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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-04-20
new RULES FOR LEAS-
ING COUNTY CONVTCTS
Proposed Bill STIMULATES That COnViCtS Must be
Worked in County Where Convicted.

Florida, as amended by Chapter 57O5,
Acts OF 1907. relating TO labor OF cOun-
~ cOnvicts. be. and the same Is here
by amended so as 70 read as follows:
"4lO9. County Convicts May BE
Put to LabOr-The Board OF County
Commissioners OF each county may
employ all persons imprisoned On the
iails Of their respective counties under
sentence upon conviction OF crime, or
for failure to pay a fine and cost i'm
posed upon conviction Of crime, az la
Dor upon the streets OF incorporated
cities and towns. or upon roads. and
public works In the several counties
where they are so imprisoned; or the
said boards may. in their discretion.
hire out such prisoners. 20 be kept
and worked only within the county in
which they are imprisoned. under
such rules. regulations and supervi-
sion as may be prescribed by the Com
missioner Of Agriculture, with the ad-
vice and approval Of the Board Of
Commissioners Of State Institutions.
I'm which case proceeds arising from
such contracts shall be paid into the
county treasury. Provided, that be-
fore hiring. leasing or letteing out
such prisoners. the said boards shall
advertise for at least thirty days In
one or more newspapers published In
the county. their intention 20 lease.
hire. or let the said prisoners. there
by giving those who desire 20 bid for
such prisoners an opportunity TO be
present either In person OF by az.
tOrney and submit their respective
bids therefor.
Sec. 2. That this act shall take
effect Immediately upon It's passage
and approval by the Governor"
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-04-20

in jail on suspicion Of having some
connection with the crime.
DIR. a. G. HambIm. VINO conducted
the examination of the cXhumcd body
of Mr. Ficcarotta. found that tho first
wound received was that from a dou.
bic load of birdshot in the back of
the head, and as the Decor declared.
the victim turning his head toward
has slayer received shot in the eye
After again having The body De-.
posted IN the grave the jury went 10
The home of Ficcarotta. the murdered
man and after dilircut search found
in The yard about twenty-five or thir-
W feet away from where be- foll a
lug which was one which had accord.
iUg 90 Dr. IiambliH. passed through
FiccarOtta- head A second smaller
slug was found near tho fence. thus
proving that thr.. shots had been
fired go thp victim of tho assassin.
uur from d0u1IrlarrDl.d shotgun
and tv" from weapon carrying slug.
The evidence b,.u- d.gpIo. % .ru
further strengthens tn. belief rrf
Oh, d. .d.r uI E..uuta arl mo.
Wealth.. r...r. importer I...r
who's. H.l. n.. ..H m.. DIP. r
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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-04-20

WASHINGTON d &. April IT,
The Eighteenth Continental Congress
of The Daughters of tho American
Revolution will convene here to-day
and viii last throughout Oh" week.
Sine. thn meeting year ago much
work bias been don, toward the com
Il.uou ul Continental Hail. OBJ. home
90. Or. uu-..r. boo -... D.r
Tl. mu interest HIl center bon
tU. election u. % lr-.1rfG...r..
.. u...d N.. Donald Mclean I..
.uH.uW T.. ..r ....
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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-04-20
Daughters American Rev.
OlutiOn Are in Session

called administration candidate g. Mrs
Matthew T. Scott of Illinois. the anti
administration candidate. Mr. Will
Jam Cummings Story of New York
The contest already has assumed such
% lively turn that other questions for
tHu time being have been otur-haduw.
.G Dos &c.
The address of WELDON. of tho rr-
uuu- prn-id.utG,u.ul Nr- Nc
lan w.u ha followed Dos aI1r.
H \...Il.iI,ur sherman Am.H-.
. N".uua u. Franco. and I.I-.
-... ..-.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-04-20

Dade county. who Is here on a visit.
was the first 10 reach Wilhelm. who.
after some resistance. gave up the
boy. who was returned 10 his mother.
Mr. aud Mrs. Wilhelm have been
separated for about three months.
the wife having sued for divorce on
account Of alleged cruelty on the part
OF her husband.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-04-20
Death Of An Old confed.

