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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-14
THE SERPENT

By LULU A. SMITH

are told: He was wiser than Daniel.
There IS no secret hidden from thee
Thou SealcSt up the sum, full of wis
dom, and perfect in beauty, Thou
/ vast IN Eden the garden of God. ThoJ
| vast the anOinted cherub that COW
ereth and I set thee so that thou
vast upon the holy mountain OF God.
Thou hast walked up and down IN The
midst Of the stones of fire. Perfect
in thy ways from the day that thou
vast created. till unTighteou5ness was
found in thee" Christ said on earth:
7 beheld Satan as lightning fallen
from heaven" With his high and
sacred position as covering cherub
full of wisdom and beauty, he set his
/ heart ''as the heart of Cod" and be-
came rebellious against God and his
Son. being filled with Jealousy. the
root Of his rebellion, which resulted
IN war in heaven. between Michael
and his angels, and Satan and his evil
angels, in which God S servants and
messengers triumphed over him
casting Satan and his host out of
heaven and reserved them in dark
ness until the great day of God. be-
cause they kept not their proper
places.
Therefore, 80 sayeth Jehovah. have
cast thee as profane out OF the noun
tain Of God: and l have destroyed
thee o covering cherub, from the
stones of fire Thy heart was lifted
up because OF thy beauty; and cor
rupted thy wisdom by reason Of thy
brightness. I have cast thee to the
ground. All they that know thee
among the peoples shall be sst0nished
At thee Thou art become a terror
and thou shalt nevermore have any
being Cast down from his exalted
position. his beauty changed to
marred creature. with the most de-
based and corrupt mind. ne becomes
at once the avOwed enemy and adj
veTSary Of God and His Son Nothing
is too wicked for him to do. His
character IS completely changed now.
and he seeks TO deYOuT like the beast
whom he can. and MANY are his VIC
tins whom he viii rob life eternal Of
We see in him the subtility, crafti-
ness, and device with which he be-
gUiIed Eve and tempting all man
kind An unclean spirit Teigns with
in him and nothing righteous IN his
power, ne seeks TO exercise over
Gods creatures. always against and
ready 10 oppose with the sword the
righteous law OF God. "A murderer
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-14

workings of the social system in the
nations capital and they have at
tTacted little. more than passing atten-
ton here The trouble with this
latest story which is called The
Fashionable Adventures of Joshua
Craig" and portrays the social prog
ress of a pushing western politician
in the capital is that its pictures OF
the social game as played in the VI
cinity of Dupont Circle are admitted,
even by those who protest against
them, TO contain an element of truth
that is likely to convince a great
many readers of their essential cor
rectness. Furthermore the book is
written by David Graham Phillips
who before now has brought down the
wrath of senators and president upOI
his head by his unvaTnished charac-
| teriZation of certain men in high
places. There are so many unfiatteT-
ing things in the view he presents of
social Washington with the lid of
that almost every person who dis
cusses the book has a fresh grievance
against the author.
The purely commercial attitude O.
women in the most exclusive set to-
ward the subject of marriage is one
of the things objected to in Air, Phil
q.
other trait which he attributes &c
Nashingtonians and which others
who are not novel writer's have
thought that they detected among the
ives Of some of our leading citizens
Mrs. Senator -- is described as one
who. finding SnObbishness TO be the
chief distinguishing mark of the east
ern upper classes. assumed II was {;
virtue acquired it lRboriously and
practiSed II openly and proudly"
That Washington society is efete,
that il is made up of a bunch OF
DepinjayS", and that it's So called bis
people are merely bIuE-these are
only a few of the words put into TN
mouth of Joshua Craig. The result OF
the whole condition is declared to be
/ TO make PUPS" of men. That much
of this situation is due TO 'Tuinous
rotten training is an explanation
which has only served further to in
cenSe society, as have the casual
statements in the course of the novel
that Washington women cannot even
dress themselves; thai beating Jheil
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-14

