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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
SIX BABIES DIE AS "WTCHEs" CHANT.
Reading Coroner investigating Deaths by
IncantaHons--Eiad Summer Complaint Operations of
"Doctor" Not Only Allowed Infants Perish,
SUIT Started Neiehborhocd

their money calling in old women
who make practice of 'powwowing'
and using charmed words.
What is more, these women de-
scribe the hex to the parents, and
this is the cause of many of the neigh
borhood feuds that are aired in court.
"The parents of these children in
nearly every case imagined that their
offspring were suffering from witch
craft. and they Immediately hustled
them off to hexerai doctor. 1t is
about time that the authorities inves-
tigate the illegal practice that has
existed so long in Reading and Berks
County, and which is the fundamental
reason for the many deaths.
Parents are entirely too super
stitious. In many cases they believe
that their children have a spell cast
over them and instead of consulting
a regular physician so to a hexerai
doctor and procure either q hoodoo
or charm to drive away the evil.
This charm or bag is worn on GER
tain parts of the child's body and is
kept there for a certain length of
time. Certain passages of the Bible
are repeated daily by one of the fam
lily to break the 'hoodoo,' and the
powwow doctor calls daily and goes
through funny stunts in an effort to
chase out the imaginary spirits"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
GUILLOTINE REvIsITs PARIS.
Only Fifteen Needed Beead Parricide-.- An

AwesOn1e See

around the corner and up the boule-
ward and stopped opposite the guillo-
tine. Two men let down the back,
which formed steps from the vehicle.
Then down these came first the
prison governor, then priest and
then figure which might have been
Lazarus coming from the grave at
Christ's command 1t had its hands
fastened behind its back and a loose
covering hanging from the shoulders.
The body was naked except for a pair
of linen trousers.
Over the face hung a black veil,
thin enough to allow the features to
be visible, for the Code enacts that
parricides must be taken to the scat
fold in bare feet and with yelled head.
Duchemin was twenty-eight years
old. but the livid face might have
been that of a man any age over
sixty. 1t was the face of q man with
out consciousness or feeling of any
kind for whom asSuredly the bitter
ness of death had already passed.
Within fifteen seconds from the
time the prison van stopped the knife
had fallen. This seems Incredible.
one OF the newspaper correspondents
took the time by a stop watch. In
those fifteen seconds Deibler's aids
seized the cloak and veil, conducted
the condemned man three PAGES be-
tween the van and the machine and
laid him in place. The knife fell in
stantly and the body wx pushed into
a basket.
How such perfection can be at
tanned when the men have so little
practice on living subjects is little
short of marvellous. The speed COM
bined with the evident insensibility
o. the doomed man robbed the specta-
Gle of its horror. 1t had more re-
semblance to a clever performance of
the disappearing lady act OF the mu-
sic halls than to a tragedy Of death.
For those who were watching with
in three yards the work of setting up
the dread machine in the darkness
and silence viii remain a memory
long after the recollection of the ac-
tual execution has faded away.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
4 BOYS, SUMMER CAME.

Called the State Of Columbia and
Governed by Boy Citizens.
The Columbia Park Boys Club Of
San Francisco has hit upon a unique
plan by which number of city boys
get. besides the privileges of a va
cation outing. the training Of citizen
ship under the discipline of self.
governing community.
The "State of Columbia" as its
camp is called has government al
mos. as complex as the great State
of California: but there are no police
men. says Recreation, no secret ser.
vice men, no courts, no ward heelers.
Besides score Of other secretaries
and commissioners the State of Col
umbia can boast of secretary of
recreation. who makes general plans
for the sports, entertainments and
camp fire programmes. The daily
life in this picturesque state is SINH
lar to the routine of a military camp.
The reveille is blown at Sis, after
which the "citizens" assemble for the
fag raising exercises and physical
drill.
Breakfast over, work Is carried on
in most of the classes until 10:45.
During the morning it is often nee
essary to hold various rehearsals.
Citizens are excused for these by
written order from the recreation de-
partment. Band practice is held for
an hour each morning. At 1915 the
boys assemble aid march up to the
tables for lunch, after which there is
no work except in the kitchen de-
partment. and at 2 everyone leaves
to participate in whatever games the
recreation department has planned.
Marching cross country is often in
order and sometimes neighboring
town is favored with a minstrel
show. Dress call for the evening
meal is blown at SIS. The evening
is spent in play and military exer-
cises
The president writes: eve have
no court trials. as this would bring
the criminal idea too prominently
before the boys. have asked all of
them to be policemen themselves as
far as the observance of the law is
concerned, and it is remarkable what
a strong spirit in favor of keeping
the laws has been developed. This
spirit does not take the form of idle
tattlng, but of genuine desire to
uphold good order in the camp.
Law q reads as follows: Citizens
not helping the cooks shall stay out
of the kitchen, except by special per-
mission" If the State of Columbia
boys can learn to obey this rule, and
the president says they can and do,
there is nothing in the Constitution
or laws of the United States that will
ever bother them when they are men.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20

