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B. T. HOBBS, Editor and Proprietor.
FOR CORCRE88.
We are authorized to announce
hon. r. a. McLain,
of Amite Count), as a candidate for the Demo
cratic Nomination for Congress from the Sev
enth District.
IK MKMOR1AX.
Strong son of Cod, Immortal Iawe,
Whom we, that have not seen thy face.
By faith and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove;
Thine are these orbs of light and shade;
Thou madest life In man and brute;
Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot,
Is on the skull which thou hast made.
Thou will not leave us in the dust;
Thou madest man, he knows not why;
He thinks be was not made to die;
And Thou hast made him: Thou art just.
Thou seemest human and divine,
The highest, holiest manhood, thou:
Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to !>e:
They are but broken lights of Thee,
And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
We have hut faith; we cannot know;
For knowledge is the things we see;
And yet we trust It comes from Thee,
A beam In darkness; let it grow.
Let knowledge grow from more to more,
But more of reverence in ns dwell;
That mind and soul, according well.
May make our music as before,
But Vaster. We are fools and slight;
We mock Thee, whom we do not fear
But keep Thy foolish ones to hear;
Keep thy vain words to bear thy light.
Forgive what seem'd my sin in me;
What seemed my worth since I began:
For merit lives from man to man.
And not from man, O laird, to Thee.
Forgive my grief for one removed,
Thy creature whom I found so fair
I trust he lives in Thee, and there
1 find him worthier to be loved.
Forgive these wild and wandering cries,
Confusions of a wasted youth;
Forgive them where they fail in truth,
And In Thy wisdom make me wise.
— Ttnnyton.
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The Boston Ideal Opera Company
will appear in Vicksburg April 21, 22,
23.
The annual address of Millsaps Col
lege will be delivered on Tuesday, June
10, by Dr. Hopkins, of Nashville, Tenu.
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Miss Mary Alice, daughter of Capt.
and Mrs. J. J. White, of McComb, will
wed James Blair Alford at high noon
to-day.
Miss Ellen M. Stone, the missionary
who was kidnapped by Bulgarian
brigands, arrived in New York last
Thursday.
John Schaeffer, of New Orleans, died
at Bay St. Louis of heart disease,
while laughing and joking with his as
sociates. He was 20 years of age.
Alfred Austin, the poet laureate, has
dedicated a volume of poems to Presi
dent Roosevelt. It will contain a
preface addressed to the American
people.
It is declared that the seven
teen-year locust plague -will infest In
diana, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky this
summer, and that the insect will make
its appearance May 1.
The twelfth anniversary of the
founding of Millsaps College was cele
brated on the 11th. The annual ad
dress was delivered by Hon. II. L.
Whitfield, State superintendent of
education.
Charles Galloway, eldest son of
Bishop Charles B. Galloway, died Sun
day morning at Jackson. To those
who loved him the sympathy of many
in Brookhaven who knew them and
him goes out.
Aberdeen's cotton factory is now an
assured fact. $35,030 was subscribed in
amounts of not less than $1,003, and
when a list is opened to smaller figures ,
it is believed the remiiuing $30,000
necessary will bo easily forthcoming.
The old hangman’s tree at Scranton,
upon which six men, five colored and
one white, had been executed, was cut
down last Thursday by order of the
L. & N. railroad company. The limb
of the tree over which the rope had
been passed, had long since withered
and died.
Philip D. Armour's estate has footed
up $18,771,105. In addition, there is
real estate in Illinois and elsewhere,
the value of which is not given. His
widow, Malvina, and his son, J. Ogden,
get the entire fortune. Who would be
a prince or a potentate in the face of
an American citizen like that?
_ln the case of E. D. Thomas, Reese
Thomas, McGreer and Ramsbotham,
charged with the murder of J. M.
Wooten at Wesson on the 5th, the
court discharged the two latter and
the other two were admitted to bail in
the iom of $1,000 and $3,000, respect
ively.
James Whittington, whose trial for
the mnrder of Sam Hill, colored, took
place at Eliisville last week, was found
guilty of manslaughter and given ten
year*. Whittington is 21 years of age
and was Indicted for murder in the
first degree by the Jones county grand
jury. The murder was committed at
Lnurol, where his wife resides.
