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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-04-17
|lature Extends Juris-
 ktion Over Trackage 1 Conditions.
EATIIN IS FELONY
Passes Wingo Act Relating {" hrnorated TOwns-Uniyersity
 Appropriation Bill Up.

e Rock, April l6.-lmportant tion was the order in the house orning, three statewide meas eing passed, the penitentiary hey bill was passed, the Witt ook bill amended finally and egislation attended to. In ad- to this the house had the honor ertaining as its guest Governor of Mississippi, who addressed gislature.
 bably the most important meas ssed was that by Senator Hen
 to enlarge the powers of the railroad commission so as to
 jurisdiction over track condi- throughout the state and al-
 them to make certain orders ling bad" track, the violation kh orders being misdemeanor, hder certain conditions felonies. e railroad company. It gives bmmission the right to set the limit for bad trackage and to its repair.
 ther important measure was the
 Senator Wingo, curing defects incorporation of towns and and in the act of raising cities ip -orporated towns to cities of c md class. The measure is re- ras of special value in validat-
 incorporation of cities.
 mendment was adopted ill con- D with the consideration of the textbook bill. This amendment kered some time ago by Messrs.
 and Duhaway, and it's adop- was almost unanimous this hg. The bill will now be sent senate.
 Rowe's bill amending the pres atute regarding the liability of yer to employe, ill cases of car, railway and similar com was passed. The bill pro- that the question of contribu- pegligence on the part of the ye, in case of death or injury, be comparative, and be taken onsideration by the jury, not as Psolute bar to prosecution, but eding the degree of liability on aft of the employer. If there een gross neglect on the part
 employer, if, any laws provid- pr the safety of employees have violated. then contributory neg cannot be claimed against the ye.
 lversity Appropriation BILL
 senate spent rather a noisy Pon. It transacted considerable
 business before the morning listened to Governor Noel. of fsippi, hurried through consid-
 house business and wound up
 sort of free-for-ali on the uni ! appropriation bill. The ap- patton bill was the '"real thing" morning, and the senate expe-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-04-17

Mrs. Dodds, of Sherrill, arrived in this city yesterday to attend the per formance of the Dockstader min- strels at the Elks Theater last night.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-04-17
The Question of the Day.

Where can get good suit? The answer Is Eisenkramer's. Why? Ra- cause they carry only tho best wool ems and employ only tho best work- men.
 EISENKRAAER, Tho Tailor, 1ver Citizens' Bank. Second ave, cor.
 Pine st.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-04-17

A0pen s p. m. to 1880 .. m., and re. liable. Special attention to train calla Old phone 394. New phone 102. Moss Ofdrd, prop. Pine Blun. Ark.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-04-17
Fire Almost Wipes Out
 Y Vance, Mississippi

Clarksdale, Miss April 16.-Vance, small town ..g twenty-eight miles southeast, of this city on the Yazoo Delta railroad, was destroyed last night. by fire. The loss is between 15,00O and $2O,0OO. Insurance over 1000, as near as can be ascertained by the following firms; J. M. Lawshe & O., J. J. Everett. iF. M. C4Abs. F.. V. Burrus. ---.S .-.
 q6ptain J. B. York, of Memphis, is thA guest Of relatives in Ais city.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
SIX BABIES DIE AS "WTCHES" CHANT.
Reading investigating Deaths
lncantatI0ns--Fsad Summer OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
"poctor" Not Only Allowed Infants TO Perish,
Started NeghboFhood

Reading, Pa.-Coroner Strasser is
busy procuring evidence in the cases
of six infants, all of whom died within
twenty-four hours. 1t is charged by
the Coroner that all six of the chill
dren were treated by witch doctors, !"
but that the only thing they were
suffering from was summer COM
plant. Coroner Strasser has reported
the matter to the District Attorney.
Reading has many witch doctors,
and there have been cases in court
time and again Of persons who de-
clared that neighbors "verhexed :"
them.
No sooner does a child become i'll
in this section than the neighbors
rush in and declare the child is "ver-
hexed," and witch DOCTOR" with
his lamentations. is sought out.
In the cases of the children that
died while undergoing this treatment
several were simply treated by chant
ing mystic words while red cotton
cord was passed over the body. In
other cases bag containing charmed
words was hung about the neck. The
Coroner said:
MANY children die every summer
from summer complaint that do not
have an attending physician. Upon
investigation find that the parents
are of the middle class, and spend
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20

