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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-04-01
FOREIGN INFLUENCE
on AmERIGAN POLITICS.
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however much they may desire it with
out an international agreement.
But the European mo~ney-changer is
not the onty foreigner who is ezerting
an influence upon American politics.
Foreigners hold a large amount Of stock
in our railroads and other corporations.
A share Of the stock held abroad is
equal in voting power to a share Of
held in this country When amajority
Of the stock Is owned abroad the for
eign holders are able to choose the di.
rectors and, through the directors, to
select the officials and other employees
Of the corporation. If a president Of a
railroad or other corporation owes his
elevation to foreign stockholders, is he
no apt to be Influenced by them? And,
If influenced by them, is he not likely
to transmit that influence to his subor
.dinatesf May he not become so engrO8.
sed in bis work as TO overlook the in
jury which he is doing 70 bis country
If foreigners continue to invest in
American securities, and their interest
in our politics grows with their invest.
ments, is it not possible that a time
may come, If II has not already arrived
when foreign influence may be sufi-
Gent to decide elections and ultimate
ly to mould our institutions to conform
to European ideaIs7
Washington, in his farewell address,
said Against the insiduous wiles Of
foreign influence q conjgre you to be.
neve me, fellow citizens) the jealousy
Of a free people ought to be constantly
awake; since history and experience
prove that foreign influence is one Of
the most baneful foes of republican
government,
Has the name Of Washington lost its
charmY Was he q demagogue, seeking
to play upon the passionsau 20 prejudices
Of bis c~ountrymen2 Or has bis advice,
wise when It was spoken, become folly
uowl Has the struggle for the al
mighty dollar become so intense as to
obscure the lofty purpose Of "a fore
fathers TO establish upon the Western
Hemisphere a government dedicated
to the doctrine that oil men are created
equal"2
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Sweet Remembranees

We met, we were friends, We parted,
And a friendship, once strong, is broken
But just for sweet remembrance sake
Accept this little token.
Perhaps twas my fault, perhaps 'twa.
yours,
Perhaps twas the fault Of BOTH
But however It be, it must DO best,
Ionly can whisper, God kuoweth,"
There IS room enough in this wide world,
We can work IN His vineyard togetheri
Andit we are faithful I know we'H meet
In the beautiful, bright forever"
Our hands may clasp in this life no more,
But in that brighter, happier sphcrei
Where all is joy and peace and love,
Woll know each other better there.
Ipray that God may help you live
As he would always have you dos
AndI know that sometimes you'll think
kindly Of one,
who loved you better than you ovcl
knew
FIE CUNNINGHAM,
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cotton Report.

Through the kindness Of our aceomo.
dating and genial r. r. agent, Mr. 9.
Dunn, we are aDle to give to our read.
ers the amount Of cotton handled BY
the railroads at this place. Up til
March 21st the soutern r r. has ship.
ped 80, ass bales and delivered to the l.
q. r r. for flats to be shipped to New
Orleans 7,5ss bales The i g shipped
up to same date %, f79 bales The com.
press has seven or eight thousand bales
and tire warehouse between one thous.
and and fifteen hundred now On hand.
making a total If about 10000 balu
If cotton handled here this last SCISSOR.
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MissLL Dunn's grand opening which
vas announced to take place last Wed.
nesday ii reality owing to the inclem.
sncy Of the weather aid not come of
Hn Thursday. Old sol, who came out
and kinder winked at The display
wednesday came forth yesterday morn
md and laughed an over at the hand
one snd pretty display Of Indies, mis-
es. and childrens hats there that be
would have the pleasure Of looking upon
Bhis summer.
The room was beautifully and artis.
ticaliy decorated BY Miss Dunn and her
able assistants in the reigning fads Of
Che season, turquoise, blue and burnt
orange. Ia no way after entering
could You turn your bead but that 9
pretty ana Hastily trimmed hat would
meet your eve, and when one would
strike You as the one y0u would like
vour wife to wear and ask the price.
,bs reilly would come back. That one
il sold. But there was iife thousand
npsold it looked to us apd IL STYLES and
sbaues 10 please anyone. The storF
wy crowded an she morning and erer
ene like 0urseive eaf ~
y rrstty IS opening g sheq ha
t. nauV WHila
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may DE due lhe corporation by s4ld stock,
h9,Dta, an@ Ild' llaa 5gch gns,G y 49, s55 y
9ge or trtnsfereo has Or has rot notice 81
such indebtedness thereby secured. sag
ggrPaFafl2p lnay ,Ht9fs. sa'4 'ita VpIn 5al9
~ s.ad indGbt ci1f4g duo said c]ofpoFatl0n BIZ
ans such stockholders and said corporation
may entorne saln ilgn Dp3n Dle sl'.E OF sgGg
MIL y3 8aor Dg55grai N thC flme md place ii
such Sale BY publication for Two weeks ~
some ne~spaPsr pnDlt'nf' IN tno 93'e 1gia b ~
s3aaiidd r,rp9r I61 nay 5id therefore any sum
uot exceeding The par value Of SAID stock
aaa may is3ne gg% sGlt ~ agFr5 YEA 5ea ' Ey ~ IA
aao9rT5oFaffo1. INV 6gld Or dispose 81 ne
same as lt may deem proper
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a%reenNood 20 20 sale

