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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-04-12
THREE INDIAN JUGS
FOUND BY CAPE MAN
William Woods Jr. Unearths
Valuable Jugs in Arkansas
Swamps.

Three ancient Indian jugs, perhaps
several hundred years old, were
brought back from Blytheville, Ark,
by William Woods Jr., who returned
from Blytheville, where he visited his
aunt He brought two smaller recep-
tacles with him which are made of the
same material as the larger jug.
The largest jug is shaped like a
huge turnip, and bears four faces, pre-
sumably the images of some leaders
of an Indian tribe which formerly in
habited Arkansas.
Historical records show that Indians
inhabited the northern part of Arkan-
saS hundreds of years ago, and that
these jugs were used for water. Ac-
cording to history, the receptacles
were buried in the ground for several
weeks after they had been completed
and then were exposed to the sun to
be hardened by its rays.
Mr.. Woods told Tribune reporter
that a tribe known as the Sawiba for
merly inhabited that section Of Ar
kansas and were deprived of their pos
session by rivalrOus tribe. 1t is be-
lieved that the Indian pueblo was de-
stroyed by the invading enemy and the
household utensils of the fugitives
were left.
The receptacles are considered Of
an immense value. Natives of the
northern section of Arkansas spent a
great deal of time searching the
swamps for these jugs that are buried
deep in the earth. The large recep-
tacle obtained by Mr.. Woods was
found more than eight feet below the
surface. The two smaller jugs were
buried about three feet under the
ground.
All these Indian jugs have a dark
grayish color. Each one bears four
heads, and each face has a different
shape and different features. 1t is pre-
sumed that they represented the pic
lures of the chieftains of the tribe. He
has not been able to ascertain what
material the receptacle was made of.
He was offered 500 for the large jug
last night, but refused to depart with
the relic, saying he would rather lose
everything he had than give up any
of the three jugs.
The swamps where Mr.. Wood found
the jugs are about five miles south OF
Blytheville. A great number of Wis
itors spent their time digging for the
I'D Indian ranan+anlns which can he
found ,, taa a4ndr7;, : .earn steel
rod IS nsr' sc naHct,;r tne ssourd IN
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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-04-12
MAYOR DECIDES
NOT. TO CONTEST
HlRSCH ELECTION
Says He Won't Throw. Out
Third Ward in Order to
Serve Two More Years
FRIENDS URGE HIM TO
TAKE CASE INTO COURT
Says Voters are Not Responsible
for Work of Crook
in Booth.

After they had been convinced by
R. B. Oliver that they were without
authority to consider the Irregularities
in the Third ward at last Tuesdays
election, the members of the City
Council yesterday afternoon voted to
issue certificates of election to all of
, the candidates who were given a ma
jority of the votes.
Mayor Rage announced Immediately
after the council meeting that he
would not contest the election. He
said: Il was urged by many friends
to take legal action to prevent the is
suance of certificates of election to
some of the candidates on the groundl
of fraud in the Third ward: Eminent
lawyers, among them Judge Wilson
Cramer, have advised me that / could
serve as Mayor during the next two
years if l would agree to contest.
Il am convinced that | was cheated
out of the election, and | believe that
most of the people agree with me in
this contention, but do not propose
to punish the innocent voters for the
work of a crook. To throw out the
entire vote of the Third ward would
mean to deprive the voters of the right
to express themselves at the polls.
The people have right to vote for
any candidate they see fit, and the
votes should be counted as cast. The
only way for me to get my rights
would be to throw out all of the votes
in the Third ward, and refuse to do
that. The voters were not responsible
for the irregularities at the polls
The meeting neld yesterday after
noon by the council was brief. A reso-
luton was passed asking that certifi-
Gates of election be issued to the can
didates who received a majority vote
as certified to by the election Judges.
Deu VIII diu' CUuisiiilSiil-SlCtl VI
the Second ward, attended the meet
ing and was the first to receive his
certificate from City Clerk Frissell.
The candidates will be required to
give a bond before being sworn in
next Tuesday.
Six of the councilmen attended the
They were Bowman, Black,
Kaess. SegraveS, Fowler and Brunke.
Councilman Medley, member of the
committee which had been appointed
by Mayor Rage to receive the vote
and report to the City Council on the
result of the election, arrived after the
meeting had adjourned.
Following the reading of this re-
port, Councilman Bowman introduced
a resolution asking that the report be
accepted and that the City Clerk be
to issue the certificates to
the candidates who were declared
elected. r. B. Oliver appeared before
the City Council, but remained silent
as there was no occasion to represent
the cause of Mayor-elect Will Hirsch.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-04-12
ORDINANCE WOULD
LOWER FIRE RATES
Fire Limits to be Established
Combustible Buildings to be
Reduced.

