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Evening journal., 1910-02-23
HUSBANDS SHOT
ENDS WIFE'S LIFE
Mrs. Mary Simpson Dies After
Struggle For Existence Of
Mere Than Two Months

lingering between life and death ever
since she was laid low by bullets from
a revolver fired at her by her husband,
Mrs. Mary Simpson. aged 20 years, died
at the home of relatives, near Newport,
about $50 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
rhe husband william Simpson aged 80
years. who has been detained at the
workhousc without bail awaiting the out
come Of his wifes wounds, will now face
a murder charge.
The vomans death terminated lone
md brave struggle for life. She left the
Delaware Hospital a few days ago as &c
was found nothing further could bc done
Tor her there. She was shot on December
10 One of The bullets had injured the
Evening journal., 1910-02-23
SOCIETIES TO SING
IN BENEFIT CONCERT

The combined concert for the benefit
Of a sick member Of both organizations
by the Delaware Saengerbund and the
Wilmington Turngemeide viii bc given
in Turn Han tonight Everything I'M
connection with the concert will be do
mated. w. M. S. Brown will bc the ac-
companist and the city's best German
American singers viii entertain. Tho
program follows:
Evening journal., 1910-02-23
THREE WARDS
SELECT DELEGATES

In three wards last night. Democrats
met and elected delegates to the special
county convention of the party. which
viii be held at the Irish-American Han
ON March T.,
Sixth ward Democrats met at the
North End Athletic Club and elected
Daniel p Duross as delegate from
Evening journal., 1910-02-23
THIRD WARD WINS
FROM THE SOLDIERS

The Third Ward A. C. defeated the
Forty-nfm Company Of Artillery, of Fort
dupont. at Delaware city yesterday af-
ternoon by the score of 3s 10 81. The Third
Ward put up the best passing game seen
Evening journal., 1910-02-23
TO CONSIDER MEDICAL
INSPECTION OF PUPILS

The physician members Of the Board
OF Education and the members of the
Board of Health will hold another
meeting in the rooms Of the Board OF
Evening journal., 1910-02-23

Saving Stamps is Money Saving Habit
These stamps Just good three crisp greenbacks
from Uncle Sans Treasury Get into the stamp saving
habit; its saving habit You can't possibly get
more for your stamps anywhere than here Bring your
filled books; we'll redeem them. If you want something
Tor your parlor bedroom, dningroom kitchen, you
get it with American Stamps. The little blue stamp that
has swept tile city. If you're not stamp saver-hen
you're not interested in saving money. If you to
know the tremendous purchasing power of your stamp book
bring it here.
Evening journal., 1910-02-23

lis present sale IS to clear stove casting stock BY
g must go Profits have been disregarded. In few
Ck will be scattered to the four corners Of Wilmington.
d unmercfuIIy. Castings that you'd pay l2c and l5C
~ wait Can you buy them cheaper anywhere ?
y! Go anywhere you like get everybodys prices
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21
;LISTEN TO THE BAND

We hope that the city will rally TO the band.
Mess 1t rallies the band cannot play Unless
the band plays, there will be dearth of music
that music such only band can givc--to
which we all march, which quickens the rhe,l-
matte leg and liyens the sluggard toe, and stirs
the dormant blood. oh. listen to the band ~ was
not said III vain. Ii empitomized human pas
SION expressed a human ambition as old as the
time when Egyptian naidens first clinked their
anklcts IN lytmnc time before the King
This band is to be,-we say is because the
idea that it is not to be is in every sense repulsive
the child of The first regiment of infantry 1t is
to be military band. Its instruments are to
be OF gllstenlng brass. its members arrayed in
uniforms from which the sun will be refracted
i'll a hundred refulgent rays-its drum major
10 he mustered in this Fall and it will get
TO work at its practice during the Winter. when
the windows can be put down, when the public
will not be afflicted with the pains incident to
the birth of even the finest musical organization.
Then, when Summer comes again it will 90 to
the parks and there, on the bass drum and the
kettle drum, the piccolo, fife, and trumbone
on the clarionette and the big bassoon make music
such all can understand, such as everybody,
except the musicalv dyspeptic, can digest.
All this, # the city will make an appropria-
ton. Under the circumstances there ought to be
no further question of the IF The city needs
band. Every city needs a band. 1t is health.
ful and moral equipment. And military band
oh joyl For such luxury even the tightest
wallet ought speedily to spring a leak
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21
NEGROES ON THE RAMPAGE.

