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The new era., 1911-03-09

The duity of defending the consti
tutional ity of the refunding
amendment adopted at the last
election. Will fall on Attorney--Gen
eral Griffith.
The new era., 1911-03-09

That Chicago philosopher who ad-
vocates the eating of four meals a day
provides a long-awaited antidote to
Brother Fletcher.
The new era., 1911-03-09
Comparative Penalties.

The recommendation of the Maine
game commission for more severe
treatment of careless hunters recalls
the way an Indian in Washington
county once sized up Names game
laws: XIII COW moose, pay s1O0; kill
man, too bad !"-Boston Globe.
The new era., 1911-03-09

Men may come and men may go,
but the aeroplane will go on forever.
The new era., 1911-03-09
EDITORIALS.

Fifty-seven Legislative days gone
$4,000 expended-not promised
law enacted.
The new era., 1911-03-09

Poverty does nearly everything to
man except to take away his ap-
petite.
The new era., 1911-03-09

The women who wear modern hats
cannot accept the advice, look up,
not down"
The new era., 1911-03-09

The horse is doing very well, thank
you. this auto-hying age.
The new era., 1911-03-09
RANCH FOR SALE

A first class hay ranch for sale in
North Park. Price reasonable, and
good terms if taken at once.
r. G. TAYLOR
P. o. box 4e1, Cheyenne, Wyo.
The new era., 1911-03-09

1t looks comical to see little man
argue six-footer into corner.
The new era., 1911-03-09

Weight Of Min
There are 45.4 quarts in 800 pounds
Of milk.
The new era., 1911-03-09

Here shall the Press, the cause of
Truth maintain. unawed by Influence
and unbribed by Gain
The new era., 1911-03-09
LODGE DIRECTORY.

The Women of the Woodcraft meet
at the |, o. O. F. hall the first and third
Friday of each month.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-31
MEAT PACKERS LOSE
Must Stand Trial on Charges Of Con.
spiracy and Monopoly.

At Chicago Wednesday the n eat
packers lost again in their fight against
government prosecution when Judge
Carpenter HANDED down a ruling up
holding the indictments charging com
bination, conspiracy and monopoly In
restraint of trade.
This meats that triel must be con
fronted by them and also that the i'm
.munity hath" administered in the beef
trust case of 1903 will not serve to
block prosecution.
Conviction on any of the seven
counts In the indictments carries a
penalty of one year in prison, a fine
up to $4,000, or both, and the sentences
may be cumulative, In the discretion
of the judge. if conviction is secured
on more than one count.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-31
SO MAY BE DEAD
British Columbia Shipping Company
Steamer CapsiZes.

With 81 passengers and a crew Of
four on board the steamer Seche.t, Il
small shelter deck steamer ope ated
between Victoria and Soohe by The
British Columbia Shipping company,
capsized of Beachy Head. 1t IS be-
lieyed that all on board were lost
The Sechelt left with load of pas
sengers, mostly laborers, bound to the
Canadian Northern railroad construc-
tion camp at Pcddar bay, and crew
of four mon, with Captain II. B.
James, manager OF the company, in
command.
A boy arrived at Esqulmalt In a
gasoline launch from William Head
quarantine station with news that the
steamer had capsized al that the
boy knew was that the Sechelt had
capsIzed and he believed all were
drowned, He had been sent to get as,
sistance.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-31
MEXICO IS PLACED
UNDER MARITAL LAW
Ciaz Government Susp3nds Con.
StitutIOnaI Guarantee.