their money calling in old women
who make practice of 'powwowing'
and using charmed words.
What is more, these women de-
scribe the hex to the parents, and
this is the cause of manyof the neigh
borhood feuds that are aired in court.
"The parents of these children in
nearly every case imagined that their
offspring were suffering from witch
craft, and they Immediately hustled
them OF to hexerai doctor. 1t is
about time that the authorities inves-
tigate the illegal practice that has
existed so long in Reading and Berks
County, and which is the fundamental
reason for the many deaths.
Parents are entirely too super
stitious. In many cases they believe
that their children have spell cast
over them and instead Of consulting
a regular physician go to a hexerai
doctor and procure either a hoodoo
or charm to drive away the evil.
this charm or bag is worn on GER
tain parts of the child's body and is
kept there for certain length of
time. Certain passages of the Bible
are repeated daily by one of the fam
lily to break the 'hoodoo,' and the
powwow doctor calls daily and goes
through funny stunts in an effort to
chase out the imaginary spirits
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
Gems From Ruskin.

To know anything about God you
must begin by being just.
See that no day passes in which
you do not make yourself some
what better creature; and in order
to do that find out, first. what you
are now.
The weakest among US has a gift
however seemingly trivial which is
peculiar to him. and which, worthily
used. will be gift also to his race
forever.
Violate truth wilfully, in the
slightest particular, or at least, get
into the habit of violating it, and
all kinds of failure and error will
surround and haunt you to your full.
We should be afraid of doing
wrong. and of that only. otherwise,
II we only don't do wrong for fear of
being punished. we have done wrong
in our hearts already.
The best prayer at the beginning
OF day is that we may not lose its
moments. Washington Herald,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
M AGONY WIN ECZEMA
Whole Body . Mass OF Raw, Bleeding,
Torturing Humor - Hoped Death
Would End Fearful Suffering

Whole Body Mass OF Raw, Bleeding.
TorturinR Humor - Hoped Death &
Would End Fearful Suffering
In Despair: Cured by Outfeura. :
words cannot describe the terrible "a.
zema suffered with. 1t broke out on my
head and kept spreading until it covered
my whole body. / was almost solid mass
of sores from head to foot looked more
like piece of raw beef than human being.
The pain and agony endured seemed mora
than could bear Blood and pus eosea
from the great sore on my scalp, from Hiap
der my finger nails, and nearly all over ray
body. My ears were 80 crusted and Bwbllsa
was afraid they would break of. EveFy
hair in my head fell out. could not slt
down, for my clothes would stick to the
raw and bleeding flesh, making me cry out
from the pain. My family doctor did all
he could, but / got worse and worse. Ny
condition was awful. ! did not think /
could live, and wanted death to come and
end my frightful sufferings.
In this condition my mother-in-law
begged me to try the Cuticura Remedies.
said | would, but had no hope of recov-
cry. But oh, what blessed relief ] expert.
enced after applying Cuticura Ointment Il
cooled the bleeding and itching flesh and
brought me the first real sleep had had in
weeks. 1t was as grateful as ice to burn
ing tongue. I would battle with warm
water and Cuticura Soap, then apply the
Ointment freely. also took Cuticlra Re
solvent for the blood. In short time the
sores stopped running, the flesh began to
heal, and knew was to get well again.
Then the hair on my head began to grow,
and in short time was completely cured.
| wish ! could tell everybody who has &C.
zerna to use Cuticura. Mrs. VIM. Hunt, l35
Thomas St., Newark, N. j., Sept. %, 1908"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props.
of Cuticura Remedies. Boston. Mass
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20