on Wednesday. tho 20th day Of April, 1903,
between The hours off and 2oclock at tho
Court House door in Greenwood, Miss, The
undersigned will sell 10 the highest bidder
Tor cash, The following described real estate.
situated in Greenwood. Miss.
Part Of lpt q 80 II. X 100 n, IN n. r. corner
bl0ckA
10 n. X ~ n. on Howard street. Ia block 20.
LDtst ~ T 8 g. ia II and n m blockf I.
I0tg and q block q.
Lots Sand o. block n.
lots 4, 8 /, y y, ~ aud rs block 70 ~
Hcnry's addition.
r. w. MmLsApa.
Millsaps. Carier & Simpson. Exee'rs.
of Eitate Of w ~. Tribotte. q "a Be
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

We are authorized to announce Hon, 7, g.
Cafebiues d candidate iOr Congress ia the
3rd. Congressional District, subject to the
action of the Democratic party.
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MISS HICKS CONCERT.
Postponed Untli Tuesday EyeHlug.
AnrlI 5fh.

The musical concert announced to be
given by Miss Allie Hicks on Wednes-
day night Of this week, was postponed
on account Of bad weather, much TO
the regret Of her hosts Of admirers aud
friends who had looked forward to the
date with antieipations Of the most
pleasing character Miss Hicks has Sc.
lected next Tuesday night April 5th as
the new date, and the additional time
given enables the accomplished little
artistic and her able assistants to make
further pref aration for an occasion
that will be pleasing to all who attend
The programme given below will be
found very complete and interesting,
including as it does, some Of the best
local talent who have made special pre-
paration for the occasion.
PROGRAMME
Tuesday Evening, April 5th.
Selection. d. d. !. Greenwood SLY n Cornct Band
Chorus, Greeting TO Spring .,..... Wilson
Piano solo, Flower Song ...,....., Tango
Miss johnson.
Song, could I1"...a.......,,...,......,T ostl
Miss Pillow.
Recitation, Tho Girl In the Galusb0r0' HAT
Miss Yerger,
Tableau. Lilies ....t.... From Munscy's
Quartette. ..... ..a....By the Boys
o a.
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Section 80f The original Charter Of Incpr-
poration OF the Greenwood Transportation
Company Is hereby amended 80 Is 20 read Is
follows.
SECTION 3-The capital stock Of said cQrpoa
ratidh shall be twenty-five thousand dUlinrs
glh0oaaD divided into sigres ~ ono hundred
dollars $1,000 each. and may De Increased
III DC stockholders fu any amount mot exc
ecedtne Hiftr thousand dollars aJ0nM09h nor
s lfan i've Thousand dollars sl00tAi
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a Word to tho wiseis su~ffioisnt'

