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VERDICT ARRIVED
ST VERT QUICKLY.
FAMOUS CULPEPPER
CASE AT AN END.
SI,Wilts OF IlYWATKRM JISTI
I li:i» IN THI'll 1C |»KKI» BY
TWKIA i: HI Til FI It I’FFItS.
\ has been exported all along
the Strothers have received their
freedom from punishment for the
hilling of B\ waters. The rase is fa
miliar to .all mil' readers and the
re ult will not lie a surprise to any
om who knew of the circumstances.
Ihe jury was only om about one
hour and a half and brought in a
verdict of no1 guilty at 11:30 to
day.
Columns might he written ox-1
' -ising tin' different phases of the
1 '*il. hut now ihat it is ended, it is
*' 'ha' tin* sad tragedy drop from
t!i ■ public eye as soon as possible.
CASE OF THE
RECENT QUAKE
Through all geologic time, water,
always water, has been both bullde?
and destroyer. Water has piled the
mountains up and ground thtym
d""» again with storm and glacier
pulverizing the debris, sifting and
separating sand from pebble, and
stone from bowlder; cutting deep
canyons in the rock, laying out the
Plain, throwing islands into the sea.
and giving continents new const
lines.
Water, too, was the original arch
itect of tlx* earth’s crust The first
rivers that flowed upon the earth’s
surface were red hot. Granite dis
solved in those floods like sugar In
a cup of tea. Deep down under the
earth's crust today, where water has;
entered through vaults, to he entrap-1
p< d and high1 heated, with no room '
for expansion, it dissolves Ihe rock.'
Consequent I v when 'he eruption of
a volcano takes place, relieving the
pressures in the deep passage under'
if. there i a rush toward the out-j
let of stream of Incandescent water
made sirup' with stone in solution
Then portion* of the earth’s crust,
which have been resting upon a sup
port of team under dynamite pres
sures. naturally i-;»g and shift when I
those pressures are removed or ma
ti "f'tlly lessened. The earth’s sur-l
face then assumes new levels, this
adjustment resulting in earthquakes
The vast amount of solid matter
ejected at times from volcanoes Is
dim cult of comprehension. The
great volcano Krnkntoa had been ex
tinct Tor ages when In IkS.d. its top
blev off with a shock felt clear
through the earth, and with a blast
th.it s< nt a wave of air around the
earth three times while the fine vol
canh dust did not entirely settle
out of the atmosphere for more than
two years, a wa* indicated by thrt
unu- tally brilliant display of red
sum *s This was the greatest vol-'
r nlc eiuptlon 1 Ti history time. The
disi no is not too great nor the
tine t. j mote for the eruption of
Mont r v to have caused the earth
nuak' s of pan Francisco, Vnlparlso
nml Kingstown, while possibly Ve
suvius may have played n material
par' Success
MR HARRTMAN
IS A PUZZLE
TUhs WITH <.n\ |;h\mi;\T OF
I lims IN \ N I MIA Itl/F
WAV,
Washington. March 7 Kdward
II llnrriman continues to he a puz-1
/1» to the Washington official*. He
moved around among them again
tod like a plain, ordinary citizen,
making suggestions, criticising and
receiving criticism, Sometime* it
seemed to come of them that Mr.
llnrriman wa holding out the olive
branch of pence slid seeking a bet
ter understanding with the powers
that he. and at other times It ap
peared that he was utterly indiffer
ent alike to the dull, sh kenlng thud
of the * or k market and to the A cl -
ministration program with reference
to I'nloti Pacific.
Subscribe to the Dally leader.
THAW'S MOTHER
TELLS RER STORE.
CRIED WHILE ON
WITNESS STAND.
N IRKATHS ( HAXC.E IN IIAIUtY
I-'OLIjOWIN'U Ills TUI I* TO
KtltOPK.
New York. March 7 - Mrs Wil
liam Thaw was the first witness
called after the luncheon recess yes
terday.