News was received here Monday OF
the death Of VIM. Knoblock OF Martin.
deceased being In his seyenty-hfth
year. Hr was Confederate veteran
and Will De- remembered here by quite
q number OF old soldiers who were
ith him during che war. tie had
.".n confined tp ri. room for many
weeks and his death was not AN
.u.Df.l
Rnad the want ads. On todaY,a Sun
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-04-20
FRENCH WARSHIPS Are
HURRYING TO MERSTNA
Report Of Murder Of American Missionaries Con-
firmed---PerSeCUtiOn Of Christians.

and medicine. and have sent an ap-
peal to the military authorities for
protection. Adana T. still burning
and IL is reported that not less than
5000 persons are homeless at Tarsus
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-04-20

Read the want ads In todays sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Ex-Governor E. w. Hoch returned
to Marion this afternoon after visit
ing his daughter, Mrs James w Reid,
and enjoying a vacation from his
work on the Chautauquan platform.
He has been engaged in such work all
summer, and evidently he finds it con-
genial, because he is looking well and
stalwart.
The ex-governor will continue on
the platform. His services have been
engaged by the Redpath Iyceum
Bureau, and it has arranged an itin-
erary for him which will keep him
going three months consecutively
next winter. speaking every evening
except Sunday
II like the work. says Mr.. Hoch.
THE hours are shorter and it is less
wearing than being governor And
the remuneration is larger-much
larger
He has been out of the state now
for five weeks in succession, address,
ing Chautauqua assemblies over the
country. Every time that he speaks
he says a good word for Kansas.
I find that everyone is interested
in the state" he says. "She has
been talked about so mulch, that they
want to hear the truth. 1 tell them
of our prosperity, of the part which
Kansas has played in the history of
the nation, and they listen eagerly
Chanute Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
A Jim Lane Story.

While standing near the corner of
Sixth and Washington street this
morning George w. Martin, who is
one of the Home Coming visitors,
related a Jim Lane story which is in
teresting because of the line it gives
on Lanes peculiar power as a speaker
and because of the contrast between
the Junction City of the sixties and
the Junction City of today. Mr.. Mar
tin stood looking down Washington
modern business fronts and other evil
dence of business progress and ac-
complishment. Pointing to the walk
in front of the post office, he said
During the civil war, Jim Lane came
some dry goods boxes and made a
platform for him right there. There
were a few buildings of any size in
sight, and fewer trees. The out doors
seemed to stretch west and south in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

unbroken monotony for a million
miles. But the view was magnificent.
There was a big crowd out for those
day, everyone eager to hear Lane
He took his place on the platform,
threw his shoulders back, shook his
hair back and with his eyes swept the
vista of prairie, unsettled and I'M
broken. Then in his characteristic
deep tones and impressive way, he
began: "God has done much for
this country" Pausing he cleared his
throat, and repeated even more pond
erously, God has done much for this
country" His hearers became
trif1e nervous. Once more he started,
"God has done much for this coun-
try" and there were many signs OF
growing nervousness in the audience
as he continued: LAS yet man has
done but little" The reaction was in
Simultaneous, Lanes auditors breaking
into the hearty laughter fro which
"the Grim Statesman" had been play
ing-Junction City Sentinel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
Iron the Philadelphia Record.


