Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, June 29, 1910, Image 7
^ Jealousy J&
By Winifred Slack
! . . ' -
*4* OUIS PARAT, a French druggist, has been called before
the French police to tell why he kept his wife chained to a
? wall for two years.
S "It ees of a nothing," said M. Parat, when he went to the
* police to explain. "I ?have in my heart but a gnawing
{jealousy. I cannot live and do my work when my wife is
> free to go and come where other men may look at her."
********* I dont know what the French police are going to do
about it. I know what I wish they'd do. I wish they would
?hain the uxorious Mr. Parat to a staple, and keep him tied up two years,
Just to let him get a chance to learn to control that same gnawing jealousy
tbat causes him so much Inconvenience.
I wonder if Madame Parat ever had any jealous pangs while she was cha?n
ai to the wall.
I suppose the gallant gentleman in this case quite succeeded in making his
"Wife believe that she was a very lucky woman to have a husband who cared
ao much about her that he had to keep her chained up, to keep hiia from
Soins crazy with jealousy.
YouH remember how Afr. Mantalini persuaded his wife to do all the work
tor him hy telling her that he loved to lie in bed and watch her work, she
"was so graceful when she was busy. I suppose Madame Parat was very
.graceful When she was chained to the wall.. ,
Of all miserable, selfish, outrageous forms of insanity, jealousy is the. most
terrible.
A woman who has a jealous husband might as well make up her mind to
.me of two things the day she marries.
Either sh o will be miserable as long as she lives with him, or she will have
Ho teach him to break ?himself of the perverted egotism he calls jealousy.
Well-found ?t: jealousy is one thing. No one expects a husband or a wife
??ther to be a; blind as a bat or as dull as an owl. But the jealousy that sees
Suma In every little harmless pleasantry, and wickedness In every oper-heart
ad friendship is nothing more or less than a form of insanity, and the victim
to it should be brought to realize that. /
Is your husband so jealous that he won't let you move out bf the house
-without him, and that he turns green when you hand your fare to the street
car conductor'.' Call in a brain specialist.
Tour husbar <2 needs his services. And you'll need them, too, if you let that
Sort of persecution go on unchecked.-New York American.
i^?gfiege-and Afterward |
By President Hadley, of Yale
HE old curriculum, with all its faults, had the element bf com
petition. Where all the boys were studying the same tiling,
rank meant something to them all With the introduction of
elective system we secured competition between teachers
and get better teaching; but we have practically done away
with, competition between students, and have lost at that
end the stimulus that we .gained at the other. This loss
has been a serious one. Much, of the undue interest in
athletics in our college life today is due to the fact that this
is the only place where there is real competition among a number of men of
different types of character. Itt was a mistake for the advocates" of the old
?curriculum to think that all the students required the same treatment. It
is,!I believe, an equal mistake for the advocates of the elective system to think
that each student requires a different treatment. For while there is a very
large number of subjects of interest to study, and an almost infinite variety
?rf occupations which the students are going to follow afterward, there is a
.comparatively, small number of types of mind with which we have to deal.
If we can have four or five honor courses, something like those of the Eng
lish universities, where the studies are grouped and the examinations arranged
to meet the needs of these different types, v/e cac, I think, realize the c.aief
advantages of the elective system or the group system without subjecting
ourselves to its evils. I am confident that we can secure a degree of col
lective intellectual interest which is now absent from most of our colleges,
and can establish competitions which will be recognized not only in col
lege, hut in the world as places where the best men can show what is in
ahem.
It may he objected that any such arrangement would render it din! cult for
4t hoy to study the particular things that he was going to use in after life. I
regard this as its cardinal advantage. The ideal college education seems to
me to be one where a student learns things that he is not going to use in
arfter life hy methods that he Is going to use. The former element gives the
student breadth, while the latter element gives him the training.-From Les
lie's Weekly.
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I Modern Home
ls Changing
By James G. Stevens
9
NE of the favorite arguments against woman-suffrage is that
the normal place for woman is the home, and that in the
home, fulfilling the duties and responsibilities connected
therewith, woman has her supreme function and performs;
her noblest service to the race. This argument needs mod
ification and limitation if it is to be consistent, because the
home is still experiencing radical processes of change. The
home had a large part of the supervision of industry in the
days of homespun. Each household produced most of the
Soods tor its own consumption, and much of the supervision pf home produc
?as performed by the women. Now we have passed from the system
?rf home production to the factory system and industrial supervision has gone
largely from the home and woman's oversight. If woman had the fundamen
tal qualifications of supervising and directing labor and determining its nor
val environment when industry was carried on largely in the home, then she
ought to be equally qualified to perform that service while our present factory
system is in vogue.
