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The log cabin Democrat., 1909-07-03

S4827. 90 to be due for convicts worked after the old contract had expired.
 In answering this suit the con- tractors deny they absorbed the Arkansas Chair Factory which made a lease for 800 convicts to be worked daily at the price of 50 cents day, the state to clothe, feed and guard the men for period of 10 years. The contractors claim the contract w ith the state entered into July 3I, 1896, was assigned to them ana they worked the convicts un der the contract. but i'll 1900 the state failed to supply men, amount ing to the work of one man for 65, ,ISI.2 days. In 1901 and 1902 the shortage amounted to ST 1885 5; 1903 and 1904, 80, 263; 1905 and Ieo6, 44,S7S.2; and in 1907 and 1908, IS,476 ?. Thus the con- tractors claim the state borrowed from them to work on the farm and other places. the services of one man for 2So, 684 days, which labor they want paid back in con victs. If the state had to pay back at the rate of the counter claim it would take 1t nearly three years with 300 convicts working every day.
 The suit has not yet been set 'or trial, and it is intimated the con- tractors entertain no hope of more than wiping out the claim of the state. They are i'll peculiar posi- ton. It is claimed the state can not sue, yet it is suing the con- tractors, and they hope to have the jury see the equity i'll their claim, and though the state might not be sued, show liability on the part of the state so far in excess of the states claim, the jury will de- cline to grant the claim of the state and call the bill square.
 Old DaperS for sale.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-07-03
County Clerk Dead.

Little Rock, July 3.-Governor Donaghey will Monday appoint a county clerk for Mississippi county to succeed Robert Penner, who died yesterday. It has been less than month since Governor Donaghey appointed county judge to succeed one who had just died. The news was first received
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-07-03
MANY ATTEND
 NAYLOR PICNIC

Naylor, July Especial An enormous crowd Is in attendance at the annual educational rally and picnic being held here today. A good rain on Thursday kept the dust down aud made the heat less oppressive than if would have been
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-07-03

at the state house yesterday after noon when Earl Hodges, state printing clerk, telephoned to Osce- ola to talk with the official about his tax books and received the reply he had just died.
 You shouldn't miss any of the programs this week at the Lyric. Something special every night.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-07-03

Old papers for sale.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

only shelter was the winter sky.
Some went bareheaded and barefoot
ed, and all rejected leather footgear.
Many went crazy and a few died from
exposure.
The most startling feature of a por-
! ton of this mad pilgrimage, however,
was that a small portion of these
'Doukhobor zealots, not content with
throwing off their outer clothing, de-
'nuded themselves entirely "to show
nature to humanity. and how man
should return into his fatherland and
give back the ripened fruit and it's
SEEDS" they said. In passing through
many of the Doukh6bor villages this
naked band were driven out by their
co-religionists and beaten with twigs
until the blood ran. At night in the
into one heap and lay on the ground.
one on another, for warmth. Strange
ly enough 1t is said that none of them
was seriously frozen. This strange
march continued until 20 of the un-
clad ones reached Yorkton, where they
were met by the mounted police and
were arrested. Three months impris-
onment was their lot. After they
were released all but ten of these %
nude marchers abandoned their curl
Gus beliefs and went back to work.
These ten attempted another out
break, destroyed some of the breth-
ren's crops and burned some of their
machinery, but finally were subdued
and imprisoned once more. The next
year there was another attempt at
pilgrimage, but by that time Father"
Verigin was in control and it amount
ed to nothing
About the time that Verigin came
into the full powers of leadership
movement was set afoot to persuade
the government to take back the
largest part of the original grant to
the Doukhobors. Those behind the
agitation claimed that the community
had more land than it ever would be
able to use, and that part of the
holdings ought to be made available
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
To the Touch of Loue

