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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-05-12
HERE is A LIFE-STORY THAT
WILL APPEAL TO YOU.

Editor The Jeffersonian: - In
your last issue I read the letter Of
Mr.. Leroy L. Wright, "The Poor One
Horse Tenant and your comment
on same. 1t forcibly reminded me
Of the experience have had in re-
gard to neglected opportunities or
restricted chances to get an educa-
ton. My experience was not neg
lected, but restricted, opportunities.
| loved my book next to my dear
mother, but did not enjoy the privi-
lege or pleasure of going to school
when child, or ploWboy. My father
was poor man-trying to pay for q
farm when [ was growing up. [
begged him to let me go to school
to give me an education, if he never
gave me anything else. [ got three
months in school, and the balance Of
my limited education by a pine
knot fire-light-after blowing from
the time the whipporWills quit hol-
lering in the morning until they
commenced at night-carrying pine
roots and knots home at night to see
what [ could learn from Webster's
blue-back speller l sat on one side
of the fireplace with my book, while
my dear mother sat on the other
side with cards and cotton; there
We remained busy as bees until the
last blaze flickered off the last piece
of pine. My father, brothers and
sisters in bed and asleep I embraced
every opportunity, utilized every
spare moment, to learn all I could
from books and papers. I never
have seen a day since [ was ten
years old, up to this time Cover four
months into my 18TH Year, that if
possessed one thousand dollars in
tWenty-dollar gold coins [ would
freely and gladly have given it for
an education. 1t is difficult to force
or whip an education into a child,
but if he loves his book he will learn
and should have all possible oppor-
tunities or chances to do so. Parents
should keep the home we'll stocked
with good books I read borrowed
books and papers-everything
could get to read.
You can see my handwriting, spell
ing and style Of composition in this
article. l haven't referred to the
dictionary to learn how to spell any
word in the article. 1 don't know
anything more about the printed
grammar book than a bird dog.
have written wills, deeds, mortga ges,
liens, contracts, ETC., and never have
had paper turned down. I took
the census for the United States Gov
eminent at Pelzer, S. c., in 1890,
and never had to change a letter or
figure. What would an education
have been worth to me?
Your friend and admirer.
Elberton Ga. w. G.. FIELD.
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invariably been very quiet and mod
est in demeanor.
There were a few negro students
in the University at the time Mr..
Bryan's son and daughter attended;
but whether such students were in
fact in the same departments and
classes with the Bryans I have not
ascertained
With assurances of highest es-
teem | am
Respectfully yours,
Lincoln, Neb. NEBRASKAN.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-05-12

teachers, from the primary to the
university; managers of both drama
and music, playwrights, actors and
composers; the same holds true
everywhere Jews are to be found.
They are in front in every field of
progress in every civilized country in
the world. AS to government itself,
even in the United States, where the
crop of American-bred Jews is yet
only beginning to arrive, they have
more than their share in national,
State and municipal government
Probably w. J. Sidio and Norbert
Wiener, the 18th and 13th-year Har-
ward students, are samples of what
we may expect the American-bred
Jews to be. Refer to J. w. Draper,
H. T. Buckle, or any fair historian
who mentions the Jews at all, for the
part they took in affairs in the past,
and since the above two wrote recall
Mazzini, Disraeli, Gambetta, and
Lasker, in government and Karl
Marks and LaSall; Paul Singer and
Victor Adler also compelled people
to think, and they do worry the
rulers of governments today. I am
not glad or proud to mention Judah
P. Benjamin and Raphael Semmes,
of the South, but whom you probably
esteem.
The records prove that the Jews
are helping govern all the civilized
Gentle nations, and it may be news
to you that, in addition, they always
did, and do now, a whole lot of gov
erning themselves, more in countries
like Russia, less in countries like
ours
Yours very respectfully,
Chicago, III. SAM COHN.
Editorial Comment.
The names of the great Hebrews
given by our Chicago friend by no
means exhausts the list Some of
the greatest of musical composers,
painters, sculptors, actors, actresses,
dramatic composers, philosophers,
fnanciers, poets, orators, statesmen,
lawyers, and soldiers have been
Jews. For the high type Israelite I
have the highest admiration; and
have never Intentionally cast any
slur on this great world force, the
Hebrew race. IT, E. w.
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AN INTERESTING LIST OF JEW
ISH ATTAINMENT.