Martial Law now prevails in Mexico.
Throughout the country the constitu.
;ional guarantee has been suspended
by the government upon the recon,
mendation of President Diaz A
death penalty is thus provided for
persons arrested and convicted of Ger.
tain specified crimes, The Mexican
tribassy was officially notified by
! or Enrique {, Creel, minister of
foreisn affairs Of Mexico. OF this ac-
ton Senor Creel's dispatch was as
follows:
! The permanent commission of the
general congress approved the sus'
pension of the guarantee given under
the first part of the 18th, 18th, Goth
and 2lst articles of the federal cunstl.
luton Consequently there may lie in
dictod and subject to immediate trial
within limit of eight days. lawbreak'
ers of this description: Highway.
mel people who destroy railroad lines
and the property Of railroads. telc.
graph ard telephone lines and llnes
of electric transmission generally;
robbers, people who assault villages
and lay them waste and persons who
ltidnap and hold persons for ransom
The punishment prescribed for per.
sons convicted of these offenses on
trial is death.
This degree will apply TO Ameri-
cans who participate in the revolution
as we'll as to the Mexican insurgents
There are a good many Americans
now in the ranks Of the revomtionists
The state department takes the posi-
tion that Americans who engage In
The revolutionary movement do so at
their own risk. If they are captured
by the Mexican authorities the only
assistance they can hope to receive
from the state department is that the
, American government will use its dip
lomatic influence with Mexico to OBJ
fain fair and regular trial"
The end of~tne revolution is forecast
hy .he understanding thai prevails in
Now York that Senor LimGntour min.
lister of france in Mexico, has per
fectod a tentative plan for reforms
/ agreeable TO the Diaz government,
which will satisfy leading insurrectos,
The capture of Toria bv the lnsur.
gents was reported to the state de-
pG, tment by +. NJ. bearing. charge
d'sfrares Of the American embassy at
Mexico City. The lives and property
CT foreigners, he added, have been
respected by the insurgents
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-31
DEATH F0a SIX FI9EMEN
Sixteen Fall Through the Roof Of a
Milwaukee Building.

At Milwaukee, Wis, sixteer fire.
men fell through the roof of the build.
ing of the Middleton Manufacturing
company, wholesale hatters, at 354
Broadway, while fire was in progress
there
Six are known TO be dead. Eight
others were rescued and rushed 10 a
hospital. Those rescued we're In such
condition that their names were not
all obtainable. Their coats and hel-
ments were torn away.
The known dead are Captain Hintz,
Dick Burke, Harry 0'Donneil and Ed
win Hagie.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-31
hAGRAY MEN ON TRIAL
Eleven Are Brought into United
States Court In Iowa.

The men indicted two years ago for
fraudulent use OF the mails, and known
as the associates of John C.. Mabray,
now serving a term in the federal rr's.
on at Leavcnworth, Kas., for a similar
crime. were brought to trial in the
United States district court at Coun.
ell Bluffs, la.
Nabray was convicted Of rromot.
jng fake horse races, prize fights,
wrestling matches and foot races
The men Just brought TO trial, all OF
Nhom are known by various aliases.
are charged with being "steerers" for
Mabray Their names are given as 7.
Ry3n, Hot Springs, Ark, saloon keep
er, captured in California; Wright,
caught in San Antono, Tex; Tom Da.
vries, Oklahoma; C, Hindman, known
ns Honey Grove Kid" caught In New
York: Z. Smith, Streator, H.; R. E.
ThieIman, once member Of the
Cleveland baseball team, captured in
Seattle. and Benjamin Marks. Council
Bluffs.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-31
20 KILLED IN WRECK
Dixie Flyer Goes through a
Trestie n Georgia.

Near Ocilla, Georgia, the Dixie
flyer on the Atlantic Coast railroad
went through tleste over tie AHA
paha river at o'clock IN the morn.
ing Five coaches plunged into the
river. Twenty persons were killed.
The Dixie flyer Is one of the crack"
trains OF the Atlantic Coast line, and
Is much used by tourists on the way to
Florida.
1t is believed several Chicago per
sons were on the train.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-31
RUSS CABINET QUITS
Emperor Nicholas Accepts the Res.
lgnation OF Premier stolypin.

The cabinet OF Premier stolypin has
resigned and Emperor Nicholas has &C.
cspted the resign atoms.
Dissenslors in the Russian cabinet
ever the measure adopted to compel
China to adhere more strictly to the
treaty Of 1881. particularly as TO Rus
sian trade in Mongolia, we're reported
recently.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-31
A Presbyterian Sunday school
WAS recently organized at Parma
with a membership of forty.

