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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-06-02
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ELECTRIC INSTITUTE AM

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LEWISTON, IDAHO.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-06-02

were the tenets which reigned in the
Rue de Grenelle and in the houses OF
Lady Meg's royalist allies.
So ON one side of Lady Meg are the
mobiles and their noble ladies. sulking
and scheming and on the other BIZ
zarre contrast, her witch and her wiz
ard, Nine. Mantis and Pharos. Where
the carcass is, there will the vultures
be. Should the carcass get up and
walk. presumably ths vultures would
wing an eXpectant way after 1t. Nine.
Mantis, the woman of the prophecy
about something bright" had follow
ed Lady Meg to Paris, seeming fresh
prey But Il more ingenious and pow
erful scoundrel came on the scene. In
association with Mantis probably very
close and not creditable association, Is
pharos. alias Jean touIin. In after
days. under the republic, this person
age got himself into trouble and was
tried at Lille for obtaining no less a
sum than 10000 francs from ii rich
old rovalist lady who lived in the
neighborhood Of the town. The rogue
got his money under cover of vatici-
| nation that MacMahon would restore
the monarchy. d nearer approach to the
real than he reached in his dealings
with Lady Meg. but not probably on
that account any the more favorably
! viewed by his judges.
! The presidents Interrogation Of the
prisoner, ranging over his whole life,
| tells us the bulk Of what we know Of
him. but the earliest sketch comes from
Sophy herself in one Of the rare letters
of this period which have survived. "A
dirty, scrubby fellow, with greasy hair
and squint in his eye" she tells Julia
Robins. HE wears black cloak down
to his heels and gimcrack thing
around his neck that he calls his peri
apt'-charln, | suppose he means. Says
he can work spells with 1t. and his pre-
cious partner Mantis kisses it Qtalics
are Sophy's) whenever she meets him.
Phew! I'd like to give them both
busting. What do you think? Pharos,
as he calls himself, tells Lady Meg he
can make the dead speak to her, and
she says that isn't it possible that
since they've died themselves and
know all about 1t, they may be able to
tell her how not to- Seeing how this
suits his book, it isn't Pharos who's 60
ing to say NO though he tells her to
make will in case anything happens
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manner. During the month just past,
500 have fallen i'll of prison typhoid"
and zoo of that number died. The
sick are not always separated from
the well. because the hospital is over
crowded and very often the patients
are not visited by doctor until they
are past all help. OF course, this
typhoid is only result of bad treat
ment, starvation and filth. II is quite
impossible to keep men and women
even comparatively healthy under the
conditions which prevail in many Rus
sian prisons. Only five minutes eX-
ercise is allowed daily to the inmates,
and this is taken In a close prison
yard surrounded by high walls. where
the air is nearly always sitting and
the space is crowded with the prison.
ers and their warders.
'HUNGER STRIKE"
The prisoners are submitted to all
sorts of petty prosecutions, In Char
kow prison several inmates were fairly
we'll off and, by means of bribing the
warders, managed to smuggle in tea
and spirit lamps on which to boil wa
ter. For some time they were allowed
to make their tea in peace; then sud
denly one OF the warders was Offend
ed by some of them and ordered the
spirit lamps and tea to be confiscated
at once. The governor of the prison
was appealed TO. but In vain, because
he did not care To come and visit the
cells, and therefore expressed Conn
plete confidence in his warders. Tho
whole prison responded by organizing
hunger strike" and refused to eat
anything This became troublesome
to the authorities because the strikers
fell III by the hundred. The prison.
ers themselves, when asked why they
''cut off their noses to spite their
faces" replied that II was the only
form of protest they had and that they
were so miserable that to fall Ill SOON
er or later did not much matter.
A RUSSIAN HABIT.
II is only fair to record that some
humane governors of prisons do all
they can to alleviate the sufferings OF
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/ the unhappy people In their charge.
But they complain that they are as
much victims of a bad system as the
prisoners themselves. They can do
nothing TO enlarge the over-crowded
prisons and the funds at their disposal
are quite inadequate to feed the pris-
oners properly. As to the beating and
other forms of barbarism which pre-
vail, they are powerless to prevent It..
A Russian soldier will use the butt
end of his rifle as a man in a civilized
country uses his tongue--without
thinking. and because it always is at
hand.
KNoUTING COMMON.
The coroner whose duty il is to pre-
pare cases for the public prosecutor.
has TO start with the supposition that
the people brought before him are
guilty. Therefore all sorts of "persua-
sive methods" such as thrashing.
knouting and nogging with long india
rubber cords, are used to make pris-
oners confess. Their teeth are knocked
out and their faces beaten to jelly. This
procedure is successful in many cases
and the victims make a clean breast OF
1t and give the names and addresses of
their accomplices.
MEN ARE HARDENED.
BY these barbaric methods are men
and women, tried in Russia, And so
hardened do all those about the law
courts get TO IL that even lawyers hui
name men in all other respects. shrug
their shoulders with true Slavonic fat.
alism.and exclaim: What Is to be
done?" The victims OF this treatment
sometimes avenge themselves by
smashing the doors and win
dows of their cells and slez-
ing the wardcrs and stranglmg
them. But such blunt" as a mutlny
Is called, always ends In the arrival
OF a company of soldiers, who shoot
some, beat tho others and restore or
der Only the combined public opinion
OF the civilized world could make an
impression, and that is Il very difficult
thing to set going.
sDRGIUS VOLKHOVsKY.
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L70o7u,a 1B0mmpm9AN4zzve
