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■.■ ■ B PS ♦ f h T f « fl A PORT GIBSON, MISS., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1890. YOL. XV--NEW SERIES. NUMBER 3. Queen ^TSTO Crescent JACKSON TO CINCINNATI Entire Tram,Baggage Cnrs.Dny Concli nml Sleeping Cars run through without change,from Meridian, The Short Line via cs CIIATTAN 0 0(vA -TO lie Carolinas and Virginia, The Sliortline rla Cincinnati to CHICAGO. CLEVELAND, BUFFALO Siagara Falls and Canada, NEW YORK, BOSTON The Adirondack and White Mountains, ISew lCiitflnncl Cilice, And all points North and East. I« 4 AH Through Train* pass mound the l*aee of Lookout Moi, .tain, along the slioiohf die Emory River, over the Famous Hid. Iln.lge and ihroogh the Blue Glass Region of Kentucky lo Cin trai Union Depot, where connection is made for the North and E ist without tra ii aier. Ill rough die city. For further information ad dies« C. II Carnahan, Agee.t, Jnc' Ron,Miss. 1. Ilaidy, A. G. P. A , Vieksliiiig.Miss N. A. lioUias, Travl.A IlirniinghainAI« F. M. Comfort, T. A I*. A.. Vicksburg. 1). U. Edwards, U I». &i T. A. J. C. Gault, (ien. Manager, Cincinnati. O. J)H. II. G. WHARTON Offers Ilia nrofessiolial services to the people of Port Gibson and vicinity. Of* lice next door to li s leaidence. Pour Gibson. Feb. 16, 1888. r*f DR. Z*. A. SMITH, Resident Dentist, Offers Ilia nmfcMloiinl sei vices to Hie public Office over Goepi Ps Pour Giiison .Ian 6 |l.v Evon Barber ATTOnNE Y-AT-LAiV. ■\\. T II.L PRACTICE IN THE COl RTS OF vv ('UtlMtriic and adjoiotag eouullcs ; also tu Ilif SiiprciiK' and Ki dersl courts st .Tscksoti. Spi-eUl at tent In« lo'coUcrtlon of claim«. ~' * liiu upsuiira over Wwwiti**« barber shop. Pl.lt (iitiNHi, Sept, in, 'St*. __ Ot J\ IB. ASKEW, DENTIT, STOWERS' NEW BUILDING, VICKsHL'HO, Mid*. UK. E. U. BOBBINS, 1). D. S. t 1 Saltimot'o College, DENIAL .SURGEON, MISSISSIPPI » ICKSBVJtO, BARBER SHOP, II. WASSKM, Proprietor, •Iff**, I* r# Hibson, Hair Catting and Shaving done with neatness and di«patch. C. A. FRENCH. K It. STILBS. Stiles & French, A TTOUNBY8-A T-LA IP, Cffc in the Person Building Opposite the Whecless House. Jnn. SI, ISM. W. H. SMITH, Mulberry Street, Vicksburg, COTTON FACTOR CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. Liberal Advances Sxtra Fins. Open kettle molasses. - Very choice California prunes. All kinds sugar, very low. Borne very nice cheap pantaloons. at Wharton's. it stands at the head of all Southern (Jreat Tiines-Deniocrat of New Orleans, La.—Daily and Weekly. It has the largest circulation. I AKDKRTtl'9 Hr '«ta» JVed* «t J 1 KK RICHARDSON A CO. newRpapers. Tho wlmlnw I*. Do not suffer Ignorance in your fa.ni ly. when you can subscribe to that Great Educator, the Modern newspa per. The Times-Democrat is the bu*t. It So* the largest circulation. W AellUl'RN aid M««i hath Wire. i,r. Li.K RICHARDSON à CO < —— . fTTr - —J lto»-Dwwoerat. of New Or. «•«t'Vfrade n '* the newspapers pub lished In the South—l)*ii y iinii Wsvkljr. Jt ku 0,4 largest rtrentation lllildl lu, T 7 "iclrsTo*a.rgr, ^uCississippI, -WHOL1SAL1 AND RETAIL DEALER IN Foreign and Domestic Drugs MIXED PAIITS FROM PIVT8 TO GALLOIS, White lead, boiled aud raw linseed oil, lard oil, ueatsfoot oil, turpentine and all kinds of lubricating oils. Window glass all sizes cut to order. 20 Barrels Putty. 50 Bibs. Lamp Black. INCORPORATED 1Î84. JOHN . HALPIN Manag'. JOHN F. HALPIN CQ '^77'li.olesa.le G-rocsrs, •J Ros. 117 and 120 Bilberry Street, Vicksburg, Miss, -HEADQUARTERS roR Flour, Meat, Hay, Corn, Oats and Bran. Alabama Lime, Portland and Hosed ale Cement'a specialty. ^♦MEMPHIS WEEKLY AVALANCHE/** 06 \ A TWSLYE-FAGï'rjaiOCEATIO TAim./fy/ \ i\ ESTABLISHED 1867. ' , 7 CONTAINS ALL THE NEWS OF THE OAY. /»V>/ > ABLE EDITORIAL*, CAREFULLY-SELE0T2D / /L V MATTER, TALKAOE'B BERMONS, OHIO- /i V/ INAL H TORIES, AND A VARIETY 0? READING THAT MARES UP A „ Virat-OlAsai NEWSPAPER. ^ & V, SAMPLE OOPiEE\J FREE, aar Sand for Circulars showing former Distributions A r>i»arss.