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resented Washington county. and when Alabama was admitted into the union, he was elected to the supreme court of the infant state, defeating for that position the elder Judge Harry Toulmin, of Mo bile. So conspicuous was his legal acu- men on the bench, as an associate jus tice that when Chief Justice Clement c. Clay resigned that position to resume the practice of the law, Judge Lipscomb was chosen to succeed him. For 12 consecu- tive years he was retained as chief jus tlce by the popular voice of the people, winning great distinction a jurist, as his learned opinions fully attest. These opinions are to be found in the first 10 volumes of the Alabama Reports. and the numbers of opinions rendered by him not only bear testimony to his indefatgaple industry as a judge, but to his profound thoroughness of knowledge of the prinei ples of the law
 In spite of the exactions of his posi- ton as chief jectice, he found time for
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ment, just as some of us are inviting baeful tomorrows.' How true an exposure of human action. Men and women do not go wrong in q
 moment. They do not fall suddenly as from a precipice They tread primrose paths of daliance down a sunny sope-to
 the gulf!
 No action is isolated.
 Each is linked to each like the links of la chain. once the chain Is forged you are bound. Thought, feeling. action, habit destny-those are the links that is the chain.
 A man is false in one particular-tells a lie, Is mean or cruel or impure. and nothing comes of It. But The consequences follow. The man is started down grade. The descent to Avernus is easy. Later he is
 launched on the toboggan slide. Wben he
 least expects it he has reached the bot
 tom. He is amazed to find that one little
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of the oracular Nor was he without companlonship in his rare culture, for he found in those primitive homes on the plains many of the most refined of the older states who, like himself. had been drawn thither by taste for the larger liberty which Texas afforded without limit.
 The qualifications of Judgev vLipscomb placed him at once in the front rank in that distant region, for he was chosen by President Lamar 10 occupy the high est place in his cabinet, that of secretary of state. In this new sphere he served with signal ability and successfully re- sisted any disposition on the part of the, leaders of the young republic to enter into alliance with England or France, both of which nations were coquetting with the coy republic. seeking to gain a fresh foothold in the western world. His acute discrimination and comprehensive political knowledge reinforced by his legal knowledge gave him vast advantage
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and taking with him an experience which had ripened through the years of his oe- cupancy of the bench and his knowledge of men, he entered at once on most lucrative practice in his new home. In the scramble for the fertile soils on those treeless wastes of the then far west, and in the unraVeling of the intrieacies of ownership where old Spanish grants and new territorial laws were often en- tangled Judge Lipseomb found the am- plest scope for the exercise of his legal knowledge, for litigation was as com mon as the plains.
 There was just that in the liberty and abandon of these early occupants Of Texas that fascinated the cultured spir it of Judge Lipscomh, and while he sur rendered not a jot or little of his dig nifty or culture, he caught the unbridled spirit of those wild western scenes and so adjusted himself 10 the new condi- tions that he became immensely popular, and his opinions were taken as little short
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act has spelled ruin. It was not the crazy moment''-lt was "the easy slope,' the life tendency, which invited the rash moment.
 "Sin may be forgiven, but it's conse- |quences are eternal
 Beware 'the easy slope'
 Discouraged?
 Then read the story of Lucy Adams Of the New York Home for the Incurables.
 More than 20 years ago. when she was a little girl of 6 years, she fell down an elevated station and broke her back just above the waist line
 For six years she was taken from one hospital to another. suffering as few suf- fer. Fourteen years ago she was sent to the home for incurables, hopeless case.
 What a sad faced, despairing woman she must be.
 But no.
 Of all the confirmed invallds in that
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XXTy H1IE the writer has not eXper-
 A/ fenced propinquity to a mii-
 W tant body of suffrag gettes-the briekbat and ancient egg nearness that some mere Britshmen have known: As quith. Lloyd-George Churchill, etcetera- he still acknowledges their appearance in the world, and has even braced himself for try with the new regime. For dare say it will presently come to pass that women may scratch their own bal lots and each others faces, browbeat each other and all that sort of thing, eveR as you and have done for the past thousand years or so. Certainly they won't befoul politics any more than you and I have befouled it, do you think?
 I have got a hunch' (whatever that is) that universal suffrage will obtain in about the year 1919; and by universal suffrage I mean that all who please to vote may do so. None. in that new time I may here state to alay the fears of those excellent women who are shock ed at the idea of a refined woman going to the horrid polls and voting just like a man-none l say, will be expected to pass through this ordeal unless it IS of their own free will and accord. One may cast ones ballot or not, just as one pleases. in 1919, even as it is optional with men now For that matter, l have known
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value higher than the multiplication table that finest thought in even Shakespeare:
 Sweet are the uses of diversity. Which. like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head, And this our life exempt from public
 haunt,
 Finds tongues in trees, books in running
 brooks,
 Sermons in stones, and good in every
 thing.
 And I'll warrant that in the court room Sisson was the despair of every adver sary who split hairs. On the contrary, he seized on the vital fact of the case and would not allow bench or bar to depose it from its place of primacy. Hence we cannot say hls is an exquisite mind; but It is a strong mind, and that makes him a holy terror in a forensic melee And besides, and better, he is of that old south that will never die until the last shred of integrity is evaporated from American public life As early as 1865, Horace Greeley, the most loyal heart the American press ever knew, hoped that
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We seem to have accomplished as much as the lad with his lime rock-oniys the boys creation was immediately white when he finished with it, while our centuries-old creation is bespattered with blood.
 And so I have concluded that we could do worse things than to grant those wom- en who please the privilege to vote. Be- cause the male is the newer of wood and the drawer of water for the home does not imply that he alone has the right to make laws for the government of his offspring; does not imply that, because he must go through the daily exercise of breadwinnng-w which Is good for him-his partner in the ownership of that offspring should have no voice in It's maturer moulding. l have believed that the ballots of women (of mothers, more especially would introduce somewhat of the moralities, somewhat of the sanities into an institution where they have scarcely been heard of. I regard as neg ligible the objection that has been made that women can be more easily corrupted more easily bribed, than the male. And 1t has not been proved that the female is fickler, less dependable than the male. And as to mentality-well, come with me to the polls next election day and watch the faces and listen to the talk of those who can sway elections at the present
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the doors of both houses of Congress would be re-opened to Jefferson Davis. Alexander H. Stephens, Robert Toombs, John c. Breckenridge and the other reb- els, for" said he. whatever their faults they would not steal themselves nor al- low others to steal" At that time the badge of loyalty was indulgence to any grafter to plunge both hands in the public treasury up 10 the elbow and rake out graft by the box-careful.
 Sisson is of the elite of the new set of youngsters now on the carpet. He is lahorious and he is jealous. Though at the beginning of his second term. he is of the very aristocracy of Congress a member of the committee of appropria- tions. Congress is not infallible. It makes mistakes. It does many fool things; but Congress never yet got n misconception of one of it's members aft CT he had served one term. The very old horned and hoofed devil himself could not fool Congress as to his. capacity and skill for the game of solonizing on Capi- tol Hill in this town
 That's how Tom Sisson came to get a. place on appropriations.
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V1HAT are we here for? A/ What is the prime purpose w life?


