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The Times-Promoter. G. L. Darden, Publisher. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $1.00 One Year. Six Months Three Months .60 .25 Obituaries, resolutions of respect, and no tices of pay entertainments will be charged for at two and one-half cents per line of ev ery six words. Count the words In uscript and send two and one-half cents for every six, otherwise It will not be published. your man THE STATE'S FINANCES. Elsewhere in this issue we publish a communication from Gov. Noel to taxpayers of Mississippi, in which the chief executive gives a clear and comprehensive statement of the state's financial condition. s It is well-known that Mississippi is in better financial condition than a majority of the states of the union. While practically all the counties in the state have been forced to increase the county tax levy to meet current expenses the state levy remains the same year after year. Because of the retirement of $3, 000.00 worth of bonds the state's ready cash has been reduced to a slim sum and persons holding warrants against the state will be forced to wait sev eral months before the cash is forth coming. £u3h a contingency was foreseen by many members of the last legislature and a bill passed the senate authorizing the governor to borrow money to meet the shortage that has come but the house, for some reason unknown, declined to pass the bill, so holders of state paper, some of whom are pensioners, will have to wait for taxes to be collected or the state's cotton to be sold. This fear of the popular branch of the legislature to invest the governor with power to borrow to meet cur rent expenses was unreasonable and unjust. All obligations of the state should be met at once, and if the governor had the authority to nego tiate a reasonable loan this could now be done. X A recent decision of the United States supreme court, says the Co lumbus Dispatch, has established be yond doubt the fact that any state in the union has the right to enact laws requiring white and colored children to attend separate schools. The case was carried up from Kentucky, hav ing been instituted to test the validity Of a law passed in 1904 prohibiting racial co-education in that state. The higher state court took the position that the white and black races are naturally antagonistic and that the enforced separation of the two is in the line of preservation of the peace. The opinion of the supreme court was handed down by Justice Brewer, and affirmed the finding of both the Ken tucky circuit court and the court of appeals. Justices Harlan and Day dissented. P. J. J. J. R. J. J. J. H. * Cold Iceland has gone dry. By a vote of hearly three-fourths of the citizens the importation and traffic in liquor has been prohibited.- As na tions and communities advance in civilization the belief becomes more universal that the consumption of iiquor is a senseless habit and a me nace to good citizenship. The two members of the Wheeler jury who stood pat for a verdict of manslaughter are to be congratulated for taking a stand for law and order. If the prosecution did not make out a clear case of manslaughter against Mr. Wheeler, then there is no such crime named in the statues. Expert geologists estimate that there is enough coal in the ground to last 4,000 years. What in the dickens are we to do after that? His Wish Granted. In one of his great speeches in the United States senate, a body which he adorned while in it, Edward Ward Carmack paid this beautiful and touching tribute to the South: • "The South is a land that has known sorrows; it is a land that has broken the ashen crust and moisten ed it with tears; a land scarred and riven by the plowshare of war and billowed with the graves of her dead; but a land of legend, a land of song, a land of hallowed and heroic memo ries. To that land every drop of my blood, everyTiber of my being, every pulsation of my heart, is consecrated forever. I was bom of her womb; I was nurtured at her breast, and when my last hour shall come. I pray God that I may be pillowed upon her bosom and rocked in sleep within her tender and encircling arms. Carmack's wish came all too true— literdlly true. When stricken by the hand of the assassin his pillow was the sod of the State he glorified, and he now' sleeps within her tender and encircling arms. If ever man was honored the tributes paid to him over his native state last Sunday and since his murder are honors which show how his life work was upgreciated. Great in life, it seqpis that his death is even greater, and those things for which he died are nearing their con summation.