The question of woman's place In the economic and social order ls in a
state of flux. The status of the home is undergoing modifications, and when
experience has established its functions and limitations, then we can more
truly determine woman's normal sphere.
Forty Acres and the \?
Japanese $
i
By Professor F. H. King
CCORDING to official statistics published in iy08. Japan has
in. its main islands, exclusive of Formosa and Karafuto, a
population of 48,542,730 and tie area of its cultivated fields
ls 2:L,321 square miles. This is 2,277 people to the square
mile, and besides these there are also maintained 2,GU0,0UL?
cattle and horses, nearly all of which are laboring animals,
.giving a population of 142 people and seven horses and cat
vtle to each forty acres of cultivated field, a condition suf
ficiently different from our most fully occupied forty-acre
farm to make the busiest man among us stop and do some thinking.
The old farmer who permitted me to hold his plough told my interpreter
that there were twelve in his family and that he owned and was cultivating
tliteen mow of land, which is two and one-half acres, and that besides his
team-a cow and small donkey-he usually fed two pigs. This is at the
rate of 192 people, IC cows. IC donkeys and 32 pigs on a forty-acre farm, and
.a population density of 3,072 people. 256 cows, 250 donkeys and 5121 swine
Der square mile.-Farm and Fireside.
Old Royal Coach. ;
The state coach in which the king
and queen rode to St. Stephen's on
tue recent opening of Parliament is
the finest vehicle of its kind in the i
vrort?. It is close upon 15o years old,
and originally cost $40,00U. Although
lt reposed unused for forty years in
the royal mews at Buckingham Pateco,
tke king's builders say its condition
ls such, after last year's overhauling,
that it will last forever.-New York
Tribune
Literal Lannigan.
Mrs. Subbubs (who has hired a man
to plant shade tr?es)- Digging out
the holes. I sec, Mr. Lannigan.
Lannigan-Xo mum. Oi 'm diggin'
out the dirt an' laving' the holes.
Catholic News.
The Peruvian Indians are credited
with lravlng thc greatest range of vi
sion of all races, cases have been
recorded of their distinguishing hu
man beings 18 miles away.
Distinguished Speaker Praises
The Labor of Congress.
CHARACTER OF WORK COUNTS.
Change of Rules Have Amounted ?o
Nothing-6,000 of 27,000 Bills Con
sidered-300 Public Laws Enacted
-Postal Savings Bank Bill-a Law
-Appropriations Not Near as
Large as Demanded by the People.
"Washington, Special.-Joseph G.
Cannon summarized the work of Con
gress in a statement he gave to the
press. The Speaker paid most at
tention to the legislative work ac
complished, referring only incidental
ly to the fight which had been made
on the rules of the House. The re
form of the rules, he said, had re
sulted in little advantage.
The Speaker declared that the Con
gress just ended had1 done more and
better vrork than any. Congress of
which he had been a member during
his thirty-five years of service in the
House. After recounting the legisla
tion enacted, the Speaker said:
"This work of legislation has gone
on quietly, but effectively, while
those who view Congress from a dis
tance have been assuming that the
House was doing nothing but chang
ing its rules. The changes of rules
have contributed to the ple?sure and
perhaps the power of some individ
uals im ths House; but the current
of legislation itself has moved on as
usual with little disturbance on ac
count of a few new methods and
with little advantage therefrom.
"I do not think the work o a Con
gress should be measured by the vol
ume of business but by the character
of the legislation and the care taken
in its consideration. Measured by
that standard the sixty-first Congress
will take a. high place in the record
of legislation. There have been, how
ever, more than 6,000 of the 27,000
bills considered and reported from
committees and about 300 public laws
enacted in this session, as against 400
public laws for the entire Sixtieth
Congress. I can commend the entire
membership of the House for in
dustry and intelligence in their legis*
lative work of this' session."
"This Congi ?ss has not only revis
ed the-tariff, without disturbing bus
iness, but it has enacted important
legislation, amending the interstate
commerce law, making that law more
effective, giving the Interstate Com
merce Commission greater power and
creating a court of commerce and this
without seriously affecting the busi
ness of the railroads or checking
their increase of wages to their em
ployes. This seems to rae to meet the
definition of statesmanship in legis
lation.
