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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-01-02
NUMBER z.
SOUTHERN oLEANIN0S
Died From Leprosy.

Frank Monnier died in New Orleans
recently of leprosy. The case was one
of long standing, and was known to
the entire neighborhood, and accord
ing to one of the brothers of the young
man, to the board of health and the
police. All they did. he said, was to
come around once in awhile and sec
how he was getting along. He never
left the house or the neighborhood
once during his long and terrible
malady. lie remained around the
house all of the tins doing small jobs
and chores up to foay months ago.
when he was compelled to take to his
bed, where he finally died, most
horrible sight to look upon.
This is the second death that has ocs
Cured In this family from leprosy.
About eight years ago one of the sons
died of the same disease. The house
is small single story frame cottage,
and the family living in it is composed
of father, mother and two sons. They
are all healthy and strong looking,
and are free from the taint.
The Growing Trade of New Orleans
Statistics complied by the treasury
department for November show that
the foreign trade of New Orleans, in
stead of falling off q little from the
record established in previous months,
was much larger than ever.
In export Of cotton and corn New Orleans led
all other ports In cotton Of course, New Or
leans has always held first place, but in corn
the pre- -eminence has only been achieved with
the last year. New York has always held first
place In corn exports.
In wheat exports New Orleans is also gain
ing, the total for 1906 up to December being
100000 bushels, as compared with only 1900
bushels in 1895. In -four shipments it has also
made noteworthy progress. For the same
period the total shipments have reached 10000
barrels against 5000 barrels in 1895. One Of
New Orleans most noteworthy gains In the
way of exports has been the increased ship
ments OF lard. During the time noted the
large totals Of 23,500,000 pounds, as compared
with only 1900 pounds In 1895. This is taken
as an indication that eventually New Orleans
will become quite as important shipping
point for hog products as it already is for
grain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
OIL FIELDS AND GAS SUIT.

What bids fair to be one of the
greatest oil fields in the country has
! just been discovered near Anderson,
Ind. One big 'gusher'' sends out five
hundred barrels of oil day, and when
it was struck it was thirteen hours be-
fore it could be "saddled.'' But this
new oil field, which experts pronounce
phenomenal, is right in the heart of
the Indiana gas belt, and this fact is
leading to trouble between the oil men
and the gas men. The history of gas
and oil fields in the past has shown
that where there is gas and oil is sub
sequently discovered and worked the
gas goes. The origin Of the two is
practically the same. The Indiana gas
men know this and so do the oil men.
The gas men have aroused the whole
people in the neighborhood of the new
fields against them, telling them they
will be deprived of one of the greatest
of natures gifts to Indiana. Expert
ence warrants the statement. But the
gas men have not contented them
selves with arousing the people. They
have held a meeting and determined to
invoke the law, and the governor of
the state has instructed the state in
spector Of gas to leave no stone I'M
turned to preserve the gas; and he is
to do this regardless of expense or
anything else.
The method of preserving the gas and
preventing the development of the oil
fields will be by injunction, suit for
that purpose already having been in
stituted. The state has very strin-
gent -gas-wasting law, the penalty
for violating the same being very
heavy, and it is under this that the
proceedings are brought. The oil men
are equally well prepared to assert
their rights and the law will be fully
tested 1t is a nice legal question that
is involved. There is waste of the nat
ural gas from an oil well, but the gas
may be saved. Even were this not so
the waste is incidental to the develop |
ment of a legitimate industry and is
not wanton, the sense in which the law
seeks % prevent it. There is no max
i'm more familiar TO LAWYERS than the |
one which says that the man who owns
a piece of ground owns it to the sky |
and to the center of the earth. and |
that he may do with it whatever is
lawful. Yet his use of it is modified |
by another maxim which says that a
man must so use his own property so
as not to injure another. Is the devel-
opment of an oil field which is also a
gas field and which exhausts the lat
ter such a use of ones property as to
injure another's? This is one question
that will come up for decision, but
there are also several others. The suit
arising out of the development of these
new oil fields in Indiana is most i'm
portant one and should prove leading
case
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
REMEMBRANCE.

