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I I Tramp Has a Real Value ^ u
^ Ty Jack London. ^
F the tramp were suddenly to pass awa> from the United
? | StateB, widespread misery for many families would follow.
L V The tramp enableB thousands of men to earn honest livings, "
J UV educate their children and bring them up God-fearing and
I 1| industrious. I know.
w p At one time my father was a constable and hunted
I tramps for a living. The community paid him so much per
head for all the tramps he could catch, and also, I believe, ti
he got mileage fees. Ways and means were always a press- m
lng problem in our household, and the amount of meat on the table, the new la
pair of shoes, the day's outing cr the testbook for school was dependent upon rj
my father's luck in the chase. Well I remember the suppressed eagerness X
and the suspense with which I waited to learn each morning what the results tl
of the past night's toll had been; how many tramps he had gathered In and tl
what the chances were of convicting them. m
But it's all in the game. The hobo defies society and society's watchdogs |
mane a living out of him. Some hoboes like to be caught by the watchdogs?
especially In winter time. Of course, such hobos select communities where w
the jails are "good," where no work Is performed and the food Is substantial.
Also there have been and most probably still are constables who divide their
fees with the hobos they arrest. Such a constable does not have to hunt. r<
He whistles and the game comes right up to his hand. ?j
It is surprising the amount of money that Is made out of stone-broke c
tramps. All through the South are convict camps and plantations where the
time of convicted hobos is bought by the farmers and where hobos simply
have to work. Then there are places like the quarries of Rutland, Vt., where
the hobo Is exploited, the unearned energy in his body, which he has accumulated
by slamming gates, being extracted for the benefit of that particular ^
community. I.
Tramps pass the word along, and I first heard of those nuarrles when T m
was in Indiana. By the time I got into New Hampshire I was pretty well 1c
keyed up ever those quarries' and I fought shy of railroad cops, "bulls" and
I constables aB I never had before.?Chicago Tribune. ir
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^ By Ccbrielle Stewart Mulliner ^ si
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AM extremely sorry to notice the tenor of the reports from ^
1 * the International Council of Women in Toronto. I do not
T W think that the report of the speeches is representative of
X A the thought of the majority of the women in attendance or "
represented by delegates. The statement made, aB reported, ^
by Mrs- Symes Thompson, that half the women in asylums J
?lT?TT?t?' and PrllVP.. worn thoi-o hanni.oo Krtl w K...V>n?Jo "'"1" ?
! ?? ? gives a wrong impressing of the attitude of the International
Council of Women toward life. Of course the vast majority r
of women are happily married, and devotedly attached to their husbands, and
content with the lot in which they find themselves, no matter whether it be
rich or poor. 01
Women are going- to their graves from bad health, because the entire civl- j"'
Illation needs to learn better the laws of life. It is not men alone, but all ^
persons, who are responsible for conditions under which women live. They
go to asylums not because of their husbands, but because they themselves
do not know how to attune themselves to life. They must learn not to be self- ?
centred, but to make of their lives a mosaic, arfd have many interests, so that lf
they can be well balanced, and keep an interest in life even if one interest fl
proves disappointing. But are there no men in asylums, or do the death not- fi
ices contain no names of men? , C
There is vice, there are bad habits, there is inattention, and there is "
cruelty, against which women have to battle. But we are all human beings,. ; C
only a few of us are angels, and plenty of us are more or less whitewashed j
devils. But It takes two to make a divorce action, and three to carry a case {?<
through New York courts, so I for one resent the insinuation that all women tl
are suffering unhappiness because some of them dot. m
Let those of us who are happily married come to the rescue of the hua cc
bands who are proving themselves nature's nobleme
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(| By Dr. N. /. Gillman of New York ,
? ESIRADLB sbclety is inaccessible to a good many wortby
J * J J young men. What chance does the thrifty young man
? > "V < stand with the modern young woman out for a good time?