Washington. Feb 12-AlI previous
records for political exposure, muck
raking and Wholesale elections to the
Ananias CLUB have been surpassed
since the final session of the SiXtieth
congress assembled In fact the
game of exposing" has amounted al
most TO a craze in Washington this
winter and the place of the humble
magazine muck-TakeF who formerly
had the field 30 himself has been
usurped by the president and con-
gress. So much of the present short
session has been occupied in personal
arecTimination between the two ends
of Pennsylvania avenue that it>seems
doubtful if time will be left for the
transaction of any public business be
yond the passage of the appropriation
bills which have been decided u~on
Rows between the president and the
national law makers nave happened
many times before the Roosevelt ad-
ministration, but never have they
been so numerous or so bitter and the
rancor that has been stored up is
bound 10 leave its marks for many
years to come.
Society in Washington is so inter
woven with politics and so colOred by
political influences that the political
EaSe ana IuE1 expended between I06
capitol and the White House has fur
niShed the chief topic of conversation
at social gatherings and in the draw
ing rooms OF the fashionable north
west section. Now, however, the
question of whether Tillman was dis
ingenious" and the whispered runners
as 10 whom the president is planning
TO show up next. have given way be-
fore 4 topic that comes closer home
for society itself has been exposed
One who knows anything of exclu-
sfve Washington society-the court
circle as its members like to call
themselves when melody from back
home is around TO hear-can under
stand what a shock this is to the ex-
elusive cOterie of upper officisldom
and its friends am2ng the wealthy an
official set. The worst of it is the
exposure was not even the subject OF
a special presidential message, but
was merely incidental to the story o.
q novel that appeared last week
Books have been written before that
RrOfessed TO deal with the inneI
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-14
EXPOSURES STIR
CAPITAL SOCIETY

maids is not unheaTd of, and that the
whole crowd is chiefly composed of
social gTafters-a few more OF, the al
legations made in this book which re-
Yeals an alleged condition of society
as little known to the average person
as are the habits of ROme's most de-
generate days.
CuriOUsIy enough the hero of the
book, although he is represented a.
possessed of monumental conceit and
as a sort of barbarian who tramples
on every conventiOnality, has aroused
no such feelings of indignant protest
Indeed the question Who is Jushua
Craig2" is causing as much discussion
in Washington as the identity of the
Man in the Iron Mask ever did in
Paris. There is a large group of those
familiar with politics who swear that
Craig is a speaking portrait of Albert
jeremiah Beverage. senior senator
from Indiana, and that he could have
been meant for nobody else. Per-
haps his asSeTtiveneSs and his eyre .
giOUs cOnceit rather than any closer
resemblance are the reasons for this
Identification. for its is we'll under
stood in Washington that the CRANE
young man from Indiana" has insis-
tently taken to himself the scriptural
Injunction against hiding ones light
under a busheI and that he considers
the senior senator from Indiana a.
one of the few real statesmen nov
engaged in holding the dome OF the
capitol in place.
Other readers of the book decline
10 accept Beverage as the original OF
Joshua Craig. In fact every western
CT who has come to the front in poll
tics within the past decade. including
La Toilette, Cum Minis. John Johnson
Joseph Folk. and a score of others
has been picked by somebody IS
serving the requirements of the Craig
original The reason for the willing
ness of prominent men to be regarded
as the original OF this clustering, con-
ceited and UNNECESSARILY ambitious
Joshua Craig probably is that IN spite
of his incessant boasting and his out
rageOUs manners he is depicted as a
man of real ability and a successful
politician-and that. in Washington
covers a multitude of sins
SlgRSCRaRE
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-14

Many ideas prevail in regard to the
great adversary OF Christ and al His
followers.
That he is a personal being, with {
great destroying power, there Is n
doubt. We see the fruit OF his wog
on every side of us, and John, the
beloved, saw in vision on Patmos the
beast, and wondered after him. The
beast that thou saWest was, and II
not and is about 20 come up out o.
the abyss, and to so into perdition
And they that dwell on the earth shall
wonder. they whose name hath not
been written in the book Of life from
the foundation CT the world when
they behold the beast. how that he
was. and is nor, and shall come" We
find the expression, He was and Is
not" denotes a change in form and
position ne now holds from the one
he originally held. This is true.
Through the word Of inspiration We
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-14
Not ADpIic3bIe.

