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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-01-19
A Lunacy Case

An affidavit in lunacy was filed in
the probate court of Knox county
Thursday against Mrs. Frazier of Dan
vile. The patient was in such con-
dition that it was necessary to con-
duct the inquest in Danville. The
unfortunate woman was adjudged In
sane and was conveyed to the state
hospital, Columbus, by Sheriff P. j.
Parker on Thursday noon.
Taken to infirmary-
Walter McElroy, wife and two chill
dren we're removed to the Knox coun-
ty inGrmary on Wednesday where
they will be given home. McElroy's
mind has been slightly unbalanced for
sometime and he has been unable to
support his family. The family lived
In Union township.
Marriage Licenses
Clyde Burkholder, gas engineer, and
Irene Norrick, both of Howard. DR..
David Francis.
Lake Reroy Walker, merchant, Cen
terburg, and Mollie Montez Faucet,
Union township. Rev. l.. G. Walker.
Ensley S. Campbell, farmer, Miller
township, and Lenna Kinsey, Milford
township. Rev. e. d. Barnett.
Deeds Filed
e. B. Ramey to A. e. Larimore, par
eel in Centerburg, 5000.
p. J. Parker, sheriff, to Henry A.
Lower, 1888 acres in Jefferson, $1,000.
Martha j. Core to Jane Nichols, lots
in Centerburg, $500.
John Gilmore to Allie Teeter parcel
in Pike, $40.
Lorena G. Rice to A. Fl. Cunning
ham, parcel in Pike, 81.
Herbert w. Smith to George H.
Mochwart, lots in Oakland Terrace,
$235.
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\ LABAMA'S original state geologist
 "A was Prof. Michael Tuomey, whose 4 \ service was invaluable, and there fore deserves permanent recognition. Professor Tuomey was a native of Cork. Ireland, where he was born on St Mich aeps day, 1895.
 Ills scholastic training in youth seems to have been largely private though 1t is certain that he did attend one school outside his home. To his grandmother was this distinguished man indebted for the first scientific taste inculcated, for this remarkable woman led the promis- ing grandson to study with diligence and with accuracy the science of botany, with which study 1t seems there was eyer afterward associated, on the part of MT. , Tuomey, a cherished memory by a grate- ful grandson for timely inspiration given in his boyhood days on the Emerald Isle. Along with this was borne the sacred recollection of fond mother for the care full cultivation of the beautiful as dis played in the dreamy regions of his na- tive isle, and in the magnificent land scapes which there abound. Throughout his life Professor Tuomey bore the im- press of the culture imbibed in those
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amuse her by their skill in making things that are not look like those that are? Has Alabama concluded that the only safe man to consider as a leader and commander and teacher is the profess sional politician, grown wise in a hum dred wars? What do these men want? To stir up passions concerning things of no moment, which will result in much cheese? Or to kill the cobras that kill those white Sahibs," the children, the men, the women, who live in Alabama2 As far as can be seen, the government of this state is utterly oblyious of the physical welfare of the people of this state. It has a health department. Does any living man or woman profit there by? And while we know that the peo- pie have by their representatives appro- priated s4o,000 for a state tuberculosis san
 atorium fund, why are we so poor that the people are dying of tuberculosis?
 The only way to get the state to care for its tuberculosis people Is to make them criminals, and so send them to We tumpka. We boast of Wetumpka. Ger talnly Wetumpka is fair flower in the garland of popular statesmanship We are poor people, your honor and cant afford to care for honest citizens. But
 see how we shelter the tuberculous crook If your honor would kindly visit
 the newly equipped hospital at Wetump- ka, where the sputum is baptized into
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"A POOR CREATURE. YOUR HONOR'-By George Eaves D.