The Negro Baptist Convention, in giving It's
support to the Panama Exposition at New Or
leans upon the stipulation that the Jim Crow
car laws ought to be repealed or suspended for
the OCCASION illustrates the infinite capacity for
folly that seems inherent in many such bodies.
Laws for the segregation of races in public
places are not logically offensive to either race
They are in sense police measures pitched up
on considerations of the public peace and safety.
They are practical statutes dealing with es-
tablished facts of experience and designed to
avoid the troubles which experience teaches are
otherwise inevitable. Negroes everywhere of the
better sort realize both the necessity of such
laws and the spirit prompting their enactment
To bring. them again in question is simply to
make further and futile irritation where there
should be none
The negro race is progressing steadily de-
spite all its drawbacks, temperamental and
economic. 1t is accommodating property, engag-
ing IN business coming onto new plane of pro-
duction and selfsupport. 1t is advancing all
along the line, morally and industrially. In this
advance the negro church ought to be the leading
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

rigors in his case of prison life. Hardships
which, in common with other prisoners, he en-
dures are passionately denounced as cruel.
Everything, seems TO he the note of the move
ment for his freedom, between his life as "a
hnancier aud that which he lives as a numeral
among criminals. makes a contrast that ought
TO be intolerable TO civilization.
Therefore, say the thousands of people who
sign the Morse petitions for pardon, stop this
unique punishment of a man both rich and re-
fined Cease the barbarity of corn bread en-
forced on accustomed to pate dc fois gras
Consider the corns on the hands that never
calloused except as the torefinger over-eXerted
itself in the clipping If coupons. Stop this UNI
reasonable incarceration OF a gentleman who
never condescended to petty crimes. his is an
aristocrat among prisoners. Ii he must be con
fined at least accord him his rank
The curious thing about the whole matter is
that the cIanor comes from the very classes which
grow eloquent in demand that riches suffer in the
same measure with poverty The proletariat
that bowls for tic blood of the financial princes
cannot stomach the sight of princely blood
Those who yell the universal rights of men come,
at the scratch To be the most white-livered Of
hunkeys There is ieSe majeste in Atlanta gaol.
Al the red caps trcmble with awe of the conse-
quences
We are quite assured that Morse is, in com
man parlance, monumental goat. 1t is quite
evident that he was selected for sacriticial pur
poses. His crimes. according to the company
that he kept, were of yenial character. His
sins were the sins Of the monde in which he
walked. There are fifty men at large in Wall
Street who, had they their deserts, would be
langUshing along with Morse and making in
the Federal prison a of millionaires.
But where in these circumstances, is there
the logic To found clemency: If the contrast in
Morse's makes his punishment greater than
that accorded an ordinary crook, it follows that
the crime was the greater in the beginning. If
Morse be the exception picked for punishment, it
follows not at all that his crime is the less repre-
hcnsiblc because others equally guilty continue
at large. II prison life is strange to Morse it
is no less irksome 10 those 10 whom it is not
strange. All in all. it is situation not without
It's points. that man Of power sufficient to pay
back 1,0000 900 in debts between conviction and
sentence should find himself at length on par
with the man whose crime and sentence followed
one anther almost between suns. Democracy rings
true III such case But Justice the imperfectlv
executed, the partially applied the easily delayed
has here at least shown that it still holds in a
measure the virtue of Its name.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21
MORSE.

