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The Washington times., 1909-03-19

grand jury Will take up the cases, il
is probable that the three men will be
kept there until that time.
Sheriff Allison said he thought that
the sentiment Of AleNandrians may be
directed against these three men on
account OF other crimes which have
been committed recently in the vicinity
OF that town. but whose authors have
never been round.
Alexandria is quiet today and if there
is any talk of mob visit to Fairfax.
it is being done in secret and the eX-
element following the confession of
Henry Smith has del down.
1t is asserted there that while the
regular session Of The grand jury does
not come Unit! June. Judge Barley will
call a special jury in the near future
to consider the chargesr against the ne
groes. Commonwealth attorney. Brent
said today that there is much work on
the case TO be done yet before il is
ready for presentation.
The Washington times., 1909-03-19
NOROIN ARRAIGNEO,,
: DEMANDS A JURY
The Rev. DR.. Pierce in Court
Room When Case
Comes Up.

DR.. John A. Nordn, OF Germany, ar
rested on a charge of practicing with
out license because he offered TO cube
the son of a wealthy Washington
woman by a new process of mental
suggestion, demanded a jury trial when
arraigned before Judge KimbaI this
morning, and was held on $500 bond.
DR.. NOrdin, who was represented by
Attorney Andrew .Lipscomb. said that
he had practically arranged to make
bond this afternoon or tomorrow.
The arraignment of DR.. Nordih, who
is distinguished man of about fifty
years in appearance, was somewhat I'M
usual and not without its dramatic as
poets In the courtroom and voluntarily
taking the stand TO explain his own con-
neftion with the case, and intimating
his faith in the doctor, was the Rev.
Dr. I. G. i. Pierce, pastor Of the
PRESIDENTS church, at whose home the
physician was arrested. DR.. George NJ.
hober. who met DR. NOrdin through the
Rev. DR.. Pierce, was also present and
was introduced TO the court by Attorney
Ldpscomb as friend Of the defendant.
Wife Not So Worried.
Mrs. Nordin. her face not so worried
as upon yesterday when she first ap-
peared at headquarters to learn the de-
tails of the charge against her husband.
was also present.
During the proceedings she pinned a
red carR2tfon upon her husbands coat.
which caused him to glance at her ap-
treciatively and to smile en- a reasSur-
ing way
After he had been reminded and while
waiting for the patrol wagon, DR.. Nor
DIN said, with almost pathetic philos-
ophy:
Things are clearing UP for me and
soon everybody Will know what a mis-
take has been made in cOnfounding me
with another. / guess 1 will go down
TO the jail and rest a bit while they are
arranging by bond. / am so tired from
the strain of il all. | could have had
the bond ready in advance had the
Police and the newspapers not made
mistake and taken me for another-a
man for a record -
The Washington times., 1909-03-19
Follows a Letter.
PHI DELTA MEN
WILL CELEBRATE

Members Of the Washington Alumni
Club Of the Phi Delta Theta viii hold
their annual founders day banquet to-
morrow night at the Tea Cup Inn
at I o'clock.
Among the speakers will be Senator
Duncan L. Fletcher OF Florida, Rep
Tesentative Martin 3. Morrison OF IN
diam. and the Rev. ]. II. Nelms
The Washington times., 1909-03-19
LATEST GOLD RUSH
NOW AT HIGH TIDE
Greatest Enthusiasm in California
in Twenty Years at
Yreka.

YREKA, Cal, March 19.-The gold
rush ID the Humbug district. the great
est seen in California in twenty years.
continues today with undated enthust-
asm- The district iS located about four
miles from here. Seventy-five claims
were filed yesterday.
The discovery OF the Inyo claim on
FEBRUARY IS by James l.. Johnston
started the rush. One specimen of gold
obtained by him weighed ten ounces.
and up to Saturday last he had taken
out about g 600 worth OF the precious
metal.
The values in the district, it Is re-
ported. will run into thousands OF dol
lars a ton.
The Washington times., 1909-03-19
Thanks Extended.
All Governors Accept.

Commissioner Macfarland, chairman
of the committee on the proposed
change Of Inauguration day, is much
encouraged by the numerous letters
commencing the movement received
from all parts Of the country. The gov
errors of nearly every state and Terri
tory have accepted service on the COM
mittee and promised their cooperation
in obtaining a change of date To the
last Thursday in April. and leaders in
the Senate and Horse have given as
surances of their support.
The Washington times., 1909-03-19
HUGHES BEGINS FIGHT.