sneelal Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
r oNDoN. July 2-Electriclty in
the household is creating sort
of domestic revolution in Eng
land and other European coun-
tries just now In the newest hotels
in London. old-fashioned cooking
ranges have been completely done away
with. Even in King Edwards house
hold-a conservative institution-elec-
trlcity has been introduced into the
kitchen; while his new yacht and the
royal train have Just been equipped
with electric cooking and heating ar
rangements. I'm several of the big
laundries electricity does all the work
that human hands can't do, and its 9TH
er domestic uses now range from peel
ing potatoes TO heating curling irons
for my lady's hair.
The main reason why electricity has
not been more generally used hereto
fore has been the expense of current,
but most Of the big electrical supply
companies have recently reduced their
prices so considerably that electric en-
ergy is placed within reach of every
one. Nearly all the companies now
supply electricity "for heating purposes
only" at about one-half OF what they
usually charge for lighting
ELECTRIC IRONS WIN.
Domestic electricity has evidently
come to stay. but It has not arrived
without opposition even on the part OF
those whose toll II was principally in
tended 10 lessen For instance. In East
mans great laundry works in London
recently the attempt to introduce cleo
trlc ironing met with strenuous resist
ance on the part of nearly all the laun-
dresses. They were prejudiced against
the new tangled irons, with bits OF
string tied to EN-" and almost went on
atrlke when the manager tried TO mako
thom give up the old methods HOW
o,,ar belng an astute judge of human
not,re he quietly fitted up room
an nothing hut electric irons in II.
soveral of the more courageous ana en-
,ornrslng women were sent In To WORK
-, what Is called the piece WORK
Nan. being paid at so much per piece
nroyiaed they worked solely with cleo
,,sc irons. The main advantage of these
,rn,s ia that they remain hot all the
lime and as there is no changing from
,e,id irons 10 hot ones the women
,.',, able 10 do twice as muoh ironing
" vas done. in given time by ola
o,noas Consequently, being paid by
the piece. thcy made twice as n'u0"
ononey. When the women had haa
',.ok AT piece work with the 'eleetr'es'
,be manager put them back at the Or
binary irons, and they almost went on
strike once more-this time clamorlng
10 he allowed TO work by the new meth
odd. And So the electric iron-and tho
manager--won triumph. Electric
irons get hot almost instantly; and all
the housewife has TO do when she
wants to iron Is 20 turn a switch. As
to expense, IL has been found, Win the
reduction now made by the electrical
companies when supplying current for
cheating only" that these irons work
out at about half. and IN some cases,
one third the cost OF ordinary irons.
SEWING MACHINES. 700.
The success OF the electric iron has
led 70 the application OF the same power
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speetaI Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
~ Il. PETERSBURG, July 2.-Prisor
reform in the ears dominions il
\ a crying need; so much so that
protests frequently find their way
into foreign papers and details of cruel
systems awake horror in civilized lands
A case which recently was brought to
the public notice was that of 70 pris-
oners IN the Schlusselberg prison I'm
st. Petersburg. Six OF this number
were women who were implicated in
the recent plot to assassinate the czar
and his wife and children. The plot
was betrayed by one of the Cossacks
on guard at the Tsarkoe Selo palace
who had agreed TO join the conspira-
tors and whose conscience troubled him
TO such an extent that he confessed
the whole conspiracy and shot him
self.
His statements led to the arrest of
several hundred people, among whom
were three members of the douma.
They were sent to- Schlusselberg. Sow
cnty-three of them have managed TO
send out an appeal to the douma to
have their grievances looked into. They
are packed together in three small cells,
chained hand and foot, day and night
Their diet consists of bread and wa
ter, and the filth with which they arc
surrounded has resulted In q malignant
fever beaking out. The finishing touch
NaFuu ~. hatx atufo d..
response TO the complaints in the
douma, the director of the prisons
board went to see them. One of the
men. who was too weak to sit up, re-
fused TO stand when the official en-
tered the cell. He was whipped til
the blood ran from his wounds, His
fellow prisoners protested against this
barbarous treatment. you shall have
something better" replied warder,
and ordered tho soldiers to beat them
with their rifle butts. These facts have
come out; but there are many more as
bad, II not, worse. which are hushed up
by the officials. or course, some Of the
prisoners are released. sooner or later,
and Il IA from their lips that tales of
cruelty, neglect. disease and starvation
are heard
A TYPICAL CASE.
A typical case of which have heard
Is that OF one szymunsli a brass work.
en- or Warsaw. He was respectable,
working man, with large fam
rlN and WAS spending the evening
with some friends when the police en-
tered the house and announced that
ha was unaer arrest. He protested that
he was ignorant of any charge which
could possibly be made against him and
that he never occupied himself with
politics. He waH cauie- off by force
10 no town nan, where 400 prisoners
are put into a space designed for 30
and was thrown into a cell filled with
thieves, yagabonds and bandits of the
worst tyne.
There Is no need to describe the filth
and discomfort of such cell where
Il men live, eat drink and sleep In a
room built for two Happily, Ne had a
hlllo money In his pocket and brlbed
one OF the soldiers TO give him some
Wlis palaiahle 20 eat But for the
whole of the six weeks he was there,
Hl his efforts 10 sce q higher official
or Ia learn the cause of his arrest were
an vain After his small stock OF
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In kien the unhappy prisoners are
being put out of the way In another
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The success OF the electric iron has
led 70 me application OF the same power
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
Personal and General.

