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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-04
THE OF THE
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and city officers. Last year was a presidential electlon' III ne
ballots bore the names of presidential electors and candidates ir
congressman, Legislature and county and municipal offices. lhefe
will be a greatly reduced total vote, and, as usually happens III
an off year, a vote differing essentially in its character from the
presidential election vote. Questions that would nave peeh en-
tirely lost sight of last year will be prominent, and may prove the
determining factors. The State and local campaign has not yet
got fairly started. and there is an appearance of lassitude, which
is doubtless the reaction from the excitement of the primary cleo
lions. But the campaign will warm up towards the close, and If
in the sequel it does not furnish some surprises then the observa-
tions of the STAR are very much out of the way.
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In Ripping Good Humor
A COMMON FAILING.

But surely you believe that the sins
of the fathers are visited on the chill
dren."
TO let me have a tenner this morning,
but he lost at bridge last night and
didn't get it.'-Town and Country.
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THE REGISTRY OF
BIRTHS

births within five days after they occur. As a law is worthless
unless it is enforced, it is yet to be seen how much this law is
worth. There is a statute in PENNSYLVANIA which requires reports
Of births within ten days. 1t has been very generally violated.
AT Pottsvine on Saturday the State inspector of health procured
the arrest of sixty doctors and midwives for violation. The Of
Tense is a misdemeanor. The most prominent physicians of the
county are among the deinquents. The penalty in New Jersey is
a $50 fine, to be recovered in an action for debt bg the local board
of health or in the name of the State Board of Health.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-04
CONSIDERABLE SILENcES.

Il understand hat higgins and his
wife have very little to say to eac1
other"
Have they quarreled?"
mo. They think so much of each
other that he doesn't like to bore her
with baseball talk and she wants to
avoid worrying him about hats
Washington Star.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-04
A TOWN WITHOUT A
NIGHT SCHOOL

dered at. Perth Amboy is a manufacturing town, and also has a
large foreign element, both features of the population that pecu.
liarly demand the work of the night school. In a LARGE sense
there is ne economy in this denial of educational facilities. Ee.
mentary education and good citizenship are as valuable econom,
icaly in Perth Amboy as in Newark, which has the same charac-
teristics of population. Civic spirit in Perth Ambov should
wake up.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-04

A new law in New Jersey
provides a severe penalty for
physicians, midwives and
parents-whoever is respon-
sible-for failure to report
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-04
KIND CONSIDERATION.

III you would save what you pay for
cigars and cigarettes you would have a
sun at the end Of a year"
Very true" answered the thriftless
man. But think how my children
would suffer for var of gilt bands and
Star.
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FAMOUS BITS OF PROSE
BY FAMOUS Pc PLE E
Industry.
Born l7O6.
Died 100.
BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

way TO wealth is as plain a. the to market 1t depends chiefly
on two words-industry and frugaHty; that is wasten neither tin nor
money, hut make the bestu use Of both. Without industry and frugalty
nothing will do. N with thene everything
Sloth makes all things difficult ut industry all easy, n HI TAI riseth
must tot III day, n shall scarce vertake his business at night while
laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Industry need lot WISH, and he that ives upo hopes will die fasting
There are no gains without pains Then help hands for lave no lands; or If
! have they are smarty taxed. He that hath a trade hath in estate n he
That hath a calling, hath an Office of profit an dhonor. but then the trade
be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nr the Of
flee will enable us to peSppt tsA @ -
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A POOR SPECIALITY.

Il see your boy has a little hatchet.''
Yes; but I fear he'll never make a
president"
Doesn't chop down your favorite
cherry trees, ehs"
NO; he chops up my favorite golf
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
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READY FOR THE MOTH BALL.