Mrs Thaw said she noticed a
change in her son when he came
to Pittsburg in 1903. He was nb
ent-mlnded and apparently had lost
interest in life.
Mrs. Thaw broke down and cried
while narrating the change in her
son following his trip to Europe In
1903, with Evelyn.
In explaining his changed condl
Mon to her. Mrs. Thaw said Harry
(°ld her "The wickedest man In
New York had ruined his life.”
Mrs. Thaw told of Harry break
ing down In church, with her In
Pittsburg, saying that an awful
thing had come over him and if It
had not happened Evelyn might
have been with him.
Much expert evidence has been
gone over and with the evidence of
Mrs. Thaw, which scorned to greatly
affect the Jury, the court adjourned
until Friday on account of death In
ilie family of Judge Fitzgerald.
If Monitor, or Jersey (’ream cost
>'°u 41-00 per l>arr« 1 more, 11 would
ho cheaper than other brands—hut
it don’t cost nny more thnn some ask.
H.- stole some things he wanted right i
Reneath her very nose.
PUBLIC MEETING
TOMORROW NIGHT.
ORGANIZE CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE.
\ LARCH CROWD KXI'KCTKD TO
HK I’RKSI'.NT AT TDK COCRT
norsi:.
Let there he a rousing meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce to-mor
row night. Let every citizen who
is Interested in the future of Mine
field come and participate In the
proceedings- of the meeting, it is a
matter in which you should he
deeply Interested. The future of the
town in which you live* depends
upon your action In this matter. The
more prosperity you have In your
city the more you will he beneflttcd.
It all depends upon our citizens
Let us begin right now to do some-,
thing Now Is the time for every'
man In Minefield to buckle on the
armor of progress and development
and .push forward to greater
achievements.
In n recent number of a German
magazine a writer offers a variant
of the tale lately published In a
book of children'll true sayings which
relates how two small girls tried to
si* on otie stool, and one of them
remarked *'lf one of us was to get
off this dool, there would be more
room for mo.” The Teutonic ver
sion fells how a German sat by the
bedside of his dying wife and mur
mured piously: “If It pleases the
vood God to take one of us, I shall
go to Herlln.”
SPECTATORS
SEARCHED
mil \v» XI'OVH they came
INTO KENTITKY rot |{T.
Lexington. March 7.—Telegrams
from Jackson say that when court
convened In the Hargis < nse. Judge
Carnes ordered all present searched
This created a sensation. Then he
uggested everybody retire and be
searched as they entered the court
house. This done Hargis refused a
venue change when suggested.
GREATEST WAR III WORLD'S HISTORY
IS PLOTTED BY RUSSIAN PEASANTS.
QUAKER CITY GIRL'
TURNS DETECTIVE.
SHADOWED MAN WHO
ROBBED HER FATHER
VISITKR ('HEAP 1>ANCK IIAM.S IN
NKW YORK AND CAPTUKKD
THK Cl’LPKIT.
Miss Sarah Gottlieb of Pbtlaileh
phla ran down a swindler who had
robbed her father of 91000. Shf
left her home in the Qunke- rpy and
obtained employment in No v York
and attended all tho cheap dances
in that city, because bIio knew the
man who had robbed her father was
fond of this form of amuaoraent. Uy
working 10 hours every dny and
dancing five hourH every night she
at last ran across the man for whom
she was looklnk and had him arrest
ed. and thus succeeded where the
New York Police had failed.
A SERMDNET ON
TRE BEAUTIFUL.
" s
THE ALMIGHTY IS
ARTIST AND POET.
THR MAN FOH WHOM THK DAISY
H AS NO MKMHAQK IS TO HR
I’lTIKI).
God knew the importance of the
beautiful when He created the world.
The Almighty is artist and poet. Tho
sunset sky, the starlit night, the
crescent moon, the delicate tracery
of forest foliage and the rich color
of nature’s floral garb are all ex
pressions of the divine soul. Man
approaches Godllkeness. at least In
One respect, when he appreciates the
beautiful, and Ibis In greatest de
gree when It Is the beauty of the
world that most strongly appeals
to him.