A meeting is called for Friday evening,
November 13, at the city hall, in council
chamber, at o'clock, for the purpose
of organizing a Y. M. c. A. All interest
ed in this move are requested to be pres
ent
This mornings docket in the police
court eclipsed anything so far since the
reformation set in. There were 80 cases
in all, comprising nearly all OF the minor
ofIense in the decalogue of crime. None
escaped judgment.
Mrs w. II. Jeffries of Birmingham Will
be present and address the Woman
Christian Temperance union Tuesday att
ernoon at 3 o'clock, which will meet at
the Methodist church.
Miss Bessie Preston and S. B. Posey
of Wilkes station are to be married at
the home of the bride Tuesday after
noon, November II. Invitations are out.
Mrs. P. D. Stevens has as her guest
Mrs. Wilcox and daughter of Chatta-
nooga
j. A Outgz has been seriously i'll for
the past few days The physician In
charge pronounces the case ptomaine poi
soning. The patient is somewhat I'M
proved today.
The Christian Endeavor society of the
First Presbyterian church, instead of
having its regular monthly meeting Fri
day night, will have a social gathering
at the home of Mrs. G. II. Stevenson, on
Dartmouth avenue and Twenty-second
street, and all members of the society
are cordially invited to attend.
Gus Fitzgerald and Miss Vivian Cole
man were married Sunday night, Novem-
Der s, at the home of the brides pa
rents, on Eighth avenue, Judge jackson
officiating Mr. Fitzgerald is an employe
of the Bessemer Soil Pipe company and
has a host of friends. His bride is a
charming young woman.
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damages; Alabama Terminal Railroad
company VS.. M. G. Robertson ct al, APP
peal from probate court; Alabama Ier-
minal Railroad company VS.. Charles L.
Babb, condemnation; r. B. Thomas vs.
j. H. Patton, appeal by defendant.
Second division, jury, Judge Sharpe pre-
siding: Charles FARRELL pro ami VS.. South
ern Railway company, damages; Thomas
Franklin VS.. Western Union Telegraph
company, damages; J. H. Gable VS.. West
ern Union Telegraph company, damages;
w. p. Waldrop vs. Alabama Consolidated
Coal and Iron company, damages; James
W. Adar pro ami VS.. Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad company, damages;
James G. Franklin, administrator VS..
Birmingham Coal and Iron company,
damages; Mrs. II. A. Davis VS.. Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad company,
damages.
Third division, jury, Judge Ferguson
presiding: Moselle Clark vs. Birmingham
Railway, Light and Power company, dam
ages; Charles R. Griffin vs. Western
Union Telegraph company, damages;
Hannah Crowley pro ami VS.. Louis Pizitz,
damages; Claude L. Huey VS.. Birming-
ham Railway. Light and Power COM
pany. damages; Cahill Swift Manufacture
Ing company VS.. western Union Telegraph
company, damages; r.. II. Cowden, adj
ministrator, VS.. Woodstock Iron and Steel
company damages; Norman Douglas VS..
Louisville and Nashville Railroad COM
pany damages
A. A. Coleman presiding: Evaline Dick
erson vs. Birmingham Railway, Light and
Power company, damages; Ed Dickerson
VS.. Birmingham Railway, Light and Pow
er company, damages; R. l.. Sumner vs..
Birmingham Railway, Light and Power
company, damages; Bainhridge Grocery
company VS.. j. d. and S. J. Wright, as
sumpsit; Gus Clarke VS.. w. C. Agee &
Co., damages
A. o. Lane presiding-Mrs. Alice B..
Smith, administrators, VS.. St. Louis aud
San Francisco Railroad company, dam
ages: Robert Foster VS.. Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad company, damages; B.
G. Gentry vs. Southern Railway company,
damages ]. w. Wages VS.. Southern Rail-
way company, damages; Mrs. Cordelia
Fisher VS.. city of Birmingham ct al,
damages.
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Big INCREASE In
GINNED COTTON

