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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05
APPELLATE COURT
MAKES IMPORTANT
RULING TUESDAY
REVERSED CASE CARRIED UP
From Brunswick Ruling is
Of Interest

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 4.-Because the
solicitor of the city court of Bruins
wick, went beyond the statuatory linn
itations in questioning jurors on
voire dire during the qualifying
process" the state court of appeals
Tuesday morning reversed the judg-
ment of the lower court in conyicting
Lee Ford of Brunswick, on the charge
of selling Intoxicating liquor.
After propounding to the prospect
i've jurors the questions provided oy
law the solicitor added the following,
which are characterized by the APP
pellate court as unusual, unnecessary,
unauthorized and calculated to preju-
dice the accused by unduly impressns
the jury with the gravity and magni-
tude of the offense charged against
him.
Are you in favor of, or opposed
to, the enforcement of the law known
as the prohibition law of Georgian"
do you consider the enforcement
of this prohibition law, which the
defendant is charged with violating,
of more Importance than other mis-
demeanor statues, such as shooting
on a public highway, between sunset
and sunrise, injury to bridge signs,
THROWN a dead carcass in a river,
etc. ?"
These questions were permitted by
the lower courts and after his convic-
ton Ford made a motion for a new
trial, which was overruIed.
He then brought the case to the court
of appeals on an assignment of error
Ford maintains in his appeal that two
or three prospective jurors replied IN
the affirmative to the prevalent que IS
tons of the solicitor and that he was
compelled to exhaust two of his per
emptory challenges in order to gel
rid of these jurors. He says the judge
held that these jurors were compc-
tent.
The court of appeals .prefaces its
ruling with the following paragraph
"The supreme court has frequently
held since the passage of the act oil
1856, embodied in the penal code OF
1910, section 1901, that no question
can be asked jurors on the voir dire
by either counsel for the state or
the accused, other than those pre-
scribed by the statute"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05

ment. The bomb was sent to the judge
by man known to Farrell only as
Tony
Herreras life was sought Farrell
said, because Herrera had said he
would discharge him from his job IS
janitor. Farrell was employed at the
apartment house where Herrera is SUI
perintendent.
Before the astonished detectives, the
maker of deadly bombs constructed
an internal machine, explained how (
was made, what he put into it, how
it operated and what the damage
would be to the person who should
open it. The Taylor and Rosalsky
bombs, he said, we're entrusted to the
mails.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05
ASSASSIN TELLS
HORRIBLE STORY
Of HIS CRIMES
DEALT OUT DEATH VIII BOMBS
John Farrell Tells Story to
Detectives

New York, Feb. 4.-John Paul Fer
rail-, janitor, confessed today that he
sent to Bernard Herrera last Sunday
the bomb which resulted in the death
of Mrs. Herrera and serious injury to
Herrera and Miss Fughtman, Il
boarder.
Then Farrell astonished the police
by calmly reciting that he sent the
bomb which killed Mrs. Helen Taylor
a year ago, adding that Mrs. Taylor
was his daughter. Next Farrell solved
the mystery of the sending of a bomb
last year to Judge Otto Rosayskv
Finally he explained the death of
Kid Walker, Slain in 1887.
" He slew Mrs. Taylor, he said, be-
cause she was his daughter and hal
gone wrong. kid" Walker was
killed, he declared, by man named
Lestrange because Walker had caused
Mrs. Taylors downfall.
The attempt on Judge Rosalsky's
life, he declared, was made because
the judge had sentenced criminal,
unnamed, to twenty years imprison-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05
SCHOOL BARS BOY
CIGARETTE "FIENDS"
State Wasting Its Money by Trying to
Educate Them.

Florence, n. J.. Feb. 4.-As pun
ishment" for smoking cigarettes, sew
eral boys have been suspended from
the public school by Supervising Prin-
cipal Matthias, who declares that "the
state is only wasting it's money trying
to educate cigarette fiends"
These punitive measures have
aroused the boys parents, who threat
en- to carry the case to the State Com
missioner of Education, but to some OF
the boys the punishment" is so pleas
ing that the ban on the cigarette may
increase its popularity.
1t is understood the State Board will
support the local commissioners, who
say that when the offenders promise to
give up smoking and prove that they
mean business they may return to
their desks. The local authorities are
determined that troubles of teachers
shall not be increased by the futile
task of attempting to impart knowl-
edge to smoke befuddled brains"
Warrants have been issued for the
arrest of tobacco dealers for selling
cigarettes to minors.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05
DOGS A FEATURE IN
INAUGURAL PARADE
"FineSt Pack in All the World" With
a Band From President Elects
Native State.