BIeeker-What's the matter. old
man? You look like an illustration of
q hard-luck story.
Domestic troubles Had a
scrap with my wife this morning.
BIeeker-Oh, don't let a little thing
like that worry you. A thunderstorm
clears the atmosphere, you know.
Meeker-Yes. but that doesn't help
man who has been struck by light
ming.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-14

from the beginning" and no truth in
him A hireling who gives no pro-
lection; yet to deceive the people" he
fashioneth himself into an angel of
hight. His influential power is great
over the Inhabitants Of the world. as
he made man to fall. bringing sin
and death on all mankind, marred the
man God made in His own image.
placing him in the condition that he
might have him under his own rule.
and thus deprived him of the happi-
ness God intended for mankind TO
have. Overpowered with Gods
strength in heaven. he seeks TO avenge
God by taking vengeance out on His
creatures below. Bringing affections
and calamity to cause them to HAS
pheme their Creator. and i'm which
God has allowed Satan to bring upon
the earth, in order to test us. and
prove to Satan that He viii have
some on earth who win stand IovaI
to their Father and Creator. in fhe,
face of all that may befaH them.
Sowing the tares among the wheat,
crOwdIng our minds with the affec-
tions and the vain glory of this pres
ent life. where all is vanity; that we
might not retain the Word in our
minds, rObbing us of that so essen
tial knowledge. God longs IS have
every oit 81 his creatures possess
He sends false prophets. endowfng
them with miracle and wonder power.
TO counterfeit the true ones and their
works from heaven, in order 20 de-
ceive and draw the human minds and
disgust them from ChFist's true rep
resentatiyes by his own false teach
lngS and wonderful works. Not salts
fed with his false workers. he will
imDersOnate Christ which is in the
near future. OF this PRESERVATION.
Christ Himself forewarus US of il. and
leaves instruction as 10 the manner Of
His coming. that we may not be de-
ceiVed- lie seeks 10 keen mankind
from becoming that cheerful giVeT''
TO give of their means as God has
prospered them. that the final triumph
of the church Of Christ may soon be
accomplished and sin and death ban
ished forever. with their OTiginafion
tTo be continued IN next aTticle5
Six Niqhts go as You Please" Race.
How many tired fathers and moth
night carrying q badly? And thev
are the child is staTVing-worms ase
have worms, yours needn't Whites
worms and strengthen the child.
Price p cents per bottle.
Sold and recommended by ". A.
D'Alemberte, druggist and aDoth ecary.
III South Palzfox street. Pensacola.
Fla
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-14
Washington's Plague Spots.

lie in the low, maTshy bottoms OF the
Potomac. the breeding ground of ma
laria germs These germs cause
chillS. fever and ague. biliOusness,
iaundice. lassitUdo, weakness and
general debility and bring suffering or
death to thousands yearly But
Electric RitterS never fail to destroy
them and cure malaria troubles.
They are the best all-TOunu tonic
and cure for malaria 1 ever used. "
writes r. NJ. James, Of LOuellen. S. {.
They cure Stomach, Liver. Kidney
and Blood Troubles and will prevent
Typhoid Try them, 5Oc- Guaranteed
by all druggists
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-14

CeCiIia-Ain't these big hats terri
bic to keep on in windy weather.
BedeIia-NIine isn't. because my lit
tie brother bored lot of holes in it
for the wind TO get through.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-14
Six Nights go as You Please" Race.

Read The Journals Want
Columns this morning.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-14

A handsome present will be a
sale to one of the ladies present.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-23
Mysterious Crime Takes Place
in Chicago Home
VICTIM SHIELDS ASSAILANT
WEALTHY WIDOW SHOT IN HOME.
or HER DAUGHTER OVER MIN
ING INVESTMENT vAlNLY TRIES
TO PROTECT DAUeHER BEFORE
POLICE INoUIsIToRs.

Chicago, July 23.-Suffering from a
bullet wound inflicted, it is said, by
her own daughter Mrs. Gertrude Hink
ley, a wealthy widow at ALI Ellis
avenue, tried for hours today to per-
suade the police that the shooting was
accidental.
The shooting occurred yesterday but
the police learned OF it only today.
They are seeking for Mrs. Hinckley's
aaughter, Mrs. Marie Mayffeld, whose
husband is said to be in Mexico in the
mining business. f'i
According to the story finally told
by Mrs. Hinkley, she is interested to
the extent of $4,000 In Mexican min
ing project invested on the advice of
her daughter Her refusal yesterday
to purchase $500 additional stock in
the enterprise is said to have led to a
quarrel and the ultimate shooting. The
bullet entered Mrs. Hinkieys peck and
came out through the mouth
Promised Daughter Protection.
The shooting occurred at Mrs. May
fields home, 1SO Forty first street. The
wounded woman is said to have prom
ised her daughter to stand by fhe ac-
cident story and was removed. to her
own home in an auto last night. I'm
der the insistent questioning of Po-
lice Inspector Hunt today, she finally
broke down Her chance Of recovery
is said to be slender one.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-23
McCumber Wants Reductions
in WooIen and Cotton Rates
OUTLOOK is DISCOURAGING
THE PRESIDENT PROMISES N. o.
SENATOR THAT HE WILL URGE
ACTION BY coNFEREEs AT
oNcE-ALL OTHER SCHEDULES
HAVE BEEN CUT.