First Moth-Hello. neighbor. 7 see
o are dressed for the ball.
Second Moth-Yes. How do l look In
this dress suit?
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-04

In time all our public
school buildings will be the
social centres for their neigh
borhoods that they seem
specially designed to be.
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The thriving town of Perth
Amboy, now the largest
municipality in Middlesex
county, has no night schools,
and the fact is to be won
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-04

This is an off year in
politics. In Newark the
tickets will bear the names
only of candidates for the
Legislature and for county
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Uncle WaH Mason
The SunfloqvA Poet of En1pora, Kansas, Says TODAY
Kansas, Says TODAY

II a man goes out o m the trail of voc dheres always a trail behind i, he
won't hay a very long way to CO. and he's laundering sure to find it. The man
is foolish who roam thu n fr trouble IN he's foundi it:
uryxrrYHrr If he had a bushe1 OF nice white sand he wouldn't hay
olv.1I.o to pound it, II people pn earth would not give chase to
|rpnuprr trouble when she is fitting, methinks that trouble would hide
$500 her faces n tend to her private knitting Or time is short
ad our way is brief and the road is rough n rutty: N II
we tag at the heels OF grief 1t show stat were going nutty 1t was long q
that I u and svore that I would be gay and cheerful; II wont be seen with a
head that's sore, or a ~ that's rod n fearful; I'll smiling rise from my
Edowny couch, n mile till Tho evening closes and I'll never carry a sign Il
Crouch, till turn u p my doe-gon toeses" Eve tried to live " that motto
grand, a close as a man nay d it, and trouble for m is dead nj canned.
though tothermost chaps pursue i.
Copyright 1902. by George Matthew Adam.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-04

Everything seems to be
shaped in Passaic city for a
contract with the Acquacka-
monk Water Company, sub
sidiary of the East Jersey
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SAVED BY HIS REPUTATION.

II see that Quibbler was discharged
by the jury"
But l thought that he admitted his
guilt"
II did. But he is such a liar that
no one would believe him.
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A TIRED TYRANT.

Officer-How'd you like a home of
your own?
Cook-Id like it,. I'm tired bossin'
other peoples families.
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HAVE O ONE?

Little Willie-Say, pa. what is a mu-
tual friend?
PA mutual friend. my son, is one
who makes it his business to keep you
informed of the mean things your other
friends say about you.
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Nov that we're engaged" she said,
'of course | can't call you Mr.. Parkin-
son. and even Sebastian Gems too long
and formal. Haven't you any short,
pet name?
We'll" replied the happy Parkinson,
''the fellows at school used to-er-call
me 'Pie-face.'"
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AND sEwARB ADVERTISER
FOUNDED MARCH 1, 1882.

MONDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 4. 1909.
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Copyright. 1909 BY George Matthew adams.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-20

