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I C Chickens, ";," v 7 d or 112 Latest popular Music on hand all the J 112 time. S \ Free delivery anywhere. \ 112 Phone your orders. x IT.W.WELSHS 112 s Old Stand, West Ward [■H5 SHSHSHHH SHSHSHSe SHSHS£S; i bHSHSHSH SH SH 55 SHSHSHSH P.To We have a good assortment of jjj Garden Tools i § I jjj Rakes, Hoes, Shovels, Spading Forks, Manure Forks, Plows, ffi Harrows, Shovel Plows. |j Also Fence Wire, Chicken Wire and Fly Screens. $ a Heavy and Shelf Hardware ®. . I [}j We solicit your patronage. In fu l ft Plumbing, Tinninjj, Hot Water and ft ru n ' Uj Wteain Heating a Specialty. pj j F. V. HESLMAN & CO. | [•S32SSSHSBSPSHS2SES HSPSHSP-CfSKSBSBSHSPSH^ When Actors Play to Actors. "When ho (Henry Irving) engaged me to piny Ophelia in 187 M he asked me to go ilowii to Birmingham to see the play, ami that nitwit 1 :aw vhat I shall always consider (lie perfection of act ing. It liad been woi;d"rfui in 1574; in 1.57.S It was far more wonderful," wrote Ellen Terry in Met 'lure's. "II lias been saiil that when he had Hie 'advantage of my Ophelia Ids Hamlet 'improved.' I don't think so. lie was always quite independent of the people with whom he played. The Birmingham night he knew I was there. He played- 1 say it without vanity- for me. We players are not above that weakness, if it be a weakness, if ever anything inspires us to do our best it is the presence in the audience of some fellow artist: who must, in the nature of things, know more completely than any one what we intend, what we do, what we feel. The response from such a member of the audience flies across the footlights to us like a (lame. I felt it once when I played Olivia before Eleanora I >use. I felt that she felt it once when she play ed Marguerite Gautier for ine." The Topsyturvydom of Religion. At the opening of King Edward Vll.'s first parliament lie had to repeat after the lord chancellor an oath which con demned in almost brutal words all things papistical. Vet held aloft by a Protestant peer for all Protestants to reverence was a veritable emblem of papal supremacy—a quaint little bon net of crimson velvet turned up with ermine. This is the cap of mainte nance, and so sacred is it that no hands but royalty may linger it. Thus the premier marquis, whose hereditary right it is to carry it. balanced it some what after the fashion of a conjurer upon a white staff. This cap was granted to Henry VIII. by I'ope Leo X. In the middle ages it was held as symbolic of the overlord, only being granted to vassals and feudatories whom the lord wished to honor, so that it implies as nothing else could the su premacy of the popi over the kings ot England.—London Standard. What Makes the Heart Beat? Professor Jacques Loeb, the celebrat ed biologist, in his book, "Dynamics of Living Matter," has shown that a strip cut from the ventricle of the heart putin a solution of chloride of sodium will continue to beat for a number of days, until putrefaction sets in. lie says this can be done with an ordinary muscle after it lias been ex tirpated from the body. This would tend to prove that the heart is a chem ical machine and that it is all due t< chemical action. The muscular con traction is probably due to tlie substi tution of sodium for calcium salts in the cells of the muscles. The difficulty of this theory is that it does not explain the control of the muscles. It is plain that the problem of control is not solved by the chem ical theory. A Fair Chance. Dressed in the latest and most ap proved motor cycling costume, with goggles all complete. I lie motor cyclist gayly toot-tooted his way by Itegent's park toward the zoo. Suddenly he slackened, dismounted and said to a small, grubby urchin: "I say, my boy, am I right for the zoo?" The boy gasped at so strange a sight and thought it must be some new ani mal for the gardens. "You may be all right if they have a spare cage," he said when he could lind his tongue, "but you'd ha' stood a far better chance if you'd M a tail!"— Lo ndon Answers. Lewis Carroll's Humor. An English magazine gives some amusing pieces of Lewis Carroll's hu mor from tin.' forgotten pages of Ox ford pamphlets. During the election at Oxford in 1805 lie gave vent to the fol lowing Euclidean definition: "Plain su perficiality is the character of a speech in which, any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points." A note is also given on the right appreciation of examiners: "A takes in ten books and gets a third class; B takes in the ex aminers and gets a second. Find the value of the examiners in terms of books, also their value in terms when no examination is held." