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THE LEADER
B, T. HOBBS. Editor.
BROOKHAVEN, : MISSISSIPPI.
Mme. Patti gave a dinner at Syracuse,
N. Y., in recognition of her sixty-first
birthday. Such friendliness and good
fellowship is not remarkable, but such
courage and frankness is unprecedented.
The latest radium suggestion is the
most sensible yet. Radium paint Is to
be used on front-door keyholes. These
will shine forth like twinkling stars on
the murkiest night, and another em
barrassing problem will be solved for
ever.
When a Jap wants to say "Hurrah!”
he shouts "Bansai!” This, coupled with
the fact that the Japanese language con
tains no swear words, constitutes a big
handicap and increases one’s respect
for the plucky fighters who are winning
in spite of it.
Affairs .in the Balkans get more inter
esting every day. The Albanians are
rebelling because they are getting more
reforms than they like, and the Mace
donians are revolting because they are
r.ot getting enough. And the sultan, he
pays—or promises to pay—the bills.
: “Boston,” says the Globe of that city,
“has a Club Espanol, and a Cercolo Ital
ians, as well as a Cercle Francaise and
a Deutsche Verein. Who says we aren’t
cosmopolitan?” Ah! But have you a
Circlovlteh Russiauowski and a Nippon
Banzai society? These are what really
count.
_
■ Killed, 1,025; wounded, 14,162. No,
these are not the casualties of the Rus
so-Japanese war up to date, but-the fig
ures of the railroads of the United States
for the months of July, August and Sep
tember, 1903. The Asiatic war will have
to go on for some time before it reaches
this record.
Sometimes a humble newspaper edi
tor breaks out with a ringing phrase
that proves that eloquence and forceful
writing are not yet dead. A Brooklyn
paper speaks of "the lunacy of superla
tive egotism carried to the extreme of
clotted nonsense.” Put that in your note
book—it will make a tremendous hit at
some future "dollar dinner.”
John Ericsson’s gallant old single
turreted monitor, the Montauk, is to be
employed as a target to test the effective
ness of our heavy naval ordnance. This
is at least a more useful end than death
by dry rot at a wharf. The obsolete
cruiser Belle Isle, of the British navy,
was shot up by modern British battle
ships for the same purpose a few years
ago.
It is reported that former President
Kruger, of the Boer republic, is slowly
dying, mind and body, an exile at Men
tone, France. The loss of his country,
his wife and his son have proved too
much even for his sturdy constitution,
and It is when men come to such a pass
as this that they are said to be dying of
broken hearts. Poor old "Oom Paul”
is one of the most pathetic figures of
present day history.
It is interesting and significant that
Admiral Uriu, the Japanese officer who
won the victory at Chemulpo, is a grad
uate of the United States naval acade
my at Annapolis. He was in the class
of 1881, and is only 41 years of age,
though his advancement has been won
by his merit alone. It is not so well
known that his wife is a graduate of
Vassar college. The pair furnishes a
type of culture and progress in "New
Japan.” »
Another five per cent, advance in the
price of diamonds—the fourth within a
year—makes diamonds higher than at
any time within 30 years. But the
prices will undoubtedly continue toTise,
for even the Kimberly field must be ex
hausted some day, and the syndicate is
making hay while the sun shines. The
rise will be felt principally in this coun
try, for the United States buys 60 per
cent, of the annual output of all the
mines in the world.
Japan has a navy of 123 vessels, many
of them first-class lighting craft. Up
to 1865 she never owned a warship, and
apparently did not know what a navy
was. She took her ficst lesson by get
ting some of her boys trained at An
napolis, and the principal commanders
in the operations that have thus faf
been conducted on water have been
either these graduates of the United
States naval academy or men who
have .been educated along the same
lines.
When a man dies at the age of 132
years humanity in general is inclined to
puff out its chest and vaingloriously deny
its similarity to grass which “growetb
up in the morning and in the evening
Is cut down and1 withereth.” Noah Raby,
New Brunswick, N. J., has just passed
away at this patriarchal age, but length
of days seems to have been his only
achievement. The last half century of
his life was passed in the poorhouse,
while his career is summed up in the
statement that he “once saw George
Washington at Portsmouth, Va.” He
certainly is not to blame for that.
A Chicago hotel clerk who recently
found and returned to a New York law
yer on Tuesday a purse containing >3,
060 in currency was rewarded with a
one dollar bill. In connection with this
incident there is a disposition mani
fested among the clerk’s associates to
criticise the New York lawyer because
he did not make the reward larger.
Some are of the opinion that he should
have given the honest hotel clerk, in
addition to the dollar, a quarter for
cigars;^others, that it would have been
only right had he given the clerk >1.50.
Honesty is its own reward.
Stories of thieves who steal red-hot
stoves are not uncommon, and the car
rying away of pesthousea has been heard
of; but it has remained for an Indiana
county to lose a jail. History does not
record another such theft; a community
retires for the night in the secure con
sciousness that all its criminals are
locked up, and awakens in the morning
to find jail, prisoners and all vanished.