Paris.-The French mind being
pre-eminently logical it is difficult to
believe that it will not demand a
change in the method of carrying out
execution. The law demands that
they be publicly performed in a public
place. In practice no member Of the
public. strictly speaking. saw any
thing of the execution OF Duehemin,
the only eyewitnesses being $50 jour
nalists, dozen mounted gendarmes
and twenty policemen.
The difficulty in finding place for
the guillotine since the Roquette
prison was pulled down has always
been proffered as an excuse for the
practical abolition of capital punish
ment which Paris has enjoyed or suf-
fered for the last ten years, That this
difficulty does not exist was shown
when the guillotine was erected at the
middle of the 500 yard wall of the
Prison de la Sante.
1t stood in the centre of four chest
nut trees belonging to the double line
of trees that border the Boulevard
Arago. Opposite this wall are the
grounds of a huge unoccupied con-
NNANt 81 NAAk AONAAAM& 0NCAAOOhSO lAAG
spot, The only drawback was that
there is no door to the prison on this
side. Therefore the condemned mSn,
leaving by a door on Sante street at
right angles to the Boulevard Arago,
was driven some seventy yards along
this street and then $50 yards to the
place OF death. Some 1900 troops
were on duty, barring every road
around the prison. Double and some
times triple cordons both on foot and
on horseback fifty yards apart made
II an assurance that nobody could ap-
proach except those possessing po-
lice pass,
AT about S,45 Deibler's men began
erecting the guillotine. Silently
without the sound OF a hammer. with.
out q spoken word Of command being
given. ii was nut together by the light
Of candle fickering in an old time
lantern. and this was used even when
Deibler wished TO test the machine
with q spirit level. Everything was
exact. In an hours time one Of the
executicner's assistants blew out the
candle. All was ready. The knife
was run up to the top OF the frams
but no test drop was made, so conf
dent was Deibler in his men and the
machine.
1t was now the dawn of perfect
summer day. AS the sun rose it re-
vealed the maroon colored timber OF
Justice It's position among the trees
robbed 1t OF much of its crude horror.
Shortly before O'Clock. when Il was
full daylight. the prison van came
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20

$imes my arms were numb. l was
dull and miserable all the time and
hoped for death to relieve me. Doan' ;
kidney Pills soon brought improve
ment. and finally made me wen
woman"
Remember the name--Doan's. Sold
ny an dealers. so cents box. Eos
aer-AilbOrn Co. Buffalo. ", Y.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
Kinq Edward as Metronome.

A very wise decision has been ar
rived at by King Edward with regard
to the national anthem. He has
now expressed his desire that STAN
Gard of tempo should be adopted so
that whenever it is played it will al
ways be taken at exactly the same
time This matter, trivial as 1t may
seem, has long occupied the mind of
the Duke CT Connaught, by whom 1t
was brought before the King, and for
the change that he has thus brought
about the public no less than his own
family owe him much thanks.
Hitherto 1t has been at the disere.
ton OF every bandmaster or conductor
OF an orchestra to take the national
anthem fast or slow, and generally
speaking it has been dragged rather
than FASTENED with somewhat dirge-
like effect. Henceforth it is to be
sung briskly and ioyfully. and we
shall always know the moment the
first note lis heard exactly how we are
to sing it. That it is in a sense a
prater does not necessitate funereal
tempo.-Lady's Pictorial.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
A MEAN MANS OPINION.