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1908 EXECUTION OF CHESTER GILLETTE. 9 aid Penalty For the Murder of Grace Brown In 1906. 3 ASSED LAST DAY QUIETLY. Betrayed No Emotion When Informed Yesterday That the Governor Had Declined to Interfere With the Exe cution — Condemned Man Prepared a Statement but Did Not Confess. Auburn, N. Y., March i!o.—Chester j Giillette was executed in the electric j ;hair this morning at Auburn prison j Tor the murder of his sweetheart, i iirace Brown, in Big Moose lake in the summer of 190 G. The news that 3overnor Hughes had finally declined to interfere and stay the execution was received here late Sunday after noon and was communicated to Gil lette, who heard the words that took iway his only hope for life with that same stoicism and indifference that las marked his conduct during and since 4iis memorable trial at Herki mer. N. Y. Mrs. Gillette, the mother, was prostrated when she heard the lews. ■ ■■■X S 'X • \ CHESTER' C.IL.LETTI2. | Gillette passed the day quietly iu | lis cell and there was no deviation | from the regular routine since lie has been in Auburn prison. He was per | :nitted to receive a farewell visit from j his father, mother and aunt, Miss j Catherine Gillette. Gillette arose at I the usual hour and ate breakfast | which was furnished him from the i aospital kitchen. His appetite was j aornial and in no way did he betray j any evidence of the strain under j which he must have been laboring. During the morning he alternately read and wrote. He prepared a state ment which, it is expected, will be I ?iven out after the electrocution, i This statement is said to be in no j manner a confession of the crime but his version of the affair. Mr. and Mrs. Gillette returned from Albany Sunday afternoon and War den Benham permitted them to see Chester for the last time. Mrs. Gil lette carried a white rose to the con demned man's cell and her sister-in law carried a red flower. Gillette was not allowed to take the flowers, but they were placed where he could see them through the screen in front of his cell. The parting between Gil lette and his mother was deeply af fecting. Mrs. Gillette's unusual re quest to have her son's aunt. Miss Catherine Gillette, and Miss Bermie Ferrin, a friend of the family, at tend the execution was denied by Warden Benham. GOVERNOR'S MEMORANDUM. J No Right to Grant Reprieve Unless He Can Assign Good Cause. Albany, March 30. Governor Hughes last night announced that he had denied the application for a re prieve for Chester Gillette, sentenced to execution at Auburn prison for the murder of Ills sweetheart, Grace or "Billy" Brown of South Otselie, Che nango county, at Big Moose lake, in the Adirondacks, on July 11, 1900. The governor dismisses the theory based on the alleged new evidence presented by John H. Dugan of Al bany, who appeared for the Gillette family before the governor, as "whol ly untenable," and declares that "if reason is to be our guide and all the established facts are taken into con sideration. there is no escape from the conclusion that a brutal murder was j committed and that the conviction I Was just." The memorandum of Governor Hughes in the case is as follows: "On Dec. I, 190G, Chester Gillette j was convicted of the murder of Grace | Brown on July 11 of that year. On i Feb. IS, 1908, the court of appeals I unanimously affirmed the judgment | and he was then sentenced to suffer I the death penalty during the week J beginning March 30. Upon applica i tion for executive clemency, and after ! a careful (rumination of the evidence. I 1 reached the conclusion that there | was uo ground on which I should be justified in interfering with the e» ' ecution of the judgment of the court. "A reprieve is now asked in order j that proceedings may be taken to ob ! tain a new trial upon the ground of I alleged newly discovered evidence. "It Is the privilege and thf duty ot the executive tc» grant a repriev* whenever the interests of justice re j quire it. But where the petition is ; based upon the claim that evidence . has been newly discovered and the ; character of the evidence is clearly disclosed, the executive should not in | terfere with the sentence unless he is | Satisfied that the case is one in which | tlie application for :i new trial should ! he mad" and heard. Whatever his j power, the governor has no right to I grant reprieves unless he can assign | Rood cause, and if the administration of the law is to be respected, peti tion.; made nt the eleventh hour must show merit. ! find none in the pres | ent case. Alleged New Evidence. | "A portion of the alleged newly . discovered evidence is to the effect ! that Gillette had torn the ribbon band