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SEALSH1PT OYSTERS Of course you are worn out shopping. Now, why don't you come ana buy everything you want for your Xmas dinner and save yourself the trouble and worry of going to VSealsltipt ITT a. T J 1 NOTHING BETTER. . a half doen places to find what you want! FRUITS Oranges, Grapes, ' Grape Fruit, Bananas, Native Apples, Oregon Apples, Tangarines. FRESH. MEATS Turkeys,' Veal," thicks, Pork, Chickens, Beef, Lamb, Babbits, ' etc' , v. .. ALL KINDS OF NUTS Fruit Cake, Plum ' Pudding, Mince Meat, Malaga, Baisins. : J VEGETABLES 5 Celery, 'Cauliflower, Egg Plant,. Lettuce, Tomatoes, Cu 'cumbers.,: . 1 , i ". 1 ''' J ' ' ' X. ' It will be a treat to visit my Candy Booth, and see one of the best lines of candy in the city. The young lady in the booth will greet you with a smile, and serve you as you have never been served before. M, v -A NORTH MAIN AND MERRIMON. STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRUITS, MEATS AND VEGETABLES. PHONE 48243 Murder in the United States Editor of The Gaiette-News: ' j . , When the campaign for foicjproclty wu beinar wased In Panada Pmivirri Kipling called attention to theJraurder rate in the- United Btatks, ahdj warned our Canadian friends athat tney had better be careful with whom they as- uinaiea. jusi wnat errect this note of warning had on Canada or her at titude toward the United States, I am not prepared to say. but It la a charsre. and a very grievous one too, laid at our very door One which If true la not only calculated to Injure us In our own aelf esteem and respect, but will lower our standing with other Chris tian people. ' ; , - , But to a person who cares to Inves tigate isn't there some truth In this chance? Isn't human life awfully cheap In the United States? Now If the pronenesa to commit murder, to 'slay a fellow being were confined to one particular locality, or even one state, the situation. Would loo)c more hopeful But the disease, the manlav to commit murder seems to be nation wide, to such an extent that' I Know not of among any other English speaking people. There has been In the last ' ten years 8M34 murders in the United States and 1141 executions. . In othrr words a murderer has. seventy-five chances 9 f escape t one of be log ex ecuted or more than seventy-five peo ple are murdered to where one male factor pays the death penalty. The crime of wilful and deliberate murder la one at which human nature tarts rrn. VVi l..tt la .ImAri unl 1 I , throughout the world punished with death, except In the United States where we so. often fall to enforce the law. And for what reason Is beyond my comprehension. The Scripture savS, that "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed." This is over and above the general precept 10 roan, wnicn is - moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death; for the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but of the blood that Is shed therein but by the blood of him thst shed it" This is emphatlcal in prohibiting the pardon of murderers. The king of England if so inclined, was prohibited by law in pardoning murderers as late as 1710 and la yet without this authority so far as I know. . Though in this country it Is different, the governors of many of the states have this right. A righteous governor like Mann of Vir ginia. Will refuse as he dld-tn th Beattle case. While an unscrupulous governor Ilk Patterson of Tennesa will exercise this right when ons of the most distinguished eltlsen of the south has been murdered. Thus at will set aside the findings of the Jury and the sentence of the court and let the criminals go, free and unwhlpped of. Justice. Where we get this author ity to clothe so many men with par doning power 1 am unable to aay, but certainty not from the Holy Bible. It must be an Imitation copied from the Polish king mentioned by Pulfendorf. who thought it proper to remit the penalties of murder to all the nobility. Law that Is unenforced remains a dead letter upon the statute books and Is worse than no law at all. Better by far repeal it and enact others, for un enforced law breeds disrespect for law and for authority. , Much has been said about the juve nile criminals and that they too, are on the Increase and come often to visit the criminal courts. What more or what else could we expect, when we allow so many of the larger criminals to go unpunished or If punished at all, In the majority of cases, Inade quate for the crimes for which they have been convicted. Then don't we by precept and example teach the youth to be a criminal, by making It so easy and offering so many avenues of escape to the larger offenders? It Is said that crime cannot exist ex cept under the Cover of darkness and under the cover, of public sentiment Also one of. our martyr) presidents said, "that no law was of any effect unle"s it had public sentiment behind It" I haf practiced law In North Caro lina for a number of years and for a while In one the Pacific Coast Statea I have seen so much lawlessness till in la one of the Pad no Coast States. I have' seen mS mneh lawlessness tilt In fact it looks -Ilka if the disrespect for law both, .human and Ovine is not checked In this country, it will in the end destroy this nation. Until we create a sentiment to enforce the law and let it be known when a man spills his brother's blood he will be forced to pass the portals of that mysterious gate, so. long will there be annually a small army of people slain, the cry of the widow, the orphan and the be reaved go up from our courts, the publio continue to suffer from the dic tates of wicked, depraved and malig nant hearts, with the murderer ever present with his offenses multiplied. Respectfully, GILMER WELCH. lav; ESS S L FLAYED BY BORAH "Malefactors of Great Wealth? Bitterly Denounced by Idaho Senator. The quicker a cold la gotten rid of the less danger from pneumonia and other serious diseases. Mr. B. W. t Hall of Waverly, Va,' says: "I firmly believe Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to be absolutely the best preparation on the market for colds. 