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The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
w. c. T. U. LEADER CONVICTED.
Ohio Woman Faces Ten-Year Prison
Term For Advising Arson.

Norwalk, Ohio-Mrs. Martha ].
Campbell, GO, a w. C. T. U. leader
and Sunday school superintendent.
was Friday found guilty of aiding and
abetting Arson to prejudice insurance"
The maximum penalty is 20 years.
Pending a motion for a new trial Mrs.
Campbell was released on $4,000 bail.
The arson charge against Mrs.
Campbell was made by Miss Loa Ma
thesr, a lifelong friend of Mrs. Camp
bell, when Miss Mather was arrested
or a charge of burning her own dwell
ing to get the insurance. On the stand
Miss Mather did not charge that Mrs.
Campbell had started the fire, but said
she had advised arson.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Diamond Jubilee Off.

Vienna-The diamond jubilee pa
geants planned for next spring in
the Emperor Francis Joseph's hon
or have been abandoned on the state
ment of his majesty's physicians that
their patient has not yet fully recov-
cred from his illness of several months
ago. The fatigues of an outdoor cele-
bration and the entertainment OF for
eign royalties, they say, would involve
grave results.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
BOY ROASTED ALIVE
ILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE COMMIT
TEE MORTIFIED.
VICTIMS EARS DROP OFF
0FF
Parents Tell of Brusque Refusal OF
Charities Board Head to
Investigate.

Chicago, m.-Members of the leg
islative investigating committee
gasped at the story of the injuries re-
ceived by Frank r. GirouX, the IT.
year-old epileptic, burned last Deem
Der in the Lincoln Home for Incurable
Children, as related at Wednesdays
session.
President Moulton of the State Civil
Service Board vas accused by DR..
Frank w. Lambden, surgeon of the
German Hospital, with treating him
(the Doctor) to a course of sprouts
because he refused to shape his an
swers to favor the institution.
Parents of Boy Testify.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben NJ. GirouX, parents
of the boy, told the committee of the
injuries the boy sustained, the at
tempts of the attendants to conceal
the facts and the brusque treatment
they received at the hands of officials.
Giroux testified that when he tele-
phoned DR.. Frank G. Billings, Presi-
dent of the State Board of Charities,
and asked him to investigate the case,
DR.. Billings exclaimed: Il have no
time to run around looking at chill
dren."
GirouX explained the circumstances
and repeated the request. He says he
repeated his first remark, prefacing
it with Il can't help that" He de-
clares DR.. Billings hung up the re-
ceiver when he tried to tell more
about the case.
Boy Roasted Alive.
DR.. Lambden testified the lad was
mot burned, but roasted alive" TWEEN
ty square inches of flesh was cooked
to the second degree" he said. "One
side of the lads face, his throat and
his ear were baked, and his ear drop
ped off. The backs of his hands were
burned the witness declared.
Although so days have elapsed and
the boys parents and relatives first
supplied skin from their W bodies
for grating, the wounds are still
%sloughing and have defeated all cura-
tive measures.
Mrs. GirouX's evidence was a series
of sensational accusations. She de-
clared she found boys in the Lincoln
Home like skeletons, bound and tied to
posts, breathing horrible stenches i
bedrooms that smelled worse thar the
stock wards"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
TiiIey Cited on CHARGES.

Washington, D. C.-Representative
Tilley of Connecticut. author of
the sensational resolution charging
the house naval affairs committee with
corruption, in connection with their
recommendation of eight submarine
torpedo boats and only two battleships,
while the president had recommended
four b~attleships and four submarines,
is to be called before the rules CON-
mittee of the house to su~bstantiate his
charges.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Consul Bill FavorabIy Reported.