Cold in the earth. and deep snow piled
Far. far removed. cold in the dreary
grave,
Have 1 forgot. my only love. to love thee.
Severed at last by Times all-severing
wave?
Now when alone do my thoughts no
longer hover
Over the mountains. on that northern
shore,
Resting their wings where heath and
fernleaVeS cover
Thy noble heart forever, ever more?
Cold in the earth, and fifteen wild De-
From those brown hills, have melted
into spring;
Faithful. indeed, is the spirit that remem-
berS
After such years of change and suffer
ing
Sweet Love of youth, forgive. if I forget
While the worlds tide is bearing me
along;
Other desires and other hopes beset me.
Hopes which obscure, but cannot do
thee wrong.
No later light has Hghtened up my
heaven.
All my life's bliss for thy dear life was
given,
All my lifes bliss is in the grave with
thee.
But when the days of golden dreams had
perished
And even Despair was powerless to de-
stroy;
Then did / learn how existence could be
cherished,
Strengthened and fed without the aid
of joy.
rhon did T check tbe tears of useless mas
sion
Weaned my young soul from yearning
after thine:
Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten
Down 10 that tomb already more than
mine.
And even yet 1 dare not let it languish;
Dare not indulge in memory's rap
furious pain;
Once drinking deep of that divinest
anguish.
How could L seek the empty world
againi
Emily Bronte.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13

| was that il sometimes made machine
| of the laborer. Thus l illustrated. The
! other point made was that the altered
conditions of modern society separated
workingmen and their employers.
pointed out the office of the Church
Association for the Advancement of the
Interests of Labor as a mediator and
conciliator, showing that strikes were
often the result of the workingman's
sense of his isolation from the sympa-
thy of his fellow-men, and especially
from the sympathy of those better
placed in life than himself. These
should strive to understand him, to be
just to him and to encourage in him a
willingness to submit his claims to
peaceful arbitration.
That puts an entirely new light on
what the bishop said and is certainly
more in harmony with his well-known
character. He most emphatically de-
MES having said anything about cap
ital and labor, and what was attrib
uted to him on this subject he very
properly characterizes as rubbish"
He was also misrepresented in his
views as to the effects of the employ
ment of machinery. His views are far
more conservative and in consonance
with facts as they exist than they were
represented TO be.
The points in the address of the
bishop upon which we commented
were taken from the New York
World of the 5th inst, and
they astonished us. 1t is a real
pleasure TO know that that account
was inaccurate, in fact it might al
most be termed a manufactured false
hood
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
He Had Done His Share.

Judge: The only people who are posi-
tive they. are fitted TO bring up children
in the way they should go are very old
gentlemen and maiden ladies. An anus
ing little scene. in which the helpful old
gentleman figured. occurred the other
day at the Grand Central station. Quite
a family party were assembled. of the
class that believes in making the most
OF free country, to await the arrival
of an expected guest. Children were there
galore. playing tag all around the old
gentleman's feet, falling periodically over
his canvas bag. sGueaIing wildly as they
ran into passengers. and retreating in
heaps rs . cop approached.
The helpful old man" stood it as long
as he could conscientiOusly. then. looking
over his sDectacles. said severely: Stop
that racket-you children"
well. l ike THAR answered one of
the mothers. in loud, angry tone.
But = she did. the old gentleman did
not and faced the woman as he contin-
Ged:
Now. look here. madam I've raised
three families of children. and not a sin
gle child was ever allowed to annoy my
neichbors.'
We'll replied the irate lady, '.If you've
raised three families you've done your
duty. and III thank you to allow me to
raise mine.'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
A LIBRARY INDEX EXPURGA.
TORIUS.

