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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-02
NOTICE.

This is 10 notify all persons that
| Will not be responsible for any
Debts contracted by anyone but my.
self personally.
3. ". HUFF,
kimb0ll. w. va.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-02

And az ne went 10 ESrswiTS1y, round
the table. she turned 10 meet him
arms uplifted. her scarlet lips a'trem-
BILE. the brown and bewitching lashes
dropping over her wondrously lighted
eyes.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-02

THE HORSE suoGR
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-02
Concord Normal
School

ATHENS, w. VA.
School begins Sent. Ia,
1909. BE sure to be on time
IS work begins &C soon as
pupils are enrolled.
Remember that Concord
Normal is one Of the best
schools of the State.
Address ali letters Of en-.
curry to
G.. l.. BFMIS,
Athens, w. Va.
Times-promoter., 1909-01-22

week on a charge of assault and bat
terry, the affidivit being made by the
mother of boy whom Miss Hall had
chastised. The trial resulted in the
acquittal of the teacher and when
the verdict was announced an out
burst of approving applause came
from the spectators. Years ago a Mr..
Solomon, who was reputed to be the
wisest man to that date, said some
thing like, 'spare the rod and spoil
the child" and somehow we can't
help but think that the time-worn
expression applies now as it did at
that time, judging by the kids we
know who have never felt the chas-
tening stroke.
Times-promoter., 1909-01-22

If the officers of Shelby county will
enforce the statewide prohibition
law, recently passed by the Tennes-
see legislature, it will be of inesti-
mable benefit, not only to Mem
phians, but to the territory in Missis-
sippi contiguous to the bluff city.
For many years the people of north
east Mississippi have contributed to
the Golfers of the Memphis liquor
dealers money that was needed for
necessities, and if the law will elimi-
nate even the wholesale business its
value cannot be computed.
Times-promoter., 1909-01-22
Game and Fish Ordinance.

The Board having heretofore ap-
printed game warden, as is provid-
ed for in Chapter 81, of the Mississip-
Pi Code OF 1905, it is hereby ordered,
that in addition to the rvles prescrib-
ed by the legislature in said chapter,
and the penalties thererein denounced
it shall be unlawful,
First, To hunt or kill any quail,
commonly called partridges, from the
first day of February to the first day
of December, except upon Thanks
giving day.
Second, 1t shall be unlawful to take
ship or send out of DeSoto county
into any other county of the State
any of the kinds of the kinds of game
birds or animals defined as such in
said chapter 81.
Ea.Third, 1t shall be unlawful, at any
time or season, to catch with traps
or nets any Of the kinds of game
birds mentioned in said chapter 81.
Fourth, 1t shall be unlawful to des-
troy the nests of, or have in possess
sion, or sell or offer to sell, the eggs
Of any game bird, except as is provid-
ed in section 2319 and 1920 of Code of
1906.
Fifth, For any violation of the
the above ordinances fine of not
less than ten dollars is hereby impos-
ed, and not to exceed twenty-five dol
lars, but for a second, or any subse-
quent offensc, the person convicted
may, in addition to said fines, be inn
prisoned in the county jail not more
than thirty days, at the discretion of
the court.
Sixth, 1t is ordered that these game
ordinances be published in full in The
Times Promoter for three consecutive
weeks, and shall be in full force aud
effect on and afther the 22nd day OF
January, 1909. And the Justices OF
peace Of the county will toke notice,
that all fines imposed and collected
| by them are required by law to be
kept and reported separately, when
| imposed for a violation of game and
| fish laws or ordinances.
Ordered and done this the sixth
dBy of January, 1908.
All the above ordinances will be
strictly enforced. No violations will
be exempt from punishment.
r. F.. JOHNSTON, Game Warden.
Times-promoter., 1909-01-22