The Speaker then detailed other
legislation which had beeu enacted.
"The appropriations," he said,
"have been lrrge but not nearly as
large as demanded by the people who
were agitating over the development
of various departments of the gov
ernment.
"The Democrats have talked about
economy but they bav? helped en
large every appropriation and there
are bills introduced by Democrats
and not acted upon -which would call
for $500,000,000 additional expendi
ture. So, I take it, their talk of econ
omy is Pickwickian. As I said in the
beginning, the\work of this Congress
has been greater than any other with
which I have been identified as a
member and it has been constructive
legislation" in the face of destructive
tactics and efforts to create factional
strife. These efforts, I regret to say,
have received more attention in the
public press than the real work of
legislation and having given so much
space to these revolutionary efforts at
the expense of the record of work, it
is not surprising that some of the
editors should suddenly discover in
these last days that the Republican
Congress has enacted laws to carry
out the pledges of the Republican
platform and then jumps at the con
clusion that this work has been done
in haste before adjournment instead
of being the painstaking effort of sev
en months by the committees and the
members of Congress."
Old Woman Married Boy.
Hartford, Conn., Special-The con
servatory appointed over the estate
of Mrs. Lucinda M. Cushman Treat
Goddard, 70 years old, in the Probate
Court upon action brought by her
son, Edwin A. Treat, following her
marriage last September to Charles
R. Goddard, 21 years of age and a
member of the Yale Law School, is
set aside by a decision of Judge
Burpee handed down in the Superioi
Court.
She is said to have property valued
in excess of $20,000, and after hei
marriage her son, "'huting the pro
ceedings, aller"*3 ' . she7 was not
sapable of mc .n ?er affairs.
Campaign Contributions Public After
Elections.
Washington, Special. -Campaign
contributions will be made public
only after elections. The House
adopted the conference report on the
campaign publicity bill after a
spirited debate, during which many
members, especially Democrats, ex
pressed, their disapproval of the ac
tion of the House conferees in agree
ing to the Senate amendments.
Forest Reserve Bill Put Off.
"Washington, Special.-After forty
minutes' discussion the Senate Sat
urday agreed to vote' February 15
next on the bill looking to the erec
tion of thc forest reserves in the
White mountains and the Southern
Appalachian. The bill was adopted,
by the House Friday night.
Ballinger Committee Adjourns.
Washington, Special-The Rallin
ger-Pinchot investigation committee
mel Sat unlay and adjourned to meet
in Minneapolis September 5th, when
effort to bs made to agree on a report.
TBE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD
Tho Heart of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.
Richard A. Coleman, the "Peck's
bad boy" of theatrical fame died at
Boston.
Theodore Roosevelt has asked Gov
ernor Hughes to visit him at Saga
more Hill in the hear future for a
conference.
Mrs. Hattie Gorman, widow df thc
late Senator Arthur Pue Gorman, of
Mary-land, died at Washington, al
the age of 75, after a lingering ill
ness.
One of the biggest jobs which Col.
Roosevelt found himself confronted
with when he reached the Outlook
office was the looking over of nearly
5,000. letters.
By a vote of 255 to 20 the House
passed a bill providing for the is
suance of certificates of indebtedness
to the amount of $20,000,000 to pro
vide a fund for the completion o?
reclamation projects already begun.
Maharajah Sir Sayaji II, gaekwai
of Baroda, -who enjoys an annual in
come of $12,000,000, and is one ol
the richest potentates in India, ii
visiting New* York and Boston. His
son, Prince Jasingaro, is a student al
Yale.
Practically every window in thc
town of Algiers, 111., was destroyed.
Hailstones which by actual measure
ment were five inches in circumfer
ence fell and hundreds of chickens '?
? were killed. The damage is estim?t- ;
ed at $100,000.
The Interstate Commerce Commis- 1
sion denied the application of the ]
Pullman Car Company tos postpone
the date when the commission's order ,
requiring the company to lower its 1
rates shall become effective. The 1
rate goes into effect July 1.
The Cuban house of representa- ,
tives passed a bill granting a 30 (
years' concession to an American
company to operate bull fights, cock ,
fights, horse racing and gambling gen- ?
erally on the reservation at Buena
Vista, a suburb of Havana.,
The spider beauty spot veil is the
latest novelty offered tp women. Of
1 course, it originated in Paris. It is
a copy of a spider in black chenille
sud is posed outside the veil. It h.
almost an inch and a half in diameter.