To be sure, it was not tied down; it was
a temporary structure which earlier in
Us career had served as a freight car,
but nobody dreamed that it would eyer
renew the wandering habits of its youth.
In Syracuse, N. Y., a husband accused
of beating his wife says that he struck
her under the direction of a physician
who had advised him to take this heroic
method of curing her of hysteria. This ,
opens a novel line of defense pregnant
with vast possibilities for future wife
beaters. It is a fact well known in the
medical profession that a sharp slap
will often put an immediate end to the
most violent and alarming case of hys
terics. However, it is hardly necessary
to knock a woman down with a chair,
black her eyes «g# choke her into in
sensibility.
< V ' . .. . .. .. .. :
What Has Happened Throughout
the Civilized World.
A WEEK’S NEWS CONDENSED
A Complete Review of the Happening*
• of the Past Seven Days in This
and Ail Foreign Lands.
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Summary of Daily Proceedings in the
Senate and House:
A bill was introduced in the senate
on the 1st increasing the salary of the
president to $75,000; vice president, $15,
000; speaker of the house, $12,000; mem
bers of the cabinet, $15,000 each; sen
ators and members of the house, $8,000
each. The bill requiring the use of
American vessels in transporting gov
ernment supplies was passed. In the
house general debate on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill was ended.
A resolution was introduced amending
the constitution by limiting the number
of representatives in congress after 1911
to 200, each? state to have at least one.
In the senate on the 2d the bill for
the regulation of Philippine shipping
was again the principal subject of con
sideration. in the house the entire day
was devoted to consideration of the
District of Columbia appropriation bill.
While considering the naval appro
priation bill on the 3d the senate dis
cussed a wide range of subjects, includ
ing the policy of the United States in
the Philippines and the Russo-Japan
ese war. In the house a letter from
Grover Cleveland was read, denying
that he entertained a negro at lunch
eon in the white house. The Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bill
was passed and the Indian appropria
tion bill was considered.
FROM WASHINGTON.
At the close of business February
29 the total circulation of bank notes
was $430,324,310, an increase for the*
year of $47,525,405.
Before a senate committee in Wash
ington President Smith, of the Mor
mon church; affirmed his belief in
polygamy at the opening of the Smoot
hearing.
Senor Quesada, the Cuban minister,
and Secretary Hay have signed a new
treaty confirming Cuba in the title to
the Isle of Pines.
It may be necessary for the United
States to intervene in San Domingo.
Foreign nations are pressing the state
department to maintain order.
The secretary of the treasury has no
tified special national bank depositories
that they will be called on by March
25 to pay 20 per cent, of their holdings
of government funds on account of the
Panama canal payments.
Gen. Chaffee disarmed an insane dis
charged soldier who shot two employes
of the war department and assisted in
overpowering him.
The secret service announces the dis
covery of a new counterfeit $20 sil
ver certificate of the series of 1891.
Before the senatorial committee hear
ing the case of Senator Smoot Presi
dent Smith, of the Mormon church, con
fessed that he has live wives, and that
several of his apostles were polyga
mists.
THE EAST.
Noah Raby, believed to be the oldest
man in the world, died in the poor
house at Piscataway, N. J., aged 132
years.
The champion woman swimmer of
the world, Edith Golding, died at her
home in Bath Beach, N. Y., aged 23
years.
Election returns from Vermont in
dicate that five of the six cities and
less than 50 out of 246 towns in the
state voted in favor of licensing sa
loons.
The doors have been closed of the
Farmers’ exchange bank at Cleveland,
N. Y., and the Parish (N. Y.) ex
change bank, both operated by Potter
& Marsden.
In New York city 14 persons were
reported killed, 20 injured and a score
missing as a result of the collapse of
a 13-story building.
A bill has passed the Maryland house
of delegates providing that steam rail
roads shall furnish separate cars for
negroes.
Fire destroyed Denny hall, one of the
finest buildings connected with Dickin
son college, at Carlisle, Pa.
The death of William Henry Har
rison Murray, the writer, better known
as ‘‘Adirondack Murray,” occurred at
his home in Guilford, Conn., aged 64
years.
WEST AND SOUTH.
Heart disease caused the sudden
death of Joseph Soultz, editor of the
Menominee Leader, at his home in
Marinette, Wis.
At Stillwell, I. T., five young men
died from drinking lemon extract in
large quantities as a stimulant.
Flames destroyed the large plant of
the Waterloo (la.) Wagon and Om
nibus company and several adjoining
buildings.
Owing to the objection to the negro
postmaster at Humphreys, Ark., the
office was blown up by dynamite.
The charters of 1,000 corporations
doing business in Illinois have been
canceled by the secretary of state for
failing to make annual statements.
Wilhelmina Iecheberg, aged 102
years, died at the^German old people’s
home in Chicago.
The army transport Sherman sailed
from San Francisco for the Philip
pines, carrying the Twelfth infantry.
The doors of the Le Sueur (Minn.)
county bank, a private institution,
were closed, with liabilities of $95,000.