The librarian of the Carnegie free Ii
brary at Allegheny, Pa, has removed
from the shelves of that institution the
novels of Mary Jane Holmes. Augusta
Evans. Mrs. E. d. E. n. Southworth,
Bertha Clay, Horatio Alger, jr., Martha
Finley, May Agnes Flemming, Harry
Castleman, A. c. Gunter, Z. P. Roe and
Marian Harland
Librarian Stevenson has been more
or less criticised by many for his ac-
! ton. particularly by such as have been
taking their intellectual pabulum from
/ these authors and others of a like
grade. But he defends his position, and
gives the following reasons by way of
defense:
First, their low rank in the literary
scale; they are not immoral, but they
are not literature. Secondly, the books
are made cf such poor paper, so badly
bound, and so high in price in proper
ton to their value as reading, that the
library's funds are utterly inadequate
to supply the demand for them.
Thirdly, the theory advanced by Ii
brarians of standing, that readers to
whom books of this grade are supplied
Will gradually rise to something better,
has proved in the six years of expert
ence of this library absolutely false. To
the young, who have no personal liter
airy guides, it is particularly an injus-
tice for the public library to put it in
their power to acquire thus early in
life vitiated taste in their reading, a
fault which long years of study may
not suffice to correct Fourthlv, school
principals have complained that many
of their pupils were reading books of
! this grade to the gross neglect of their
school studies
All the reasons assigned for exclud-
ing these books are better than the
second, which is practically no reason
at all; inferiority of paper, printing
and binding may be urged against some
of the greatest books ever written. The
first and third reasons are amply suf-
ficient to justify the action taken, but
it could. no doubt, be applied to the
works of many authors not included in
Librarian Stevensons index expurga-
torius. II young people will read moth
ing but trash it is better that they read
nothing. Just how to cultivate a taste
for good reading in young folks is
difficult matter, and it is not true that
they always like the books that grown
up people do where they have the OPP
Dortunity to become acquainted with
them. 1t is impossible that they should.
Moreover, grown-up people change their
opinions OF books that they have
deemed of great worth and Importance
at some time in their lives. And moth
ing could be more absurd than TO say
that a. book that is not worth reading
and rereading and reading again is not
worth reading at all.
1t is not always an easy matter to
prevent a boy or girl or young person
reading what they should not, but 1T is
often a still harder task to get them
to read what they should. No Young
person would miss much by never read
ing any of the works excluded from
the Carnegie library, though if they
should they would not be injured 10
any particular extent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
TALES OF THE DAY.
Duel with Gnnnowder KEGS.

Shortly before the revolution, when the
air was heavily charged with forebodings
of the approaching struggle. old Major
Putnam happened to be in Boston. says
Harpers Round Table. The major dis
liked the redcoats and sometimes in
Weighed against their arrogant superci-
iousness in no gentle terms. One day an
officer of his majestys regulars over
heard Putnam assert that the provincial
army untutored il arms as they were,
would fight with the courage of trained
soldiers. The officer resented the asser-
ton, and after some hot words cl1ai-
lenged the major TO a duel. provided he
dared TO fight.
Dare" shouted Putnam. "Why. at any
moment; but / choose the weapons
Name Them haughtily replied the
officer.
1.-TWO kegs of powder: the time to-
morrow: the distance ten PAGES; the fight
to be as follows: You to SIT on one keg, |
on the other. a slow fuse to be attached
to each and lighted, and the one who
holds out the longest shall be declared the
winner
There was nothing for the officer to do
but accept the unusual weapons, and on
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
LAWLEssNESS IN KENTUCKY.