The veil is worked in imitation o?
a spider's web.
At Dusseldorf, Germany, the first
regular air ship passenger service was
inaugurated when^Count Zeppelin's
great craft, the Deutschland, carry
ing 20 passengers, successfully made
the first scheduled trip from Fried
richshafen to Dusseldorf, a distance
of 300 miles, in nine hours.
A remarkable operation has just
been performed at the New York
post-graduate hospital by which ?
man has been provided with an arti
ficial jaw of pure gold to replace o
jawbone destroyed by disease. The
operation is said to be the first ot
the kind ever performed in a Nen
York hospital.
A document-has been filed in the
office of the Cpunty Clerk of Onon- ,
daga county, N. Y,, by which Fred
erick H. Joss, a business man, trans- h
fers his wife to Harry W. Rogers. ,
a bookkeeper, for the sum of $1. The
agreement contains many stipulations
concerning pa~~uent of debts, etc. Mr.
and Mrs. Joss have been married foi :
19 years. Rogers was a roomer in
their home.
Old stories about hailstones fall
ing from the clouds as large as hen
eggs were eclipsed at York. Pa., by
William Diffendaffer, who lives in
West Babbitt. He says that a hail
stone weighing 50 pounds or more,
composed of a lot of smaller ones,
during the storm of Saturday night
fell in his back yard. It was 3G
inches long and 14 inches wide at the
time he called in several of the neigh
bors, who vouch for his statements.
Some do not credit the story, and ?
thinkf that a quantity of hail war
swept together and frozen,
Tne report of the local 'Internal
Revenue Collector, at Wheeling, W. /
Va., shows that 10,000,000 stogies are
made in Wheeling each month. More :
stogies are made there than in. any
other/city . in the world.
A recommendation has been made
to Congress by Postmaster Genera.'
Hitchcock that a law be enacted to
Indemnify the senders or o\vners of
third and fourth class domestic mat- :
ter lost in the mails.
When Henry .Thompson Brown, em
ployed at a saloon at Marysville,
near Helena, Mont., found two nickels
and a dime on the floor, he began
laughing at his good fortune and con
tinued to laugh violently until he
fell over dead. It was found that
his violent laughter had resulted in ;
the breaking of a blood vessel.
Brown was colored and 60 years old.
The factory of the B. J. Harrison
Chair Company, Winstead, Conn..
which is operated b}' water from
Highland lake, has been running 24
hours j, day for several days, so many
eels having'found their way into the
gates n the wheel nit that it was
impossible to close them.
Mrs. George Beach, wife of a lead
ing photographer of Houston, creat
ed a sensation on one of the crowded
thoroughfares by shooting four times
with a revolver at Charles Bader.
None of the shots took effect. Mrs.
Beach claims that Bader killed her
dog. She was placed under arrest.
Philadelphia has a genuine case of
hookworm disease, -the first one ever
6een in that city. Charles Keel, 35
years old, is the victim. On June 5
he was taken to the Germantown
Hospital.
It is estimated Chicago spends
$500,000 daily for "cooling bever
ages." A prominent manufacturers of
ice cream said that on a hot day more i
than $200,000 is spent for ice-cream
and ices. More than $200,000 is
paid out for beer and other intoxi
cants and another $100,000 for lemon
ade and soft drinks.
Birmingham. Ala., was deeply stir
red over the news of the suicide of
Mrs. W. P. Harding and the death
early this morning of G. R. Johnson,
who shot and fatally wounded him
self half an hour after the suicide
of Mis. Harding.
Labored Ven' Hard And Enact
ed Important Laws
INVESTIGATE BRIBE CHARGES
Separate Committee For Each House
to Investigate Bribery Attempts
During Recess -The Last Act
Signed by the President-Some of
the Most Important. Legislation
Passed.
Washington, Special-Each house of
Congress Saturday night marked its
closing hour by voting for an invest
igation of the McMurray Indian
contracts. Instead of the usual scene
of comparatively undignified relaxa
tion from the business of legislation,
both Houses devoted exceelingly se
rious attention to the charges of at
tempt bribery and other forms of im
proper influence made in the Senate
Friday by Senator Gore of Oklahoma
and subsequently in the House by
Representative Murphy of Missouri.
Two separate investigations are
provided for-one in each House.