It Is tho man to whom the loveli
ness of nature brings delight that
Is best fitted to enjoy the art of his
fellow men. Art Is Imitative, and
the work of the Divine Artist is the
great model which inspires human
emulation Art Is also Interpreta
tive. and has 11h highest mission In re
vealing to men the essential beauty
of the divine thought.
Beauty should have a place In the
education of every one. The eye and
ear should be trained to appreciate
the beauties of sights and sounds,
the soul should be instructed in the
art of making the life beautiful.
Nor Is It necessary that one should
travel abroad, visit the gre&t galleries
of masters In painting or spend years
In a school of art to gain this sense
of beauty. If you will take time
to get out in the parks, to wander
under the trees, to study the grace
ful lines of the branches, and the
delicate tints of leaf and blade and
wild flower, you will find your eyes,
gradually developing a sense of the
beautiful, and your soul responding
to the refining influence of Its atmos
phere The man for whom a daisy
has no message of delight, who °nn
not hear music In the rain or feci the
sweet ecHtacy of a summer night is
greatly to he pitied.
DUNOAN-CBARK
Animals attend a church service In
Peru. Pigs, goast. rattle and poultry
are brought by their owners to be
blessed on All Souls’ day, and the
rhurrh Is turned Into 'a domestic
menagerie. The seats are removed,
and the animals ran trot about o* lie
down where they will. After the
ceremony the live stork Is formally
handed over to the monks, who re
ceive little other payment for their
services.
'
The poet, John 0 Saxe, and Oliver
Wendell Molmes were talking about
brain fever, when Mr Saxe remark
ed "I once had a severe attack of
brain fever myself.” "How could you
have brain fever”” asked I>r Holmes,
smiling: ”lt Is only strong brains
that have brain fever" "How did
you find that out?" asked Saxo.
LIFE OFFERED US
PRICE OF LIBERTY.
--
DIPLOMATS OF THE
WORLD ALARMEE
IiAIUiK QI'ANTITUM OF ARMS
HA-VK I1K** HMiaOLKI) IN
11) THK EMPIRE.
London. March 7.—The tlame o(
the world's greatest revolution may
be Ignited In Russia at any moment.
A hundred million «»f the nation's
people have offered their life's blood
i as the price of liberty.
Cablo dispatches within the last
.twenty-four hour# have alarmed the*
diplomats of the world, of which
thlH Is their center, and It is now
certain that peace and progress de
pend upon the treatment of the
douina. which mot yesterday.
CZAR MAY UK PWR8UADKI).
If the czar diabands the dounm or
• hecks It In any manner from estab
lishing a constitutional government,
that action will be the match which
will flame the whole empire Into
revolution. It Is not Impossible, and
many diplomatists profess to believe
that the czar's bureaucratic and
grand duko ndvlsers will compel
the “little father’' to order the Im
prisonment of the whole douma.
That will mean, according to best
advices received l.< e. that the fall
of the czar and his government will
he the quicker, in >ro certain and
more tragic.
The peasants are ready for rev
olution. Among the ’hassles It has
been no secret that ’ha revolution
ary parties have t. -ii smuggling
large quantities of arms Into the
empire.
TROOPS ARK DISAFPECETI).. .
More dangerous than this la the
dlsaffeotlon In the army and navy.
Certain high diplomatists In the
I world's centers have known for many
) months that u large pnrt of the
I Russian army and most of the
I Russian navy are ready to doaert
jtlie czar and fight for the cause of
;the people. It Is said the govern
jment hns been blind to these coin
i mon farts
I So bold have the Intending revo
/lutlonlsts been, It Is now learned
St hat ltlrge bodies have been openly
drilling In the southwest provinces.
| The Hlnrk sea fleet is wholly In
sympathy with flu revolutionists,
|and It Is believed marines In the
[ Cronstadt and other Baltic naval
yards are not only ready, hut have
been secretly drill'd to overthrow
their high officers and fake posses
sion of those Important military
i strongholds.