1t is a very radical departure in re-
gard to the suppression of Iawlessness
that the Kentucky legislature proposes
to take. And it is high time that it
did. The bill to suppress lawlessness
requires jaiIers and other officers hold
ing persons threatened with mob vio
lence to arm the prisoner that he may
defend himself. This bill also provides
that it shall be mandatory upon the
county judge to furnish not less than
two nor more than ten armed guards,
summoned from among the citizens,
who are compelled under heavy penalty
to protect, for thirty days, any toll
gate or other public or private property
threatened by raiders.
The lawlessness that has existed in
some parts of Kentucky for the past
year has been most astonishing
thing. 1t has simply been mob law.
The toll gates have been demolished
and their keepers warned and terrified.
In some counties these regulators, they
are nothing else, have, according to
reports in Kentucky papers, undertake
en- to say at what price different prod
ucts shall be sold by the stores. All
this is something new to Kentucky,
something out of the old line of law
lessness that takes the form of feuds
and lynchings, and the people do not
grow used to it.
AS to whether persons who are in
the custody of officers of the law
should be armed so as to protect them
selves when threatened with mob vio-
opinion Those in whose custody they
are should protect them even to the
extent of sacrificing their own lives,
if necessary. The resistance offered in
too many instances is passive, consist
ing of nothing more than that afforded
by jail locks. The arming of those
whose lives are threatened would in
sure something more than mere
passive resistance, and the knowledge
that they were so armed would have
a strong tendency to make mobs more
considerate and less exacting. Two or
three armed men fighting for their lives
would be very apt to give a pretty
good account of themselves even in the
presence of a mob of a hundred or so.
The legislation that the Kentucky
legislature proposes as a remedy for
the state of lawlessness that exists
shows how desperate is the disease.
1t is hardly probable that the legisla-
ture will enact into law the measure
proposed by the senate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
The Grandest Remedy.

Mr.. r. B. Greeve, merchant of Chill
howie. Va, certifies that he. had con-
sumption, was given up to die, sought
all medical treatment that money could
procure, tried all cough remedies he
could hear of, but got no relief; spent
many nights sitting up in a chair; was
induced to try DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry, and was cured by the use of two
bottles. For past three years has been
attending to business, and says DR..
Kings New Discovery is the grandest
remedy ever made. as it has done so
much for him and also for others in
his community. DR.. Kings New Dis
covery is guaranteed for Coughs, Colds
and Consumption. 1t don't fail. Trial
bottles free at q G. NJ. l. drug dept
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13

The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Times Herald says that per-
haps the most interesting political
campaign in the country this year is
to be waged in Ohio. There the fight
is between Mark Hanna and John r.
Mclean for United States senator.
There are no other candidates. Mr..
Brice did at one time think of contest
ing for the honor, in case the Demo-
Gratis could secure control of the legis-
lature. He went out to the state,
looked the field over, received the re-
ports of his agents, and made a signifi-
cant discovery. 1t was to the effect
that the Democrats of Ohio are so
thoroughly welded to the free silver
idea that there is not the slightest
chance for gold man to receive their
support for senator. AS soon as he
had satisfied himself on this score, Mr..
Brice withdrew from the field, and Mr.
Mclean has the Democratic end all
to himself. He is putting up great
contest, and there are many who think
he will win. He has the resources, the
organization, and the Republicans are
handicapped by having a very unfor-
tunate state of affairs on their hands in
Hamilton county. The prize to be
struggled for is the remainder of the
current term and the full term of six
years beginning March 4. 1899. He fur
Their states that Mr.. Hanna can now
congratulate himself that he was not
a member of the senate finance COM
mittee that sent in the amended Ding
ley bill. The Ohio fight will be one
of the prettiest that has happened in
many years. May Mclean win.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
BP. PoTTER's TRUE POSITION.

The now famous address Of Bishop
Potter has called forth so many COM
ments from the press, most of them of
an unfavorable nature, that he has felt
compelled to make a statement denying
most of the remarks attributed to him.
This statement was made just before
he sailed for England last Saturday
He is reported as saying. we quote
from the New York World:
The comments attributed to me are
based wholly upon fictitious state
ments 1 had nothing whatever to say
of capital in any connection or of the
contempt of capital for labor. That is
pure rubbish. Nor had 1 anything to
say of the disadvantages, on the whole,
of machinery to modern civilization.
l pointed out, however, that, as most
good things have their evil sides, one
of these evils, in the case of machinery,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13

troops at Domokas recalls a war time
story that a local veteran used to tell
The regiment to which he belonged was
engagement. A regiment of recruits
had been to the front and becoming
panic stricken broke for the rear. The
regiment held in reserve had to open
its lines to let the flying soldiers
through. and as they went through
they shouted to the men of the reserve
regiment: Give 'em hell, boys; give
EN- heIIr'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13