1 have recom mends 1 It to my friends and they all agree with ma" For sals by all dealers. The Approved Method. A little boy had eaten too much underdone pie for his Christmas sup per and was soon roaring lustily. . His mother's visitor was much disturbed. "If he was my child," she said, "he'd get a good sound spanking.1 "He deserves It,'1 the mother ad mitted; ."but I don't believe In spank' ing him on a full stomach." "Neither do I." said the visitor. "I d turn him over." Ladles' Home Jour nal. . New York, Dec. 21. Senator Wil liam E. Borah, of Idaho, at the Young Republican club last night, made an address that breathed Are In every word for "lawless big business" . and little violators of the law as well. He drew a significant comparison between the McNamaras, the confess ed dynamiters, and the old Standard Oil and Tobacco companies. - "To save their worthless lives," he said, referring to the dynamiters, "they entered pleas of guilty, Insisting that they did it all for principle and expect an astonished world to accept their whining apologies." "Thera' is another court record which we 'will In passing, notice also. Bound up In many volumes you will Ju4,. the. -full record of two of ths late noted decision It ts 'a tale twice told, of selfishness and greed, extor tion and lawlessness. The plea of Jus tification Is not unlike ths plea of the planters of dynamite, for although the acts are clearly in violation of law and the rights of the public, it is claimed nevertheless, that It was all done In the interest of business growth and Industrial progress. , "This Is the best plea and the only plea that Twentieth Century business can furnish U that could be said by those so rarsly gifted and richly en dowed with this world's goods and Intellectual power, and of whom the government and humanity have a right to expect so much." -Negro Law Enforcement. Respect and enforcement of the law was ons of the keynotes of Senator Bo rah's address. Obedience to the law he said, was the bedrock on which powerful governments are built, and he believed this a time when a polit ical party could afford to make it a cardinal tenet of Its faith. In no oth er first rate nation! he said, is law so disregarded Rt'ln the United 8tate t 'There la no place where life Is so insecure against bomb or bullet, where criminal laws are so Ineffectually en forced, where corruption ts so little condemned In publio opinion and where defllance of law In the highest walks of business life so generally prevail To leave law unenforced, to cultivate a disregard for Its obligations Is but to follow ths ground so that In after years there may be one law for the poor and another for the rich," said Mr. Borah. He added that the McNamara cases snd the trust cases were strong and uncontroverted evidence of what Is fast Incoming a national disease. He said he had no sympathy with the prosecution of business men who erred unknowingly.', . t v . ."I ' refer atone, he Bald, "to that class who sit In. their offices , with trained lawyers and plan how they may evade the law and its penalties. If a man lies fn wait for hhr adversary and slays him, 'unwarned, will If be a defense for his lawyer to say to the court that his client has always had difficulty In .distinguishing, between voluntary manslaughter?, . -, , "It Is not only of the things con demned by the rule of reason, but by the dictates of conscience and com mon honesty that trie public com plaint I do noi enter a defense of our anti-trust law I am frank to say I doubt both its efficiency and com- pletenes ' But It Is the . law and if half the energy arid Ingenuity of our business men, had been put forth to perfect It, that has ,been. expended to successfully . vlolatfe it and make It worthless, we would long ago have had a law which would protect all legitimate business and make all busi ness legitimate.'' t ' ' 1 ', ' "I sympathise sincerely with the man who in Ms hunger or his disap pointment, in discouragement or des pair, thinks he can better conditions by taking the law Into his own. hand In the hour in which order shall be driven from its high place In the tem ple of liberty and In which lawless ness and might shall come '.In ..its stead, In the fearfukatruggle to follow, the trst man .to go. to the bottom to remain . there will be the man , who toll . , . LewlCNMicMi In the Tpper Air." ' "But how shall we' excuse or long sympathize with the man of Influence and position; 'of wealth and 'prestige who still by word and deed' teaches FAKE HI , PHEPWIDIIS Do flair No Good, But Often Cause It to Kail Out. ' Many hair preparations are "fake" because they are merely scalp irri tant They often cause a dryness, making the hair brittle, and .Anally, llfeles Dandruff' Is the cause of all trouble with hair. ' It Is a germ dis ease. . The germ makes cuticle scales as It digs to the root of the hair, where It destroys the hair's vitality, causing it to fall out To cure dan druff, the germ must be killed. "De stroy the cause, you remove the ef fect" Newbro's Herplclde Is the only hair preparation that kills the dan druft germ, thereby