THE FOLLY OF
AN AGE LIMIT.
President McCrei r»f the Pennsyl
vania railroad, has acted wisely and
conimendably In ra ing the age lim
it at which men m y enter the em
ploy of his compni. from 35 to 10
years. There wav never a more
senseless notion tl n that which
would limit the at" of efficient ser
vice to 00 or even 5. Many of the
strongest men In pnidlc and business
life are over BO, ir I some of them,
are beyond 70 I irragut was flOj
at the beginning of the eivll war, and'
Oyama was over 0 3 at the outbreak'
of the war between Japan and Km*-!
sia Hayden wrote bis oration of
The Creation" af* r he was 07
Goethe finish" I hi "Faust” at K'J.j
and Humhnlt his "Cosrnoa” at 70.
Among grand old it *n In the annals
of American statesmenshlp It Is sufll
dent to mention the names of George
F Hoar, John Quincy Adams, and
Thaddetis Steven Henry Ward
Beecher never pre bed better than
In the last year of bis life. J, p|er
pont Morgan and fl H Rogers, both
over 00, do not v< begin to show
signs of senility, and Mark Twain Is
still "cutting tip.”, though past 70
LOOKOUT FOR THE
BASEBALL CRANK
The baseball season Is on. Noth
ing has happened vet but we are
waiting It fa In the air and you
can't mistake the symptoms.
Monitor, nwl Jersey ('ream Flours
are no new filings—they have been
•old for fen year*
I
HARGIS CASE IS A
CHINESE PUZZLE.
EVERYBODY LOOK
i ING FOR TROUBLE.i
1 cot KT. TH(K>I*S ANI) LAWVKIIS
II \VK AM, LKKT JACK
SOU?. KY.
Jackson, Ky., Match 7 , The court
has left hero ntni taken troops, law
yers and all with It The Hargis
trial still hangs lire. Nothing very
certain about the whole thing except
that everybody Is watching out Tor
trouble or anything else to happen
There Is still an uncertainty as to
what Judge will try the case.
Monitor Hour is Just what i«
claimed for it—tin- purest and best
I'lour made of wheat. A 011 cun t
uflord to u*<e other brands when yon
an get Monitor.
18 YEAR OLD GIRL
USED HARRINGTON.
HltlOD AT lll-lt I MIIUI WIIKN
UK TOLD IIKit IIKAI IT WAH
ftKDTIMK.
Not long since the 18-year-old
(laughter of a stern old citizen shot
at her father because he told her,
In the hearing of the young lady’s
beau, that it was time to retire. Her
answer was a shot from the ever
ready Harrington. Luckily the bul
let missed the parental head a few
Inches and the young minx ’’skldoo
cd” to a neighbor's, where she defied
her father It fs said her lover stood
not on the order of his going.
It's pretty lively in Charleston at
times, hut we doff our chapeau to
Williamson -the home . of Judge
Kvans, of “Jim Crow” fame Char
leston Gazette.
AL G. FIELD
ARRESTED
[ lUriJJ) TO STATION AND Lot K
I Kl» IN A CULL AS ICFHILT
Of JOKK I’LAYFI* |*Y
HtlFM»S.
Pittsburg. Pa , March ft Pitts- '
l lon g Hhrlrn rs, with the assistance
of some high officials of the depart- <
rnent of public safety, played a Joke <
on some of the visiting Nobles. <
The visitors were being taken In
two automobile* on a sight-seeing >
• rip. While going through Bchenloy ‘
park the automobiles were stopped
by policemen Henry Franz, who de <
(dared the automobiles were running *
nearly 40 miles an hour.
The occupant* of the automobiles •
were taken to Oakland police sta
tion. I
The men gave their names ns W I
H. Mrown, of Pittsburg. Kdward C *
White, a theatrical manager of
New York Alvnh p Clayton of Kf
Joseph. Mr . Imperial potentate of i
the Mystic Hhrlners of North Amerl- I
ca, Al d Field of Columbus, O , a I
theatrical manager, and William I
Robinson of Pittsburg, potentate of 1
HyrJa temple.