ALBANY. n. Y, March Ex-Governor
Hughes today started his fight for di-
rect nominations by having volUminous
Eills introduced simultaneously in the
senate and house, providing for his pet
plan. The fight against them promises
10 be as bitter as that which marked
the opposition TO the anti race-t track
gambling bills.
The Washington times., 1909-03-19
INAUGURAL WORKERS
WIND Up BUSINESS

With a record for accomplishment not
eXcelled by any previous inaugural
committee. those earnest workers who
composed the Taft inaugural commit
tee held their final meeting at the New
Willard Hotel today and adjourned
amid the same enthusiasm and har-
mony that have characterized the or
ganization since its beginning. There
were about thirty members present in
the red room Of the Willard when
Chairman Stellwagen called the meeting
TO order at IL O'Clock.
Return Guarantee
The principal business transacted was
TO vote the immediate return of the
guarantee" fund TO the contributors,
which amounts to SS6,720, according to
Treasurer Allies report. From the sur
plus, which viii approximate about
$500, when the debts of the committee
are paid, not less than $50 will be turned
over TO the widow of +. NJ. Swan. the
carpenter who was killed as the result
of a fall from the Presidential stand in
the Pension Office.
This money will come out of the ap-
preparation for the committee on ball
room decorations; whose chairman re-
ports surplus.
The Washington times., 1909-03-19

the use OF men, and viii be encircled
by a gallery from which spectators
may watch games.
The second floor will be reserved for
the exclusive use of women and viii
nave women attendants and a woman
expert TO teach beginners. An elaborate
entrance to the building will be con-
structed on Madison street, adjoining
the theater- 4 proposition was made
10 Tart from Chicago yesterday 10 lease
the site, hut he declined il in favor Of
Murphy and Askin
The Washington times., 1909-03-19
THIRD SET OF TEETH.

RED BANK. N J., March 19.-At the
age OF seVenty-five years, Bartine
Erown, Of AsbUry Park, has Just cut
two teeth of his third set The remark
able old man is sexton of the Second
NJ. u. Church. where he lives.
The Washington times., 1909-03-19
Not Man With Record.


Attorney Lipscomb bitterly scored GER
tain newspapers whom he said had
printed sensational stories to the effect
that Or. Nordin, man with an inter-
national record. He also paid his re-
spects TO the manner in which the police
mad attempted to impiicate his client in
mfre serious crime when he was now
charged with only a misdemeanor
For these reasons he asked that DR..
Nordin be allowed to 90 on his personal
Tecognlzance, saying that even NOrdin's
friends could be influenced by such a
mistake as this.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Pugh
asked pond Of $1,000. and $500 was final
~ agreed upon.
The Rev. d. Pierce, who was the
Ilrst TO make the acquaintance of DR..
Nordin and his wife when they came
10 Washington six weeks ago from At
lantic City, asked TO eXplGin to the
court his connection with the defend
ant 80 far as he knew personally,
DR. Pierce said, DR.. Nordin was a thor
oughly upright and honorable man and.
although he did not say so in so many
words, the minister indicated his belief
that eventually mistake would be
proven.
Mar of Intelligence.
He had found him to be a man Of
unusual intelligence and refinement. Dr.
Pierce continued, and he wished TO as
sure the court that his voluntry pres
ence was on account OF the interest
he felt in Dr.. NOrdin and his wife.
DR.. NOrdin has been charged with
the failure TO pay a local board bill,
but he has not been arraigned on this
charge.
1t is expecte dthat friends OF the
physician will obtain his release on
bond during the afternoon.
In the light of recent developments
they are inclined to believe that DR..
Nordin is sincere in his statement
that he has made a valuable scien-
tific discovery, and that he came 10
Washington merely to demonstrate il
TO men OF learning, such as would be
found at the Capital.
. 1tr. NOrdin denies that he has prac-
1iced medicine since arriving in .. ash
ingtOn. In fact, he claims to have
ceased pra Ctice some years ago in BeT-
lin, and says that for twenty-eight
years his efforts have mainly been de-
voted TO a discovery Of "A method 10
cure so-called hopeless cases without
the use Of drugs.
Follows a Letter
His arrest followed a letter written tc
AIrs. E. NJ. Todd. ot l122 Vermont ave
nue.. in which he offered to affect a
cure of her slightly afflicted son foI
$1,000 DR.. Nordin has been occupying
Mrs. Todd $ country estate on the Ten
1eStoWn road and has met a number Of
prominent WaShingtOnianS since arrival
here. He contends that he has been
done great injustice by the effort
made at first to connect him with the
L@Tter Of another man claimed 10 have
teen somewhat similar in appearance.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-22
IN CORN sHUCKING DAYS.
When tAe Folks Had More Fun Thar
They've Ever Had Since.
washington Post