Washington-An official step to-
ward the requirement by this govern
ment OF grounds and buildings of the
~consulates at all insular points in
China. Japan and Korea. excepting
Mukden, Hardin, Dalny and Tsingtau,
was taken Friday when the house COM
mittee on foreign affairs voted to re-
port favorably the Perkins bill appro-
priating $1,313,643 for this purpose.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Would Enlarge Homesteads,

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mon
dell of Wyoming Friday introduced a
bill providing an enlarged homestead
in the states of Colorado, Idaho. Mon
tana, Nevada, North Dakota, South Da-
kota, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming and
the territories of Arizona and New
Mexico by allowing any person who is
a qualified entryman under the home
stead laws of the United States, to
enter upon 800 acres of land, not ex-
empt by law.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
NEWS OF CONGRESS
DoNGs OF PEOPLES REPREsEN-
TATIvES AT WASHINGTON.
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED
Concise Report Of Measures In
troduced and What Action Is
Taken on Them
Bill for Protecting Aliens

Washington-A favorable report was
offered Friday by the house commit
tee on the judiciary on the bill for
protecting aliens. The measure pro-
vides that if two Oh more persons con-
splre to injure, Cypress, threaten or in
tlmidate any person in the free exer-
else or enjoyment of IN rights due
him by the constitution or laws of the
United States or because of his hav-
ing exercised the same, they shall be
fined not more than $500 or imprisoned
Q than ten years or both. Fa-
vcrable action was taken at the re-
quest of the state department.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Burglars are providing around pro-
m%iscuously at all hours of the night,
seemingly not the least bit afraid that
they will meet up with leap-year pro-
pcsals when they are looking only for
jewelry. There are various ways OF
making a living in this diversified
world, but some occupations appear to
be extra hazardous. The sedate and
~hachelorly burglar would feel cheap
If instead of being hauled to the police
station he were ANONYMOUSLY dragged
at break of day to the marriage license
window and made to pass the civil
service examination there provided.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Favors UpbuiLdinu of NAVY

Observation-Disclosures Perkins of Cal
ifornia Friday spoke in the senate in
justification of expenditures for the up
building of the American navy and of
the policy of sending the fleet into the
Pacific ocean. He reviews the achieve
ments of the navy and declared that
it was the most popular branch of the
government service.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
One Killed in Freight Wreck.

Bellaire, Ohio-Harry Diday is
dead and John Hollingshead and
Samuel Smith are probably fatally in.
jured as a result of a Baltimore &
Ohio freight train calaboose jumping
the track at Glencoe. neal here, and
turning over, late Thursday afternoon.
The men were members of the freight
crew.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Favor Stevenson Militia Bill.

Washington-The Stevenson bill to
promote the efficiency of the militia
was ordered favorably reported by the
house committee on militia. The bill
as amended by the committee divides
the militia organizations of the sew
eral states and territories into two
distinct classes, one to be known as
the national guard and the other as
the reserve militia.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Misses the Century Mark.

Columbia, Mo.-Mrs. Amanda Keene,
who would have been 100 years
old in the next ten days, died
at the home of her nephew. Robert
Henry, at Switzler. at midnight Thurs.
day of pneumonia. Mrs. Keene was
the oldest resident of Boone county.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Bill to lncreas. steerase Air Space.

Washington-A bill increasing the
air space devoted to steerage passen-
gers on ocean vessels, which has been
favorably reported by the committee
on immigration was Friday called up
by Senator Lodge and passed by the
senate. The act is to take effect Jan.
1, 1909.
Mr.. Lodge, in explaining the bill,
cited conditions of immigrants in rela-
ton to air space, showing that by
this bill steerage passengers will
have better accommodations in Amer
lean vessels than those of any nation
except Great Britain, which are about
eqsal to those provided for by the
bill.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Kansas lnstructs for BRYAN.

Hutchinson, Kas.-Kansas demo-
Gratis in state convention here
Friday morning unanimously adopted a
resolution instructing delegates to the
Denver convention, both state and con-
gressional, to cast a solid vote for the
nomination of William j. Bryan for
President of the United States"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Marooned Doctors Safe.

Vincennes. Ind.-The seven ply.
sicians of this %plaeecity who were
cut off in Hell's Neck by the floods
Wednesday evening. were able to re-
turn here Thursday night. The reced.
ing waters have made possible the res
toration of communication. Great dam.
age was done by the floods.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
7rwenty-eiuht Killed in E~xplosion

Berkeley, Cal.-An explosion de-
stroyed the packing house of the
Hercules Powder Works at Pinole,.
north of this city, late Thursday, kin
ing four white men and "a Cinnamon.
The entire bay region was shaken and
many supposed the disturbance was
due to an earthquake.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
San francisco Bank suspends.

