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Largest Ciroulation-Quaranteed-of Any Country Weekly Published in the State of Mississippi.
VOL. LXVI
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LEXINGTON, HOLMES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY, JANUARY, 28, 1904.
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OUR WEEKLY
LETTER
The Doing of the State Legisla
ture Told by The Advertiser's
Special Correspondent.
Editor Advertiser:
The Legislature did not do a great
amount id' work last week on ac
count of the inauguration of the
governor nnd the festivities incident
A largo crowd from all
thereto.
parts of the state was present to see
tlm new governor
The ceremonies were bad in
Not
inducted into
office.
the House of Representatives,
more than on?-fourth of the people
could get Heats in the house anil the
seats and
galleries, although the
desks used by thh members of the
bouse had been removed and chairs
set closely together substituted.
On the evening following the in
auguration the governor held a pub
lic reception
o'clock, standing in front of his
office in the capital. The hand from
the blind school here furnished mu
sic foi the reception and for ti e
inauguration ceremony also.
The house lias passi d a "Jim Crow"
law in regard to street ears,
effect of winch, if passed by the
Senate, and that is assured, will be
to compel the street cars to provide
separate compartments for the black
and the white passengers,
ot law is now in force in New Or
leans, though it lias been ill opera
lion I lure only a few months,
said to have been tried in Memphis
nnd the people being dissatisfied
with it, it was repealed. The trou
ble, ns urged by those opposed to it,
is that even if the compartment for
the whites is crowded, and not a
passenger in the black compartment,
the white passengers cannot enter
therein
The house has also passed a bill
appropriating #1,250,000 annually,
exclusive of the poll taxes, to the
public schools for the next two years.
This increases, by the amount of
the poll taxes, which is estimated to
be aboul #800,000, the appropria
tions made lay the last Legislature
from 7:30 to 9:30
the
Hus kind
It is
for that purpose.
The bouse also passed a pension
hill appropriating #200,000 per
for the Confederate soldiers,
increase of #50,000 per uniium
over the last appropriation.
Governor Vardanian bus signified
Ills intention of reappointing Capl.
I). G. Pepper ns a member of the
levee hoard.
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Rev. Carlisle P. B. Martin, L. L.
Waverly, Texas, writes: "Of a morn
ing, when first rising, I often a trouble
some collection of phlegm, which pro
duces a cough, and is very hard to dis
lodge; but a.emall quantity of Ballard's
Horehound Syrup will at once dislodge
it, and the trouble is over. I know of
no medicine that is equal to it, and it is
pi :asant to take. 1 can most cordi
ally recommend it to all persons need
ing a medicine forlthroat or lung trou
bles." Price 25c, 50c and $1.00 at B. S.
Beall, L. C. Alexander, M. P. Winkler
and Foster Drug Co.
RO
We want your furniture trade and
if good goods at low prices will get i'
it is ours. So come and see us and
he convinced that we mean business.
Calhoun Furniture Co.,
0.G- Calhoun, Mgr.
Force, a brain and muscle builder
at Gwin Bros.
Fresh Nabisco wafers, for sale nt
J.*A. Slanshury.
Ralston's Health Food for summer
and winter. Callup Gwin Bros.
R. E. McCormick has returned from
St. Louis where he purchased a large
■tock of spring goods.
Heinz's baked heaps, 10 cts, a can
at Keirn Broa.
The Vagrant.
A vagrant is a vagrant anywhere
you may lind him, no matter what his
color, whether white, black, yellow
or green. He is the one individual
who lias never done the community
any good ; on the contrary, there is
always a kind of suspicion surround
ing liis manoeuvers and associates,
most generally at some time or an
other he is coupled with crime.
Now, in the spring time is the time
work and employment is abundant and
industries and farms and plantations
need more labor than they can get.
Scarcity of labor is the general cry
throughout the cotton belt. Con
tractors are seeking labor elsewhere,
both skilled and unskilled-and lie who
cannot find a "job" of some kind to
earn a living is not seriously on the
hunt.