Washington, November 9.-There
were 1926 active ginneries, and $780,
1872 bales of cotton ginned from the
growth of 1908 to November l. These
figures announced by the census bu-
reau today are against 26,069 ginneries
and 6 ,12S,562 bales at the corresponding
date in 1907, 1880 ginneries and $780,
395 bales in 1906, and 27,SO2 ginneries
and 6,457,595 bales in 1905. The report
counts round bales as half bales and
includes 149,340 round bales for 1908
125,785 for 1907; 169,741 for 1906. and
1880 for 1905. The number of sea
island bales included is 1895 for 1905,
1881 for 1907; 21,706 for 1906, and 49,
161 for 1906. The corrected figures of
the quantity of cotton ginned this sea-
son to October 49, are 6,296, 1865 bales.
The number of bales and active gin
neries respectively by states on No
cember /, 1908, follow:
+. Alabama, 894,123 bales and 1868 gin
neries.
Arkansas, 536,65S and 2o16.
Florida, 43,O65 and PAL.
Georgia, 1,3S3,S16 and 1921.
Kentucky and New Mexico, 954 and A.
Louisiana, 29O,099 and 1859.
Mississippi, 893,546 and $500.
Missouri, 30.940 and So.
North Carolina, 373,1SS and 2606.
Oklahoma, 219S60 and 941.
South Carolina, S22,369 and 3133.
Tennessee 199,621 and sos.
Texas, 2,5048S6 and 4046.
Virginia, 1857 and 80.
The distribution of sea island cottor
for 1908 by states is: Florida, 19,057
Georgia, 81 ,99S; South Carolina. 4440.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
To Stop Forest Fires.

Montgomery November 9.-state Game
and Fish Commissioner John H. Wallace,
Jr who is also state forester, will offer
such aid as the state has at command
to suppress the forest fires raging in
north Alabama. The worst fires are in
Madison and Limestone counties, where
timber in great amounts is being ruined
and thousands of dollars worth of fences
burned. 1t is expected that Mr.. Wallace
may arrange to send forester to the
territory If the fires are not gotten under
control at once Alabamas new forestry
law undertakes to take care in measure
of such cases, though there is as yet
little money to meet the expenses.
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LIFE MADE EASIER
FOR JOHN R. EARLY

Washington, November st was De
cided by the district commissioners to-
day to break up the strict isolation of
John R. Early, the leper, and permit
him to live with his family in small
brick house near the Washington work :
house grounds. He will be under the
same roof with his family, but it will
be arranged that they can live entirely
apart.
III this is done the welfare of the
public and of Early and his family will
be duly safeguarded," declared Health
officer Woodward, land Early can
cease to be dependent upon the district,
and can support himself and wife and
child from his pension money, which Is
S72 a month.
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KELLYTON Is HARD
HIT BY BURGLARS
ALMOST EVERY STORE lNcLUD-
ING EXPRESS OFFICE AND POST
OFFICE is BROKEN INTO BY
THIEVES SUNDAY MORNING.

