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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-05-26
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progress along particularly
in to
training trained; but
blood until
unquenchable born of bad
chd-a hdand measure at
hereditary instincts passions
higher
criminal and charge the state
the color of his breeding
recently
jung in amuck killed
and with the nar of beast he
incident the New York World makes
he following
n June 1909, a brutay stabbed a to death
Broadway with povocaton his had
stepped onh 70 The murderer
course of o Imprisonment
Sing
State having penalty
mitigate
years pris
expiration set him Free without further
a o might do whether he might commit
mansaughter. a full understanding o reckless
responsibility it released him to prey on society Now after
few of freedom reappears
with blood and with lives
to his
Human Is cheap in York, 10 cheap tha
promscuous provoke sharp
society's in negro acual
accompce, which,
a captivity, set him loose?
s thing a
mercy which a prisoner
life without establishing safeguard against
at wrong
his time that hands
in
impossible that offender should lifetime
question Is not What to do with Criminals"
prevent girls
them while they
der and acab them in the they should co.
No until Lawmakers society and civilization learn that prevention
is there be establishing safeguard
against repetition Of such crimes
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-05-26

Crystal White Orpington eggs for
sale, $1.5O per setting until August
list. Phone SIS Cumb. 16.5t
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-05-26

MISUNDERSTANDING and Paint.
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-05-26

of Oklahoma declaring invalid
constitution
constitution
of deprecate this
the United States the contonal
in the
the highest they
always failed Federal District Judge in all
feeling of uneasness southern
mem O the courts decision
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-05-26

mighty
with grim stately the last
a should fall
toward the foe He made his mis-
takes he ruled wisely general and he
class times because of
He has lived and his days will
taen all in all he and old
maj
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16
important Resolutions Disposed.

The senate has disposed of SOM
important resolutions coming down
from the assembly, among which was
the resolution in the nature of a me.
mortal to congress asking for an
amendment to the federal constftu-
ton providing for the election Of
United States senators by a direct
vote of the people. Senator White
head objected to the suspension of the
rules, arguing that the matter was
too important to pass through the leg
islature on suspension of rules and
without public discussion, but the SEN
ate concurred in the matter with only
his vote in opposition. Another reso-
luton concurred in provided for an in
terstate conference on the subject of
fish and game legislation, and provides
for the invitation Of a committee Of
the legislatures of Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois, Iowa, MNnesota, North Da-
kota and South Dakota to meet with
the committee of the Wisconsin legis-
lature at Madison February Fl. The
senate also concurred in the resolu.
ton asking congress not to pass the
law abolishing the various pension
agencies and centralize them in Wash.
tngton, as was proposed in bill now
pending. The resolution asking con.
gress to prohibit the use of phos,
phorus in the manufacture of matches
went over until the next session.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16
MRONGDOER PAYS THE PRICE
1 and Position Guilty of Completely
in Bride Giving.

With the recent departure from
New York OF certain aged man and
ais wife on chip bound for Germany
the curtain falls on a little tragedy
about as pathetic as any to be found
IN fiction. The story can be told with
out naming persons or places. The
man possesses a large fortune, and
until few months ago he was a
prominent banker, honored and trust
ed by everybody, in a leading city OF
the United States
When official investigation discIos
ed wholesale bribery and other forms
of corruption In the city government
this old man, overwhelmed either
with Femorse or with fear of a prison
sentence, appeared in court, confessed
himself guilty OF completely in sordid
crimes Of bride giving and was fined
$500 But that was the smallest of
the penalties that fell upon him.
He realized that his reputation was
gone, that the community no longer
respected him and that mere wealth
was not recognized as an atonement
Tor crimes committed by its possessor.
and so, with the winter of age upon
him, this fOrlorn man has gone back
with his faithful wife and his money
10 spend his last days in seclusion in
ane fatherland whence he came a
poor boy, nearly half a century ago
New York Mail
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16
Suggestions That Hurt