Three Mississippi officials will soon
take foreign trips to familiarize them
selves more thoroughly with the duties
of their new positions. Dunbar Row
land, director of the department of
history and archive*, will visit Mont
fernery, Ala.; Auditor Cole, ex-officio
fits Insurance commissioner for the
next two years, will go to Raleigh, N.
CU end K. H. Henry, the com
mMcaer to the Exposition, will stop
DEATH OF REl\ T. DfWITT TAL
MAGE.
This eminent divine passed from
earth that had been made glad by his
presence and his power, last Saturday
night at bis home in Washington City,
after prostration of several weeks from
a complication of diseases. Inflamma
tion of the brain was the immediate
cause of his death. For many hours
previous he had lain unconscious, and
the last rational words uttered by him
were to his daughter, just after her
marriage a few days before he died,
when he said: “Of course, I know you,
Maude".
Dr. Talmage was taken very ill on a
recent trip to Mexico and never recov
ered. On liis way to the Mexic
Capital, he stopped in New Orleans
and preached to a congregation larger
than had ever before assembled to hear
any proclaimer of the Gospel message.
His exhortation to aged ministers at
that time was sublime, and now it
seems individually prophetic. The fol
lowing is a passage from his discourse:
“Fret not, ye aged ones. Just tarry
by the stuff and wait for your share of
the spoils. Yonder they are coming.
I hear the bleating of the fat lambs, and
I see the jewels glint in the sun. It
makes me laugh to think how you will
be surprised when they throw a chain
of gold over your neck and tell you to
go in and dine with the King. I see
you backing out because you feel un
worthy. The shining ones come up on
the one side and the shining ones come
up on the other side, and they push
you on, and they push you up, and
they say: “Here is an old soldier of
Jesus Christ”, and the shining ones
will rush out towards you and say:
“Yes, that man saved my sonl”. And
then the cry will go round the circle,
“Come in, come in, come up, come up;
we saw you away down there, old and
sick and decrepit and discouraged, and
crying because you could not go to the
front, but “As his part is that goeth
down to battle, so shall his part be
that tarrieth by the stuff”.
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Coronation Nonsense.
It appears that this nation must send
a delegation to bow and scrape when
King Edward is crowned.
The people of the United States will
pay for this delegation. Hut it is some
comfort to know that the people at
least will not spend the money with
the consent of their representatives.
There are euough Senators and
Representatives of a sensible, patriotic
and genuinely democratic turn of mind
to oppose any appropriation for such
a purpose.
Therefore the State Department,
turning the corner ingeniously, pro
poses to draw upon another fund and
spend the money for the King’s coro
nation without the consent of the peo
ple who are taxed and pay.
This is shifty evasion. Means ought
to be found to prevent the expendi
ture of the money, even in an under
hand manner.
But there is some comfort in know
ing that the money to be spent in a
manner so offensive to American prin
ciples is not spent with the people’s
consent.
It is to be hoped that the honest
Democrats and Republicans in both
houses of Congress will ask some
questions as to the spending of the
people’s money.
Incidentally, those who ask the ques
tion might also ask this question:
The United States is about to spend
money to honor the crowning of a King
in England. Would it not be better
to spend that money to honor the
inauguration of a President in Cuba?
Has not the United States more
reason to be interested in the birth of
a new republic than in the perpetua
tion of a monarchy?—Chicago Ameri
can.
Exposition Commissioner K. H.
Henry.
While the editor of the Clarion
Ledger, Mr. R. H. Henry, was not on
the slate of announced candidates for
State Exposition Commissioner, his se
lection is one that is unassailable aud
unexceptionable, from the view point
of merit and capacity. Through a long
and at times iutimate acquaintance
with him, The Herald endorses the
choice on those grounds unreservedly—
it could not be improved upon. He
possesses the general intelligence, the
especial aptitude, the untiring energy
and the personal ambition, essential in
such a position. Thus equipped, we
will be disappointed indeed, if the best
possible use and display is not secured
out of the State’s exposition appropria
tion.