J | IB I Her ideal is the sporty spendthrift who lavishes his hard- w
i > < > earned dollars upon her caprices. She has no earthly use m
' ttlMill > for the economical, home-loving species. She scoffs at him
I > i and appends such epithets as "stingy miser" to his name. y<
< illlllll > A &??d many women do not use discretion in the choice
of a life-companion. Mere appearances are usually victorious. Q
Physical beauty, stylish apparel, distinguished deportment, a knowledge of ni
the arts of (lattery and dancing are the only keys that will open society's door. l)(
The plain, sincere, home-loving young man usually lacks these keys. Cf
Then too, with but few exceptions, tn^ modern woman is unfit to assume Uj
domestic and maternal responsibilities. Too much time is wasted in study- a:
Ing the art of external adornment. Of what use Is a smattering of music or fl,
French to the practical young man who prefers a digestible meal? j,(
Give us some more girls with a knowledge of domestic economy in lieu
of lawn tennis and basket-ball, and "E. D." will have no cause for bemoaning ..
the waning of marriages.
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^ By yo? Mitchell Chappie ^ '
CCORDINO to expert government reports on fuel, the gas ^
I JT 1 engine is capable of generating from two and a half to three ,
S t,?^ I t,mes as much power from a given amount of ooal as the jj.
f 9^ I steam engine. It economises In another way also by mak- n>
m ing It possible to obtain power with a low-grade coal value1
y 1 less under steam boilers. Fuel with so high a percentage A
of Impurity that it could not hitherto be used in factories
K. can now be made to generate sufficient power, by means of
gas engine, to do the game work that otherwise would re- is
ii<iuc uuuuio mo quantity 01 mgn-graae coal, rne lignite coal of North Da* is
lioia baa thus been made to give out as much gas engine force as the best lc
Wast Virginia and bituminous coal used under steam boilers. . at
Some sort of coal is Indigenous to almost all parts of America, but the tl
/jL fleet that la the average steam engine only five percent of the coal energy Is h:
transformed Into actual working power made low-grade coal of little commer- T
elal vale* nntll the perfection of the gas engine, which increases the efficiency st
? fuel by almost twelve percent. Time was when the big mills had to be at
~ '- jJjwtaced beside seme swift running stream to secure water power. Later on,
^HaMPjMMight the vicinity of the great coal fields, but today, with the gen- t<
MBBmr1 pvw*r ** tk* IM engine, It Is a ssattsr of little lmportanoo eo far as Qi
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1NAPPY AND BRIEF
ems Gathered end Told While
You Hold Your Breath.
OME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
hrely and Crisp as They Are Oarnered
From the Fields of Actios
at Home and Abroad.
Casper Whitney in a magazine arcle
recently accused the midshipen
club at Annapolis, of deceit and
ck of sportsmanship in the national
He mntches at Camp Perry, Ohio,
hey are stung and announce that
ley will sue in the courts, not for
le sake of money, but as tbe only
eans of public vindication.
Key West, Fla., suffered the worst
orm Monday within her history, the
ind blowing 100 miles and hour.
TL. T !- \r r* \r
x uf ijvnuir, it. l? news says 11 is
diably informed that John S. Green
I Caldwell county, has received a
iec.lv for $1,000 as first premium on
pples awarded by the International
pple Show at Spokane, Washing>n,
last winter.
The mansion of Former Governor
rilliam Sprague at Narraganset, H.
, was destroyed by fire Monday
lorning. Many art treasures were
st. Tlie total loss will be $600,000.
The Chicago police have furnished
1 advance to police of cities in th#
jute of President Taft the picture*
f noted pickpockets and it is hoped
lat most of the band following tb?
resident will be earning a living
hen he gets back to Washington.
Ion Hammer, director of the Swedih
Export Association, was a viem
of a Socialist bomb last Sundav.
t was sent by mail and as he was
iking off wrappers it exploded, tcarlg
off his thumb and forefinger and
ashing his face somewhat. His inlries
are not fatal.