———— A V ALAN CHS MEMPHIS, TENU. and has given away .~***ZL ■" L _ à """ 1 »^tlO.OOO. The names aud ^ CHT7"2B2>J .A.T TZTAJrr LIST. \ / THR WEEKLY teg $1,000 lxx Onsli Glftat ARENT8 WANTED EVERYWHERE. \ / 1ÇW uszial coiacsrint an uses khctv list ton amttb exit. *^/ïFMÏÎ Î 1 HO ToV a YEAE ' S STTESCEaPTIO tr/ Oliiw sj/ilUv WHICH INCLUDE8 THE DISTRIBUTION*. & I A Good Idea. It is suggested that newspapers should be printed ia white letters on black paper, tastend of « bite paper printed iu black letters as now. The change is one lo bo desired, as white letter», on a bleck grmiud possess greni er contrast and distinctness, and are consequently easier ©n the eyes. The cliauge will give at first nu odd a|i pcarniu-e lo priuted matter, but flic merit of it will eventually result in its general adoption, aud iu time the black letter will be ns rare as the while letter now Is. Bipn painters re cognize the superiority of the white letters, as is evidenced by the numer ous white loitered signs now to be seen on the streets aud in the shops. The change would he comparatively in cxpensive, ami as black is chca|>cr than white paper, a saving could he effect ed. With our newspapers thus priuted, reading on cars aud in dimly lighted place« would be not >uly practicable but easy .—Anaconda Standard. The Doctor's Fee. Dr. Pyll, you havo earned my lasting gratitude. Without your skillful, untiring care I should nev er have recovered. We artnudebtJ ed to you, O so deeply ! The beautiful young convalescent, pale hut never more lovely, was sit ting up for the first time. She lean ed hack in her easy chair and looked with ardent gratitude at the young physician .vho had called to make tiis last professional visit. Don't speak of it in that wav, s Winnie," he replied. "In your happy recovery I feel more than repaid for the exercise of my highest skill. "But," repined Winnie, with a gay smile ; "there must bo a fee besides, and you need not fear t > make it a large one. The young physician moved for ward on his chair. I fear if I should include in my bill one item that—that occurs to me,Mias Winnie,it would Ik? thought exorbitant," he said, with a voice that trembled and a chin that show ed a singular tendency to wabble "I hardly think it possible, doc tor," she said, "that you can ask too great a compensation for your " "Winnie Greenup!''exclaimed the young man, hoarsely, "talk not to nie of fees ! 1 want something in finitely more valuable thau sordid dollars and cents. »de, may I ask your father— "Certainly, Dr. Pyll," said Miss Greenup, haughtily. "Papa is -the one to present the accounts to, of course. He always settles the bills. Good morning, sir. In his office down town a few minutes later young Dr. Pyll »fight have been seen making out, with a most determined expression of coun tenance, a doctor bill that will simply paralyze papa Greenup when he sees it.— Chicago Tribune. << >> i 4 * » «I I—I—I—Win • 4 4 4 Tr.-gress of Religious Liberality. What little concern people have now adays about creeds and doctrines and j dogmas ! IIow many in-mibers of < hrietiau churrho- ! n v. what is meant by Calvinism, Arodaiauiatn.old-school I t and ucw-school, election, original sin, total depravity, regeneration aud iree agency ? lu the days of Calvin and Luther and John Knox these things wero dis cussed in every household with as much vigor an 1 earnestness as we dis cuss politics uovv. Everybody i.a:l a fdth aud could defend it—yes, die for it. But now we join a church because our fathers did. We like the forms ot worship that wo were brought up in. The failli is not the thing. A Preshy tcriau man marries a Methodist girl and slio quits her church aud goes to his without the slightest sacrifice of failli or conscience,and she does right. While she was a Methodist site was supposed to believe in failing from grace. When she became a Presbyte rian she was supposed to believe the contrary. But tho fact is she didu't believe anything about it. She cared potliing about it, but she did care for and did believe ai) that was necessary. "Ye believe in God—believe also iu me," was creed enough. Love God and love your neighbor was duty enough. A creed can be nursed into fanaticism, but love to God nod love to mau cuu not .