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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

The Baptist church. OF Hazlehurst,
has just finished paying the sum Of
$4,000 for its building. At the con.
clusion Of a protracted meeting con-
Quoted by DR.. Potts, Of Memphis, a
collection was taken up amounting to
1850.
Gov. McLaurin must have been
somewhat of his base when he intro
duccd Hon. VIM. J. Bryan at Jackson.
After speaking in an eloquent style
for some time, he wound up with the
following sacrilegious u%tterance:
I'VE who compose the plain people
OF the country and who advocate that
system Of finance which will give cir.
cuIatlon OF money to all the masses OF
the people have selected for our rep
resentative and for our spokesman a
man as pure as William Wallace; as
brave and firm as Andrew Jackson:
as patriotic as George Washington;
as clear OF intellect as Thomas Jetfer-
son; as profound in thought as CAL
noun, and one who rivals in oratory
DemosthenCs, Cicero and Prentiss,
and as you are anxious to hear him,
| viii no longer keep you waiting in
the porch but win introduce to you
now one Of the purest and grandest
men who has lived since the days 0four
Saviour, that great American, Will
liam ,IonninpS Rryan.O
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08
P~ERSISTENCY WINS.

Pcrsistency is characteristic OF all
men who have accomplished anything
great. They may lack in some other
particular, may have many weakness
rs and eSsccntriciticS, but the quality
of persistence is never absent in a
successful Il No matter what up
position lie meets, or what discnur-
agements Overtake him. he is always
persistent. Drudgcry cannot disgust
him, labor cannot weary him. He
will persist, no matter what comes or
what goes; 10 is 4 part OF his nature:
he could almost as easily stop breath
ing. 1t is not so much brilliancy Of
intellect or fertility of resource as per-
si,tency OF effort, CONSTANCE. OF pur-
pose, that gives success. Persistency
always inspires confidence. Every
Lody believes 10 the man who persists.
He may meet misiOrtunes sorrows and
reyerses, but everybody believes that
lie will ultimately triumph, because
they know there is no keeping him
down. Docs he keep at its lie
PERSISTENT" This is the question
which the world asks about a man.
Even a nan with small ability viii
often succeed il he has the quality Of
persistence, where Il genius without
it would fail.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

Centerville Jeffersouian "The
Vicksourg Post says Bryan is not a
Democrat 't0 hurt For once, in
speaking about Bryan, the Post is
right. Bryan is not a Democrat 'to
hurt He is a Democrat to defend
the rights Of the common people he
is a Democrat to protect them against
monopolies; he is a Democrat to rein
state in our government the principles
for which Jefferson and Davis fought:
he is a Democrat to tell Palmerites
that they are nothing but pretended
Democrats. Bryan Democracy will
not hurt anything that is for the
good Of u country; and therefore it
is directly opposed to Palmerism and
Hannaism."
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08
GheRemurrat-Sfa
Sulphur In Your Shoes.


