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Evening journal., 1915-04-23
JEALOUS MOTHER KILLS
Her step DAUGHTER
BY The Cuitcd Press.

~ 'HN NhfAANl A'N1s
MUSkEGON. Mich. April 23
Jealous of her husbands love for his
thirteen-year-old daughter, Evelyn,
the chlid's stepmothor, Mrs Albert
Steel 81. bound and blindfoldcd the
girl. forced muriatic acid down her
threat and then held her in her arms
until the child died Mrs Steel so
confessed today 10 Prosecuting At
torney Galpin, and told him she would
plead guilty to charge a. first de-
gree murder when arraigned this af-
tcrnoon.
The body OF the Steel girl was found
yesterday partially buried in an al
10y near her home Suspicion was
first directed against the child's step.
mother because of conflicting stories
she told OF the girls disappearance
Evening journal., 1915-04-23
THIEVES GET nIAMONp RING.

While members of the family Of
Charles c. Loeber, of No. 800 Wash
ington street, we're busy in the rear
Of the house yesterday morning, n
sneak thief entered through a front
door and went to the second floor
hed rooms and ransacked the rooms,
getting a diamond ring and handker-
chiefs. The police have been noti-
fed of the theft.
Evening journal., 1915-04-23
FLEEr TO Go THROUGH CANAL

BY The United Press.
WASHINGTON. April 23.-rhe cabi-
net definitely decided today to send the
Atlantic fleet through the Panama Canal
according TO program. unless a slide or
ours in the meantime. The decision en-.
able. the navy to buy coal and supplies
Immediately.
Evening journal., 1915-04-23

fered for six years
terribly. l tried sew
eral doctors butnone
seemed to give me
any relief. Every
monththe painswere
intensein in both sides,
and m ad e m e so
weak that / had to
go TO bed. At last
a friend recommcn-
ded Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable
Evening journal., 1915-04-23
CHESTER WOMAN GETS DOAT.

Constable L. c. Jones has awarded
his forty-foot motor cruiser Elk to
Mrs +. Laird Of Chester as a result of
contest just ended.
Evening journal., 1915-04-23
FNTERTAINED Ar LTNCHFON.

Mrs. George W. Collins of No. 925
West Ninth street entertained a few
friends at luncheon on Wednesday,
Evening journal., 1915-04-23
pRIsONERS TN PLEAn.

The Court of General Sessions will
meet on Monday to give prisoners a
chance to plead guilty and get lighter
sentences.
Evening journal., 1915-04-23
Personal.

Mrs. Frank Mason. of No. 4O2 West
Twenty-third street. has returned
from two-weeks visit 10 cousins in
Washington, d. c.
Evening journal., 1915-04-23
BLACK AND WHITE

effects for Dress-up Suits for
Men and Young Men.
NEAT SILK MIXTURES.
NEAT PIN STRIPES.
NOBBY CHALK STRIPES.
NARROW HAIR LINES.
In all sizes. "a 10 as chest.
Regulars, Stouts. Sims. Shorts
and extra Sizes.
$40 TO $50.
All Worsted and All Wool
Suits in Worsteds, Casslmeres
and Cheviots.
Come In and look them over.
MULLINS BIG HOME STORE,
9Th and Market
Evening journal., 1915-04-23
BASEBALL POsTPONENENTs,
American League.
National League.

Boston VS.. Philadelphia, postponed
wet grounds.
Evening journal., 1915-04-23
mrs. THOMSON
TELLS WOMEN
How She Was Helped During
Change of Life by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Philadelphia. Pa.-'T am just 52years
of age and during Change of Life | suf-
Evening journal., 1915-04-23
ARREST STREET FIGHTERS.

New York at Brooklyn. postponed
rain
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21
"INTERVlEW' WITH THE HERO
Happening When Man From the Front
Explains Things 70 His
Fair charmcr.

"Oh. Mr.. Hero. I'm so glad 20 see
you safely back from the war. Sit
right down and tell me an about IT,
I'm awfully interested Wasn't It sim
ply terrible over there7 And did you
really live in the trenches for weeks
at a time with shot and shell scream
ing all around you2 I don't see how
you could stand It. Were you ever hit
BY one Of those forty-two centimeter
guns7 ! mean by the bullet, Of coursei
not BY the gun. But then, Of course,
you weren't. or you'd have your arm
In a sling or something Who do you
think is going to win? suppose
shouldn't ask you that though. You
soldiers are not allowed TO tell mill
tary secrets, are you? Did you ever
really kill a man yourself. or don't
you know7 Ny uncle. who was In the
Spanish war, says you never can tel
whether it's your bullet or somebody
else's that hits the enemy. I should
think that would be awfully annoying
Not that you want to know that you'd
killed a man, but still you'd ike C
know whether you're wasting your am
munitlon or not. Oh. must you 90 50
soon7 I wish you could stay longer
I've been so interested hearing you
adventures. Can agaih soon, won
you. Good-by."
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21
al. rhere PrIvate ArmIes7