We feel sure that Mr. Henry will at
once enter upon the performance of
the labors of Exposition Commissioner,
in a manner that will give life to the
office, aud popular confidence that the
State will have an exhibit at St. Louis
that no citizen need be ashamed of. He
is an untiring aud an indomitable
worker—a little high headed on occa
sions, perhaps, but no drone and thor
oughly practical in affairs. In fact
this office is goiug to be treated by
the Clariou-Ledger editor as a business
proposition, and an opportunity be
sides of winning lasting credit and
repututiou for both the State aud the
Commissioner. Personally, he has our
heartiest congratulations. Vicksburg
Herald.
THE ULEU BILL.
As it passed the U. S. Senate, the
oleomargarine bill differs in some re
spects from that passed by the house
of representatives. It provides that
oleomargarine and kindred products
shall be subject to all the laws and
regulations of any state or territory or
the District of Columbia into which
they are transported, whether in orig
inal packages or otherwise; that any
person who sells oleomargarine aud
furnishes it for the use of others, ex
cept to his own family, who shall mix
with it any artificial coloration that
causes it to look like butter, shall be
subject to tax provided by the existing
law; that upon oleomargarine colored
so as to resemble butter a tax of 10
cents a pound shall be levied, but
upon oleomargarine not colored the
tax shall be one-fourth of 1 cent per
pound; that upon adulterated butter a
tax of 10 cents a pound shall be levied;
and upon all process or renovated
butter the tax shall be one-fourth of 1
cent per pound. The manufacturers
of process or renovated butter or of
adulterated butter shall pay an annual
tax of #000, the wholesale dealers shall
pay a tax of #t£0, and the retail deal
ers a tax of M8 per annum.
Rest, Beauvoir, Tliy Warfare
O’er.
The hallowed light of God's great
kindness shines ’round Beauvoir to
day, and there are many glad hearts
in Mississippi, for all doubts are at
rest and the struggle is ended. Beau
voir is at last upon a pedestal from
which it cannot be dislodged, rever
ently and tenderly guarded by our
mother’s strongest children, her gal
lant sons who will defend it with
their lives, and this is as God intended,
the strong and brave protecting the
weak. They have taken voluntarily
upon their brave young shoulders this
treasured burden, and may God crown
their noble efforts with success. He
will. Of this there is no fear. Beau
voir, a pinnacle, in the bright light of
God's glorious sunshine, where no cruel
bands can ever reach it, being estab
lished there by the free will offering of
all Mississippi. Can this be true? It
seems too good that indeed the weary
struggle is over and all is well.
When the seal of Mississippi is set
upon Beauvoir, the keys turned over
and our house put in order, and when
we have gathered from all the poor
houses in our fair State (fair when
this is accomplished, not before), our
mother's helpless children, our coun
try's noble defenders, then we will
send our mother an iuvitation to visit
all her children in their home, “Beau
voir,’ anil there we will gather about
her knee a united family. And what
a gala day this will be in all Missis
sippi, when our mother comes home
to her united children! What flying
of flags, booming of cannon, shouts
of children, for it would not be a
happy home-coming if she missed the
music of their glad voices. “For they
are living poems, when all the rest
are dead.” And, included they must
be, if the cause for which the South
bled, suffered and died is to live on
forever. Now, while a mother loves
all her children, she seems by instinct,
God given, to turn more tenderly to
those who are afflicted or in want; so,
for long years, this devoted mother
has clung to Beauvoir, holding it at
tho greatest financial loss to herself,
hoping, praying that in God’s good
time it would be made a love offering
to her afflicted children, the old vet
erans of Mississippi, by her more for
tunate children who could stand up
and be strong.
So, God’s good time has come and
our mother’s patient waiting almost
ended, her years of self-denial, that
they might have the pleasure and
comfort of this protecting shelter re
warded. Thanks to her noble Sons of
United Confederate Veterans!
Our mother wants this purchase a
free-will offering, for a gift given
grudgingly loses all the beauty and
defeats its own end. Therefore, let
no contribution be given that is not
from the heart, and not mar the beauty
of this love-offering. Let it be like
fine gold, with all the dross burned
away, and henceforth let a prayer rest
in our hearts that God will spare her
for this home coming and that her in
firm children may cluster around her,
thanking her for her ever watchful
love, and her other children asking
pardon for past neglect. When I pic
ture the scene on that never-to-be-for
gotten day, our mother with her chil
dren gathered home, safe in their love
forevermore, my heart beats to suffo
cation, and my eyes fill with tears.
