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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1908-03-22
NOEXTRAD|STR|CTS
MADE TH|SSESS|0N
BILL PENDING WILL NOT BE
ACTED UPON IN TIME
SOL0NS ARE RUSHING Work
State Depository Law Is Passed
One of the Nest Important Meas
ures of the Sessioa-Will Not In
vestigate Rainey Charges

Jackson, Miss March 1o.-f1fe1
legislature VIII not create any new
circuit or chancery court districts at
this session. A bill Is pending IN the
house, with favorable report from
the Judiciary committee, seeking to
create three new circuit court dis
tricts, making total OF sixteen,
which would necessarily involve the
appointment of three circuit judges
and the election OF three district at
torneys, but 1t will not be reached
ard considered in time for action IL
the senate, even If it could be passed
in the lower body, which is very
doubtful
The senate Committee on constitu-
ton has lavorably acted on reso-
luton submitting an amendment in
creasing the supreme court bench to
FIVE members, but it cannot pass the
customary three readings in each
body prior to final adjournment
The feature of the Tuesday after
noon session OF the house was the
passage OF the Potter state depositor'
law, one OF the most important meas
ures presented at this session.
Interest in consideration of the bill
in committee OF the whole was en-
lirened by the fact that Speaker
Street retired from the chair and as
sufned command Of the forces favor
ing, the measure.
A goodlv number of amendments
were adopted, but none OF charac-
ter that will cripple its effectiveness
and they will not be objected to by
the author, which doubtless means
that the senate will concur in The
changes.
The legislature will adjourn with
out taking action on the resolution.
introduced in the two bodies las
Saturday, rovdine for an investi
CATION of the discharge of Mr.. ] L
Rainey, sergeant OF the Rankin con
Wet farm because Of alleged crue
and inhunan whipping OF a prisoner
named Phillips.
In accordance with the request O
a majority Of the board of trustees
Supt Ncyland promptly remove
SPrst pait1px- firm, titttv aud III;
will doubtless be the official end .
the matter. IS the lawmakers ar
not inclined to question the actioi
of the trustees and the superintend
ent, although Mr.. {. c. Smith,
member of the board OF trustees, ha
in a letter to the legislature sustain
ed the conduct Of the sergeant
The resolution introduced in til
two bodies asking for an in1estigJ
ton of the prison management dur
ing the year 1907 will also D
ignored
The effort to secure reconsider
ton of the resolution providing fc
an investigations of the recent ele,
ton oi officers of the Yazoo- MISS:
sippi delta levee board resulted /
failure. and before final adiournrner
is taken Joint committee will /
named to make a thorough probiu
of the matter and report its finding
to the next session.
Gov. Noel is confident, from IL
evidence that has been submitted
him that the election of officers ";
50 manipulated as TO keep tho eontr,
OF the levce board funds in rhe han,
OF the Planters bank of Clarksdal
This result. if it was the object
view OF those who are alleged to ha,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1908-03-22

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Typewriter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13
Moore. and he supports his thesis with

Moore. and he supports his thesis with some very remarkable evidence.
 Perhaps the most interesting. undoubt- ed1y, the most venerable, of the docu- ments quoted is the weather 3ouruai of the Rev. William Merle, Lincolnshire rector, for the years 1SS7-4s Thus. in 1341 he records weather in April, which must have caused as much disgust among farmers as 1t does so often now. From the 9th to the 18th of the month there was continuous frost, diversified at frequent intervals by snow and hall. In tho fol- lowing year there was spring-like wealth. CT the wholettime between September and the end of December so much so that leeks and cabbages blossomed in that season. The MS. Journal is in the Bod leian Library at Oxford. and it certainly affords good proof that neither in respect of variability nor of the date of the sea- sons has our climate changed apprecia- ply within six hundred years. There is, unfortunately, no Information as to the death rates in the remote days of Plan tagenets, else Instructive comparisons of tho particular climatic conditions then and now might be possible. Thus, January, 1341, was of a kind to test the resistance of the toughest Engiishn an. We read that hard frosts, bright warm days, heavy rains high winds, and SO on, succeeded one another with the kaleido- scopic rapidity we know so well in this twentieth century Sir John Moore has accumulated an enormous amount of data, on which his main conclusion is based. and this the curious will find in the October issue of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science His other important deduction Is that no trace of cyclic sea sonable variation is traceab1e in these islands during the las rdluuu dluwwu ' islands during the last one hundred and thirty years" s. Ass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13
The Climate Not Changing.