Dear Sir:-Your answer to ques-
ton six of an inquirer, regarding the
Jews, conveys the impression that
your belief is not firmly held, there
fore / cali your attention to some
facts. In New York City, today, the
Jews have more than their share of
control of the press, school system,
and stage, as records show of the
owners and writer's of the press,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-05-12
CAN A BLIND MAN LEGALLY ACT
AS CORONER?

AS CORONER?
Dear Sir:-As a citizen of Fulton
county, ask that you give me enough
of your valuable time to answer the
following question:
Can blind man legally act as
Coroner?
There are some doubts in the
minds of the voters of Fulton county
as to this matter; any information
will be appreciated.
[ have been follower of yours
for twenty years, and can say in
truth that today you are stronger in
the hearts of the people than ever be-
fore; the time has come when you
are to reap some of the reward so
justly due you, allow me to assure
you that your friends are ready to
stand by you as never before.
In the city of Atlanta your friends
are increasing by the thousands.
Hoping that you may live long to
carry on the fight for the people and
that victory may crown your every
effort, and with best wishes for you
and yours, | am
Respectfully, G.. w. SCALES.
Atlanta, Ga.
Answer.
The law cOntemplates that both
the Coroner and the jury shall have
the dead body present at the Inquest;
therefore, it is clear to my mind that
the law means that they shall view
it.
The legal requirement that the
corpse shall be before the Coroner
and the jury would be useless if
neither had eye-sight to see it. The
law does not state that the jury shall
be composed Of men who can see;
but when the duties imposed are such
that blind men could not perform, it
becomes necessary legal construc-
ton that blindness disqualifies.
From the earliest times the inquest
meant the viewing of the dead body
by those holding the inquest, the
hearing of testimony, and a post
norton examination, etc.
Our statutes impose upon the
Coroner and a majority of the jury
the responsibility Of deciding whether
there shall be post-mortem exami-
nation Of the viscera, analyses of the
contents of the stomach, etc.
Is it not clear that in many cases
blind Coroner could not intelli-
gently exercise this discretion?
Our statute further requires that
the Coroner shall reduce the evidence
to writing. In a case where a crime
has been stealthily committed, I can
see how clerk could be tempered
with, and the blind Coroner induced
to sign a report of the evidence which
might vary from the truth.
The words of the law, however. do
not expressly disqualify the blind
from serving both as jurors and
Coroner. T. E. w.
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end. Quite frankly, I believe you
will strengthen the cause of Foreign
Missions, although you may change
the form of endeavor; but, what is
just as important, you have tremen-
dously magnified the sins of our
Christian civilization and the neces-
sity for home mission work. So far
we are not even building over against
our own doorways, as we might be
doing.
With best wishes, am
Cordially yours, A. B.
Athens, Ga.
Answer.
If my studies in Foreign Mission
work, and my preachments thereon,
should have the effect of strengthen
ing the cause of Foreign Missions Of
the right sort, that result will not
render me unhappy So long as the
Gospel Of Christ is proclaimed by
messengers who are not fascinated
by high salaries, fine homes, news
paper nOtOriety, ETC., and who live
simply, after the apostolic fashion,
deriving their maintenance and sup
port from the foreign field in which
they work, have nothing but praise
for the consecrated devotion to the
cause of human uplift.
My only purpose is to do what is
in me to discourage and bring to an
end this modern method Of neglect
ing the child that cries for an educa-
ton, or a support, in our own neigh
borhood, while we go off into heath
en- lands, taking care of the children
Of HindOOs, Koreans, Japanese and
Cinnamon. 1t seems to me a crime
against our own civilization to neg
lect the old, the destitute, the irreli-
giOus, the illiterate of our own cOun-
try and race, while we break our
necks running after similar people
in foreign lands.
The whole world seems to be NOV
ing over here. The immigrant rec
ords are making new high water
marks, crime waves are staggering
us with their frequency and their
atrocity, the soft drink habit, the CO.
caine habit, the illicit whiskey traffic,
the white slave trade, the devouring
of the children of factories, mills and
mines; these things lay heavily upon
my mind and heart every day of my
life, and it is utterly impossible for
me to understand why it is that the
Christian ministry does not wake up
to the fact that our future is men
aced in a most ominous manner.
Judge Maddox, in charging the
Grand Jury in Rome, Ca, a few
days ago made the statement that
there had been more murders in
Floyd county within last year than
there had been in the great city of
London. In every little village of
this State, one can see among the
boys and the girls steady drift hell
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PAGE NINE

ward, and yet the local preacher
goes up and down the streets, with
his eyes fixed, not on the boys and
girls that are going to ruin in their
own town, but upon the Japs, and
the Chinks, and the Koreans, and
the Hindoos. 1t is wellnigh in
credible. T. e. w.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-25
They Are Satisfied That There Can be
No Facts to substantiate
the Theory Of
Suicide.
Z NO PoLYGAMY THERE THE RAWN
e coroner4s Investigation viii be Made
on Wednesday and Official
Action Will Then
be Taken.