Susie Southworth Yercier.
Greenwood, Miss.
ISusinusM Without Advertising
is Slow.
The Adviser, with much truth, main
tains that no man who expects to suc
ceed in business can do without ad
vertising; no matter how large or small
his business may be, how little or well
known he is, advertising is the magic
key that unlocks the door of the gate
which is closed fast between the man
in business and the public. Of course,
if a man is satisfied with a few things,
if he has no aspirations towards big
things, he does not need to advertise;
but just so surely as the sun rises and
sets, just so surely will the non-adver
tiser go down to oblivion and disaster.
It is s^fe to say that there is not
today a promiuent or prosperous con
cern that does not owe its prominence
and prosperity to publicity—to adver
tising. Who would know any of the
great retail stores of the powerful pro
prietary medicine houses if it was not
for the power of the press? Indeed, it
is the truth that no man can hope to
succeed without advertising. It is as
necessary as the air he breathes, or
the water he drinks.
It is a remarkable fact, but true, that
no oue who has given it a fair test says
“advertising does not pay:’’ on the
contrary, the papers and magazines
contain more advertising at the pres
ent fame than ever before. Of course,
poor advertising never paid and never
will pay, for the reason that it can’t be
made to pay; but good advertising is
profitable, as has been proven in thou
sands of instances.— National Adver
tiser.
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“The chancery clerk in this issue
publishes a notice to justices of the
peace." says the Carthageuian, “which
they will do well to heed. It relates to
that provision of the code which re
quires of magistrates semi-annual re
ports of flues and penalties imposed
by them. The law makes such reports
obligatory, and wisely so, as the money
arising from flues and penalties goes
into the county treasury and contrib
utes a part of our financial system. It
may not be amiss to state that a magis
trate who fails to make the reports on
the days named renders himself liable
to removal from office and to be fined
and imprisoned.” These reports are
required by law to be made on the first
of April and October, and justices who
neglect to make them are liable to get
into trouble.
The sewerage system so far as Green
ville is concerned, bus proved a com
plete failure. The next time a con
tract of this kind is given it should be
given to a home engineer, who is
thoroughly acquainted with the nature
of the soil. A lot of money has been
expended by our taxpayers on this
venture and the failure of the same is
greatly regretted.—Greenville Spirit.
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The opening of the 8t. Louis Ex
position may be postponed until 1904.
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS.
Are you aware of the fact that a
small engine installed on yonr plan
tation will save you the hire of one
man and do the work of two horses?
What we have reference to is a small
engine (1,2 or horse power) which
can be so arranged that it can be easily
carried about the plantation, worked
in the Held, at the cane mill, small
grist-mill, shredder, feed chopped, or
for sawing wood in the new ground;
then it can be placed under the shed
at the bouse for sawing wood, pump
ing water, churning, or anything of
the kind. Such an engine will cost
something less than #150, and the cost
of operation will not exceed two cents
an hour. There is no expense while
running. It is absolutely safe. Re
quires no enginoer, a 15-year-old boy
can start it, and after being started
you don't have to look at it again until
you wish to stop it. It can be started
in live seconds in summer or winter.
No fire to be kept up, no smoke, no
steam boiler to be constantly watched.
If you are interested call at The
Leader Oflice and make inquiries.
A Cold Winter.
In The Herald’s local columns of
Sunday there was some instructive in
formation as to the severity of the
past winter. That notice did not,
however, exhaust the interesting
features of the meteorological sum
maries of the three winter months,
especially when considered collec
tively. The mean temperature for
December was the lowest for that
month since 1878—both registering
45. The lowest December tern perature
in the past thirty-one years was 1876—
40. The mean for January, 1902, was
the same as December preceding—45.
This was the lowest since 1892, which
was 41. The lowest January tempera
ture in the past thirty-one years was
1880—39. The mean for February,
1902, was 44 the lowest since 1899
was 41. That was the lowest for Feb
ruary in the past thirty-one years,
though 1895 marked the same. Thus
we see that each of the past winter’s
months were unusually cold, and far
below the average of thirty-one years;
which is 50 for December, 48 for Jan
uary and 52 for February.
