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CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD.
VOLUME XIII.
‘Chicago Man Confesses to Oper
ating Confidence Scheme.
Sorrowing Relatives of the Dead, and Newly
Married Persons Were the Prey
of Leon Kewney.
Chicago, 111.-—Léon Kewney, said to
be a member of a well-to-do Indiana
family, and related to the nobility ot
Germany, ts under arrest here on the
charge of operating an extemsive con
fidence scheme. The police say he
confessed and implicated two other
men who are being sought.
Sorrowing relatives of the dead
were the particular prey of the al
leged swindler, but sometimes new
ly wedded persons were defrauded.
Business was done under the name
of the ltoline Company and all trans
actions were based on death and mar
riage notices appearing in out-of-town
newspapers. lihe “company” owned
a supply of cheap jewelry.
These articles, in neatly addressed
packages, were sent to the dead of
other cities always “collect.” The de
liveries were so timed as to reach the
house when the bereavement was at
its highest tension after the day of
the funeral and the first thought of
the survivors was that there was some
sentimental value between the arti
cles and the deceased: The bill, rang
ing from $5 to S2O, was gladly paid
without the contents being examined.
In the case of newly-married per
sons the impression was that it was a
present from somebody who forgot to
pay for the goods and the bill was
usually paid.
A freight agent was sent here from
Washington to work on the case. De
tectives found a letter in which the
executors of James A. McClurg, who
died recently at Denver, sent the
company a check for sl2 in payment
for spectacles, The business was wide
spread and all the big transportation
companies hold packages returned
from Omaha, Denver, St. Louis and a
number of other, cities.
Kewney is a man of 50. He says his
sister married a count of .Hamburg,
Germany. F
SENT INFERNAL MACHINE.
Suit Case Full of Dynamite Discover:
i . e¢d in Omaha. W e
Omaha, Neb.—An infernal machine
was discovered on the porch of the
residence of Tnomas Dennison, a well
known man of this city.
Frank Erdn:an was placed under
arrest as a suspect, and is being held
for investigation. Dennison made a
statemernt to the effect that Krdman
had said some time ago that he would
murder Dennison,
The infernal machine was in the
form of a suit case, containing two
compartments, in one of which was
found 24 half pound stick of dynamite
and in the other, with barrel so placed
as to fire into the dynamite, was a
securely fastened loaded revolver.
‘When found the suit case was fas
tened with a string, tied to a screw
eye, which was in turn fastened to
the porch.
The belief is that the dynamite was
intended to be exploded through the
agency of the string and the rewolver
when the suit-case would be lifted
from the porch.
Mr. Dennison’s little daughter and a
schoolmate had tried to lift the suit
case, but failed because of its weight.
They exposed the cord, however,
which attracted Mr. Dennison’s at
tention. He at once notified the po
lice department and two detectives
were sent to the scene. The cord
was cut and the grip removed to a
vacant lot, wihere an examination
showed its dangerous character.,
ADVICE FOR WIDOWS.
Able-Bodied Widows Urged to Get
Husbands Speedily.
St. Louis, Mo.—¥ollowing the es
tablished custom, the National Con
ference of Charities and Corrections
held a general session. The common
topic was “Families and Neighbor
hoods,” wita Miss Mary E. Richmond,
director of the department of the Rus
sell Sage Foundation, as chairman.
That independent women with their
children are a charge upon the com
munity in a deeper sense than any
other type coming under the care of
charitable institutions was the con
census of opinion.
Able-bodied widows, it was agreed,
should earn part of their living in or
der to retain the respect of children.
Widows should also marry, said most
of the speakers, “because,” as George
L. Zohn, of Louisville, said, “a hus
band is a necessary part of the fam
iy :
AN IGNORANT MAN.
North Dakota Man Does Not Know
Name of the President.
Minot, N. D.—An American born
citizen, a resident of North Dakota
for the last seven years, was found
who did not know a single state or
county official by name, nor the name
of the president of the United States.
During tne selection of a jury for
a murder trial, a farmer swore he
knew nothing of the case. He ad
mitted his ignorance as to the iden
tity of any county or state officer,
and when asked ‘for the name of the
president of the United States he re
plied: “I hdve heard the name but
have forgotten it.” IHe was accepted
on the jury.
