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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13
THE GU|LLOT|NE
MAY Be REPEALED
Frenchmen Are Becoming Disguised
With the Old Method Of Chop
ping Off Heads Of
Criminals.
DOES NOT INSPIRE AWE
Public Executions Have Opposite Ef.
feet Upon the People Than
What Has Been
Intended.
DOES NOT INSPIRE AWE

by William Philip Simms. Paris COR
respondent Of the United Press.l
PARIS, April 12-The CHASTITY exc
cution of criminals upon a guillotine
set up in the street in full view of
the public, may soon be abolished In
France. A bill calling for the repeal
tof the law providing for public exc
cutions is now pending in the cham
Der of deputies.
1t is therefore probable that when
the four-and possibly fiye-heads of
the notorious bandits of the Bonnet
band of outlaws are chopped off by the
Red Widow as the French call the
euillotine, the CORY spectacle may be
given in private. Should this be the
case the automobile bandits" would
be the first to benefit by the new
law.
Public beheadings are intended to
inspire awe. The would-be assassin is
supposed to see the terrible end OF
fellows such as he, and refrain from
committing the deed.
bC ISNCi So vi Tic ElCLuIG IL SdIN
| by many to be true. The hardened
criminal usually meets his doom in a
way that inspires others of his stamp
with the notion that he is real
hero, for public executions furnish
occasion for the exhibition of Ger
tain kind of bravado which has a
strong appeal to the desperate type
Senator d. Chaumie, one Of the lead
ers of the public execution abolition
movement, SO declares, adding that MOI
only are such scenes disgusting be
yond expression, but demoralizing II
the extreme.
Beheadings now take place at sun
rise. The condemned man is kept il
Ignorance of the date of his execution
until he is awakened to have his fina
toilet made for the grewsome knife
Until that moment he has hopes o
executive clemency, 1t being the in
variable rule TO ask the president a!
a last resort, to use his prerogativ,
and show mercy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13

system in France making this pos
sible, tickets being collected by gaze
keepers at railway stations. Wheh
asked for his ticket Lacombe drew
out his revolver and fired.
There it is he said, and mace us
getaway during the excitement,
He is accused Of several olhei
murders
Callemin. Monnier and Soudy, aie
already doomed, there being littie u
no chance for them, either as the =
suit of new trial Or through exc
cutive clemency. Deudenne throuen
a confession made by Callemln' ma.
have his head saved. Should .h,a
happen only four heads viii iaA
counting Lacombe's, at the next SEP
sion of the guillotine here.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13
Defense's Statements.

1t was nearly eight o'clock last
night when the defense closed their
arguments which were made by Frank
Ballinger and Will Thompson, the lat
ter Of Burlington. Both assailed the
Johnson woman as degraded prosti-
tute and attacked the testimony she
gave. Ballinger passed some caustfo
remarks upon the Burlington police
officers. Ballinger cried 'frame-up" on
the part Of the government witnesses
Col. NJ. l.. Temple, though sixty
four years Of age, made strong plea
in closing the governments case In
which he declared that the govern.
ment's testimony had been corraborat.
ed by the letters. Pointing to Johnso-
he declared, that's the class Of men
this country don't need" He assailed
the witnesses for the defense and paid
his respect to the defendants attor.
neys in no uncertain tone.
After Judge MCPHERSON had given
his instructions Attorney Balllngel
had exceptions noted on the grounds
that the instructions were such as tc
induce verdict OF guilty.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13

Read The Daily Gate City for
sporting news.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13
Jury Allowed to Separate at Midnight
Last Night After Having Been
Out an Hour and
Half.
LAWYERS MAKE CHARGE
Man Accused Of Penitentiary offens.
Hears a Terrible Arrangement
by United States
Attorneys.