Each body passed a resolution creat
ing a s?lect committee of five mem
bers to pursue the inquiry into the
bottom during the recess of Con
gress and to 'report whether any of
its members, are, or have been, in
terested in any of these contracts.
Until a late hour in tha day it looked
rather as if the matter would go by
default.
The last measure signed by Presi
dent Taft was a joint resolution to
authorize the Secretary of War to
loan tepts to the Appalachian exposi
tion to be held in Knoxville. Tenn.,
in September, which Mr. Taft ex-'
pects to attend.
Notwithstanding the fact that ac
tion on many important measures was
delayed by conflicts between insurgents
and regular Republican factions in
both branches, and that the Demo
cratic minority was an active force,
Cohgress concluded its long session
with a record for enacting legislation
that seldom, if ever, has been equal
ed.
Chief in the list of legislation for
which the administration contended
were the following:
Striking revision of the railroad
laws, including the creation of a com
merce court.
Admitting Arizona and Xew Mex
ico as separate Stat?s.
Authorizing the establishment; of
postal savings banks.
Giving to the President unlimited
authority to. withdraw public lands
for conservation purposes.
Providing for publicity of campaign
contributions.
Authorizing the issue of $20,000,
OOO in certificates of indebtedness to
complete reclamation projects.
Creating a bureau of mines.
Extending the activities of the tar
iff board aud appropriating $250,000
for its' use. . .
Looking to the supervision of traf
fic in "white slaves."
Authorizing the entry of the sur
face of coal lands.
Creating a commission to consider
economics in the administration of
the Federal government.
Providing a new tariff system for
the Philippine islands.
Legislation which, ultimately is ex
pected to give practical prohibition to I
the. Hawaiian Islands.
Opposed to the foregoing formid
able list of legislation obtained were
a comparatively small number of
measures which had administration
sympathy but failed of passage.
Not the least conspicious acts of
Congress were the strenuous meas
ures taken by the House of Repre
sentatives to reform its system of
conducting business so that less power
might be imposed in the Speaker and
the organization of which he was the
natural leader.
The Speaker was removed from
the committee on rules, which he had
previously been credited with domi
nating and a new rule was adopted
for tlie purpose of effectually prevent
ing p' t-holing of bills by commit
tees ,. "u they were approved by a
majority of the House.
The increase provided for the navy
was notable. Two battleships of 27,
000 tons each, armed with 14-inch
guns, making them the most formid
able dreadnaughts afloat, were au
thorized. The naval strength of the
United States will be further sup
plemented by G torpedo boat destroy
ers. 2 colliers and 4 submarines,
while an increase of the personnel of
the navy of T'.'.OO men was author
ized.
Various other measures of minor
importance were enacted into law.
Senators Get 51,800 Masseur.
Washington, Special.-After all
the discussion, which look place in
the Senate while the legislative bill
was being considered over the pro
posed employment of a masseur to
take charge of the elaborate bath
rooms in the marble office building
occupied by senators, they will enjoy
the services of such an attendant.
Nagel to Sit on "The Lid."
When President Taft goes to Bev
erly soon after Congress adjourns he
will leave Secretary Charles Nagel,
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor, who is ti feet .'5 inches tall and
weighs KiO pounds, to "sit on the
lid." _^_
Roosevelt Paid $500 Duty.
New York; Special.-Although Col
lector Loeb declined to give out the
cxacl amount paid by Col. Roosevelt
as duty on his personal baggage, one
of the customs officials said the
amount \vas about $500. J
MOTOR TRUCKS ON ROADS
i
Vast Difference in the Cost of Trans
porting Farm Produce on Good
Roads and on Mud Highways.
Culpeper, Va., Special-A splendid
object lesson in the value of good
roads was given and the advan
tageous use that may be made of the
motor truck, supplementing the trans
portation facilities offered by the
railroads to the great- benefit of
farmers and owners of industrial
plants and mines, not located direct
ly on rail lines, has been demon
strated in a striking manner by
the movement of a car of coal from
the tracks of the Southern Railway
at this point to Sperryville, a dis
tance of twenty miles, a three ton
motor truck being used. The 13 tons
of coal were hauled to the tannery
in two and a half days, six trips be
ing made. In the past it has taken
a good mule team two weeks to ac
complish the same work. The road
over which the hauling was done is
a good hard road but leads into a
mountainous country and has many
long and heavy grades. 'The experi
ment was made by the C. C. Smoot
Sons Company, which operates a
tannery at Sperryville. So satis
factory were the results that the
company has purchased a truck and
will hereafter use it io transferring
coal and hides to the tannery and
its products to the market.