Throughout the country grows sentiment for
the pardon of Charles w. Morse, New York
millionaire prisoner in Atlanta penitentary for
violation of the national banking law
This feeling runs the gamut of sentimentality,
through halfbaked ideals of justice, clear
through to the tenderness that is mixed with
snarchy.
III II is pointed out that Morse is not Of the
average run of prisoners. His life of former
sake a made an argument against the ordinary
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21
THE PEOPLES FORUM
4 Word For the Human Buzzard.

Editor of The Nirginian
Sir,-I greatly the title Mr. Manning
Mr.. Yoder at the trial of Mr.. Manning | Won
der if he realized what he admitting when he
applied the epithet ''BuZzard" to MIR Yoder He vir-
tually admitted that the city full of corruption,
since the buzzard lis always a sign OF rottenness to
be removed. Had this been clean city there would
have been attraction for buzzard"
We have law protecting the buzzard- bird, since
he acts scaVenger, and which if
left would poison the atmosphere and injure ply
sicaly. So also should the human buzzard be protect
ed by law since he is striving to do away that
nature.
soul and body into hell than that which can
tecting the moral buzzards who strive our city
Of all that pollute the moral atmosphere
While there is a likeness work of the
feathered "buzzard" in what Mr.. Yoder Is doing Vet
there is also a great dissmitarily. The buzzard-
bird reves and delights in filth corruption, and
is for the sake of cleansing the atmosphere for
the good OF the human that he feeds so ra VEN
ousy corruption, but is because he delights in It
Not with Mr.. Yoder, but because the evils he is
attacking are repulsive to him, and knows
to all right minded people with pure unselfshness
he wades into the filth his to eliminate
the corruption not because his soul delights in II
but because of the good he hopes do others
Would there were who were willing to give
their time and talents
For the that lacks assistants
For the wrongs that resistance
For the future in the distance good that thew
may do A. r. C.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21
No Monnnnly OF Insult.

rough. unshaven man at Fargo, North Dakota
asked Mr.. Roosevelt who paying the expenses Of
the Presidents trip On receiving the that
certain periodical was paying the bills. the rough
unshaven fellow shook his fist at the disting
speaker and cried, You ltel"
Colonel Roosevelt had not lied. any more than
the New York Evening Post had lied few DAYS ago
when 1t was called liar by Colonel Roosevelt FOR
drawing his own record on him. We have not a par
tcle OF use for the rough unshaven fellow who reck-
lessy hurs the lie, but we think the man would be
more bameworthy for reckless hurting Of the
lie IL he were shaven and cultured and an ex-Pres-
dent-Norfolk Landmark.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

factor. 1t ought to be differed by the best and
most thoughtful of the race 1t ought to help
forward Instead of holding back. But SO long
as it misconceives the relation of the negro to
Southern civilization, so long as it harbors old
dreams based upon false premise, 1t will him
der rather than help that responsible future TO
which not only patriotic negroes but patriotic
whites everywhere look forward with ever
growing hope.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21
Abusing the Broker.

Tho girl graduate" said Mrs. Cooke the Atlanta
lawyer in commencement address, "errs In treat
ing man sehshly. Man remembers such treatment
an later on he avenges It,
"A young girl is proud of her power him and
she abuses this power often know beautiful
Atlanta girl for instance. cotton broker devoted
her Yet. when the parlor maid told her the other
afternoon that this cotton broker the door
she said.
g Ask him In the drawing room Jane, and then.
he has laid his box of chocolate down
tell him I've gone out New Orleans Plcayune
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21
Popular School Problems.