trembling with rapacity to Mir. Rocke- feller. to Miss Gould, to Mrs. Russell Sage, crying, We are poor people. your honors. Help us with your good gold to wash and dress our babies, to make beds for our sick, and to buy milk and eggs for them that need nourishng. We will sell you eggs at reasonable pricel We wil sell you milk. But we are a poor people, your honors. Be good to us. We can't afford to spend our own money. Give us of your bounty"
 If there is n stalwart. Independent is in these southern states l hear the echoes of old Oxfordshire, Somersetshire, Norfolk. on Sand mountain and along the black belt, and am glad. But the public welfare has been long unheeded and the pride suffers a thousand wrongs The Independent generosity is private sacrifice not public wisdom.
 Now. what to do? Let each county erect Its own sanatorlum for advanced cases of tuberculosis. Let counties that are too sparsely settled to need so much pro- vision club together with one or two more and provide such care. Let thera be a state law requiring each county to make such adequate provision, with proper medical oversight and sufficient trained nursing. Let the governments ap- pointed to protect the people truly pro- tect them. Let Chuchundra the rat, be dosed with phosphorus. Let Riki-tiki-
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mediaeval statesman, Macchiavelli. and that heroic soul in "Bleak House." Grandfather Smallweed. He combined the jelly-bacl1 and the sting and the tooth.
 However long the tall of the rat-pol- troon, there is surely sting in 1t. as the sequel will show He who can't affoEd to be a hero can usually afford to be a robber. an assassin, a back-biting slan- derer. when Nag. the cobra, is dead and wounded RilIi-tiki-tavi is out of hearing. I find something of the rat in all Orien- tals. even the most heroic, who push self-depreciation to a vicious extreme It is not necessary that man should go so far in the direction of Chuchundra as to call his wife a fool because she is his wife and not another's. The logic of po- in the barb-wire fence, on which the Japanese for instance tear their robes of conventionality.
 Now is not Alabama assuming the Chuchundra snuffle in these days? Cannot Alabama live and receive her crown of gold? Must she creep along the partition base, among the dust, and whisper. "A poor creature, your honor," or is this Chuchundra snuffle peculiarly the gift of officials, charged with the care of Ala hamas honor? Is not the right of her reople to command the destinies of this state quite unchallenged? or does she em- ploy groups of professional Jugglers to
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Tibbetts, fiery abolitionist. Under the barn there was a small cellar opening into & blind tunnel. In case operations were suspected and O search instituted the ns- groes were placed in the tunnel. while hay thrown down from the loft filled the cellar and concealed the entrance. After the searchers had departed the negroes resumed their studies in the college.
 Owing to the extreme danger of inror- nation leaking out through various chan nels there were but few blacks educated until after the civil war had ended, How ever. 1t was the first school of higher education in the United States in which negroes and whites were placed on equal terms. In this respect it was the fore runner of the famous Berea college ill Kentucky. which until a few years ago numbered many negroes among It's stu dents.
 The college consisted of dormitory and a larger building containing the class-rooms. The two buildings are simi- lar in shape and construction. both being rectangular and built of rough stone.
 What was once an assembly room or
 
 the larger structure. one-half of this is now used as a public school room by the village of Lancaster. On the second ioor are six class-rooms while the third is tln- finished
 The dormitory contains twenty rooms, each large enough to accommodate two persons. The most careful inquiry among the residents of Lancaster failed to as certain sEbptbar m xvlais chaf room and bed with negroes.
 These two buildings were erected by Thomas Craven after years of toll and struggle against adverse circumstances. On horseback he travelled through the country featuring and campaigning for funds with which to carry on the work. Finally enough money was obtained to erect one building. This first structure was the one useP as a dormitory. C;as-es were held there until the main hall was | completed, after the college mad gotten it's start there yet remained the problem
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friend-making and possessing charming cultured manner. he procures a rural school. rallies about him a host of friends. later becomes a private tutor In the home of John II. Dennis of Maryland, studying while he taught, but always winning the hearts of others. and su- premely that of Miss Sarah E. Handy. a kinswoman of his private patron which gifted young woman became Mrs. Tuo- mey
 His innate craving for scientific knowl- edge and his love of nature found slight chance for cultivation at time when institutions of science in America were scarce. but he sought the best within reach by course in the Rennselaer in- stitute at Troy, N. T., whence he was graduated and became a civil engineer in the construction of one of the early railroads in North Carolina. The finan- cial crash of '37 imposed cessation on the railroad project, and with ready re- sourcefulness MT. Tuomey betook him self again to teaching, by occupying a chair of mathematics and the natural sciences in a school presided over by Miss Mercer in Loudon county, Virginia.