The coming man is always on the go.
a man always has the most friends
when he doesn't need them.
A success ion of high balls won't i'm
l,rove the ball players batting average.
1t is the fellow who is prepared for
the worst who generally gets the best of
it.
It's all right to love your neighbor
as you love yourself. if you can afford
to DE imposed upon.
The fellow who takes a chance can't
afford to stop and consider whether it
belongs to him or not
The longer the nights the shorter the
days and many a man shortens his
DAYS by frightening his nights.
BIobbs-"Old C1osefist is always re-
marking that talk Is cheap Slobbs-
Yes, Closefist never uses a phone"
ScribbIer-'I don't like the word
chaos Give me a synonym" Crawler
How would house-cleaning time do?"
"A rolliag stone gathers no moss
quoted the Wise Guy. Then how do
YOU account for the fact that some peo-
iIle are rolling in wealth." asked the
Simple Mug.
Siliicns-"What does it. cost to get
married?" Cyn;cus-"Wcll, the legi-
innate expe nses may vary according to
circumstances, but then sometimes
there's the devil to pay"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Simplicity, and not cleanliness,
should be ranked as next to Goodness.
- - =
The veneer of civilization is about
as thin now as when 1t was put on
some one thousand years ago.
x
Cross breed a wolf with a fox and
coyote and add a drop of venom from
a serpent's tooth and you will have
all the principal characteristics OF q
scandal monger.
The world is growing better In spite
of the efforts and predictions of the
large number of narrow-minded peo-
pie who wear the cloak OF respecta-
bility.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

father had melted into gratitude.
She. too. had learned to observe and
think. She was her fathers daugh-
ter.
AS for Ned. he had stood the
test" and. incidentally. now had q
snug little bank account His ad-
miration for Helen's cookery, Helen'a
gowns, and HeIen's hats was un-
bounded.
Eyes, as soon as you please, now"
said her father. when consulted
about the wedding day date. I'm
sorry had to pose as a tyrant. but
really
you're a dear, good, sensible. wise
old daddy" said his daughter, as
she administered a hug and kiss.
And Mrs. Marsden secretly re-
solved that when her youngest
daughter returned from boarding
school she would not wait for some
thing to happen" before she Initiated
her into the art Of keeping house
copyrighted. 1903. by Associated
Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
ABOLISHING THE NEBULAR
HYPOTHESIS.

Astronomer See. in the observatory
at Mare Island, Cal. is demolishing the
nebular hypothesis in a most reckless
manner. He not only declares that all
the moons of all the planets did not
originate in their central bodies, but
that all the planets themselves came
from the outside somewhere and were
captured by the sun.
orr moon was. according to his idea
once a planet of some other celestial
sphere that ventured too close to the
earti-away back in the vague eras-
whereupon our planet threw out its in
visible chains of gravitation and flung
the moon about it's present orbit. In
that way Mas, Jupiter, Saturn and the
other planets got their satellites. They
were not born Of their central orbs at
all They were simply wanderers that
were taken into the fold. And so he
thinks all the planets came about, too.
They sailed in from the infinite depths
somewhere, and the big sun refused to
let them return but adopted them into
his family, and set them spinning on
their shining course.-Ohio State Jour
nal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

lr rum the OnlCdSO NEWS
The man who apes his superiors
may act foolish.
Women wouldn't be half as inter-
esting if they were men.
The less a man has to say the less
he may have to retract.
Every man has his double-and the
contortionist has several
It's easy to go astray as the ma
jority of the paths lead there.
Even a music composer does not
like to have his notes go to protest.
Our idea of a strong woman is one
who is able to hold her tongue.
Virtue is its own reward, and labor
is mostly the other fellows profit.
The father usually has to pay for
the reaping of the sons wild oats.
Paregoric quickly transforms the
poetry of love into matrimonial prose.
drought is the only thing we can
think of just now that looks better
broken.
If woman has half a dozen rings
on her fingers her back hair requires
an awful lot of adjusting.
1t is difficult for a young man to
keep the creases in his trousers IL HIS
best girl is a heavyweight.
And the way of the transgressor is
still harder when he is compelled to
convert powders into broken stone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
FROM OTHER PENS
GERMAN WANDER" FAIRS.

The German plan of conducting
t'Wander Exhibitions or movable ma
tionaI fairs is much more advanta.
geous than the American system OF
state fairs, and the record of attend
ance indicates that it is very success
full. AS the place of exhibition is
changed every year. the attendance
necessarily varies according to the the,
and Leipzig, the record of visitors has
been the largest, but at Munich, Des-
seIdorf, Stuttgart and other places
remarkably good showing has been
made and the average is never far
away from 800, 900 persons. Such re-
suits are made possible by the
strength of the German Agricultural
Society, which conducts the exhibit
tions, and which has membership
of 1900. Under the direction of this
powerful association, the solidarity of
the agricultural interests is we'll
maintained and the harmony of eff
fort that is secured begets general
progress. The very process of sup
pressing the spirit of localism is
wholesome and constitutes an i'm
portant factor in the scheme of Ger
man unity.-Pittsburg Chronic1e-Tele-
graph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
Prohibition in Louisiana.