 w What is the prime purpose of Some of us act as if we were here merely for the purpose of adding Up calumns of figures and piling up pyra- mids of dollars. Some of us will rob our nights of sleep, break the com mandments and callous our souls TOT the sake of money that we cannot ise.
 Silly?
 No. more so than those who think we are in this world for the purpose of ac- quiring power. To be accounted some body" in some little circle, these will ride remorsely over the rights of others. For the mere pleasure of exercising power they will rise on the stepping stones of prostrate souls.
 Not more so than those who think lie should be dedicated to pleasure. These try to fill their days and nights with joy rides and fleeting sensations. They crowd enjoyment into the verge of satiety ana destroy their capacity for normal satls- faction
 What then are we here for?
 By the process of elimination it can he shown that a human being is so built that every power, pleasure, requirement, is in vain save one.
 # And that?
 The power anu pleasure oI uOlnS Boou to others
 Oh, but you say
 "rhat is Sunday school talk" No. it is not. Or if it is 1t is not true because it is taught in the Sunday school; it is taught there because 1t is true. It is Gods truth.
 The law of 1t is laid in, the constitution of things It is attested by all history and experience-a law as true as any in mathematics. And
 We know it. But, like Jonah, we are forever running away from our mission We prefer the perils of the sea and the habitat of the fish's stomach to going to Nineveh.
 Get money?
 Yes, as much as you can-honestly.
 And get as much power as you can use for good. Incidentally the pleasures will come of themselves.
 But, above all-
 Do not forget what you are here for.
 She gasped at the realization-which comes to most of us human creatures seoner or later-that sins may be for
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was first principal of high school and later head of graded school. Bye and bye he studied law and attended that famous institution, Cumberland uni versity, Lebanon, Tenn. from the law department of which he was graduated in 1894, and was immediately admit ted to the bar at Memphis. but subse- quent1y he moved to his present home at Winona, Miss, opened a law office and has resided there ever since.
 A tall, well proportioned man in his physical frame. Tom Sisson has a com manding presence The face Is strong rather than handsome, though 1t is by no means homely. The eye is fine open. clear, steady, and it could not be furtive if it would. and would not if it could. Some folks would call his demeanor breezy, and thousands who never saw him will get an idea of him when I say he reminds me of Dr. Clint Kelley, so long dean of one of the lead ing medical schools of the south at Louisville, Ky.
 A man of the people. it is simply in- evitable that one like Tom Ssson must
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MY ASHINGTON, September g. A/ (SpeciaD-It is the land of the
 w sun whence this young man halls. He is from the heart of the most intensely southern of all the southern states. With a perceptible tincture of Huguenot, the whites of Mississippi are pure Anglo-Saxon, computing the Scotch Irish for what they are, for Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson, both Scotch Irish, were as Saxon as Robert E. Lee himself. And will say besides that, the planters of Mississippi prairie and their families are cultivated and refined folks Every household contains books of excel lent selection, and what is better they are read and mastered blythe white members of that family. There are no unread pri vate libraries in Mississippi very few in the entire south.
 Tn that land where dwels MT. Sisson there are sweet violets in the forest, blooming and fragrant at St. Valentines and radiant roses are voluptuous at the vernal equinox, when every grove is vo- cal with the music of songbirds. The geographical nomenclature of. this state
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with unerring accuracy indicated the scope of his culture as we'll as the pre- cision of his well stored mind. He was encyclopedia. and was often appealed to for the settlement of questions, historical and literary.
 Retiring from the bench after 15 years service he entered on the practice of law in Mobile. but in 1898 he was persuaded to represent that county in the legisla- ture and was appointed to the chairman ship of the judiciary committee. There were special reasons for his choice to the legislature which reasons appeared In his appointment to the chairmanship which ne held. The special work for which he was chosen was accomplished during his first year in the legislature at the end of which time he resigned.
