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VOL. LXVII
NUMBER 6.
LEXLNttTON, HOLMES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1904.
Special Correspondence
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To The Lexington Advertiser By our Washington Corres
pondent.
Washington, D.C., May 3, 1904.
Last week was a hay-making and a
hay-raking one for the democrats in
the House of Representatives. They
placed the republicans on the spit
and toasted them to a rich brown.
In the first place the Hon. John Sharp
Williams, the able and vigilant floor
leader of the Minority in the House,
caught the republicans napping in
the committee on the judiciary, and
when there was a majority of demo
crats present, and obtained favorable
reports on both his resolutions aimed
at the vitals of this republican ad
ministration. One of those resolu
tions requested the Attorney General
to inform the House whether any
criminal prosecutions have been insti
tuted by the Department of Justice
against the individuals or corpora
tions who were adjudged recently by
the Supreme Court of the United
States, in the Northern Securities
case, to be guilty of having violated
the laws of the United States, and to
send to the House all papers and
documents bearing upon any prose
cutions inaugurated or about to be
inaugurated in that behalf.
These resolutions were sleeping
peacefully in the pigeon holes of the
desk of the republican chairman of
that committee, and there the repub
licans intended they should sleep and
die of inanition or be smothered to
death. They did not want them ever
to see the light of day, because they
knew their recalcitrant Attorney
General had not taken any action and
would not take any action in either
case. When it became known that
John Sharp Williams had dug them
out of the committee with a favora
ble report, and th„t tho committee
on rules could not stifle them on ac
count of the fact 'hat they now come
up as privileged matter, there was
consternation on the republican side
and many quick conferences and much
wagging of heads. It was all too
late. The mischief was done and
their Attorney General will be shown
up as a tool of the trusts and re
creant to his oath of office, for which
he ought to be impeached. Let the
people of the country note and re
joice at a leadership on the demo
cratic side endowed with vigilance,
brains and patriotism.
The next gun-shot the republicans
received was on last Saturday when
the Hon. W. Bourke Cockran, of New
York, simply tore the innards out of
them and strewed them along the
floor of the House. It was a great
speech and aroused the most intense
enthusiasm on the democratic side of
the House and the deepest gloom on
the republican side. Mr. Cockran re
viewed the whole gamut of republi
can legislation on the tariff question,
the trust question, and on the rotten
ness in the departments and the re
Over The County
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Summary of Happenings in Neighborhoods oAdjacent to
Lexington Chronicled by The o Advertiser Correspondents.
DURANT SQUIBS.
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The berry season is about over.
Hon. J. Wiener, our distinguished
a recent visitor to the
', jurist, was
1 capitol city.
Rev. Berry hill, W. T. Johnson and
John Kyllingstad attended the Pres
byterian Assembly at Greenville last
j* i week.
Hon. Geo. A. Wilson was seen
our streets a few days ago.
Sheriff W'ilburn was a prominent
figure on our streets a few days ago.
, Our friend, Q. O. Eckford, has been
circulating among his many friends
here the past week.
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Our assessor, W. C. Red. is now
'going the rounds to see how poor
people are. There is a fluctuation in
property at this season of the year.
Whenever people see Will coming
property depreciates iu value and
when he is gone it takes a rise.
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Honor Roll of Providence School.
The following are the names of
pupils who were present every day
during the seven, ending April 27.
fusal of the republicans to investi
gate them and give the people the
benefit of such investigation t» the
end that the light may pour into dark
places and the guilty may be punished.
He arraigned them, he lashed them,
he scored them and blistered them in
language that fairly sizzled with
venom and invective and bristled
with facts that were irrefutable. The
republicans sank lower into their
seats than they have been wont to
sit for many a day. Several of the
old dowager statesmen on the repub
lican side, like Grosvenor, Payne and
Dalzell, essayed to interrupt him
with questions and statements, but
on each interruption they went to
their seats limping. He had flattened
out old man Grosvenor and old man
Payne, and made them look like thirty
cents' worth of dog meat. He was
human buzz-saw in rapid motion, and
any republican with the temerity to
interrupt him, had the sympathy and
commisseration of the House, The
climax of the dramatic scene, how
ever, came when Dalzell interrupted
him to state that he had understood
that Mr. Cockran had received large
pay for his speeches for McKinley in
the campaign of 1896. It was like
touching off a powder magazine. Mr.