At this time the entire state is dry
as the desert of Sahara. Not a drop
to drink can be obtained at any of
the clubs. while people are afraid to
places of business. which are under
the ban. Some of the thirsts are as
pitiable as others are amusing, but
nobody seems willing to risk tricks or
around the law. The people are tax
ing the dearth good humoredly as a
rule, and the situation has settled
down to one of grin and bear it.
The new law was framed by a
lawyers in the south. He worked
the rabbits foot on en-" f1guratively
speaking, by the use of such verbiage
as he found in the laws of other states
which had stood the most rigid tests
before the higher courts. and so far
as possible followed the verbiage of
the Federal statutes themselves. He
stakes his reputation that they can
not be successfully attacked In the
higher courts.
The new law prohibits the sale or
giving away of liquors at all clubs,
and prevents the congregation of
parties at private homes for the pur-
pose of drinking Places of business,
Including private offices, cannot store
liquors to be sold or given away, and
any place under suspicion can be
raided as common nuisance and
closed under an injunction gotten out
by any citizen, unless proof of inno-
cence is forthcoming. Neither rail-
roads nor express companies are al
lowed to deliver liquors at homes, and
foreign corporations doing business
in the state cannot engage in a traf-
f1c which is outlawed for domestic
concerns on penalty of having their
license. revoked.
Police powers are extended three
miles beyond corporate limits; Off
GERS are given the 'broadest latitude
for raiding; sheriffs and other author
tiles who fail to do their duty are sub
ject to impeachment and punishment;
all clubs are required to reorganize
within sixty days, to frame new con-
stitutions and bylaws preventing the
sale or giving away of liquors on their
premises and to furnish copies of
the same with full lists of their mem
bers to probate judges for filing under
penalty of having their charter re
voked and their individual members
punished. The possession of Fed
eraI license requires the holder to
prove innocence or go to jail.
No biIlboards are allowed in the
state containing advertisements OF
ton of the laws are from $50 to $500
fine, with from two to six months i'm
prisonment, at the discretion of the
court for the first offense and for each
subsequent offense a similar fine with
from three to six months imprison-
ment, with hard labor for the county.
A careful study of the new laws
shows that they are the most siren
uous ever known in this country. It
is claimed by leading lawyers that they
are models of strength as concerns
their power to resist attacks on tech
nical grounds, and they have so far
almost entirely abolished the liquor
traffic in every shape and form In the
state.-New Orleans Picayune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
MAIZE HAY wHrLE sun SHINES.

Maud Muller, In her brief hey-day,
Haked IN the meadow, so they say.
And pretty Nan at break of dawn,
Gets up to NOW her fathers lawn.
And oh, that mowers creak ana squeak!
Oblivion in vain seeki
Enough little birds to catch the worms
must early rise, the sage affirms;
And though Maud's face. so sweet and
warm,
Quite took the Judges heart by storm,
SIN, neighbor Nancy, just next door,
Fiease don't disturb my morning snore.
mine:
Then, when the day grows fair and fine.
I'll tell you what I'll gladly do;
IL moW-and more-make love to you!
August Lippincott's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Students of economic conditions have
come to the conclusion that more real
good can be accomplished for the masses
by the establishment of state employ
ment bureaus than any other one thing
mentioned in the platform of either one
OF the old political parties. By employ
nent bureau in this case is meant a
bureau that will undertake to find work
for all persons who apply; a bureau
that will have the time and resources
and best efforts of the state administra-
ton behind IT. The success of this bu-
reau would result in more general good
than the redemption of all tie promises
of all the reforrners from Dan to Beer
Sheba
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
September PhiIospbv.