The police served all with bread
aril water while they were in their
cells, and In an hour they were re
leased on $ 1 r. forfeits The men ,»r 1
rested are not as Joyful tonight as
those who "were in on" the "pinch " ]
Marry Thaw prefers $20 hills to •
any of smaller denominations, but
nearly all folks have "exaggerated
ego" enouch for tha*
A daring theft Jack wrought last
night
On darling little Rose
Philadelphia Press.*
WAR BEFORE YEAR 1970.
FRENZIED FIFTY.
WRITES BIOGRAPHY
FROM DREAMWALD.
si \riis m:si i/r of his ykaiis
ALA INST ItFSI l/l's OF OTII
F.lt MFN.
Thomas \\\ Lawson writes his own
t'lii'f Idograph from “Chair f»o. (’on
I r.U Isle,'' as follows:
Tho hlogrnph of One’s Life, when
One takes It In from “OhSlr f*0 Cen
tra! isle" itw a brain twister to
tell whether the Sadness overtops
the Terror or the IliimlHallon both
If the Minlehly had made man «|If
•''■‘ren* i *>»!-• hint ro that on hit nr
Me ' dnv ’ • e< aid r •“ 'll* t>|o
1 li k rd dr> *p|n ■■ t Me Cur
"i* ■> t’e Cr-tlle See- • th *n One
wo ’d a reach ’ h ' a'f ‘ent-iry
n lie * ’ o with an ea |, -|!n. ||.
lot ",1 S w’ leh wo I 1 , fi, I, || , .
<*f hugs. Old Ak ", of her spell pow
ers.
Today I have contemplated my
Fifty l inks back to their HevtlnnlnK
end In spite of S xlnoas. Terror. Hu
miliation. I slacked My Result up
against the Results of oilier men
Real Men who hnvo gone before and
stacked them up ncnlnst the | o,
If* & 20 milestone Revolutions of
my way, w.iv bn-k irotie and l must
confess my fiftieth birthd-y was a
come-and-go cross between a What’s*
the-l’se K Play Hall! entch-ns-eutch
•an and a sprinting match through
tho land of What-Foolg-Wc-Mortals
Ho
TIIOFI. W. LAWSON,
nrenmwald, February 2tJth, 1907,
Roston Herald.
OLD GLORY WINS
ANOTHER VICTORY.
FLAG cannot be
USED AS AN “AD.”
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KMItl.lvM Ml' NATION'S I’OWKIt
; i
I’KOTIICI CO AOAINST SI ('ll
r
IMHONTTIKS.
*
j
That the kIjiIoh may pans lawn i
irohlhllliig the use of (ho ling of Hi « 1
I tilled Htntoa for advortlalng p it
io oh wiik d*,o|.irod |,y I h*• Ktipr •m»*
on 11 of the railed Slates at W;eh
nglon yesterday in deriding tiie eaHo
if Nicholas V. Haller and Iforny V |
Hayward, mining to the court from <\
ho Hiiproino court of NobrnHka. Ha! i
or and Hayward are engaged |.* the |
Irpior ImihIiiomh In Omaha, and woo ,
iroHeeufed under a law of tin* '.11«
>n Hie charge of ladling hoor in hol
loa der-ornfed with 'tie national r >1
>ra 'They wore fined $r>0 each, and
ipun appeal to the nt.ito fnip'ome
■otirf the verdict was mndalnod
They admitted all the fa<'K charg d, ^
ni» pleaded the iiiiconstltutlonallty
if the law .fiiHtlce Harlan deliver- i
■d the opinion of the court nTiri ,ing
lie decision of the id.lie rourt liiF
ice Harlan uphold the right of the
date to protect the flag, IT'- om
ilom of the miflon'K power, nenl:i*d
ndlgnPloH .1 uid Ice f'erkhain di ^
on *od
In ISft'J l,|iu|em«nt Worden com
namlod the Monitor. In 11107 the
»ent housekeeper* in the I.hmI are 1
n full Command and winning three
ini Hen every day.