There is really not a foot of space
in Arkansas on which a vagrant and
loafer ought to be allowed to stand.
The room he occupies would smell
sweeter without him.
There are many villages and towns
in the state, however, that are afflict
ed with such fellows, some white, but
mostly black. They don't work for a
living, yet they live, and oft,en look
"sleek and fat." Further comment
is not needed as to how they get
their living, but the facts are suf
ficiently apparent to call for action
from the courts and municipalities to
get rid of such menaces to the peace
and prosperity of the community.
The idle n?gro now-a-days is the
negro who won't work and is a menace
and danger in any place he finds a
harbor,
There is an abundance of road and
street work needed in every town in
Arkansas, and the country farms can
usually find a "steady job" for one
more unwilling laborer when he shows
up by the side of a sheriff or consta
ble. This is a remedy for the habit
ual idler and vagrant. If they can't
find something to do to make a decent
showing, find it for them. Unless
such fellows can show up a compe
tency already won and can take care
of themselves their cases should be
looked after diligently. The able
bodied idler is not wanted anywhere
in Arkansas and he should be gotten
rid of, It will diminish crime and
take away eye-sores in every commu
nity.—Marianna Index.
The foregoing is applicable to every
town in Mississippi.
We are sorry to see it stated in
the Yazoo Sentinel that Mr. W. A.
Henry received some "hurt:." one night
recently on his way home. It must
have been late, as all the lights were
out, and he couldn't see what was in
front of him. It has been a long
time since we had an experience of
that kind, and we hope our friend,
Henry, will have no moro. Such ac
cidents are har(] to explain on arriv
ing at home, and as a general thing
meet but little sympathy.
Climatic Cures.
The influence in tho climatic condi
tions in the cure of consumption is very
much overdrawn. The poor patient,
and the rich patient, too, can do much
better at home by proper attention to
food digestion, and a regular use of
German Syrup. Free expectoration in
the morning is made certain by German
Syrup, so is a good night's re.«t and the
absense of that weakening cough and
debilitating night sweat,
nights and the exhaustion due to cough
ing, the greatest danger and dread of
the consumptive, can be prevented or
stopped by taking German Syrup liber
ally and regularly. Should you he able
to go to a warmer dime, you will find
that of the thousands of consumptives
there, the few who are benefited and
regain strength are those who UBe Ger
man Syrup. Trial bottles. 25.; regular
size. 75c. At Swinney 4 Stigler.
Restless
Genuine Texas, Red Rust Proof
Oats for planting.
T. W. Smith and Sons Co.
Col. Kinney Nearing End.
Cincinnati, 0., Jan. 15.—Colonel
Coates Kinney, the poet, is awaiting
the end at the Presbyterian hospital.
His attliction is diagnosed as grip,
which, owing to the fact that the
poet lias passed the Tilth milestone
of his life, is considered serious, al
though the aged sufferer bears his
trial with the stoicism of the philoso-!
pher.
Among the names great in Ameri
can literature that of CoateR Kinney
ranks high. His reputation as a
writer was established as early as
1855, when he published " Kenka," a
collection of lyrics. In 1888 he pub
lished another volume entitled " Lyr
ics," followed in 1890 by " Mists, and
"Fire and Some Eclogues," which in
cluded the famous lyric, "Rain on the
Roof," and gave him pre-eminence
among modern literateurs.
He was born at Kinney's Corner,
New York, Nov. 24, 1826, and re
moved to Ohio in 1840, attending the
common schools, the academy and
later Antioch college.
The distinguished subject of the
foregoing well-merited mention is the
uncle of our fellow citizen, W. L.
Kinney, part owner and manager in
charge of the Wilson Cotton Oil-Com
pany. ,_^
Sou them Girls.
A Southern girl! Nothing more
need be *aid, her fame has gone
abroad and her success is assured.