1--WE have two Mary walaces here" said
the morgue keeper. Funny thing, too. Both
brought in to-day. You'll have to bring some
body with you who can see-somebody who
knew your wife-before she can be identified"
The sensitive features of the man contract
ed with sudden pain, and his dull. rowing eyes
sought the direction OF the morgue keepers
voice. His stick tapped before him on the flag
stone as he moved step nearer.
"That isn't necessary" he said. It'd
know Mary among a million! She has the
softest hair"
He extended a hand; the slim. dextrous
fingers moved gently, caressingly. The morgue
keeper understood He hesitated a moment
and then grasped the blind mans sleeve.
"Come!" he said.
They walked through the Office into the
rear apartment. The air was chill and the
blind man shivered. The keeper released his
arm and there was a sound like a drawer be-
ing pulled out. Here" he said. rather
gruffiy.
He caught the visitors hand again and
guided IL to an uncovered face. The blind man
started at the contact, so cold was II. Then
his fingers wandered swiftly over the marble
like countenance, and finally rested for just
an instant on the dead womans hair
mo, MOI" he said That's not my Mary"
The drawer was closed and another pulled
out The visitor CROPPED his way forward.
The instant his fingers touched the sharp-set
features of the dead woman his own face was
TRANSPORTED. Mary Mary I have found
you, DEAR" he whispered. How thin your
poor face has grown. How cold you are"
His fingers strayed to the harsh thin hair
of the corpse. lowering there csressIngly. But
the softest hair-the softest hair" be muir
mure'
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
BURGLAR CAUGHT
BY AGED WOMAN
SHE FINDS HIM RkNSACKING
ROOM IN HER HOME AND
PITCHES INTO HIM.
GIVES HIM MANY BAD BUMPS
After Very Lively Fight Mrs. Gates Of
Chicago, 81 Years Old, Overpow-
ers the Man and Sits Down
Upon Him.

Chicago.-Mrs. Matilda Gates, who
Is 62 years old, has to her credit the
capture of an alleged burglar, whom
she literally sat upon" when she
found him at work in her home at No.
III Honore street.
When Mrs. Gates appeared in Judge
Hines court to give testimony against
Joseph Murphy 45 years old, arrested
on a charge of burglary. she told the
story of the capture simply and mod
estly, but its outlined details brought
the whole courtroom to attention and
gained a compliment from the judge.
Later, in her home, Mrs. Gates re-
counted her adventure at greater
length, and went through a pantomime
of the scene with a vigor that showed
her to be a dangerous proposition for
any burglar.
1T all happened at noon," said Mrs.
Gates, who is of a hale, jovial ap.
pearance and has few gray hairs. Il
was just getting ready for dinner and
was in the dining-room on the base
ment floor. Two carpenters had been
at work in front and they had left the
door unlocked. All at once heard the
sound of some one moving about in
the front room and | thought it was
my daughter.
II walked into the front room-this
one-to find out if it was my daughter.
At the threshold drew back, for there
was a poorly dressed man bending
over the sideboard. He had opened
the drawer in which we keep the sill
yer. l didn't say anything. didn't
give him a seconds notice. | just
grabbed him by the chest, like this,
and pushed him back"
Mrs. Gates illustrated the action by
snatching the front of her own waist
with strong grip.
II pushed him so hard he fell on the
floor with bump. He struck out his
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
DIFFERENCE IN THEIR VIEWS
Uncle 81 Esgmann DIscourses on Rel
alive Sizes Of Farms East
and West.

Yes, sir, gentlemen; thar's leetls
difference between farmin' out west an
back here in Old Yarmouth" said
Uncle 81 Eggmann to the cronies
around the stove at the Crossroads
store, on his return from a visit to
his brother in Dakota. NOW, out thar
in the west they don't think they've
really got farm unless 1t totals about
three or four thousand acres; an IL
they air raisin' stock they speak o.
5000 head as bein' leetle bunch o.
cattle An takes 'em bout half a
day to hoe one row O. corn, the rows
air so long, an they harvest corn an
wheat enough on one farm to fill our
town hall. Now, that's a leetle diff
trent from what it is here in New
England, where we call 20 acres o.
ground-a fourth OF 1t graveyard-a
couple O. dozen hens an rooster, six
or eight keows, an ROBBERY patch,
a farm! Yes, SIR, gentlemen; that's
turrible difference between farmin'
east an farmin' west-a most turribls
ff'rence!"-Puck.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
Ts%&s.