1t is cruel to constantly remind chill
dren Of their deficiencies or peculiar,
tiles, says Orison SWEET Marden in
Success Magazine Sensitive chill,
nren are often seriously injured by the
suggestion of inferiority, and defects
are exaggerated which might have
been entirely overcome. This ever.
lasting harping against the bad does
not help the child half as much as
keeping its mind full of the good. the
beautiful and the true The constant
5oVe suggestion, purity suggestion, no
3blIlty suggestion, will so permeate
the life after awhile that there will be
nothing to attract the opposite. 1t
will be so full of sunshine, so full of
beauty and love, that there will be lit.
EIe place for their opposites.
The childs self-confidence should be
buttressed, braced encouraged In
every possible way; not that he should
be taught to oYerestimate his ability
and his possibilities, but the idea
that he is Gods child, that he is heir
40 an infinite inheritance, magnificent
possibilities, should be tnstilled into
the very marrow of his being.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16
PRESIDENT TAFT HINTS
AT AN EXTRA SESSION
Tells Senators That He Must Have q
Vote on Canadian Trade
Agreement.

Washington. = President Taft will
most Immediately aftel March 4 if
there shall be no vote taken previous
to that time on the Canada reciprocity
agreement. The chief executive
served this notice on congress through
Senators Carter and Crane
Mr.. Taft summoned Senator Crane
Of Massachusetts and Carter of Mon
tana to the White House to urge upon
them the necessity of expediting Iegis-
latiOn in the senate, so there would be
no necessity for an extra session of
congress. Vice-President Sherman and
Senator Smoot also were in conference
with the president.
Senators Crane and Carter entered
at once upon a campaign to advance
the presidents program They con-
ferTed with other senators who are es-
pecially friendly to the administration
and have sought to enlist their ser
vices in movement to obviate the
necessity of an extra session The i'm
preston has prevailed at the capitol
votes on both the Canadian agreement
and the bill to establish a permanent
tariff board, but this has been partly
removed
According to the general report at
the capitol, the president placed the
Canadian agreement above the tariff
board measure and would be satisfied
If the former were enacted at this ses-
sion In the event the permanent tar
if board should fail, it is believed that
an appropriation would be voted in
the closing days of the session to con-
tinue the existing board for another
year. II an extra session should be
called by reason of the failure of the
senate TO grant a vote on the Canadian
agreement it is understood that the
president would demand the establish
ment of a permanent tariff board and
might go so far as to promise data on
the wool and wooden schedule of the
tariff act if the Democratic house de.
sired it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16
The PartlsanshIp of Historian.

Every historian likes to be impar
tial; but how can an EngIishman be
expected calmly to weigh and adjust
the motives and methods of the Span
ish in the Armada? What biograpber
of Lord Nelson appreciates the disci.
pine and strategy Of his French and
Spanish opponents? What Frencbman
feels that the German campaign If
1906 was a causeless assault upon
weaker power? War breeds war. the
conqueror feels the need of maintain
ing his reputation, and the CONQUERED
seeks revenge. Then tt incidents of
warfare in the field leave an inefface-
able mark Of savagery, writes Prof
Albert BUSHNELL Hart; so that for de-
cades women in western Europe terri
fed their whimpering children into
silence by the threat that the Croats
would get them. There are parts of
central France where the brutality of
the Angevin kings Of England is still
re rendered after six centuries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16

Two negroes had been called up be-
fore their employer because thye had
had a fight about money. Abraham
Jones claimed that Thomas Short
owed him five dollars. This Short de-
MED In the most vehement manner,
calling on all the powers of heaven
and earth to strike him dead if he
owed Jones a cent.
use done loan dat Niggah five dol
labs" protested Abraham
"He amt done nothin' OBJ de kim"
contradicted Short.
This colloquy kept up for several
minutes. Finally the employer decid-
ed that Jones had loaned five dollars
to Short.
What do you mean by lying to me
in this way?" he demanded sterniy of
Short
well. boss" exclaimed Short. you
see, it wuz lax dis: Abraham he done
loan me dat five dollars, but it wuz
a loan in de way of a gif'."-Popular
Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16
Senate Opposes New House Rule.