So it has been with two of our most
attractive Lexington girl9, the two
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Wil
son, Miss May and Floyd, who are
now in New York city. The Misses
Wilson spent last summer abroad,
but when they landed on this side in
the autumn there were so many en
gagements to be filled in New York
that they have not yet found time to
return home. These young ladies
are under the chaperonage of Mrs.
L B. Starke, of Memphis, and have
been quite prominent in all social
affairs in New York this season. Re
ports have come to us of their great
popularity at the cotillions and dances
they have attended, of how at the
very exclusive "Tuesday Assembly"
at Delmonico's they were the only
Southern girls present and the ac
knowledged belles of the occasion, of
the teas and dinners given in their
honor on board the United States
battleships in the Brooklyn navy yard,
of their numerous conquests of the
fastidious West Point cadets, who
voted Miss May Wilson the best dan
cer who ever attended one of their
hops. Of course, in their own set,
the Southern society, these ymng
girls are naturally the leaders, and at
the Southern Assembly nt Sherry's,
Miss Floyd Ash Wilson was said to be
Ihe most beautiful girl in the house.
She was most magnificently gowned in
Paris creation of embroidered chiffon.
It may be safely said that the Misses
Wilsons are most creditably maintain
ing the reputation of the South in
beauty, grace and attractiveness, aud
their numerous friends at home will
be only too glad to hear of their
immense success in the metropolis.
Congratulations
Mr. John H. Cullom. editor of the Gar*
land, Texas News, has written a letter
of congratulations to the manufacturers
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as
follows: Sixteen years ago when our
first child was a baby he was subject to
croupy spells and we would be very
easy about him. We began using Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy in 1877, and
findigg it such a reliable remedy for
colds and croup, we have never been
without it in the house since that time.
We have five children and have given
it to all of them with good results. One
good feature of this remedy is that it is
not disagreeable to take, and our babies
really like it. Another is that it is not
dangerous, and there is 1io risk from
giving an overdose. I congratulate you
upon tho success of your remedy." For
sale by Swffiney 4 Stigler.
The northwest blizzard, of which
we were warned by weather forecasts,
reached us during Monday night.
Tuesday morning thermometers regis
tered 21 above zero in the shade.
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COTTON BEARS
DISCOUNTED
Most of Them Went Broke. Time
for Them to "Go Way Back
and Sit Down."
An Englishman, a member of a
Liverpool cotton firm, was talking for
the benefit of English cotton spinners
at the St. Charles Hotel in New Or
leans last Friday night. The card he
relied on mostly in his "spiel" was,
that cotton was too high and that
the spinning firms of his little tight
island were closing down their mills,
and were examining the dirt in Cuba
and other West India islands for the
purpose of introducing and cultivating
the staple there, as though it had not
been tried during the sixties, when
cotton ranged from fifty cents to one
dollar a pound.
That Englishman don't know what
he is giving us. Our people are as
well posted on what Cuba and the
other West India island; can produce
as he is, and if his n.iuriwam, to close
down, why not- It will then devolve
on our mills to increase their
ties to supply the world's demand for
cotton goods. It is true, fifteen and
twenty-five cent cotton will make the
goods a little more valuable. At the
same time it will make them all the
more appreciated. The high price
will impart a certain smooth and silky
gloss not obtainable without it. Cot
ton bears must make a new play
Our people are on to all that sort of
chin music. Neill and Buster have
been educating cotton raisers for
several years, and they are not dull
scholars. About the best and most
sensible thing English cott in spinners
can do, would be to help us devise
some plan, effectually exterminating
boll-weevils. Their talk about Cuba
and the other West Indies, as well as
Asia and Africa, is threadbare.
capaci
Lost.
A fox-hound dog—color, red; rather
buahytail; white breast; small white
Stripe on neck and between eyes, and
about one inch white on tip of tail. Re
sponds to name "Telegram," Liberal
reward for hia return or information
leading to his recovery.
D. W. Beall, Jr.
The Rural White Schools of Holmes Co.
Below we give a list of the schools in
operation in Holmes, together with the
teachers in charge of them:
Osceola—MiHs Mabel Edgar.