Washington, Feb. dogs of higI
degree are to participate in festivi-
ties attendant upon the induction into
Office of President-elect Woodrow Will
son next month, and will march in the
inaugural parade.
Finely bred, splendidIy trained
keen-nosed fox hounds are going to
have a section of the parade all their
own" says an announcement from the
inaugural committee.
The finest pack of hounds in all the
world" is the description given of the
canine group which DR.. Lester Jones,
of Culpepper, Va, is assembling to run
ahead of a mounted brass band that
will escort hunt club riders from the
president-elect's native state in the
civic section of the parade
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05
Boy Just Missed Fortune.

"To find a record breaking pearl,
sell it for $500, and then learn of it's
sale in New York for IS, OOO is enough
to make a man lose heart" says John
Risley, a farmer boy, who picked up
a 6S-grain pearl in White river, near
Peel, Ariz., late last summer Risley
sold his prize to pearl buyer from
Cotter, who later disposed of it for
1000. 1t was last sold in New York
city, where wealthy young woman
is said to have paid $4,000 for it, The
Risley pearl is ~ inches in circum-
ference, and is perfect in shape and
luster.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05
DAUGHTERS CONFEDERACY
MEETING TODAY
Local Chapter Has Session This After
noon at Home of Mrs. Barnett.

The Amercus chapter, U. D. c., will
meet this afternoon at 1880 o'clock d,
the residence of Mrs. W. o, Barnett,
on Jackson street. A full attendan q
of members is requested.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05
Commissioner Williams
CONDITION SERIOUS
Feared He is Gradually Grow
ing Worse

Columbus, Ca, Feb 4.-Captain WI
ley Williams of the state prison
commission, is still seriously i'll at his
home in Wynnton, he having been con-
fined some time, suffering from Il
stomach trouble. The fact that ne
does not improve, but is said to be
gradually growing weaker is alarming
to his family and many friends. Capt
Williams underwent a serious opera
ton in Atlanta some months ago.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05

Wimble-Isn't Gumble's light-haired
wife pretty extravanagnt?
Gimble-You bet! He calls her his
blended indebtedness.-Life
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05

Outfits married an optimist."
why do you think 500"
ANY woman would be an optimist
who accepted Outfits. Birmingham
AgeHerald
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05
PICNIC IN THE OPEN ON
THE HUDSON IN JANUARY
ElkS Plan summer Excursion as Re-
suit of Record Open Water.

/
suit of Record Open Water.
Albany N. Y, Feb. A picnic in
the open on the Hudson river in Jan
uary will be held tomorrow afternoon
when the Albany and Troy lodges of
Elks plan to go down the river on a
summer excursion steamer and indulge
in frolic with all the trimmings Of
summer.
Some of them will wear straw hats
and linen busters, light purple coats
and white duck trousers. There is to
be pink lemonade, custard pie, dande-
lion salad, dancing on the open deck
and all the other appurtenances of a
midsummer function About 200 Of the
Elks plan to participate.
According to weather predictions 70.
night there will be snow tomorrow
The pneumonia crop is expected to be
large, if the plans of the Elks are car
ried out
All navigation records on the Hud-
son have been smashed to smithereens
this being the 3OSth day of continuous
open water. Ice men say it would
take at least ten days of continuous
cold to provide a crop worth cutting
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05

She-It seems strange that you did
not remember my face, and yet you
remembered my name.
He (awkwardly) you know,
you have an attractive sort of name.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05

Hokus-Do you think we shall ever
have universal peace?
Pokus-Not so long as women con-
tinue to play bridge for stakes
Judge.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05

How did you like the actor who
played the king?"
Ever since saw him I've been in
favor of republic "-Fliegende Blat-
ter.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05
Literal.

as that your wife's picture in your
watch?"
Sure. She's the woman in the
case"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05

How much money did he say he
had?"
HE didn't say"
"Ah! Then he has untold wealth."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05

We will have treat for everyb0GF-
Miss Clara Kimball Young and ME-
James Young, in The Little Minis
ter" in three parts by the Vitagrapa
Co. This picture has been shown in
the larger cities to packed houses
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05

Wonder If woman can ever take
an aeroplane journey without stopping
to send postcards along the doute?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05

The rolling stone gathers no moss,
but when it comes to gathering the
stones" the summer seaside girl is
no mossback.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05

Anyone admires well-turned
ankle, but when it is turned accident
ally the pain isn't so much admired.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05
Today
Feb. 5.
"LINKED BY FATE.