If you intend to fight for your country
provide yourself with all necessary
toilet articles, such as travelling cases,
shawl straps, whisk brooms, mustache
combs, pocket mirrors, etc. at
WEILER's Jewelry Palace,
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Eggs for Sale

have a few more settings Of choice
White Leghorn eggs for sale. Parties
desiring them will see me at once.
DOUGLASS ROBINSON.
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Lots Of E Fools

A duel to the death TO decide tht
ownershipof a frizzled chicken occurred
the other day in Kentucky, One man
was killed outright and three m~ortally
wounded. Chickens must be very
scarce or the oil Of joy very plentiful in
Jack Chinns state, Bolivar County
Democrat
The supply Of chickens doesn't enter
81 all into the account 1t is the oil Of
Joy and q lot Of darn fools that
caused the news
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New York in 1000 A. ID.
From Municipal Affairs.

From Municipal Analrs.
How the people will live in 1000 A. D. it
is impossible to guess. but it is not likely
that they will live In the closely huddied
habitations of the present day. The indica-
lions are these: The tenement house will be
unknown, and no man, rich or poor, will
live In a house Of which every room does
not open freely to the outer air. The pres
ent tendency to aggregation and conglom-
Grafton will lead to heaven knows what
method of Free easy and cheap transporta-
ton. He would De a bold man who, recalling
the short interval of time between the
days of the ubiquitous omnibus and the
rapid and pleasant trolley car of today,
would venture to predict what will be our
means of urban travel. A quarter of a cen
fury ago no one would have believed that
old and young. rich and poor. would be
flying about our streets and over our coun-
try roads en- rubber-tired bicycles. 1t
would have been as absurd to predict then
what we are now SO familiar with as to
predict now that there will be some safe
and universal method Of aerial or subterra-
mean mode Of conveyance
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its face. 1t is sufficiently low in the water
for the spindrift to whip every inch Of Its
surface during even the mildest Of gales.
On these occasions the wind lifts great
layers Of sand from OF the roof of the isle
but even the sea spews up more sand
against the beaches; and so the bulk OF the
Isle remains a constant quantity, although
the material whereof 1t Is built Is no two
months the same.
AS residence the place is singularly I'M
desirable, and it L. probable that until Capt.
trench in the middle of the turtle back of
sand. the isle had been left severely alone
by man throughout all the centuries.
STILL human breath was hourly drawn in
the immediate neighborhood, and when the
airs blew toward the isle, or the breezes
lay stagnant, sharp human cries fell dimly
on Kettles ear, to tell him that men near
at hand were alive and awake and plying
their appointed occupations. The larger
wooded isle, which lay long rifle shot
away, was part of the French penal set
tlement of Cayenne, and the cries were the
higher notes of its tragic opera. But they
affected Capt. Kettle not at all. He was
there on business; he had been at much
pains to arrive at his present situation.
and had earned a bullet scar across the
time was to elapse before mis- next move
became due, he was filling up the inter-
vening hours by the absorbed pursuit of
literature. He squatted on the floor of his
Sandpit, with his teeth set in the butt Of a
cold cigar, and raped out the lines of SON.
nets and transferred them to sheet of
sea-stained paper. He used the stubby bull
let of a revolver cartridge from lack Of
more refined pencil, and his muse worked
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the holidays. 1t was also a supper party
1t had hired hall and prepared for fes-
tfVities. AS the guests paraded down the
street on their way to the hall, making all
the noise they thought proper, windows
went down with resounding bangs. doors
were opened and shut emphatically. and
there was sulphurous smell in the air.
1t was not long before policeman hove in
sight from around the corner. He scented
trouble. His intuition was true. There was
trouble, and some Of it alighted on his
shoulders.
Matters were reasonably quiet within the
hall, however, for some time. The reason
was quite plain. No person can eat sue
cesSfully and make racket at the same
time. The supper was a good one and
proper respect WAS paid to its qualities.
There was however. a little difficulty about
the surplus. fresh detachment of guests
arrived, who had already been around
town, and, as the refreshments did not
come fast enough to supply their wants,
they sent home plates tokens of their
impatience, sailing around the room. AL
together things became rather mixed.
Down below, in the dark, the policeman
was waiting to see what he had better do.
When he heard the smashing of the crock
cry he concluded somewhat hastily to in
Yestigate, for he was an economical po-
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aloud. but his face spoke with eloquent
sympathy.
The girl sank into one of the shabby
chairs despairingly. ''H you fail me, sir
she said, then l have no hope
Kettle turned away, still lingering the
furnished badge on his cap, and stared
drearily through the grimy window panes.
silence filled the room. Carnegie broke it.
Other men answered the advertisement"
he suggested.
Il know they did," his daughter said;
land | read their letters and l read Capt.
Kettles; and If there is one man who could
help us out of ali those that answered, he
is here now in this room. My heart went
out TO him at once when 1 saw his applica-
ton. had never heard of him before but
when l read the few pages he sent, 1t came
to that l knew him intimately from
then onward, and that he and no other in
all the world could do the service which
we want. Sir she said, addressing the lit
tie sailor directly. Il learned from that let
ter that you made poetry; and l felt that
the romance of this matter would carry
you on where any other man with merely
commercial instincts would fail"
Then you Lac poetry, miss"
IL write it, she said for the magazines
and sometimes it gets into print"
Would you mine shaking hands with
me?' asked Capt. Kettle.
i want to Go So, she answered, eff you
will let that mean the signing of our con-
tract
Capt. Kettle held out his fist Put it
there, miss said he The French govern
ment is Jumping big concern, but I've
bucked against government before and
come out top side, and, by James, I'll do it
again. You stay at home, miss. and write
poetry, and get the magazines to pi,n, it
instead of those rotten adventure yarns
they're fond of, and you'll be doing
Great Britain large service. What the
people in this country need is nice rural
poetry to tell EN- what sunsets are like,
and how corn grows, and all that, and not
cutthroat stories they might fill out for
themselves from the morning newspapers
if they only knew the men and the ground.
IF 1 can only know you're at home here,
miss. doing that. l can set about this other
matter with a cheerful heart. / don't think
the money will be of much good; but you
may trust me to get out to French Guiana
somehow. even ii / have to work my way
there before the mast; and I'll collar hold
of Mr.. Clare for you and deliver him ON
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POLICEMAN TN A BOX
One Of the Finest Locked Up in His Own
Prison,
He Attempted to Interfere ut q Carni.
val Party, With Unex.
pected Results.