As a whole the winter past was the
coldest in thirty-one years, at least,
except that of 1898-99. The three
months mean for each of these two
years was the same—45. For the
winter of 1901-02, however, tho cold
has been more uniformly distributed.
It was the extreme cold of February,
1899, that lowered the average of the
whole winter of that year, to a level
with the winter just past. Tho rain
fall of December last was far above
the average - January and February
far below. It is the cold rather than
the rain that has so retarded planting
operations.—Vicksburg Herald.
ST-feTvr*®
Don’t tie the top of your
jelly and preserve jars in
the old f ashioned way. Heal
them by the new, quick,
^ absolutely sure way—by
a thin coating of Pure
Defined ParaUina. lias
f'.Aj no taoto or odor. Is
;£3 air tight and acid
SWA proof. Easily applied.
sA ) Useful in a dozen other
ways about tbe house.
iff) Full directions with
jr each cake.
Vj 8o!d everywhere. Mode by
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. TOM McNAIR.
RESIDENT
DENTIST,
UKKICK IN INEW LARSEN BUILDING,
(Next door to Leader Office)
It KOOK HAVEN, ■ • HISS.
Teeth extracted, fllled, or new sets made ac
cording to latest Improved methods and aje
pllances of the profession. Crown and bridge
work and handsome artificial sets a specialty
All work guaranteed to give satisfaction as to
quality and prloeg.
DR. T. Y. NELSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
BROOKHAVEN, MISS.
Office: Martin Drug Co., Telephone No. 101.
Residence Telephone No. 68.
C. A. BARBER. W. H. FRIZELL.
BARBER & FRIZELL,
Physicians and Surgeons.
Office : Brookhaven Drug Co ,
Brookhaven, Miss.
E. F. BRENNAN,
Attorney*at-Law,
Real Estate and Incest. AgL
BROOKHAVEN, MISS.
Will practice in all the courts of Lincoln and
adjoining counties, and In the Supreme and
Federal Courts at Jackson, Miss. Real Estate
bought and sold and titles carefully abstracted.
Office up-stalrs In Storui Building, next door
to Mayor s office.
C. G. LYELL,
Attorney - At - Law,
BROOKHAVEN, - - MISS.
OFFICE: Up-stalrs lu Cassedy Building.
J. N. YAWN,
Attorney • at - Law,
BOOUE CHITTO. - MLSS.
Will practice In all the Courts of Llucolu and
adjoining counties.
CHAS. CHRISM AN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
BBOOKHAVEN, MISS.
Will practice In all the courts of Uncoln „nd
adjoining counties, and in the Supreme *nd
Federal Courts at Jackson. Miss.
Office—Down-stairs lu Cassedy Building, neat
to Court House.
R. D. LANIER,
Attorney - At - Law,
BROOKHAVEN, MISS.
Will practice lu the courts of Lincoln and ad
Joining counties. Office la Mtllsaps Building
A. M. McMillan John Q. lives
McMillan & hyde,
Attorneys at Law,
BNOOKHAVKN, MIBB.
Bird-Shot
For Tiger.
No use to hunt tigers with
bird-shot. It doesn't hurt the
tiger any and it's awfully risky
for you.
Consumption is a tiger
among diseases. It is stealthy
—but once started it rapidly
eats up the flesh and destroys
tiie life. No use to go hunting
it with ordinary food and med
icine. That’s only bird-shot.
It still advances. Good heavy
charges of Scott's Emulsion
will stop the advance. The
disease feels that.
Scott's Emulsion makes the
body strong to resist. It
soothes and toughens the lungs
and sustains the strength until
the disease wears itself out.
Send for free sample.
5COTT & EOWNE, Chem»*ts, Fearl St., N.T.
toe and #i.ooj ail druggist*.
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MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A
rent Happenings.
Grenada will have a new jail, which
is badly needed.
Aberdeen must be advancing. The
Examiner is full of ads.
West Point is expending 830,000 in
the remodeling of Hottl Holt.
Ping Pong, or indoor tennis, is great
ly in vogue for society amusement.
J. W. Day, of Crystal Springs, is ex
perimenting with celery this season.
Biedenbarn's furniture factory at
Vicksburg was burned down last week.