From the Literary Digest.
 The poular Idea that our climate Is changing receives no support from me- neurological records or from such data as are available from the centuries before these were obtained. This is emphasized by paper entitled "Is Our Climate ChangingT read lately before the Brit ish Association by Sir John Moore. Says The Hospital, Uondon, November D. In a note about Sir Johns paper:
 "There is very general impression abroad, as he points out, that winters are less severe anad later than or old, that summers are rainier and cooler, springs less balmy, and autumns more torrid than in the good old times, Ger tainly 1t is common experience that snow rarely falls in any quantity before Jan uary, whereas all old traditions repre- sent heavy snowfall as the proper en- vironment for Christmas festivities: Probably, however the inclemency of December, and the joyousness of April are the outcome of poetic license rather than the actual experience of our fore fathers. So, at least. concludes Sir John
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13
The soeptiolsm of History.

From the London Times.
 sf There is a reaction from the credulity of the past. Once learned men accepted traditions of all kinds Is matter of course. Now, like the hero of "A Pair of Spectacles," or like David in his haste, they have rushed to the other extreme and assume that, if all are not liars now, they use to be; or. at any rate. that they were very poor judges of the truth. It Is taken for granted that Vasari never told the truth except by accident, and Heroditus is. or was, not much better thought of. St. Paul wrote but little of what is attributed to him, but even he is in better case than some painters who have lost nearly all their pictures, and to modern criticism are, like the stars too far off to be seen even with a telescope,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13

 which I have mentioned. What should our weakling do? Should he attack his opponent in his present state of mind and body and probably get a sound trouncing for his pains? Or should he bide his time. meanwhile developing himself until he has become the equal of his antagonist, and then order him out of the field?' 'The latter. certainly" I replied.
 well" he went on, "China Is our weak man. What we want before we strike Is the strength to make our striking count. What we want before those implements of war, an army and navy, Is the right kind of institutions and the right kind Of people to make the army and navy worth while.
 Let China develop its resources. equip its people with knowledge and reform its government Then its army and navy will take care of themselves. At present they are only drag on the nation, which could better afford to apply in other direc- tions the money and energies necessary for their support"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13

Let us invent an analogy. Suppose a man Is weak and emaciated. paying fin i'll health the heavy penalty of improper diet, bad sanitation, lax government, and a de- fcient education, which has failed to teach him how to secure his physical and mental welfare. Now. let us suppose thnt- this same poor fellow has an enemy who has been made strong and powerful by conditions just the opposite to those
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13

known to exist only by their influence upon other stars.
 AS for the great names of legend, such as King Arthur or Robin Hood they are worse off still. There never were such people at all; and many of the great per- sons of history have only got their fame by accident. The people of their own time were quite wrong in thinking them great.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13
Society Horror.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 "Gaynan, I saw you in the conserva- tory the other afternoon embracing an elderly spinster.'
 'I don't deny it, Goodsole, was trying to conserve our natural resources"
 'fWh-what?"
 'Reclaiming an arid waist"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13
A smaII Matter.

From Comic Cuts.
 Cfssie--Mafi1ma, mayn't take the part of n1lkmaid at the fancy dress ball?
 Mamma-You arc too little.
 Cissie-Well. can be a condensed milkmaid. .s
The evening world., 1908-03-05
LITTLE BETWEEN
DRINKS" TIME IN
BARKER'S ROUTINE
Aged Millionaire Began With
Big "RenSen" Cooler Be-
fore His Breakfast.