It is illegal to have an army Of your
own, but the law winks at private
armies In one or two cases.
The duke Of Atholl had-for they
have now gone to the great war-a pri-
vate army Of 200 men, and has often
provided guards Of honor for King
George from their ranks. In fact,
Queen Victoria once reviewed this prl-
vate army. The duke Of Atholrs pro
vate army Is for It's size the finest body
OF soldiers in the world, all over six
feet in height, sturdy scotsmen picked
from the fittest Of the fit
The duke Of Fife also kept a pri-
vate army which numbered hundred
men, who we're armed with huge pixies
exactly as the soldiers were armed
centuries ago
The Stuart Archers and the Farqu'
harson Clansmen are two other private
armies OF which Scotland can boast
The marQuises Of Donegal, too, have
for hundreds OF years kept a private
army.-Pearson's.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

John B. stanchheld, the lawyer, was
discussing in an interview in New
York the case Of his client, Harry
Thaw
But objections like that, said MT.
stanchfeld, ARE mere bubbles. They
have no real bearing on the case. Like
the farmers wife, they only confuse
and embroil matters.
"A sielly farmer said to his husky
wife one spring morning:
az see by the papers that a woman
down Paint Rock way goes out every
morning and hoes with her husband.
well what Of itr the wife an
Vwered. She could do It easily enough
he's as thin as you are. I've often
thought Of using you to peel potatoes
with"
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21
RIGHT NAN FOR THE POSITION
colorsd Citizen Knew He ouai'ace-
lions and the Job Was HE az
Matter 81 courac.

Oliver 3. Aeler. lately deceased. bad
occasion % 60 70 a hardwood lumber
yard at Cairo. where he and Fred "
Upham were IL business. The foods
had caused some annoyance BY depoa-
lting mud from the Ohio and Mieaia-
sippi rivers on the planks in storage
Mr.. Agler was not long 10 c0mpil-
ing a crew Of negroes 70 wash he
soiled stock. Various ones we're 49,
signed to hold the planka and there
was a Job FOR one man 70 hold tie
hose.
'Who is going to take charge o.
the hosel" asked the proprietor.
A long black man uncoiled himself
"Ah reckon Abs de waahinest nigsah
aroun' here" he said-and be quail
fed.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

The first baseman had Just been
carried OF the diamond with q
sprained wrist and a dislocated shout
der.
On the way to the hospital the am
ulance stopped to pick up a janitor
who had fallen downstairs.
I'VE meet quite by accident" said
the ball player. Il am a first base
man"
"And l." said the ianitor, "am hrst
basement man"
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

A woman had been arrested for
throwing stones through the windows
Of a building on Pacific avenue and
her lawyer, Indignation" Jones, had
applied to Judge Goggin for q writ Of
habeas corpus.
After the facts had been recited
without comment, Judge Goggin ex-
claimed:
"Hold on there. What number do
you say that VAST"
Number t."
That's my property. III pay the
fine myself, but don't break the win
dows again"
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

Vlee-Presldent Delivers Address.
In the course Of his address here,
May IA, on National Tendencies"
Thomas R. Marshall, vice-president Of
the United States, paid loyal tribute
to President Wilson. He alluded only
briefly to the Lusitania tragedy and
to the United States note to Germany.
He declared that the American people
would indorse the presidents position
fully and heartily. Mr.. Marshall was
introduced by Senator John Sharp
Williams.
During his stay here the vice-pres-
ident and Mrs. Marshall and Senator
Williams were entertained at dinner
by Gov. and Mrs. Brewer.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

Bob White, a young white man, has
been brought over from Vicksburg and
transferred to the Rankin state farm
to resume his penal sentence. It is
claimed that he violated the condi'
lions of a pardon granted.
White was sent up from Warren
county to serve a fve-year term for
manslaughter, and had completed one
year of his term at the time pardon
was granted.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21
WILL REGRADE
GLEANEST TOWNS
MISUNDERSTANDING or RULES
FORCES ANOTHER INsPEc-
TON TO BE MADE.
MARSHALL PRAISES WILSON
Vles-Presldent, Speaking at Jackson,
Declares American People Fully
lndorse HE Action IN Lusl-
tania Matter.


jackson.
Because Of misunderstanding Of
rules to be followed in grading towns
in the recent "cleanest town con
test, those in charge Of the contest an
nounce that in the majority Of in
stances the inspections viii be made
over again, this time by DIT Willie
Valley. state sanitary inspector, and
DR.. W. s. feathers, state health offi-
Ger.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21
First Wedding at Capitol.