—Bill Arp in Bome and Farm. Honesty Rewarded. Borne time ago a wealthy man died iu Brussels leaving nearly his whole fortune to a young woman who was entirely unacquainted with him. This is how it came to pass : He was a very eccentric man, and set out, like Dioge nes, in search of an honest "man. In an omnibus he took his^eat every day near the conductor, and was very obliging in passing up the money of passengers aud returning tho change ; but to the latter he always managed lo add a franc or a half-franc. Then he would watch those to whom it came. They would count it carefully, 'notice the extra coiu, aud invariably slip it into their pockets. No one thought of the poor conductor, whose meagre sal ary of three francs a day could ill sup port such a loss. But at last a youug wornau passed hers back with "Con ductor, you have given me haft a franc too much." Diogenes, delighted, fol lowed her home, made inquiries, and, as the answers wero satisfactory, made his will in her favor, though ho never gave her warning that lier half-franc was going to bring her baft a million. j Republican Gerrymandering. This disfranchisement of Democrats iu Ma*M&chu»etts is almost as bad as it is in Iowa. In the former state the Democrats polled 160,719 votes, while the Republicans polled 178.811 votes, and yet the Republicans have leu rep resentatives in the present bouse, and the Democrats have ouly two. It takes 76,000 votes in Massachusetts to elect a Democrat to congress, and re quires only 17,881 votes to elect a lte publicau. The empty talk about dis franchisement of the negroes in the j south falls flat before these official fig ures .—Sioux City Tribune. " I I * J LESmCUARCWNACO. t Devil's Lake, North Dakota Devil'« lake is a body ot brackish water of uncertain size, according to the weather, hot covering about 200 square miles'on an average, and having an outlet by a marshy stream to tho Cheyenne rlvor only in wet seasons. Though the water is too salt for a stranger U> drink, yet it abounded with ilah in its natural state; and even now in the dead of winter one may see groups of wiry old squaws ou the ice (four feet thick) working the dip seine and bringing out at each haul two or throe pickerel. These freeze solid in a few minutes, after which they are handled liko stones. To see the poor old creatures kneeling on the margin of tho holes they have cut through the ice, and with one arm, bare nearly to the shoulder, thrust under the edge of the ice to spread the seine—the ther mometer -from zero to 30 below—is a novel sight to the tourist. The lake in oue place is almost cut iu two by a sort of peninsula, with a spoon-shaped extremity running out into the lake; and there the Indians in old times used to make their great buffalo drive. Stampeded by mounted men, the animals fled to the lake and wore gradually concentrated on this |H!iiinsula ; the hunters then advanced by boat or along the land and shot them down at leisure. At length the white mâmbroke in; the great Turtle mountain bufTnio -raids began ; for seventy miles iu a line the prairie the next summer was a Golgotha—whiten ed with buffulo skeletons—and old set tlers still tell of the "big money" made by gathering their bones. In five short years every buflalo was gone, and the Indians had to starve, light or emi grate. They fought and wero whip ped ; part emigrated, and the rest are star v i ug.