San Francisco, Cal.-The Market
Street Savings and Commercial
Bank temporarily suspended payment
Friday morning. A notice posted says
the bank is entirely solvent, but has
not sufficient cash on hand.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Cream Cheese Pie.

Mash a cream cheese; add two
beaten eggs and a half cup of white
sugar; mix all together and pour this
filling in a pie plate lined with ordi,
nary pie crust. Lay on the cream
strips of the dough, lengthwise and
crosswise, and set in a moderate oven.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Almack Gets Life Sentence.

Omaha, Neb.-WiIlis Almack was
found guilty of murder in the first
degree, and his punishment fixed at
life imprisonment. Almack and two
companions, employees of Ham PAX, a
Chinese restaurant keeper, killed and
robbed. their employer on the night
of July IL, 1907.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
AGED counIe in one cav.

Findlay, O.-Two pioneers of Han
cock county were buried in one grave.
Henry Sockrider was SO years old and
his wife SO. They had been married
66 years and died within a few hours
of each other.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
"Blind Tiuersv Decreasinc

Arkadelphia, Ark.-The grand Jury
in its report commends the officers for
diminishing the number of blind
tigers" The report urges that all
join in stopping the sale of liquor in
the county.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Texas colony Gives BANQUET

Sulphur, Okla.-At a banquet of the
Texas colony here only frontier
grub" was served. The menu con
sisted of black coffee, beet. beans and
cornbread. The coffee was sweetened
with sorghum molasses and bowie
knives were the sole .~silverware."
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

The Prince de Sagan says he would
have challenged Count Boni de Cas-
tellane to fight a duel if the count had
struck him with his glove in the face.
As Boni merely knocked him down
and kicked him into the gutter, the
prince considers the count to be I'M
worthy of notice. We cannot help
regarding the prince as the worlds
leading unconscious humorist.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Coal Miner Killed.

T%aylorville, Ill.-David Litton, Sc
years old, was killed Thursday
morning by falling coal in the Chris
tian County Company's mine.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Babes Burned to Death.

Sharon, Pa.-As the result of fire at
the home of John Bobby. South Shar-
on, his two daughters, Anna and Mar
tina, aged / and 8 years. respectively.
were burned to death, and Mrs. Bobby
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Kisses Wife and Disanneare

lola, Kas.-After kissing his bride
of one year goodbye, Roy Boltz took
his dinner pail anG started to work.
Since then he has not been seen by
his wife. Instead of going to work
he drew his pay check and disap-
peared.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

A butler with SIT, 900 worth Of dia-
monds in his possession has been ar
rested in the east. If he can prove
that at some former time he was a
head waiter somewhere, it's a cinch
he'll get off.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Dies Running for Doctor,

MISUNDERSTANDING for a doctor
in an effort to save the life Of his
mother, stricken with heart failure.
Louis w. Ellerman, a member Of 4
wholesale clothing house, was himself
overcome.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Editor Harden of Berlin said he was
responsible for what he wrote, but moi
for the Interpretation other people
placed upon his writings. A good ed
itor generally takes care that what
he writes can have only one inter-
probation.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Sunday Theater Conviction.

Topeka, Kas.-Judge A. w. Dana of
the district court declared L. M.
Crawford, a theatrical manager of To-
peka, guilty of violating the Sunday
law by requiring his ticket sellers,
scenery shutters and other employees
to work on Sunday.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Deer Enter BARNARD.

Marlton, N. during the past
week doe and buck deer have been
seer in this vicinity. One entered the
barnyard of John Oft and drank from
a pump trough.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Powdered Sugar.

Turn coffee mill down very tightly.
fill the hopper with granulated sugar.
grind it through once or twice, or
even three times, and you have an
cellent powdered sugar.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

A New York juror threw a fit the
other day during a court trial. New
York lawyers are the limit, but this is
the first time a juror has had the
courage to express his opinion of them
in an adequate manner.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
BUYERS Saw Union win Sell,

Little Rock, Ark.-Little Rock cot
ton buyers say that it will not be long
before the Farmers Union in Arkan-
sas will be ready to turn loose almost
all the cotton stored in their ware
houses throughout the state.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Sailors Saved From Death.