One Of the things which add to the
gayety OF nations at Christmas time is the
boy. The exuberance of his good feeling
finds vent in various ways, but the most
satisfactory way in a horn. A megaphone
would be the really proper instrument of
rejoicing. or a calliope, or a West African
war drum; but these things are expensive.
very good results. however, may be at
tained by means of a ten-cent horn. about
three feet long. without unnecessary dec
orations. What the Christmas boy wants
Is noise. and for that purpose a good. large.
TIN horn Is worth all the pretty things in
the world.
There was horn party on a certain
street In Washington one evening during
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was no response. 1t was finally borne in
upon his mind that If he did not want to
stay there all night he would have to de-
wise some means Of getting out. A patrol
box Is very good thing in its way, but
it was not intended as sleeping apart
ment. and cell in the District Jail has
some advantage over it in point Of COM
fort. 1t is quite safe from Intrusion. but
that is all.
Not long after that the lieutenant in
charge at the station received a call for
help. 1t took some time for him to under
stand the situation, for when the traditions
of the police force were made it was not
contemplated that members Of 1.-The finest
would be jailed in their own patrol boxes
nor was 1t supposed that that neighbor-
hood was one in which a patrol of the mill
tia was needed to keep it quiet. The more
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and 1 have got nothing new to tell you.
A hundred pounds will not do it, and that
Is the end of the NATTER
The girl wrung her hands and looked pitt
fully across at her father.
Well said Carnegie with a heavy sigh.
II will scrape up a hundred and twenty,
though that will force US to go hungry
And that is final. captain. If my own neck
depended upon it, could not lay hands on
more"
Capt Owen Kettles face wore a look of
pain. He was a man of chivalrouS in
stincts; it irked him to dsobige lady: but
the means they offered him We're so terribly
insufficient. He did not repeat his refusal
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/ !.