around the corner and up the boule-
ward and stopped opposite the guillo-
tine. Two men let down the back,
which formed steps from the vehicle.
Then down these came first the
prison governor, then a priest and
then figure which might have been
Lazarus coming from the grave at
Christ's command. It had its hands
fastened behind its back and a loose
covering hanging from the shoulders.
The body was naked except for a pair
of linen trousers.
Over the face hung black veil,
thin enough to allow the features to
be visible, for the Code enacts that
PARTICLES must be taken to the SCAT
fold in bare feet and with yelled head.
Duchemin was twenty-eight years
old, but the livid face might have
been that of man any age over
sixty. 1t was the face of man with.
out consciousness or feeling of any
kind for whom assuredly the bitter
ness of death had already passed.
Within fifteen seconds from the
time the prison van stopped the knife
had fallen. This seems Incredible.
one Of the newspaper correspondents
took the time by stop watch. In
those fifteen seconds Deibler's aids
seized the cloak and veil, conducted
the condemned man three PAGES be-
tween the van and the machine aud
laid him in place. The knife fell in
stantly and the body was pushed into
basket.
How such perfection can be at
tanned when the men have so little
practice on living subjects is little
short of marvellous. The speed COM
bined with the evident insensibility
of the doomed man robbed the specta-
Gle of its horror. It had more re-
semblance to clever performance of
the disappearing lady act of the mu-i
sic halls than to a tragedy of death.
For those who were watching with
in three Yards the work of setting up
the dread machine in the darkness
and silence will remain a memory
long after the recollection of the ac-
tual execution has faded away.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
GUILLOTINE REvIsITs PARIS.
de Needed to Behead a Parricide-..An
AwesOme Scene.

Paris.-The French mind being
pre-eminently logical it is difficult 10
believe that it will not demand a
change in the method of carrying out
execution. The law demands that
they be publicly performed in public
place. In practice no member of the
public, strictly speaking, saw any
thing of the execution of Duchemin,
the only eyewitnesses being $50 jour-
nalists, dozen mounted gendarmes
and twenty policemen.
The difficulty in finding a place for
the guillotine since the RoQuette
prison was pulled down has always
been proffered as an excuse for the
practical abolition of capital punish
ment which Paris has enjoyed or suf-
fered for the last ten years. That this
difficulty does not exist was shown
when the guillotine was erected at the
middle of the 900 yard wall OF the
Prison de la Sante.
1t stood in the centre of four chest
nut trees belonging to the double line
of trees that border the Boulevard
Arago. Opposite this wall are the
grounds of a huge unoccupied con-
vent, so that nothing overlooked the
SPOT. The only drawback was that
there is no door to the prison on this
side. Therefore the condemned man.
leaving by door on Sante street at
right angles to the Boulevard Arago,
was driven some seventy yards along
this street and then $50 yards to the
place of death. Some 1900 troops
were on duty, barring every road
around the prison. Double and some
times triple cordons both on foot and
on horseback fifty yards apart made
it an assurance that nobody could APP
proach except those possessing a po-
lice pass.
At about 3.45 Deibler's men began
erecting the guillotine. Silently,
without the sound of hammer. with
out spoken word of command being
given, 1t was put together by the light
of candle pickering in an old time
lantern, and this was used even when
Deibler wished to test the machine
with a spirit level. Everything was
exact. In an hours time one of the
exeeutioner's assistants blew out the
candle. All was ready. The knife
was run up to the top of the frame,
but no test drop was made, so conf
dent was Deibler in his men and the
machine.
1t was now the dawn of a perfect
summer day. AS the sun rose it re-
vealed the maroon colored timber of
justice" It's position among the trees
robbed 1t of much Of its crude horror.
Shortly before o'clock, when it was
full daylight. the prison van came
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
The Difference.

Sydney Resented once wrote a
comedy entitled The Optimist. =
which achieved success after the
production. but was long time
reaching the stage Manager after
manager refused the manuscript. and
one day Mr.. Resented, whose pa
thence was exhausted, blurted out
to his sole auditor:
"Of course. you don't appreciate
the play! You don't even know the
meaning of its name"
Yes. I DO" protested the i'm
presario.
Well" insisted Mr. Resented,
what's the difference between an
optimist and pessimist?'
The manager barely hesitatea.
IAN optimist is an eye doctor,
he said; "a pessimist is foot doc
tor p Harper's Weekly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
WRIGHT CANNERY BURNED.
Fire At Choptank May Cause Heavy
Loss To Farmers.