The hypothetical question read to the
experts to-day in the trial of the suit
brought by the daughters of the late
George A. Barker to break the latters
Will showed the eccentric millionaire of
Baldwins, l.. /. to have had an enorn-
Gus capacity for liquid nourishment
The daughters by his first wife are en-
dcavoring 10 divert part OF the estate
from the second wife. 10 whom 1t was
left
Barker. who was a brother OF Charles
Bel Barker. who gained fame in try
ing to legitimatize his child by special
legislation. del al the age Of sixty i've
years. For years his physicians had
been warning him that his end was
near.
In submitting Barker's eccentricities
TO the experts. the lawyers for the
daughters gave this itinerary of his
daily l!baticns:
He drank before breakfast what is
known as Remsen. which consisted
az one third of a quart bottle OF gin
and he also took another drink OF gin
and in addition he had frappe tina
had the odor OF paregoric.
In the forenoon he would drink
absinthe trappes. and also abs.nthe in
gin. and as the day wore on his drink
ing would increase. On many occasions
Ices dinner consisted OF quart Of
brandy and a quart OF milk. which he
drank in bed
In the evening there was placed at the
door OF the room a bottle of gin and a
bottle of brandy. In the morning they
would be almost empty. In the winter
he also drank applejack.
Whenever Barker travelled he carried
a satchel containing a bottle OF gin and
a Jar OF cracked ice. He had a carpen-
ter shop, In which he sometimes tin
kered, and in which he kept a sideboard
stocked with a.! sorts OF liquors
said the lawyer He kept II in The
hall, in his room and in the librarv. 80
Barker DID not forget his black and
tan dogs. He was very fond of them.
and on their birthdays he would feed
them on French chops.
''On one occasion" said the LAWYER
he at.r-d himself in red tights. Rome
shoes and a funny nat. He was sixty
years old, and wou!I caper around
making grimaces at HIS guests He had
a bob sled made, about eighteen ter
had an old armchair set in the front
and drove around the country, sitting in
Z. when there was snow on the ground
He would also wear false whiskers and
zoatees At dinner parties he wore a
white swC ter.
The evening world., 1908-03-05

building emptied in two ana man
The central High School is , over r.
,.,ad and the stairways inadequate
and fears of possible panic have long
nnen felt. but the fire driil To-Day
nroved effective. The hre d'a co''-
naratively little damage
ma, their. was no panic In the school
n,,hably due to the fact that a
Professional photographer had been talk
H., eashlight pictures in the corTdor
or the High school few minutes be-
fore the fire broke out. and the chiioren
had been warned not TO be alarmed
When the fire alarm came and the driI,
began they thought, therefore, tmat ~ y
was for another picture, and all o.
tbom marched out quietly. The mr.,
started below the floor Of the chsmion, che nosv
Guirk action by the fire department pre-
vented serious fire.
The evening world., 1908-03-05
GIRL TRvANT
ESCAPED SCHOOL
BLAZE HORROR
Surprises Father as He Digs in
CollinWood RuluS tOr
Her Body.

CLEVELAND. March Like return
5rr from death GIe'nn Marks surprised
her parents Today by slipping up be-
hind her father and tArowin, uer arms
about Lis neck. while lie was proddius
among the ruins ot the lake View
.choo, for her body. III" e.~ Wa s"nt
= ~NrSoi Yesterday morning as usual.
I7s,cad she played truaot and visited
an aunt IN :he country They knew
nothing OF the fire until .o-da..
Not returning To he" parents vester-
day. they supposed sne h7l pcrisned
with tho others Neither could -" father
find among the dead bndi on Hu could
identity as that of ms daughter.
In despair he was prudI'ns ahoGt the
ruins when the glr. threw H"~ arms
about him and cried. "Gu"ss Who J am.
Mr. Marks was nearly overcome with
i1 avd emotion.
The evening world., 1908-03-05

Ormond- Daytona Beach this moon u,bo,,
the biggest race OF the meeting was
scheduled to start. The event was the
-Ss-mile contest for the cup o. the Auto
mobile Club of America. standing start
to be run in 8 laps OF g miles each
Ihe beach was in such fine shape that
the whole stretch of l6 miles was put
into commission from the inlet TO Bret
ton Inn. Last night there was a strong
wind, with unusually dense fog and to-
days tide was so high as to cause de-
lay in starting. Harry Levys l2O horse
power Hotchkiss had more trouble this
morning. In speeding shaft went
wild and a hole was knocked through u
cylinder
The Benz German car. which was
entered for to-day's event. did not
start because II is to be held in re
serve for future contests. Bergdoll its
owner and driver. is content with the
two trophies won. II he gets no others
AS the tide slowly went out the beach
was found softer than expected, al
though exceptionally smooth, so that
record time is hardly likely.
The starters We're: Cedr!no in 0 II. p.
Fiat. Bernn in 50 II. p. Renault, II. O.
Kelsey in so II. p Christie and +. B,
pIakeley in 1870 II. =. Christie.
Thpv got OFF in that order amid a cloud
n, smoke at 12l p. NJ. Florida time.
The 10 il. T.. Christie was an additional
entry. Because of the late start the
iudges decided to make IT instead OF .
Ians Of 20 miles, which gives total OF
nS5 1S5P instead OF 2ss, miles Harry Levy
iust iy arrived. says the carburettor was
what finally put his Hotchkiss out OF
the running.
The evening world., 1908-03-05
"Artistic Effect" Not Safety,
Aim in Building Schoolhouse