CHICAGO, Ill. July 25.-Positive
assertion for the first time by the
Pinkertons that they have gathered
sufficient evidence to prove to the
coroner's jury Wednesday night that
Ira G. Rawn was murdered by burg
lar and the announcement by the IL
linois Central attorneys that Mr..
Rawn in death will not be spared ex-
posure in the Illinois Central car
fraud inquiry il he was guilty were
the principal developments today in
the Winnetka tragedy.
The Pinkertons claim that not
alone is there no evidence of the
Monon president having taken his
own life, but there existed absolute
ly no reason for him to commit sui
| eide. They announced that they had
conducted an Investigation of their
own into the Illinois Central car
frauds and were satisfied that. Mr..
Rawn was not implicated and had no
reason to fear, nor did he fear, either
civil or criminal action.
Interest in the shooting, which has
been intensified each day since last
Wednesday morning by the many
mystifying angles and the contradic-
tory charges of the murder and sui
eide, has now turned upon two
events-the Inquest and the resump-
tion Of the; hearing of the car graft in
quiry The inquest, which will be held
Wednesday, night in the Winnetka
Council chamber, is expected to clear
up many, if not all, the disputed and
unsettled features of the summer
home sensation, and the hearing be-
fore Master in Chancery Taylor prom
ises to reveal beyond all doubt wheth-
er Mr.. Rawn had occasion to fear
that the investigation would stigma
tie him as the brains" Of the fraud
machinery. This hearing will be re-
sumed Tuesday, and Mr.. Rawn was
scheduled to take up his story where
he left off when put under FIRE July
Z.
That the Illinois Central attorneys
will bring out the facts, regardless Of
whether they lay bare the chicanery
of dead man, was admitted today
by both Murray Nelson. Jr. and Wal.
ter l.. Fisher
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-25
MADE HIS CHURCH
VERY ATTRACTIVE
Moving Pictures, Pink Teas, Plenty
Big Congregation.


SPOKANE, WISH, July 25.-"T
have drawn people to hear my SER
mons by advertising have attracted
them by moving pictures, hot suppers,
pink teas, flowers and flags. If /
have had any degree of success in
Spokane it is because of the liberal
use of printers ink" said Rev. Jas
w Kramer, pastor of First Baptist
church who came to Spokane from
South Carolina two years ago. There
is something worse than sensational
ism. 1t is the inability of the church
to produce life. The church that does
not advertise Is behind the times and
is nursing empty pews, and he who
rails against the minister for advertis-
ing is suffering for a congregation.
am not an advocate of ragtime meth
DDS or vulgar preaching, but do
plead for the church which is hum
ming plant of machinery, with live
Goals in the fire-box, smoke curling
from the stack and every belt, wheel
and pulley going. | believe too, that
the people need instruction and that a
minister of the gospel, is first, last
and all the time a teacher. There
must be life"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-25
Several Hundred People Are Members
of the New Colony on the
Banks Of the Rio
Grande.
Plans to Make Mexican Colony the
Greatest One In the World
Outside Of
Utah.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 25.-
The new Mormon colony is now fully
established across the Rio Grande
from Del Rio on land belonging to the
Trevino estate. This is the informa-
tion brought to San Antonio by w. D.
Johnson, bishop of the Mormon
faith, who is in charge of the colony.
The new colonly consists of several
hundred persons.
Bishop Johnson and the Mormons
with him are from Colonia Dublan,
the Mexican colony Of former citizens
Of the United States who have pros
pered SO in the colony in Chihuahua.
The present colonists are to be fol-
lowed by many more, who will come
from Utah, and 1t is planned to have
the Mexican colony the largest in the
world with the exception of Utah.
1t is denied that polygamy is prac-
ticed in Mexico or that any such in
ducement is held out to colonists COM
Ing there for settlement
Bishop Johnson, in speaking Of the
new and the old colonies said:
When our people made their set
tlement in what Is now known as
Colonia Dublan it was an experiment
with the Mexican government. during
which we were placed on trial. The
grant under which we lived ran for
a few years. When the time came for
It to be renewed President Diaz, who
always has dealt fairly with US, i'm
mediately renewed 1t for a long per-
iod of years. remarking that it would
be pleasure to have more citizens. as
law abiding and Industrious as we had
proved to be.
Contrary to the general opinion
prevailing in the United States, we do
not practice polygamy in our Mexican
colonies. We have not receded from
our position that 1t is right, but in
practice plural marriages are not
sanctioned, nor do they occur. Our
people are Industrious, happy and
prosperous and have Jared well under
the Mexican government"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-25
Man Died in Agony After Broodlng
Over the Thought That He
Suffered From Hy-
drophoba.
BITTEN LAST APR1:
After Being Wounded He Studied
Medical Works on the
Subject Until He
Went Crazy.