Denton.-The canning and pack
ing plant of w. NJ. Wright & Co. at
Choptank, which had a capacity of
$4,000 cases season, was destroyed
er with the entire contents.
farmers for about 200 acres of to-
matoes and had just started up the
plant for the work of the season. The
origin of the fire is unknown: Wal
ter M. Wright, senior member of the
firm, was in Baltimore at the time
County Commissioner William J..
Wright, who resides at Choptank.
was overcome by heat while fighting
the fire. The loss is estimated at
from $4,000 to $4,000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Be it observed that sUncle Cy"
Young is still in the game.
Connie Mack is believed to have
1.-The minor leagues
Lave Cross is now the manager of
the Charlotte, N. c., team and is
playing second base.
Brooklyn runners are again cur
rent that Billy Keller will be the SUI
perba's manager next season.
Worcester's sensational third base.
man, Hugh F. Bradley, has been
bought by the Boston Club for Sep
TENDER delivery.
The Cleveland Press has pre-
sented shortstop Neal Ball with a
silver loving Gun for making that I'M
assisted triple play.
Sandow Mertes, former New York
outfelder. has been appointed captain
of the Stockton team of the outlaw
California State League.
The Athletic Club has purchased
two Southern League pitchers, name
ly: Thomas Atkins, from Atlanta, and
Lively, from Montgomery.
Manager Cantillon, of the Wash
ingtons, who has been sizing up the
Detroit leaders, says the champions
are not doing good, and are in danger
OF blowing up any time.
When pitcher Tesreau arrived in
Detroit Texas League Club had put
a $500 claim on him. jennings did
not consider the youngster worth the
money and shipped him back at once.
Clark Griffith thinks he has the
hest throwing outfleld in the National
League in Bescher, Cakes and Mitch
ell. All have iron wings and can
make accurate throws as well as long
ones.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
JACK HATHAWAY IN THE TOLLS.
Buffalo Man Accused OF Bigamy.
Perjury And Assault.

Cumberland.-Jack Hathaway, of
Buffalo, N. Y, hunted for six months
on charges of bigamy, assault and
battery and perjury, was captured at
Keyser, w. Va, by Constable S. T..
Mitchell, of New Kensington, Pa.
Mrs. Mary Rattlesberger, of New
Kensington, who brought the charges
Of bigamy and assault and battery,
says that year ago Hathaway mar
ried her 1S-year-old daughter, Eva at
Cheswick, when he had another wife.
Justice of the Peace Robert Stuart,
of Cheswick, who performed the cere-
mony brings the charge of perjury
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
Tiff For Tat.

An Irishman was sitting in de-
PIT smoking when a woman came
and. sitting. down beside him. re-
marked. q
sSir, If you werela gentleman you
would not smoke here.
Num- he said: ST We WIZ a
lady ye'd sit farther away"
Pretty soon the woman burst out
again:
IF you were my husband I'D give
you poison"
well, num-" returned the Irish
man, as he pulled away at his pipe,
If you wuz me wife I'd take it. -
Kansas City Independent.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
Stale Of Maryland
J. w. ARNOLD KILLED.
Board Thrown From A Car Struck
Him And Fractured Skull.

Him And fractured Skull.
Cumberland. Mr.. John W. Ar
mold, Of Frostburg, manifest clerk
at Ocean Mine, No. /, for the Con-
solidated Coal Company. was killed
while walking through the yards at
that place attending to his work. AS
he was passing train of cars some
Italians were throwing dirt and rub
bish from a car standing on the
track and just at that moment a
large plank was thrown out and
struck Mr.. Arnold on the head, frac-
turing his skull. He only lived a
short while after the accident. The
body was taken to his home at Frost
burg. He leaves widow and one
daughter, Miss Eula, now on visit
to friends in South Carolina. He
was quite prominent in this locality,
a member of Mountain Lodge, No.
SO, Ancient, Free and Accepted Ma
sons and of the Order of Heptasophs,
and was also recording steward of
the First Methodist Episcopal Church,
Frostburg, and treasurer of the Mu-
tual Aid Society, relief association
for the miners of that locality.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
Contract To Remodel Courthouse.

Contract To Remodel Courthouse.
Hagerstown The Washington
County Commissioners awarded the
contract to remodel the Courthouse
to City Councilman George B. McC.
Wolf, Hagerstown, his bid, $3.50,
being the lowest. There we're five
bidders. The other bidders were G.
w. Spencer, College Park, $S,970;
w. A. Schenck, Washington, So
876; James H. Moran & Son. Hagers-
town, $9,285; w. L. Middlekauff,
Hagerstown, $S,45S. The improve
ments are to be finished this year
and the repairs to the courtroom
must be completed in time for No
vember court.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
Crowned Heads Will Disappear
In Ten Years." il Prediction