/ At twelve o'clock last night Judge
iSmith Mcpherson showed the jury in
the white slave case of the United
States against Charles Johnson, of
Burlington, rare favor in allowing
them to separate until nine o'clock in
the morning after having been out an
hour and half and failed to reach a
verdict.
I Judge Mcpherson cautioned the
jurors against allowing anyone to
talk with them in any manner as to
/ how the balloting stood. 1t was said
by men around the court that previous
to calling the case some man closely
connected with the defendant had
| told jurors that they were trying to
railroad Johnson to the penitentiary
but no word of caution was attributed
to this.
| Johnson is accused OF violating the
Mann white slave act in enticing his
wife to go from Burlington, Iowa
across the state line ON one occasion
to. Monmouth, H., and on another
occasion to Peoria, illinois to Sc
cure money for him. It was admit
/ ted by both sides that Johnson's wife
was a prostitute before he married
her and his contention was that she
prostituted voluntarily.
This is the second white slave case
this term in this district OF the feder
al court and although the law has
been in force but few years the
cases are becoming SO frequent tina,
they have added much work to the
United States courts both in Iowa and
other states.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13
Wait Until Bill Passes.

II United Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, April 12-Even in
the face of formal protest on the
part of the Japanese government the
state department will make no move
toward Intervention in the California
situation unless the legislature act.
ually passes the antialien land owning
bill.
Secretary OF State Bryan intimated
late this afternoon that there was
plenty of time in which to take action
after such a bill had been passed and
Before it was signed by the governor
The Japanese ambassador has not
yet communicated formal protest
against the bill
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13
TERRIBLE ITCHING
AND BURNING
Scalp Eczema for About Five Years.
Form Of Ringworm. Thick, Rough
Scale. Entirely Well After Using
Cuticura Soap and Ointment.

iberia. Mo- II was troubled with scalp
eczema for about Ave years and tried
everything I heard Of but all OF no avail.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13

The scene usually is in some street
near the prison in which the doomed
man is confined. The narrower and
more crooked this street, the better
since the authorities wish as few OF
the rabble as possible to see the blade
fall. Scores of police and a large
number of troops, on foot and ahorse,
keep the crowds back and the officials,
newspapermen and prison chaplain
are grouped about the base of the
bloody engine.
When several persons are beheaded,
they are brought out of the prison one
at time the last executed not see
ing the others meet their fate. The
criminal Is tied to sort of block
which pivots in the middle: he is
given a push, he falls horizontal and
the triangular blade descends. The
head rolls into a basket on one side,
the body is dumped into similar, but
longer receptacle on the other Then
the carcass Is carried away at gal
lop while the headsman's assistants
wash the guillotine with huge sponges
which they wiring out in pals OF
water
They call this making the widows
toilet for her next husband"
AS much of this sickening sight as
possible is hidden from the public
which remains passive, or becomes
Idemonstratfve according as to wheth-
er the doomed man is an ordinary
criminal. or popular or much dis
liked. If hated cries CT "a mort
and Death to the murderer" are
heard as the knife falls.
Senator Chaumie declares against
hiding the guillotine up a narrow
street or blind alley. In speech be
fore the senate he said he favored
abolition of the guillotine as public
exhibition, but until the government
should make the necessary laws, exc
cutions should take place in the broad
open day and In the most crowded
squares to be found. If the execution
is to be made public, he said, then lei
it be really public Have it where all
may see it. He guarantees that if this
rule be followed everybody would be
! SO sickened at the sight there would
be little opposition to private be
headings.
Lacomb, the last of the Bonnet
/ band to be captured, will undoubtedl,
| join his pals now doomed to the
guillotine, as he has confessed to two
premedtiated murders. He is in pris
on awaiting trial, which will probabl,
be merely formality since he ad
mits his guilt
One of the men murdered by La
combe was Ducret. an anarchist edi
tor The bandit sat up with his vic
tim most Of one night and until 1,
o'clock the next morning, torturinl
him, playing with him as a cat doe,
with mouse Lacombe accused
! Ducret OF bertaying him to the DO
lice. Going to Ducret's house Lacomb,
informed him that his end was near
He shot him to death after terrorizin.
him for hours.
Another murder which he con
fesses was that of the ticket agen
! Tharry. at Les Aubrais I.acomb,
travelled without a ticket, the railway
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13

The doctors told me I
would have to have my
head shaved. Being q
woman I hated the idea Of
that.
Il was told by q friend
that the Cuticura Remedies
would do me good. This
spring I purchased two
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13
Government Statements.

