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Weunrsijav, December 19, 1906.
THEN AND NOW.
At Money, Miss., Xov. 10, J. Money,a
brother of United States Senator Money,
and L. J. Henderson, a planter, settled
an old misunderstanding by holding on
to one another and tiring with pistols
till Henderson was dead.
Two days previously at Baton Rouge,
La., the democratic congressman-elect,
Judge George K. Favrot, shot and killed
his lifelong associate and schoolmate,
l)r. H. H. Aldrich, one of the best
known citizens of the city. The slayer
refused to talk further than to say the
killing was the outcome of a private
quarrel.
These two affairs are but samples of
very frequent ones of a similar nature
in the southern states. It can not be
said for a positive fact that there are
more killings according to population in
the south than elsewhere; but it will
not admit of doubt that more men of
honorable distinction shoot each other
to death in that section than in other
parts ot the l iuted states.
It may lie that the stringent anti
dueling laws have dune more harm than
good. It is certain that there was a
time when public opinion did not look
with favor upon men of honorable i«isi
tion who went forth as the self-ap
pointed executioners of their enemies.
It is recalled that one of the most
notes 1 figures in southern public life (the
editor of the Charleston News and
Courier) refuse*l to tight a duel after
South Carolina luul passed an anti
dueling law, declaring he would not
wantonly disregard the laws of his state:
and that he himself was shortly there
after kilhsl in secret. And his slayer—
though caught trying to bury the Isslv—
was acquitted : a thing that would have
heen impossible under the public opin
ion of a few years before.
There never was a time when duels
wa re frequent in the south When dif
ferences arose between men mutual
friends did everything |s>ssiblo to adjust
them, and in newt cases they ancceealrd.
Where ewnlail etuiM not Is- prevented
there are eases of the kind to the pres
ent time—the encounter was rotdsst i>|
as many le-rriMe features as possible,
! and was made as fair as fighting may
! ever be said to be fair. The customs of
the times prevented brawls. Thus if
a public man* should in heat strike an
other a blow, the injured one would act
I the manly part by turning away and
■ asking the advice of his friends.
No rule will always work perfectly
: with men, who are imtierfect creatures
i .
at best; and history gives one notable
! example that occurred in the Confeder
| ate senate. Yancey of Alabama, on the
floor of the senate, delivered such a
[ cutting philippic to llill of Georgia that
the latter struck his tormenter a blow
in the temple with a heavy inkstand.
After they had picked him up even
Yancey so far forgot himself as to say:
“It was a coward’s blow!” Yancey died
of the hurt a few days later.
Hut it is not the purpose of this arti
1 cle to either defend or condemn the old
time way of settling differences between
: southern gentlemen. It is enough to
point out that the change was no im
provement._
A few people were unable to discover
much merit in Hex E. Beach’s book,
“The Spoilers.” In fact, some have
said it was the hardest kind of labor to !
read the hook at all. People of that way I
of viewing the work w ill have to admit
that the fault is in themselves, for the
j book lias Wen so well received that its
merit must be ■ acknowledged, even'
though the same is hidden from some of
us. The dramatization of the book has j
also proved a tremendous success. When
it was produced at a Chicago theater
last month, for the first time, the author
was repeatedly called for by the audi
ence, and appearing before the curtain,
he received the greatest ovation that
was ever tendered a playwright in that I
! city. _
Nome, with more than twice the pe
riod of development behind it, pro
duced over two million dollars less this
year than Fairbanks. There are few
who will claim that Fairbanks is backed
bv greater natural wealth than Nome is.
At Fairbanks machinery and supplies
of every kind are high and not always
quickly to la- had at any price, w hile at
Nome a low ocean freight rate is all the
difference in prices from the outside.
What could have thrust Fairbanks so
far ahead, with the natural advantages
all more favorable to Nome? At Fair
banks there has been a disposition to
enforce the mining law, particularly
that part relating to discovery ; w hile at
Nome the country has all been taken up
by and held by a few men, with neither
discovery or attempts at discovery made
on vast areas of it. That is the answer.
1r now seems very probable that
Itani|>art wit! la- tin- very last pontolffce
in all Alaska to receive outside mail
this winter. Midwinter is here and
there is yet no indication of when the
residents will bear from their families
and friends in the Mates. t'o|df>s>t and
Nome have prolstMy already got mail
over the Valde* route Meantime, if
there an- anv so tender lo arted as to
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liMik with compassion on those who de
feated the effort at mail betterment on
a former occasion, they are entitled to
reside in greener fields than are found
along the Yukon in December.
“Madb Thirty Millions from Chewing
fillin’’ is a heading in a newspaper. It
does not mean that the people who
chewed the gum got the money. It was
the man who manufactured it that be
came rich.
Mayor Schmitz arrived at Sacramento
Nov. JO and was immediately arrested
on charges of wholesale graft in San
Francisco. He was met there by Abra
ham Kent, and the two had a long in
terview lietif stated that Schmitz re
iterated bis innocence and declared that
he will l>e able to prove the same.
President Roosevelt has promised to
do all he can to aid the Seattle fair.
tbirns ami iFItrien fought JO rounds
to a draw at Ian* Angeles N>.\ JO.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
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hood Lodge are held at their hall on the
second und fourth Fridays of each month at
8 o’clock p. m.
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