resolution, but this was beaten by the
adoption of a motion to refer the ques-
ton to the fees and salaries committee.
Senate.
Mr.. Whitman called up Senate bill 10
authorize the board of supervisors of
! Jasper county to refund to +. II. Aims
worth, tax collector, certain sums due
him, and same passed after careful eX-
PLANTATION by Mr.. Whitman.
Mr.. Bilbo called up Senate bill III.
| for relief of the Supreme Court repor.
ter.
Mr.. Mcdonnell explained the necessity
of this bill because the increased bust
ness of the court made two reports a
year necessary, whereas there was pro-
vision made to pay for but one, and
the bill passed.
Mr.. Simmons called up House bill
| $50, to adds physics to the list of stud
les necessary to obtain a professional
(teacher's) license, and same passed.
Senate bill 10S, authorizing board of
supervisors of Jefferson Davis county
to pay certain election expenses, was
passed.
House bill rs, relating to creation
OF Jefferson Davis county, was passed.
Mr.. Anderson called up Senate bill
35, for the prevention of fraud in the
sale of stocks of merchandise in bulk,
and the same passed.
Mr.. Anderson called up Senate bill
Ill, and moved to adopt the committee
substitute, an act to amend section
1856 of the code, so as to abolish the
fellow servant rule, in actions for in
juries to employees of railroads and 9th
ers using engines, etc, propelled by
the dangerous agencies of steam, etc.
The bill sought to abolish the fellow
servant act as to corporations using en-
gines, locomotives or cars propelled by
the dangerous agencies of gas, etc.
Mr.. Engle desired to amend the sub.
s%titute, so that the act would apply
to steamboats, also.
Mr.. Anderson opposed the amendment
of Mr.. Engle, because he feared the
amendments passage would imperil the
constitutionality of the bill.
Mr.. Engle, recognizing Mr.. Anderson's
position, withdrew the amendment and
will introduce a bill covering steam
boats.
The bill upon roll call passed.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21
Sailor Captures Leopard Shark.

Santa Barbara, GAIA leopard
shark, about three feet long, was cap
tured alive by Capt. George Gourley
of the launch Vamoose, about a mile
OF the pleasure wharf. The shark is
dark colored, with great blotches all
over the body.
1t is rated as a rare specimen. of
shark, is thick across the jaws and
fore fins, with a body ~tapering to a
slender tail. The mouth is large, and
when the great slit is opened three
rows of small teeth, not unlike the
rasps Of a large file, are revealed on
either jaw.
The captive is in tow to the piles
of the wharf by means of a strong
cord tied to his tail.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21
~THIRTY-FIRST DAY.

Mr.. Engle created a futter in the
Senate III offering a resolution de-
handing the ejectment of all lobbyists
from the chamber, and specifying openly
the mel supposed to represent the Cum
berland Telephone Company, some of
whom were on the floor of the chamber
at that time.
The House of Representatives spent
the morning in routine work, a num-
Der of bills being introduced and several
passed. Among the latter was the bill
appropriating the sum of 1900 to de-
fray the costs incurred by the State in
carrying the sixteenth section land cases
to the appellate courts of the United
Sites; also a bill to pay the law firm of
Stone & Sively of Oxford, for services
rendered the State in prosecuting the
assassins of Sheriff Poag of Tate coun-
ty, the amount having been reduced to
$500 by the committe.
The Boddie bill, providing for the
Grating in the levee districts, after a
brief explanation, was passed without
opposition. The bill simply increases
the present rate or scale, according to
the existing classification.
Other bills passed were the House
bill to prevent the blacklisting of en-
ployes of railroads, telegraph or tele-
phone companies who may affiliate with
labor organizations of any kind, which
went through unanimously; also the
Tyson bill, fixing a penalty of $25
against all telegraph and telephone COM
panies for failure to deliver promptly
all or any message entrusted, which was
a%fterward, under the rules, returned to
be engrossed at 12:45 pm.
A message was received from the
governor, announcing his approval of
some half dozen bills, after which the
House stood adjourned.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21

By Mr.. Engle-Defining liability of
railroads for causing fires by its loco
motives.
By Mr.. Price-To amend code rela-
tive to practice of law-Chap. IL, Sec.
230.
BY Mr.. Norrell-To prohibit the man
u~facture, sale or purchase of any pistol
of any kind in the State Of Mississippi.
By Mr.. Bird-To provide against the
sale, manufacture or distribution of any
inferior Illuminating oil in the State,
and fixing penalties for violation thereof.
By Mr.. Seawright-To restore sui.
frage to j. r. Pearson of Choctaw.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21
HOLDS MAD WOMAN BY
ARM AT DIZZY HEIGHT
MAID cLlNGs TO MISTRESS UNTIL
MEN IN STREET BELOW GET
NET TO CATCH HER.