A three story pressed brick
building is to be built in Poplar
Bluff this spring that will cover
an entire block.
And Hadley is afraid of home-
rule lest the police get into poll
ties! That's the prize joke Of
the season.-Henry County DEM
ocrat.
Well, il our legislature hasn'l
done any good, it hasn't asfar ~
we know done any harm, and
| that's something to its credit
| BoonvIlle Advertiser.
Eight horses were burned t.
/ death at Gentry early few morn
ings ago, in a fire which destroy
ed Charles Lawter's livery stable
| When first discovered the flames
we're already beyond control
~rhe Cape Girardeau Herald an
nounces that Colonel Roosevelt
and Speaker Champ Clark will
both deliver lectures at the meet- :
ing of the Miss )uri Christian
Churches in June at that city.
August 1st is the date set by
the legislature for the people tc
vote on the proposition to build u
new So, 800, 900 capitol building,
Everybody get ready to vote or
the proposition, for the state must
sure have a capitol building.
Uncle Rice Baghy was il Milar
the other day and although 81
years old seemed as spry as many
at 30. "IIe's just stayin' round
after dividing ~ something like
1000 acres of fine farming Ian,
among his children, the youngest
of whom is over forty years,
Out Of the total of nine direc.
tors OF a Webh City bank, eacl
OF four is designated as a "lare
land owner" while the fifth is
satisfied to be known merely as {
Gland owner" And the othe
four probably are on their way
making as much speed as posi-
BILE.
The other day n Salisbury MAI
put on a vest he had not worn foI
several years. Reaching into on
Of the pockets he found a fifty
dollar bill. He had no remem
brance of having placed it t ere
Thus it is proven that not al
wives go through their usband'i
pockets.
Cole Younger, the famous ex
bandit, was in Fulton last W,
to deliver a lecture, and met tier,
the only man that ever gave hin
a thrashing-T. Allen Russell
who was a school teacher in Cae
County in 1853, the year he whip
ped Younger for fighting. Nh
Russell is now 81 years Of ag
and Younger il 6S.
When the senate meets April 4
Senator Stone OF Missouri will l.
minority leader when the Dem,
Gratis and progressive Repuhl
cans vote together. In the ne,
arrangement Of the senate cham
ber Senator James A. Reed wi
begin his service in the same ses
occupied by Senator Stone whe
the latter gentleman came int
the senate.
"Uncle Dan" Bartlett, a nativ
of Missouri, and believed to b
the oldest white man in the statt
for the first time in his life wa
taken i'll at his home in SedaliG
, week before last. aud he died la:
, week Monday. He was born !
Boonville in 1901, aud withol
leaving the state he has lived uu
! der Spanish, Fench and Amer
eau rule. Twenty-nine yeal
- bo ,x,ant 90 Cad alfa and uor.,
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-31
HuGHDkM DEDICATED
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Takes
Part In Ceremonies.

Impressive ceremoriee attended the
dedication exercises OF the Roosevelt
dam In. the Salt river valley. Arizona.
Col. Roosevelt, after whom the dem
wax named trck rr,rirea art n
che decieaslcn , igr@s teHg of
ponrfsids- +. -. s.---r - he -.
szdcn.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-31

Hopkins.
There is some talk of having a
poultry show at Charleston this
year.
E1ldon is getting something to
hold on to by establishing han
die factory.
<Four "aichee" in the Warren
= Times: "Hoops-hobbles-har-
em-help!"
L berty physicians will go to-
gether to build and equip a 20
bed hospital.
Missourians will not object, as
in former years, if Frank James
does come back.
Joseph Eoffennuffer of Joplin
i doean't stuff his name into the
hot tamaes he builds and vends.
Local news note in the Rock
port journal: "B. Gratz Brown
has sold his livery business to c,
J. Cruthers.
The S.. Louis butcher who died
leaving an estate of $4,000 must
have been in business at least
three months.
Moberly meets Columbia's loud
claim of eleven miles of paved
streets with Il distance of twenty
two aud half miles.
The latest record shows 13,
registered motor cars in Missouri.
Two years ago there we're only
about 1000 cars in the state.
Governor Hadley has signed
the Hull automobile law provid-
inc for an annual state license Of
motor cars to create road fund.
A real estate dealer in Spring
field. Wishing to make a showing
of business, sold his home for
$4,000 and then rented 1T OF the
nsw owner.
A Trenton man "fooled his
friends as well as his relatives
when he got married recently, and
there is the possibility that he
even fooled himself.
Soon none OF the old fashioned
things will be left. Now comes
a Mexico milkman and says the
milk ticket must go because II
. spreads contagion and disease.
Frank James has sold his per-
sonal effects on his farm at Flet-
cher, Oklahoma, and will return
to his farm, the old James home
stead,ne Kearney, CHy county
Carl Locke, who lives at Har.
lem, just across the river from
Kansas City, went duck hunting
on a Sunday recently and it cos
him 81 and costs and long leo
ture on desecrating the Sabbath
by & German justice of the peace
who runs grocery and saloor
and keeps both open every day.
The farmers Of the house KILLED
the pure seed bill. This measure
sought to protect the purchaser
of pure seeds by having the name
of the grower of the seed stamp
ed 1pon the package offered fol
sale, together with the date wher
the seed was grown and the quail
/ity and purity of the same. Th'
farmers thought is would wori
a hardship on the grower of seeC
and they consequently knockeV
it into a cooked hat, though seet
buyers and dealers were not OPP
posed to it and many thought
would he q good thing. The op
position to the bill developed from
! neighborhood of farmers Wit
are growing seeds for the marke
and one of them admitted that !
they had TO comply with such
law they could not dispose o
their stuff At aprodt.-Worth Go
Times
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26
ORAT0RICAL CONTEST
 AT YANCEY