The beasts of Uganda were beating
retreat, and the slower were trying
to stay with the feet, when lion
came flying aside from the rear with
his face mutilated and one shredded
ear.
I'VE thought" said the beasts
AS they saw him arrive.
You stayed back to face him
And eat him alive!"
But the man-eater only
Ran faster and whined.
And now and then yentured
A survey behind.
"Well," said the hippo, who ran as
he could, "did you eat him alive, as
you boasted you would?' But the
lion limped onward with never word
at least anything that the rest of
them heard.
"I'll bet" said the rhino,
He bit off his head
And left them to find him
All bloody and dead!'
Whereat they all laughed.
And the great lion cried
And licked at the gashes
All over his hide.
"I see how it happened" the ele-
phant said. "Our brother was up in
tree overhead, and when he pounced
on him, a stranger to fear, the cruel
thorns tore him, and shredded his
earl"
They all laughed again.
And the lion. all red
With blood. only shuddered
And limped on ahead.
20 come.' they exclaimed
AS they followed in haste.
1--WE know that you ate him.
But how did he taste?"
The lion turned round at the top of
a rise, and his whiskers were matted
with tears from his eyes. Don't
taunt me-" he begged, land I'll tell
you my woes" And blood trickled
off at the end of his nose.
We'll do it!" they answered..
And husky with grief
And fear. he proceeded;
my story is brief
did lay for Teddy.
Intending my worst.s
And jumped as | promised
But he bit me first"
-(St. Louis POST Dispatch.
Times-promoter., 1909-01-22

u Sentiment against corporal punish
ment in school has not yet been de-
yeloped in Mississippi. An incident
If recent occurrence at Hickory,
Newton county, shows that public
sentiment in that vicinity favors the
saving on Of the hickory at the proper
time. A Miss Hall, school teacher,
was arraigned in d justice court last
Times-promoter., 1909-01-22

human law to regulate and govern
everything.
1t is truly said that men decay
when they reach snch a loss of conf
dence in themselves and in divine
law and morality.-N. o. Pieayune.
Times-promoter., 1909-01-22
When Men Decay.
Ill fares the land.
To fastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates
And men decay"

To Fastening ills prey.
Where wealth accumulates
And men decay"
Apparently the people of this great
New World republic have reached an
era of extraordinary personal and pri-
vate wealth. Have we also come to
realize the decay of our manhood, the
loss of our appreciation of honor, vir-
tue, truth and righteousness? Have
we abandoned our trust and belief in
divine direction and protection, so
thatwe no longer fecognize that there
is anything save physical force to
combat evil and administer justice?
If we have come to so low a state
as to believe there is nothing good,
nothing worth striving for, nothing
worthy of human effort save the ac-
quisition and accumulation of wealth,
and while all men are engaged in the
worship of the gold god, the mainte-
nance of social order and the protec-
ton of moral and social welfare are
to be left to professional politicians
and mercenary officials, then our
grand free people have fallen to depths
of degradation.
Time was when our statesmen were
wise men, who wrought for the pub
lie good and had the confidence of
great bodies of the American people.
Time was when our great newspapers
worked continually for the welfare
of the people and the upholdlng of
the law and for the faithful and un-
failing administration of justice. Time
was when our preachers of righteous
ness believe they had divine COM
mission, and they went forth filled
with confidence that the Divine Gre,
ator, Ruler and Judge of All, would
never suffer his people to be over
whelmed by the hosts of evil, but in
the hour of their EXTREMIST peril
would d'stretch forth an arm and deliver
| them.
The Roman Republic, the greatest
of the nations of antiquity, inhabited
by the race that produced the -Grac-
chi, the Horatii, the scipios and Ca
tos, and the Lucretias and Virginias,
the grandest heroes and heroines of
the ancient world, came to realize
that its people had reached the point
where their manhood had decayed
and wealth and pleasure were the
only two objects which could engage
their attention.
The Roman people sank to that
stage of degradation which was only
introductory to a more extreme dis
grace, which was characterized by a
poet of that day and nation thus:
What worth are laws.
When gold alone is strong.
Where to be poor
Is to be in the wrong?
When Justice is marketable ware.
! You buy it.
And have your right confirmed
By judges fiat"
j Fortunately we have not come to
this yet. Our judges are honest, but
| they must be shocked and Mortified
to see the American people, who, as
citizens, are charged and required tc
take due part in the enforcement Of
the law, abandoning all to the offic-
ials and demanding that there shall
| be statute to control every human
i act, even to what the people shall
eat and drink and restraining them ,ir
\ every natural, as well as constitu
tional right, and what is most strange
many of the preachers and teachers
OF religious creeds and social moral
/ ity, once irrepressible advocates ol
religious and social freedom. are now
rending the skies with the outcry fol
Times-promoter., 1909-01-22
INSCRIPTION RATES
CONGRESSMAN CRITICIZES
PRESIDENT