Well, September is here onct agane.
Inc summer has went and gone, and
where in thunderation has it went
to? Nobuddy knows. 1t is simply ri
dick1us the way time fiies. Time has
a way OF slidin past a Teller so swift
and silent that a person donH
scairsely know where it it has went
to until 1t is a thing of the past, as
we stand upon the threshold of to-
morrow, but alas, let "a hours eIapse
and then tomorrow is today, and in
"a hours more tomorrow is yesterday.
a Frenchman) said, ''Tempus fugit."
which Is the Turin langwidge for
time flies Whoever said that
knowd what he was talkin about.
There was a also a saying that Time
and tide waits for no man." which is
turrible true. No matter how ramm-
ed up you be with your work, nor how
anxious you be to git a partickler
job Of work did before the sun
goes down, you will allus notise that
the clock hands keeps right on turnin
ana don't never stop for nothin nor
nobuddy. Every evg about twilight
darkness the sun goes down and
darkness settles over the face of the
earth, warning you that it is time for
you to go to bed no matter whether
you have got your days work did or
not, and If you haven't got it did,
that's your fault. And then next
InOrnln the sun comes up bright ana
airly and warn you to git outen bed
and stir yourself and begin the days
toll where you left off the night be-
fore. Alas, there is no rest for the
weary or the heavy laden-we must
all keep peggin away and accomplish
as much in this brief span of life as
we kin before we be called to our
last reward, as it were.
Sumbuddy has beautifully said or
wrote (whose name we don't at this
Inv xxrfI1
never grind with the worter that has
passed. There is a good deal of
truth in that statement, but we calk1-
late that many of our most ignorant
subscribers won't understand what it
means, and for their benefit we will
explain. 1.-THE mill will never grind
with the worter that has passed"
means that when a day has past and
went, that you can't recall it and
that's all there is to tit means that
if you di1ly-daIly around and let the
time fit past you without making the
most OF your opportunities the time
that has went won't never come
again.
For this reason it behoofs us to
take advantage of the golden minnits
as they fit. We ort to take a strangle
holt upon the fore1ock of opportunity
when 1t comes within our reach. as
you might say. and hang onto it for
dear life, because opportunity don't
knock moren onct at every mans
opportunity knocks at
your door and you don't anser the
door. opportunity don't set down on
the front steps and wait until you git
ready to come and let her in. and if
you think she does then you are just
as much mistaken as its possible for
you to be.
Let us then make the most of pass
ing time before 1t is everlastingly too
late.
Life Is real life is earnest.
And a feller's got to cline
If he wants to take advantage
OF each golden hour oe time.
.BingviIle Bugle department of
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

When Greek meets Greek was a
mere scuff1e compared to the battle of
wits in Leavenworth the other day
when Jew and Russian Jew and Po-
lack came together. The Polack and
the Russian Jew proved too much for
the son of Jacob for they traded him
some imitation diamonds for 1854.
The Anglo-Saxons are called the domi-
nant race. but there Is no matter of
record where two chosen men of that
race have ever worked a confidence
game on a pilgrim from Palestine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

1t is the little things, after all, that
count the most. If DR.. Cook had not
carried along couple of barrels of
sumdrops on his expedition he would
not have been. able to reach the North
FoIe. Why? The answer is simple.
His Esquimau sledge drivers love gum
drops and will go further and do more
for man loaded with this confec-
tionery than for anyone else. The doc
tors forethought in taking along
gumdrops on the trip may be regarded
as the rabbits foot that brought him
success. II Peary or Nansen had in
Guided gumdrops in their bill of fare
one of them, and not Cook. might have
gone down in history as the man who
found The North Pole. DR.. Cook him
self gives part of the credit for his
great achievement to the gumdrops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.1

[From the New York Press.1
A girl could even fool her own
brother if it was worth while
All the worlds a stage and all the
people on it actors, except in a
theater.
The average man doesn't know
the difference between a dimpIe and
a crease of fat.
A man is such a fool about what
good judgment he thinks he has that
he will even give his wife advice
about the best way fo- her to handle
him.
When a woman goes to call on an
other to see how well the baby is do
ing, it's sign she really came to tell
her something she heard sornebodv
say about her.