New York.-The young and beauti-
ful wife of James Graf swung from
the fire escape at their apartments
the other afternoon in a mad effort
to commit suicide. She was caught
by a negro maid, who held the insane
woman far above the heads of an x
street below, until men could snatch
the blankets from horses standing
near by, and catch the woman In the
improvised jumping net.
Mrs. Graft developed signs of tenn
porary insanity and drove her husband
from the apartment. He was standing
on the sidewalk in front of the house
when Mrs. Graft appeared on the fire
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21
New Bills.

Among the bills introduced were the
following:
By Mr.. Vance-To amend section 4333
of the code relative to sale of land for
taxes.
By Mr.. Seawright-To prohibit the
sale of goods on credit and the loaning
Of money to students who are minors,
etc.
By Mr.. Rowan-To regulate wages in
this State under certain conditions.
By Mr.. Hebron-To secure notifica-
ton by railroads for the public of time
Of arrival and departure of trains.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21
Ewes Frozen In Viewing Ice.

Cedar Falls, Ia.-While sitting in an
engine house looking through a small
opening and running an engine used
to hoist ice into an icehouse, Frank
Osgood's eyes were frozen. He has
lost control of both lids and 1t =
feared he will! lose his sight.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21
Motor Dust.

Motor dust is not always, as some
people seem to imagine, a distribution
of deadly disease. Good, clean coun-
try dust may not much damage
to mankind beyond making his eyes
smart and his nostrils water for q
time.--Medical Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21

cultural interests were reported ia.
vorably from the committee on agri.
culture. One Of these is the bill to ere.
ate a department of farmers Institutes,
in connection with the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, and the other to
authorize the creation of a live stock
sanitary board, with special reference
to eradication of the cattle tick, an "
is believed both will pass.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-21

position, like the school board or Ii
brary board. AS an honor of that kind,
or of any kind, at the hands of the
mayor. appreciated it, Ind resolved
to accept it. The letter came late
one Saturday afternoon, and I saw
my brother, a city hall man, next day
and told him of the offer, languidly
inquiring If there was n salary
whatever attached to the office. He
gazed at me in childlike wonder and
then murmured brokenly: Only
four thousand a year."
Talk about the Greeks when they
first caught sight of Misunderstanding
the Sea; talk of the Hebrews when
Moses led them out of the wilderness;
talk of your shipwrecked sailors
taken from naked spars in mid-ocean,
after being months without bite or
sup, really, now, .c~onfidentially, I
might say, this was going some"
formed a mental resolution, instant
ly, that no matter at what personal
sacrifice, I would serve the public.
entered on my duties in this off,
cial position, and the CONSERVATION
in the ward. among my enemies, was
complete. l had no friends there, as
friends really go. although there were
a couple of men there whom | nearly
trusted.
What was the chief emotion which
thrilled me over this appointment?
The confidence of the mayor in me |
felt deeply; the honor Of the position
] esteemed sensibly; the difference
it made in my income-the opportu-
nifty 1t gave me to square up a few
debts and carry out some long cher
fshed plans-all these were factors in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-06
OHIO A DOUBTFUL STATE.