Probably few times in the history
of congress has the president of the
United States been so severely ar
raigned by a member as was Presi-
dent Roosevelt by Congressman Will
lett of New York last Monday.
Certainly no president has ever oc-
cupied the White House who has SO
laid himself liable to adverse criti-
cism as the present bombastic pro-
claimer of his own greatness and
strenuosity.
BY his own admission, Mr.. Roose-
velt is the only president who has
made perfect record as chief magis-
trate. We have his word for it, that
all other presidents were either peur-
lie, dogmatic, dishonest or cowardly
incompetents and he is the only ideal
exponent of truly great and good
president. Some few of Mr.. Roose-
yelt's remarks anent his predecessors
Congressman Willett has collabor-
ated as follows:
SIN his various writings he points
out the errors of Geo. Washington.
SIN the Life of Benton, he says
Thomas Jefferson was constitution
ally unable to put proper value on
truthfulness.' In the life of Morris,
he alludes to the utter weakness and
folly of Jefferson's second term and
the pitiable incompetence shown by
him and his successor
Having thus unburdened his mind
about James Madison, he declares
that James Monroe was 'as great a
failure as his predecessors Andrew
Jackson he calls ignorant and head
strong
"Martin Van Buren,, he insists,
faithfully served the mammon of un-
righteousness.' John Tyler was "a
politician of monumental littleness.'
Franklin Pierce was small pol
itician of low capacity and mean sur
roundings.'
"James X. Polk was, excepting
Tyler, the very smallest of the small
Presidents who came between jack
son and Lincoln y
''This covers the elder Harrison,
Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and
James Buchanan.
He has toleration only for the
Adamses, who stood for Federalist
aristocracy, and admiration only for
Alexander Hamilton, the DEBATED
champion of limitless monarchy"
Many other examples of the presi-
dents vitriolic and untruthfnl criti-
cisms were cited by Congressman
Willett, who justly dubbed him the
fountain of billingsgate."
That Mr.. Roosevelt inadvertently
committed some several commen-
dabel official acts during his long ad-
ministration was inevitable. 'Twere a
pity if a man whose range of activi-
ties has embraced the tanning of bel
ligerent broncos; the capturing, al
most single-handed and alone-if we
believe him-of the San Juan hill for
tification; the publication of politics,
which consisted of decapitating off
cials who didn't hail him as chief,
and the invasion of the sacred mar
riage circle in dissertation on race
suicide-'twere pity we say if some
where in his spectacular range his
activities did not lead him into right.
eous roads.
There is brightness in the prospect
that this quixiotic official life, begun
by accident and continued by bully.
ing will cease on March fourth next
--------------
n Sentiment against corporal punish
ment in school has not yet been de
yeloped in Mississippi. An incident
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-08
TRIED TO WRECK
PASSENGER TRAIN
Oliver Dye Accused of Pilins Ties on
the @. Track Near Brook
field, Mo.

HANNIBAL. Sept Solver Dye
tried to wreck train on the c., B.
& @. r. R. few miles west Of Brook
field by piling ties on the track. The
crime was committed about 1880
o'clock on the evening of September
3rd. A short time afterwards he was
arrested in Linneus and is held under
bond for his appearance at circuit
corut. w. M. Stamper special agent
OF the Burlington, was notified of the
attempt to wreck the t ain short
time after tne ties were found on the
track. He proceeded to the scene and
a short distance away found coat
which very much resembled the one
worn by Dye. Dye was arrested on
suspicion and confessed to the crime
In this confession, which he made to
Mr.. stamper, Dye said that he was
under the influence Of liquor when he
committed the crime Ie had been
ordered out of BroNkfield by the of
ficers of that place and was mad. He
states that if he had not been drinking
he would never have committed the
crime.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-08
Davenport Saloons.

DAVENPORT, Iowa. Sept. S.-Dav-
enport's 1G0 saloons have a lease of
life for five years. This was the de-
cision of Judge J.. W. Bollinger, when
ruling on cases brought by the civic
federation against certain Davenport
saloon keepers Who mad re-entered
business under the new statement of
consent circulated this summer. The
federation argued that saloons would
have to be reduced to one for every
900 of population in two years, when
the old statement of consert would
expire. Judge Bollinger holds
that the new one is valid and the
friends of the saloon are jubilant over
the first important legal victory it has
won since the movement for regula-
tion Of the liquor business was start
ed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-08
GENERAL CoRBIN
HAS PASSED AWAY
Died In Roosevelt Hospital at New
York Following the Performing
of Operation.