Wh0R tine FOLKS Had More Fun Than
They've Ever Had since.
Washington Post.
December In that elder ana In some
respects happier day--",tis sixty years
since"--was the time of cornshucking.
Let us imagine again the fat year of
1855, locust year and the Know.
Nothing year In old Kentucky. waddy
Thompson had prolific crop Of corn.
He gathered 1t and had 1t put in
two enormous piles. each as big as a
house, or two houses.
Then he invited his neighbors and
friends to the harvest home. a KEN
lucky cornshucking. They came In
gangs--white and black. 1t was a ne
Rod OF harvested day and a night of
festivity. The neighbor boys and their
sweethearts came on horseback. Their
steeds went to the stable, where they
Were up to their ears In fodder. The
boys went out to shuck the corn while
the girls went into the parlor to
quilt, and it was always a race between
them whether the corn should be got
into the Grip ere the quilt was got out
of the frame.
The slaves were the happiest people
in the world down there In old Barn
County In those days, and 1t would not
be cornshucking unless some old fell
low with bushel basket full of mel
ody In his throat Ted" The song had
neither beginning nor end. He would
put in as he pretended to read or q
cornshuck:
I got my books and Bibles.
And then the chorus would come in,
also full of melody that can not be ex-
pressed in writing. Then the leader
would roar out and a crisp and frosty
night he could be distinctly heard FIVE
miles away:
Sally, I'm gwine FER way to leave you.
1t seemed that Sally was always a
cruel girl. When the corn was shuck-
ed, then they all went to the house,
and the jug was passed frequently for
both white and black. The turkey
was roasted, the ham was billed" the
spareribs were broiled. the backbone
was stewed, the sausage was fried in
the kitchen. After supper the dancing
in parlor for whites and kitchen for
blacks began. And you just ought to
have been there.
But 1t is gone. 1t can never be again.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-22

eBetfer Just attend to that little
poll-tax matter while you think OF It."
counsels The Ashland Progress. Aye
and better keep thinking OF it until
you attend to 1t. Voting is both a
privilege and q duty. and many a man
who disfranchises himself will regret
It when the time comes to vote and
he finds too late that he is a nonen-
tity IN the matter Of elections. There's
not great deal OF time for the per-
Torrance of his duty. but enough for
all to attend to it If they will. And
on the same subject The Henry Coun-
~ Standard says: Treat yourself to
q Christmas present by getting a poll
tax receipt" That is good advice al
so, ana enables the citizen to begin
the new year with the consciousness
OF duty well performed.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-22
LOUIsIANA's PROPOSED AMEND
MENT.


Louisiana is threatened with a BIT
ter constitutional amendment cam
paign. in which. however. prohibition
figures but indirectly. The proposed
amendment is to remove the constitu-
tional ban which forbids a Governor
from succeeding himself in office,
Louisiana having a constitutional pro-
vision like Alabama, that a Governor
must not be a candidate for re-elec-
ton on the completion of his term.
The campaign is not we'll under way
yet but already the direct charge is
made that the amendment was con-
ceived In politics and brought forth
in ambition. It is a noteworthy fact
that all suddenly discovered reform
measurements can. without any spe-
cial trouble. be traced to politics and
that old and ever new political trick
OF finding an issue" The coming
will be asked to submit the proposed
amendment at the congressional cleo
ton next November.
Already a determined effort is. be-
ing made to defeat the amendment in
the Legislature and save the State
from the strife and worry. which Ala
bama experienced In the campaign on
the prohibition. amendment. The
charge is made in New Orleans pa
pers that the State machine" is
backing the amendment and will turn
up the votes for 1t in the parishes
where the machine" is strong. And
already the charge is made that the
amendment is planned to be voted on
next year because 1t is an "off year"
in politics in Louisiana and many
voters are expected to be caught off
the base with their poll tax unpaid.
II the hackers of the amendment care
to learn by observation. they would
do well to inquire as to what happen
ed in Alabama when an attempt was
made to take snap judgment on the
voters in an amendment election. The
results of such an attempt in Ala
bama will certainly not encourage
similar effort In Louisiana.
The press OF Louisiana began early
to beat the amendment and 1t is in
dicated that the amendment will be
lost in the Legislature inasmuch as
many of the leading senators and rep
resentatives rejecting the sentiment
of the voters have announced their
opposition to 1t.
Louisiana may well consider herself
fortunate. II the Legislature votes tPe
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-22
A NEW WORLD.
After Fifty Years In Prison, Convict
VIII Find Things Different.