A bill regulating the erection of
residences and mercantile buildings
will be introduced in the City Council
in the near future, with clause de-
filming a fire limit within which no
frame structure can be erected. The
bill will be copied from fire ordinance
now in effect in Springfield, Mo.
Ben Vineyard, newly-elected coun-
Gilman, is sponsor of the bill. He said
yesterday that this measure would ma
terially reduce the fire insurance rates
in the city. Owing to the present high
rates, he said, number of mercantile
buildings in the downtown district are
without any protection against fire.
The ordinance which is to serve as a
model for the proposed fire bill, pro-
vides that the fire chief be made fire
inspector and required to inspect all
buildings in the city to ascertain
whether they are fire-proof and
whether they are a menace to the oc-
cupants. He will have to devote sew
eral hours every day to this work.
The erection of a frame building
within the prescribed zone will be pro-
hibited Each building that is con-
structed within the limits will be re-
quired to have four Prevails. Frame
garages, cleaning and dyeing estab-
lishments and other buildings used for
similar purposes cannot be built insiGe
these limits.
Should a frame building inside the
fire limits become dilapidated or needy
of repairs, the building cannot be re-
modelled. but will have to be torn down,
according to the Springfield ordinance.
The fire limits will be fixed by the or
dinance and include the section in
which the mercantile buildings are 10
Gated and the residences are close to-
gether.
Mr.. Vineyard is of the opinion that
this ordinance, coupled with the i'm
proved fire protection Cape Girardeau
has had since the purchase of the new
fire auto trucks, will reduce the fire
insurance rates by at least Is or 20
per cent. He said that a, number of
business men would not insure their
places against fire loss because of the
high rates. A great many residences
we're also unprotected against any
damage by fire. The City Counselor
will be called upon to draft an ordi-
nance SIN % he 80 IA Fa-'@e -
Spl r.g!'4'd ard 81 M = { tee C.ts
Coa-ti! f. sltinn s. soon as tie Hsw
e. L5IE.,i oi. Ied
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-04-12
BOAT COLLIDES
With RIVER WALL
Steamer Orion Strikes Wall and
is Badly Damaged-High Stage
Caused Accident.

The Orion, towboat, belonging to
the Dillman Egg Case Co., of Car
uthersvills, ran igto tbs sesr4ll on
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
AGAINST GERMANY

Both the Mexican Senate and
Chamber of Deputies manifest the
purpose of committing the govern
ment to declaration of benevolent
neutrality toward the United States
and its Allies. Before a decision is
reached they may even go further
and urge complete break in the
relations of Mexico with Germany.
The pending legislative measure,
of which the text in part has been
transmitted by the World correspond
ent in Mexico. City, is terrific in
dictment of the German autocracy.
1t is an appeal to the heart and
conscience of the new Mexico not to
stand by in an attitude of indiffer-
ence in the face of the gigantic
tragedy that stirs all civilization"
German guile and German gold
have been called into play to keep
alive old animosities in certain quar-
ters in Mexico against the United
States. German propagandists are
desperately active to-day in the hope
of defeating the move to enlist Mex
leo in sympathy on the side of the
Entente Allies. They are stupidity
forced to make it appear that the
United States is the enemy of the
Latin n-American republics and plans
to reduce them to the position of
subject nations. 1t is not in that
belief that the leading powers of
South America have pronounced
judgment upon Germany in tnis war,
and smaller republics of Central
America have anticipated MeXico.-
New York World
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
DRAFT LAW UPHELD