— Clarion-Ledger. Character Revealed by the Countenance A gentleman who tins made a study of photography asserts that its chief iutcresl to him lies iu the uuconscious revelation of character in a photo graphed face. "If a mau hare any noble or mean trait latcut iu his na ture, uukuown to the world, it conies'! out in his photograph." This oulv illustrate* a truth that is as oid as mankind : that,as the years go by, the character of a mau writes itself indelibly upon his face. Not ouly the actions, whether tneati or noble, but the secret thoughts which are never put into deeds—tho sensual imagination, the cruel purpose, the lofty hope, the kiud feeling, all these record themselves upon the features. The sin which we welcomed as a pleasant guest iu youth may be hate ful to us In middle age, but we can never again make it a stranger to us. Some look or mark iu our faces be trays to a keen observer that wo were once familiar with iL How many men have rushed from one occupation to another, from home lo home, from country to country, to escape some vice or habit which had grown loathsome to them ! Alas, they could not travel away from them selves. It is in youth that we must shut the door if we would keep that iuuer chamber uudefiled.— Youth's Companion. as a ot of ; Cso. S. Dodds for Congrr.s. We aunounce to-day Hon. George S. Dodds of Copiah as a candidate for congress for tho seventh district, sub ject to the action ot the democratic dis trict convention. Mr. Dodds is well known to the people of the district. He has represented this county in both branches of tho legislature,taking high rank in the senate, bciug chairman of the judiciary committee. Ilewas found to be a safe counselor, a clear thinker, and a safe man under any emergency. If chosen to repi esent the people in congress, lie will do so in an able man ner. Mr. Dodds is recognized as be ing among tho ablest lawyers in the state, and though a young man, is the peer of any. We commend him to the people of this district as beiug high-toned and honorable, as an affable,«greeablo man, and fully qualified to represent them in a way that will do credit to himself and honor to them .—Copiah Signal. ' it Walked Across the River in a Settle. As a syrup maker was preparing for work among the maples he became a ware that Indians were stealing upon him and were already in possession of his canoe. Whatever was to be done had to be done quickly, aud frontier wit was equal to the emergency. Snatching up his deep kettle he invert ed it over his head and boldly waded into the river. The inverted kettle acted, of course, as a diving bell, aud with hkUtoad iu this air chamber he walked .Yro»» the river, which in the middle was many feet over his head, to the jp»*er «mueaient of the Indians. —PhJLddphia Times. It to The Moat Worthless Part of the World. Oar few woeks' cruise leads me to believe that Labrador is the most worth less part of the wholo world. It is scarcely worth visiting even as a cu riosity in sterility and desolation. In the 1,000 miles of coast tho total num ber of resident humau beings will not exceed 6,000 souls. The peninsula has an area of 160,000,000 acres; and just one human beingto about 27,000 acres. That there aro 100 acres capable of cultivation within this mighty expanse has bceu disproved by the efforts of Jcsnits and other missionaries, and by all settlers who have been lured upon these shores to starve. It is possible that during two or three months of the summer, 40,000 fishermen may be found off Labrador. They have no interest here whatev er, save to come and grab and go. There are not enough standing trees in Labrador available for building tim ber to pay for lighting fire iu a single saw mill. All the frantic efforts ot the government to discover mineral de posits have beeu unavailing. What then does Labrador possess ? An unmeasured reach of stone aud ice, covered here and there with moss; oc casionally patches of stunted spruce ; offener for hundreds of miles scarred and blackened by burned spruce stumps, between which flinty rocks project like cruel spears ; with impas sable rivers plowing in ungovernable torrents through hideous gorges; 4000 whiles utterly uuable to leave their prisonment or better their cckul living half the year like beasts,aid the other half little better ; 2000 Iff lians subsisting on salt fish and raw, with occasionally a bit of musty flout' or meal; 3000 or 4000 Esquimaux do^s; a2J? number of