 Responding to an opportunity afforded at Petersburg, Va, to establish a sem
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the river and fed to the sharks of the gulf, you would see how we'll we dol
 But did the health department even win that Wetumpka triumph? or was 1t the product of an intelligent prison offl- cial? Not by a thousand leagues would approach a sheer at those who seek the health of the victims of civilization who eminent citizens are headed that way we should prepare sanitary measures for a large increase in the prison population for the day when Ideal Justice shall come 10 her own in Alabama.
 But what about the average citizen. still an honest man, untainted by great financial schemes or by political ambi- tons? How protect hlm7 An. we can not afford that. your honor We are poor creatures. With sob. snuff1e and dropping tall we follow Chuchundra along the dusty edges of the capitol. We skulk behind chairs in more than co court houses, and say we are too poor to live a clean and manly life.
 May an obscure scribe raise his pen in gentle protest at Jacob Chuohundra? For we certainly can afford to protect ev- cry child from disease of a preyentabls kind. and from ignorance and from immor- al environment. We certainly can afford not to stamp out yellow fever or small FOX alone but other such sieknesses as become epidemic or endemic. Or must we hold out our greedy, claw-like fingers,
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haustion of the fund, when he returned to his chair in the university.
 It was Professor Tuomey who first awoke interest in geological science in Alabama, and he 1t was who first dls- closed the mineral wealth of the state. In his pioneer work he fixed the bounda- ries of the different formations in Ala bama, embodying his charts, maps and reports in permanent shape. so that after the lapse of more than half a century and in the blaze of the scientific investi- gations of later years, his work remains as A standard of authority.
 It would be an occasion of much de- light to speak at length of Professor Tuomey, the man. but the censorship of brevity must fin this connection be re- spected. His dignity, his modesty, as an adjunct to his superior culture his width of information, his charming power Of conversation, his gift of instruction, H. lumined by the brilllancy of his native wit. his courtesy toward the humhlest- all these and more he had to degree the most fascinating. The life and labor of a giant like this would be worthy of the worthiest pen, and in sketch such as this is. one gleans but an inl1ling of the man that Prof. Michael Tuomey was. It Is an honor to Alabama to have his
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[VY1HO has not read Kipling's story A/ about Riki-tiki-tavi, the mon-
 w goose who heroically slew snakes, and saved the lives of the white sahibs and their little boy? You shall find 1t in the First Jungle Book. and though you may be dried up as flint, your eyes shall water and your heart Hash fire as you yield to the touch of that magician's hand.
 But 1t is not the heroic mongoose who speaks in today's caption. As the mon goose heard the two hooded cobras in the bath room and was about to engage in unequal combat, Chuchundra the rat snuffled pitifully and tried to dissuade the gallant little fellow. But there was none of the poltroon in Ril1i-tiki-tavi. He jumped and bit and almost died but conquered.
 It is surprising to find how much of Chuchundra, the rat, there is in good men, otherwise great. Great but-a poltroon! There was a yellow streak in Adam, as all his sons know. Who has not discov- cred Chuchundra, the rat, in Moses, David, Jonah? "I can't afford it." says Chuchundra, the rat. It is too risky for Chuchundra to live in a world where blows and principles abound, side by side, on every highway fin every undertaking. Yet Adam was certainly head and should CTS above his contemporaries, who in com
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thegm of Nietzsche. No sensible Bir- mingham person believes that the rineh of need is a good thing for man or a woman or little child, or who believes that poverty should be fostered as a sort of prick and spur for society. As individuals we see clearly that pow erty is actually hell for those who lack; but in our group living the people Of the shadows are all but forgotten. How ex- plain this strange phenomenon? For until we see the importance of the group moth- ering the distressed ones: the stricken minds and bodies as well. and not leav- Ing this matter alone to local charities. beggarly subscriptions and church bazars, Nietzsches word will continue to be quo ted as a truth. Shall this be called forgetfulness, or insanity
 Measured by the Fist century. when please God, none shall lack. the failure of the 10th century to minister to the wretehed may be called insanitv-or an alteration. if you please We may quarrel about things,-nevcr about the names of things, my child.