Suppose all the women should
meet in convention"
yes"
And agree to consider if fashion,
able to wear a hat two years"
why not?"
at could be done, but it wouldn't
work"
Because every woman would then
rush out and buy new hat, just to
make the others look like back-nums
rs."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20

on ~s0Her untold mis-
cry, Ailing kidneys
are the cause. Cure
them. Mrs, Il. G.
Corbin, ga IN, Depot
ST. Dalton. Ca, says:
''My body was raeked
with kidney aches
and mains. and some
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20

Carlos Calderon assumed the Min
istry OF Foreign Affairs in the new
Gonzalez Valencia Cabinet, at Bogota.
Colombia. 1t had been reported that
Marco Fidel Suarez would be Foreign
Minister.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
WHY rs REPRNTED.

TEDDY wish I hadn't fought Jim
my Brown this morning.
Mamma-You see now how wrong
it was. don't you dear?
Teddy-Yes cause 1 didn't know
till this afternoon that he was going
TO give party.-Kansas City Journal
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20

spoets are naturally suspicious.
Elbow nowg"
'"TAe magazines are using bushels
ef poetry"
$50 notice"
@Ana the poets are wondering II
9t's because it's good or because its
eheap, louisville Coagier,Journal,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
DISCOURAGED WOMEN.

a Word of Hope For DeSpairing Ones.
Kidney troublemakes weak, weary,
worn women, Baekache. hip pains.
dizziness. headaches, nervousness,
aanguor. urinary troubles make wom-
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20

The birth of a son to the youthful
Duke and Duchess of SudermaEia
gives to royal Europe what it has
not had for more than ten years.
namely, "a Observation-Disclosures.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20

The Naval Council at Valparaiso.
Chile. has recommended the building
Of two ships OF the Dreadncught type.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
DYSPEPSIA

Having taken your wonderful Casca.
rets' for three months and being entirely
cured of stomach catarrh and dyspepsia,
] think word of praise Is due to
Sascarets' for their wonderful compost
ton. have taken numerous other So
called remedies but without avail, and /
nnd that Cascarets relieve more in day
than all the others have taken would in
year" James NEcCune.
loS9Mercer St., Jersey City, N, ].
Pleasant, palatahle, Potent, Taste Good.
Do Coed, Never Slcken. Weaken or Gripe.
I0c, sc, SOC. Never sold in bulk. The zen.
Gine tablet 2tanped CCC. Guaranteed to
cure OF your MONEY back alS
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20

The Pacific ocean is the deepest.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20

A merry heart is a great microbe
killer.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05
MARVELLOUS ADVANCEMENT
OF SOUTHERN IDAHO
Land Values Have Scared to Fabulous
Prices within a Few Years--Great
Development Yet to be Made.

highest price crops, either in kind
or quality. But the markets of the
world clamor for everything that
Idaho can produce, and there is room
for all. II is mistake to suppose
that the success of one community
or project III the state will detraet
from another. The only way a
state or locality can ever get the
best of the market is to be able to
supply enough for the market, and
do 1t all the time, where others are
not reliable enough to do SO. Idaho
would have a better market for the
product Of million acres Of fruit,
than for 10, 900 acres. There would
then be enough to meet every re-
aairement, and the superior Idaho
advantages would put other fruit
growers out OF the market.
But the wonder yet remains, ana
grows, that such nnpromislng lands
as these could ever prosper and be
worth such prices. The great Mis-
slssippi valley states showed on the
first inspection that their land was
/ good; they were not confirmed des-
erts, arid from the beginning of time
.treeless, cheerless, silent as the
Sphinx, as was the Idaho desert
Yet the great corn states, where corr
stalks grow tall as trees, and mil.
lions Of trees shade the earth, where
full water courses follow each othe
in endless succession as one traverse
the face of the country, never pros
pered in their many years as ldah'
: is prospering today, when the old
est of her great irrigation resource
are hardly decade oId!-Shoshon|
: Journal.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05
PROBABLE CANDIDATES
FOR CITY OFFICES
Names of Some Who are Talked of for
Different Places on Ticket--Noni-
nations Must be Filed by 9th.