Chicago. the close of his
lecture on ''The Rise and Fall of the
Polish Republic" at the opening of
the Lincoln Temperance Chautauqua
Assembly at Evanston, Colonel John
Sobieski created. a sensation among
his auditors by declaring:
Ten years will see the end OF the
crowned heads of Europe, and in their
places will be men OF principles like
Washington's, Lincoln's and JefIer-
sons. Then WIN come the blessed
day Of liberty. peace and fraternity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20

Auto Frightened Horse To Death.
St. Michaels.-Capt r. Lee Ford
lost valuable driving mare from
fright. The Captain was returning
to his home from Mcdaniel when he
saw an automobile about to overtake
him, the driver constantly blowing
his horn. Hastily dismounting, Cap
tain Ford reached the mares bride.
AS the automobile passed the mare
dropped dead before she could be re-
moved from the harness.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20

times my arms were numb. / was
dull and miserable all the time and
hoped for death to relieve me. Doan's,
Kidney Pills soon brought improve
ment, and finally made me well
woman"
Remember the name-Doan's. Sold
by all dealers. so cents box. Fos-
ter-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
IL Il: ss w.: :: ThOmpsOn's Eye Water

Electric tramway competition re-
duced the suburban traffic of the
Great Eastern Railway around Lon
don by S,292,817 passengers in the
last six months Of last year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
Doctor Was Knew.

Blobbs-The doctor told Guzzler
drinking was the very worst thing
he could do.
'Slobbs-I guess that doctor didn't
know Guzzler or he would have real.
lied that drinking is the best thing
he does. "-Philadelphia Record
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20

en- suffer untold mis-
cry. Ailing kidneys
are the cause. Cure
them. Mrs. e. G.
Corbin, "a N. Depot
St., Dalton, Ca, says:
my body was racked
with kidney aches
and pains, and some
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20

People of fresh air habits and dis
cernment almost instantly and un.
consciously are able to tell the pres,
ence of deleterious and injurious
agents in the air, although these
give no sign or warning to the
senses. On this account an Indian
has an unbearable sense of oppres-
sion in closed room
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
Souvenir of Hot Tennis
Bout at the White House.

Washington, d. G. - Night work
has been begun ON the addition being
built to the executive Offices at the
White House. Three shifts are now
working. and there will not be an
hours let-up until the addition is
completed. In the old tennis court,
now being excavated, one OF the
workmen found buried in the clay at
a depth of four or five inches tennis
ball. He pocketed it as a souvenir,
saying as he ala so: .sIlI bet Theo-
dore drove THAI one into the ground. "
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20

Vice Consul Dirk p. De Young,
of Santos. reports that there is a
plan in the City of Joinville, the
principal foreign trade centre of the
Brazilian State of Santa Catharina.
to build an electric railway to Lake
Sagaussa. an ocean harbor 10 miles
distant. where vessels can enter sue.
cesSfully.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20

Senegal consists of four communes
st, Louis. the capital Dakar. the
military headquarters; Rufisque, the
chief commercial town. and Goree,
good communal town. The total
area is 43S square miles and the to-
tai population 100000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
Jokers Meet.

Ibid the boat rocker rock the
boat this timer"
mo; he was very quiet this trip
There was another joker aboard with
an unloaded pistol. Washington
Herald
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
Cigarette stump Caused Fire.

Cambridge.-Fire which began in
the hay and straw stored on the sec
ond floor of Woolford & SINNERS
grocery and feed store caused dam
age amounting to $1,000, covered by
insurance. A cigarette stump drop
ped in the provender is supposed to
have started it. The fire was stub
born.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
Cauterized.

YES" said Mrs Lapsling. John
ny's all right now. When he was
bitten by the strange dog took him
to doctors and had the wound os-
tracised right away. Chicago Tri-
bune.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20

Vessels of the German navy have
been equipped with novel life saw
ing apparatus resembling a huge
basket with it's sides made of rope
ladders. Lowered over the sides.
several persons can climb it at the
same time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20
Domestic Economy.

Mollie, the Irish domestic in the
service of a Wilmington household.
was one afternoon doing certain odd
bits of work about the place when
her mistress found occasion to re-
buke her for one piece of careless
ness.
You, haven't wound the clock.
Mollie.''. said she, Il watched you
closely. and you gave it only a wind
or two. Why didn't you complete
the job?"
Sure, mum We haven't forgot that
I'm leavin' tomorrer, have ye?" ask
ed Mollie. II Amt goin' to be dom
amy of the new gyurls work!"-
Harper's Weekly.