Cockran denounced the statement as
the vilest slander, and made a state
ment of his position in that campaign,
and that he had received not
car fare for the speeches made at
that time. He said that no man
even
was
quick to attribute infamy to another
unless he was well acquainted with it
himself, and that they were trying to
accuse him of what every man knew
was the universal custom of
every
republican politician taking money
in a campaign. When Dalzell again
arose and said he had been informed
by a democratic member of the
House of the accusation he had made,
the storm broke over his head in
real earnest. Mr. Cockran rushed
down the aisle shouting, with his
arms raised above his head, "name
him," "name him," "name him," and
the entire democratic side joined in
the chorus, "name him," until pande
monium reigned and no such dramat
ic scene has been enacted on the floor
of the House during this session.
When Dalzell refused to name him,
then with the most withering scorn,
Mr. Cockran turned to him and said
that any man who made that confes
sion could not again interrupt him
or come voluntarily within his vision.
He said that Dalzell, not being able
to name the author of the statement
or produce the proof, was what could
not be named on the floor of the House
under parliamentary rules, to-wit, a
common every-day liar.
It was a great speech by a great
man, and a field day for the democrats.
Charles A. Edwards.
Millie Farr Boatwright, Annie
Hamrich, Ethel Ingold, Eima In
gold, Dixie Ingold, Earnest Ingold,
Even Ingold, Willie Broome, Mattie
Lyon, Sallie Lyon,
The following are those who were
absent one day: Fannie Boatwright,
Elina Broome, Nellie Hamrich, Kffie
Lyon, Walter Goodwin, Sam Good
Mrs. Lein Edwards.
win.
EBENEZER BRIEFb.
Mrs. W. H. Faulconer, Miss Mattye,
and Ed Faulconer were visitors to
Lexington Thursday.
Little Olivia Barrett spent a few
days with her grandfather, Dr. Bur
well, the past week.
Hon. S. N. Sample and son, Sam,
visited Lexington Thursday afternoon.
Mr. W. H. Stigler spent Sunday
with the home folks at Lexington.
Burwell Humphrey and Robert
Nance visited Pickens friends Friday
evening.
Mr. Morgan went to Lexington
Friday; his daughter, Miss Edna, re
turning with him for a brief visit
home.
Attention
Good Dressers
We have just received a fresh supply in
each of the following famous specialty lines.
Monarch and Cluett fancy and full dress
shirts.
Fescheimer Fischer guaranteed to wear
and fit summer suits.
R, E, Bonor tine straw and felt hats.
Big supply of gentlemen's fine underwear.
We can fit anybody.
The crowds that daily attend our store
attest the fact that as usual our millinery and
and dress good department is unsurpassed.
Get in the swim and let us dress you up.
PicKens-Barrett Co.
Brooke Burwell attended an enter
tainment given by the Pythian Club
at Lexington Wednesday night.
Mr. C. S. Drake was in Lexington
and Durant Monday.
Jennie Morgan, Earl Lucas, Walter
Sample and little Will Burwell have
been sick the past week. Chills and
fever seem prevalent in this vicinity.
Mr. W. H. Faulconer spent Monday
in Lexington.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Thomas re
turned Saturday from a visit to Mrs.
Moss at Lexington.
Mr, Bob Brock visited Pickens
Sunday.
Misses Alice and Leona Murtagh
attended service at the Catholic
church in Lexington last Sabbath.
Messrs. Burwell and Thomas made
a business trip to Yazoo City in the
interest of the telephone company
last week.
Dr. W. B. Burwell, Brooke Burwell,
Robert Nance and Burwell Humphrey
were guests of Dr. Luse and family
Sunday afternoon.
Dr. E. C. Lucas spent Friday in
Goodman.
Mr. Lawson, pastor of the Method
ist church, went to Pickens Friday to
meet Mr. Neblitt, who lectured here
upon Sunday-school work Friday
night.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Forbus had as
their guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs.
Rosamond and children, of Goodman.
Honor roll of Pickens graded school
for April: 1st grade, Lester Boggett;
4th grade, Halbert Neilson; 2d grade,
Claudia Webb, Ethelyn Jackson; 1st
grade, Henry Boggett,
H- A. Jones, Prin.
Susie B. Taylor, Ass't.
lt will be of interest to those livint
near Oak Grove church, just soutl
of Lexington, to know that its mem
bers will hold a meeting at 3 o'clock
next Sunday afternoon for the pur-,
pose of organizing and opening a
Sunday school at that church. All
are invited to attend.
DREADFUL THINGS COMING.
Schedules End of World for June,
1908, As Most Important.
The prophecies of Le Spangler, a
York merchant, who calls himself
the last of the prophets, and whose
hobby for 12 years has been the
making ot prophesies, has created a
stir here among those who have taith
in him says the New York Sun.