Major Holsteen opened the argu-
ments for the government at two
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. He
traced the governments line of evil
dence saying that Johnson bought
tickets to take his wife to Monmouth
to make money out of her under pre-.
text OF distributing soap samples
where he introduced her to hotei
clerk and asked him to take his wife
to a skating rink. the purpose, he
stated, being to have Mrs. Johnson
inveigle the clerk into illicit relations
whereupon Johnson would appear up
on the scene and demand money.
He based his main argument on let
tiers Johnson wrote his wife while
she was in a house of prostitution in
| Peoria in which he asked her to send
him money. 1t was shown that she
made $18 on one Saturday night. He
/ dwelt on the testimony Of travelling
man who had been with the Johnson
woman in Keckuk, Fort Madison and
| Burlington. in which he testified that
| Johnson made settlement for $40
with him>for the several days he had
been with Johnson's wife. He assail
ed Johnson as human vulture of the
worst sort.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13
Real Worth Of poj,,

DO not do some good thing on pur.
pose mat you may be happy. You
must DO good for the sake of doing
GOOD and not for the sake OF the
Kicking back of happiness.-H. W.
Beecher.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13
Matter Of Diet.

'rIow do you tell the difference 70 :,
tween a yacht and sailboat! sa ,
the girl with the inquiring mind. ~
lookin' Into the pantry" replied oap
tain elect. IF she carries plenty '.
refreshments and seegars, sles :
yacht. II it's mostly plain yictaa'
she's a sailboat. Washington stat
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13


and one cake of Cuticura Soap. After using
one box Of Cuticura Ointment considered
the cure permanent. but continued to use
1t to make sure and used about one-half
the other box. Now am entirely well.
also used the Cuticura Soap.
The disease began on the back Of my
head, taking the form of ringworm only
more severe, rising to thick, rough scale
that would come of when soaked with oil
or warm water. bringing few hairs each
time, but In few days would form again,
larger each time. and spreading until the
entire back Of the head was covered with
the scale. This was accompanied by q
terrible itching and burning eensatipn.
Now my head Is completely well and my
hair growing nicely" (Signed) Mrs. G.
F. Clark, Mar. 25, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment are
sold throughout the world. Liberal sample OF
each mailed free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Ad-
dress postcard "Cuticura. Dept.T. Boston. =
aSTender-faced men should use Cuticura
Soap Shaving Stick. 25c. Sample free.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-18
Recital at Auditorium.

Fort Mill people will look for
ward with pleasure to. the elocu.
tion and music recital to be given
in the school auditorium on the
evening of Friday. December 10.
by Miss Edna Ferguson and
pupils of her music class. The
recital will begin promptly at
1880 o'clock and a small admis-
sion fee will be charged.
Besides being talented mu.
sician, Miss Ferguson is ar
eiocutionist of note. having wor
first honors in expression in o
contest given a short time ago In
Boiling Springs, N. c.. She
probably will be assisted in he,
recital at the auditorium by loca1
talent. advertisements.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-18
NOTICE OF ELECTION.

Notice is hereby given that an cleo
tion will be held in the town of Fort
Mill, 5. c., between the legal hours fol-
elections, on Tuesday, January Is, 1914,
for three Trustees for School District
No. 2S, to serve for six years.
Presentation of County Registration
Certificate will be necessary to vote in
said election.
j. M. Epps, ID. A. Lee and J. H.
McMurray are appointed as manag ers
of election.
By order of Board of Trustees this,
18th of December, 1918.
r. F. GRIER, Chairman.
w. B. MEACHAM. Clerk.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-18
TAX RETURNS FOR 1914.
Office of the County Audito,
of York County, s. c.