The Chicago Inter-Ocean very I'M
graciously says: "a delegation is in
washington from Utah to ask Presi-
dent Mckinley to visit Utah on July "a
to glorify the entrance of Utah into
the Union as a state. The president
will do well to decline. Utah may yet
grow into great state, but the less
she points to the history of the past the
better. There is much in her history
that the new state can well afford to
forget" The approaching celebration
is not for the purpose of clarifying the
entrance of Utah into the Union.
though that is an event to be glorified.
but is in honor Of the settlement of the
state 80 years ago. 1t is a pleasure to
point out to our Chicago contemporary
that President Mckinley did not act in
the churlish manner that it desired
him to.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
WHAT DO SENATORS Dop

Senator Mason might have electrified
the senate the other day when he was
deilverins his maiden speech. says the
Chicago Record. if he had recited the
following appropriate poem:
What do the senator's do. papa:
The United States senators do?
They are patriots all. my good little Paul;
They are patriots tried and true.
But what do the senators do. papa;
The United States senators do?
Oh! talk and debate for the good of the
state:
They are statesmen real and true.
But what do the senators do. papa:
The United States senators do?
Each talks in turn until they adjourn;
They are workers stern and true.
But what do the senator's do papa;
The United States senators do?
On, their speeches are sound and very
profound.
They are orators wise and true.
But what-but what do they do, papa;
Oh what do they do. l pray?
Oh. they draw their pay in the regular
way:
In the old immemorial way"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13

the following day. at the appointed time.
and place. the combatants took their seats
upon the kegs of gunDowder. The fuses
were lighted and began suffering. rap
idly approaching the kegs The officer
was deathly pale. and watched the grow
ing danger with dilated eyes. At last he
could stand it no longer, and with leap
he left his keg and raced like a mailman
out of sight. When he had gone old Put
laughingly kicked the burning fuse away
and disclosed to his friends a keg of
onions. When the matter came to light
the officer was subjected to the laughs
and gibes of the entire command.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13

No doubt many people have Won
dered why the senate in raising the
tax on beer made the rate $1.44 instead
of S1.45 or $3.50. A Washington cor
respondent explains the matter very
fully. He says the rate adopted sounds
a good deal as if the senate committee
was initiating the bargain counters in
the department stores, and it does
look that way to the uninitiated, but
there is a deep and important signifi-
canoe to the figures. They were adopt
ed for the sake of convenience in
mathematical calculations. One hun
dred and forty-four is the multiple of
2, 5, 4, 6. and II, which are the di-
visions used in the brewers in the sale
of beer. In estimating and computing
the taxes upon fractional parts of a
barrel, S1.44 is much more convenient
than S1.50. or $40, or s1.45. Thus the
tax on half a barrel Of beer will be ~
cents, the tax on a quarter of n barrel
sc cents, on a third of a barrel rs cents.
on a sixth of barrel % cents, on an
eighth Of barrel is cents. Even cents
and no fractions enter into the calcu-
lation. OF course the government
might require the brewers to sell beer
in different quantities from those COM
monty used, but the officers of the in
ternal revenue bureau think it would
be better to adapt the law to the prac-
tice.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
Half Rate East via Union Pacific.

For the accommodation of a large
number of teachers and their friends
the Union Pacific, as usual, will make a
rate of one fare for the round trip to
Tickets on sale June 5. 8 and I, good
until Sept. s. Call at Union Pacific
ticket office. No. pol Main street, for
any additional Information.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13

When the president of the city coun-
ell endeavors TO ape Speaker Reed and
count members as voting for the side
of a question he favors, he is going a
little too far.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13

Edward Boyce. president of the
Western Federation of Miners, has met
with hot reception from the Utah
press. He got both barrels, and he de-
served them.