After Fifty Years In Prison, Convict
WIN Find Things Different.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
prisoner in the State penitentiary
at Wethersfield. Conn.,. hopes to be re-
leased at the age of IL, before Christ
mas day, after having been imprison-
ed for fifty years. He was originally
sentenced for a good and sufficient
reason. He had murdered his child
wife by holding her head under water
in a brook. He has spent the inter-
vening half century In expiation of
his crime.
When John p. warren, at the age
of 21. went to prison, in 1859, men
were CROPPING in the twilight, II not in
utter darkness, toward many of the
present-day miracles of scientific
achievement. They were talking a lit
tie about the possibility of the horse-
less carriage, but no man imagined
the commodious and smoothly running
touring car. accomplishing the dis
lance between Philadelphia and New
York in about half the time the rail-
way train required In the days before
the Civil War.
8 John P. Warren on emerging from
his long confinement will find him
self in "a world not realized" in 1859.
Since, he was practically immured
alive. civilization has taken gigantic
iOt fstAiutb- 4H6 pEOkTeSS OF the
last half century Is equivalent to the
social. commercial. and scientific evo-
luton of the previous centuries since
the Middle Ages. He will find our
metropolitan cities so different In their
aspect that. like Rip Van Wrinkle, he
will require guide to pilot him about
the familiar scenes of his youth. The
skyscraper was unknown when he
went to Wethersfield; the monument
hnfIdtnRa that he hahald a q hnU
became obsolete and have been RACED,
or else they are hidden by the tower
ing edifices of today. The mind of
an old man who has been, as IL were,
alternating all these years can hard
ly grapple with the social and econ
omic problems of today. His release
will no doubt be grateful to him, but
the loss of fifty years in a human life,
whatever the crime that demands the
punishment. is a penalty &c which 1T
would seem that death itself Is pre-
ferable.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-22
Electricity ON The Farm.

ELECTRICAL WOrlO.
Electrical plants for farms are IN
creasing with marked rapidity, end it
seems probable that the time is COM
ing when well-to-do farmers every
where, no matter how remote from a
city or village containing a central
station, will consider electricity as a
necessity. At first the current for
these country equipments will be
generated by plants on the premises;
but as the movement becomes more
general, central-station companies
favorably situated will no doubt find
1t to their interest to extend their
lines along the rural highways to
far greater degree than is done at
present. In this a lesson might be
taken from Northern italy, some Sec
tions of which are networked with
distribution lines for village and rural
supply. The extension of the rural
telephone has shown what can be done
in this direction. and there is no
reason to doubt that a similar extern
sion of electric light and power cir
cults will gradually be made. The
up date farmers who are now put
ting in their own plants in increasing
numbers are simply the pioneers who
are demonstrating to the small CEN
tral-statio companies scattered
through the country that the farmers
in the areas tributary to their plants
want electricity and are willing to pay
for Ii.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-22

Editor The Advertiser.
Presenting that relic OF q some
what antiuue character would not be
wholly devoid Of interest to the pres
emit management of the newspaper. I
venture to enclose herein q receipt
Advertiser-showing date OF over
nifty years ago! AS a schoolboy in
my. teens. ! had matriculated as q
student in college In another State,
and to complete my equipment in my
new relations, II occurred to me that
should subscribe for q newspaper in
my home State. A due remittance
ELECTED the acknowledgment in ques-
tion. It was with youthful vanity. /
recall. that I regarded the superscrip-
tion with my own name on the paper
feeling of self-importance and inn
pressed me that had reached that Pc
Rod in life which the old Latin an
thors styled 'adolescens."
From that remote date Of over a
half-century to the present time,
have been subscriber and regular
reader of the paper, and. sometimes
contributor, to its columns. have
not always agreed with the paper In
its positions with regard to public
men and measures. but. in the main,
ponent and wade mecum" on issues
OF moment and Importance to the com
During the war between the States.
the paper used to go in my name to
my ancestral home at "Jessamine
HILL" three miles west of Prattviiie,
and thence forwarded to me In the
army. Occasionally. in bivouac, I
would dash on on my knee, a letter
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-22
An Appreciated Editor.