Editor of The virginian:
Sir-Grand change, the houses OF Scrbners SONS
Silver, Burdette Company and other publishing
houses and book concerns want TO fur
swell their already overowing Golfers the State
board of instruction of Virginia comes nobly TO the
rescue and heads OF families who hardly make
ends meet. forced TO contribute of their ptffuI
little stop their children from school What mat
IL If there Is no coal In the bin or meal in
the meal Darrell. what matters it II the price Of
bacon Is twenty-five cents pound, instead OF
a pound az 1t should be- the Honorable Board"
has said change books and there no alternative
and books costing $3.50 each last February are moi
worth the paper on which they printed and If
only for the junk heap Sped the day when the peo-
pie of Virginia will awake fronf their ethargy and
sniite the book trust hip and thigh.
Another question which the school board of Rich.
mond will have TO face IL the present rate of
in the number OF each year continues
is that of transportation to and from school Think
OF a frail and delicate girl having to carry four-
fifteen books to and fro daily for with ali tha
progress CD our school system has made they have
not yet learned to teach scholars school but they
have to learn at home and then go to school ~
recite And probably this is the serious phasa
OF this question. home study. perhaps I snouI6
say, night study children porlng over books untii
nearly quite midnight running their eyes under
mining their health and becoming nervous and ply
steal wrecks. acquiring smattering OF German or
latin, OF history of geometry many other sua,as
and becoming proficient in none. Let parents and
guardians consider seriously These questions let rha
newspapers take up the cry PERHAPS some time
in the future years the reforms limited at In this arfioe
be accomplished thereby preserving the health
and strength of our youth in whose hands is held the
hope and prosperity of this nation "a RI
Richmond Va, September 20.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21
Croker's Love For America.
Tflirray!

Murray. Representative Duncan Mckinley a
California, coming the district to sneak for
Slemp Mr.. Mckinley has Just finished a speaking
tour for the republicans In Maine and the demo-
Gratis carried the State the 1rst time since 1855
We further observe that the same statesman and
went to Beverly from Maine and told Mr. Taft
the republicans would pun through by 1000 to 5000
majority and save all four congressman. They lost
by more than 5000 majority and lost two congress-
OF the four.
Therefore, good for Mckinley. Long life to Nc
Kinley Welcome to hearthstones and stuInps FOR
Mckinley He seems to be equally successful AZ cam
paiEn orator and prophet and the prise boomerang
Of TIA -nAndtnx strnRx1a--RoaunkA IauAA
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

The lynching of two Italians at Tampa will
scarcely bring international complications to
pass. The country has grown, and its fleet has
been created, since the time of the New Orleans
mob and the indemnity that grew out of it.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

An influx of tramps into New York State after
their summer trips to the country may or may
not suggest something to the 'Old Guard" and
progressive factions.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

The Sugar Trust is to be prosecuted, 1t APP
pears that the evidence accumulated BY Earle
four years ago has last been heard of by the De
rartment Of Justice.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

The result of the New York primaries fur
nishes an post facto explanation of the visit of
Colonel Roosevelt to Mr.. Taft in search of help.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

Council might apply some of the savings from
a systematized and economical administration
10 the employment of additional policemen neces-
stated by newly annexed territory.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

Notwithstanding the immihence of hostilities,
the venture of the Norfolk militia off for the
seat of the oyster war is not serious enough to
bring TO pass the usual crop of campaign engage
ments.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

As things are shaping themselves in New
York, Mr.. Bryan viii soon have distinguished
company in his determination TO bolt the party
nominees.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

Notwithstanding Colonel Roosevelts findings
in the case a Congressional committee is now
commencing the needless task of investigating
Lorimer.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

The proposition to give q, A. r. veterans one
dollar day for life Is the best expedient yet
brought forward to insure the immortality of the
men who fought during the sixties
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

DR. Wilson says that there is no string to his
nomination. From everything that happened
it appears Colonel Harvey had already tied up
the package.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

The tariff board has begun the investigations
which Democratic victory is soon to render i'm
material.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

We wonder whether President Taft would not
dearly like to swap places with the man whom he
will appoint to be Chief Justice
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