PASSPORT, L. 1.-The breaches buoy
saved eleven men from death in the
sea when the three masted schooner
Howard r. Peck was driven ashore
about a mile west of the Quogue life
saving station.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

An automobile seems to be easy
prey for a sneak thief. The more like
a tramp the driver looks the more are
observers inclined to think he is the
millionaire owner.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

AS an Alabama senator explains it.
the south is going dry" in order to
keep liquor from the colored man.
Then will there or will there not be
a color line when it m to enforce
ment?
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Bibuious Georgians will now have
to devise new methods of getting it
when they want 1t. Bibulous neces-
sity knows no law, and is the mother
of invention.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

II 1t is not thought wise to create a
new cabinet officer why not make the
proposed national health bureau a de-
partment under the secretary of the
interior?
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Nevertheless, it must be admitted
that three or four of the American
heiresses who bought titled husbands
are still living with them. But they
are supposed to be exceptionally
hardy.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Fourteen Killed in ENGLAND,

Newcastle-on-Tyne, England-Four-
teen out of 16 men at work
in the Globe Colliery, in the village of
Washington, were killed Friday by an
explosion in the workings.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Probably it required millions Of
years to produce the potato bug, use
less, and worse than useless, as it
seems to be. Science is wonderful,
but discouraging.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

A chair pusher in Atlantic City
found $500 and got q reward of ~
cents for returning it to its owner.
Next time he should find 81, 1000. as
that might bring him as much as %
cents and make the adventure worth
while.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

King Oscar of Sweden left an es-
tate Of only six and a quarter mil
lions. Some of his former subjects
now in the United States must have
beaten him 40 lengths.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Mark Twain is said to have had
S51 1879 in one Of the New York banks
which shut up during the panic. If so,
this will furnish an interesting chap
ter in his autobiography.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

When it comes to preparing to be-
gin to make ready to send a chal-
lenge, Sir Thomas Upton has our most
distinguished prize fighters banging
on the ropes.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
suicide by

London-A Glasgow man named
Henry McIlroy committed suicide by
placing a rope round his neck and
screwing it tight with the all OF q
poker.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

The pure-food experts of Pennsyl-
vania have tested SO breakfast foods.
All the heroes, ready and willing to
die for their country, are o confined
to the army and navy.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

And still another i%conoclast charges
that Washington did not write his
justly famous farewell address. 1t now
remains to demonstrate that George
was a myth anyhow.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

A French army transport has run
ashore. The army naturally doesn't
intend to let the navy get the better
of it In the matter of disarmament.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

That woman defendant who threw
ancient eggs at the judge probably
was surprised when even that act was
not accepted as proof of her innocence.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Late War Mines ! Menace

Tokio-Long as it is since the ces-
sation Of hostilities between Russia
and Japan, floating mines are still be
ing discovered adrift in the Easter.
seas.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

If tough luck is the inspiration for
Mark Twain, misfortune has points OF
merit worth high praise.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Pardon the apparent i%rrelevancy of
the query, but is not a mosquito also
a purveyor of living music?
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

The bargain counter brushes make
the trade depression look like a night
mare that met It's death in infancy.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

The New York wigmakers appear to
have won their strike without making
any threats that they would jerk the
entire population bald-headed.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Russia, fortunately, has a perfect
climate for nipping co~nspiracies.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Even the challenges by Sir Thomas
Upton have not yet become auto
matte.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

All true patriots should give AID
miral Evans absent treatment for his
rheumatism.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Still, a pure-food law might have
saved Socrates.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Spain is to have a new $4,000, 900
navy, to be built in England. Under
the circumstances, We could hardly
expect part of the order.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Filipinos May Study Military Tactics.
Washington-Seven Filipinos may
receive instruction in the United
States military academy, according to
q bill passed by the senate Friday.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Collar Button Kills Boy.

Philadelphia-William Brown, 10
years old, was strangled here by swal-
lowing q collar button while sneezing.
The boy died in his mothers arms.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
Bill on Alaskan Government.