1t is now generally accepted as a
foregone conclusion that Senators
Foraker and Dick of Ohio will be in
vited to be present at the opening of
the state campaign in Youngstown
Sept 5, as principals, but that they are
to be present merely as exhibits and
are not to be allowed to take part in
do not propose to give the former
Fire Alarm" (alas, how are the
mighty fallen) a chance to blow a
blast upon his bugle hosn which might
knock their plans galley west.
1t is not TO be supposed for single
minute that Foraker will allow himself
to be Inundated TO such an extent.
Dick, who is said to belong to the
Uriah Heep class, might swallow his
pride and-occupy a place on the plat
form With muzzle on. but Foraker
never.
The situation in Ohio becomes more
interesting every day. The Taft peo-
pie do not want to tie up with Fora
ker, and yet they are afraid of him.
They make a pretense of keeping the
senatorial question apart from the
presidential campaign, and the toga is
Haunted in their eyes at every turn in
the road. They say the legislature, if
Republican, will decide the matter, and
then try TO beat the Foraker men in
the county conventions.
There does not seem the least pros
pect of harmony in Ohio on the Re-
publican side unless Foraker receives a
definite promise that his hide will not
be found hanging on the fence when
the smoke of battle clears away. This
the Taft faction is not in position to do.
IL being well understood that Congress
man Burton of Cleveland has already
received the necessary assurances.
The Cincinnati Republicans are say
ing all manner of mean things about
Governor Harris, who is candidate to
succeed himself. and the pathway of
Judson Harmon to the state house
seems clear. Outside of the senatorial
trouble it is even possible for Bryan to
carry the state on the ticket with
Harmon With Foraker on the war
path, with his tomahawk and scalping
knife, and the colored voters sulking
or boiling outright, Chairman Hitch
cock need not come any further west
than Ohio TO get all the campaigning
he wants and if he saves the state for
Taft he will do we'll
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-06
IITAH's CHANCE TO SHINE.

There never was such an irrigation
congress as Albuquerque, n. NJ. is go
ing to have the latter part of Septem-
Der. and Utah has never had better
chance TO show what IL has accom-
plished and is doing now in the way of
irrigated products. Happily for this
state. there are some public-spirited
men who take an interest in seeing that
II is properly represented in the irri-
cation line; and they are fortunate in
having the Hon. F. j. Kiesel as the
head booster. This year he has secured
an ample guarantee fund to insure the
right kind of an exhibit: and the date
of the congress has been set late enough
10 permit full maturity OF the fruits and
other displays which will go into COM
petition with the best specimens in
every line from the irrigated states and
territories. IL behooves the various
bodies which have right to send dele
gates TO see that their delegates are
named early and that a complete rep
rescntation goes from the state. Utah
has always been a star exhibitor, and
has always been splendidly represented
at these great gatherings: and this
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-06

And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,
Both mOngrel. puppy. whelp and hound
And ours OF low degree.
Goldsmith.
Dogs i'm every block, and dogs in
every house in some blocks. and the
season upon us when they go mad and
their bite produces death in its most
horrible form. Salt Lake has its share
and more than its share of the canine
species. and the nuisance should be
abated. So much by way Of prelude.
Many people like dogs. Some even
prefer them to children. Yet the next
door neighbor seeking tired nature s
sweet restorer, balmy sleep" cannot be
expected to sympathize to any great eX-
tent with this dog love after being kept
awake all night by the bowling of the
darlingest little dOggie in the world.
Lord Byron thought twas sweet to hear
the watchdog's honest bark, but the
honest bark" loses considerable if not
all of its sweetness when every yelping
cur for blocks around joins in the
chorus
There are localities in Zion where a
single bark in the silent watches of the
night will produce a babel of sound that
drives away all thoughts of sleep and
makes a fellow wish that in the event
of not being able TO put the dogs to
death fortune might at least favor him
with a pot-shOt at the owners thereof
1.-THE VOLTS long howl on Oonalaska' s
shore" isn't circumstance to what the
people of Salt Lake are called upon to
endure every night in the week
But it is useless to enlarge upon the
theme. In the language of the late la
mented Cleveland. il is a condition and
not a theory that confronts US. The
dogs not licensed should be rounded up
and dispatched at once. Those on whom
the tax has been paid are not licensed
10 howl the livelong night, and should
be declared nuisance and likewise be
put to sleep.
A vigorous campaign is being waged
in some localities in the east and the
animals are being shot down by special
officers as fast as they come within
range, license or no license, as a mat
ter of protection against hydrophobia
We favor the reduction of the dog pop
cent, and if a mistake is made and the
dog tribe extinguished so much the
better.