In building public school ""rti'"'
beaut
II
whic 20
ofc chile dren n like
buto % which
Of fNhich floor
on had Large
OHIO OFFICIALS HAVE BEGUN AN inquiry TO DETER
OR
~ coxEoRMITY STATE LAWS
ASKED HIS LEGAL ADVISERS
sr,TITt, OR .ITuoR,
The evening world., 1908-03-05
FIRE DESTROYS
WISCONSIN SCHOOL,

GREEN BAY, Wis. March "a tele
phone despatch from Sturgeon Bay says
the principal school building there was
burned early to-day. Loss. $4,000; in
surancr, S3200.
The building provided quarters for the
iigh school and the First Second and
Third Ward grammar schools.
The evening world., 1908-03-05
The Value
of Any Piano

IS judged more from the satisfaction
it gives than the number OF dollars
spent in its purchase.
he PeaSe Pianos are not cheap
pianos, but in proportion to their
high quality and the satisfaction they
give the prices are very low.
SiXty-four years OF experience IN
piano building has shown us how 10
build a piano of great durability, to
which fact over $4,000 purchases
of Pease Planes will bear witness.
Our Swear payment plan is most
economical, and we have slightly
used pianos of many makes from
Si25 up. .
The evening world., 1908-03-05
GOV. HUGHES AVERSE TO
TALKING OF THREAT.

ALBANY. March Gov Hughes va
a a-ked again today about rumorei
threats against him in connection with
his attitude against racetrack gambling
He earnestly deprecated any mention OF
The matter and when pressed FOR the
truth on the subject. said
III anything of that sort has been
received II was of character un-
deserving of the slightest serious con-
side-atiOn. 81
The evening world., 1908-03-05
KAISER TO MEET lTALYs KING.

BERLIN March 5.-According to an
official note issued to-day, Emperor
William will meet King Victor Emman-
uel, OF Italy. at Venice during the course
nf lis Mediterranean cruise. Later. En-
pcror William will visit Emperor Fran
cts Joseph at Vienna.
The evening world., 1908-03-05
Continued from First Page)
throughout the early part OF the morn
ing
Girls Told Him of Fire.

Girls Told Him Of Fire.
Fearing he had not sucfienly warmed
the building he was, according T. MS
story, on his way TO open the iuFhaSe
drafts and increase the neat. When ne ne
was met by the three little girls run
ming from the basement. who told aim
there was ilre below. ,,,,r
These three little girls are now pelhs
sought by the po4ee ana aitsT, gs tng tanngiireiS i
possible BY certain !nembe OF the Not-
llnwood School Board that they may
have. through carelessness or otnet ,sss
started the blaze when causeu VAC
OF SO many children. -. -h>
l.. A Gardner. meHoer oi ..r'
school board. is positive IN ms SSr,,
g4ietn 4g tA3 !. & tSat 5s pSr,on SS Of the 6adins
y-ssrt II was discovered there are no
electric light wires there was no vase
or rags; there vas no rfSra disSSr ''ielh beieyed
by Mir, Gardner and by others that the
three little girls may, If they are rec ever 1r
found. throw some l!sht on tne ca"se VI
the awful tragedy OF Yesterday.
There were in the building at the
time the fire was discovered between
;hree hundred and ten and trree nun.
dred and twenty-five pupils. Ihey were
under the control of nine teachers. Two
Of these are among the dead that lie
to-day in the extemporized morgue IN
the warehouse or tne Lake Shore ana
Michigan Southern Railroad at Collin
wood.
School Overcrowded.
The school was overcrowded and
quarters had been provided for the
younger children in tile attic. strange
capped from this part OF the school
cuhSe than from any other. The chill
iren were under good discipline. they
mad been practiCed frequently in the
fire drill their teachers without excep-
showing great courage in the face OF
tnminent dealt, and vet more than
because Of faulty building arrange
ments
Pupils Marched to Death.
When the teachers were informed Of
the existence OF the fire they promptly
formed the pupils in columns of march
| according 10 the fire drill which they
them for the doors. They had trained
the children TO march always toward
the door IN front and instinctively the
columns headei that way, and the
children unknow!ngly We're by their
teachers literally marched into the very
face OF death.
flames met the pupils Some OF the
children dashed at the door in the
| sffOrt to open II, while others turned
and fed wildly up the stairs, The door
was double, ana one side vas held by i
I spring The children above. knowing
/ nothing o. the tire on the stairs below.
. kept passing down, and within a few
| $. conds there was jam. panic and a
| struggle on the stairway and behind
| the half closed front door that nothing
could stop and which cost the lives OF
| all who were csug11t within r.
Caught In Trap.
far worse tragedy. however. was
enacted a the door in the rear. This,
/ is claimed by many people. opened
The evening world., 1908-03-05
saus Doors Opened Outward.