NUMBEK 51
LASCELLAS’ BODY CLAIMED.
After Seven Years the Mummified Body of
Bigamist Is Claimed,
Asheville, N. C.—After sianding un
claimed for seven years in empalm
ed solitude, dressed in full evening
aress, with silk hat and cane,’ the
mummitied body of Sidney Lascellas,
atlas “Lord-. Douglas,” ' alias “Lord
Beresford,” alias Charles J. Asquith,
18 on its way to Washingion, . C.,
consigned to Dr. McPherson Chricii
ton, presumably to be burned in the
crematory at that city. The body
was claimed and identified by a Mrs.
J. T. Summerfield of New Jersey who
said that she was the sister-in-law of
the deceased’s first wife, new living
at Baltimore. She made affidavit to
that effect and by her order the mum
mified body was shipped to Wash
ington.
The departure of the “petrified
lord,” whose body. has twice been
identified as that of Sidney Lass
celles, noted forger, swindler and
bigamist, writes ‘“‘finis’’ to a tale of
crime and deception in high lire,
‘which opened .in Australia, shifted to
the ranks of mobility in England, and
‘closed in a cheap lodging house in
this city. He was lionizedin London
after securing an introduction to the
American ambassador under the name
of Beresford, posing as a cousin of
the powerful KEnglish house of that
name. In America the highest cir
cles of society did homage to the
bogus lord.
At Rome, Ga.; Fitzgerald, Ga.;
Norfolk, Va., and other cities, wher
ever he went, Lascelles tormed mat
rimonial alliances with the daughters
of the rich, only to leave them in the
course of a week, poorer in purse,
but richer in experience. As Las
celles passed through Mexico and
Texas he left a trail of weeping
brides, and he was apparently roiling
in wealth when justice overtook him.
He was convicted at Rome, Ga., of
promoting fraudulent schemes, ana
sentenced to six years, hard labor.
He lost appeals in the supreme court
of Georgia and in the United States
circuit court, and served his term
He came te Asheville from Norfolk,
Va., eight years ago, suifering from
tuberculosis, and died in 1903. There
being no claimants for his body, it
was embalmed, by local undertakers.
The body. became almost petrified,
losing but little of its lifelike appear
ance.
WASHINGTON’S CLAIM.
Heirs of Washington Fighting for
$305,000 Due First President.
- .Waam{-mn, D. c.fl%.tamgms,claim
against the government in whaich the
heirs of George Washington would re
ceive $305,000, may be settled soon
by the action of the house committee
on private land claims, which is ex
pected to report favorably to the house
a bill to that effect. There are sey
eral heirs of Washington who com
bined in making the claim, which has
been pending torough several con
gresses.
George Washington was entitled, un
der the Virginia law, to some 23,000
acres of land as a recompense for his
military services, but he declined to
accept it, and took, instead, warrants
for 3,050 acres of land in Ohio,
It was claimed that Washington
paid the taxes on the land up until
the time of his death, and that his ad
ministrators paid it until 1807. If tae
expected action is taken by the com
mittee and approved by congress, the
government will allow the heirs $305,~
009 in gold in lieu of the land. None
of the heirs are wealthy and some of
them are poor, it is stated.
Lawrence ‘Washington, a descendant
of the family of the first president,
made the principal argument before
the committee in favor of the claims.
EGYPT SAVING GIRLS.
1,200 White Slaves Rescued in Egypt
in a Single Year.
Cairo, Egypt.—Egypt is taking act
ive and effective measures against the
white slave traffic. During the past
year twelve hundred girls of minor
age were stopped on disembarking at
Alexandria and handed over to vari
ous authorities, who accepted respon
sibility for their welfare, and forty
persons, mostly foreign subjects, eu
gaged in this traffic, were expelled
from the country,
Courthouse Sold for Unpaid Tax.
LaCrosse, Wis.—The Monroe court
house was sold at a tax sale for an
unpaid weed tax of 30 cents, levied
by the city of Sparta. The building
and grounds were bid in by the city
attorney for 30 cents, the amount of
the tax, and the certificate will be
held until the county makes provis
ion for redeeming it.
Cattle King Killed.