From time to time during the
past 12 years he has issued pamph
lets and tracts warning people to
prepare for the end of the world in
June, 1908. During the war be
tween the British and the Boers in
South Africa lie wrote a letter to
Queen Victoria in which be predict
ed her death within six months if
she failed to withdraw the troops
from South Africa. In a latter to
President McKinley,Spangler warned
him against assassination.
The most recent of his prophecies
to be fulfilled were tue death of
Maik Hanna and the breaking out
of war between Russia and Japan.
Spangler says that his prophecies
are revealed to him in visions by
the voice of God.
night:
"When the Maine-vas blown up
in Havana harbor, before I had
learned of tile disaster, it was told
to me in a vision that a foreign
country would, perpetrate a terrible
crime against this country. Spain
was the criminal. Since the blowing
up of the Maine there has been no
peace on earth.
"The Castilians aroused the war
spirit, which had been slumbering
and they applied the match, which
has caused the war flame to spread.
This was the beginning. Tbo end
will be more terrible, more harrow
ing than it is possible for the human
imagination to conceive.
"The war now going on in the
East is insignificant in comparison
with the wars that are to follow.
Complications will arise which will
draw many of the European nations
into the fighting, and other wars
He said last
will break out between European
nations. Within a year all Europe
and most of the Asiatic countries
will be warring.
"The United States will be at
war with foreign countries and there
will be bloody race wars within her
own boundaries.
"We have just bad a severe win
ter, but the severity of next winter
will be greater. We will have cool
summers and rigorous winters until
the world is destroyed by fire three
and a half years from now.
'•Just before the destruction, an
archy will hold sway everywhere.
There will be widespread famine
and epidemics in all lands. God
will bring about these things to pre
pare the faithful and discover and
expose the insincere.
"God's wrath will be especially
visited upon women. They will
lose their beauty. The Lord will
take this method to punish woman
for her great vanity, which she 1ms
been cultivating since the expulsion
from Eden.
"President Roosevelt will be re
elected as president of the United
States, but he will sigh a thousand
times for private life again. The
cares of his office will be the greatest
that nny chief magistrate of the
republic has had, and bis adminis
tration the most tumultous of any
,in the history of the United States.
"King Edward will be the last
king of Englaud and will witness
tho destruction of the world by fire
and the coming of Christ."
Ed. Advertiser:—Please say to the
person or persons who lifted my
buggy whip from my buggy on the
Sunday-school Institute day, last Sat
urday, April 30th, at .Hebron church,
that if it is returned to me, I won't
say anything more about it. It may
be possible that the pair of plow lines
I picked up near my buggy were left
in exchange for the whip, if so, I de
serve a little boot.
We keep on hand 3 or 4 different
grades of roasted coffee. Try them.
Gwin Bros.
W. W. L.
John Sharp Williams
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Strongly Endorses Judge Parker as Candidate for the Demo
cratic Nomination for President.
Representative John Sharp Wil
liams, of Mississippi, the democratic
leader of the house, in a statement
given out says he believes that the
nomination of Judge Alton B. Parker
at the St. Lo jis convention is assured.
He thinks that with the adoption of
a platform containing nothing but
live issues the democracy can wm
next fall with Parker at the head of
the ticket.
"It seems clear to me," said Mr.
Williams, "that Mr. Parker will be
nominated by such an overwhelming
vote that there will be substantially
no opposition when the time for the
convention arrives. Individually I
favor his selection. I favor him be
cause he comes from the right sec
tion and the right state. He is the
logical candidate geographically and
politically. I favor him because he
seems to be an eminently conserva
tive, careful and healthy-minded man.
"I favor him because, although he
has differed with a majority of the
party upon some great questions,
notably upon one great question, he
was still a democrat, in spite of his
difference, and thought democracy,
e^en with one or two planks wrong,
infinitely nearer the truth than re
publicanism. I think Parker is a fun
damental democrat— an anti-federal
ist by nature. He is a democrat by
temperament as well as by study and
association. That goes far with me
"I have heard it questioned that
he is a regular and orthodox demo
crat; that he failed to support the
democratic ticket in 1896 and 1900.
I know that he has been regular; I
know it from a letter that he wrote
in the campaign recently, aud I know
it from his own personal assurances
of the fact in a talk that I had with
him.
"I believe," continued Mr. Williams,
''that if the democracy can win at all,
it can win with Parker. And more
over, I believe that with a good brave
fight, with a sound and unequivocal
platform asserting democratic poli
cies in connection with real and liv
ing issues, and ignoring dead issues,
the democracy stands a better chance
of winning than it has stood since
Cleveland was elected in 1892.