~, .he suuus OF the Lake Shore
o1d MicAigan southern RalI"aS' rom
pt.ichboring factories ana business
tanlishments men Sd!nt 70 tue mo moa
49,, IIat they had little ppOr-
unity to aid many OF the chlldreh IN
sTeciing an escape. ,,,,,,,, ,,
M's ss,.nooL denies that the doors
t,t..,e1 toward the inner part OF the
uppVding and insists that they We're
never locked during school hours she
when tny bell rang, | and suppose
Regular fire drill. Every child In the
c69o ,nam has gene hs see6nd ee G oor 10 s tSe
a6a,n,' aean air in one minute and thirty
seconds. You can judge from that how
9uickly we reached the first floor.
When We neared the front door We
saw the flames coming Up the base
ment stairs, and without knowing it
We led those little children into the
very face OF The fire,
toward the inside and they We're not
locked The trouble was that only one
ot the double outer doors was open. The
other was fastened with spring at the
children had wedged themselves into
the Vestihuc and the others in panic
stumbled and climbed and crowded over
them II was frightful-so near safety.
IF I could have turned my line back
they would have had some chance on
the third floor. but they kept coming
down and we could not stop them or DO
outside were trying TO pull the children
out but they were crushed so tightly
together that no human strength could
glonr n nassageswav Dozens Of them
lled within . foot NJ ahsolut" safety"
Governor Orders Inquiry.
\ rigid investigation is promised into
the cause Of the fire. Gov. Harris has
announced that the state authorities
would look into the matter In most
minute manner He issued Instructions
to he Department OF Workshop and
Factory Inspection 70 commence an in
d vesliEa'lnu al once.
The evening world., 1908-03-05
Fire DEPARTMENT a Farce.

The local ire department. volun-
teer organization. with little drill and
inferior apparatus, came hurrying TO
the scene, but i was powerless from
great headway TO be checked even
by firemen more capable and machin-
cry more powerful than any al their
For ali tina, handicap they were
wretchedly, inadequate to tn occasion; SION
the second floor and they did not pos
sess a ladder that would reach the bot.
inm Of the fire-escape on the rear Of
tSa o.,' building. Because OF this lack Of
even ordinary precaut!on, more than a
alone. Hugh McIlrath, a fourteen
year-old boy. son Of the Chief OF the
I-oliinwood Police force. led line Of
nanic-stricken children down the es-
cape to a point Were a Mad. ladder would you'd
wera too terrified TO jump and ran
back into the building. McIlrath fol-
lowed. determined TO bring them OUT out
again, and he and they were never seen
alive again.
The evening world., 1908-03-05
ZHGs sIERECkEDaE aELZLDZWG.

Crowding in among the first rescuers
came the mothers. Some of them could
see their children in the crowd.
The children. who had been keeping
up an incessant monotonous scream
shrieked louder Mt the sight of their
mothers. A few of the women stood
close 10 the stairway holding the hands
of the little ones until the flames drove
them away.
Many o. the children died quickly, be-
ing sufocaied before the fire REACHED
them. While the agoniZel men We're
Struggling in the dCurwlys and tie
frantic mothers We're standing in the
rear theT could see the smoke rising
llp from the floor and floating away
above the heads of the children They
knew then that the fire had crept along
under the iirst floor and was eating
away the iojsts which held the children
10 AS tn. children died one by one at
first, and later a half-dozen at a time
ne screaming grew less and the smoke
from the toor grew constantly thicker
and thicker.
between the children who We're stand
ing back on the stairway and lying
packed in a heap behind the door. Out
side the women We're insane. Many OF
them tainted and dropped on the
ground, where they We're mercifully
allowed to lie until all was over. So
great was the mass OF children at this
point that when the floor fell through
the top OF the heap of blackened bod
les reached from the basement floor
10 the level of the ground