Shepherd—Miss Netta Jenkins.
Macedonia—Miss Kate Weeks.
Hopewell, Miss Hallie Catron.
Mt. Pleasant, Miss Sallie Eubank.
Oak Ridge, Miss Alice Green.
Pickens, H. A. Jones.
Franklin—Miss Ruby Miller.
Bethesda— C. V. Dodd.
Forest—Mrs. W. R. Browne.
Ashlev—Miss May C. Browne.
Harland'sCreek-MiHsPattieKi Hebrew,
Richland—W. S. Landrum.
Downer—Miss Ruth Ellington.
Shaddon—Miss Maud Browning.
Providence--MrH. Lein Edwards.
Wilkes—Miss I^ela Frost
Mathena—Miss Jessie McMaster.
Cypress—Miss Alice Murtugh.
West—MiHsesAnnie amlB Alexander,
Sweetwater Miss Grace Rogers.
Elliott Hill--Miss Rebecca Lloya
Ebenezer—Miss Fannie Burney.
Oak Grove—Miss Annie Lunsford.
Central Point—J. T. Parkinson.
Ghm Grove—E. E. Morgan.
Acona—J. Belford.MissAnnie Weeks.
Goodman—J M. Kimbrough, Miss
Alice Davis, Miss Nelson.
Marksrille—Miss Pearle M. Marshall.
Midway—Miss Mona Cau?ey.
Union Springs—Miss MinnieWatson.
County Line—H. L. Skeen.
Oregon—Miss Zilnah Eakin.
Tcbula--Miss Susie Fonse.
Harmony--Miss Myrtie Jordan.
Hock Hill--Misa Minnie Jordan.
Cruger-Miss Pearl Triplett.
Bowling Greeu--H. C. Seitzler.
Central-Miss Cola Pinkston.
Cedar Glen—Miss D>tta Crow.
Rogers-Miss Lukie Rogers,
Thornton—Miss Alma Green.
Parkinson—Miss Helen Melton.
Cleveland—Miss Pet Rogers.
Wesley Chapel, Miss Alma Hates.
Hopeon—Miss Vinie Ross.
Zeiglerville-J. It. Gulledge.
Carson -Miss Ada May Frost.
Forest Grove—1). H, Adams.
Eulogy—Mrs. K. Adams,
Boxes Creek—Miss Mattie Owen
Charley Young.
When a man dies, whether he be
black or white, the community in
which he lived, misses him and ex
tends its sympathy to his bereaved
family. This was never more exem
plified than recently in the death of
Charley Young, the colored porter in
the store of R. and B. Sontheimer.
Charley Young has been in the em
ploy of R. & R. Sontheimer ever since
they succeeded the Levy-Stigler Co.,
and had been with that firm for many
years. Last week he was attacked
with pneumonia, and although every
thing was done for him that could be,
he died Monday morning. He was a
man of good character, and was
looked upon and esteemed by all as
honest, faithful and deserving. He
leaves a wife and several small chil
dren. The white people of the town
have raised a goodly sum to defray
his burial expenses, and to contribute
to the needs of his family. It is a
pity that there are not a great many
more like him. He will he missed,
and that too, !>v the good people of
both races. Our sympathies are ex
tended to his family.
County Teachers' Association.
It is Ihe desire of all interested in
the work of our Teachers Associa
tion to have a full attendance at the
next meeting, Saturday, February
the 6tli. Topics of vital importance
to every teacher in the county will
he discussed at this meeting, and
we feel sure that no teacher will he
absent unless unavoidably detained.
Many of our teachers have, we are
gratified to state, manifested quite
an interest in the work already done
by the association, and seem to rec
oguize thoroughly the need of great
er efficiency, better organization, and
a higher professional standard.
Many of our teachers have the
true spirit of educational leaders,
and these are the ones who realize
the more wlint can be accomplished
by organized and enthusiastic effort.