leaving the hair to grow' luxuriantly. Bold by leading druggist fiend 10 cents In stamps for sample to The Herplclde Co., De troit. M kr one dollar bottles guaranteed. Smith's Drug Store, special agent disrespect for or defiance of the law? Does he not know that' It is useless to long expect law and order In the com mon walks of life when lawlessness reigns supreme In the upper air? ' "The danger Ilea in procrastination. We learned ence at tremendous cost of life and blood that you may have your fugitive slave law, your Missouri com promise, your Dred ' Scott decision. your flat of government, your compro mlse with wrong, your barter with Justice, but the hour of reckoning and readjustment comes tardy, but inex orable. It Is possible, my friends, to go on until men of great fortunes, whether Justly or unjustly earned, will stand stripped like the slave master of the South not alone of his slaves, but stripped of his wealth, earned through two centuries of 'unrequited toll." "Let us not trifle too long with that widespread passionate sense of wrong, even among the more conservative, arising out of the belief that large fortunes have been built up at the ex pense of the poor, and that men, women and children go hungry while others revel in waste and luxury. It Is possible to go on until the soldier called into the street to save property will fraternize with the mob. "You will hear often in these days that certain men are engaged In ex perimenting with new plans of govern ment and dangerous expedient - "We do not need a new faith; we need a new gospel; we need rather to self-surrender of the old. .We doaot need the simplicity, the directness and preach! the creed of Washington and Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln with a tongue of fire throughout the land. We need to have constitutional morality declared as was the gospel of old to the rich and the poor. "Choose ye this day whom you will serve, the few, the selfish, the lawless, and see our party continue broken In faation and deserted by thousands of the rank and file, or the Interests of the countless thousand whose hopes and happiness lie In the direction of equal opportunities, of Just and equal law and see our party take on the strength of ths days when it defied the arrogant power of slavery and appealed to men's common sense of Justice now ss then, however, to deal not In malice and revenge. In hatred or destruction, but In equity and Justice, in protection and security alike for all, rich and poor." k-v vv' ur.;v v ? .''; .-,!. ....a'-' '..-;...;'. ii V,.:''; ,U4 VA': t SCENE IN "THE HAVOC,- A. VmTQRICM, DECEMBER. 4t., sttltstltBstslastktBlsitllkt COMING ATTRACTIONS. TUESDAY. DEC. II Henry Miller In "The Havoo.'V THURSDAY, DET IS "The Dawn of a Tomorrow." . . FRIDAY. pEC. S "The Top o' the World." Henry Y. Miller In "The Havoc" When Henry Miller appears at the Auditorium for ' one erformanoe. Tuesday 'evening,' December t6, play goers of this city will see the actor manager in the strongest role he has offered to us since he produced "The Only Way." The leading critics of the century, have declared that "The Havoc" gives the actor-manager the biggest role he has ever played and this verdict Is endorsed by the famous playwrights of America. Charles Klein, author of "The Lion and the Mouse," says "It is the beat construct ed play I have ever seen." Margaret Mayo, author of "Polly of the Clrcu" says: "Tremendous! It Is a play every discontented wife should see." Ed win Milton Royle, author of "The Squaw Man," says: " The Havoc' Is a delight, and Henry Miller's own deli cate, illuminating, forceful perform ance is a proof that the art of acting Is not deed." Mr. Miller will present the play hers with exactly the same company that supported him during the year's run at the Bijou theater, New York, last season. Ticket sale opens next Friday morning at Whltlock' The- Dawn of Tomorrow." "The Dawn of a Tomorrow," which has been so successfully presented with a long run to Its credit In New York and other large cities, wilt be seen here with Isabella Low In the leading role. Miss Gertrude Elliott appeared in the drama last season and It is said that as Glad, the East End waif. Miss Lowe has a part well suited to her talent The company supporting her has been carefully se lected, while the new production soenlrally, provided by Liebler Co., is all that could be desired. "The Dawn of a Tomorrow" Is the latest play from the pen of Mr Frances Hodgson Burnett and will be seen In its original form at the Auditorium on Thursday evening, December tS. . Tickets go on sale next ' Tuesday morning at Whltlock's. When your feet are wet and eold. and yonr body chilled through and through from exposure, take a big dose of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, bathe your feet in hot water before going to bed, and yon are almost cer tain to ward oft a severe cold. For sale by aU dealers. Fresh Home Made Boa Boos. Candy Kitchen, Haywood Street. OHUO TrtaA rtn UrtUXT i Tuesday, Dec. 26. First time here in ten years. The Famous Actor-Manager HENRY MILLER in "THE HAVOC" By U. S. Sheldon. . Prices 60c to $1.50. Ticket Sale opens Saturday Morning at Whitlock's. o Get One of Our Free Presents Beginning with today tor-10 days only we make you special low price on our high grade Lump Coal for CASH. With every order we send to your house one of our $1.50 Kitchen Racks free as per cut. GJ-OHJSXJiP -r VlBlcclI;.': Wood of yot&j? te? Cut to OrdeF. Asivills Bray, Fad, W:m:& Mm Cos! Co. CrriCI 43 PATT0N AVE. V' . A J ... i ,
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