Washington-A bill was introduced
by Mr.. Gale, delegate from Alaska.
to establish a territorial government
in Alaska.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Doc Willis, a negro, convicted of
numbering Sol Aronovitz, a peddler,
near Leland Oct. %, was legally exc
cuted at Greenville last week. Willis
killed Aronovitz because he wanted
So, and committed his crime in a most
brutal manner, clubbing his victim
into insensibility and leaving him for
dead in a thicket by the roadside.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Parity of thought evolves purity OF
action.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

The Central Bank Of Mississippi, es-
tablished at jackson less than one year
ago with a capital of $500, 900, is in the
hands of a receiver. 1t is understood
that the present embarrassed condition
of the bank is brought about by reason
of the financial stringency which has
impaired the stability of certain banks
and merchants in the country districts,
and hat the affairs will soon be righted,
and that the receivership is only tenn
porary.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

The grand commandery, Knights
Templars. at it's session held at Hat
tiesburg resolved to break away from
the Blue Lodge organization to the ex-
tent of holding its annual grand session
at a different time from the regular
grand lodge. This action was taken
because it was found that under the
present arrangement the grand COM
mandery did not get time enough to
transact all of its business.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

The Independent telephone corpora
tons in Mississippi have joined the
Cumberland in the fight against the
Engle physical connection bill, the
purpose of which is to compel all tele-
phone companies to connect their lines
and pro rate the tolls.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, who is
leading the prison reform movement
and is making the rounds of Southern
State prisons, paid a visit to the Mis-
sissippi convict farms, and afterward
addressed the State Legislature along
the lines of prison reforms.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28

Jesus to the uttermost, not
only reaching to the uttermost depths
of degradation, and to the uttermost
wandering from God, but to the utter
most length of time, and to the utter
most degree Of salvation, the highest
ideal, the highest condition of good
ness and blessedness.
The wonderful supply was based on
that which the disciples already had.
little as this was. (
The missionary enterprise has been
the salvation of the church. A selfish
church cannot prosper. God does net
want such churches to prosper.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-07-11

might as well consume the whole hog
as risk eating any part Of IL
"Everyshing is lovely and the goose
hangs high probably should read:
Everything is lovely and the goose
honks high" though possibly refer.
ence is made 10 an old sport where
a goose was hung from a tree branch
and & rider on horseback tried TO
catch il by uhe neck as he darted by.
The closing verse explains our
meaning when we declare that s0and-
so is mo great shakes:
'"sseI~
For the hand Of the heart is the
index, declaring
II well or II III. how its master will
stand.
heed not the tongue of its friend
ship that's swearing:
judge Of friend by the shake OF
his hand
Los Angeles Times
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-07-11

| l,Geo cavalry advance in front. caus.
pS a great dust which the wind blew
into the faces OF the enemy. blind
ing them TO the discovery OF a flank
movement he was executing in order
to take the coveted heights in their
rear.
But We must go further back than
even the period of Greek heroes 10
seize time ny the fo7lock.' Before
pygmy mar was Grated lived Saturn.
old Father Time. bald save for a
single lock in front, II was not.
however. unit! Pittacus. one of the
seven wise men of Greece. reached
this mundane sphere. that We learn
cd how 10 handle so slippery an in
diyiduaI.
Deaf as an adder" taken from the
deaf adder that stoppeth her ears
in the Psalms. is founded On an ORR
entail superstition that a serpeat
presses one car 10 the ground while
covering the other with its. tail-an
acrobatic feat that might stump even
the wisdom Of serpent. since 4
snake has no external ears.
TO agree To differ" has its origin
in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia
where no characters were agreed
in any bumoT but in disagreeinx.-
Parking M the wrong tree refers
20 TEE mistake sometimes made by
hunting uoss when game flies from
tree TO tree.
a chip Of tho old block was frs,
uSsd In play Of Dick Of Devon
shire. 1926
Circumstances over which I have
no control" originated with the Duke
81 Wellington. but WIS made po?u.
lar by our dear friend. Mr.. Micaw-
Dor.
There IL one step from the sub
lime 10 The ridiculous. said Sapo-
leon IN 1879. wSiIe 1T IL the begin
ming Of the end" vas TsIIeyrana's
reply when askcd nv Napoleon what
sIe ihonrhf Of conditions after the
hattie Of LHiTsic.
Cleanliness " newt 20 CodIiprss-
vas BY John Wesley. but the iis Is
contained IN the Je~ist Taimud.
Waiting for dead mems shocs~
refers 10 an old Hebrew custom that