There are many important problems,
nertaining to the interests of the
county schools that can be solved,
to the best advantage only through
organization. County superintend
ent, teachers and trustees should
confer together, place the work to
gether and execute the plans in ac
cordance with well matured princi
ples. IVe have good schools, but
we should want better ones; we have
efficient teachers, but they desire to
improve. Comfortable school houses,
thoroughly capanle teachers, and in
creased Interest in education can he
had only through earnest and en
thusiastic effort on the part of teach
ers and school officials.
Many things might be said in this
connection, but is sufficient at pres
ent to again urge every teacher in
the county to aid in thoroughly or
ganizing the forces for greater suc
cess in tlie schools of the county.
Respectfully, /
\V. H. Smith, County Supt.
Millionaires' Poor Stomach.
The worn-out stomach of the over-fed
millionaire is often paraded in the pub
lic prints as a horrible example of
evils attendant on the possession of
great wealth. But millionaires are not
the only ones who are afflicted with bad
stomachs. The proportion is far great
er among the tollers. Dyspepsia and
indigestion are rampant among these
people, and they suffer far worse tor
tures than the millionaire unless they
avail themselves of a standard medicine
like Oreen's August Flower, which has
been a favorite household remedy for all
stomach troubles for over thirty-five
years, August Flower rouses the torpid
liver, thus creating appetite and insur
ing perfect digestion. It tones and
vitalizes the entire system nnd makes
life worth living.no matter what your
station. Trial bottles 25c; regular size,
76c. at Swinney 4 Stigler's.
J. L. Dyson and Geo. A. Wilson
leased the opera house and intend
giving our people some first-class at
tractions.
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The following resolutions express
ing the sense of the veterans a? to
the maintenance of Beauvoir by the
state, were adopted by Yazoo Camp,
U.C.V. and will be endorsed by every
camp in Mississippi. It will be pre
sented as a memorial to that body,
which we trust will provide the sup
port which some of the old veterans
need so badly, to which they are en
titled by reason of service rendered,
and which the vast majority of all
good citizens will approve:
Mississippi as a sovereign state,
withdrew from the Union, allied anil
united her fate and fortune with the
Confederacy- To vindicate and main
tain her action against the compulsion
of Northern states, she, in her hour
of need and peril, appealed to the
patriotism of her sons, to arm and
meet the deadly conflict of war.
Bravely and promptly they responded
to the call. Home, family, wife, chil
dren and business were abandoned.
They, with heroic fealty to their state,
braved death on many battle fields, and
sacrificed their worldly possessions.
When th.] cruel war was over these
brave soldi ir sons of Mississippi found
themselves stripped of their property
and previous earnings, and life, at
mature manhood, was the beginning
of a new career.
All these sacrifices were for Missis
sippi and at her call. The state now
owes these aged.war veterans a debt
of maintenance' and support. The
failure of its performance will be a
reproach to her name and a blot of
her escutcheon, which time cannot
efface, and which will live as a shame
to her on the page of history for
future ages. Mississippi cannot show
her appreciation of the gallant and
heroic men who periled life and sacri
ficed fortune in her cause in that dark
period which tried men's souls, more
than by liberal appropriations for the
equipment and maintenance of Beau
voir as a home of comfort and rest in
their old age. Nearly every state,
both in the North and in the South,
has furnished homes and provided
support for their old soldiers. Of the
Confederate states Mississippi has so
far stood almost alone in the neglect
of a home for the old soldiers We
trust, hope and pray that our state
will no longer turn a deaf ear to the
silent voice which comes from the
want, sufferings and needs of the old
veterans, now when time and years
has sapped their strength and wither
ed their energy.
Therefore, Yazoo Camp, U. C. V.,
do earnestly memoralize the Legisla
ture of the state of Mississippi to
make liberal and ample appropriations
to equip and maintain Beauvoir as a
home for the needy and homeless
Confederate veterans of the state,
and in the appeal for the appropria
tion we believe that we voice the
heartfelt sentiment and wishes of
every good citizen of Yazoo county,
both men and women.