Pending a hearing before the Su-
preme Court. which has or will soon
have the question of the constitution
ality of the Selective Draft Act be-
fore 1t, courts in different parts of
the country continue to affirm it. A
New York case, carried to the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, now
results satisfactorily, Justice Henry
Wade Rogers reading the opinion in
which all his associates concur. II
appears that, in this instance, the
appellant of record is an Austrian
subject. and so would be entitled to
exemption. Nevertheless, he has
sought to have a draft board en-
Joined from certifying him for mill
tary service on the ground that the
law violates the Constitution.
The opinion reviews precedents
bearing on the matter-though they
are few they are effective-and de-
clares that pertinent constitutional
clauses confer in plain and distinct
terms" the authority which Congress
has used 1t is pointed out that II
the petitioner is an alien, as he
claims to be. he could and should
seek exemption in some other man
ner than by attacking the founda-
tion of the statute.
The favorable decision, of course
was to have been expected. I'm tc
this time the courts have invariably
sustained the law, without the slight
est reservation.-Providence Jour.
nal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
OUR ACCOUNT

To whatever extent Germany may
belittle the military power of the
United States, it must soon recog-
nize our resources sas custodian.
We found many fine German ships
in our harbors and we have put them
in warpaint and will use them us
naval auXiliaries. On taking account
of stock, we also discover hundreds
OF millions of German property here,
of which we are to take possession.
Every ship once German will carry
troops and munitions to Europe and
every dollar that can be raised on
property or credits once German will
be put in Liberty bonds. In this we
exhibit almost Teutonic efficiency IN
adapting means to ends.
We are not military nation and
it will take us quite a while to land
100000 men in Europe, but even
the most doubtful member of the
general staff in Berlin will appre-
ciate the celebrity with which we have
put to the best possible military en-
ployment such German property as
was within our reach. If the U-boats
do not sink the ships they will be
faithfully returned, somewhat the
worse for wear, at the end of the
war, and If the fight ends as we
think it will, the other property, In
vested in the safest of all securities,
will be honestly carried on our books
to the credit of a nation against
which we already have a big debit
balance.
Thus our military power, before
as we'll as after the decision at arms,
will have been materially reinforced
by our short-sighted friend the
enemy. New York World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

Mems Christian Association hut-as-
suredly the ''livest mems club" in
town. For the Y. M. C. A, in keep
ing with its policy to place zones of
safety" where most needed. is plan
ming to provide q trained secretary
and a suitable building for every
camp which has 500 or more men.
This costs money.
The place these zones of safety"
occupy in the affections of American
soldiers is indicated by letters which
are being received here. The boys
seldom fail to mention the Y. NJ. c,
A. and its activities in their behalf
War, even when presented in its
most favorable aspects, is far from
beautiful. 1t has remained for this
great Christian organization, world
wide in its scope, to bear aloft the
torch of humanity. Through this
organization, war has been robbed of
many of its terrors.
Because of the Y. NJ C. A., the
home-tie will always be present to
help our boys preserve the ideals of
American manhood and clean living
which they take with them to the
other side"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
WHAT THE Y. M. c. A. DID
To the Editor of the Telegraph
appreciate the assistance of tn

- me Editor of the Telegraph:
appreciate the assistance of the
Army Y. M. C. A. Without it we
would be lost.
/ know through experience. I
took Jesus into my heart through
the means of the Army Y. NJ. c. A.
AS | have been a gambler for q year
or two and sold my shoes and shirts
for money to gamble, and most of
the time broke; and when the boys
would see me coming they would cay,
Here comes the Gambler now."
The first day when 1 picked a
Bible up the boys laughed and Kissed
Tor they said, Another fool he is
and he will not keep it: he only
wants job in the Y. M. C. A. And
L told them 1 shall keep it until I
see my mothers darling face in
Heaven, where we can sit and talk
together face to face. My mother
sang three songs before she passed
the worldly things aside and went
into Glory. One of the songs was
Where Is My Wandering Boy To-
night" and 1 guess at that time he
was in a game. but from that time
on something seemed to say l must
quit 1t and live to meet my mother
used to go out of town and gamble
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
THE RAINBOW DIVISION