wolvoa, seals and fish. Any laud so God-forsaken that the govern ment possessing it can not survey it or procure any form of statistics b a ver itable cast-away indeed. From t ^e loss in commercial expeditions, a< d the wreckage of vessels along the oasts, since Labrador was discover it, it would be a safe calculation that . >r ev ery dollar in value of fish or fur secur ed for the past four huudred yea^s, an equal or greator actual loss by Some body has been sustained. And when the additional frightful loss of lit« lias been taken into account, the inexpres sible worthlessness of tho entire peu iu8ula may bo to some extent Mjw*o|v cd.— Cor. Springfield llepubliealM The Stump Orator. Given a general insiucerity of »nind for several generations, you wtlUeer tainly find the Talker established in the place of houor; and the Doer, hidden in the obscure crowd, with activity lamed, or working sorrow fol ly forward on paths unworthy offidm. All men are devoutly prostrate shipping the eloquent talker; au man knows what a scandalous idol he is. Probably there is not in natui p a more distracted phantasm thau y our commonplace eloquent speaker, at he is found on platforms, in parliaments, on Kentucky stumps, at tavern din ners, in windy, empty, insiuccre ti( jes like ours. The "excellent stump orator," asqur admiring Yankee friends define —he who iu any set of circumsta can start forth, mount upon his stunhp, place iu parliament or other elevation, and pour forth bis "excellent speech" in such manner as poor win^ly mortals round him shall cry "bravb" to,—he is not an artist 1 can much ad mire, as matters go ! Alas, he is In general merely the windiest mortal i>f them ail; aud is admired for being so into the bargain. Not - a wind y blockhead there who kept silent but a better off than this excellent stump oi . ator. For this reason, were there n » other: the silent one suspects, perhaps partly admits, that he is a kind o\f blockhead; from which salutary selfl knowledge the stump orator is dal barred.— Carlyle. dit ion, ( ror l no h/m, Am dy A* Appropritw Gift t: Gon^rssiam. "Put those in the member's box es," said an old man, staggering up to the window «.! the House post office the other day with an im mens« bundle of pamphlets. "Put a boolq in every box. Be sure you don't miss any. W bat are they? asked the young manat the window. "We «n't take it unit«, it is «»»thing that the members «re likely to wa nt." "Wan't? Why, man, they must have it. Just let me tell you it is.'' He leaned forward -'and whispered something in th*r younglf man's ear and then stepped back. "Yes, sir, the brain \ It is a trén-|j tise on the development ol the brain. Why, man, the reputation of the nation depends on their hav-1 ing it at once !" The clerk tapped his forehead wijjr Ins finger and laid the bundle |*»tde tor distribution.— Washington Under a Lion's Paw. Lawrence J. Raymond, a trapper of AfVican wild beasts, lately said to a re porter of the Cincinnati Enquirer: "There are plenty of instances where meU'bave been'seized by lions and havo lived to relate the particulars. I had been out late one afternoon with some of the natives to prepare a bait in a rocky ravine. Wc had built a stout pen of rocks and logs and placed a calf as a bait.. We started for camp, and no one bad the least suspicion of the presence of danger until a lion, which had been crouched boshlo a bush, sprang oat and knocked me down. "I can say without conceit that I was fairly cool. It had come so suddenly that I had not had time to get uervous. Had I moved my arm for my pistol tho beast would have lowered his bead and seized ray throat. Bo long as I lay quiet he would reason that I was dead aud give his attention to tho natives. "All of a sudden I balked out like a dog, followed by a growl, and that beast lumped twenty feet in ids sur prise. He came down between me and tho natives and I turned enough to see that his tail was down aud he was scared. I uttered more barks and growls, but without^moviug a hand, and after making a