R. Bowman, Chairman Committee.
State papers are asked to copy this
memorial.
If Unwell,
Try a bottle of Herbine, notice the
improvement speedily effected in your
appetite, energy, strength and vigor.
Watch how it orightens the spirits,
gives freedom from indigestion and de
bility. Isaac Story,
Sept. 10th 1900: "1
I had stomach
Ava, Mo„ writes,
was in bad health,
trouble for twelve
months, also dumb cnills. Dr. J. W.
Nory prescribed Herbine, it cured
in two weeks. I cannot recommend it
too highly, it will do ail you claim for
it." Sold by B. S. Beall, L. C. Alex
ander, M. P. Winkler and Foster Drug
Company.
me
It coats you nothing to get
prices. Call to see us before
buy.
our
you
Colhoun Furniture Co.
Gwin Bros, for fresh groceries.
FROM THE NA
TION'S CAPITAL
Special Correspondence to The
Lexington Advertiser, Jan
uary, 24, 1904.
The bill recently introduced by
Mr, Gaines, Tennessee, for the relief
of tobacco growers, and the vigor
with which he is urging it, is awaken
ing much interest. It repeals all
taxes and restrictions on free and
unlimited trade in leaf tobacco, and
permits anybody, anywhere, to buy
and sell it in any quantity. It pro
vides also that a grower may stem
and twist and sell his own crop with
out tax or license, or deliver it to
another person to sell for him. The
heavy tax on leaf tobacco (six cents I
and the rigid and exacting require
ment? of the law regulating its manu
facture have given the tobacco trust
complete control of tobacco and
growers are complaining everywhere
that they are not allowed a living
price for growing it. Mr. Gaines has
gone laboriously through the history
of tobacco tax legislation and found
that at its inception it was distinctly
and repeatedly stated that it was only
a war measure and would be remitted
when the war necessities subsided.
All of those war measures have been
remitted except this burden on tobac
co growers. Under existing law the
department rigidly holds that the
least change in the form of raw to
bacco as it comes out of the barn is
"manufacturing." If a farmer stems
a hand, or twists or presses it, or in
any wise changes it from its form in
the natural band, he becomes a manu
facturer, and must either take out a
license and conform to the various
and onerous requirements of the law,
or he is prosecuted and fined and im
prisoned as a felon. He is not per
mitted to prepare his own product
for market nor participate in any
profits. The law delivers him bodily
over to the trust. Tobacco growers
everywhere are urging the relief
afforded by Mr. Gaines' bill.—C. A.
Edwards. _
Supt. Fred Carden, of the Durant
Electric Light Plant, superintending
the construction of the Lexington
plant, informed us that all the mach
inery for the Lexington plant is here
and can see no reason why our town
will not be in a perfect Hood of light
by the middle of February.
For Ladies, Free.
The National Toilet Company of Paris
have their wonderful Toilet requisites
on .sale at the Lexington Drug Co.
One lady cr girl who has Freckles,
Pimples, Blackheads, Liver Spoos
any other skin discoloration, can have a
free treatment of SAT1NOLA by call
ing at Lexington Drug Co.
SATINOLA not only removes every
disfiguring eruption, but leaves the com
plexion white and soft and of that deli
cate texture seen only in perfect health
and childhood. See also our Nadine
Face Powder, Egyptian cream and
Rose Tint Rouge.
National Toilet Co., of Paris, Tenn.
, _1-14 3t
For matting go to Calhoun Furni
ture Company they have all grades
and all styles, at prices that
can hack. Call to see them.
0. G. Calhoun, Mgr.
Early June peas, 3 cans for 25 cts.
at Keirn Bros.
Fresh cakes, for sale at J. A. Stan
bury.
If you can't think of anything for
dinner phone Gwin Bros.
Ira Jones, one of Tchula's merchant
princes, waa a heavy purchaser in our
live stock market last week.
Best imported Cement, Brietenburg
Hercules. T. W. Smith & Sons Co.
French sardines, 15 cts. per box at
Keirn Bros.
or
no one