BEVERLY, Mass, Sept. S.-Presi-
dent Taft this morning received a
message from Mrs. A. c. Corbin in
New York saying that General Corbin
had died at Roosevelt hospital as the
result OF an operation. The president
Immediately wired Mrs. Corbin a
message of coincidence.
Lieutenant General Henry G. Cor
bin. U. 8. A., retired. who died early
today in Roosevelt hospital following
an operation, had been in Europe for
some time past taking the waters at
Carlsbad He returned to America
Sunday. Monday he went to the hos
pital and was operated on. He was
suffering with kidney disease for two
years. The Taft and Corbin families
have been intimate for years. Gen
Corbin was in command of the depart
ment Of the Philippines when Taft
was governor general.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-08
Commission System Of Government
Was Adopted by the Missouri
City by Big Rous-
ing Majority. t.t
SAME AS IN KEoKuK
Five counoiImen viii be Elected by
the People Instead Of choos-
Ing Aldermen From Var
ious Wards.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Sept. s.-A cam.
paign OF education clearly won VIC
tory here when a proposition for
new city charter was carried by ma
jority Of 1903. The total vote was
4,431, less than half the voting
strength of st. Joseph The charter
law for the cities Of the first class un'
der which the election was held, was
passed by the last Missouri legisla'
ture. The charter is to become effect
i've next April.
A month ago there was manifest
hospitality to the charter by maojr-
ity OF the voters and it took hard work
on the part of the charter advocates
to win enough ballots to carry the
proposition.
If the election had been held week
ago the charter probably would have
been defeated.
Activity on the part OF tn, charter
advocates enabled the subject to be
thoroughly debated in every home In
the city.
A park and boulevard system will
be created and extensive contracts for
street paving let. Instead Of electing
by wards, five councilmen will be chos
en- at large. The initiative and refer
endum will be given thorough trial
The mayor is empowered to appoint
the board Of health, utilities commits
sion, park board and most of the city
officers. The city is to be governed
largely through commissions.
The recall Of any elective city off
cial who becomes derelict in his dut.
or who incurs the displeasure of q
per cent of the voters is provided
The corporation will fare better un
der the new charter and the city viii
find it easier to raise money cor publi
improvement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-08
England viii Send Over Fine Ar
ray Of Boats to Represent That
Nation at New York
Celebration.
MODERN SQUADRON
The InfIexibIe, Duke of Argyle and
Other Monsters Of the Deep
Are to Cross Ocean
to America.

LONDON. Sept. s.-NeS ace Great
Britain adopted the pQA Of keeping
the main feet in hos waters has
such modern squas as that which
sails for New Yog4p The end of the
week to participIS the Hudson
Fulton celebrat listed foreign
country. 1t up of the Inflex-
ible, one of tn test Of the British
battleship-cruisers; the Drake. the
Duke Of Edinburg and the Argyle,
which until the advent OF vessels OF
the Inflexible class were considered
the strongest cruisers in the service.
1t will make a notable array In New
York harbor and the personnel OF the
feet should be pleasing to Americans
In command of the squadron is Ad-
miral Sir Edward Hobert Seymour
OF whom Admiral Dewey spoke SC
highly after the incident In Manila
bay, and who became even better
known to Americans, by name al
least during the Peking expedition.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-08
Suit Dismissed.

BOISE, Idaho, Sept. S-The suit Of
the government against the Barber
Lumber company of Wisconsin to can
eel the entry of forty thousand acres
of timber land in the Boise basin, val
ued at $1,0O0,OO0 was dismissed by
Judge Dean. The suit was instituted
in 1907 following the indictment of
the officers of the company on the
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
government through fraudulent en-
tries. The criminal cases against Sam
uel T. Barber and Sumner G.. Moon
are set for October.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-08
American Files AZ Miles Across coun-
try in SO Minutes and Breaks
All Previous Fig
ures.
ENGLAND IS HAPPY
Cody Accomplished the Feat and is
Back In the Good eraces of
the People Since the
Flight.

LONDON, Sept. Sired Cody, the
American aeronaut who is in charge of
the aviation work of the British war
Office broke all records for aeroplane
speed today by flying forty-seven miles
across country in fifty minutes. The
fight was started at Aldershot. The
time was caught by several watches.
Cody used machine Of his own con-
struction which he says balances itself
automatically The flight has aroused
great enthusiasm and has tended to
rehabilitate Cody in the good graces
of the war office, after 1t seems he had
been losing favor by reason of the
notable advances of other nations
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-08
Death CAUSED
FROM ACCIDENT
Frank Nathaniel PubIisky Passed
Away This Morning at Ten
O'Clock at the Family
Residence.
WE'LL KNOWN CITIZEN
Came Here In 1901 and Has Been En-
gagged in Business For Many
Years, Coming From
West Point.