Republicans in the Sixth district of
Virginia have nominated S. H. Hogc,
of Roanoke, for congress.
The main portion of Rock Mount, N.
C., was swept away by lire.
A legislature committee on capitol is
planning for a $2,000,000 capitol build
ing in Madison, Wis., to replace the
burned structure.
A blizzard with the mercury below
zero raged in portions of Wisconsin,
Michigan and Minnesota.
The president favors tne immediate
creation of two new states, one com
posed of Oklahoma and Indian terri
tory and the other of Arizona and New
Mexico.
In Comanche county, Oklahoma, 75,
000 acres were swept by Are at a loss
bf-4200,000, many persons were
reported killed.
„ The death of Ferdinand Brucker,
who was democratic congressman from
the Eighth district of Michigan for the
term beginning March 4,1897, occurred
in Saginaw.
J. W. Babcock has been renominated
for congress by the republicans of the
Third Wisconsin district,
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[MISSISSIPPI legislature)
As the legislature enters upon the
ninth week of its existence, activity
begins to mark its deliberations. From
now on to adjournment it will be a
steady grind with both branches. It is
not believed that the legislature will
be able to get through before the 20th
at the earliest. There is a good deal
of important legislation which has to
be perfeeted yet. A good many bills
which are very important have passed
but one house, and they will have to
be taken up by the other house and
passed. The members are anxious to
be off, but they recognize that they
cannot jump up and leave a lot of im
portant legislation unfinished.
The senate now has the general
privilege tax bill, passed by the house,
and the general appropriation bill,
both of which are very important
measures. It is expected that both of
these bills will be passed during the
week.
The members of both houses are at
sea in regard to a bond issue, and it
has not been determined yet whether
there will have to be a bond issue or
not. There are a great many mem
bers of the opinion that u the legis
'ature will make provision to sell the
property of the State in the city of
Jackson, which is not needed, it will
put enough money into the treasury
to avoid a bond issue. No action has
been taken as yet looking to the sale
of any of this property, though some
bills have been introduced looking to
the sale of the old capitol property,
but the bill is still tied up with the
committee.
Some of the farmer members of the
legislature are getting restless. Spring
is coming on and they know that their
presence is needed at home to super
intend farming operations.
FORTIETH DAY.
Convened In joint session this morn
ing, the two houses of the legislature
paid solemn and beautiful tribute to
one of its departed members, State
Senator W. B. Walker of Monroe coun
ty. In deathlike stillness the mem
bers of the two bodies sat for nearly
three hours while beautiful tributes
were paid to the life and character of
the dead statesman.
At the conclusion of the legislative
addresses Bishop Galloway was In
vited to pay his tribute of loving re
membrance to the dead senator, who
for many years had been his personal
friend. Bishop Galloway performed
the marriage ceremony twelve years
ago when Senator Walker and Miss
Mary Dudley Sykes were united in
happy marriage, and his address was
one of the ablest efforts this distin
guished divine has ever made on such
an occasion. He ascended'to the high
est flights of the eloquence of which
he is master, and his blending of beau
tiful sentiment with exquisite pathos
brought tears to many furrowed
cheeks.
The house committee on corporations
reported adversely on the joint resolu
tion introduced by Mr. Foster of War
ren instructing the attorney-general to
immediately institute legal proceed
ings to set aside the merger between
the Mobile & 6hio and Southern Rail
ways.
This report brings to an end one of
the hardest fought committee battles
of the legislature. . Strong pressure
was brought to bear to secure a favor
able report on the resolution, and
equally strong arguments were made
by the representatives of the two rail
roads, Cdl. E. L. Russell of the Mo
bile & Ohio and Gen. Thomas C. Catch
ings of the Southern, showing that the
merger is not a violation of the clause
of the Mississippi constitution forbid
ding the consolidation of parallel or
competing lines of railway.
By an almost unanimous vote the
senate refused to concur In the house
amendments to the uniform school
book till, and a conference has been
requested on the subject, the commit
tee to be composed of five members
from each body.
The senate particularly objects to
the house amendment which changes
the personnel of the school book com
mission by relieving the governor
and attorney-general from serving
thereon. The original measure also
specifies the grade of the eight teach
ers to be appointed, and merely re
quires that they shall he “teachers of
known -ability.”
This Is the result the school book
lobby hoped to accomplish, and conse
quently they are veiy jubilant over
the senate's refusal to concur. If a
discord should develop among the ten
members of the conference committee
it is certain that there will be no
school book legislation, as -the session
is drawing rapidly to a close. Two
years ago the school book bill was de
feated by the non-concurrernce of the
senate, and it seems that the lobby has
a penchant for accomplishing its most
effective work in the upper body.
FORTY-FIRST DAY.
The lower house passed the commit
tee substitute for the bill creating a
system of coal oil inspection in the
State and providing punishment for
the sale of adulterated oil or petro
leum products of any kind.