Turn now to another scene. There Is a
certain turtle-backed isle in the Caribbean
sea sufficiently small and naked to be
nameless on the charts. The admiralty n.y.
drosraphers mark it merely by a tiny black
dot; the American chartmaker has gone
further, and branded 1t as 'shoaI," which
seems to hint (and quite Incorrectly that
there Is water over it, at least during spring
tides.
The islet. which Is egg-shaped. measures
some $50 yards across its longer diameter.
and although no green seas can roll acros.
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Xerxes, the king.

"Of course" observed Xerxes, the king,
my will Is law"
Doubtless" answered the wise man Of
the court, after consulting a few author
tiles. That is to say. If your majesty does
not leave too large an estate."-Chicago
Record. --.F
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board a British ship in the best repair
which circumstances will permit. You
mustn't expect me to do impossibilities
miss; but I'm working now for lady who
writes poetry for the magazines, and you'll
see me go that near to them you'll prob
ably be astoEished."
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They Are silent.

From the Syracuse Post.
We do not understand that there were
many protests from married men against
the new law forbidding the importation Of
seal skins.
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the lieutenant thought about 1t the less he
understood 1t. so he determined to go and
find out. 1t took the entire reserve force
of twelve men to haul a very meek and
unhappy police officer out of that patrol
box, and the lieutenant. at a loss to know
how he came there has reported that off,
Ger John Smith Is suspended for drunken
ness. Officer Smith knows he was not
drunk, and the members of the supper
party know 1t. too: but he cannot call upon
them as witnesses, for they are keeping
carefully out of the case.
This is true story. and points a moral,
but the moral IL different for the police
force and for the supper party.
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liceman, and thought 1t possible that some
thing besides plates was being smashed
If they were doing any battleship christen-
ing there he wanted to be on hand. So up
the stairs he marched and boldly entered
the room.
What he said to that convivial supper
party will never be recorded. He knows
what he meant to say, but the party did
not wait to hear. They had their program
for that evening made out. and it did not
include the appearance of a policeman.
They picked him up and swiftly carried
kim down stairs, amazed, protesting and
helpless. They tucked him into the nearest
patrol box. told him to be good boy, and
locked the door, Then they went back to
their hall, and the bewildered officer, clasp
ing his head in both hands, heard pres
entity dying away in the distance the de-
risive sound of horns.
He waited awhile in quiet, hoping
brother policeman would come along and
report to the station, but none came.
Then he began to call for help, but there
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Som, men, like the Historical DR.. Fell,
have the knack. HnkReiwn to themselves,
Of inspiring dislike In others, and Clare had
this effect upon Capt. oOwen Kettle The
little sailors DISLIKE Was born at the first
| moment Of their nsetiAs; it grew as he ran
through the forest of the Isle de Salut
and even when Clsre fen upon sentry and
| beat the sense OUT of htm as neatly as he
could have done It himself. Kettle failed
to admire or sympathias with him. On the
return swim tc the turtle-backed island he
came very near TO wishing that shark
would get the man. although such a calam.
| ity would have meant his own almost GER
| tain destruction; and when they lay to-
gether, packed like a pair of sardines in the
| shelter pit. under the tntolerable sunshine
of the succeeding DAY. It was with difficulty
| he could keep his hands off this fellow
whom he had gone through so much to
| help.
Clare put in what of talking was done:
| the sailor preserved a sour glum silence: he
| felt that If he gave his vinegary tongue the
| freedom it wished for, nothing could pre-
| vent collision.
| He argued out with himself the cause for
! this dislike during the succeeding night.
They had got the boat in the water had
| mastheaded the lug and were running
northwest before a snoring breeze toward
| the British West Indian Islands He him
| self, with main-sheet in one hand and tiller
] in the other, was in solitary command.
| Clare was occupied in bailing back the seas
| to their appointed place.
For long time the utmost he could dis
| cover against the man was that on occa.
| sions he 'swas too bossy." and with bitter
satire he ridiculed himself for childish
weakness. But then another thought drift
| ed into his mind. and he picked It up and
| weighed it. and balanced 1t. and valued It,