BATTLESHIPS IRE
ALL UNSEAWORTHY.
CHARACTERIZED AS
FLOATING COFFINS.
• I N \\l> OFFICIOUS OF (iKHMAN
NUV .\KF rttVISKO FOll
Til Kill COI'IIAOE.
London, March, 7.—The Ilorlln
orreHpondont of the Express says
hal Ooi mnnv daro not oven think of
Mghtlng .1 naval war before 1820.
Mils, ho adds. Ih tho vordlct of tho
riont Kerman naval expert, Count
tevrntlo'.v, mi tin* country's much
minted Meet.
m I lev >i i low has nothing hut
h' 1 " ofl'cers and men of
1 * 11 Nn> huf he conTlemns
> "I ilie battleships ns iinsua
■ I <>'olo o Seventeen uor
lp«. which figure as for
l • il ting units In nil navy
a* iii) < ofl"i ih, the uho of
i li In war would only mean the
• i i II ' of their gallant crews.
Count lie onflow g|\es the nntnea
<>' M \onto n ships which he Includes
in this cl a mh of Moating coMiiih Ho
I'ofnl:; out that lie* construction Is
i'"iri ling hi rlowlv that thirteen
nr will p.n. h fo-e Oermnny can
im in late ih * o: 1'illlty of a na
•I i r with r* in Imlly.
h Co n* Iteventlow
• oi ’<mm o f; ist defence
vohhcIh, font ’hit i- of the Sn' h«en
•Inss. end t’e hips of Olden
burg ami It ind -nhurg clasros. One
Dreadnought, ho declares could face
ill these Hlniult neonuly and put
them out of action without great
11 Mm nit y.
" OUID NOT
APOLOGIZE.
Hal' Igh. N. C Mnrch fi Editor
t. \V. Si in i im * ii . of the Ualelgh Evon
*• Tillies. Devon | 1.1m connection
• •Ii Unit paper under HeiiHatlonnl
Irennisf n nre>: ||<> printed Home
• > urn tlint fhe Joint conference
ornmltlee of the General Assembly
>n railroad rale Idlfs had allowed
lie Raleigh Nows and Observer to
lletnte a clause applying a 2 1-4 cent
ale In roads of eighty mile trnck
ge.
A member of tho committee de
iqu need the charge and Editor
'imp on In a personal privilege
: cerh The whole matter w.ih ad
nv'eij as between this member and
dltor Simpson, hut today iho other
*’ menihei ,,f the Joint conference
ommliice of the a i einhiy Bent a
rliien demand for the editor’s au
oilty for the charge. Editor
mil on declined to give it. The
’resident of the Times Company
< rnatided the publication of an ed
oiiai apology to the committee,
he editor refused and resigned. The
pology to the committee Is puhllsh
l ov’e.- his signed protest
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“ONV/ARD AND *
UPWARD." *
*
The Daily Leader *
will issue two thous- *
and papers today and *
on Saturday by spe *
cial arragnement will *
issue two thousand *
live hundred copies. *
Steadily and surely *
increases our circula- *
tion. *
* * * * * * * *
Advertise In ih*- lially Leader.
THE GREAT AUCTION IS OVER!
Many people from Pdtielield and adjacent towns pur
■liaM-d bargains at nut several sales arid all are satisfied.
\\Y have several odd lots and pare stock of some
ines which vve in end dropping.
Come and buy THESE BARGAINS AT LOWEST
PRICES ever placed on goods in BLUEFIELD.
One customer bought nearly $100 worth of goods at
wo sales. We an offering .just such bargains and
iiionev attractors for two flays at PRIVATE SALE
'i""’ Move ail goods not sold at once that are nmv in
110 Princeton avenue. (Mine tomorrow, Frida' a?. S u
nday.
THE SURPRISE STORE.