The preliminaries to the joint oratorical contest with the Hilliard were held Fri day afternoon by the Yancey. The con- test was held in the auditorium of the High school before large audience of Yancey supporters.
 There were 10 contestants from whom three were chosen to represent the club in the joint contest with the Hilliard. Everyone of the 10 showed the effects of good training, and delivered their ora tions so well that the judges had much trouble in choosing the winners.
 Those speeches on the programme were: 'The Watchman," by Sterling A. Wood; Adams Plea for the Declaration of Independence" by Lee Bradley; 'The Demon Ship" by Alfred Eaves; Spar tacus to the Gladiators," Latimer Brown; 'Emmett's Reply" Chappelle Cory; 'The Two Pictures Robert Goodall Patrick Henry's Oration," Lewis Woodson; Red Jackets on the Religion of the White Man and the Red,' Joseph Carson; Cat elines First Oration," Robert Lee Tate; "Antony's Funeral Oration," Joseph Cook.
 The three chosen from among these were Sterling Wood, Robert Goodall and Latimer Brown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26
THEORY 0F ;: CRIMINAL LAW

Brussels, March (Special.)-Public opinion has been aroused by the publica- tion of new gospel of criminal law, as set forth, not only in his own name, but on behalf of a whole school of legal au- thorities by an eminent magistrate. M. Raphael Simons, who occupied the posi- tion of public prosecutor.
 M. Simons, after showing that crime is almost everywhere on the increase, de- nounces as the cause of it's progress tine modern and ultra-sentimental idea of the mental Responsibility of many criminals who are acquitted, pardoned, or sentenced to insignificant penalties, on the pretext that they are not of sound mind or other like causes. He expresses the view that the whole foundation of penal laws should be reversed and be based henceforth not on the individual interest of the criminals, but on the collective interests of social self-defence against crime, whether such : crime. be voluntary or not.
 Further, M. Simons would have judges decide simply whether prisoners are or are not guilty of the offences charged against them and, in cases of guilt, sen tence them to imprisonment whether they are sane or not.
 Medical men would then be invited to make a close examination of the prison CTS mental condition. It would depend on the result of such an examination whether the offender would be confined in a jail or in a lunatic asylum.
 At the same time M. Simons and the ''school of practical men" for whom he speaks, would reintroduce the penalty Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26
Why Baby Is Bad

On the Branch, by Pierre de Coulevain.
 'Children are the most unknown and the most misunderstood of beings.
 "It is because each one has different character and 1t is impossible to judge one by another'' said Sir William.
 "Yes, but the inner stimulus which de- termines its acts Is the same Have you ever noticed that the baby of or months always throws away the plaything that is given it, and as far as possible?"
 That is so.
 And directly afterward 1t moves for ward as though to fetch it"
 "Yes, exactly.'
 'That is simply the means nature has found for putting into action it's muscles of locomotion. To run after something that Is the primordial, eternal instinct. When the child wants to obey this in- stinct the mother or the nurse who is holding it keeps 1t back by force, and so provokes its anger. I am convinced that what we call naughtiness is only play. The little one likes to tease the big one. the big one does not understand, punishes and often whips the child. The newcomer on arrival here must touch objects, an in finite number of objects, in order to come into contact with life. We hinder this rightly or wrongly. The child is born explorer, and we hold him in as much as possible The cries that he utters are necessary for enlarging his chest, for ex- ercising his lungs, and we correct him in order to make him be quiet. And this sort of thing continues through ignor- ance. We thwart the instinct which is really a great force. instead of guiding if with wisdom. I wonder why natural ists do not study the child as they do ants and bees"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26
Cannon for Money