 Just at this time the Texas craze was dominant, and Judge Lipscomb shared In the desire to move further toward the setting sun. He joined the procession of canopy covered wagons rolling westward
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the Manhattan, she says: "Oh they we're perfectly beautiful to mel And there On her little cot she smilingly faces the com ing years-and the death which may be long delayed.
 And you?
 With firm spine. a poised body and feet that will carry you wherever you may choose to go are you not ashamed that you should ever complain of tour lot?
 Some one says: "I can see neither the justice of such suffering nor the moral purpose of it."
 Perhaps not.
 Yet there must he compensation in the life if the bedridden girl. else she would not he as happy as she apparently is.
 And. as for the moral purpose of such suffering, that depends. If, knowing of such bravery in the crippled girl. you are helped to bear your burdens it is not without significance
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in his new sphere, and in piloting the new nation of the west in it's initial stage, his ability shone with conspcuous splendor. To this day the name of Lips comb Is referred to in the state of the Lone Star as one of it's foundation build- CTS, and his portrait adorns the wall of the state capitol IS one of the founders of the great commonwealth.
 Judge Bipseomb served in the conyen- tion called to consider the resolutions O. annexation adopted by the American congress, and it was he who submitted the resolutions accepting on the part of Texas the terms proposed. In the ere alton of the constitution of the new state, the framing of which constitution i'm mediately followed the conventions ac- ton Of acceptance Judge Lipscomb was one of the chief actors. He was one of the first justices of the supreme bench of the state, to which position he was subsequently, elected for a term of six years. but died before the expiration of his term of office.
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A MONG the genuinely great men "A of the state. and those who \ gave a brilliant background to its history, was Judge Abner S Lips comb. Descended from distinguished Virginia family, he maintained an un- broken reputation for greatness from the time of his entrance on public life to the close of his career.
 Judge Lipscomb enjoyed the reputa- tion of sharing in the formation or two great southern commonwealths- Alabama and Texas. In the flower or his manhood, he was conspicuous In the early judicial annals of Alabama, to which state he came in lsll' and located at St. Stephens. Responding to the call for volunteers to serve against the Indian tribes in those pioneer days of trial, he proved to be as courageous In battle as he was able In the courts.
 Tn the two sessions of the territorial legislature held at St. Stephens, he rep
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A man of the people. it is simply in- evitable that one like Tom Sisson must
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She gasped at the realization-which comes to most of us human creatures seoner or later-that sins may be for
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-12-09
Alaska Probe Dropped.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9-Announc-
ing that since Taft and Fisher had
completely changed their Alaskan pol
icy no further action was necessary
the committee on expenditures in the
department of the interior today re-
ported the formal dropping of the Con-
troller Bay probe
Congressman Burke, of South Da
kota, tried to force a continuance of
the Controller Bay probe but was de-
feated by a party vote of to 3 and was
given five days to prepare a minority
report.
Burke denounced. the famous "Dick
to Dick" letter as a fabrication and de-
that everyone connected with
with the incident be subpoenaed
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-12-09
Frisco DenOunces McNamaras.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9-In a full
set of resolutions denouncing the Nc
Namaras, the San Francisco labor
council today demands a sweeping in
vestigation of all rumors connecting
the names of high labor leaders with
the Los Angeles dynamiting case or
ally others. A spirited debate preceded
the adoption of the resolution.
When the federal investigation is re-
newed it will take up first the bring
ing of explosives from Muncie, Ind, to
San Francisco and then later here,
by James B. Mcnamara and Ortie Nc
Manigle and four other men whose
names will be kept secret.
The ground work for this inquiry
was laid by McManigle and j. w.
Kaiser, head of the powder compa-
ny at Muncie. Kaiser testified that he
sold the powder to Mcnamara and 9TH
ers and identified some shown him
as part of that shipment
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-12-09

