-3 MW X / C Aiz 1 Ai-? ( A6 i V L ♦ Largest Ciroulation-Quaranteed-of Any Country Weekly Published in the State of Mississippi. VOL. LXVI NIJMHEH 4G. LEXINGTON, HOLMES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY, JANUARY, 28, 1904. r AN ANTIDOTE FOR ANXIETY 9 9 U tm Hove Your Prescriptions filled Alt Ihe Lexington Drug Store • •• #•# 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lion I lure only a few months, said to have been tried in Memphis nnd the people being dissatisfied with it, it was repealed.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. an. n u m an 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. un 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. the Beauvoir. in a 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