For Is years he was an exile In Siberia. to-I
gether with six of his brothers, but they all
were released finally, and reached Canadal
about six years ago. His followers almost
defy him, as they had his six great predecessors
who ruled like the kings or prophets of old
during the time that the sect sojourned In
Russia During his long exile he became a
firm convert to the theories of Tolstoy, and IL
years ago wrote epistle to his followers
which is made up chiefly of passages borrowed
verbatim from Tolstoy's Kingdom of God
Is Within You," and containing in particular
one long passage from that book-a quotation
of Tolstoy's translation of the Declaration of
Sentiments which William Lloyd Garrison
drew up in 1888 for a Peace convention held in
Boston. This epistle is part of the sacred lore
of the Doukhobors. II contains acknowl-
edgment Of the fact that II was taken mostly
from Tolstoy. There probably are more people
in Assiniboia and Saskatchewan to-day who
can repeat the long passage from Garrison's
declaration than there are In the United
States who ever heard of it,
The disturbers among the Doukhobors be-
long to the reactionary or fanatical element,
and these made themselves felt to such an
extent before Verigin arrived in Canada that
at one time there was serious talk of bunding
up all of the thousands of Doukhobors and
shipping them out of Canada-no one cared
much whittier. At that time IL was con-
sidered that the had played a colossal
joke on Canada by letting the 900 odd Douk-
hobors leave his realm and IL a matter
of congratulation among the Canadians that
the 10000 or more who stayed behind in the
Wet mountains of the Caucasus were too stub
born or too fearful to emigrate.
Il was this fanatical element that was re-
sponsble for the pilgrimage in search Of
Jesus" in 1902 These fanatics belonged to
the Yorkton colonists and professed the be-
lief that the use of animals as beasts OF bur-
den was unscriptural and that Christ would
soon come again In person. They set free
nearly 800 animas-which were caught by the
authorities and sold back to the more sober
minded Dopkhobors. Meantime some 500 men,
women and children set out across the snow
covered prairie, where they expected the Mes
siah to meet them and lead them to evangelize
the world. They we're poorly clad, they were
without food, except such as they could get
from charitable people on the way. and their
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
Sat Right Down Upon Him.

fists and wrenched himself free from
But | was not through with him yet.
| stopped way down and caught hold
of the bottoms of his trousers. | gave
both legs a hard pull and down he
went again! This time he fell against
the window frame and cracked pane.
Once more I got him by the chest and
pushed him over. He sprawled across
the floor and his head suffered fear
full bump.
"He fought himself loose from me
and got up. He reached for a rear
pocket, but failed to produce a re.
volver, and then | was sure he didn't
have any.
"The burglar next tried to run away
from me, but didn't intend to let him
go. He backed out In the entry way
and there, by good luck, lay big car
pet rolled up, for we are beginning
our spring housekeeping. He tripped
over this carpet, and as he fell | ran
forward and sat right down upon him.
81 began to scream. oh, how /
screamed The parrot all the time
had been Tapping around the room and
calling Mamma! Mammal The bird
now set to shrieking louder than ever.
II seemed as IL no one would ever
come At last a man living across the
street came to my aid. He SCI down
on the burglar and got up. wanted
TO summon the police, but l didn't
want TO leave my neighbor alone there
with that burglar.
Pretty soon the two carpenters,
who had been to lunch. came back,
and l turned the burglar over to the
three men. hurried to the drugstore
and telephoned to the police. When
got back they had the burglar out in
the front yard and two of them were
sitting on him. Then l realized that
the danger was all over"
Mrs. Gates lives with a daughter by
her first marriage, Miss Albertine Ben.
son. The young woman. who was
away at the time. confessed that she
would be "dreadfully" afraid Of a
burglar.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
Opposed to Slanu.

Donald had been to Sunday school.
and on coming home was asked what
he had learned. The lesson was the
story of Joseph and the small learn
er was evidently very full of his sub
ject.
oh" he said, "it was about boy.
and his brothers took him and put
him in a hole in the ground; and
then they killed another boy, and
took the first boys coat and dipped 1t
In the blood of this boy and"
ooh. no, Donald, not another boy!"
his sister interrupted. Mortified. But
Donald stood his ground.
ut was, too" he insisted. Then he
added: "The teacher said kid but I
don't use words like that. "-Woman's
Home Companion.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
Fighting tuberculosis.