An autoist going at a good speed
truck a baby carriage in New York
unday, knocking baby and carriage
0 feet but the baby escaped unhurt.
According to statistics from Washlgton,
the Indians in the United
tates are not being exterminated
ut on the contrary are increasing at
normal rate.
The Law and Order League of
ensacola, Fla., caused the Sunday
iw of fifty years standing to be enarced
last Sunday when not a cigar
auld b?* bought. Those who neglectd
to lay in their meat and bread for
unday had to take meals at the rosluranta.
Prof. P. Q. Caldwell of the chair
f Latin and French at Erskine Col'ge,
Due West, S. C., died Sunday
fternoon after suffering two weeks
rom a stroke of apoplexy. Prof,
nldwell had won the appellation of
The Friend of the Boys." South
arolina ereatlv mnnms tiim
Robbers, surprised, bound and gaged
the chief clerk and assistant in
le Seattle Express office Tuesday
orning and robbed the office getting
msiderable booty.
At Waters Creek near McNeal,
exas, Wednesday an engine and two
irs plunged into a burning bridge,
illing one and injuring eight perms.
Prof. L. L. Dyke, head of the deirtment
of natural history in the
niversity of Kansas who made seval
trips north savs: "Commander
eary's statement just published, to
y mind, is absolutely incredible. It
based on the testimony of ignorant
skimos, who were incapable of un?rstanding
a country to which they
id never been before well enough
i outline such a map as that pubshed
and credited by Mr. Peary to
icir explanation. Only intelligent
hite men with instruments could
ake their way to such a country and
? able to report in detail upon it a
?ar after the trip was made."
Uillisses Wise, near Lincolnton, N.
., in a fit of insanity, Wednesday
ight, frightened his family from
)me, His wife's father answered a
ill and came to the rescue wherepon
Wise cut his head off with an
re, went into the house, set it on
re and burned to a crisp with the
ouse.
Killing frosts are reported on the
3th as far south as Alabama and
low as far south as Maryland.
Dr. Cook expresses astonishment at
dward Barrill, who was with Dr.
ook on Mt. McKinley, but now says
nder oath that neither of them ever
(ached the summit. Dr. Cook savs
! any expedition will follow the
>ute he took, they will find the
(cords deposited by him at the sumit
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??. ui iuc uiuumain.
Miss Carrie Hunter, of Wadesboro,
iving lost her health, took an inine
impulse to commit suicide and
lunged into a well on Wednesday
ight, accomplishing her design.
The mayor of Key West calls for
merican citizens to help the destiite
of that storm stricken city.
Prof. Francisco Ferrer, the Spanh
educator and eonvited revolutiont,
was shot Wednesday at Barcema,
Spain. The execution was dono
t the fortress of Montjuich, whero
le prisoner had been confined since
is condemnation my conrt martial,
be doomed man faced the firing
|uad without flinching and fell dead
I the first volley.
bank rober in Chicago was about
? be captured Wednesday whereupI
he deliberately shot himself dead.
: had only gotten *0*.
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fWASBINGTON NOTES ii
A substantial increase is shown iu
the gross income of the Southern
Railway Company during the year
ending June 30 last, according to tl'o
fifteenth annual report of President
W. W. Finley. The report says the
return of business from the low level
of panic conditions of 1907 was slow
but substantial during the past year.
The total gross income for the year
was $17,737,699, an increase over
1908 of $3,890,733. While the operating
expenses show a decrease of
$753,610, compared with the year
1908, it is stated that this is due to
the fact that the Tennessee Central
Railroad and the Southern Railway
of Mississippi were operated separately
this year. However, comparing
like for like, this year shows an increase
in the operating revenues of
$606,766.
At a meeting of the Southern Commercial
congress Tuesday, plans for
building to be erected in this city
were accepted. The structure will be
built from contributions made by the
various commercial organizations
throughout the South, and John M.
Parker, President of the congress,
will leave soon on a speaking
tour in that section. He goes first
to Greenville, S. C.. then to Atlanta.