The measure authorizes the gover
nor to appoint an inspector in every
county for a term of four years, under
bond of $1,000, and to receive a com
pensation of 35 cents for every 100
gallons inspected, to be paid by the
party for whom the service is ren
dered. The methods of inspection are
carefully defined, the bill being
framed after similar measures of oth
er States. Other measures passed by,
the house during the afternoon ses
sion were as follows:
Relating to impaneling juries in
counties having separate -court dis
tricts; changing Supreme Court terms
from October and March to November
and April, so that the body shall con
vene and adjourn one month later;
authorizing the consolidation of mu
nicipalities and granting telephone
equal rights with telegraph companies
to erect poles along railroad rights of
way.
The senate passed the constitution
al amendments providing for an elec
tive judiciary system, the measure go
ing through on its first reading by a
vote of 29 to 6. This resolution also
provides for the increase of the Su
preme bench to five members, and the
lengthening of the term to ten years.
The house has already passed an elec
tive judiciary amendment, which Is
somewhat different in its provisions
to the senate measure, and a confer
ence will probably be necessary.
Bills were passed as follows: Au
thorizing boards of supervisors to
construct telephone lines," authorizing
Warren county to make refund to Ben
Grider; authorizing municipalities to
levy 10-mill tax without consent of ma
jority of taxpayers.
A number of glaring errors were
pointed out in the report of the in
vestigating committee on the Univers
ity of Mississippi, and the document
was recommitted for correction.
FORTY-SECOND DAY.
The senate defeated the McLaurin
-hill seeking to creat forty-five dis*
trlct courts in Mississippi, each to be
presided over by a judge at a salary
of $75 per month. The measure had
been under discussion in that body at
intermittent periods for a week or
more, and a hard fight was made by
the author to secure its passage.
The senate passed the house bill,
creating a capitol commission to be
composed of the governor, secretary of
State, insurance commissioner and
revenue agent, and the measure now
goes to the governor for signature.
The remainder of the session of the
body was devoted to appropriation
bills.
Several minor bills were introduced
during the session of the house a$d
a number of committees made reports
on pending measures. The appropria
tion bill for the Mississippi A. and M.
College, which carries $213,000, not in
cluding Interest on the college land
fund, was passed. The remainder o(
the session was devoted to appropria
tion bills.
-FORTY-THIRD DAY.
The only measure of importance
passed in the legislature this morn
ing was the geological survey meas
ure, reported in substitute form from
the senate committee, and providing
that the work be devided between the
faculty members of the University of
Mississippi and the Mississippi A. and
M. College, to be carried on in con
junction with the government geologi
cal work. The original bill was of
fered by Senator Boyd, of Tippah, and
the substitute embodies many of its
features.
The house reconsidered the coal oil
inspection bill and recommitted the
measure to the judiciary committee.
Some of the members are of the opin
ion that it gives the governor entirely
too much patronage to appoint a coal
oil inspector in every county.
The senate passed the senate
amendments to the primary election
law adopted in the house, and the
measure now goes back for concur
rence in an amendment eliminating the
clause providing that a person shall
not be allowed to vote in a primary
who is visibly intoxicated. On this
point a brief but very interesting de
bate ensued and the conclusion reach
ed by jthe senate in substance means
that it Is every man's duty to vote and
the great American privilege of the
aforesaid man to get as drunk as he
pleases on election day, and none can
say him nay. .
The constitutional question was
raised and several members declared
that it tvas the province of any man
or set of men to determine when a
person is too drunk to vote intelligent
ly. The house will doubtless concur
in the senate amendment.
The non-fraternity men made their
last fight of this session in the lower
house to abolish the Greek
letter fraternities at the University of
Mississippi and the battle was lost.
The fight was brought up on the
university appropriation bill, carrying
an allowance of $159,046.35 for the
next two years. Mr. Ellis offered an
amendment to the bill providing that
no part, of the sum should be paid
until the board of trustees abolished
the Greek fraternities. The constitu
tional point was raised that legisla
tion of this nature could not be placed
as a rider on appropriation bills, but
Speaker Thomas ruled the point out of
order, the Supreme Court having spe
cifically decided the question in the
contest over the appropriation for the
Industrial Institute and College.
A spirited debate followed, and both
sides made some sledge hammer argu
ments, during which the condition of
affairs at the university was fully air
ed. The amendment was finally tabled
and the bill passed. The entire after
noon was consumed in the debate.
FORTY-FOURTH DAY.
After a debate lasting for the past
three days at intermittent periods, the
lower house last week finally passed
the bill authorizing telegraph and tel
ephone companies to exercise the
right of eminent domain. There was
very strong opposition to the bill,
many members believing that the
semi-private or quasi-public corpora
tions should not thus have their lib
erties enlarged.
The appropriation bill for the In-*
dustrial Institute and College, carry
ing an appropriation of $159,548.14 for
the biennial period, was passed. Mr.
Patterson introduced a bill prohibiting
the sale of tobacco to minors.
The senate passed the general ap
propriation bill to defray the current
expenses of the various departments
of State government for the next two
years. A measure was passed author
izing boards of supervisors to supple
ment the State pensions by making
payments to pensioners from county
funds.