The saving of time and labor in this
case shows what can be done to re
duce the cost of moving farm, min
eral and industrial produce to rail
or water lines for shipment to mar
ket. Statistics show 1 that while
freight rates are lower in America
than in any other country, the Amer
ican farmer loses the advantage that
this should give him Over his Euro
pean competitor chiefly through ithe
high cost of transporting his products
from the farm to the ra???oad. Re
ports by United States consuls from
twenty-three points in Europe show
that the average cost of carrying a
ton over a mile of dirt road is be- J
tween ten and twelve cents. In the I
United States the average cost is j
25 ,cents. It has been stated that it j
costs as much to haul a bushel of
grain five miles to a railroad in
Illinois as it then cests to send it
1.100 miles over the railroad to
Buffalo. In the tobacco region of
West Virginia it costs five times as
much to deliver that product over
eight miles of mud road as it then
costs to send it more than 400 miles
to Richmond. These instances were
given by Hon. Thomas M. Bell, rep
resentative of the Ninth Georgia dis
trict, before congress! urging federal
aid for good roads. Others as strik
ing could be given from all parts of
the South.
"An improved wagon road from a
farm to a market or shipping poiut
is equivalent to moving the farm
nearer the market or shipping point."
said President Finley of the South
ern Railway in addressing the Miss
issippi Society of Washington City.
In this address Mr. Finley urged thal
every possible means he taken io rid
the farmers of the South of this
"bad roads tax."
The successful use of the motor
trnck by the Smoot tannery can
doubtless be duplicated in many parts
of the South at the present time,
and the rapid increase in the mileage
of good roads in the near future as
the result of the great movement now
attracting so much attention, will
possibly soon bring the day when thc
farmer or manufacturer, remote from
the railroad, can use this method to
effect a great redtvction in the cost
of moving his product to market.
New York Murder Mystery.
New York, Special.-The police are
apparently balked at the skilfully
planned murder of Moses Sachs, the
aged jeweler who was murdered for
$3.000 worth of diamonds and $300 in
bank bills and then stuffed into a
trunk.
Last Supply Bili.
Washington. Special.-The general
deficiency bill the last of the regular
supply measures to receive the ap
proval of both houses of Congress at
the present session, was passed by
the senate Tuesday. It carries app:o
pria-tions aggregating nearly $8,000,
000, an increase of about $1,800,000
over the house mesaure.
i i
University and Church Lock Horns,
Nashville, Tenn., Special-" The
church is going to contend for its
rights and not surrender a hair's
breadth," said Bishop Hos?, referr
ing to the action of the hoard of
trustees of Vanderbilt university in
refusing to seat the three members
elected by the general conference.
The bishop threw down the
gauntlet to the board of trustees, de
claring, "The church believes that
the decision of the commission ap
pointed by the church to consider
the university matter was in every
way sound and just and it will con
tend for it. to the end.
Alabama Law Unconstitutional.
Anniston, Ala., Special.-In ?the
first test made since the measure was
enacted by the last Alabama legis
lature, section 16 of the Fuller liquor
law is declared unconstitutional by
Justice J. F. Creen, of this city.
Section 16 prohibits the storing of
intoxicating beverages in a building
used for soft drink stands. Tho
state has five days to appeal and if
not appealed before then the con
fiscated goods cf John Jobeles, de
fendant, must he returned.
Georgia Legislature in Session.
Atlanta, Special.-Thc Georgia
legislature has opened what it is gen
erally believed will be a 50-day ses
sion without special features. The
consideration of only two measures
of more than muline improtance is
expected, it is believed an attempt
will he made to change tho regis
tration laws, and to adopt biennial
sessions.
There is hardly a liklihood of any |
attempt to change thc prohibition
law. Governor Brown is pledged tn
veto any such change in the present
mm SENSATION
Blind Senator Gore Exposes
Bribery Attempt.
CONCERNING ATTORNEY FEIES.
Senators and Representative said.
Other Ex-Ofiicials and Prominent
People Involved in Ugly Charges
Affecting Congressional Legisla
tion-Legislators Stirred - Lobby
Maintained'-Investigation Will be
Ordered.