The following from Geo. r. An,ou
editor Of our Dumb Animals. yas MI
lished In the Boston Herald. persons
fearing grip, cholera, rheumation =,
yellow fever can give II a trial:
ITO the Editor OF the Herald:
Many years ago the Hon. Casev
Young. member Of Congress from
Memphis, Tenn, told me that he anu
many others escaped from yellow fav'
er, which have been prevailing IN
terrible extent 10 Memphis, by simnla
wearing powdered sulphur in thai,
shoes. In one instance he had a laraa
number Of gentleman In his ofSreS
and advertised them 10 regard To TIL
matter and every man who acted IN
on his advice escaped the fever. Will,
quite a number Of them who did moi
had it,. ~"
when the grip was attacking NJ.
most every family in Boston n fe,v
years ago, | sent an officer To ~.
Ryan match factory, who renortaS
that out OF the large number OF nerl
SONS employed there not one had been
attacked by the grip. l distinctly 70.
member reading some years ago that
all persons working In the Italian
sulphur mines escaped the malaris
that prevailed all about them. I ra'
member, also in a book written by An
eminent physician, translated into
English, his assertion that persons
observing the ordinary rules of health
aud wearing sulphur constantly in
their shoes were completely protected
from cholera. have also had at dif.
fcrcnt times evidence given to me
that the wearing Of sulphur in the
shoes has In various cases cured per.
sons afflicted with rheumatism.
ut may be that the old New Enc.
land custom of nj ~fOrefathers and
foremOthcrs, giving to their children
every spring birthstone and molasses,
was not a good foundation, and the
effects OF a few doses, as many of US
know, is sufficiently powerful to black.
en- the silver pieces carried in ones
pocket book, so that car conductors
ana others some time hesitates to re-
ceive them. | think, in view Of the
present epidemic in the South, which
may increase, it is well to send out
this information widely through chan
ncls where 1t will be likely to attract
public attention.
GEO. T.. ANaELL.n
Boston, Sept. 20, 1897.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08
QhrD emorrA-S Star
DUTY AND THE IDEAL

cafiy.le'. sartor Resarns."
Conviction, were IL never 50 excel.
lent, is worthless ill It cover itself
into conduct Nay, properly, conyic-
ton is not possible TN then Inas-
much as all speculation is by nature
endless, formless, a vortex amid yor.
ticcs; only by a felt indubitable GER
talnty Of experience does it and any
centre TO rey0lye around, and so fash
ion Itself into a system. Most true is
1t, as a wise man teaches US that
doubt OF any sort cannot be removed
except by action On which ground,
too, let who gropes painfully in dark
ness or uncertain light, and prays ye-
hemently that the dawn may ripen
into day, lay this other precept well
To heart, which to me was Of invalua.
BILE service: "DO the duty which lies
nearest thee which thou knowest To
be a duty. Thy second duty will al.
ready become clearer. May we not
say, however. that the hour OF spirit
ual acknowledgements is even this /:
When your ideal world, wherein the
man has been dimIy struggling and
inexpressibly languishing to work,
becomes revealed and thrown open,
and you discover, with amazement
enough, like the Lotharin in Wilhelm
Melster, that your America is here or
nowhere" The situation that has
not its duty, its ideal, was never yet
occupied by man. Yes, here in this
poor, miserable, hampercd, d~eSpicable
actual, wherein thou even now stand
est, here or nowhere is thy ideal.
Work it out thcrefrnm, and working,
believe, live, be free.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08
A DEAD MANS SECRET.

Greenvl!le Times.
Since the death Of Judge D. B,
O'Bannon it transpires that he was
possessed of a strange political secret,
and might have been able to throw
light upon the national tragedy Of the
assassination Of President Lincoln.
Judge O'Bannon asserted positively
that he was well acquainted with
John Wilkes Booth, and that he met
him in Warrington, Virginia, several
days after his supposed death. lie
was very reticcnt upon the subject,
never telling anything further and
saying. when urged to make his
knowledge public, that he would not
do so because 1t would create useless
and troublesome Investigations. He
was a V~irginian, a Mexican veteran
and a member Of Mosby's command,
a mar whose word might be implicit
ly relied on.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

The indignant citizens OF Tampa,
Fla, sent the President a buzzard last
week with a note suggesting that
since the grand old American eagle
had been disgraced by his vascilating
message the'buzzard would be the prop.
er bird to represent the country dur
ing the present administration. Dis
gusted and outraged citizens in a
number Of other places burned the
President in etfigy, plainly indicating
their opinion OF his weak and coward
ly message.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08
MIR. BRYAN'S | +

In referring to Bryan meeting at
Grecnvillc. the Democrat Of that
place says:
"Whcn Mr.. Bryan was handed a
check for $3.50 for theospeeches, he en-
dorsed the name TO the University OF
Mississippi, to be kept as a medal
fund. So he accepted not one dollar
for his services"
Mr.. Bryan gave similar amounts to
the University at Tuscaloosa, Ala,
and Tulane University at New Or
leans. MIR. Bryan does not receive
anything for one-half his lectures,
AID donates much Of what he receives
to educational Institutions. Clarion
Ledger.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