Three large fraternal orders are at
present conducting sanatoria for their
tuberculous members. The Royal
League, the first order to take up this
form of work in the United States.
has a sanatorium at Black Mountain.
North Carolina The Modern Wood
men have recently opened a sanator-
ium at Colorado Springs, and the
Knights of Pythias, one at the East
Las Vegas, New Mexico. The Royal
Arcanum and the Brotherhood OF
American Yeomen will consider prop
ositions at their coming grand coun-
ellis for the erection Of similar insti-
tutions. e,r-
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

through their own stubbornness about obeying
the laws They received their land under the
terms of the Canadian homestead act, which,
among other things, requires that the person
who takes up homestead shall reside on it
until he proves up" Now the solitary life
of the homesteader has no attraction for the
Doukhobor, with his ages-old fondness for viii
lage living. The result was that the Douk-
hobors, instead of remaining on their home
steads established themselves in a string of
villages, between 40 and SO in number that
sprawl across the plains for distance of 100
miles northeast of Yorkton.
In due course the government gently re-
minded the Doukhobor leaders that their peo-
pie were in danger of losing their homesteads
through their failure to live on them. The
stolid refugees paid no attention to the warn
ing and, in the end, they had their own way.
The powers of the Dominion decided to let
them hold their land and live as they wished.
This is not the first concession the Cana
dian government has made-and IL is not like
ly to be the last. Not long ago movement
was started in certain quarters where the hos
tility to the Spirit Wresters" was marked,
to urge the authorities to make all tho men
take the oath OF allegiance to King Edward.
AS IL is one of the cardinal principles of this
religious sect that they shall take no oaths of
any description, doubtless the instigators OF
this enforcement of one of the Dominion's
laws regarding alien settlers hoped that they
would move and leave their lands open for
purchase at low price. The government
knew the Doukhobors probably would refuse
TO take any oath. partly on account of their
belief and partly because they would fear that
it might lead them at some time to be forced
into military service. Therefore. the authori-
ties forbore to press the matter of the oath of
allegiance. but contented themselves with in
timating to the Doukhobor leaders that his
majesty King Edward VII. would take II as a
personal favor IL the brethren" would come
around when they found It convenient and
promise to be good subjects. This plan is
working fairly we'll. Something like 500 Of the
able-bodied men in the various communities
have taken the oath voluntarily during the last
Is months. This has been due almost entirely
TO the influence of their leader, Father
Verigin.
Peter Verigin has been the greatest power
among the Doukhobors for nearly rs years.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
Our Wonderful Language. ~

"Out OF sight In that gown, isn't
she?" observed a gentleman In the
balcony, pointing to Mrs. de Koltay.
who occupied a front seat In one Of
the lower tier Of boxes. ->4,-.s~
"Out Of sight? Well, hardly. 10
strikes me it is the other way about"
responded his companion dryly.
Which goes to show the elasticity
Of the American language, which says
one thing and means another. 1t also
shows-but. upon second thought. We
must respectfully but firmly decline
going into any further de .ails.-Bohs-
milan
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

made their homes Is In
the provinces of Assini-
boia and Saskatchewan.
Their total holdings are
between 500 and 700
square miles of splendid
land for agricultural pur-
poses, now in the heart
of the wheat belt. When
the government allotted
this land to them, ten
years ago, it was consid-
cred by experts too cold
for wheat, but since then
the grain belt has moved
MOI Inward several hun
Dire Is of miles. The Douk-
hobor lands to-day are
worth anywhere from SIS
to $40 an acre, according
to location, which would
make their total market
value considerably more
than s10,000,0OO.
If it had not been for
the forbearance of the
Canadian government,
however, the Doukhobors
might have lost their land
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