The boys are now in fighting trim.
Their hearts are filled with cheer;
The flush of health is on their
cheeks.
Their eyes are bright and clear;
They onlS wait the bugle call
To send them Der the line;
Then loud and high will be their
cry
The Rainbow on the Rhine!
The Rainbow on the Rhine!
Then loud and high will be their
The Rainbow on the Rhine!
They leave behind their loving ones,
Their sweethearts and their wives;
They heard their countrys clarion
call
And answered with their lives:
Their task to aid that noble land
OF blighted home and shrine
Till time shall show a vanquished
foe
The Rainbow on the Rhine.
The Rainbow on the Rhine!
The Rainbow on the Rhine!
Till time shall show van
quished foe
The Rainbow on the Rhine.
And how they long to see their FLAG
Triumphant in the fray,
For memories of the Huns misdeeds
Are in their hearts to-day;
When Belgian orphans greet them
soon
Their tearwet eyes shall shine
And hearts that bleed shall say
"Godspeed
The Rainbow on the Rhine"
The Rainbow on the Rhine,
The Rainbow on the Rhine.
And hearts that bleed shall say
"Godspeed
The Rainbow on the Rhine"
James w. MCGEE in New York
Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
RIGHT-ABOUT FACE

We do not know that the Presi-
dent of the United States finally has
had the ear of the Interstate Com
merce Commission and has urged the
cooperation of that body in secur-
ing the highest possible degree of
efficiency in the operation of the
railroads, but there is tone of ap-
probation in the announcement of a
rehearing on the rate increase plea
of the Eastern railroads that implies
a marked change from the attitude
which has characterized the men,
bers of the commission and their
predecessors for several years past.
There is frank Acknowledgement
that since the outbreak of the war
carriers and shippers alike have CO.
operated with "praiseworthy alac-
rity," and there is a renewal of
promises previously made to deal
justly with the railroads in the mat
ter of rates and their adjustment to
increasing costs of operation. But
the main point deserving commenda-
ton is the declared purpose to expe-
dite consideration of the case and to
make the relief which it is within
the power of the commission to
grant, effective when it is needed
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
OUR BOYS IN FRANCE

CNoLDIERS who go from this
- country to fight democracy's
battle in France will not find
immense environments similar to tho
great camps maintained in this conn
try. On the contrary, our soldiers
upon their arrival in France are H.
vided into groups of from 500 n
1000 persons. Most of these grouns
are located in small villages. Here
the French mothers, many of whom
have given sons. a husband or y
brother in defense of their SUNNY
homeland, literally adopt the Ameri.
can boys into their homes.
While this plan of locating our
boys in small units possesses obvious
advantages, it also has its drawbacks
The center of interest in every
camp, large or small, is the Younc
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

Senator Edwin II. Ware has profited
by having his friend, Thomas B.
Smith, in the mayors office, is
shown by a list of the contracts for
city work which he has performed.
In the last sixteen years the little
fellow has taken more than $2O,-
600, 900 out of the city treasury, and
more than one-fifth of that sum in
contracts was awarded to him dur
ing the first nine months of this
year"
While the Philadelphia Ledger
and the Evening Bulletin are
editorially pounding the Ware organ
ization the Philadelphia Record,
Democratic newspaper, is devoting
it's attention to observing conditions
in the wards. 1t says that men and
women are aroused and that if meet
ings count the Town Meeting party
is in good shape. The newspapers
all give much space to the attacks
made by A. Merritt Taylor and
others on the Smith administration,
while the Philadelphia Press simply
flays the mayor and his director of
public safety.
The Scranton Republican and
Scranton Times are having a ham,
mer and tongs fight over the mayor,
the Republican being behind Con-
nell, while the Times is making a
drive for Durkan.
Deputy Auditor General Harry
S. McDevitt, who returned from
Easton to-day, said that people in
that city want the Governor to be
prompt about naming a registrar of
wills. Mr.. McDevitt, who went to
Easton to examine the accounts of
the late Asher V. Stauffer, register
of wills, issued a statement in which
he denied that politics was at the
bottom of the investigation. Mr.. Nc
Dewitt asserts neither he nor his COL
leagues knew that Stauffer was a
candidate for reelection and that
the answer to Stauffer's guilt is his
own act. 1t has been learned that
Stauffer's estate is valued at about
100000
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