First Wedding at Capitol.
All sorts Of events have transpired
in Mississippis million dollar capitol
building since its dedication twelve
years ago, but the first wedding cere-
mony to occur within its walls took
place May 70, when DR.. F. L. sandifer.
a druggist at Braxton, and Miss Lille
Meuse Of Dlo were married. The
ceremony was performed in the Hail
OF Fame by Justice Of the Peace
Brown.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

The oft-tried damage suit Of Mrs.
Elsie Woodruff, widow Of J. H. Wood
ruff, against the Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley Railroad company to recover
$4,000 claimed to be rightfully due
her on account Of the death Of Wood
run while in the service Of the com
pany, was begun here in the United
states court May II. This is the third
time that the case has been called in
this division Of the federal court
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

Mrs. A. D, Garfield, mayor Of War
rem. ILL.,. is the first woman to be
elected to that position in any Illinois
city, She is a widow, seventy-four
years old and conducts a millinery
shop. She has promised to put an
end to pool rooms. gambling and the
liquor traffic In Warren.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21
plnarenA

Dudley makes me tired. He's al
ways Dragging about his ancestors
ooh, well, there's one consolation
His descendants win never brag about
him."
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

VIII Stop Noisy Autos.
Owners OF automobiles in Jackson
who run their cars with nibflers open
will in the future feel the heavy hand
OF the law, for under an order re-
Gently issued BY Mayor s. ], Taylor
to Chief Of Police Sam Nunnery. every
offender is to be arrested for violating
an existing ordinance against such
practice.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21
.nnnnnoes for 80 AnaIlor.

Announces for state Auditor
Robert =. Wilson, one Of the best
known citizens Of Jackson, has an
nounced his candidacy for the office Of
state auditor for public accounts. He
IS a native Of Madison county, but
spent his boyhood n Rankin,
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

Hello, old man. haven't seen
you since we went to school together.
l hope Fortune has smiled on you.
you might call It that She's given
me the horse laugh many a time.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

"What / admire about Bnthers is
his quiet selfpossession."
Gle acquired that in the last few
years"
"In what way2"
by sitting in the audience while
his wife made speeches on woman
suffrage"
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

you shouldn't be dissatisfied. Look
at all you have"
yes, but look at all haven't"
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

Mothers Congress AdIourns.
The annual convention Of the Moth.
ers' Congress and Parent.Teachers'
association adjourned here May 10
when Mrs. ]. B. Lawrence Of Jackson
was elected president.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

The more cents her husband has the
less sense the average woman has IN
money matters.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

When we attempt to climb It seems
that some ladders OF fame are longer
than others.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21
Prevented Delivery e PaFdoned.

Prevented Delivery; Is Pardoned.
For the reason that he was active
In frustrating a plot formed by a num-
Der of fellow-convicts on the Sun
flower farm, by which they expected
to escape. seaborn Knight, a Warren
county negro, who was serving a long
term. on the recommendation Of the
prison trustees, has been granted a
meritorious discharge by the governor.
Gov. Brewer has also granted a par
don for Charles T. Bishop, white, who
was sentenced from Sunflower county
in September. 1909, to a life term for
murder. Bishop was tried for the kill
ing Of the man whom he suspected
Of breaking up his home life, and was
first sentenced to be hung, which was
reversed by the supreme court, and at
the second trial he was convicted and
given a life sentence.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21
erown-ln-Mlsslsslppl Convention.