The attempt Of assembly Tex
new rule which will operate
to choke OF the Introduction of new
bills by committees after the rule re-
1ating to individual members goes in
to effect is now likely to meet stren-
ucus opposition. The rule went
through the lower house without a
dissenting voice, but in the senate 1t
has been laid over and probably will
be defeated It is doubtful if ma
Jority OF the assembly fully realizes
the effect Of the proposed rule, or it
would not have had such easy sailing
there. The regulation places in the
committee on legislative procedure, Of
which Speaker Ingram is chairman,
the power to permi. or refuse to per-
nit the Introduction of any new meas
ure after next Tuesday, unless the
house by two-thirds vote suspends
the rules, which is infreQuently done
A resolution by Assem- blyman Plow-
man, for the appointment of a joint
committee to receive bids for the pur-
chase of the present state fair
grounds II Milwaukee, and to secure
options on desirable sites In other
parts Of the state marks a renewal of
the fight to get the big agricultural
show away from the states metropo-
lis. The fight will not be successful
at this session, but the supporters of
the plan believe they eventually will
accomplish their purpose by these
''educationaT measures.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16
The Horne Votce

Have you ever noticed the close re.
lationshfp between the home voice
and the home atmosphere? And as
the atmosphere is the sensitive. in.
tangible thing, it is affected by the
voice, not by the atmosphere.
If the head of the house, whether it
be the husband or the wife, has a
whining voice, the atmosphere of that
home Is apt to be depressed. Every
thing IS limp, so to speak, and spine.
less. Even the draperies hang in de.
iected folds. Nothing ever is right or
bright or CHEEKY. The home is a cen
ter of complaints.
In the home where the dominant
voice is gruff or surly, an atmosphere
Of antagonism seems to prevail. No.
body seems to want to do what he
ought to do. His manner implies a
protest, sulky compliance.
Take again the patronizing voice
in the home, the voice that conde-
scends to tell the others what they
should do. The family sit uneasily
under 1t. There is a feeling of sub
lection In that home, a lack of indi-
viduality
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16
TAFT SEES BOOM
FOR ALL IN PACT
President Tells Farmer His Fear
Is Groundless.
ANSWERS CRITICS OF PLAN
Address at Corn Exposition In CoIur-
bus, o., Plea for Canadian
Agreement-No One
Will Suffer.

Columbus. o. - In an address
at the National Corn exposition here
President Taft declared that reci-
procity with Canada will benefit the
entire United States-the farmer,
manufacturer, railroad company, mid
dleman and the warehoUseman.
While mis- speech was devoted es-
pecially to showing that the farmer
had nothing to fear, but much to gain,
he attempted to prove also that all
the other interests of the country
would be benefited.
I'VE have with pioneer energy
pushed on to the Pacific" the presi-
dent said, and taken up all the good
land We are spending millions to
reclaim the arid and semi-arid lands
Of the great western desert. Should
we not by taking down a useless and
unnecessary tariff wall bring within
our agricultural resources the great
plains of the northwest when they can
bring to us what we need, and that
without hurting any of our own peo-
pIe?"
Canada is our neighbor on the
north for 5000 miles. Her population
is English, Scotch and French. Her
soil is like ours. Her traditions are
the same as ours. Her language is
ours. Her climate is temperate, like
ours, except that her growing seasons
are shorter and she cannot raise corn
in great quantities. She has a free
popular government, with a wage
earning class as intelligent and as
we'll paid as ours 1t is difficult to see
In what respect her farmers have any
advantage over our own except a vir-
gin soil in the far northwest"
How is the farmer to be hurt ?"
the president asked. Then he took
up the effect it would have on corn
and wheat prices, on the value of
farm lands in this country and on the
United States milling industry He
declared that "in respect to corn the
American farmer is king and will re-
main so, reciprocity or no reciproc-
ity." AS to wheat, he said the domes-
tic price is governed by the world
price. and that "the sending of any
part of Canada's surplus through our
country instead of through Canada to
be milled or to be exported without
milling will not perceptibly or mate
rally affect the price of wheat for
our farmers"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16
Proper Attitude Toward / ;f.