Good-by to Peruna.
The senate today passed a bill pro
hibiting the sale of Peruna, Jamaica
ginger and all forms of intoxicating
bitters or remedies.
The vote on the bill was 22 to 12,
and although a motion to reconsider
was entered, there is little hope of
accomplishing the defeat of the meas
uei; when it is again called up on the
motion.
Much jocularity and good natured
Jibing took place in across-the-aisle
conversation during the discussion of
the bill, and also in open debate. One
member remarked that its passage
\yould be a direct insult to a certain
eminent Mississippian now in private
life, whose picture frequently adorns
the Peruna advertisements in daily
and weekly newspapers. During the
discussio?F a few members asserted
that Peruna is really a valuable medi
cine, tvhile others contended that if
persons want to drink whisky that
they should use good whisky and not
stuff that is doped up and sold under
the guise of a proprietary medicine.
At any rate, if the bill passes the
house and receives the signature of
the governor, it is good-by to Peruna
and all similar drugs in Mississippi,
and there will be much weeping and
gnashing of teeth in the “dry” towns,
where the local drug patent medicine
shelf is the popular resort of those
w ho love the cup that cheers. In
many of these towns honors are about
even between Peruna and Jamaica
ginger as the popular beverage, and
of late years certain kidney remedies
have entered into the lively competi
tion. Alternated indulgence in these
compounds is said to produce the fierc
est sort of a jag, having a duration
much longer than that acquired by the
use of the common intoxicants sold in
“wet” communities, and with the sale
of these prohibited it verily seems that
the lot of the boozer indeed becomes
a hard one.
FORTY-FIFTH DAY.
The Confederate veterans in the sen
ate were very much stirred up last
week over the bill seeking to change
the name of Lincoln county to Jeff
Davis county, in tfaor of the cmeftain
of the Lost Cause.
In spite of the explanation of the
member from that district that the
people of Lincoln county did not de
sire a change of name, the measure
received a very serious consideration
from members, especially Senators
Fritch, Henry and Gordon, who were
opposed to perpetuating the §ame of
Lincoln in Mississippi, and declared
that all counties bearing names in hon
or of any person who opposed the
Sout^, or who wefe involved in the
carpetbagger regime during the days
of reconstruction should be changed.
The bill was indefinitely postponed.
Educational and appropriation bills
occupied the attention of the house
during the morning. Measures were
passed for the support of the East
Mississippi Insane Hospital, the de
partment of archives’ and history, and
allowing the Supreme Court a mes
senger. Several incidental measures
relating to county superintendent^ of
education were passed, among the
number being a bill to make the sell
ing or giving away, of examination
Questions a misdemeanor. This recalls
the prosecution of the celebrated
Wardlaw case, from Yazoo county,
wherein it was impossible to pnateh
the offender on account of the lack of
a specific statute on the subject. The
house passed a bill making the first
of September, Labor Day, a legal holi
day. The measure had previously
passed the senate. The house com
mittee 01 buildings and grounds re
ported adversely to the proposition to
sell the governor's mansion and the
old State house grounds. Mr. Allen
introduced a bill authorising an issue
of one million dollars in State bonds,
or so much thereof as may be neces
sary, the sum to be issued to be placed
at the discretion of the governor.
Bonds Are Necessary.
By the narrow majority of one vote,
the result standing 56 to 55, the lower
house declared against the proposition
to Increase the State tax levy from
six to seven mills, and commits itself
in favor of allowing the governor to
make a bond issue not exceeding one
million dollars to defray the current
expenses of government during the
next two years, in case he should find
it necessary to do so.
The lower house passed a bill au
thorizing the erection of new build
ings and the selection of a new site
for the deaf and dumb institute, the
total expenditure therefor not to ex
ceed $100,000.
The bill authorizes the sale of the
present deaf and clufnb institute prop
erty, which is estimated to be worth
about $125,000, and contemplates the
use of the funds thus derived for the
erection of the’buildings for the new
Institutions. The buildings proper are
to cost not exceeding $75,000, and in
case the commission fails to find any
State property in Jackson, either at
the insane hospital or the deaf and
dumb institute lands fa the western
suburbs, suitable for a site, they may
spend not more than $25,000 for the
purchase of a tract not to exceed 160
acres.
Since the old buildings of the deaf
and dumb institute were destroyed by
fire two years ago. the institution has
been occupying cottages erected on
the old site, and confidence is felt that
a ready sale can be obtained for this
property.
COMMENT AND CRITICISM.
Some Opinions on Legislation Past,
Present and Prospective.
Kid Glove Farming.
A desperate but unsuccessful at
tempt was made In the senate last
night to defeat the appropriation bill
for the agricultural experiment sta
tion at McNeill. Several members,
especially those belonging to the older
set, expressed their contempt for ex
perimental farming. Senator Thrash
er stated that when he wanted infor
mation on agricultural subjects be
would go to some practical farmer,
and not to a kid glove experimenter.
Appropriation Billf Finished.