Although the city election is only
four weeks off, we hear but little
talk regarding candidates for the
various offices, or the issues that
will be advocated IN the forthcom-N
ing contest. The Examiner would
liked to have seen the campaign
made on party lines, as would a
number of prominent business men,
whom we have heard express them
selves on this point. But the time
is now too short in which to place
candidates in nomination under the
provisions of the law governing the
holding of primaries and delegate
conventions. However, nomina-
tlons for city officers may be filed
by petition with the city clerk. up
to within ten days before the elec-
ton. This would make Saturday,
March 27, the last day on which
certificates of nomination may be
filed for the election this year.
The Examiner would like to see
two tickets in the field, as we pre-
sumo that there will be, as there
will then be some incentive for the
people to 60 to the polls end ex.
press their choice of men to serve
the city for the ensuing two years.
We would like to see some one who
is interested III the welfare Of our
city take the matter in hand within
the next few days, and call mass
convention to be held not later thar
March ls for the purpose of placing
in the field ticket to be called
"citizens", "taxpayers" or whatever
name may be decided upon. This
would give ample time for the plac
ing of another ticket IN nomination
| So far as we have been able Il
learn, no one has the mayoralty
bee buzzing in his bonnet. How
ever, we have heard the names o
Frank Jones, Nose Lewis. E. A
Burrell, Jas. Redman, Gus Spong
berg, E. M. Stewart and AL Ihie
mentioned as prospective candidate
for that office, but the Examiner
unable to say whether or not eithe
of these gentlemen would consen
to serve the dear people IN that ca
! pacity.
For city clerk The names of Wm
Ryan, The present incumbent, Wn
Hughes and j. A. Barrett have bee
mentioned. AS this is the highef
salaried office in the city, it is quit
: likely that several other aspirani
g will bob up before the convention
s are held.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MUST
GRANT LIQUOR LICENSES
Judge Walters Practically Nu1lifies the Commis-
sioners Discretion Law--No Jurisdiction IN
Incorporated Cites.

not specify the grounds uopn which
they refused to gaant liquor license
to Moore q Wamsley it is lmpro-
bable that the case will be appealed.
The license will be issued prior TO
the operation of the state local op-
tion law.
The decision of Judge Walters in
thus practically multiplying the CON-
missioners discretion law is likely to
have far-reaching. effect and will
undoubtedly be taken to the supreme
court for final decree.
The decision is one of the utmost
Importance and final decree in the
matter will be watched with keen
interest throughout the state.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05

Police Judge Thos. Barrett, we
understand, would not object to
wearing that title for two more
years. Steve Staley is also said to
have his political eye on that Office.
We have heard no names men
toned in connection with the nom-
ination fer treasurer. George
Gardner has carried the key to the
city's strong box for the past four
years and would doubtless not OBJ
iect to keeping it in his possession
for another term. If there are any
others who would like TO handle the
city's money during the next two
years they should not be backward
about hoistiug their political iightn-
ing rods.
For councilmen from the First
ward the names of Frank Miles and
Jode Phelps, the present members
from that ward, Johnny Jones and
I. N. Stephens have been spoken
of.
In the Second ward there are
plenty Of good men for that impor-
tant office but we have heard no
avowed candidates among them.
But from the list which includes q.
G. Gray, Mike Malone, Henry Whit
man, Lew LeverIch, ThoH Enos, A.
B. Mattson, Thor Nielsen, Henry
Douglas and a half dozen more
names that we might mention, there
ought to be too willing TO serve a
term as lawmakers for the city.
The Third ward also has an
an abundance of good material for
the Conncil, If the men will but
consent to serve the city in that
capacity. We haven't heard any
names mentioned as probable candl-
dates, but there is Gus Spongberg,
Jim Redman and AL Thiel, proyid-
ing neither of them would accept
the nomil alton for mayor, ]. N.
Downing, J. w. Arnold, JEFF Davis,
Dune McLennan, George Dana and
score of others that could be nam.
ed.
r From among all the names men
/ toned for the several Offices th'
: Examiner has no choice, in asmuci
as the contest is to be made on non.
partisan lines, except that we arr
deslrous of seeing men placed II
b Office who have the interests of the
/ city at heart and will adm1nisteI
) the affairs in an honest, and impair
q tiaI manner and at all times favo
8 such municipal improvements a
the finances of the city will perm,
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05
HOME DRAMATIC COMPANY PRESENTS
"uTTLE ALABAMA" to LARGE AUDIENCE
It was Pretty Play and was Presented IN
Creditable Manner Special Scenery Added
Charm to the Play.