There is considerable misapprehen-
sion in regard to work Many of US
7ong for money with which to buy
leisure in which to enjoy ourselves
This is a wholesome idea. But no
idle person is happy. OF course, it's
pleasant to be able to choose ones
work. For those of us who cannot
there is often a certain mental atti-
tude toward work which is in the ma
aure of rebellion. We may feel sorry
for ourselves because we have to
work. Right here you get the mar
tyr spirit. Then again it may be
that you hate your stepmother. But
your father likes her. Here comes
in your loyalty to your father. You
may hate your stepfather. But your
mother likes him. He may have his
good points. Anyway, your attitude
should be loyalty. That's all that's
expected of you.-From an Article in
Farm aad Fireside
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16
ONE FRIEND ALWAYS
POET NEVER ENTIRELY DEVOID
OF ADMIRERS.
Surely the Writer Can Laugh at Dis.
Paraging Critics When He Is
Really Conscious of the
Merit of His Lines.

When l take my verses from table
or shelf and sit down at ease in
my chair and con my lines over
there all by myself, those delicate
verses and rare; when l read my
lines in the glow of the lamp, those
musical lines of my own, and find
my eyes both sentimentally damp,
there IN the dim lamplight alone;
Wnen l note the exquisite pathos
ana sweet, the sentiment tender and
true, the faultless perfection of word
Ing and feet, the tales of old joys
and OF new; when l sound the depths
OF humanity's heart, and lift it to
glorious height; when with divine
genius and consummate art l bring
songs OF JOY and delight; when on
my tuned ear all the harmony rings.
the harmony clear and divine, and
IND all through such half secrets.
on wings as butterflies, light and as
nne-I say when l sit down and
read my own lines, it's simple as
can be to see the fire of true genius
that endlessly shines-Jim Riley has
nothing on me.
When l read the humor I've written
myself, such side-splitting humor
and real; when I get my manu-
script down from the shelf-Ah,
well, you must know how l feel;
When i'm tired of Dean Swift
and Bret Harte and Nye, and
crave the high mountain and lone. /
pass all the everyday humorists by
AID read some good stuff of my own;
1t may not be printed, but pray, what
Oh that? l know every word, line and
page; beside it the humor the world
reads is fat, but mine seems to
flpen with age; so much other humor
I've read is pure rot. redeemed by
some luminous name, but mine is the
kind that just touches the spot and
Durns with real humor's bright flame;
see in it points that are drawn
Subtly fine, and framed for the
aoubly elect; there's hardly SEN
Cence, indeed scarce a line, but So
Der reflection is wrecked on I'M
charted rocks of pure, unalloyed fun
on reefs of insight that are deep. and
find quite often that ere I am
done I've laughed myself soundIy to
sleep; and so I'm consumed with
conviction that's sure, and all of nv
senses agree that I've written humo1
mats bound to endure-Sam Glenn.
ems has nothing on me.
Oh, thousands of times have nv
sketches and rhymes come down. tc
De read, from some shelf; my verses
have been read vast thousands OF
tmes-Pve read them that many my.
self; 1 find In my hunger for truth and
IN what l might call the Pierian thirst
so many things Shakespeare and ]
have both thought, though Shake
speare had thought of then first; and
though | read him with unenvious eve
MS verses have not quite the tone. the
real ringing truth that | always des
cry in reading some lines of nv
own; / don't begrudge Shakespeare
the fame he may get; he's not In the
race now for pelf; there isn't an au
thor that I'd sooner set in author
ship next to myself; and SO when
dull critics may smite me to show |
how little their shriveled souls be
I'm never dismayed in the least for
| know I've one real admirer in Mel
}. w. Foley, in New York Times
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16
Ovens Bill Is Hit Hard.

The guarantee of bank deposits bill
of Senator Owen received some hard
knocks at the joint hearing in the as
sembly chamber. The hardest came
from former Assemblyman L. C. Whit
tet OF Edgerton, who was a member
of the special joint committee on
banks and who, with the other mem
bers Of the committee, was in Okla
homa when the Columbia bank failed.
Mr. Whittet's deductions from that
failure and its effects, as we'll as the
results of the guarantee law in force
in Oklahoma, were Numerically diff
ferent from the rosy pictures drawn
of the same conditions by Senator
Owen.
Mr. Whittet held that such a law
as was proposed would make the
banking business a political foot
ball" This was denied by Senator
Owen.
You are placing it in the hands of
a bank commissioner who is appoint
ed by the governor and who can be
changed over night" said Mr.. Whit
tet, and if that is not making it
political football l don't know what
you would call it,
Furthermore, Mr.. Whittet said, S.
600 was offered to fix" the bank COM
missioner in Oklahoma so as to let
the Columbia bank continue in bust
ness, which would indicate that poll
tics had a great deal to do with the
operation of the system.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16
STATE FAIR BOARD
ELECTS NEW HEAD
Charles ]. Hill Defeats George
McKerroW for Presidency.
R0WLANDS SUCCEEDS TRUE
Decision Made to Open the 1911 Ex
hlbition on Tuesday Instead of
Monday and End on Saturday
Instead of Friday