The two bodies finished practically
all of the appropriation bills last
week. Nearly all the State education
al institutions have been looked after.
The university appropriation went
from the house to the senate and the
I. I. and C. appropriation passed by
the 'senate is in the hands of the
house committee on universities aud
colleges. The Mississippi A. and M
Colllege appropriation bill has bech
sent from the house to the senate.
Sample Telephone Bill.
After one of the hardest fights thaj;
has taken place before a eOtpmitteS
during the present session, thfe house
committee on corporations finally-sub
mittted a favorable repott on the bill
introduced by the Hon. S. N. Sample,
of Holmes, compelllpg long aistafice
telephone corporatiopls to connect with
local exchanges. The bill ha! already
been passed by the house and no^r
awaits the action of the senate.
Barber Bill Favored.
, It looks very much like the legisla
ture Is going to prohibit the importa
tion of Bohemian fishermen by the
canning factories along the gulf ecast
during the oyster season and to re
strict fishing for oysters In Mississippi
waters to bojm fide resident cltisens of
the State. The special committee apt
pointed to Investigate the oyster In
dustry has made a report recommend
ing this course, and the chances seem
qqite favorable for the passage of the
Barber bill making this provision.
Sent to the drand Jury.
Criminal proceedings seem to be in
prospect over the Mississippi Insane
Hospital land purchase, the report on
which, submitted by the committee on
humane and benevolent institutions in
• the lower house last week cre
ated such a sensation, the committee
specifically charging that the trans
action was made for the benefit of Ed
gar S. Wilson. Somebody seems in a
fair way to have to explain to the
grand Jury, and the attorney-general
has been authorized to institute pro
ceedings to recover the money tho
State paid out on the deal.
Opposed to Salary Increases.
The legislature is manifesting a very
decided reluctance against increasing
the salaries of State officials or em
ployes during the present session. A
bill as passed in the house last week
increasing the salary of the governor’s
private secretary to $1,500 per year, as
it is said he is the most hard worked
attache of the State government. The
original provision of the bill was for
an increase to $1,800, which was cut
down by an amendment to $1,600.'
Lincolnites Up in Arms.
The people of Lincoln county, judg
ing by the comments in the Brook
haven papers, do not seem to be in
favor of the bill introduced by a mem
ber from Amite county to change tho
name of Lincoln county to Jeff Davis
county.
Governor’s Action Endorsed.
The governor’s action in using
troops in two instances to suppress
mob violence is still a subject of much
discussion among legislators. In the
lower house “the members recognize
with Uelivht the course he has pursued
and heaialy endorse his prompt and
righteous action in the premises.”
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College Legislation.
Apropos of the appropriation bills
for educational institutions pending in
the legislature, a bill has been intro
duced in the house directing that the
committee on universities and colleges
inquire into and report on the feasi
bility of abolishing the preparatory
departments at the Starkville Agricul
tural and Mechanical College and the
Industrial Institute and College at Co
lumbus. The members of the facul
ties of these two institutions are rad
ically opposed to such a step.
A Good Road* Bill.
The most important bill that has
been Introduced in the legislature dur
ing the present month is the measure
offered in the house recently by Hon.
James W. Norment, of Oktibbeha,
which seeks to make the preliminary
arrangements for the enforcement of
the Browulow good roads bill, pend
ing in congress. Mr. Norment is the
author of the present contract road
law of Mississippi, and is perhaps the
best posted member of the body on
road legislation. He was a delegate
from the State-at-large to the Interna
tional Good Roads Convention, held
in St. Louis last April, and was made
a member of the legislative committee
of the National Good Roads Associa
tion, which committee was empow
ered to act in contemplation of the
Brownlow bill, or some similar meas
ure. Mr. Norment is confident that
his bill will be reported favorably by
the committee oj» roads, ferric? pad
bridge*
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI]
Items of Industrial Interest Gleaned From All Over the State.
Notes and Comments.
BY H. E. BLAKESLEE.
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There are more reasons than one
why factories should be located in I
Mississippi that are worthy of explol-1
tation at the hands of the press ot the
State. The laws are. liberal, -indeed. J
and offer inducements superior to
those of almost every other State in
the Union. Conditions are unusually
favorable and with the proper interest
manifested would no doubt attract the
attention of capitalists in the North
and West and wake up some dormant
capital in our own State. The pres
ence of factories gives employment to
a large class of our people, notably
women and children who cannot make
a living on the farm; has the effect of
Increasing real esti.te values In the
Immediate proximity of such indus
tries; adds much taxable wealth, and,
above all, gives a home market for oury
truckers and farmers generally.
I-arge pay rolls to factory employes
flow into the general channels of
trade, to merchants, truckers, farm
ers, and, in short, to almost every ave
nue of commerce. It should be re
membered that monies thus distrib
uted to employes necessarily comes
from abroad, due to the sale of the
finished product of the factory, and
hence It means an influx of wealth.