manner that places them above the
amateur class, while those of the
company who appeared for their
first time before the footlights in
Montpelier were warmly praised
for their clever acting.
The play was splendidly staged,
the special scenery adding charm to
the characters. No prettier scene
than the cotton field, in the third
act, has ever been shown on Mont.
pelier stage.
The speclalties were heartily ap-
preciated, and there would have
been more of them had not the
voice of one or two of the. .darklese
been in such condition as to almost
prevent them from singing at all.
The audience was one ofsthe lar.
gest that ever greeted the home
company, and SO thoroughly did
every one enjoy the play that we
believe there would be a rush for
reserved seats should the company
decide to repeat it in the near flu
tnre.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05

The commissioners of Twin Falls
county, at their January session,
refused to grant licenses 10 the sa-
loon men in the city of Twin Falls.
One of the liquor firms carried the
case 10 the district court and asked
for d writ of mandate compelling g
the commissioners TO grant the
licenses. Last Monday Judge Wal
ters of the Fourth district, before
whom the case was taken, rendered
q dicision in favor Of the plaintiffs,
Moore b Wamsley.
The judge holds that the juris-
dIction of the county commissioners
does not extend within the precincts
of incorporated cities, Of the second
class. As the commissioners did
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05

There are more real maFYels here
in Southern Idaho than all the count
less thousands Of gold hunters who
came through this section nearly SO
years ago to what they believed was
the only source of Idaho wealth.
more than all them, individually and
collectively, ever dreamed.
To follow the old kelton trail to
Boise, one would now GO through
close TO 900, 600 acres Of irrigated
or soon-to-b irrigated lands These
lands are sailing up to wonderful fig
nres. Lands have sold around Twin
Falls for close to $1,000 an acre.
A tract of land adjoining Elagerman
in this county, recently sold for
$500 an acre. The Goodihg farm,
adjoining the townsite of Geoding,
sold little more than a year ago
for 800 an acre; 1t Is today worth
more than double that rice, while
half million dollars worth of town
lots nave been sold. Lots of Q and
10 acres adjoining the tdwnslte OF
Jerome sold two weeks ago for np
to $3.50 an acre Land adjoining
the town of Shoshone ID probably
worth $3.50 an acre. Yet every acre
of this land was only few years
ago considered hardly ht to make
maps of; il would never pc listed i
the government assets If it could b.
escaped.
Idaho has made great record .
a mineral state. The early-day pla
Ger mines produced in all probabll
ity several hundred millions of do
lars in the yellow metal; and ther
is probably many times more hlt
den away in the great hi lis, waitin
for the miners pick and stee
b There is q great prodnetlon of lea
. and silver, the greatest lead mlns
in the world being IN Idaho; an
these pay marvellous sur ns to the
!. owners. These bonanza mines
0 the north have history even mo-
J. meteoric than the irrigated lands al
towns that have sprung up ov
D night, all through Arld Idaho. 3
j. with perhaps three mill on acres
o land opening up for Gull tivation, Al
Il every acre capable Of producir
le from $40 to $1,000 an acre ca
year, the mineral resonr ces are all
at all but secondary to the agrlc1
1e tural.
N It would not be possE BILE to ma
every acre of this land produce 7