Alexander City, November 9.-(Special.)
One of the most notorious burglaries ever
committed in this section has just come
to light, in which almost every store, to-
gether with the postoffiee and the ex
press office, in the little town of Kelly
ton, a way station six miles from Alex
ander City, was sacked, early Sunday
morning.
1t appears that the burglars first went
to the express office and looted that for
all the C. o. D. express packages in the
way of clothing and also obtained a 80
pound package of c. o. d. whisky. They
then went to the postoffce and looted
everything of any value, except the
stamps No money was, however, in the
postoffice, ana the haul was not of much
value there. The store of s. J. Thomas
was thoroughly gone through, much val
liable dry goods and various other valu-
ables, including a fine double-barrel shot
gun and fine revolver were taken. The
store of Mr.. Nelson was also broken into
and many valuables taken They then
went, evidently the last effort, to the
Webb & Walden store, and they had only
about bored their passage through the
front door when, it Is believed, daylight
was approaching, and this job was aban-
doned.
From this, 1t would appear they went
to the stable of ]. A. Brown and took a
mule from the stable and made off in
the direction of Goodwater. Near the
town of Goodwater the mule was found
by the roadside and the saddle thrown
into the brush near by 1t is supposed
they were so heavily loaded with loot
that they needed the mule to carry the
load.
Officers have today been at work on the
tracks, and with the number of clSes at
hand it is believed wholesale hAul will
soon be made.
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Enqineer On Trial.

Baton Rouge, La, November 9.-Jesse
I. Conklin, assistant United States gov
eminent engineer for 10 years in charge
of the work on the canal locks at Plaque
mine, La, was placed on trial today in
the United States court on the charge of
padding his payrolls and certifying to
false accounts. Several witnesses were
heard today, but their testimony was
mainly confined to the identification OF
payrolls and other papers. The case Will
be resumed tomorrow.
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these three towns should get together
and perfect this movement and let no
selfish interest be an impeachment to pro-
gressiveness, but all get together for the
advancement of one common cause to
the common good of all. Let us en-
ulate the example of other towns that
have these clubs, with not half the affiu-
ence, population and inducements that we
have to offer, and see the consequent re-
suits. We have all the elements condu-
Give to healthful prosperity, and If the
outside world could become acquainted
with what we had to offer, and induced
to come here and invest their capital. ac-
tivity and progress would reign, and fab
ulous growth would be the consequence"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
Collins Not Indicted.

Montgomery, November 9.-Illustrating
the dangers of mob law, the Butler
county grand jury has refused to indict
Mack Collins, a negro charged with as
sault, who barely escaped lynching at
Greenville two months ago. On being
taken to Greenville for trial, mob met
the train. and only the most daring
escape by the accused from the officers
and the mob saved his life.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
Two Men Killed In Wreck.

Woodstock. Va, November 9.-In a
head-on collision between two freight
trains two miles north of here today, on
the Southern railway, Engineer Amos
Johnson of Alexandria, Va, and Fireman
j. Jones OF Manassas were killed and
Engineer d. w. Tuck and Conductor G.
e. Rohr, both of Strasburg, were injured,
but not seriously The trains came upon
each other while running fast around a
curve. The responsibility has not been
fixed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
rri.city Commercial Club.

Some time ago some representative citi-
zens got together and advocated a tri-
city commercial club, comprising Besse-
mer, Jonesboro and Brighton, which was
considered a wise move and which will
be acted upon at once. Since that time,
however, other matters have obscured
the move, taking the entire time and
attention of the people. That being prac-
tically over now, or shelved for the time
being, the club is again being agitated.
In speaking of this, w. H. Porter of the
State bank said:
IAN organization of this kind is nee
essary adjunct to the industrial advance
,nent of this center, and the citizens of