from his straw hat in Septem ber, 1905, and had given it to his com panion. The object is to rebut any inference from the absence of the in terior lining of the prisoner's hat, when the latter was found floating on Big Moose lake, that it had been tak en out to avoid identification. This, however, is of no importance. By his conduct both before and after the fa tal event it is conclusively established that he did seek to avoid identifi cation, and the question whether or not he removed the lining of his hat for that purpose is not of much mo ment. "The other evidence before me, so far as it Is at all credible, Is to the ef feet that Grace Brown during the year preceding her death had 'spasms' or 'spells' from time to time in which she became unconscious. These are j described by those who knew her in j the factory at Cortland. It is testified j that this was a matter of comfnon | knowledge among the girls who work ! Ed with Grace Brown. There were j seventy-five girls on the floor where ! she worked and two of the witnesses I say that they believe that all these j girls saw Grace Brown have these i 'spasms some of the time.' It is evi dent that the facts as to the physical condition of Grace Brown and as to the alleged manifestations, assuming the truth of the present statements, were easily procurable and that any inferences to be drawn therefrom have at all times been available. "The theory ef the defense at the trial wa. that Grace Brown commit j ted suicide. Defense's Theory Was Suicide. "The theory now advanced is that Grace Brown was an epileptic sub ject. and that if she had an epileptir seizure in the boat upon the fatal day and if during Ihe attack she sustained the various injuries found and fell into the water, the condition of the body as disclosed by the autopsy might be accounted for. "But this theory is wholly unten able. It is conclusively disposed of by the statements, conduct and testi money of Chester Gillette himself. If it he assumed that, there was such a seizure and fall as might be deemed to account for the condition of the body, it Is unconceivable that they should have escaped the observation of the prisoner; and if lie had ob served anything of the sort it is in conceivable that he should have made the statements and have given the testimony which appear in the record of the trial. "No view of the unhappy event is adequate which fails to take account of the proved facts—the events pre ceding C.race Brown's death, the con dition of the body and the character of its injuries, the overturned boat with Grace Brown's cape on top of it, the disposition of the tennis raquet, the conduct of the prisoner previous to the tragedy and subsequently, and the manner in which he sought to ex plain it when defending his life. "If reason is to be our guide and all the established facts are taken into consideration there is no escape from the conclusion that a brutal murder was committed 'and the conviction' was just. "After examining the evidence now presented 1 find nothing in it which can iu any way affect this conclusion or which furnishes any justification for executive action." Gas Explosion Killed Two Men. i South Oeerfleld, Mass., March 30. — A gas tank on Depot street exploded Saturday night, killing two men and injuring two others, one probably fa tally. The dead: John H. Ockington, aged 65, manager of,the gas plant; Nelson Beaman, aged 20, of Sunder land. The most seriously injured is James Stoddard, aged 50, laborer; William Driscoll, 20 years old, was slightly hurt. All the buildings in the village were shaken and hundreds of panes of glass were shattered. A small building, occupied as a barber shop and pool room, near the tank was completely demolished. Ocking ! ton took a lantern and went to inspect j the gas tank and machinery in an el' j fort to determine the cause of escap I ing gas. He hardly reached the tank wKen the exple. ion occurred and he. j with Stoddard and Beaman, who iiad I followed him, were blown a distance I of twenty five feet. Motor Boat Swept Over Dam. Syracuse, March 30. Made he;p less b> the breaking of the ?twl' g j gear and the refusal of the c ngin-» to work at a critical moment, a motor boat was swept by the swift cuner.t : over the dam in the Senega rive: at 1 Baldwinsvllle Sunday afternoon and Charles Renville a machinist of tlat place. 50 -.ears old, was driwmvl His conn mion in the boat, Fred °e , coy was rescued by thr?e men .n a j beat. Pcnville's body has not been if SEEDS P Wir BUCKBEE'S SEEDS SUCCEED! Mf SPECIAL OFFER: l|§ Made (o build New Ilunlru-ftA. A trial Will W inako you our permanent customer. 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