When men want to abuse a woman.
they begin on the corset she wears,
claiming that no savage ever tortured
herself in such a manner. Men who
20 into crusade carry pictures Of the
stomach squeezed out Of all shape,
and physiologics, compiled by men.
show the female stomach 50 misshap-
ed by the corset that you wouldn't
know one IL you met it in the road.
Still, statistics show that the femi-
nine stomach can endure more than
the masculine; a woman will eat in
digestible stutfs at all hours, and
keep well on it, while a piece of cake
will keep a man in torture all night.
Statistics show that women live long
er than men, in spite Of corsets.
Hutchinson Globe.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

And still they come. Hon. A. H.
Longiuo, OF Greenville, 10 being
groomed for Governor. Chancellor
Longino is a plney woods man and
very popular, and should be stand In
with the boys at jackson he might
get there.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

A recent letter from Consul Walter
Barker has been published, which
c%ontradicts the reports of his r%cSigna-
tion, or that he is in i'll health. lie
writes: "As consul, or ex-consul, |
will remain here, giving all the aid in
my power to these people, who have
won all my sympathics."
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

One party, numbering 500 able
bodied Chippewa Indians, have voIun'
teered their services to the govern
ment In the event Of war with Spain.
No doubt they are wondering at the
failure Of the big chief at Washington
to give the order to dig upthe Ratchet
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

Senator II. ID. Money made a war
speech in the Senate theuther day. He
winds up his speech as follows: MANY
months AGO | advocated armed inter-
yention, and it is my opinion that in-
ternational law gives US that right.
No man deprecates war more than /,
but ] have no sympathy with those
who preach peace at at any price"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

The Belle Plaine Herald thinks a
young man going into politics should
give his character to the devil aud his
pocket-book to his wife, and ventures
the opinion that when lie repents he
will be saved.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

The Times Democrat denounces .
fellow by the name Of ]. D. Ellis, wno
is travelling through Mississippi cla'~-
ing to be an agent for that paper as .
thief and fraud.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

McKinley's course is not endorsed
by many of the leading Republicans,
and very few good Democrats North
or South. He is to be pitted not
blamed. as he is 10 the hands Of the
Doodle party. and his days are mum.
bered politically.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

The Bible says the streets Of heaves
are paved with gold. Yes. lneo
why don't people struggle to GET sns''
rs they do to get 10 KlondikeP
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

The lake fishermen Al Buffalo have rem
using bicycles instead Of dogs this winter 10
transport themselves and their equipments %
the ice.
IT'S spring now and all nsture,
10 going on . lark;
The lizsard, snail and scorpion,
Get on the trees ed bark.
The trees are on the Autter,
To Rst themselves we'll dressed;
And Nature like . girl 10 lore
IL looking 1t her bsst.
aleee The beginning IT this century 70 fsees
than - volcanic Islands have arisen ost Of ne
ssa. Ntsssssn u that number havs slnes dis
appesped, asd tsa are new Inhabited.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

The Jackson News calls Mr.. Money
IA yellow senator" because he went
down to Havana as the correspondent
OF one OF the "yellow kid" newspapers.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

Material for theprst rail way In the
Klondike regions is being shipped.
Hot boxes ought 10 be rare 10 those
parts.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

Bloody Tansipahoa parish, LOUIS.
ana IL now somewhat peacesole-o.v
two killings reported the isss -"
weeks.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

Hon. John Wanamaker is announc.
ed as a candidate for governor Of Pen
nsylvania.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

The last sudden rise Of the Nile was
In 1929, WHEN 10000 persons were
drowned.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08

An English wooden manufacturer
has begun making clothes from old
ropes.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-08
MERIDIAN DAILY HERALD.
:. REDUCTION IN RATES. :.