ST. LOUIS, July 25-Frank Her
man, aged 40 years, coal miner,
living near Belleville died Saturday
afternoon at the county hospital at
Belleville from what physicians saw
was acute insanity induced by the
belief he had hydrophobia. Since hav.
Ing been bitten by dog in April
Herman has insisted upon taking the
Pasteur treatment and has made an
exhaustive study of medical works
treating of his imagined disease. DR..
3. e. Twitchell said Herman's death
was caused probably by results OF
autosuggestion and constant brooding
over the condition he imagined was
serious.
Friday Herman, having become ia.
miliar with the symptoms Of hydro.
phobia, told his wife the sight Of wa.
ter made him i'll. Water makes me
sick. | feel could froth at the
mouth and bite people, he told Mrs
Herman. The attack lasted twenty.
four hours, during which time Her
man rejected all food, and expressed
a horror at the suggestion of any
liquid
DIR. Carl Fisch of 1912 Pine street
81 Louis, connected with the Pasteu,
institute, secured portion of Her
mans brain last night, which he vii
examine to learn whether the mar
was suffering from hydrophobia. Cor
oner Twitchell will hold an inquest
upon the body after Dr. Fisch has
completed his examination.
The dog bit Albert Williams. II
years old, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. VIII.
liam Williams of Belleville, the day
Herman was attacked. The child was
given treatment and since has appear
ed in his usual health.
The big Newfoundland was the ami
NAL with which Chief of Police vii
liam Nebgen of Belleville had q
terrific struggle in West Belleville
the animal escaping after several
shots had been fred at him. The dog
during the attack made desperate
attempt to get Nebgen's throat Neb
gen was not injured.
Friday Herman was sent to St
Elizabeth's hospital, and became a
ravlng manaic. He was placed in a
straight-jacket and taken to the coun.
ty hospital, where he died a few hours
later During his stay at the county
hospital he remained seated in chair,
and trembled as If afflicted with a
severe case of the palsy
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-25
SUICIDE PACT
Was FORGOTTEN
Woman Fell Into the River, Dragging
Her Companion With Her
and Then Screamed for
Help.
HER NERVE FAILED HER
Both Had Revolvers and Had Agreed
to Shoot and Drown
Themselves Side by
Side.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 25.-After
fainting and falling into the Missis-
sippi river, near the Chain OF Rocks,
and pulling Brice Wommack, Lincoln
county farmer, with whom she had en-
tered into a suicide pact in after her,
Mrs. Mollie Anderson, So years old, OF
st. Louis, changed her mind early yes
terday morning and shouted Justify for
help. The man and woman were res%
cued by James Landers, city em-
ploye, who was in the waterworks in-
take tower at the Chain of Rocks, and
who went to them in skiff He was
assisted by Harvey Rose and Louis
Schaefer, fishermen Wommack and
Mrs. Anderson were taken in an a1nbu-
lance to the North End dispensarys
from where the woman was sent to
the City hospital, suNerir< from nerv-
ous shock. Wommack is held at the
Mounted District police station.
| Wommack resides near Troy. Mo-,
where he says he has 500-acre farm.
He is 5S years old, married, and has
five children, three girls and two boys.
Mrs Anderson formerly lived at Troy,
and 1t Is said that, relations between
her and the farmer were the cause Of
her separation from her husband four
years ago, and Of frequent ruptures in
the Wommack family. She moved to
ST. Louis about year ago, and Wom-
mack has been frequent visitor at
her home.
! Monday he left his home and went
| to Mrs. Anderson's residence, accord.
| ing to his own statement to the police.
He says that the woman had previous
| ly suggested that they die together,
and he had agreed to the pact. Thurs
| day they went to Franklin avenue
shop and purchased two cheap revol-
vers Then they bought two rounds
of cartridges and loaded the guns The
weapons, however, were not to be used
except in case their plans to end their
lives by drowning were interfereu
with Then each was to commit SUI
eide with a bullet. In this way, they
argued, neither would be guilty of taxi
ing the others life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-25
STREET CAR FIGHT
CAUSED ACCIDENT
During the Excitement, Some One
Pulled Off Trolley and There
Was a Collision.