This morning at 10 o'clock at the
family residence, No. 42S North Sew.
enth street, occurred the death OF
well known Keokuk resident, Frank
Nathaniel Publisky, who for the past
two weeks has been i'll from an acci.
dent which he sustained several
days ago while alighting from
carriage He struck his arm in such
manner as to cause bruise on the
member which later developed blood
poisoning and death today was due to
that accident Mr.. Publisky having
been perfectly well otherwise. AS
the nature of his illness became ap-
parent however, his life was despair
ed of, although all that could be done
in the way of medical attention and
the loving care of his devoted family
was done for him: He passed away
quietly this morning at his home.
Frank Publisky was born in Aus
tria September 4, 1851, and came to
this country with his parents when
but an infant two years old. Until
youth, eighteen years old, he resid-
ed in Buffalo, N. Y, removing to
Salem, Iowa, where he resided and
later moved to West Point, this state.
where for over twenty years he was
| in business, working at his trade OF
broom making. He lived at West
Point from 1872 until 1901, when with
his family he again removed to Keo.
| lxul and has hean ona of the leading
business men of the city since COM
i ing here. conducting a broom manu-
! featuring establishment at 221 John
4 son street for the past several years
1 February IA, 1878, he was united in
marriage to Miss Louisa Torley at
West Point Iowa. The union has
been happy one and to them were
born six children, five of whom sur
vive, William Publisky of this city
Mrs. Eleanora Hall of 1924 Concert
street, Mrs. Louisa Cantril of Fort
| Madison, Oroville Publisky of this
city. and Miss Genevra of Keokuk
1 His wife also survives him.
brother, John of Davenport, and
sisters, Margaret Weiland of Burling
ton. Kans., and Mrs. Margaret Eighms
of Mt. Ayr, Iowa, survive.
He was a member Of the Woodmer
OF the World and of the Travellers
Protective Association.
Arrangements for the funeral have
not yet been made. but will be an
nounced later
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-08
GOVERNOR rs
ON A JUNKET
Makinq Visit to Some Of the State
Institutions With the Board
OF Control.

DES MONIES, Sept S.-Governor
Carroll, accompanied by the members
of the state board of control, departed
yesterday for visit to several of the
state institutions. 1t is the governors
plan to personally inspect all of them
during the fall in order to familiarize
himself with conditions. The COVER
nor got in touch with army life by
camping with two of the national
guard regiments and he intends to
make the same personal investigation
of the state institutions. Governor
Carroll and the board ill return to
the city Friday or Saturday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-08
MISSOURI BANKS
AND EXAMINATION
No Fund Provided for the Work and
They VIII Go Unchecked for
Couple Of Years.

HANNIBAL, Mo-, Sept. S.-There
will be no more bank examinations in
Missouri until 1911 unless the State
Bankers association comes to the
rescue of the state and furnishes the
funds necessary for carrying on the
work. At the last session of the legis-
lature new banking commission was
created, but opponents killed the
measure to provide for funds to carry
on the work This leaves the examin-
ers, commission clerks and steno-
graphers without fund to draw on
for salaries. BY 1911 the deficit will
be nearly $4,000. An appeal will be
made to the Missouri State Bankers
association for money
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-08
Wall Street Clerks Are Camping Near
His Home and Wiring Back
Home Every Scrap Of
Information.
REPORTED AS DEAD
A Night Of Wild Rumors and Doubt
is Followed by News That He
is Still in the Land
of Living.


TURNER, N. Y, Sept. S.-Mr. Har-
riman's condition is about the same,
was the unsatisfactory reply to earnest
requests for news today. One of tae
nurses attending the sick man gave
this information over the telephone,
after a nigat Of doubt and wild rumor
one of which was that Hartman had
died at midnight. This was denied
by DR.. William Lyle, Harriman's pri-
vate physician. A request for an ex-
PLANTATION of the statement was answer
ed by hanging up the receiver. Men
in the biggest of Wall street In
terests are now camped at Turner,
wiring their employers every scrap OF
information the can secure.