Yorkville, S. c., December 2, 1913.
AS required by statute, my books
will be opened at my office in Yorkyille
on THURSDAY, JANUARY /, 1914.
and be kept open until FEBRUARY
~, 1914, Tor the purpose of listing for
taxation all PERSONAL and REAL
PROPERTY held in York County on
January l, 1914.
Taxpayers will please remember this
ESTATE.
For the purpose of facilitating the
taking of returns and for the greater
convenience of Taxpayers, | will be at
the following places on the dates
named.
At Ramah "a. M. McGill's Store).
Friday, January 2.
!. At Bethany (McGill Bros. store). .
Saturday, January 3.
AT Clover on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, January 6 and Z.
AT Bethel (Ford, Barnett & Co. IS
store), Thursday, January 8.
AT Point (at Harper's), on Friday.
January 9.
At Bandana perry Ferguson's store)
on Saturday, January 10.
At Smyrna on Monday, January IL.
At Hickory Grove on Tuesday and
Wednesday, January 13 and ID.
AT Sharon on Thursday and FRIDAY
January ID and 16.
At Bullock's Creek Goods store) on
Saturday, January II.
At TirZah on Monday, January 10.
AT Newport, on Tuesday, January
20.
At Fort Mill on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, January u, %, and
%. "''0
At McConnellsville on Monday, jan
uary 26.
At Ogden on Tuesday, January 27.
At Coates Tavern, tRoddey's), on
Wednesday, January %.
At Rcch Hill from Thursday. Janu-
nary 70, TO Wednesday, February d.
And at Yorkville from Thursday, Feb
ruary ., until Friday, February 20.
All males between the ages of twen-
ty-one and sixty years, except Confed
crate solaicrs over the age of fifty
years, are liable to poll tax of 81 90.
and all persons so liable are especially
requested TO give the numbers of their
resp ctive school districts in making
their returns.
BROADUS NJ. LOVE,
County Auditor.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-18

In the matter of securing a
cotton mill for Fort Mill. our
people should not forget the old
proverb that "The Lord helps
those who help themselves" In
other words, if we expect to sit
here and wait on some manu-
facturer to hand us a mill on a
silver platter, we have a long
wait ahead of us.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-18
That So. so you spent for a ga

That So. SO you spent for gal
lon of Christmas liquor would
have been productive of more
real pleasure had you spent it for
trinkets or edibles for the wife
and children. And, too, maybe
the money would have made your
grocer, or even the printer, a
happier man. and increased his
confidence in your integrity ten
fold.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-18

Governor Blease is quoted in q
newspaper article as saying that
II any fuss is raised between the
coming legislature and himself
ne will not do the raising. 1t is
% be hoped that the next session
will be devoted entirely to mat
,ers conducive to the public well
are and that no factionalism and
wrangling will be in evidence.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-18
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 1s. 1918.
THE PRESIDENT AND RoMANIsM

One of the first, If not the
first. official acts of President
Wilson was the appointment of a
Roman Catholic as his private
secretary. He has since favored
Romanists with a number of i'm
portant appointments. Naturally
there has been a great deal of
complaint by the religious press,
clergymen and laymen that he
should extend such consideration
to a church which if it is any
thing at all it is un-American.
Every time a Catholic is selected
by the President for an official
station, the mouthpieces of that
church proclaim the appointment
as a great victory for their
church. Hence our statement
that in appointing individual
Romanists to office the President
is exalting the Roman Catholic
church. The latest criticism of
the President in this connection
and the criticism. by the way, is
nation wide-comes from his at
tending a mass at a Catholic
church in Washington city
Thanksgiving day. 1t being i'm
possible for the President to dis
associate his personality from
the great Office he holds, the
Catholics have not failed to
seize the opportunity to make
the most of his attendance upon
the mass by claiming that he
has thus officially recognized the
papacy. We are far from the
belief that President Wilson in
tended his visit to the Catholic
church as anything more than a
courtesy to those who invited
him to be present: doutless the
Service" bored and disgusted
him quite as much as it would
have any other Protestant. but
we sincerely hope he will here
after bear in mind the fact that
this is Protestant country and
that he will not again give cause
for such widespread complaint.
No President since the Civil
war is under less obligation to
Catholics than President Wilson.
for few of them voted for him.
Surely if King Victor Emmanuel,
reigning monarch of Catholic
Italy, can afford to say to the
Roman Catholic church. as he
did less than a month ago, that
never again would his govern
ment tolerate the interference
OF Romanism in State affairs, the
President of the United States
should not hesitate to let it be
known that this great American
government. founded and builded
upon the Protestant idea of no
coordination of church and State.
owes Romanism no recognition.
No sane man objects TO the indi-
vidual aligning himself with the
Catholic church this is a land
of religious freedom but the
average American does object
to anything that even remotely
suggests official recognition of
that church.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-18