Washington, Special. - Senator
Gore of Oklahoma disclosed in the
Senate Friday what he interpreted as
an effort to bribe him in connection
with legislation affecting the fortune
in attorneys' fees claimed by, J.F.
McMurray of Oklahoma for serf ices
rendered to the Choctaw and Chick
asaw nations in land and town site
cases.
The charge created a sensation in
the Senate which later extended to
the House. The latter body in con
sequence sent back to conference the
general deficiency bill which carried
an item relating to contracts between
the Indians and their attorneys.
As a reult of the denouement, Sen
ator Gore finally involv i a member
of the Senate committee on Indian
affairs, a member of the House com:
mittee on Indian affairs, two formel
Senators-one from Nebraska and
the other from Kansas-but whsoe
names were not made public in de
bate.
It is not improbable that an ..in
vestigation will be ordered. Mr. Gore
was compelled to address the Senate
three times before that body was ful
ly aroused to the seriousness of the
charges which he made. His first *
effort was in connection with the
adoption of the conference report on
the deficiency bill, which had bien
presented by Senator Hale. As passed
by the Senate, that measure contain
ed an amendment which would render
null and void contracts made by the
Choctaw and Chickasaw nations and
by individual members of these tribes
with their attorneys, unless the con
tracts were approved by Congress.
This provision was in accordar.ee
with a resolution introduced by Mr. .
Gore on May 4 last. It was designed
to prevent Mr. McMurray from ob
taining fees which, it is said, would
aggregate $3,000,000 and which Mr.
Gore complained had not been earn
ed by the attorne)\ .
Mr. Gore explained that on May 4
last he had offered a resolution sinv
ilar in terras to the amendment he
had placed in the deficiency bill In
the Senate and that it had been re
ferred to the committee on Indian af
fairs. On the following day Senator,
Hughes had been directed to make a
favorable report on the resolution, he
said.
"On May 6," excalimed Mr. Gore,
"a man came to me with an improper
suggestion. He was a representative
of Mr. McMurray, a resident of my
home town, and had been my friend
in time of need. He assured me it
would bc to my financial interest if
I would call on the Senator from
Colorado and advise him not to re
port the resolution. There was a sug
gestion that $25,000 or $50,000 would
be available if the contracts were not
prohibited. I am informed that a
similar proposition was made Thurs
day to a member of the House of Rep
resentatives."
Mr. Gore also charged that an "ex
Senator from Nebraska and an ex
Senator from Kansas are interested
in these contracts" and declared that
a large lobby was maintained in
Washington in that interest. He said
that he felt in honor bound to con
tinue these effortc "to prevent this /
steal from those defenseless Indians
in Oklahoma."
Idaho Gets the Honor.
Washington, Special.-The battle
ship Idaho is to enjoy for a year the
coveted official honor of being the
best hitter in the American navy. A
comparison of the shooting perform
ance of the battleships this year is
made public at the Navy Department.
The Idaho made a score of 46.121.
The South Carolina frets second place
with a score of 42.585, and the Wis-.
consin third with a score of 40.478.
First Cotton Bale.
Houston, Tex., Special,-Weighing .
416 pounds, the first bale of the cot
ton crop 1910, reached here Thursday
from Mercedes. The bale classed as
good middling and at auction brought
$375.
"Golden Rule" Chief Vindicated.
Cleveland, Special.-Fred Kohler,
'the "Golden Rule" chief of police
who was 'ispended from his position
bv Mayor Baehr upon the filing of
charges alleging drunkenness and im
morality, was acquitted by the civil
service commission. Kohler will be
reinstated at once.
Victory for Printers.
Washington. Special.-The House
passed the bill introduced by Repre
sentative Touvelle limiting Govern
ment printing on envelopes to the
city, county and State to which each
letter is to be returned. This pre
vents the Government from printing
the name of the sender on envelopes
and is a victory for the printers of
America. The Senate is expected to
pass the bill before the end of the
session.
Sharper Robs Old Women.
Washington, Special.-A fraud or
der issued by the Postoffice Depart
ment withdraws the use of the mails
from S. L. IltKchinson, of Birraing
'ham, Ala., who is alleged to have
mulcted women responding to a fake
advertisement for traveling compan
ion to an imaginary old lady, each
candidate for thc position, described
as profitable and agreeable, beius: re
quired to send Hutchinson a dollar
and references. Olfieials allege that
Hutchinson had no position to bestow.
He was arrested on a charge of us
ing the mails to defraud.