Washington, July zS.-Senator Nc
cumber today appealed to the pres
ident to use his influence to bring
about reductions in the wooden and
cotton schedules in the pending tariff
bill. These are the only products
which have not come i'm for some re-
ductions." said Mccumber. "and urg-
ed upon the president the necessity
OF some action on these necessities OF
life."
The president admitted to Senator
Mccumber that the outlook for reduc-
tion on these articles was discourage
ing, but promised TO call the matter
to the attention OF the conferees al
once.
1t is said that the conference report
will be ready for congress about We'd
nesday and will be Of such nature
as to compel the support of Chairman
Payne Of the house ways and means
committee.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-23
Plan A
BIG LABOR BODY
CONVENTION MEMBERS START A
HUGE AFFILIATIoN MOVE
MENT AT DENVER MEET.

Denver, July 23.--The Western Fed
GRAFTON Of Miners convention today
Launched a movement having for its
object the aftiliation Of all labor or
ganization in the mining and cortrela-
tive industries. The federation officers
were authorized to push the matter.
The convention attended aid to the
striking United Hatters of the east by
levying an assessment Of 25 cents per
member for a strike fund. This will
bring fund of more than $4,000. The
secretary treasurer was instructed to
forward S5, 900 to the hatters at once.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-23
RAILROAD SPENDS
$75.67 LOBBYING
THE ILLINOIS ROAD is THE FIRST
TO MAKE STATEMENT TO
MISSOURI.

Jefferson City, July %. - The first
railroad to file sworn statement of
the expenses of its Missouri legisla-
tive agents is the Illinois Central,
which, under protest, did so today
through j. r. Sharpe. The statement
shows expenses of 1851, incurred be-
cause OF the roads interest relating TO
garnishments.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
and the Chicago, Burlington and Quin-
cy companies have wired to Attorney
General Major that his recent demand
for sworn statements will be met soon.
Other corporations, which have been
declared liable to penalties Of 800 a
day for not filing the expense accounts,
have notified the attorney general that
their attorneys are investigating the
requirements of the lobbyists law.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-23

When William klexander Calder
head was selected by Speaker Cannon
to serve as a kouse member on the
tariff conference committee a storm
of protest arose from those who
thought that the committee should be
made up from the ways and means
committee In the order of seniority
This would have placed Hill of Con-
necticut and Needham OF California
ON the committee instead of Calder
head OF Kansas and Foruney of Mich
igan. But Uncle Joe, m his character
isttc manner, had his way, and today
Congressman Calderhead is one of the
seventeen men whom the sixty first
congress has signally honored, and his
gray locks and logical arguments are
power IN the committee room.
Like many other great men, William
Calderhead was born in Ohio, edu-
Gated in Ohio, and served his country
during the civil war in Ohio regi-
ment. In September he will pass his
65th year.
Immediately after the war Mr.. Cal
derhead went to Kansas and engaged
in farming. In 1872 he settled on a
homestead near Newton, Kan, taught
school one year in Newton and read
law in the office of Hon. =. w. Ady.
He was admitted before Hon. S. r.
Peters in 1875. He then removed to
Atchison, Kan, where he spent four
years more studyin- law and teaching
country schools during the winter. 1t
was not until 1879 that he engaged in
the general practice Of law and 1t was
ten years later before he held his first
loffice-tIat Of county attorney. In
1875 he was elected to the fifty fourth
congress and with the exception of
the fifty fifth has served continu-
ously ever since.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-23
Use INFLUENCE
TO AVERT War.
UNITED STATES, BRAZIL AND
CHILE KEEP THEIR EYES ON
ARGENTINA AND BOLIVIA.

Washington, July 2S.-The moral in
fiuence of the United States, Brazil and
Chilli will be exerted to prevent any
clash Of arms between the republic Of
Argentina and Bolivia.
Chilli and Brazil will remain neutral
in the pending controversy, the for
mer, 1t is understood, having indicated
its attitude to this government already.
War between the two countries
would be very regretable to the United
States government which, within prop
er bounds, would do it's best to pre-
vent it. The United States, however,
will not intervene unless request to
do so is received from one or both ma
tfons involved. This has been its con-
sistenL policy in such cases.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-23
Continued on Page TWO.
RAID MISSING MANS OFFICE.
Unidentified Thieves Go Through Judge
CIarkson's Papers.