circle dear around me the lion suddenly boltinl aud went off with a scare that would last him a week." A Preacher Thunders Against Dancing Dr.McCov of the Alabama Christian Advocate, in the last issue of that pa- per, denouuccd the "kermesa," shortly to bo given in Birmingham, sayiug: "The rigors of Lenten piety havo about sulsiided, and the next thing in order now'll tfetî^kennesH," a sort of inter- national dance, with iOl of the most infamous and degrading îeiftaPOS •■Of tho modern german attached. Buch things are bad enough when carried on by the meu and women of the world, but when inaugurated and pa- tronized by a so-called church.it is a positive disgrace to the name ofC'hra- tiauity. A church that will do such things for the purpose of making mon- ey is rotten at the very core, and ought to be stamped out of existence by the aroused righteous iudiguatiou of au outraged public. These state- ments of conviction are of a general nature, but are intended to apply to any church that will attempt to run a dancing hall In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ." This statement was ou the 7th, at Birmingham, indorsed by the union* preachers' meeting. The matter has created quite a sensation.— Mobile licgister. - — ■ — O » I ■ ■ ■■■ .. — Tbs 9 gntle Dragsa Tree. Tho most gigantic specimen of the famous dragon tree ot the Canary Is lands still stands, but dead as a mum my, near Oratava, on the island of Tcneriffc. This monster has boon ful ly described by hundreds of globe ton rists duriug tho past fifty years. Borne of these writers have set it down as rivaling in age the pyramids of K gypt and tho burial mounds of the Mississippi valley. Measurements, taken at the begin ning of the fifteenth century, 400 years before Humboldt's visit, show that the tree did not perceptibly increase in size during the intervening centuries. How long must have been the time required, if Tour centuries of vigorous growth did not add one foot to the gi nut's circumference, for it to hsve grown to a Titan 45 feet iu circumfer ence? No wonder that the great Humboldt did not even make provision for a doubt when ho calmly says: "I would consider It at least 10,000 years old." — Ex. j Spotted Fever In Eentncfy Moroanfiki.d, Ky., April 12— Spotted fever has broken out in Un ion county, and the wildest excite ment prevails. It made its appear ance a few days ago, and over a score of children have been attack ed, in each taise fatally. The dis ease is identical with that which last summer carried off two hundred and fifty victims in Webster coun ty. The disease runs Its course in tbir ty-aix boors. Its approach is herald ed by pain at the base of tho brain, a burning fever follow's, tbo tongue unconsciousness and death fol , \ .. v j v _ l0 "'' ^n.r ,1.. h .he body Won;«. »l»tted with yellow .plotebc*,lhe limb. swell and the whole body turns black. Peoplo are fleeing with all haste. Kv thing is sacrificed in order to geta Kvay. The schools arc closed and the cw physicians are almost exhausted P 1 I from overwork. The disease does not jhppear to be infections and so far tbe ■irmly in which mors than one case Appeared are tbe exception, but every body believes that those who remain Hll be stricken, The Burning Suffrage Question, flic Memphis Commercial lately •4,1©*. ' published an interview with Rev. Dr. Oambrell of Meridian, in which that gentleman expressed himself clearly and forcibly in regard to the advisability of restricting the right of suffrage. We qu >te : "The chief work ot the conven tion should he'toprovide for white or intelligent supremacy hy righteous and legal methods. Thu Africaniz ing of the state cannot be tolerated, unless the white people leave it. And just as true is it tnat we cannot continue our present election meth ods. They are wrong in principle and ruinous in results. They de bauch tho mauhood of the state and compromise us before the world. I am, therefore, without reserve, in favor of limiting the suffrage, first, because it Is right per se ; and