David Barry, who was chairman
of the Liberty Loan committee in
Cambria estimates that $4,000 in
dividuals in that county took bonds.
Thomas f. Hodges. editor of the
Pennsylvania Elk, will deliver the
address at Meadville on Memorial
Day.
DIR. A. r. wentz, of Gettysburg,
in an address at Pittsburgh, said that
there was danger of religion get
ting more into the social uplitt class
John V. Culliney, formerly con-
nected with iron and steel mills al
Reading and Lebanon, has gone td
Cleveland to become connected with
factories.
Noah Swayne, I'd, who will be
representative of soft coal producers
comes of a family long prominent In
iron business up the state.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
BEFORE THE GATE

They gave the whole long day to idle
laughter
To fitful song and Jest,
To moods of soberness as idle, after
And silences, as idle as the rest.
But when at last upon their way
returning,
Taciturn, late and 10th.
Through the broad meadow in the
sunset burning,
+ They reached the gate. one sweet
spell hinderetli both.
Her heart was troubled with a subtle
anguish,
Such as but women know
That wait, and lest love speak or
speak not languish,
And what they would, would rath-
er they would not so.
Till he said-man-like nothing com
pretending
Of all the wondrous guile
That women soon win themselves
with, and bending
Eyes of relentless asking on her
the while.
"Ah, if beyond this gate the path
united
Our steps as far as death,
And L might open it!''-his voice af-
frighted
AT his own daring, faltered under
his breath.
Then she-whom both his faith and
fear enchanted
Far beyond words to- tell,
Feeding, her woman's wit and wanted
The art he had that knaxu m him
der so well,-
Shyly drew near a little step, and
mocking
Shall we not be too late
For tea?" she said, I'm quite worn
out with walking,
Yes, thanks-your arm. And will
you open the gate? %
William Dean Howells.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
REFORMATION ANNIVERSARY

NNLY the thorough student of
I history appreciates fully the
significance of the Luther Ref
ormation, the quadricentennial of
which will be observed in Chestnut
Street hall tonight.
The devastating thirty years war.
one of the bloodiest and bitterest
ever. fought, is a mere chapter in the
long chronicle of the great move
nIent of which it was a part. But
that conflict marked the assurance
of religious liberty III Central Europe
and paved the way for the freedom
of religion which now prevails and
which every man, of any faith what
soever, regards as his unquestion-
able right.
The vigor with which both sides
in the controversy held to their be-
licfs and contended for them is evil
dence ct the sincerity of each. The
religious devotee of to-day can look
back calmly and dispassionately
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

upon the events of those early times
and rejoice without bitterness over
the religious liberty which is one of
the keystones upon which the nation
is founded, willing to grant to his
neighbor the same rights and priv
ileges he demands for himself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
THE STATES SCHOOL FUND
VXTHEN the School Code Com
Wv mission presented its monu,

HTHEN the School Code Com
wv mission presented its monu-
mental compilation OF the
school laws of Pennsylvania a few
years ago there were students of
public affairs, and some legislators,
too. who were inclined to be slIcp-
tical about the plan of establishing
a permanent school fund. There
were some who thought that Penn
sylvania was too late in providing
such fund and that having allowed
the coal and oil and timber to be
taken without levying a 1.-THE for
education it should provide a special
tax to create an endowment The
State had the example of Texas,
Minnesota and other commonwealths
which made provision for schools
out of natural resources, and the
trainers of the school code deter
mined to provide against rho day
when the great corporations and the
little corporations which give this
State its 'princely revenues would no
longer be paying because of exhaus-
tion of what nature has given so
lavishly.
The States forest domain of a
million acres, escheated estates and
public property sold were designated
as the chief sources for the per-
manent fund. Thanks to the man.
agement of the forests. they are an
nually turning in a fine income to
the permanent fund and when the
kinks are Strengthened out of the
escheat law the wealth of unclaimed
estates will go to the cause of edu-
cation in the future.
In half a decade the State of
Pennsylvania, without knowing it,
has amassed over 100000 in a per-
manent school fund and if the ex-
ample of the State Fire Insurance
Fund, which has grown to be a
third of a million in two years, is
anything to go by it will not be
many years until the School Fund of
the Keystone State will be something
to brag of. if undertaken rather late.