The Daughters of the Coufe leracy
will observe the 20th as Decoration
Day.
Madison’s aggregate of damages to
bridges duriug the recent Hood is
82,000.
S. D. Harper, late of the Hazlehurst
Courier, will establish a job office at
Jackson.
Mrs. Fannie J. Ricks, of Yazoo City,
has given ?100 toward the purchase of
Beauvoir.
Gov. Bob Taylor lectured on “The
Old Plantation” at Vicksburg last Fri
day night.
The Southern Pine Camp, Woodmen
of the World, of Meridian, gave SoO to
the Beauvoir fund.
P. F. Goolsby, President of the
Board of Supervisors of Lafayette
county, died on the 10th.
Miss Lucile Banks, of this State, has
been appointed social editor of the
Memphis Morning News.
Gov. Longino has named the 8th day
of May as Mississippi School Day at
the Charleston Exposition.
The recent floods damaged the bean
crop fifty per cent, in Copiah. The
seed rotted before germination.
At Coffeeville a young woman shot
and killed a 7-year old boy, by careless
handling of a borrowed gun, last week.
17,000 pounds of radishes and tur
nips formed a carload of the succulent
vegetables at Crystal Springs last
week.
J. B. Boatner died near Natchez of
heart disease at the age of 42. He was
a prominent attorney of Catahoula
parish.
The Jones county Board of Super
visors appropriated $.‘100 to the Ellis
ville Rifles for the purpose of building
an armory.
The commencement exercises of the
Jackson Graded School will be held on
June 5. There will be a graduating
class of sixteen.
A convention of cattlemen will meet
in Jackson, Miss., April 28, to organize
a protective association among South
ern stockmen.
Mrs. G. W. Dorsey, whose husband
expired suddenly a few months ago,
herself died unexpectedly last Wednes
day night at Yazoo City.
During ten days, three negresses
killed their respectiver sweethearts, in
Hinds county recently. The cause of
the crimes was said to be attempted
assault.
The youngest tramp ever seen in
Jackson was in that city last Thurs
day. He was twelve years of age and
said he had adopted tramping as a pro
fession and expected to follow it all of
his life.
Vigorous complaints are made by
citizens and planters against railroad
contractors who have enticed labor for
repair and new construction work on
railways. They offer exceptionally
good wages.
The State Board of Education urges
that all public schools be closed on
May 1, 2, 3, so that teachers may have
the opportunity to attend the meeting
of the Mississippi Teachers’ Associa
tion at Jackson.
The people of Gulfport are disap
pointed at the action of the committee
of the lower house of Congress which
allows only $130,000 for the improve
ment of the harbor, instead of the mil
lion they had hoped to secure.
Geo. Lee, a negro, who had been sent
to the “camel back” just south of
Jackson to flag trains as a precaution
since the recent high water, went to
sleep with his feet across a rail of the
track. When he awoke both pedal ex
tremities were missing.
The Jackson Circle of the King’s
Daughters, at a meeting last Friday
elected the following delegates to the
State convention, which will be held
at Biloxi on May 26: Mrs. Archie Gor
don, Mrs. R. H. Henry, Mrs. Ernest Al
len, Mrs. J. B. Greaves, Miss Etta
Mitchell, Miss Mattie Robinson.
Judge Edward Mayes has presented
to the historical department State
files of the Mississippi Herald
and Natchez Gazette of 1805, 1806, 1807
and 1808. These flies contain a full
account of the arrest of Aaron Burr,
giving many details of unusual interest
in regard to that stirring period.
A well known citizen of Vicksburg
ottered Commander Booth Tucker
1,000 acres of land upon which to lo
cate a colony of members of the Salva
tion Army. The offer was refused un
less 850,000 could be added to the offer.
This makes the Salvation Army colony
a dead issue for the present in Vicks
burg, says the American.
J. J. Scarborough, a citizen of some
80 odd years, saved himself from death
last Wednesday at Laurel, by jumping
from a railroad trestle over which a
train was coming, into a creek 20 feet
below. The old man had waved his
hat too late for the engineer to stop
his train, but the railroad crew res
cued him from his unpleasant position
and it is expected he will recover from
the shock of his trying experience at
so advanced an age.