Lake Charles, La.—Rufus N. Gea
ron, known as “The Cattle King of
Calcasieu Parish,” was killed by The
dore Sanders, a teamster, in the east
ern part of this parisi, .
Morse’s Daughter Learns Truth.
New York City.—The effort to keep
from 18-year-old Anna Morse, daugh
ter of Charles W. Morse, the conviet
banker, who is in the federal prison
at Atlanta, the fact that her father
is a convict, has failed, Despite the
efforts of the good people of Bath,
Maine, the home town of Mr. Morse,
to keep the girl in ignorance of her
father's predicament, she learned the
truth,
To Seil Lawson's Mills.
El Paso, Texas.—A special from
Guadlajara, Mexico, says tnat Thom
as W. Lawson’s Mexican Development
Company property in the Masoota Dis
trict, State of Jalisco, is to be sold
under order of court for debt,
FOLKSTON, GAy MAY 26, 1910.
JERE M. POUND RESIGNS
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State School Commissioner to Go
With Gordon Institute. g
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PROF. M. L. BRITTAIN NAMED
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Governor Offers Position at Head of State's
Schools to the Fulton County School é
Commissioner. YR
Atlanta, Ga.—Governor Brown has
tendered the position of state schook
commission, soon to be made vacant
by the resignation of Commissioner.
Jere M. Pound, to Professor M. L.
Brittain, county school commissioner
of Fulton county. “&
While neither the governor nor Pro
fessor Brittain will discuss the mag
ter, it is understood there is no ques=
tion that he will accept. Wy
The whole situation, it appears, 1:;5-
yet in the informal state. Commissions
er Pound has informed the governor
that he would resign. to take eflect’g
July 1, waen he goes to the Gordon:
Institute, but has not yet written his
resignation. 3!
But upon the strength of Professor
Pound’s statement the governor made
tender of the position to Professor
Brittain, and, it is stated, received the
latter’s assurance that he would ac
cept. >
Professor Brittain is a graduate Qf
Emory College, and has devoted 'his
entire life to the work of education 12‘
Georgia. He was recently tendere
the position of president of Shorter
College, but declined, to continue h!.;j
work as superintendent of Fulton
county schools, which he has held. for
several years. He was formerly ' con
nected with Atlanta’s public school%}
but left them to take up the work im
the county. : o
The appointment will hold only un
til after the regular state election in
October, or until the expiration of Pro
fessor Pound’s two year terin. \
A
THE PEACH CROP.
4,061 Cars of Peaches to Be Marketed
in 1910.
Macon, Ga.—Georgia's peach crop,
which will be worth a couple of mils
lion dollars net, or‘ more, to the Geor:
gia fruit grower, is beginning to-be
marketed. The first shipment wag:res
ceived in Atlanta and the
Georgia ‘fruit sold for $3 a craté. =
_~Fruit erop failures in neighboring
states will make Georgia supply prac
tically all of the country during the
next two months.
Growers during the past year have
devoted themselves intensively to the
culture of their orchards, by heavy
fertilization, spraying, etec., with the
result that the Georgia peaches prom
ise to be bigger and better than ever.
Estimates of the coming Georgia
fruit crop give the grand total of
cars of peaches to be marketed this
year at 4,061, This will mean a very
large crop for this state and the
present predictions are that the fruit
to be marketed will be the best ever
shipped from the south. ‘lt will be
good news not =nly in this state, but
throughout the country, that the Geor
gia peach is about to make its debut
in the market again.
Juliette, Ga.—The peach growers of
this section are busily engaged in, ma
king preparations for harvesting this
years’ crop of peaches. From the la
test investigations made of the orch
ards of this vicinity, it now seems
that a fine crop of peaches will be
harvested here this year, as fully as
good as last season, when a half crop
was gathered.
HOW TO AVERT PELLAGRA.
Department of Agriculture Issues an
Important Bulletin
Atlanta, Ga.—To avert pellagra in
the cases of cattle and live stock ap
pears to be the subject of a circular
order issued by the state department
of agriculture.
Commissioner T. G. Hudson is send
ing out notice to merchants and deal
ers over the state, calling their atten
tion to the necessity of carefully in
specting the condition of all corn
shipped to them during the next few
months.