A meeting of the directors of the
Moscow Chamber of Commerce was
Fields as president was accepted, and
Herman Wilson elected to fill the va
canacy. G. P. Mix was elected secre-
tary, with Marie Shannon assistant
Shannon will be in charge of the
Chamber of Commerce rooms, and look
after the collection of dues.
After this the directors got down to
the business of Strengthening up the
financial affairs of the chamber, and
will issue statement the first of the
week.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-12-09
SIJPPIGER IDENTIFIES
BODY AS ERICKSON

Erickson asked the Whites to let
him sleep in the barn. He was given
bed in an old house and the next
morning was hired to cut wood. He
remained until about the middle OF
January when he came to the house,
said they were after him, and wanted
to know if he could go. Mr.. White
paid him $15, in bills, and the man.
wanting silver, offered the $40 bill for
any silver his employer had. When he
left Whites he had fve-dollar bill
and some odd silver, none of which
was found in his clothes.
Nothing more was heard OF Erlck-
son, until the body was discovered
Neighbors have identified the clothes
found on the dead man as some given
by them to Erickson.
BY an odd coincidence the man had
a smashed toe, just as Frank Cable
had at the time, and the morning he
left procured rag and some salve
from Mrs White to bind it up.
Above where the body was found, in
tree, Mr.. Suppiger found a piece OF
cord, tied to a limb about 71a feet.
from the ground 1t seems that the
man hung himself.
Mr.. Suppiger has also located Frank
Cable at Pendleton, Steve G. Cable at
Midvale, Idaho and J. H. Clawson at
Ore.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-12-09