The South is today the growing cen
ter of the Union in this particular
line, and why should we not have our
pro rata of these industries that are
coming South? It is because our peo
ple have not taken the matter actively
In hand. We are depending too much
on our agriculture, and that fact is
why we are not better off today. Di
versified industry and the presence of
factories to consume our raw material
will change matters very much for
our good. Mississippi has an abund
ance of the finest labor In the Union;
we are not troubled with lock-outs and
strikes, nor are we troubled with labor
laws as are Northern manufacturers.
If these matters are called to the at
tention of capitalists who are seeking
a place for investment, we would re
ceive a due proportion of the many
factories that are coming in this direc
tion. Capital is an extremely timid
thing and men are not inclined to put
their all into an industry in a foreign
State without local aid and encourage
ment.
* * *
An advantage possessed by Missis
sippi over the States further north,
and one that is well worth exploiting,
is the difference in the coat of living.
The first cost of making a home here
is not only less, but It costs less to
support the home and the family than
It does in a country where winter is
the rule and summer only the Inter
lude. The three largest items of ex
pense for every family are, buildings,
clothing and food. Individual arti
cles of clothing cost some less here
than in the North, and the total
amount of clothing needed is much
less, and what is needed is a less ex
pensive article. The furs, heavy wool
ens and other expensive articles of
winter clothing are not needed here,
and clothing of the cheaper cotton fab
rics is all that is wanted during the
greater part of the year. Undercloth
ing of wool is frequently worn, but the
heavy wraps and double suits worn in
the North are wholly unnecessary.
Fuel costs'but little and little is need
ed. Carpets are much less essential
to comfort than in the North and are
much less used. Parties first coming
here from the North will find their
heavy clothing comfortable for the
first winter from the fact that our cli
mate is damper than what they have
been used to, but after one or two
winters they will find no need for such
and it will never be replaced. The
same may be said in regard to the cost
of food. Meat, flour, sugar, tea and
coffes cost practically the Eame here
as in the North, but with our milder
climate we need less of these and use
a larger proportion of vegetables and
fruits, which are grown at home, and
so cost no cash outlay. From the ex
perience of many who have lived in
both places, we are confident tnat the
expense here for the three items men
tioned is not more than two-thirds
what it is in States north of the Ohio
river. With such small expense for
living, with our light taxes and cheap
labor, this is one of the best places in
the whole country for a man of en
ergy, pluck and limited means to make
for himself a comfortable home.
While the good people of Charles
ton, Tallahatchie county, may not be
"pushing" the whole State of Missis
sippi so much, they are pushing their
town, and that is commendable. At a
largely attended mass meeting held a
few days since, they decided to have
railroad connection at any 0O3t and
put enthusiastic men to work to get
the movement under way. The propo
sition is, to tap the Illinois Central
at Oakland with a branch road for
Charleston. When their movement
takes tangible proportions the Illinois
Central will no doubt ccme in and
help the matter along. The town
needs this road to make it one of the
best in the State, surrounding condi
tions being favorable to a large com
mercial and manufacturing business.
* * *
The forests of Mississippi still con
tain large quantities of valuable tim
ber that should be worked into the
finished articles right here at home.
Not a particle of it should be shipped
out of the State in an unfinished state.
4*
For the flr&t time Mississippi is
making a little appropriation to ad
vertise her wonderful resources
abroad. Total appropriations of $60,
000 have been made for the exploiting
of a few of our products at the St.
Louis fair. This is just four cents per
head on our population, but we hope
fee the very best results. Our legis
lators have been too stingy with this
subject and attached too little impor
tance to it. There is nothing coming
to us on a silver or gold spoon. We
must go out after it, and that in a
business way, too. Set-fasts and car
buncles have no place in our make-up
now', and they must be eradicated.
• • •
The moneyed men of our State are
showing their faith in its future great
ness in a moat liberal way. They are
investing liberally In enterprises that
consume the crude material and give
employment to labor. Such action on
their part is great oncouragement for
outside capital. No outsider will be
inclined to invest his money when
the home people are holding back and
not showing a substantial interest.
* * *
Mississippi is the leader in the way
of public schools. Mere money is ap
propriated for their support per capita
and a longer term given than In any
other State in the South'
* * •
There was a story told once that car
ried with It a splendid lesson, and one
worthy of emulation by all Mississip
plans. “By chance two frogs fell into
a pail of milk. One gave up and was
drowned at once, but the other was
made of different stuff. He began to
kick and splutter and (scramble around
trying to get out When morning
came one frog was dead while the oth
er had kicked out a lump of butter
big enough to float around on and w as
master of tha situation.” The but
ter is coming and all we need to do
is to keep kjcklbfr
There is in the State one factory
that is a red hot propoeitfon. The
“Red Snapper Co.." of Centerville, is
referred to. It manufactures a brand
of pepper sauce which has been
named the "Red Snapper," and com
mands a good sale wherever intro
duced. The company has been doing
business for some time and enjoys an
extensive trade.
• • •
Why not organise a league all over
the State with the motto: “Push Mis
sissippi?” There’s something to it.
• • *
That the State is awakening to the
enormity of her wonderful resources,
only the mo3t ignorant can fail to see.