 Herbert Spencer believed that inhanf- tants of the 20th century would examme data left of the 18th century and wonder
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mary of his own, he and his gifted wife entered on an enterprise there. This opened a wide vista to the pent-up zeal of Professor Tuomey for the cultivation and enlargement of his scientific gifts. In Petersburg was abundantly vindlcated the principle in the person of this indom- itable young Hibernian, that success fn- ally rewards the patient, plucxy and re- sourceful. It became his honor at Peters burg to entertain that eminent English geologist, Sir Charles Lyell, on the oc- casion Of both his visits to America, and by correspondence and otherwise he came into touch of more or less intimacy with the learned scientists of the American continent as well as with those abroad. Among those with whom he was brought by reason of scientific eongeniality into touch were Agassiz, James Hall state geologist of New York. Professor Bache. Professor Dana. pr. Gibbs, Edmund Ruff fin and Professor Holmes. 1t was a glorious company of savants In those early days of scientific miltancy when men of eminence had to confront an in- ertia of stout popular opposition.
 Imperiled by a consuming zeal for scien- tifc research and guided by his own keen judgment, while availing himself
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of all possible authoritative sources of information. Professor Tuoiney was meanwhile assiduous in study and dill- gent in the collection of rare specimens of geology. mineralogy and paleontology
 His labors anon took permanent and val uable shape in scientific publications and after years of labor in other states which cannot be mentioned here in detail, he was called in the heyday of his career. in 1S47, to the professorship of geology, mineralogy and agricultural chemistry In the Alabama university. Lest in com prehensive sphere like this, large enough for several men, his leisure time might run to waste he had imposed addition ally the onerous task of state geologist of Alabama. in 1S4s, and lest his extrava- gance in the use of narrow stipend might betray him Into undue lengths he was given no compensation for this ad- ditional labor For six years he labored for the state under conditions like these
 when the legislature came to his rescue and appropriated sl0,000 for a geological
 survey This led him to rellnquish his chair temporarily in the university in or der to devote his energies to the field of survey, which he continued till the ex-
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early days, and the earnestness of the instruction given by loved ones was perpetual propelling force in all his subse- quent studies and Investigations.
 His precocity was evidently taken ad- vantage of by these affectionate instruc- tors, for at the early age of + we find him associated with friend in teaching at Yorkshire, England. The young gen. ius, for such he was, girded by the pan oply of a sacred association and thorough drill of mind, uarked out for himself a course of scientific study into which his natural bent bore him, and his early training as well.
 We are left largely to conjecture as to the time of his emigration to America, but it must have been in the early twen- ties youthful immigrant he appears in Philadelphia. stranger among strang- CTS, scarcely knowing whither to turn, till he buys piece of ground to till, then ventures in connection with part ner on the purchase of an estate, finds agriculture ill-suited to his taste and ill., productive of results, dispases of his in- terest and wends his way southward, often trudging weary and footsore for days together. He reaches the eastern shore of Virginia, and with knack for
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My boy"
 There was no fatted calf or feastng. yet the prodigal, sitting at the kitchen table opposite mother with the hot cakes and coffee. had the greatest banquet of bis life. Her boyl You will never get down so low that mother will not welcome you. Father may disown you and spurn you from the door, but mother-neveri
 Remorseful because of his cruel forget fitness, his wanderings over. the prodigal had learned his lesson
 At mothers expehsei
 "Wanted-A job as some childs grand mother" Which is not jest.