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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
GOING BACK ON THE FARMERS.

The Orange Judd Farmer of October Ist
contained the following editorial, which every
American farmer should read. While the Or
ange Judd Farmer claims to be non-partisan, it
advocated Indirectly the election of Mckinley
in 1906. Read this and hand it to you neigh
Dor:
SecretaryWison made some astonishing state
ments in his grandiloquent speech at the dedl-
cation of the dairy building of the New York
state experiment station last week. He said
that 'tle tropics produce nothing prohtably
that we produce; we produce very little that
they grow with profit" But in the next breath
he hedeed on sugar, tobacco and fruits from the
tropics, which every one engaged in growing IN
this country knows will be seriously injured, If
not wiped out by the free admission of these
products from the tropics,
Secretary Wilson proceeded to dllate upon
tina way in which the department OF agriculture
will teach tropical planters 10 improve their
crops, such as pineapples, coffee, sugar, rice,
tobacco, etc. OF course Mr. Wilson knows as
we'll as every struggling farmer that, with the
exception of coffee, all the crops that he is so
anxious to help the Asiatics to produce can only
find market in the United States by displac-
ing an equal amount of domestic produce. 1t
is all very grand to say that "the tar east Will
learn that the American is as potent behind Cd
ucation, commerce and agricultural SCIENCE as
he is behing the gum but there Is abundant
use for all this potency i'll improving and deVel-
oDino our own country,
The farmers of Iowa, Mr.. Wilson's own
state, would much rather have lot OF beet
srpar factories established there That would pay
them several millions annually lor that new and
nrohtable crop than any amount Of Improve
meut'' in sugar and tobacco culture i'll the trop-
les monopoized by vast syndicates employing
what is practically coolie labor If Mr. VIII
con will help the American farmer to do what
he is so anxious the Asatic should do, he will
have bigger contract than the United States
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
SAYS WAR ISN'T OVER YET.
General SiCkIes PrOpheseS More Trouble.

At dinner at Delmonico's New York, the
other day, Gen. Daniel E. Sckles made Z
speech, in which he declared that the peace
commission sitting in Paris is farce; that no
agreement will be reached, and that hostilities
between Spain and the United States will be
renewed within three months.
General Sickes said he had come with the
understanding that there was to be no speaking,
but the subject of war, which had been brought
up, had stirred him to speech. Thirty.odd
years ago, he said, this country stood pretty
well i'll Europe. If Grant had said 'Cuba must
be free" it would have been free. Our pres.
tige was such that nothing could have resisted
us, but Europe had quite forgotten the kind Of
work our army and navy did in the civil waf.
aud year ago our navy was regarded abroad
as a Heterogeneous mob of foreigners, our officers
ignorant, our men without discipline.
''That was the opinion in Paris. 1t was the
opinion in Berlin, in St. Petersburg, in Rome
am not sure about London. Since then, Eu-
rope has learned something. 1 am sorry that
peace commission was sent to Paris. 1t was 4
serious error. There was only one place to
make treaty of peace, and that was in WASH
ington. If Spain wanted to know our terms,
the place to INQUIRE was in Washington. We
could have informed her by cable what she was
to do, and we should have informed her that
she was to do it p. d. O., without any palavar
or nonsense.
~ consider that the performance in Paris is
great farce. 1t means simply long wrangle
and jawing, ending in disagreement. The Eu.
ropean press will range on the side Of Spain,
and we shall be told that we are too arrogant,
and must abide by European opinion.
"This business of sending the Iowa and the
Oregon to the Philippines is all nonsense Keep
them right here in New York harbor, where
they will be needed-wheie they will be needed
within three months. Mark what tell you"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
Atwood Tells a Story.