John F. Mckay Of the Agricultural
and Mechanical college farm extension
department has completed arrange
ments for a meeting to be held here
June 10 in connection with the "Grown-
in-Mississippi" convention. Transpor-
tation and market facilities Of rail-
ways and express companies Will be
discussed.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

Only a bachelor knows that its the
easiest thing in the world to manage
q wife.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-21

A second arrow from Cupid's bow
quickly heals the wound made By the
first.
Evening star., 1915-03-21
NcAE SANS ALMOST PERFECT SYSTEM OF RAcQN AND WARNINGS OF T

lighthouses More than 100000 gallons Of
oil are burned each year at light stations
OF the United States, about $50. 900 gallons
OF which are for lighthouse illumination.
For the more important lights the in
candescent Oil vapor lamp Is now used
having been introduced by the French
in 1898. In this lamp the oil is heated
and vaporized and is burned mixed with
air under a mantle which is made in
candescent. This gives a much more
brilliant light thansthe wick lamp. with
Il smaller consumption Of oil. This
change of lamps at Cape Hatteras in
creased the brilliancy of the light from
$4,000 to 10000 candlepower while the
consumption of oil was reduced nearly
one-haH.
Electric lights are used only at a few
light stations. The expense Is too great
to warrant the employment of electricity
at many important stations For some
harbor lights 1t can be used to advan-
tage by taking current from local source
Of supply, and light can thus be main
tained In an exposed position and con-
trolled from the shore
The electric light at Navesink. on the
highlands just south of New York har
hor, is the most powerful coast light in
the United States. This light shows each
five seconds a flash of one-tenth second
Evening star., 1915-03-21

thirty-f1ve years of service. became so
absorbed in his duty that he would not
leave his task even for short vaca-
tion. laboring under the delusion that
no one but himself could properly care
for the light. On certain very stormy
night a ship was wrecked near the
fort at Key West. The keeper, then
nearly seventy years old. excited by
the storm and the prolonged whistle
blasts of the unfortunate vessel, in
sisted that the wreck was due to the
front-range light being out, although
it had been examined by his son and
found properly burning. In spite of
his feeble condition he procured Ian
tern, and resisting efforts to detain
him, went on foot in the storm to the
range light and satisfied himself that
it was really burning, and he died not
long afterward of the exposure
The keeper of Van Weis point light,
New York. died about three years ago.
at the age of ninety-three years, hav-
ing tended the light for fifty-three
years
The keeper of the most distant light
in Alaska-Cape Sarichef-returned re-
Gently. his first absence in three years.
Evening star., 1915-03-21
The Foolish Urchin.

NgERhiAN RIDDER. the German-Amer-
III lean journalist, said at the German
American Chamber of Commerce in New
York:
"You complain that the war goes slow
Iy? But you would think it went fast
enough if you were in the trenches. To
complain that a war so colossal as this
goes slowly is TO be as foolish almost as
little Willie.
Little Willie, at the age of six, was
sent to school for the first time. At the
end Of his first school day he tore
home, snatched up the latest comic sup
plement, and ran his eye over the printed
words that came out of the peoples
mouths in the Jokes. Then he threw the
supplement down and said:
That's no good Of a SCHOOL,!
Why, Willie. what makes You say
that" exclaimed his mother
"'Oh. said he, here I've been to il a
whole day and amt learned to read
yet
Evening star., 1915-03-21

At this station there is sometimes an
interval of five months between mails
and the keepers only neighbor is
trapper, ten miles away. A lightkeeper
on the Columbia river, Oregon, has
taken only two days leave in twenty
three years, and one of these two days
was for the purpose of getting mar
ried.
There are a number of woman light
keepers. One of these, the keeper OF
Angel Island light in San Francisco
bay, reported that after the machinery
of the fog signal was disabled she had
struck the bell by hand for twenty
hours and thirty-five minutes until the
fog lifted and that two days later
when the machinery was further dis
abied she stood all night on the plat
form and struck the bell with a nail
hammer with all her might.
< x
Ida Lewis, who died about three years
ago, was widely known lightkeeper.
She lived at Lime Rock lighthouse on
a ledge in Newport harbor, for fifty
seven years. her father having been ap-
pointed keeper when she was twelve
years old. She was keeper of the light
for thirty-two years. There are Official
records of her having rescued thirteen
people from drowning. On one occa-
had swamped while they were attempt
ing to pick up a sheep, and then she
rescued the sheep.
The first lighthouse on this continent
was built in 1715 at the entrance OF
Boston harbor by the province of
Massachusetts. and was supported iy
light dues on all incoming and outgo-
ing vessels, except coasters. Several
other lighthouses were built by the
colonies.
For the last fiscal year II cost the
government S5.S74.509 to maintain not
only in this country. but in insu
lar possessions. not including the PM
ippines, these lights and warnings that
safeguard hundreds of thousands of hsI-
man lives and property which in value
runs into the millions The service out
side of Washington is divided into
nineteen lighthouse districts, each OF
which is under the charge of a light
house inspector In addition there is on
Staten Island, New York harbor. "A gen
eral lighthouse depot where many of
the supplies for the whole service are
purchas sed and stored and sent out for
distribution and where much of the
special apparatus of the service is man
ufactured or repaired.
Evening star., 1915-03-21

inches in diameter and there are two of
them, back to back with the arc light in
between, SO that the light is converged
into two Numerically opposite beams.
each OF 25.000000 candlepower. These
lenses are mounted on a mercury float
SO that they revolve with the least
amount of friction and power.
The tallest light tower in this country,
200 feet high. is the Cape Hatteras
lighthouse, North Carolina. 1t has
spiral painting of red and white to fur
nish distinctive day mark to mariners.
Evening star., 1915-03-21