MIDDLEBORO, Dec. 9.-MOre than
$50 miners are entOmbed at Briceville,
Tenn, all are believed to have perish
ed. A gas explosion is believed to be
the cause as gas is still issuing from
the mouth of the mine, preventing the
entrance of rescuers. The explosion
rocked the earth for miles The victims
are under thousands Of tons OF rocks,
two miles from the entrance. The in
terror is burning. The blast occurred
at 1880 this morning just after the
day shift had gone to work. The only
hope for the men is that the walls col
lapsed, shutting Off the gases.
President Stephenson of the compa-
ny left here on a special train. He
declared he did not believe the dead
would exceed 200. Rescue devices are
on the train.
Hundreds of women and children
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-12-09
Lord Didn't Aid Elijah.

PORTLAND, Maine, Dec. 9.-Refus-
ing to accept the services of a lawyer
and declaring that the Lord would pro-
tect him, Elijah" Frank Stanford,
commander of the yacht Coronet, own
ed by the Holy Ghost and Us" sect,
was convicted today on six counts of
manslaughter in connection with the
deaths of several members of his crew
from starvation, while the religious
ship was on it's last voyage on the
ocean
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-12-09

AS the result of careful probing in
to the mystery surrounding the finding
of the body of an unknown man at
Viola a couple of weeks ago County
Attorney George w. Suppiger has dis
covered that the man was Frank
Erickson, who came from Minnesota,
about a year ago. 1t is believed he
committed suicide.
Mr.. Suppiger assumed direct charge
of the investigation as soon as he was
released from court, and visited the
place where the body was found on
December and 7, with the result
that he has unravelled the mystery,
and solved the alleged mystery OF the
whereabouts of ]. H. Clawson.
The dead man has been Identified
as Frank Erickson, who said he was
from Minnesota, and was 80 years or
age. He came to the home OF car
ence White, about 21a miles southwest
of Potlatch, and four miles from where
the body was found, on Thanksgiving
day, 1910 He said he had come from
Minnesota, and that he had avoided
all towns in coming out, and seemed
to fear that officers were pursuing MIN.
In many ways it is said the man gave
evidence of not being quite sane. lie
told Mr.. White he had harvested IN
Montana.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-12-09
TAFT GIVES DIRECTIONS AS TO
PROBE=ANOTHER CONFESSION

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81. S. Dis
trict Attorney Mccormick of Los Ang-
eIes today conferred with President
Taft at the White House and it is be-
Iieved made direct report on the
dynamiting probe in Los Angeles.
The conference is considered signifi-
cant in view of the news that the Los
Angeles prObers are Investigating the
finding Of dynamite along the Harri-
man railroad during Taft's western
visit.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-12-09

Here is an illustration of what Mos
COW soil will do when planted to ap-
pies. j. Cook, who owns tract in
the northeast part of Moscow, accord
ing to R. w. Stafford, who purchased
the 1910 crop which Mr.. Cook grew
on seven and half acres, brought the
rather pretentious sum of $2100. With
the exception Of picking, the work of
producing this crop was done entire
ly by Mr.. Cook and his wife, SO that
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-12-09
APPLES PAY Big;
HERE ARE FIGURES

the net profits were very large Mr..
Cook has Rome Beauty, Jonathan and
Ben Davis varieties
The same year R. w. Stafford, whose
orchard is of the same size as the Cook
orchard, sold $1450 worth of apples
Now talke your pencil and figure up
the value of the land, allowing ten
per cent as a fair basis. How does
it compare with wheat raising?