used to it." she responded. I'VE are
brought up to take things as they come
and to expect tie worst. A mountain
woman never knows when some OF her
folks VIII be broS ght home dead. These
feuds are awful"
Granny Hargis"
Saw Four Sons Buried.
Ind the stoicism of this wife of this
lalter-dsy mountain feudist is much
similar to that Of Ceramic" Hargis.
mother Of the late Judge Jim Hargis
who saw four sons laid away follow
ing deaths WITH their boots on"
It is the Inheritance of the women OF
the hills Of Breathitt-this unaccouut-
able resignation to and understanding
OF a constant feudal warfare. It does
them no good to weep, so they are con-
tent to rear their children to avenge.
No one knows just how the Hargis-
Callahan feUd pact was made. There
was a time when the two were enemies.
In the old days Callahan had such fol-
lowers as the Spicers. the Smiths, and
John Abner- Hargis had Curt Jet. Tom
White, Bill BrittOn, and the Hargis
brothers. Jim Hargis, IL has always
been believed. saw In Callahan pros
pective valuable ally and the agree
ment was made that Hargis would be
elected as judge Of the county court,
and Callahan thigh sheriff"
Hargis brought it about, and when
the CardwelIs AL CockriIls attempted
to contest the elect the noted Hargis-
CockriH feud was launched Attorney
Marcum, who represented the contest
ants. was shot from the court steps in
Jackson. Dr.. George Cox was called
from his home one night and shot from
ambush by confessed hirelings of the
Hargis-Callahan crowd. Jim Cockrill,
town marshal, also was shot from the
Jackson courthouse, on the afternoon
that he had promised his sweetheart
to leave Jackson. Curt Jett confessed
that he and John Smith and Abner
committed this murder
You sure got him, boys, 1 heard him
below like a big bull" it was testified
that Judge Hargis said as DR.. Cox lay
w-rithing in agony upon the sidewalk.
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Whether or not this remark was made
it indicates the heartIessness of "a Ken
lucky feudist wren he sees the undoing
OF an enemy.
Some Killings
That Marked the Feud.
Other assassinations have been those
Of Jim Deaton, "toppled of" of a raft
by some OF the Callahan faction; Speed
Hamilton, killed by the same gang; Old
Man Bill Strong. killed a dozen years
ago by some OF the anti-Hargis
clan. Now and then there have
been private brawls and family
encounters. The law has taken but
little notice of them all. for In the old
days conviction was almost impossible
in Breathitt so strongly was the Hargis-
Callahan faction entrenched. A partial
list. however, shows the following vic
Tins:
VIII SewaII, haIf-brother of Har-
gis, shot in the back.
Jerry south. supposed murderer Of
Sewan. shot at picnic brawL
john Tide Hargis, shot on train.
Jerry Cardwen convicted and par
doned.
Ben Hargis, killed by a Cockriu,
Wl' " dr. dALtiW dIu pdEooHeu.
DIT. d. B. Cox, guardian of Cockriu
boys. waylaid by assassins.
Jim CockrilI, town marshal, shot
from courthouse by Cur- Jet, who is
now doing time.
James Marcum. attorney for Cock
rills. shot from courthouse by Curt
Jett.
Henry Barnett, a CockrilI, killed,
assassin unknown.
Sam Lentzfcrd, Tom CockriII's
brother-in-law, killed. Murderer IN
known.
John CockrilI, killed. Assailant un-
known.
A. F. Bullock. Hargis sympathizer,
killed in general fight.
Bud Bohannan. killed in fight by
Joe HaddiX.
Granville Parter, CockriII man.
killed. George Barnett, jr., tried and
acquitted.
J. w. Noble and Irving Newgate,
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Govan Smith is jealous Of the trade he
has among the mountaineers and wishes
him disposed Of for this reason, If no
other. He describes Govan Smith and
John Smith, the latter being the man
who ran away with Callahan's first
wife. as the leaders in the present
trouble.
After Deaton died, some mountain
poet got together a few verses describ-
ing the manner in which he was shot
from ambush and naming members of
the Callahan clan as his slayers. The
little daughter of Deaton had a melo-
odeum" and gave the words tune. Night
after night she would sing of her faith
er's waylaying and the sons and sturdy
mountain friends OF Deaton would gath
er there and cry and swear vengeance.
Willie Deaton told me this himself.
What more can be expected when even
the little children of a mountaineer con-
stantly have before them the picture of
the untimely death Of the mead Of the
family.
They dislike "lawing' these people.
Litigation is costly and takes time.
IT'S thought the easier plan to extermi-
nate or be exterminated and to let the
courts take care of such minor Offer ses
as gambling or mOonshining. Towering
hills seem sufficient as courtroom Tor
these feudists, and each man Is judge,
a Grag or boulder overlooking the road
over which the victim must pass, being
the place from which the self-c0nsti-
tuted executoner meets out quick pun
ishment.
And yet most of them are members
Of me church and the secret orders
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JOHN SMITH,

JOHN SMITH,
Former Hargis-Callahan Henchmani
Now a Silent But Powerful Factor
Among Deatons.
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Mountain Lass With "Melo-
deum" Plays Part in
Present Fight.
AMBITION TO KILL
BRED IN THE BONE"
"Furriners" Unable TO Fully Appre-
ciate Ca11ousnesS and Disre-
gard of Human Life.