sec ond, because it will greatly the solution of our main trouble. I would limit tho suffrage, first, by a tax receipt, placing the poll-tax at $4 or r>, ami letting every dollar of it go to the public school fund: and second, by an educational qualifica tion, using the Australian system as a test. I have seen various object ions to this, hut none of them scent to rest on any rock'bottom of com mon sense and right. Representa tive government must rest on two pillars— intelligence and virtue. The illiterate are an element of weakness to any government of the people. They must be carried by the intelligent, and in Mississippi the load is greater than can l>e car ried with safety. The voting age ia fixed at 21, because, in the judg ment of ruunkind, that is the age at which the youth has gained intelli gence sufficient to wisely exercise this highest privilege of the citizen. Now. I favor the extension of this essential principle to the whole vof ing paMilstion. The American bal lot .Huld represent the individual i<lA ut enlightened^ by tio^^cessiblc to all through tho r^Ê ng press. is said that this will cut off scveiaHfctusand good white men, f dtjm ao ldiera. This is l. notSÄfckL». These men aid in informa« PÜ and some o sentimental; must trust their feUnw-cilî) everything else; why not in They do not known that the tic they put in the box are not ci tickets. It is known that illitf voters arc often made to vote el ly contrary to what they supl The intelligent really dont. th<l ing any way. Why not drol sham ? As it is, the demagl who*is willing to pander to thJ j 'dices of the illiterate, has 1 dr ds of votes against tho one I lor the straight-forward man. I As to the old soldiers, tlnfl patriotic tnen, as a rule, and, ■ ia in - o .. question were put to them wl| they would forego Ihe privile voting for the benefit ot the they would say yea. But,tiny it is monstrous statesmanshi) would jeopardize the whole a! preserve a privilege to a elans that class, oonfWHiedly, cannot ly use the privilege. The cl turn should look at the aubstl things, ami be brave enough right. Ballot reform is the 8ti| issue before us, and wo ougl to play at it, but adopt gi-nuii forinjneMura*. JftHiK cowan's PI.A.V. Judgo Warren Cowan publ in the Jackson Common trea I Ik • > ter on the suffrage question. Hi proposes this plan : Let the convention pmvide.H addition to those now entitledH vote, that every woman, who i>fl citizen ot the state, who can rtl nnd write and owns lorty acres 1 land in the country, or *. r KiO wo! I of real estate in a city or town, al who is not disqualified hy law, L* reason of any crime or misdemear or, shall have the right to vote « any election. It will be seen at glance that this, would secure whit The number of whit a . supremacy, women Unis enfranchised wouhll largely exceed the number of color-B ed women, and tho negro majority I of the male voters combined. Ix'tl tho convention then provide for an | electoral college composed«»! elec tors, equal to the number of tho members of the house of represen- 4 tatives, who shall meet when elect ed and elect all of tho state, con gressional and district officers, ju dicial and executive, and the race problem will be solved, and there will be no reason why we should not have honest elections. Titerc is nothing in this to cmiilict with any amendment os any part of the con stitution of the United States. '•If any reason can be offered why ignorant, besotted, prejudice«!, immoral, worthiest» negro man should vote, and a refined, educat ed white woman, who owns proper ty, pay «taxes and perforins all the duties of her citizenship should pot vote, I would like vury much to hear it. .in » ' A large part of soutltern Asia is being ovet run by field-mice. There untie*** millions of the little pests, which are destroying grow ing crop* OR well a* gathered grain. Hundreds of dogs have been eaten by them The mice uwini rivers and climb mountains, und it seem* impossible either them or to check their progress. arc GU to ex term mute