Kenosha, Wis, July 23.--Added mys-
terry was given yesterday to the dis
appearance last Wednesday Of Judge
Joseph r. Clarkson when it was dis
covered that his Office was entered hy
stealth Sunday night
A portion of the frame of the door
way was loosened so as to permit the
opening of the door, and notwithstand-
ing the fact that this was known 20
the caretaker at the Office she con-
sidered it of no Importance when she
discovered it on Monday and the fact
did not become public until today
So far as can be discovered, nothing
was taken from the offices of the judge
or the other offices surrounding it al
though Clarks papers had evidently
been gone through.
Friends of the judge think the door
was opened by a thief
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-23
1000 TROPHIES
OF TEDDY'S HUNT
COLLECTION COVERS ANIMALS
AND BIRDS OF ALL SIZES
FROM FIELD MICE TO
RHINOS.

Naivasha, British East Africa, July
23.-The entire collection of the speci-
mems of the Roosevelt expedition now
numbers 1000, covering animals and
birds of all sizes, from field mice TO
rhinoceroses and from small shrieks
to bustards. IL also includes several
thousand reptiles and insects. Roose-
velt's last bull hippopotamus, which
he shot recently in Lake Naivasha,
measured fourteen feet.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-23
TAFTs ACTION sTiRs BANKERS
Germans, Declaring Telegram Is PoIi-
ticaI Step, May AssaiI Loan Pact.

Peking, July 23.-The personal tele-
gram sent by President Taft to Prince
Chun, the Chinese regent, in behalf Of
the American claim for equal partici-
patton in the Hanl1ow SEE Chuen rail-
road loan of $2750O,O0O, has created
a sensation among the foreign bank
ers and members OF the legations.
4 The legations concerned affirmed
that the loan question until now was
not recognized automatically. but the
impression prevails that the matter
now has become political.
The German financiers threaten to
break the concert of bankers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-23
u. 5. To FORM
new TREATIES
SECRETARY KNOX WILL SOON
TAKE UP MATTER WITH THE
FOREIGN NATIoNs-NEW
PACT WITH TURKEY.

Washington, July 23.-Secretary Of
State Knox will soon initiate proceed
ings with number Of foreign gov
ernments looking to the reconstruction
of treaties. Almost Immediately upon
his arrival in Constantinople, Straus,
the new ambassador. will take up the
question of nat1Taiizati treaty with
Turkey.
Under the regime Of sdul Hamid
cur dealings With ina. Country were
anything but satisfactory. Under the
new ruler, however, a very marked
Improvement is noted
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-23
POTATOES CAUSE TYPHOID.
Fourteen Tars on 6attIeships Stricken
One May Die.

Boston, July 23.--Victims of typhoid
which they are said to have contracted
through eating bad potatoes served on
battleships of the Atlantic fleet, four
teen men are today in the Chelsea hos-
pital here, and one seaman, Simonton
of the Vermont, may die.
Every precaution is being taken by
the officers of the fleet to avert an
epidemiv of typhoid and the ships from
which the men afflicted with the mall
ady were taken were disinfected to
prevent further trouble.
The Wisconsin has had the greatest
troNble with the disease SO far.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-23
MONTANA JAIL is OPENED.
Four Prisoners Are Let Out of GIas-
Cow Bastile With False Key.

WV DGSttC NWVhu atSC N.Y.
Glasgow, Mont, July 2S.-It was
made public today that 'the man with
the duplicate key to the county Jail
entered that place last Friday morn
ing about o'clock and liberated four
prisoners, John Tourigny, convicted of
having robbed drunken man at Gull
bertson; Walter Davis and George
Bailey, also convicted of grand larceny,
and Jim Knapp, convicted at Malta Cf
keeping woman for immoral purposes.
A prisoner in one Of the city cells
saw a man quietly enter the corridor
and stand just outside the cell door
about FIVE minutes, apparently listen
ing to learn if any one was awake.
Then he opened the door leading to
the steel cages and. moment later
four men, besides their lEberator.
walked out.
Some months ago the Jail was en-
tered the same way and John Benner
was liberated He was being held
here for extradition to North Dakota.