Madison-The old crowd. which for
many years has absolutely controlled
the state fair board, had their hold
loosened and were badly shaken up
by the outcome at the first meeting
of the new board at the meeting.
Charles ]. Hill Of Rosendale was
elected president of the state board
of agriculture defeating George Nc
kerrow. Mr.. Hill was named on the
first formal ballot. ]. J. Nelson was
elected vice-president On the first bal
lot
John NJ. True Of Baraboo, for the
last thirteen years secretary of the
board, who resigned to accept the Of
dee Of state senator, will be succeeded
by R. w. Rowlands of Genesee.
Little difficulty was experienced in
electing the board Of managers for
the state fair. The balloting resulted
In the election of c. L. Hill, ]. j. Mel
son, Grant u Fisher, o. G. Rewey
and George McKerrow
Aside from the election of officers
an important decision made by the
board was to open the 1911 state fair
on Tuesday instead of Monday and
end it on Saturday instead of Friday
as has been the custom Saturday
will be automobile day" Twenty
thousand dollars will be offered in
purses for harness races.
When the informal ballot for presi-
dent of the board had been taken the
result was announced as follows:
Hill, 7; Fisher, 3; Nelson, I; McKer-
row, 2. Arthur w. Prehn, one of the
newly appointed members, moved
that the informal ballot be declared
formal, but Mr.. Hill Directing, a for
nal ballot was taken which resulted
as follows: Hill, s; Fisher, 3; McKer-
row, /; Nelson, 1.
The informal ballot for secretary
resulted as follows: Packard, 8; Row
lands, 2; Mackenzie, 2; Roessler, 2;
Bell, 1; Nelson, / Caldwell, l; Don
aid, I.
Up to the twelfth formal ballot the
votes were we'll scattered, James Mac
Kenzie of Madison leading with 6,
nAAIS W. IlOnId uGu ., anu d.
G. Packard of Chippewa Falls 2. On
the twelfth ballot Packard's men
swung over to the Waukesha man,
which gave him a majority of one
vote.
While at first glance it seems but
an even break, a careful analysis of
the situation goes further than that.
c. L. Hill, the new president, while
he usually voted with the old man
agement, has been looked upon as a
fair man with clear sense of what
was right and a desire to do things in
a businesslike way. The election of
r. W. Rowlands of Genesee as secre-
tary was victory for former Pfesi-
dent McKerrow, who engineered the
deal which landed Mr.. Rowlands in
the Office of secretary
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-16
Walk and Know the World.

Walking is not merely moving two
legs rhythmically over certain inter
walls Of ground. 1t is the primal and
the only way to know the world, the
deliberate entering into an inheri-
lance whose parts are wind and
weather, sky and prospect, man and
animals, and all vital enjoyment. The
bicycle has some enjoyment in point
of speed and gives a deceptive sense
of power, but it is a foe to observa-
ton. All carriages, whether pro-
PEELED by horse or motor, isolate the
traveller from the ground, steal his at
tention from the world through which
he passes, and utterly destroy all feel
ing of achievement. The very word
mile" is a walkers worthwhile pas
sus-a thousand double PAGES. So the
Roman legions measured their con-
quering advances; so the legion of pc
destrians estimate its conquests of
the day. so many thousand buffets
have mine own two feet given the re-
sisting soil 'twixt sun and sun; so
many thousand times have the good
muscles of calf and thigh lent their
elastic force" What has the dusty
reader of figures on a dial to match
with that ?-Atlantic Monthly.