 Just such an application was made to Miss Mcdowell, head of a Chicago set tlement house, the other day, by q white haired, neat and trim old lady, aged TO. who said: T am poor, alone in the world, friend . less but still useful. I want a job as srandma I love children. Is there not some family in Chicago that wants a grandma?'
 Poor old womani
 Miss McDowell explained that the mod ern flat was not built to house grand mothers and that, although she had many no demand.
 Pitifuli In a whole city full there is no place for a clean, old fashioned grandmotherly oman who, like Jean Paul Richter. 'Ioves God and little children" No need for a kind old soul who would play with children and tell them stories and love tkem
 Miss Mcdowell could do no more than extend her sympathy and a cup of tea Did you ever see Josef Israels master piece, "Alone In the World?' It is jusl the bowed figure of an old woman alone in her little room.
 The picture tells the sorrowful story of many a gentle old lady who has seen her loved ones plotted from lfe's pages" who, through no fault of hers save it may be of sacrificing or loving too much-finds herself alone, without money ard without hope in the world.
 And in great city the tragedy is more piteous.
 Aged lonely. poor-in a cityi Can you think of a sadder fate? The tender mer- cies of the city are cruel. It shunts the less fit into the corner and reserves it's right of way for the swift. l Go to a home for the aged? | Yes. if a poor old woman has at leas. saG0 for the entrance fee or belongs to a certain church or society. But suppose she has no 300 and does not belong. | The poor house 1 To a clean old lady of refinement how | the gorge rises at the mention of it. ] In (Chicago are at least d thousand ] frien Ness. penniless old women-and
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ether cities in proportion-who haunt the clarity headquarters and plead not for sympathy, but for work they can do and q decent burial--outsde the potter's field
 Some day we shall be as merciful as the European governments and pass an old age pension law.
 Perhaps you have noted how thoroughly the Italian fruit seller rubs his apples.
 He buys the highly colored varieties preferably red-which are susceptible of a high polish. and he makes them shine like mirror.
 He appeals to the eye.
 Americans are attracted by outside ap- pearances. A writer calls us "eye mind- ed people, and instances the fact that as people we prefer the moving picture show to the music hall.
 He is right.
 correspondent tells the story of two baskets of peaches that stood side by
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of love and hate is a thing to he deslred In democracy this alteration must eter- nally continue.
 (But you would better read Nietzsehe In December. Being an intellectual whip, his scourgings are not the real right thing for September temperaturesD
 Yet his little sentence at our beginning can do no harm, I think. No headache turks in the statement that insanity in individuals is rare. but ip groups. par ties. nations. 1t is the rule.'
 Tn politics we have noted a strange thing. We have seen quite intelligent persons, well poised, sure of themselves and their udgments-veritable princes in their own right-play asinine and stupid parts In convention halls. We have seen men well grounded in economics-men who clearly sensed the crying need or a growing nation to trade fteely with other growing and producing nations on an equable tariff basis-these we have seen for some stupid. unexplainable req son, vote for high protective tariff.
 The existence of poverty in civilized communities alone illustrates shls apo
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Nietzsche has given us a text of some importance. Men in their group living do the foolish and preposterous things the mad things. if you please-not as sep arate entities. There is plenty of vista for talk here. but in five minutes we should get at some conclusion.
 With all of his pessimism of human en- deavor. Nietzsche saw that man was not lacking in potentiality. he saw that in some curious way this potentiallty be- comes impotent in the merging of minds in the group life. the social, the political, the religious life. To him strength lay in disunion, rathed than union-in the isolated individuality. This recalls that Enemy of the People, in which the in- sanity of the rabble acting as a unit is expressed in the trampling of a noble civic gesture. Mankind Is a fool and democracy is of the substance of dream stuff, concluded this superman, Nietzsche, because of it's unpracticality. It means well, but can be of no service toward promulging the Beyond Man talso a dream concepD. who will be beyond good and evil And Nietzsehe believes that to reach state beyond the storms