"It ought to win and it ought to
win because democrats are now to
gether. We may not be united upon
everything that has occurred, or
every political issue, but about the
things that are now issues, having
become such by application of funda.
mental democratic doctrine to present
actions and conditions.
"Without going into detail, I be
lieve the chief live issues will be a
sane and business-like revision and
reduction of the tariff, the enforce
ment of the laws upon the statute
books affecting the trusts, and inter
state commerce ; reciprocity in trade
V. C. V. Meeting
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Proceedings of the Regular May Session of
County Camp, 2Np. 396, U. C. V. _
Holmes
Minutes of Holmes County Canp,
U. C. V., No. 398. A regular meet
ing of this camp waB held in the
court house, May 2, 1904.
Commander called the Camp to
order, and it waa opened with prayer
by Chaplain Broadaway.
Minutes of last meeting were read,
followed by a call of the roll.
On recommendation of Comrades
J. B. Doty and W. H. Melton, Levy
Walton, the servant of Capt. James
Walton, of Co. K, 29th Mississippi
Regiment, was elected an honorary
member of this Camp.
An account of $3.50 for stationery
for Adjutant Howell was allowed and
paid.
R. H. Baker, W. W. Lunsford, F.W.
Eakin and W. L Young were elected
delegatee to the reunion in Nashville,
June 14, 15 and 16, inclusive, and
J. B. Dickard, J. H. Downer, W. B.
Whits and J. W. Swinney, alternates.
The following r—olution w— intro
duced by comrades G. C. Phillips,
W. W. Lunsford und W. M. Broada
way, wm received:
relations, especially with Canada; a
reduction of governmental expenses,
especially those of a warlike and jin
goistic character; the unveiling and
punishment of corruption in the de
partments; the cessation of executive
usurpation of legislative functions,
whether by the president, officers of
the cabinet, heads of bureaus or divi
sions; an unalterable opposition to
British colonum, whether exercised
by Great Britain in the eighteenth
century or by the United States in
the twentieth century; in a word,
such a course in connection with all
matters that are active issues, as to
approximate so nearly as possible all
legislation along the line of the
democratic ideal of equality of oppor
tunity and equality of burdens in the
relationship of the individual to the
government."
Mr. Williams was questioned con*
earning the report that he would be
a candidate for the presidential nomi
nation. He said:
"I think you know me well enough
to know that I have never been
idiotic enough to take this seriously."
Goose Weighs 144 Pounds.
Harry Piukbam, a Nevada (la.)
horseman, owns a Toulouae goose
which is a monstrosity and which
has attracted a great deal of atten
tion on account of its great size,
says the Sioux City Journal. The
goose weighs 144 pounds, stands
over 2 feet high, and lays an egg as
large around as an ordinary carafe.
The fowl has been exhibited by Mr.
Pinkham at several of the live stock
shows, and has always atiraeted at
tention.
The weight of this gooae was so
great that the web feet became crip
pled, and in order that the fowl
might easily walk over the frozen
ground this winter Mr. Pinkham
had made for it a pair of rubber
shoes whieh had been made to fit
exactly upon the two web feet, and
with this artificial aid the gooae gets
about on the ice and the hard ground
quite well. With one of the eggs
which the goose recently laid a Ne
vada boarding house keeper made
fourteen custard pies.
The Troth of It
"I hope, Johnny," said the visit
or, "that I haven't disturbed your
pa aDd ma at dinner."
"No," replied Johnny; "we was
just goin' to sit down, but pa seen
you from the window an' ba told ma
not to have dinner till you went."—
Catholic Standard and Timaa.
Dead Loss.
What did be realize out of bis
romantic novelt''
"Nothing; didn't even realize
what a tool he was to write it." -
Cleveland Leader.
Resolved, That in consideration of
the fact that the present per capita
dues of 25 cents do not mest tbs
current expenses of this Camp, tho
annual duos be raised to 50 esnts per
member.
The resolution requiring an amend
ment to the constitution is laid over
to the next regular meeting, the first
Monday in June.
Minutes were read and approved
and the Camp adjourned to the next
regular meeting, being dismissed with
a benediction
by Chaplain Broadaway.
R. H. Baker* Com'dr.
F. A. Howell, Adjutant
PillUnm i nm -A_
rctnum tor nnM*
To his Excellency, Hon. Jae. K. Var
danian, Governor ot Mieeiaeippi.
The undersigned citizens of Holmes
county would reepectfully petition
that Jim Hooker, who waa aanteaqad
to seven years in the penitentiary at
the May term of the Circuit Court of
Holmes county, in 1908, be pardoned,
and assign as their re—one therefore,
that they believe that aaid Jim
Hooker was sentenced by reason of
perjured testimony.