Ga., and Brimingham, Ala. The complete
itinerary has not been completed
yet. The work of organising and
canvassing the 16 states which will
be called upon to contribute to the
congress will, it is figured, ocupy
more than a year.
Record target practice scores of
the vessels of the American navy for
1909 made public at the Navy Department
Thursday, show that the Wash
ington is a trophy winner in the battleship
class, the Charleston a trophy
winner in the gunboat class, the
Tingey the trophy winner in vessels
competing for the torpedo trophy.
The Pacific fleet, under Admiral Swinburne,
leads the fleet in target practice
with a record of 42.
A trip to various coast points on
the Atlantic ocean to participate in
local celebrations has been arranged
for the torpedo hoats Stringham, Dupcr.t,
Biddle and ShubricL of the Atlantic
torpedo flotilla. From Charleston,
S. C., they are to go to Savannah,
from November 1 to 7, to
take part in a carnival. The next
day' they go to Wilmington, N. C.,
to be there during the President's)
visit. Later in the month, from November
22 to 27, the boats are to be
at Jacksonville, where a carnival is
to be held. After these boats get
back to Charleston, they will be placed
in reserve. The other boats of
the Atlantic flotilla, eight in all, are
to bo placed in reserve at Charleston
upon their arrival there, which is expected
to be early in November.
The Supreme Court Tuesday fixed
December 13 for hearing arguments
in the case of the government against
the American Tobacco Company. The
cases were instituted by the government
to obtain the dissolution of the
alleged trust. Their hearing was
originally fixed for Tuesday, but the
postponement was made to allow Attorney-General
Wickershain to partipinoto
in ormimanlo
Oorders were issued at the NavyDepartment
Monday for a division of
the Atlantic torpedo flotilla to be
present at Yorktown to participate in
the celebration in commemoration of
the anniversary of the surrender of
Lord Cornwallis. The vessels, which
have been cruising up th Hudson
river as far as Albany and Troy in
collection with the recent Hudson-1
Fulton celebration, will sail from
New York within the next two or
three days for Hampton Roads and
thence to Yorktown.
After a recess of more than four i
months, and with only Chief Justice
Fuller and Justices Harlan, Brewer,
White, Holmes, McKenna and Day
present, the Supreme Court of the
United States Monday began the regular
term for the next twelve months.
Justices Peckham and Moody were
absent on account of illness, reducing
the court to unusually small proportions.
The question whether the ordinary
insurance policy insures a man
against death by legal hanging is
raised in the case of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company, vs. J. William
McCue and others, which was presented
Monday to the Supreme Court
of the United States. McCue is one
of the children of the late J. Samuel
McCue, who while serving a term as
mayor of the city of Charlottesville. I
Va., was found guilty of murdering I
his wife and hanged for the offense
in 1905. About a year previous to
the crime McCue took out an insurance
policy of $15,000 in the
Mutual Life.
I The commissions of several additional
supervisors of the next cen- j
| sus have been signed by President
isrt and forwarded by Director of I
the Census Durand to the appointees. |
Among them are Livingston, F. McClellan,
Stone Mountain, for the fifth
district, and Harry Burns, Maeon,
for the sixth distriet of Georgia;
James L. Michie, Darlington, for the
sixth distriet and Ernest M. Dopre,
Columbia, for the seventh distriet,
8outh Carolina. I
ANOTHER SOU
Death List 37, With <=>c
Sweeps Southeast
Alabama and
Memphis. Tenn., Special.?With
the known death list already reaching
a total of thirty-seven human
lives and with thirteen others reported
dead, with scores seriously injured
and mauy others painfully bruised,
and with the property damage running
to n million or more dollars, the
toll of the havoc and destruction of
the storm which swept middle and
West Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia,
and portions of Arkansas, and South
Carolina, late Thursday afternoon
mi j? ? -
uiu xuursaay mgni, prows Hourly as
reports are received form remote districts
and as wire communication is
gradually restored to a normal condition.