About this time of the year there is
a great deal of complaint with regard
to damaged corn, which is due chiefly
to improper curing, Corn not subject
ed to proper storage condition when
gathered will become heated, and in
the sweating process whaich follows
the grain is likely to be damaged,
rendering its dangerous when fed to
stock. The pure food law prohibits
the sale of corn in this condition, ex
cept when full notice is given the
purchaser of the nature and extent of
the damage.
The department has issued a bul
letin, No. 48, giving the grades of
corn adapted to Georgia, which will
be of great assistance to the buyer.
Commissioner Hudson says that grade
No. 2 corn is allowed a maximum of
16 per cent moisture and No. 8 as
much as 19 per cent, and this wiil
not become heated in Georgia climate
under ordinary conditions of care, Ie
advises Georgia merchants to insist
that corn shipped to them shall come
within these requirements, as they
will thereby avoid annoyance and
trouble which is sure to come to them
if the state inspector finds they are
offering damaged corn for sale,
Commissioner Hudson says the
present price of live stock 18 too great
to take any chance on feeding them
with damaged corn, and he feels that
this warning to the merchants of
Georgia will be of considerable value
and protection to the consumers, *
ADVERTISING THE SOUTH.
Southern Raflway Exhibit Bringing Desirable
. ‘ Settlers South.
Atlanta, Ga.— In connection with
the work it is doing in exploiting the
resources of the south with the pur
bose of attracting desirable settlers,
the Southern Railway company an
nounced that during the coming fall
it will make displays of southern pro
ducts at a numper of important fairs
in the north and west where they will
be witnessed by at least a million peo
ple outside the south.
At the Ohio Valley exposition to be
‘held at Cincinnati, October 29 to Sep
tember 24, the Southern Railway com
bany, co-operating with other railway
coimpanies of the south, will make
a very large exhibit. Arrangements
have been made for over twenty
thousand square feet of floor space
in which it is planned to install just
as complete exhibits as possible of
the agricultural, horticultural, miner
al, forest and manufactured products
of the south. Attractive photograpus
will also be used to exploit tne re
sources and beauties of the sotuhern
country,
In addition to this joint display at
Cincinnati, the Southern Railway com
pany will make a number of displays
at other expositions and important
fairs where 1t is likely the greatest
number of people can be reached and
shown the possibilities and opportu
nities which await them in the. souta
along the lines of the Southern and
its allied roads,
The co-operation of the people of
the south is needed and requested in
making these exhibits as attractive,
complete and convincing as they
should be, and it is hoped that they
will give this co-operation by contrib
uting specimens and samples of prod
ucts wiich will aid in showing the re
sources of the country, Samples of
agricultural products of high class,
together * with information about
yields, cultivation and returns are es
pecially wanted.
M. V. Richards, land ‘and industrial
agent, Washington, D. C., will maka
the exhibits for the Southern Railway
system and all who are jnterested
should communicate ith him, giving
Jinformation about tkgv"?material‘ they
can furnish, so that proper instruc
tions may be given' as to saipping.
products for display. It is important
that every' segtion be properly repre
sented and commercial bodies, agricul
‘tural organizations and _citizens gen
€erally interested in .the growth of
‘their localities aré invited to ‘promote
‘the interests of their particular sec
tions wfi wo::(;‘ifag for a thoz:%gh_‘r:a
resentation, Thes, repr 08,
e”gg?tggxfin s ia?:(f ‘and industrial de
partment in the south are: W, L. Hen
derson, Mobile, Alg.: 0 3 Stephens,
Macon, Ga.; T. B. Thackston, Bristol,
Tenn.; and J. F, Hays, Brevard, N. C.
A letter to any of them or to Mr. Rich
ards will receive prompt attention,
The determination of the Southern
Railway company to make such exten
sive exhibits of the resources and
products of the south at expositions
and fairs in the north and west this
fall is due to the splendid results re
ceived from such work in the past,
Since its organization in 1894 the
Scuthern Railway company has made
exhibits of the products of the coun
try along its lines at nearly fifty ex
positions and fairs, bota in the United
States and Europe. In this work the
company has expended a large
amount of money, believing this to be
one of the best methods of advertis
ing the southern states.