u
Engineer Smith Deal, of The Dothan
Daily Journal. Is wearing new suit
of clothes. On the level, fellers. that's
what he is. Not only that he has a
new tie. some more collars and a new
pair of those things that fight 1t out
between the shoe and the foot.
Mr. Deal has no hesitancy In ex-
town vigilance committee. under a
more diplomatic name, took up col
lection from the citizens of that city,
called on Deal apd escorted him to the
house of three OF the principal haber-
dashers. and insisted" upon his &C
cepting the goods-the best goods IN
the town. too. In short. all this came
came as token of the esteem in
which he Is held because of his serv-
ices rendered in his recent opposition
to the recent amendment which was
defeated recently. The elite Of the
city all Clipped in and "set EN- up
because thew felt that Deal had been
highly instrumental in bringing about
a big majority against the amendment
in Houston County. Which reminds us
that Dallas County also put up a ma
iority against the amendment. Selma
was emphatic in its NO. but far be
II from this paper to strain it's mod
esty to the extent of making hint at
Dothan precedent. We merely record
this incident to rout that piece of rot
that a prophet Is not without honor"
save in his home county. And the
good part of 1t Is. Houston, like the
other counties. has a big election on
during next wear. with about half its
population running for some office.
getting a summer suit ont of the
deal"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-22
The Trans-Andean Railway.

All the world may be interested in the
piercing of the Andes by a tunnel which In
sures the early connection by railway Of
Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso. This direct
line brings two of the most civilized repub-
lies of South America into direct communi-
cation giving to either an outlet for its
products on both the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, and is OF highly potential political
Importance. 1t is possible that mutual in
terests thus created may pave the way to a
new union Of American states far south Of
the equator. The new road will be of more
immediate Importance to British. French,
and German exporters than to those OF the
United States.
But a glance at the atlas will show at
once the bearing upon this trans-Andean
railway that will be exerted by the competi-
ton OF the Panama Canal The Pacific
Coast of the eouthern continent Will then be
brought as to transportation as well as geo
graphically, into direct line OF longitude with
the Atlantic coast OF the United States.
Valparaiso and Callao will be far nearer by
even the Argentine Republic may gain in
time and distance by shipping exports by
way of the Pacific. Here will be further
opportunity for usefulness to the export
trade Of this country OF both the Bureau of
American Republics and the consular service.
The opportunity will then present itself
more forcibly than ever to manufacturers in
thiG' country to learn the needs Of the con-
surfers in both Chile and Peru, as wen as in
Argentina. These are countries whose cli-
mate has cooled the Latin blood and eneour-
tries. British capital and skill have created
a highway across the Andes apparently to
the ultimate advantage and profit OF Amer
lean enteFDriSe.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-22
Hon. Mac "A. Smith Writes on
FIFTY Years a Subscriber

to The Advertiser. hastily describing
some battle, skirmish or incident, usu-
ally over the signature OF "Peder."
In 1865. when q detachment OF Fed
era soldiers were encamped near
Prattville an old trunk containing the
receipt and other mementoes. was
buried In the woods. by some faithful
servants. under direction Of my
mother. This same leathern thesaurus
OF time-honored souvenirs was snatcn-
ed from the flames that destroyed the
old homestead, and happened not to
be In my office In its various disasters
by Hood and fire of more recent pee
/ affix stamp for the return Of the
old receipt, as II Is one of few re-
minders that / preserve, "of the days
and the years that are gone"
Respectfully.
Mac A. Smith,
Frogmoor. Dec. 10. 'os.
(The old receipt issued to Mr.. Smith
for a years subscription from October
1859 to October 1850 10 signed by the
firm Of Reid. Shorter & Reid, who In
that year owned The Advertiser. All
are now dead. The receipt is orna-
mented by o cut of an Indian Chief,
fully panoplied In his war dress.
Hon. Mac A. Smith, of Autauga,
who writes the letter. has been in his
long and useful life one of the most
valuable citizens Middle Alabama has
strict integrity. and leader of abil-
ity OF his people. The friendship OF
such men as Mac A. Smith Is cher
ished asset of The Advertiser, one VI
Advertiser.p