The storm was the worst that has
visited this section of the South in
years, being intense in its destroying
fury and widespread in its area.
Whole sections of counties were laid
in waste, towns destroyed and plantations
greatly damaged.
The list of dead reported is: Denmark.
Tenn., Albert Barnes; Mulberry.
Tenn, Thomas Helm; Stantonville,
Tenn, Thirteen people reported
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viutru ^unconnrmetl) ; fittsburg
Landing, Tenn.. Mrs. West MeDaniel.
Otis Littlefield. Luther Littlfiel.i.
Marshall Jordan, Kubv Jordan. I. W.
Lemons; Xear Stantonville, Tenn..
Cliarles. wife and infant, Terry Wilbank,
Mrs. Wilbank and their two
children, Mrs. Sissom; Xear Cartersville,
Ga., Miss Pritchard; Scottsboro,
Ala., Miss Houston Skelton,
Milas M. Sudor, a child of Jim "!al;
Wyeth Cove, Ala., Eight people Killed;
Near Scottsboro, Ala.. Mrs. S.
H. Skelton; Stunton, Tenn., Andy
Johnson, u negro; Nixon, Tenn., live
people killed; Near Marmaduko,
Ark., Arthur Liggett.
Apparently the storm broke in all
its fury over middle and West Tennessee
and proceeded in a southeasterly
direction across the State into
Alabama and Georgia, assuming the
proportions of a hurricane.
It came practically without warning
and in some places the wind atPRESIDENT
TAFT ACCEPT
* Washington, Special.?All doubts
as to what action the President would
take with respect to the resignation
of Charles R. Crane, minister designate
to China, was dispelled by the
receipt of a dispatch from President
Taft addressed to his secretary, ,Mr.
Carpenter directing him to convey to
Mr. Crane announcement of the fact
that the resignation had been accepted.
The telegram was dated Prescott.
Ariz., October 13, and reads as follows:
"Convey to Mr. Crane following
communication: 'I concur in the letter
under date of October 12, which
the Secretary of State has addressed
to you and 1 greatly regret that the
circumstances found to exist by him
make it necessary for mo to accept
our resignation.' "TAFT."
Later Mr. Crane issued this statement:
"I am greatly relieved by the President's
decision. There has been no
minute since I learned the attitude of
the Department of State when I have
KILLS FATHER-IN-LAW AN1
Lincolnton, X. C., Special.?About
3 o'clock Thursday morning, near
Bethpage church, 6 miles west of Lincolnton,
Mr. W. S. Wise killed his
father-in-law, Joe Iiallman, with an
axe, then ran in his own home, barred
the door, undressed himself, fired
his home and was incinerated. Mr.
Hallman's head was entirely severed
FATHERlSKILLEir TRYU
Gastonia, N. C., Special.?Col. Robert
L. Abcrnothy, owner of Open
View farm in River Bend township,
Gaston county, eccentric stockman,
farmer and politician, was shot and
almost instantly killed at his home
near Mount Holly at 7 o'clock Thursday
morning after having fired three
wild shots at his son, Reuben, aged
18, and in the course of a flrece handto-hand
struggle with, the latter who
was endeavoring to disarm him. One
bullet entered the right temple anl
the other struck iiim full in the forePRESIDENT
DIAZ SPEEDS WA
El Paso, Tex., Special.?Gen. Porfi
i>?:J?- * ?>
. m irniucnl ui ine nepuDiie
of Mexico, reached Cludad Juarez,
opoaite El Paso, at 2 o'clock Friday
afternoon and waa greeted by salute*
from the Mexican artillery and cheers
of the populace.
After receiving committees fram
El Paso and the city oi Juarez, General
Diaz laid the cornerstone for the
Juares monument, in memory of his
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>ssibilities of IncreaseThrough
Tennessee,
South Carolina.
tained a velocity of 90 miles an hour.