are well represented. Callahan has al
ways been called Deacon" for ne
erected a church within a hundred
yards OF his home and was named a
deacon therein. Occasionally there are
services.
Churches and secret orders, however,
are negative factors when it comes the
time for the rife to have its turn. Blood
itself sometimes doesn't stick. although
in the main feud ties are family ties.
Up to the time Ed Callahan was am
| pushed. he and his brothers, Sam and
Green, had not been on the best or
terms OF late-business disputes being
at the bottom OF it. Now the family is
reunited and determined to bring TO
justice, in one way or the other, the
anti-CaIlahanites.
Breathitt county methods are queer.
While closeted with Levi Johnson and
''Lish" Smith. we heard a heavy step
approaching. a stalwart mountain form
I came up the stairs.
"Come in Green" said the boys. Then
turning to me:
Hes all right This is Greenbury
Turner, a member of the special grand
jury who is investigating our cases. said
Smith. Then the grand juryman sat
down and listened to the Smiths and
Johnsons as they discussed feudaIism.
The next day he went back 10 the jury
room.
1t is just another insight into the
queer way these people have OF doing
everything.
The outside world. they admit, will
have a hard time understanding them,
but among themselves-they are content
fathers.
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Victims of Obesity

Cure xooEss4I ~ Home IN Cou11oFss
AS a bodily affliction obesity often
seems to be inexpIieable, so rapid IS the
increase Of weight and bulk. even in
cases where the victims are studiously
temperate in eating, etc. There is evil
IDENTIFY a predispOsition that way, and
neglect only tends to confirm it. The
remedies tried may have grievously
disappointed you.
Here Is one that will not do so, and
you may get the ingredients at your
druggists and mix them yourself with
out trouble. Ask for y OF. marmola,
Z o. fluid extract Cascara aromatic.
and 81 or. peppermint water. Shake
together IN a good-sized clean bottle.
Simply take this mixture after each
meal and at bedtime, one teaspOonful
TO the Dose and give yourself no fur
Their trouble; the superhuous tat win
sUbside with wonderful rapsdity.
Dieting need not worry you in the
least. nor is violent exercising at all
desirable Wasting methods Of weight
reduction are not natural. Try the
pleasant treatment above prescribed for
a week or so. and you viii be 1T
strong, and free from all bodily dis
comfort. besides having Tegained cor
rect weight ard a shapely figure.
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writer and a photographer, R. L. Nc
CIure, across the mountain.
Mrs. Callahan
Tells of the Shooting
Downstairs we met Mrs. Callahan,
wan, troubled little woman, still nerv-
Gus from the effects Of an experience
that comes to few of her sex, even
among mountain womankind.
She told her story simply, but with
graphic effectiveness. Her husband was
sweeping the store, she said, and had
Just reached the half open doorway
when she heard the report Of rife and
the swish of a bullet. Ed Callahan fell
at her feet.
I'm killed, baby" he said. A mo-
ment later she was by his side bidding
defiance TO the lead that fell about
them. They expected the store TO be
taken" she said, and her first thoughts
were OF the rife in the house adjoining
She ran for il, and thrust it desperately
into the hands of her wounded husband.
II hear them runnin' through the
bushes. papa" said an eight-year-old
son in the yard. But they never came,
these ambushers, for in the early dawn
they made their escape as silently as
they came, their identity guessed at. but
unknown.
81 have been doing my best TO get
Ed to leave here forever" continued
Mrs. Callahan. They are going TO xiii
him yet The day after he was shot
he agreed, but then a lot Of the folks
around here came in and cried and
said they couldn't get along without
I'D: that he had been their main sup
port and that they couldn't make Nv
ing without him. Then he soTter chang
ed his mind about leaving and decided
TO stick It out ana not be run away
from home. I don't know what he IS
going TO do now. I Wisf he would go
away I'd rather give up everything
than see MIN killed.
The morning he was shot 200 noun
tain people were here in a few hours
We fed them all at dinner that day
A lot Of them wanted to start out right
away and kill these enemies Of Eds,
but he told them that this was no time
for that"
How do your women Of the hills
bear such resignation in affairs Of this
kind2" Mrs. Callahan was asked.
Il guess it's because we are sorter
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Of the Hargis faction, killed. Muir
derers unknown.
Ben Davis, killed, supposedly by an
anti-Hargis man.
These are some OF the sudden deaths
because of which Breathitt has become
known as "The Dark and Bloody
Ground" Criminally, the law has been
in the main unavailing to avenge. Mrs.
Marcum did recover in a civil damage
suit against leaders OF the Har4is-Cal-
lahan clan for the brutal murder OF
ner husband by Curt Jet. For the most
part, however. beginning with the muir
der of old Bill Strong, who, as a noun
taineer told me, had made widows OF
nearly forty mountain women, until the
present day, IL has been a contest of
bullets
THE best way to compromise with an
enemy is with powder and lead is the
slogan Of one mountain feudist. That
is the spirit that rules in Breathitt That
is the spirit that is likely to be re-
vived again with the recovery of Ed
Callahan and the failure to indict his
accused enemies.
Columns would not tell the history of
these feuds and their ramifcations. It
is an old story and one that has never
been explained. The mountain folks are
content if you but look at it a little
while from their viewpoint.
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I uTTlutI
Cannot Understand.