A light must be about 200 feet above the
water to be seen from the deck Of a ves-
sci twenty nautical miles distant: beyond
that distance the curvature Of the earth
would prevent light at this elevation
being seen.
The oldest existing lighthouses in the
United States. both built in 1854. are
at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and Cape
Evening star., 1915-03-21

Henlopen, Delaware. The walls of the
Sandy Hook tower are seven feet
thick at the base and 1t is $50 feet in
height.
There are in use a large number of
acetylene gas-lighted beacons, supplied
by tanks of gas of sufficient capacity
to maintain a quick flashing light
for five months without attention
These are visited by lighthouse tenders
AMI replenished. In other acetylene
lights the gas is generated from car
bide at the stations or in the bu. y.
Evening star., 1915-03-21

duration estimated at 25.ooo,ooo CANDLE
power. Although on account Of the curva-
ture of the earth the light itself cannot
be seen more than two miles, it's
beam has been reported to have been OBJ
served in the sky at a distance OF seven
nautical miles. This light consists of q
bivalve lens. with an electric arc light
source. The lens Is seven feet four
Evening star., 1915-03-21

through surf, got another lamp, and
placed it on the beacon post. He then
walked home, a distance of eight
miles.
Commissioner Putnam tells a pathetic
story of the keeper of the Key West
light, William A. Bethel, who, after
Evening star., 1915-03-21

ardsons Rock. a wave-swept rock, west
of the Santa Barbara Islands. Califor-
mia, which. without attention, will flash
its warnings every three seconds for
seven months, or over 100000 flashes,
before it requires another charge of
gas.
There are ninety-f1ve lights on Alas
kan waters, and this number is due to
the facility with which flashing gas
lights. unattended, may be established
in that region, where it would be diff
cult and expensive to maintain keepers.
Submarine bells were first regularly
employed as fog signals in the United
States in 1906. The bell is suspended
in the water from light vessel to a
is operated by compressed air, or the
bell is mounted on a tripod on the bot
tom and worked by electric power
transmitted from the shore through a
cable, or it is suspended from buoy
and actuated by the motion of the sea.
which moves a vane and winds a
spring. Sound from submarine bells Is
transmitted through the water more
through the air from aerial signal.
However. the efficient use of the sub
marine bell requires that vessels be
equipped with suitable receiving ap-
pATatuS attdCHeu 10 the null on eacn
bow and telephonically connected with
the wheel house By comparing the
loudness on the two sides the direc-
tion of the signal may be obtained.
Submarine bells have frequently been
heard through the water at distances
of fifteen miles and more.
Light vessels are placed in locations
off the coast where 1t would be i'm
practicable or needlessly expensive to
build lighthouse, and they usually
mark the approach to port or bay or
the outer limit of an off1ying danger.
They are equipped with powerful and
distinctive lights and fog signals. Life
on ltghtship is somewhat dreary. but
not without excitement, and the men
are allowed liberal shore leave.
The pay of lightkeepers Is small and
the life is lonely. Nevertheless. it at
tracts a class of faithful men willing
to take largo risks in doing their duty
and also helping those in distress.
There are many cases of faithful serv-
ice and bravery. The hurricane OF
September, 1906, did serious damage to
lighthouse property along the gulf
coast. and a number of lives were lost
at Sand Island and at Horn Island light
stations. At the latter the keeper. his
wife and daughters were drowned.
Walter ]. Calfee, keeper of post
lights on the st. Johns river. Florida,
after falling a distance of twenty-five
feet while attempting to light a bea-
con. remained unconscious for more
than two hours. and then, with brok-
en- leg, crawled back to his boat
Evening star., 1915-03-21

and indispensable Both
Watched and Attended With CaGovemm Maintains Lights All the
Way From Ordinary Lanterns On the Mississippi 100000 Light
South of New YorThe Powerful nhe Oldest Many
the Lighthouse Flashing
Year