While only one death occurred at
Denmark, Tenn., the horrors of the
storm were greatly heightened by the
fire which followed the wrecking of
that town. The fierce flames rapidly *
consumed what few dwellings and
store houses were left standing and
at night a scene of utter desolation
is presented. Two hundred people
were rendered homeless and have appealed
to neighboring towus and cities
for immediate aid.
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i\fpons 01 nve deaths and heavy
damage come from McNairy county.
Homes and stores were leveled to the
ground and great trees uprooted.
Many handsome and imposing
State monuments in the Shiloh national
park were torn from their pedestals
and the superintendent's
lodge and other buildings were destroyed.
The property damage in
this section is estimated at $100,000.
n nc wuiiiiuiucaiion wun r>ianionville,
where thirteen lives are reported
to have been lost, has not yet been
re-established.
At Russellville, Ala., twenty-seven
people were seriously, several fatally
injured.
A property damage of at least $10,000
is estimated at Cartersville, Ga.,
while that at Atlanta will run between
$80,000 and $100,000. One life
was lost at the former place.
Rome, Ga., Gadsden, Ala., Iiuntsville,
Ala., Decatur, Ala., and other
smaller towns in the path of the
storm ropert heavy property damages.
At Gadsden, Alabama, hail the size
of hen's eggs did much damage, losses
about $25,000.
At Atlanta one woman was probably
fatally hurt and two children
were also injured.
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At Cartersville, Ga., one woman is
dead, another rejiorted beneath the
wreck of her home, and $50,000 damage
to property.
At Aiken, S. C., report say the path i
of the storm was several miles wide
and probably 50 miles long. Great
damage was done to the cotton crop. ?g
'S CRANE'S RESIGNATION L
not contemplated the possibility of a
continuance of my official relations
with the deepest repugnance. Nevertheless,
I have felt that my obligation
to the President was to permit Mk
him to decide the issue. Mh
"I accepted the Chinense mission
at his request and solely because of
assurance that I could be and would
be permitted to be of service to the
country in constructive work of the K
greatest importance to it and of the <?.,
greatest interest to me. It has been
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j iiittae periecuy near that conditions
| here were not and are not such as to E (
i make this possible. To demonstrate
! this has involved a personal humiliation
such as no self-respecting man Wl
who is drafted into the public service ]
should be called on to endure, but I C'M
am grateful indeed that I have had j
the test of official confidence and sup- t
port here rather than in China and $
now rather than at some real crisis *1
involving the honor of the interest of : 1
the nation." 1
Mr. Crane left here Wednesday at ] j
3 o'clock for New York. ft ^
) BURNS SELF AND HOUSE f 1
by axe. Wise appearsd rational up to *
a few moments before he enacted the |j?i
shocking tragedy. He awakened at ftj
an early hour and his strange remarks
caused his wife to become
alarmed, so she sent one of her chil- 1
dren to her father's home, a halfmile
away, and asked for some of her
people to come to her aid.
NG TO KILL HIS OWN SON
head. He never regained conscioue- r
ness and died an hour later.
At the inquest held Thursday afternoon
by jury empaneled by Magistrate
W. B. Rut ledge of Mount Holly
a verdiet was rendered at 5 o'clock
to "the effect that Abernethy came to
his death from wounds inflicted by a 4
pistol in his own hands. His son,
who was placed under arrest soon
alter the tragedy by Deputy Sheriff
J. S. Rogers pending an investigation, 4
waa released from custody and the
matter is doubtless at an end so far t
as any legal" proceedings are concerned.
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iY TO MEET PRESIDENT TAfT
predecessor, Benito Juarez. Friday t
night he spent aboard his train, packed
inside the walls of the Juarez cus- ,
torn house heavily guarded by sol- '
diers. ,
Chief John Wilkie of the Unite-l
States secret service declared that he 4
anticipated no danger to the two
Presidents Saturday. Were it oth- 4
erwise, he said, the meeting would
not take plaoe. 4$
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