ArCHISoN Oct. 2L.-As an introduction to
his speech here, Mr.. Atwood told story He
said:
''You may be aware of the fact that Senator
Lucien Baker is unfortunate as to have a busi-
ness connection with me. Well, when he was
elected senator the whole horde of hungry Office
seekers came pouring in on him Talk about
Populists being hungry for office! Why, they
amt in it with the Republicans. They came
early in the morning and filled up our large
front office, and they stayed all day, and things
got so bad had to do something, aud so said:
Here, Baker something has to be done. Rent
day is coming on, aud this crowd here keeps
our clients out They are afraid they will be
taken for ofice-seekers if they are seen coming
up here, and am going to take the matter into
my own hands and see if cau't do something.
am going to put out smallpox flag, aud see
if can't scare some Of the Republicans away.
We'll, l told the office boy to put out
smallpox flag, and the boy said he would. 1t
only increased the crowd I instituted an in
vestigation, and found that the boy, not being
we'll up in sanitary signs, had, by accident,
hung an auction flag, and the office-seekers,
thinking that offices were to be given out in the
customary way, were pressing more eagerly"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
WHO STANDS BY THE PEOPLE?

j. G. Reese, Republican candidate for repre-.
sentative, said in speech at Colony that he
had no doubt of his election; that he did not
propose to promise to go to the legislature and
stand up for interests of the people; that such
q promise would be prepOsterOus.
Hon. J. D. Stevens represented Anderson
county in the legislature at the last session, and
he worked and voted for the following bills:
Maximum freight rate; Banking law; To es-
tablish trial by jury in cases OF contempt OF
court; Against discrimination against labor
unions; Appointment of grain inspectors; Ap-
pointment OF detectives; Liabilities OF insur-
ance companies; Textbook law; Stock.yards
law; Taxing judgments; Taxing telegraph and
telephone companies; To prevent blackIisting;
Scrip law, to compel corporations to pay in law:
full money; Assignment OF mortgages; Fee and
salary bill, which makes reduction Of $1,000
in Anderson countys taxes; Taxation of min
eraI reserves; Anti-trustIaw; besides numerous
other bills of minor Importance.
Conment is unnecessary. We have tried j.
d. Stevens, and we have found him true to the
peoples interests. The people of Anderson
county cannot afford to turn him down and elect
a man who boldly says he will not promise to
stand by the people of this county
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

Agriculture and all industry was experienc-
ing mighty Change, prior to the Spanish war.
The world had never seen such rapid evo-
luton as has transformed farming and the arts
within 20 years. This country was just begin
ming to adjust itself to these problems, when the
Spanish war brings up others still more serious
1t is time for sober second thought. Bombast
is out OF place. Talk about "improving the
Asiatcs" is nauseati1ig when our brave SOL
diers sicken and die at Chickanauga park and
Montauk. The "improving" that needs to be
done on this continent will occupy the utmost
resources of our people for centuries. Few
realize that within the present limits of the
United States one billion people can be CON-
fortably supported, with Alaska and Canada for
the overflow.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

Garnett Populist returned copy OF Costi-
gan's (free) Weekly to its editor, with the fol-
owing written upon it's margin
'"rake back your rot, Oh, Costigan!
Write something decent if you call
Something that's worthy of man.
"You bark like All Egyptian dog,
And with the Same success, note,
Half knave-half fool-you hireling tool.
You do not change single vote
Nor injure Leedy with your fight.
You only show
How vilely low
One man can go
When goaded on by hate and spite"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

Charles Emory Smiths trip through Kansas
might have made a better impression on the
yeomanry had he not travelled in private car,
the interior furnishings Of which cost as much
as quarter of million bushels of corn. The
car was trimmed with gold and Its wheels had
rubber tires.--Kansas City Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

BY the way, after their songs about our "glo-
rous" banner Of the stars, and keeping every
foot of ground our flag has waved over, will
some one please tell us what regiment Stanley
and the rest Of the Republican candidates be-
long to? How many sent sons to the late WARP
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

With Matt Quay under arrest, Secretary AL
ger under investigation and Web Davis under
the weather, it is indeed hard Shedding right
now for the administration.-K c. Times.