Paris, March 25.-(Special.1-I these days when everyone eagerly looks for the coming of the dove of peace, for the day when swords will be turned into plough shares and spears into pruning hooks, it is interesting to know that the French government has just decided to send sev- eral old cannons to the mint to be turned into money. This seemn an anomaly, but as several old Actresses are being dis manted these bronze cannons are no long CT necessary, and it is better to convert them into coin instead of throwing them into the scrap heap. There will be no change in the design, only the date will be altered. The authorities have under consideration an issue of nickel money of two to four grammes and of from 19 to 3 mllimeters in diameter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26

cspital exclusion" from society,". e., capital punishment-for all cases of mur- der. As he forsees that it might be dif- ticult to induce sensitive jurymen to re- turn T verdict of guilty in all such cases, he would abolish trial by jury, except for purely civil actions, and he would likewise do away with the kings right of pardon. In addition, he would increase the cti- zens right of sef-defence to the extent of allowing a would-be murderer to bs killed by sight by his intended victim.
 It is, of course expected that this new theory of criminal law will be attacked and violently opposed by the older school of jurists. It is ample testimony, how ever. to the growing anxiety which is being awakened by the increase of crime and the peresent humanitarian tendency towards excessive leniency. That these new ideas should spring up in Belgium, where capital punishment has been abol- ished for more than half century and where the penal laws have a whole been greatly modified in favor of leniency during the last 9 years, is also very sig
 nifcant MT. Simons, it should be added in conclusion, confidently looks forward to the gradual adoption of his views, de spite the opposition of sentimentalists.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26
Society
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2e.,

~~~~~~>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~< carrying out the color note of yellow and white, ionquils and lilies being used throughout the lovely home in great pro- fusion. The Easter season was not for gotten as rabbits and Easter eggs were there as reminder. One of the games enjoyed was shooting eyes into bunny rabbit, the one hitting the mark winning prize. Easter lilies were a part of the decoration and the cakes were In the shape of rabbits. The young people en- toying the hospitality of the charming young hostess were her cousin, Miss Anne Forney. who assisted her in receiving and entertaining her guests; her mother, Mrs. Bert Forney, and Misses Elizabeth Jordan, Kate Smith. Annie Coulbourn. Mary Griffin John, Mae Ida Wood, Mira Belle Pope, Eleanor Jones, Mary Byron Frazier, Elizabeth Cornell, Joe Douglas Williams, Orline Vandiver, Caroline WrlSler, Susie Cobb. Marie Harmon Masters Mack Forney, Hubert Scruggs. Jr., and Will Burr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26
MRS. LEDBETTER HOSTESS
 FOR MISS LOUISE RJJSHTON

One of the loveliest affairs that has complimented a bride-elect during the Lenten period was the bridge luncheon given yesterday by Mrs. Samuel L. Led better for Miss Louise Rushton The guests included about 30 of Mrs. Ledbet- ters girl friends, who played at seven tables. At 30 o'clock hot luncheon was served from the dining room, where at the bon-bon table, whose central ornament was a tall tankard filled with specimen brides roses. Miss Katherine Ledbetter assisted her mother by serving a refresh-
 ing ice. Bon-bons and nuts filled the comports on this table, and in the library prettily appointed coffee table was pre- sided over by Miss Mary Ball, young friend of the hostess daughter She was assisted by Miss Julia Shackelford, who passed comports filled with tempting sweetmeats. Miss Marguerite King, Miss Elizabeth White and Miss Helen Bethea were three other pretty girls who assisted The house was artistically decorated not alone in roses but with clusters of dog wood blooms.
 Mrs. Ledbetter and her guest of honor Miss Rushton, stood in the drawing room to welcome the guests. The hostess was very gracious and handsome in a blue foulard costume of becoming shade and Miss Ruthon, wearing an original and extremely pretty costume showing a combination of green and coral with white lace. Her hat was encircled with flowers and a soft fold of coral velvet caught
 up the rolling brim at the side. Witl
 Mrs. Ledbetter and Miss Rushton wa.
 Mrs. W. T. Chaffin of Columbia, Tenn.
 the latters aunt. She was one of tn.
 most charming women present and wal
 attractively gowned in chiffon creation with which she wore a large hat crowned
 with great white willow plumes.
 l A series of bridge games was concluded l with the awarding of several lovely prizes To each of the four brides-to-be Mrs. Led better Nnade beautiful gift-slk mati nees faAhioned by her own clever hands