ST. LOUIS, July 25.-One person Is
least 20 badly hurt as the result of q
rear end collision between two Creve
Couer Lake suburban cars here at /
a. M, today.
The accident was caused by fight
between passengers In the first car
who had divided into two factions and
in the excitement, some one jerked
the trolley off the wire. The car
which following, crashed into the first
car at 80 miles an hour.
The wreck resulted from an argu
ment as to whether one of the women
on the car was wearing her own hair
One of the men jerked handful oil
puffs and rats from her head. Her es-
cort took offense and a general fight
followed
The car on which the fight was in
progress came to dead stop and be.
fore the crew could start it, the rear
car crashed into them. Both cars 70
NAMED upright but the front car
buckled.
John Hoffman was so seriously in,
jured that he died an hour later
Eight persons sustained broken
limbs.
The police and car company author
tiles have started an investigation III
hopes of learning who was respon-
sible for the fight and accident
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-25
Two HUNDRED
JAPS DROWNED
Steamer Sunk off Korea And Only 40
of the Passengers on
Board, Were
Saved.
wARsH7 = TO RESCUE
surv ~ Tell OF Narrowing Scenes
Then Six Life Boats Full
Of People Wore
Launched

TOXIC, July 25.-The Tetsurei Ma
ru, plying between Kobe and Dairen,
sunk off Chindo, Korea. The steamer
had 246 passengers aboard, of whom
40 were saved. The others are miss
ing.
Warships have been sent to the res
cue.
The Tetsurei Maru was 2200 tons
register. She was built at Nagasaki
and was owned by the Osaka Shosen
Kabushiki Kaisha
Direct reports from Chindo state
that two of the Tetsuri's lifeboatt
landed forty passengers, who tell Of
narrowing scenes, when the befogged
vessel struck. Six lifeboats were
launched and filled with people
There was no panic, and everything
was carried off in the most orderly
manner.
The captain and majority of the
crew were unable to leave the ship
Six first-class passengers were saved
including w. Cunningham. the British
vice consul at Osaka, as we'll as thir,
teen second-class passengers
One hundred and five third-class
passengers and fifty-nine soldiers
were taken off in boats, and there
| is reason to believe these boats eth
er reached land or were taken up b!
tho warships
Death List Lowered.
LONDON, July 25.-Tales of splen
did heroism, in many cases resulting
in death, were told in messages to
day from Toxic, regarding the sinking
of the Tetsurei Maru off the coast Of
Korea, with loss of 101 lives.
A Japanese warship rushed to the
scene of the disaster and rescued
four boat loads of passengers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-25

SUNDAY WAS scoRcHER
Wichita, kans., Beat keokuk by
Few Degrees and Both
Took the Prize for
Heat.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-This week
will be one OF high temperature
through the greater part of the coun-
try east of the Rocky mountains and
in the extreme southwest, according
to the forecast of Willis H. Moore,
chief of the weather bureau.
The general pressure distribution
over the North American continent
and the adjacent oceans indicates
that this condition will prevail.
A general depression Is threatened
in the northwest Monday or Tuesday.
There are no indications of general
rains for the week.
Wichita and keokuk.
ST. LOUIS, July 25.-There was a
maximum temperature of 80 degrees
yesterday, and today 1t will probably
be warmer. The official forecast
issued last night is, Generally fair
Monday and Tuesday, Nothing is
said about the temperature, but to the
west and north of ST. Louis there is
the hottest weather of the season.
Wichita, Kan, had 1o4 yesterday, and
Keokuk, Iowa, an even 100.
Chicago, where balmy lake breezes
are supposed to keep folks from suf.
fering, was sweltering with temper,
ature of 9S degrees, and Denver, al
ways inviting st. Louisians to come
out during the summer and cool off
also had 50 degree maximum New
York City and Boston had 81 for a
maximum. all of which makes the 80