These displays have done most ef
fective “hoosting” for all portions of
the south reached by the company’s
lineés and many settlers and industries
can be traced directly to them,
NO HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Department of Health Will Not Be
Created by Present Congress,
Washington, D. C.—There seems to
be no likelihood that congreds will
take any action at the present session
on the Owen bill to create an addi
tional - executive department to be
known as the department of health,
The hearings on the bill were con
cluded and no meeting of the senate
committee on public health and na
tional quarantine had been called for
the purpose of making a report,
Washington News Notes,
There is reason to believe that See
retary Knox contemplates taking
some immediate action, having for
its object the re-establishment of
peaceful relations between Peru and
Ecuador. © The state department of
ficials,” however, decline to discuss
the matter at this time,
After weeks of alternate inactive
deadlock and careful work of consider
ation, confercnce and compromise the
house postal savings bank bill, as fa
vored by the republican members of
the committee on postoffices and post
roads, was introduced to the house
by Representative Gardner of New
Jersey,
More than two hundred witnesses
from many parts of the country are
to be summoned by the government
to appear before the grand jury at
Montgomery, Ala., which s to inves
tigate the jewelry bankruptey fraud,
A dozen pergons have bheen arrested
in c¢onnection with the alleged frauds,
a 8 a result of the inquiries prosecut.
ed by the department of justice. Logs
es estimated to range from $500,000
to $2,000,000 are said to have been
auflexl'ed by merchants,
After a conference with the presi
dent at the white house Secretary Na
gle of the department of commerce
and labor arnounced that he would
make a two months’' trip to the north
west and to Alaska, leaving Washing.
ton the latter part of June,
Dollar Saving Days
Prosperity dates from the first dol=
lar saved. If you are earning
money you ought to save some=
thing. What .you do now
in the way of saving may
determine what the fu
ture will bring you.
We pay interest on
savings accounts
compounded quar
terly at 5 per=cent, on
time certificates 6 per-cent. j
Let us open an W
account with
We are prepared to serve
the public in an accepta
ble way. Have you tried
us?
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FOLKSTON
Jcience and After Life
Conservation of Energy Demands Continus
ance of Soul
By Dr. Guliie, of Michigan University
0000000000 R |if: is 4 constant growth of the human intellect, closely
* connected with the development of the body. But we know
that there is a continuous interchange of cells, decaying and
forming, and yet, though the living tissues may in the course
s of time be entirely renewed, the individual continues to
HPOVOO S exist; it remains one and the same. But even the matter
and energy which have been given off from the living hody
i““ have not disappeared; they are still in existence, though
; disconnected from the lite-glving principle. Should we not
demand that there should be a similar conservation for the invisible part of
our life? I have not the power to describe what the life after death is; the
intellect will not tell us.
While I have to content myself with the assertion that mind is as in
destructible as matter and energy, my firm belief in evolution and in an or
derly plan of the universe leads me to doubt that there can be any retro
gression in its development, I believe my spirit will after death be more
advanced in all the characteristics of the human soul,
And thus I find no difficulty whatever in believing in a personality em
bracing the whole universe and intimately blended with the marvelously in
tricate system of material bodies, a personality different from ours, it is
true, but, since I form a part of it, one of the same nature as my own, only
agrander, wiser, more powerful and more just,
In conclusion, let me say that the views here advanced were not ob
tained by adherence to any theological or philosophical dogma, but were the
result of a purely scientific search after a word picture which would satisty
not only the intellect, but the human soul. i
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‘. Two Roads .-
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By William Stonebridge %
WO boys go through publie school together, graduate from
the same college, are admitted to the bar and open law of-
R fices a few blocks apart in the lower end of New York city,
They start on an equal footing, socilally, financially and po
litically.
One commenced to make money quickly by exorbitant
fees, “shady” methods and unprofessional conduct, with the
result that he never held a client, and after thirty years ot
practice is now struggling along with a combination busi
ness in a littte office, with no regular income-—stil] fishing for the unwary,
The other commenced by charging tees equal to about one-tenth to one
quarter that of his former classmate, treated his clients honestly and con
siderately, refused “shady” cases or business, and for years had been known
to glve his service gratis when necessary, with the result that clients crowd
ed his office and even his residence. He accumulated a large but honest
fortune, and in his late years was elevated to a high judicial position, honored
and respected by his [riends and his encmies,
21.00 A YEAR,