Within the last decade remarkable ad- i
vances have been made in an indus
trial way. Our people are no longer i
sitting idle, waiting for Northern ca’p
ital to come in and pick up the golden
plums lying scattered from one end of ;
the State to the other. Instead, they
have partially awakened to the possi
bilities and opportunities before them,
and now the busy hum of machinery is
heard on all sides. Cotton, our groat
staple, is gathered from the fields one
day and sent the next in textile form
to the markets of the world. Our peo
ple are alive at last to the possibili
ties before them and are achieving for
themselves the long delayed tribute
which the world now voluntarily ac
knowledges as their birthright. With
such a country, such a people must j
keep in the forefront in the grand j
march of commercial progress and ex
pansion. This generation must set
the pace for the next by such wise
steps that will bring into full devel
opment the rich capacities of soil and
the grand powers of brain and brawn
which the unerring wisdom of the
great ruler of hitman, destinies has
brought together in this favored land.
This can be accomplished largely by
the judicious use of our own means j
and the talents accorded us. The great
work is in progress and the man who
won’t see it that way is blind from
choice.
• * *
The canal system of reclaiming
swamp lands has been put in success
ful operation in some of the counties
where there were bottom lands with
favorable conditions. The plan is'to
issue bonds and have the canal cut;
then to assess each acre thus benefited
so much per year until the bonds and
interest are paid. Land that was
worth less than $1.00 per acre before
was made to bring from $15 to $40
when sold. It might be well for peo
ple with this kind of land to investi
gate the feasibility of having it
drained. Information on the subject I
can be secured by writing G. W. Long,
chancery clerk of Lee county, at Tu- ;
pelo, enclosing stamp for reply. There
are other counties which have adopted
this plan, but the above address is
given because the writer Is acquainted
with the success of the venture In Lee :
county. »
* » •
Samples of cucumber pickles which
will be in our exhibit at the fair com
pare favorably with those produced
by any section. Rome lands within
the State are especially adapted to the
culture of such vegetables, and if com
munities would only form small com
panies to put up these articles they
would be assured a ready market for
the product. The company that could
supply twenty per cent of the trade of
Mississippi alone would have a big
business and furnish a market for all
cucumbers and other pickling vegeta
bles that cculd be raised for miles
around. Could our people only be
made to see the advantages following
such a course, the Rtate would be more
prosperous than ever.
The city of Tupe'o has a municipal
park in the way of a body of 44 acres
of pure artesian water. It is stocked
with game fish and affords fine sport
for those who enjoy angling for the
game bream and elusive trout. A fee
is charged for fi V^g in the park ana
a keeper is always on hand to collect
the fee and look after the comfort of
his customers. Quite a handsome sum
is paid in each year for fishing privi
leges and it has proven a great sue- i
cess.
• » •
The people of Mississippi are very
backward in one thing especially, and
it is to be hoped that they will be
come educated along this line and in
the near future wake up to the impor
tance of properly advertising to the
world our wonderful resources. If it
were generally known that our State
possessed the advantages abe does, we
believe that in a *«ry short period of
time there would be an influx of im
migration and capital ^hat would sur
prise even the most optimistic.
* * «
Our new citizens from the North
and West are contented and happy.
They enjoy the mild winters and the
comparative ease with which a crop
can be produced here.
* • *
There's always room for men with
money, brain and muscle in Missis
sippi.
* * *
And whoever would have believed
that Mississippi was the mother of
Yale College? But it is so. And
Yale College seems to be content with
Itawamba county, where it is lo
cated, and, by the way, we understand
that it is prospering, as all such ex
cellent institutions in the State
should.
* * *
There is employment for all who tie
sire work in Mississippi at reraunera
tive figures. The demand for labor it
always good, and especially for the
skilled artisans of different trades.
* • •
Mississlppiang gladly welcome men
of energy and enterprise, makes no
difference from what section of the
country they hail. What we want is
workers with capital to put their pro
jects into execution. Send a thousand
and room will be made to accommo
date them.
• * *
How many people know that the in-1
ventor of the round bale compress j
was a naitve born Mlssissippian? He j
was, and still has ties that bind him ■
to his native State. W. C. Bessonettei
was a resident of Verona. Lea county, |
and occasionally comes back now to
Visit old friends and relatives.
• * •
Few indeed are the sections of the
State where wells of pure, life-giving
artesian water cannot be had for a j
small sum. In Pontotoc county there |
are overflowing wells not more than
75 feet deep, while in some other
counties it is necessary to go down
more than a thousand feet. The delta
section is becoming well supplied with
good water through this source, and
nothing is more conducive to health.
Analysis of the various waters found
hag in every instance proven it to be
of purest Md
Her Idea of It.
Mr*. Newed—I’m afraid my husband haa
ceased to love me.
Mra. Homer—What change do you find?
“None; that’s juat the trouble. He haa
quit leaving any change in his pockets.”—
Chicago Daily News.
The man who keeps too attentive an eye
on the future misses a good many thing*
that relieve the monotony of the present.
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