Prof. George G. Hurst, principal of
the Steen’s Creek High School has or
ganized the Rankin county oratorical
association. It is proposed to have an.
nual contests in which two contestants
from each beat will take part Local
committees have been appointed and a
general executive committee to arrange
for the county contest. The one qual
ification for eligibility is that the con
testant must have been a student of the
public schools during the year. Much !
| interest has been aroused, and the
I general content which will be at Bran
I don, July 4, promises to be an occasion
i of great importance.
NOBBY,
STYLISH
HATS
Panama
in
Black; Pearl,
In Nutria and v*.
rioua other color*.
Are the kind that you wilUfind at W. P. Hubert’s. H* has
just opened up a new line of stylish and taking hcad-getr
thatyou won’t be able to find elsewhere in a day's trav>l
And the beauty of it all—10.
gether with the style, ,,ua|jty'
etc. that you get,-are that the
prices arc so low that you wi||
honestly feel like you arc not
paying full value for them.
Cast your eye in my window as
you pass, or come in and let me
suit you. Anything you may want m the way of a necktie
scarf, shirt or pair of shoes can he selected here with impu
nity, as my stock is all stylish, and you can’t make a mistake
Yours
for
Hats,_
W.P.HUBERTj
“OLD BUCK” J
MASONIC TEMPLE.
The Captain I
Kidd Disc j
Cultivator j
■^~Will save four j
Hen’s work, j
As you can cultivate one row of corn or cotton at a time. ]
Perkins lias the Cultivator in front of his hardware store, and ]
he will show you how to operate it. All kinds of Farm I111- 1
plements for sale by Perkins—such as Planet Jr., Plain and 3
Horse Hoc Cultivators, Steel Frame Sido Harrows, Side 1
Harrows, Blue Bird Steel Beam Plows, Brinly and Lone j
Star Plows, Marsh and Brinly Scrapers, King Corn and Cot- j
ton Planters, Dowlaw Planters, Garden Plows, Garden Tools, •
such as Rakes, Forks, Spades, Hoes and Cultivators. !
^
Don't ^oii ]Meed Screen
Poore and (flindows?
Screen Wire, Poultry Ncttiug, plain and Barb Wire, Wire
Staples, Garden Hose and Reels, Farm Bells and Black
smith’s Tools, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Lime, Cement and Fire
Brick. You can find anything in the hardware line at
C. B. PERKINS.
New York
Racket Store
We Ha v Just Rceivd a few Dozen of M n’s
Shirts of the Latest Patterns and Cuts,
aud most particular to mau Is full size and length. Sizes run from 14 to l** 1°
neck measure, and our Shirt at .TOc, Is the best offering In today’s market. We
have them for less and higher prices, but our GOc. Shir Is our stayer.
Our Line of Ladies’ Shirt Waists
Will be Complete
in a few days and will not be excelled by any of my competitors and at great
values. You will also tiud here
A Fine Line of Hosiery
For Ladies, Men and Children.
Plain and Lace Effects. Our Ladies' Undervest from 4c. up to our tine l isle
Thread Vest at 50c. are great values.
Men’s Underwear.
We lead oft with that great leader at 20c. worth regular uOc. and ourfloc- Suit Is
sold everywhere for 75c. suit, or as some put It- 78c. suit.
MILLINERY.
Our Millinery Department Is the greatest hit of the season -THANKS TO Ol-K
MAN \ I- R1 ENDS-and as Mrs. Hamilton advertised before, she has the goods
and the prices and needed room to display them, which she now' has, to the let
ter satisfaction of all, and in this department will be found the latest of every
thing that coines out In season.
Yours,
R, H. HAMILTON.
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ET*ATTENTION, FARMERS AND SAW MILL MEN ! ”*>
—s=lBROOKHAVEN=s^
FOUNDRY & MACHINE SHOP,
BROOKHAVEN, MISSISSIPPI.
The .undersigned wish to inform the poblio that they are now well Pr«P*f?!
to do all work entrusted to them in first class style. Business atteuded
promptly. No delays. Satisfaction guaranteed. Saw mill men will find it t«
their interest to give us their patronage.
Jos. Connelly & Son. .
Iu t wo-»tnrjr building, one block north of depot.
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