—Columbus Dispatch. n POPLAR CORNER PICK-UPS. Hello boys, how is everything? You must be dead, I can't hear from you. Poplar Corner will soon have a big new store in operation. The store is up and covered, nothing to do now but inside work. The Poplar Comer school is boom ing. It will have about 35 scholars next week. A little boy about five years old went to school one day last week. He took in everything. When he went home in the evening he told his mother that he didn't know where the teacher slept. He didn't see any bed. He said the teacher didn't have any cooking stove, no safe, no noth ing. He couldn't understand how the teacher lived without something to keep house on. My old friend, Charley Smith, from Crenshaw, is back in the old neigh borhood visiting friends. He moves around among the girls like he was only 16. Mrs. Charley Lively, who has been visiting at W. H. Williamson's, went back to her home in the Bluff City last Saturday. Very little cotton in the fields to gather in this part of the country. Mrs. Lula Williamson is having a residence built on her land that she bought from Mrs. Gartrell. Esq. Gatlin has business in the hills every Sunday. He can be found at Williamson's. There is where our school teacher boards. "I so ly Old Hughey. ( 3 : Subscription Renewals. The following subscribers have re newed subscriptions since last week: P. H. Campbell, Horn Lake. H. S. McDaniel, Byhalia. J. W. Stafford, Ingrams Mill. Sid Campbell, Horn Lake. Janie Jones, Cub Lake. J. P. Walker, Horn Lake. Dr. T. A. Knight, Love. J. F. Pounders, Eudora. R. T. King, Eudora. W. T. Lewis, Lewisburg. A. P. Lamb, Love. J. O. Crawford, Bright. J. M. Massey, Hernando. J. A. Munns, Cedar View. 1.00 H. Fostar, Hernando. D. M. Anderson, Bright. 2.00 $1.00 1.00 1.50 1.00 1.00 1.Q0 2.00 .50 The and The was un 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 Try Kodol today on our guarantee. Take it for a little while, as that is all you will need to take. Kodol di gests what you eat and makes the stomach sweet. It is sold by Her nando Drug Store. POSTED—No hunting or trespas C. B. Taylor, Cub Lake, Miss. of day a the his old for the er, ln' ter sing on my place. ll-13-3t Fine Shoes MONEY SAVED See Our Low Prices SHOES A sell Ben Spears 128 South Main MEMPHIS, :: TENN. The ♦ Scrap Book A Witty Reply. Lord Houghton's sister w'as often annoyed at her brother's indiscriminate hospitality, dear," he asked her at dinner one day, whether that famous scoundrel X. was hanged or acquitted? have been hanged or you would have had him to dinner long ago," replied the lady. Do you remember, my 'He must Character Molds the Face. It is not in words explicable with what divine lines and lights the exer cise of godliness and charity will mold and gild the hardest and coldest coun tenance, neither to what darkness their departure will consign the loveliest, for there is not any virtue the exercise of which even momentarily will not Impress a new fairness upon the fea tures. Neither on them only, but on the whole body, the moral and Intel* lectual faculties have operation, for all the movements and gestures, however slight, are different in their modes, according to the mind that governs them, and on the gentleness and deci sion of right feeling follows grace of actions and through continuance of this grace of form.—John Ruskin. His Father Was Doing Well. Long after the death of the elder George GrossmitLi the British income tax commissioners by mistake sent to the son. the well known actor, a notice assessing the income of the deceased at $10,000. Mr. Grossmitk returned the document to the proper quarter, with the following note written across it: "I am glad to learn my father is doing so well in the next world; $10,000 is a great deal more than he ever made in this. Kindly forward tills notice to his new address and remember me affec tionately to him." Trapped. A gentleman went into a Louisville restaurant and ordered a bowl of soup. When it was brought an iunocent fly was struggling in its midst. The gen tleman reached in his pocket and dropped something in the plate and