Three small industries which
are greatly needed in Fort Mill
and which would doubtless prove
good investments to the pro-
noters are a bakery, a laundry
and a dairy. Many towns small
er than Fort Mill support these
dustries and there is a field
here for each of them.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-18

In justice to Attorney General
Peoples, who was acquitted last
week of the charge of numbering
a negro in Columbia. it is to be
said that he was also not guilty
of carrying a pistol, except from
his automobile to the club room
upstairs. He was in the act Of
putting the pistol away in the
club when the weapon was
accidentally discharged killing
the negro chef.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-18

Latest dispatches from Mexico
state that General Villa has also
assumed the role of dictator.
When Uncle Sam assumes a like
attitude the dickens will be to
pay.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-18
THOUGHTS OF CHRISTMAS.

If Santa Claus has corns the
same as grandpa" said a wee
tot the other day, Il fink he'd
be 'fraid to come down the CHM
ney over hot fire for fear his
corns would pop."
Christmas not being more than
seven rods off and rapidly COM
ing in this direction, it is incum-
bent on everyone to get a hustle
on and attend to his holiday shop
ping without further delay.
So many fires have been start
ed by candles on Christmas trees
that in some States laws have
been passed against this form of
illumination. In those States
where the practice still prevails
a hose or buckets of water should
be kept handy to put out any
blaze that might start.
Early Christmas shopping will
be appreciated by the merchants
and clerks. Early buying can
be conducted leisurely and with
more satisfaction both to the
purchaser and the merchant. So
make it satisfactory all around
by Immediately supplying your
needs.
In olden days there existed in
many places a belief that the
girl who was not kissed under
the mistletoe during the Christ
mas season would not be married
during the succeeding year. In
such localities kissing girl
would be az positive kindness.
There is story of one damsel
who, to make sure, wore a twig
OF mistletoe on her hat-not a
Fort Mill girl. however.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-18

The large amount of whiskey
shipped into Fort Mill during the
last week indicates that many of
our people will partake of
Christmas nog--that is, the
eggless variety.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-18
Xmas
Morning
Delivery

All Packages bought of us
will be delivered early Christ
mas morning to the parties
to whom addressed.
Just leave your packages
with card and address and
you can rest assured that they
will be promptly delivered.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Mrs. Georgianna CadieuX ana MIS-.
Margaret Cadieux, each Oh whom
claims to be the wife OF Eugene
cadieux, met in North Adams. Mass
Monday, and planned the prosecution
of the man, who will be trieo Ior
bigamy, Wednesday. Mrs. Georslahha
Cadieux arrived. Monday morning,
from Winooski, VT. She was met at
the station by Mrs. Margaret CadleuN
of Marshall street, wife number Two.
The Vermont woman brought hel
two children with her. They foaha
a willing playmate in Mrs Margaret
Cadieuxs child.
Confessions made by his wife OF
intimate relations with Emilio Mar
chest. a barber "a years DID, VINO
boarded with them, and who she as
serted to the police had tiourished
revolver which he threatened TO use
IL she resisted him, caused Johh bua
fernio, IS years old, a gardener Oh %
Humphrey street. Swampscott, Mass
to shoot and instantly klil Marciiesi'
al $50 Monday morning, when he was
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-16
Rev. William c. Barrows.

The death of William c. Barrows &C.
Cured in the hospital here. early Tus-
day morning. after a few months illness
with Bright's disease. Mr.. Barrows was
born in Ellsworth "A years ago, and after
attending the common schools. graduated
from Colby and the Newton Theological
Seminary He had resided in Freeport.
North Berwick, Biddeford. Rockland.
Lewiston and Rockland, and Woburn.
Mass, and was prominent and we'll
known Baptist preacher for many years
until illness caused him to give up Ills
work He served in Co. f, 2ith Me. Int.
three years during the latter part OF the
Civil War. He was admitted to the Home
from Woolwich. May 16, 1913. widow.
Mrs NJ. Ella Barrows of Freeport, son.
George A., a business men In Melrose,
Mass. and two daughters, Mrs. a. X.
Stackpole of Cambridge and Miss M Ca
rev Barrows. school teacher in Augusta,
survive. The remains were taken TO Free
mort for burial.