John and Flora and her father. y
II mister, are wrecked on a barreV
island. The minister, just before dy-
ing, marries the young couple. Ttem
Flora discovers by Johns arary thaF
ne already has a wife?
"KITTY AND THE BANDIT"
A dandy good one, too. L
"TIMES FLIES"
A comedy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-05
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18TH.

A comedy.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-10-10

hat, black-nightie fellers she had
pitchers Of, could probably afford fif-
teen dollar clay-worsteds; but 1t was
a good gamblin' proposition that none
of EN- could come in at the gate like
personally-conducted cyclone, bring
up a-stannin' from dead run to a
dead stop 3 II they'd struck a stone
wall, go clear from the bronx as he
fetched up an light like a centaur be-
fore her. with their sombrero in their
hand. Don't light, you say? Wal,
mean as centaur would light If he
took a notion. You'd better take a
hike down to see how the steed's get
tin along, Bill, r else subside about
this Greek myth biz. II helps on with
this story-not!
The pint is. that gals and fellers
both like variety. To me. the 'y" in
her name, the floss In her hair, the
kind OF quivery lowness In her voice,
the rustic of her dresses as she walk
ed. the way she looked like the pitch
ers in the magazines an talked like
the stories in 'em, all corroborated to
throw the hooks into me. An s'pose
the nater's-nobleman gag went like
wise with her. Subsekent Happenings
but ! must hold that back.
We sot In the hammock that night
the only time Aconite Driscoll ever
was right up against the real thing
in ladies' goods-an' she read me a
piece about a Count Gibson a-shooting
his lady-loves slanderers SO full o.
holes at a turnament that they
wouldn't hold hazel-brush. They was
one verse she .hesitated over, an
skipped.
asst her II she thought she-as q
supposed case-could live out in this
dried-up-an'- blowed-away country: an
she said the matter had really never
been placed before her in any such a
way as to call for a decision on her
part Purity smooth, that. Then she
read another piece that wound up with
Love is best!" from the same book,
an forgot to take her hand away when
l sneaked up on it, an'-Gosh! talk
about happiness: We never git any
thing O. quite that kind out herei I
never knowed how got to the train,
r anything else ontil we was a.crossin'
the Mississippi at North McGregor.
Here the caf2 question ag'in unveiled
its heejus front, to be mulled over till
l reached the cowman's harbor in Chi
cago the Exchange Building at the
Yards, an found Jim Ellins' instruc-
lions awaitin' me. They read:
''Dear Aconite:
1.-THE Chicago stockyards are the ma
TONS doorstep for bovine foundlinEs.
Newborn calves are drug on the mar
ket there, owing TO abuses in the shipping
business which we won't just now take
! time to discuss, to say nothing about
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-10-10