Inc Richmond Vrgniain prefers to believe that
Senator Martin and the State COMMITTEES wonld
nave reversed the local authorities and authorized
proning az the primary even though the Democrats
or the district had not risen wrath to demand
tner rights SO do We prefer to take view; but.
at the same time think 1t very fortunate that
those meetings were held. In such cases there n
nothing like making assurance doubly sure and it
is good thing too, that the should have
learned prompt and effective way bringing their
local servants to their when they exceed-
ed or abused the authority delegated to them
Virginian- Pilot.
Crokers Love For America.
Richard Croker will undoubtedly come back to
America to live said Tammany man at a banquet
at Delmonico's, relates the Detroit Free Press
Yes Mr.. Croker he went on, told me down in
Florida that his attachment America WAS as
strong the old woman's tea
. The old womans tea q said I. puzzled
Then Mr.. Croker explained that this old woman
used 10 brag about her tea in these words:
g Och but mine 10 the lovely throng tay Sure
1t takes such powerful grip the second wather.'d
New Orleans Picayune.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-21

Southern civilization, long as 1t harbors old
dreams based upon false premise, 1t will hln-
der rather than help that responsible future to
which not only patriotic negroes but patriotic
whites everywhere look forward with ever
growing hope.
The lynching of two Italians at Tampa will
scarcely bring international complications to
pass. The country has grown, and its feet has
been created, since the time OF the New Orleans
mob and the indemnity that grew out of it.
Notwithstanding the imminence of hostilties,
the venture of the Norfolk militia off for the
seat of the oyster war is not serious enough to
bring to pass the usual crop of campaign engage
ments,
The proposition to give q. A. +. veterans one
dollar day for life is the best expedient yet
brought forward to insure the immortality of the
men who fought during the sixties.
As things arc shaping themselves in New
York, Mr. BRYAN will soon have distinguished
company in his determination TO bolt the party
nominees
The result OF the New ork primaries fur-
nishes an post facto explanation of the visit of
Colonel Roosevelt to Mr.. Taft in search of help.
The tariff board has begun the Investigations
which Democratic victory is soon to render i'm
material
An influx of tramps into New York State after
their summer trips to the country may or may
not suggest something to the 'Old Guard and
progressive factions.
Council might apply some of the savings from
a systematized and economical administration
TO the employment of additional policemen neces-
STATED by newly annexed territory.
We wonder whether President Taft would not
dearly like to swap places with the man whom he
will appoint to be Chief Justice.
Notwithstanding Colonel Roosevelts findings
in the case Congressional committee is now
commencing the needless task of investigating
Lormer.
DIR. Wilson says that there is no string to his
nomination. From everything that happened
it appears Colonel Harvey had already tied up
the package.
The Sugar Trust is to be prosecuted 1t APP
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-11-11

lead with fraudulent returns big
enough to overcome his majority in
the other two sections. This belief
gains ground as the day is passing
into night, and nothing either good or
bad can be had from certain East
Tennessee counties.
Telephone and telegraphic calls
bring forth no response other than
from friends, who confirm the fact
that frauds are contemplated If not
already perpetuated.
On the face of the returns received
by the democratic executive commit
tee so far the straight democrats
have elected nineteen members, a ma
jority of five, in the upper house, and
have elected fifty members of the
lower house, majority OF one, and
the indications are that Senator Robt.
L. Taylor has received a majority Of
The votes cast for the governorship
1t is currently rumored on the
streets here tonight that the Hon. b.
4 Enloe has been circulating around
and hob-nobbing with the antis and
secret conferences are being held;
that he is now trying to SUR UP legis-
lative contests in districts where the
result is known to be close, and thus
secure a majority Of both branches
of the house, and there is no doubt
foundation for this BELIEF.
Sorrow is intermingled with grave
determination that this great wrong
shall not be consumated by the
willy and selfish leaders of the opposi-
ton. In view Of the great democratic
landslide all over the United States
in the national elections, determina-
tion is doubly avowed that Tennessee
shall not be sold out and break the
ranks Of the heretofore solid south.
When asked by your correspondent
this afternoon. Mr. Sanders, of the
republican executive committee at
first said he had nothing TO give out,
but upon second request, he said:
1 have nothing to say, except
that Hooper is elected by a ma
jority ranging from $4,000 to 10000,
and that we have a majority In the
lower house.