then called the waiter. "Waiter, there is a fly in this soup. Bring me another bowl." The waiter took the bowl out and presently returned bearing a steaming bowl of soup, i - : "Did you just pick that fly out, or did you get another bowl of soup?" "I got you-all another bowl, boss." "Well, wait a minute," said the cus tomer, and with his spoon he fished around in the bowl and brought up the half dollar he dropped in the bowl be fore giving it to the negro. The negro's eyes popped out greedi ly and as he turned shamefacedly away was heard to mumble: "Doggoue it, that's just my luck." Making Sure. A Scotsman went to an English race meeting and boldly staked a sovereign. The horse he backed proved a winner, and he went to the bookie to claim his winnings. The sporting man begrudg ingly handed him seven sovereigns. The Scot looked at each one very care fully before placing it in his pocket. "Well," said the bookie, with a snarl, "are you afraid they're bad?" "Oh, no," said the Scotsman; "but I was just lookin' to mak' sure the bad un I gie'd ye wisna amang them." Canine Intuition. A railroad eating house lu southern Georgia which enjoys the reputation of being one of the worst places of its kind in the state has an ancient darky who announces dinner to the incoming passengers by ringing a huge bell. One day the old negro was accompanied by a sad eyed, long eared hound, who at the first ringing of the bell lifted up his voice In a most dismal howl. The old darky stopped and gazed at him for a moment and, with a "Hush yer mouth!" started ringing again. Again the old hound, Avith uo3e in the air, sent forth a long drawn howl. This was too much for the bell ring er, and, turning on the hound, he re marked: "Now, what in de worl' is you mak ln' sech a fuss erbout? You don't have ter eat here lessen yer wants ter."— Harper's. A Loving Son. Artemus Ward once told about two men he heard talking at a hotel In Maine. One of them said: "Well, Bill, I've sold that old mare. "What!" says Bill. "That old flea bitten, broken down, spavined mare?" "Yes." What did you get for her?" A hundred dollars.' A hundred dollars! Who did you sell her to?" "Mother!" u Little dogs start the hare, but g<eat ones catch it.—Italian Troverb. ^ Time To Think About Xmas T HE Xmas present question is always one that perplexes X. us, and every year we are begin ning to realize that a serviceable one, as well as ornamental, is the best and most practical, and there is not anything that an swers this question better than m FURNITURE J For instance a nice Morris chair Xp |jf f° r $6.60 with oak frame and M y covered in chase leather or ve ^ lour, or we have them in the real Spanish leather. You can get a beautiful Rocking Chair in Oak or Mahogany for $5. How about a nice Art Square Rug to freshen up the home? Nothing will please the house keeper better, and we have some nice ones in all colors, in brussel from $10.50 to $18. We can give you the best kind for,$22.50 in Axminister 9x12. Or how would a nice Dining room round quartered oak pedestal table do for $12.50. We invite you to call in and ask us for our list of suitable Xmas presents and let us show them to you. We guarantee to please, and inexpensively too. If you do not wish to pay cash have it charged, as we sell on Credit. or a T. J. Beasley Furniture <S. 272 & 274 S. MAIN In Bijou Building MEMPHIS, TENN. THE HERNANDO BANK GEO. BANKS, President. E. T. WILKINSON. Vice-President. K. P. COOKE, Cashier. T. P. FLINN, Assistunt Cashier. CAPITAL $25,000 Does a general banking, loan and col lecion business. Acts as Trustee, Guardian and Administrator. Pays 3 per cent, on Time Deposits. DIRECTORS Geo. Banks E. T. Wilkinson It. P. Cooke R. L. Redding, L. J. Parley. J. L. Cooke, T. P. Flinn. W A. Williamson. GIVE US YOUR BUSINESS. J. Sternberger. W. D. Mallory. L, Sternberger. Sternberger, Mallory & Co. v COTTON FACTORS and Commission Merchants. 105 South Front Memphis, Tenn.. John McGrath & Company COTTON FACTORS and Commission Merchants. 18*20 South Front Memphis, Tenn. WAREHOUSE: Memphis Warehouse Company. W. T. Walker T. K. Sneed W. C. Knight W. G. Knight & Company COTTON FACTORS Memphis, Tenn. / A share of your consignments solicited on b^s of liberal and courteous treatment and satisfactory sales. 22 South Front St. DOCKERY &DONELSON COTTON FACTORS and Commission Merchants MEMPHIS, TENN. 84 SOUTH FRONT > >