went in among 'em, feelin' like ami
NAL trainer in a circus parade as the
Reubens gethered around the train,
an business houses closed FIR the
show. waited till the train pulled
out, an begun my career as nurse
maidin-gineral
Ever try to feed young calf? Ever
notice how they faint with hunger be-
fore you begin. an all at once devel-
op the strength of boss when you
stand over 'em an try to hold their
fool noses in the pail? Ever see a caff
that couldn't stand alone. run gaily of
with a northumberland fifty pound far
mer, poisin' a drippin' pail on his nose,
an his countenance geyser Of milk?
Well, then you can form some faint
idee OF the practical difficulty OF in
ducin' can. all inherent o. the world
! an its way o. takin' sustenance, to
suck a raw egg. But nothin' but actual
experience can impart any remote ap-
proach to a notion o. what It means to
incorporate the fruit o. the nest with
the bossy while bumpin' over the
track of northern Iowa railroad in
freight car. movin' at twenty-five miles
an hour. used up two cases OF eggs
before / was sure of havin' alleyiated
one pang of hunger, such was the
scorn my kindly offers was rejected
with. The result was astoundfn'.
Them cars swept through the country,
their decks slippery with yaller gore.
an their lee scuppers running bank
full, as the sailors say, with Tom-an'-
Jerry an egg shampoo. An all the
time went on that symferny Of blats,
risin' an fallin' on the prairie breeze
as we rolled from town to town,
thing to be gazed at an listened to an
never forgot; to be side-tracked out
side city limits f'r fear of the board
Of health and the s. P. c. A.. an me
ostrichiZed by the very brakey in the
caboose as bein' unfit f'r publication,
an forced to buy a macintosh to
wrap myself in before they'd let me
lay down on their old seats to sleep.
An when my visions reverted back to
the Oberlin people, couldn't dream
I 0, that yaller hair even, without its
seemin' to float out, an out, an out
into sea of soft-boiled, in which her
an me was strugglin', to the howlin'
of tearin' tempest of blats.
At last we arrived at Chamberlain.
An here's where the head-end collis-
ion Of principles comes in, that / men,
toned while ago. Here's where
Aconite Driscoll. who for days had
been givin' mothers care to two hum
dred cavVs, was condemned FIR cruel
ty; an when he'd been strainin' every
nerve an disturbin' the egg market to
keep from Dustin a set OF concealed
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-10-10
BY NO MEANS ORIGINAL IDEAS
Gossamer Skirt and cobweb Waist OF
Today Are limitations of Those
of Many Centuries Ago.

If learned savants are seeking the
origin of gossamer skirt and cobweb-
waist they need not stop with a
Scotch professor and petty two CEN
turtles of antiquity
Snefru, who was king Of Egypt
more than 1000 years ago, before the,
great pyramid was built, had his
royal barge on the Nile rowed by
girls instead of men. These chosen
oarswomen were dressed in linen so.
fine and diaphanous that it was no.
more than a filmy mist, accentuating
rather than hiding the brown young.
bodies underneath. In short the row.
ing costume designed by Snefru was.
much like the dancing costume worn
by some beauties who have managed
to kick their way into the good
graces of Pittsburgh millionaires.
Solomon had considerable expert
ence with the fair sex, and he wrote
that there is nothing new under the
sun. Perhaps he was thinking of the.
newest creations" of some modiste.
in erusalem.-Chicago Tribune.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-10-10

which was expirin' under the squAws'
hatchets as she hove in sight Of the is-
sue, an the soup-Eittles was all a.
gteamin'. It RELY was too late to DO
anything. / guess.
That night l slep' in Oacoma jail.
You naturally gravitate that way when
fate has ground you about so fine, an
you begin to drift with the blizzard. /
could a. stood the throw-down, but to
be throwed down in a heap with eggs
an dirty clo'es, was too much. took
that suit an made a bundle of 1t, an
out on the pontoon bridge / poked it
into the Missouri with a pole. They're
usin' the water to settle coffee with,
I'm told. as fur down as Saint Joe, TO
this days good as the whites OF
eggs, the cooks say. Then, havin'
wired my resignation to Elkins, feelin'
that the world held no vocation FIR me
but the whoop-er-up business, l re-
turned to the west side of the river as
the only place suited to my talons, an
went forth to expel the eggs an tender
memories from my system with wet
In week come to myself ag'in on
the same oil cot in the same prehis-
toric calaboose, an Mr.. Elkins was
keepin' the flies of me with one O.
them brushes made Of fringed news
paper tackled to a stick.
I've come" says he, TO take you
home, Aconite."
GI,,,A 500 ,~o,, "
1t up with the authorities?"
I'm just going over to get your
discharge" replies he. They seem
quite willing to part with you, now
that they discover that none of your
victims have anything deeper than
flesh wounds. I've given bonds not to
let you have your guns this side of the
Stanley county line. I'll be back in
half an hour with the horses"
An here's where had a narrow es-
cape. wouldn't have faced her, the
girl, you know, FIR no money; but as
Jim went away, right at the door l
seen through little winder a SHIN
merin' Of white and blue. 1t was her,
therselfl She must have met Jim before,
f'r | heard her speak his name an
mine. He seemed to be perlitely argu-
in with her; an then she went away
with him. breathed easier to see
her go, an then set down an cried like
a baby. A feller'll do that easy, when
he's been on tear, you know.
Jim an rode all that day sayin'
never a word But when we'd turned
In that night mentioned the matter.
"Mr. Elkins," says l, she sure has
got 1t in FIR me pretty strong, to foller
me to jail to jump on mel"
"Aconite," says he, "I'il not deceive
you. She has. Forget It'll"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-10-10
NEEDS GUIDANCE BY BRAIN
Most FaeIIe Pen Of Little Avail If the
Great Driving Force ls Not
Behind II.