No "furTiner." however. ever will
understand why it requires so little TO
start an eastern Kentucky feud. A
dispute over dog. an axe, a dividing
line between two mountain estates, I'M
welcome business competition, is suf-
ficient. The enemies said to have been
exterminated by "Jedge" Hargis were
political enemies and business cOmpet-
itors. Hargis amassed a smalI-sized
fortune at Jackson and during the four
years that he was on the bench was
absolute dictator Of Breathitt county.
a controversy over a log-landing. Cal
lahan and Deaton both being in the
rafting busin sss, caused DeatOn's death.
Callahan now makes bold to say that
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
STUDENT BODY WILL
ACCOMPANY PLAYERS
oxy Boys to Go to Pomona with Track
and Field Team for Annual
Meet Saturday-The
Entries

Practically the entire Occidental stu
dent body will journey to Claremont
Saturday with the track team which is
to meet Pomona, on the iatter's field,
in the annual track and field meet be-
tween the two colleges.
Both teams are predicting victory
for their squads, but inasmuch as the
Highland Park contingent has held no
competition with outside teams so far
this season, there is no basis on which
to work out a dope sheet on the out
come Of the meet.
In the tryoutS for places on the team
which will represent Occidental, held
by Coach Gorton yesterday, Baer ran
the 100 yards in 10 2-5 seconds and the
220 in better than "a seconds.
In the shot put four men are better
than the 36-foot mark, while Thomson
boosted the big weight out to the Al
foot mark. Conrad has reached the
37-foot mark several times this season.
Coach Gorton will endeavor to have
the discus throw among the various
events, and is counting on Thomson
and Conrad to capture first and second
places in it, as they have both been
throwing around 110 feet.
The entries for the different events
are as follows:
1OO-yard dash-Occidental, Baer, Wilson,
Roberts; Pomona, Sloane, Parker.
.zZU-ydFQ udSn-OcCluentdl, RuSny Bders
Roberts; Pomona, Joos, Parker.
44O-yard dash-Occidental, Rush, Schoon-
over; Pomona, Sloane, Case, Hinckley.
SS-yard run-Occidental, Bonner Hunts
berger; Pomona, Carver, Case. O'Brien.
Mile run-Occidental Montgomery, Stone
Gobar; Pomona, O'Brien, Rau, Lorbeer.
Two-mile run-Occidental, lGobar. Elton;
Pomona, Sturges, Rau.
120-yard hurdles-Occidental, Thomson
Spaulding Lowry; Pomona, Joos Seward.
22O-yard hurdles-OccidentaL Thomson,
Huntsberger, Spaulding; Pomona, Parker,
Vale, Palmer.
Pole vault-Occidental Carus Lowry
Gordon; Pomona, Birdsal, Steward, Pierce
Broad Jump-Occidental, Thomson
Thomas, W. Thomson. Carus; Pomona,
Sloane, Gillette, Joos, Parker.
High jump--Ocicdental Gordon, Lowry
Thomson; Pomona. Tangeman. Steward
Gillette.
Shot put-Occidental, Thomson, Conrad
Lowry, Gordon; Pomona, Davenport, Gillette
Lorbeer.
Hammer throw-Occidental, Conrad Cor
don, Thomson; Pomona, Gillette, Seward,
Reed.
Relay-Occidental Rush, Bonner, Baer,
Montgomery; Pomona, Sloane. Farie, Car
yer, Hinckley.