for other and profitable settlers Father" Vergin
at that 1t up to" the Doukhobors to make
adequate defense and he set about it in character
istic way At the fall meeting of the community nearly
100000 set aside to be used for buying land
Immediately adjacent to the Doukhobor reservation and
all talk of cutting down their holdings ceased forthwith
Another evidence of the quality of Verigns leader
ship is to be in the stem of elevators and
aries that found in center of population in the
community. The Doukhobor farmers thus under no
compuson sell their whe at and fax the it is
harvested but hold it for weeks months IL nee
essary. Within the last two years system of flour
mills also has been installed and the export Of -four is
beginning to be considerable item of profit Plans
afoot for railroad to connect the vari
villages Of the community They areadyare connect
ed by private telephone lines In each village there is
immense granary modern elevator. All the
farm implements owned in common. Much Of the
machinery used in cutvatng the soil is of the most
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

numerous. <z3&& S7&Sfss[skas 49, n
AS class the Doukhobors are a big. tall
race, fair-haired, with the fiat noses that are
peculiar to the Slavs. Each household holds
its religious service at four o'clock every
morning. They have no civil courts. but set
tie their differences in a religious way, based
on their Interpretation of the Scriptures.
There is said to be crime among them.
They are famous throughout Canada for their
live stock. and will pay almost any price for
the finest blooded breeding animals.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
How's ThisP

We oner One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
sase OF Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. o.
We, the undersigned. have known r. J. Cheney
for the last IS years. and believe him perfectly hon
orable In all business transactions and financially
able 70 carry out any obligations made by his nrm.
WALDING. KIHNAN a. MARVIN.
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure h taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. Testimonials sent free Price rs cents %
bottle. Sold by all Druggists
Take Halls Family Pulls for constipation.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
THE HEIRS HAIR-MoVING.

Mr.. White-It's no use, my dear. I
shall have to have my whiskers on;
baby is pulling 'em out by the roots.
Mrs. White-How unfeeling of you.
It's the only thing that keeps baby
quiet. Now you threaten to take the
dears enjoyment away!
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

provoked by the flood of adverse
criticism during the last ten years
against these Spirit Wrestlers"
ever since they first settled in west
ern Canada. Its obvious purpose is
the Endorsement of the Doukhobors
as citizens of the Dominion and the
encouragement of any further at
tempts TO malign them.
The report shows that instead of
being "gold-bricked" by the Douk.
'hobors, Canada really got an excel
lent body of citizens when she
brought the "Douks" over to this
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
Practical Derivatlvs.

Teacher-Now, children, who car
tell me what obedience" is derived
from?
Pupil-Trom gettin' licked, Miss.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

The surgeon is ready to slash any
old thing-except his bill
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

II You Have Common Sore Eyes,
il lines blur or run together, you need
PETTITS EYE SALVE, 25c. All drug
gists or Howard Bros, Buffalo. N. Y.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gurns, reduces n
nsmmation. alsys pain. cures wind eoo. 80 bosuA
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

Men, like tools, are useless whss
they lose their temper.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

ANADA has put her
official stamp of APP
pToval on the Douk-
hobors.
A late report of the
Canadian interior de-
partment is devoted
e n tirely to this
christian Commune
ty of the Universal
Brotherhood" as the
Doukhobors call them
selves. In it are en-
bodied the results of
a careful official in
vestigation that was
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-12-13

In tie event that the loyal array
should suddenly surprise the city.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-12-13
ARMY SUPPLIES HELD UP
Transport at Seattle Delayed by
Switchmen's Strike.

Washington, Dec. 13.-The switch
mems strike situation in the Northwest
is becoming embarrassing to the war
department and as a result the United
States attorney at Seattle has been
conferred with by army officers with
a view to obtaining relief.
BY reason of this strike the gov
ernment transport Dix, which was
scheduled to sail from Seattle to Ma
nila last Tuesday, stands about three
fourths loaded with forage and animals
for the army in the Philippines. Thus
the army has been placed in an awk-
ward position not only as to needed
supplies for the Philippine army but
also because of the fact that the Dix
is greatly needed at Manila not later
than JAN 10 for the transportation OF
troops and animals in connection with
the maneuvers on the island of Lu
Zon.
Many cars loaded with government
supplies are now sidetracked in the
Seattle yards and while some little
progress is being made in the way OF
unloading the situation is altogether
unsatisfactory.