It is recorded of Daniel Webster
that a friend presented him with a
steel pen-an article not generally
known in the active days of our great
oratorical genius. Webster found it
practical and efficient But though it
writes beautifully and without
scratching" he commented, II could
never learn to compose with it. It's
fiuency districts my mind from the
matter in hand. l must compose with
quill, and make q fair copy, If need
be, with the steel point" Mark Twain
was one of the first literary men to
experiment with a typewriter. He
was enthusiastic about it's possibili-
ties, but he admitted his style suffered
from its use. He needed a fountain
pen to compose with. And yet, a few
years before he had said the same
thing about the fountain pen. Its nov.
city, its tricks, its very independence
Of the ink we'll, took his attention
from his story. He could compose
better with a steel pen or the stub of
lead pencil.
It is probable that when the in
ventor of the art Of writing with a
stylus upon waxen tablets introduced
his innovation the poet who had
previously composed his deathless
lyrics with a mall and chisel acknowl
edged the ease OF the new method.
but complained that no good poetry
could ever be composed by its aid
One needs the fall of the hammer to
emphasize the ictus. he would say,
and the heaving of 1t up again to in.
dictate the arsis. The caesura came
when he paused to moisten his hands.
All this leads to the statement of a
modern American versiffer to the eff
feet that he cannot write poetry when
he Is deprived Of his typewriter. This
poet was recently left without a ma
chine, Just at the time when he was
obliged to prepare some copy for the
press He made shift with a pencil,
but the result was trifing. 81 cannot
write poetry with a pencil" he apollo
gized to hts publisher. 81 have lost
the knack Of It"
One can easily understand this. An
inspiration flashed across him-the
laborious scrawling of 1t by slow and
unaccustomed means deadened II and
dulled It. With a typewriter he
might have caught 1t on the wing and
fixed 1t Ger it fed.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-10-10
~Hain't yeh got 'em :. saw !.

''Haint yeh got emf" says 1.
HUH" says he, comm out of It.
Don't be a dunn fool, Aconite. This
10 the FIRST understood Of 1t, an
whoever heared Of an inspector read
In eontrack? And there amt them
many cavvs to be got by that time in
all Dakoty. Les hit the wires f'r in
structions!"
The kilograms runs something like
this:
To Senator Patrick whaley. Washington,
d. c.:
Contract calls for hundred and nifty
cows with calves at foot. What shall
do? Reddy.
To Reddy withers. Chamberlain, s. D.:
Wire received. Calves at what? Ex-
plain, collect. whaley.
Hundred and fifty cows and calves
What do you advise? Reddy.
See inspector. Whaley.
Won't do. Inspector wrong. Reddy.
Fix inspector or get calves Whaley.
I'd got about the same kind of a
telegram to Mr.. Elkins, addin' that the
Whaley crowd was up in the air. /
sent 1t by Western Union to Sturgis
and then up Wolf Nose Crick by the
Belle Fourche and Elsewhere Tele-
phone Line. The o. NJ, as usual, cuts
the melon with word. His wire was
as follows.
Take first train Chicago callN for let
NRw4 a
chants, Union Stock Yards. Elkins.
This was sure an affiiction on me,
FIR l had fixed up deal to 60 with
Miss Ainsley an her friends on
campin' trip, lastin' up to the day of
the issue. She'd been readin' one OF
Hamlin Garland's books about a pun
cher who'd scooted through the Brit
ish aristocracy, hittin' only the high
places in social way, on the strength
Of a gold prospect an the diamond
hitch to mule-pack. She wanted to
see the diamond hitch of all things
There orto be law ag'inst novel
writin'. / got Reddy to learn me the
diamond hitch so / could make good
with Gladys, an here was this mys-
terious can expedition to the last place
in the world, Chicago, a-yankin' me of
by the night train.
went over to tell her about 1t.
First, thought I'd put on the clo'es
l expected to wear to Chicago, dandy
fifteen dollar suit got in town. An
then saw how foolish this would be,
an brushed up my range clo'es, tied
new silk scarf in my soft roll collar,
an went. Here's my diagram of the
hook-up: Any o. them mortar-board-