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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-19

There will be no scarcity of Senatorial
hdidates. Aside from Messrs. Craig,
pm and Oyerman, who have announced
Carr. Judge Hoke and Hon. Cyrus
son urge them to enter the race.
pg is certain: North Carolina
to have Senator who will
nst special privilege, no mat
shape it appears.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-19
Spirit of the Press.
THE SOUTH DOES NOT REPEL CAPT.
TAIL

TAIL
The Louisville Courier Journal.
There is no thought in the South of re-
polling capital. The people of the South
in money matters are just like the people
of the North; except that they have not
been educated down to the spirit Of COM
mercialism which, by reason of it's in
creased population and proximity to the
great commercial and financial centers,
prevails at the North. There is a little
virtue--not a great deal. but a little
left in the South. Should the nation not
nurse this? Should it not cultivate it?
Should it not tie to it? We speak equally
to Boston and Galveston, equally to New
York and San Francisco. Are we race
of degenerates? Can money really buy
the country?
DOES NOT SOUND LIKE DR.. CURRY.
Wilmington Messenger.
DR.. Curry nisrepresents public opinion
in the South If he is correctly reported
as assuring President Roosevelt that
all the adverse criticism in the South
of the Booker Washinton incident was
politics: simply this and nothing more.
Furthermore, it is said that DR.. Curry
insisted that the hue and cry raised
against the President for wining and
dining Booker Washington was a kind of
dying gasp of now almost obsolete polit-
ical dynasty" Nothing is really further
from the truth. There is not probably
in all southland a surviving confederate
or descendant Of one who does not
heartily condemn the Presidents course.
They may pity and forgive the President,
but they despise his ways and prefer
ences and tastes. DIR. Curry should be
careful not to msrepresent his people or
seek to curry favor in that way. Roose-
welt will never be held generally in the
South in the same kind way as he was
before that detestable and deplorable in
cident."
cdr. Curry may tickle the President but
not at the expense of the true white peo-
pie of the South. There, will be million
protests.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-19


bro Southerner calls atten-
kct that the will of the late
10, of Rocky Mount, showed
$4,000. He began life as
for DR.. T. C. Powell and
comfortable estate by
and politeness. Every
because he was clever
honorable. He made
gitimate business. His
ation OF what a young
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-19

A railroad company is not relieved from
it's duty TO keep proper lookout from the
engine, although it is shown that the en-
gineer and fireman were prevented from
performing that duty by attention to other
lut'ts. proper lookout" is not such
lookout as the engineer may be incident
ally able to give.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-19
MARTIN JERMAN VS.. J. W. GULLEDGE,

MARTIN JERMAN VS.. ]. w. GULLEDGE,
appellant. (From Anson).
Practice-Appeal.
The appellee's motion in the Superior
Court to dismiss an appeal from justice
of the peace, for failure of the justice to
make return to the appellate court within
ten days as required by Section S7S of The
Code, will not be allowed where it APP
pears that the delay was due to the fail
ure of appellee's counsel to prepare trans
script with the justice as agreed be-
TWEEN counsel and that appellant was
guilty of no laches
Woodruff County news., 1901-12-07

pletion of the ranks of the sterner sex in the east and strong reinforce ment in the west Indeed, in the latter quarter there is a double invasion from the more densely populated parts of our own land and from the old world Hence the distribution of the sexes is not uniform. Along the Atlan- tic eaboard for at least half a century there has been practically no excess of males, and on the whole a slight de- ficiency. The superabundance of wom- en has been most conspicuous, though, in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. Just why there should be such a situation at the national capital is not clear. But in New England a special local agency has been at work-an influx of factory girls from Canada. Thus there is an occasional exception to the rule that the majority of the immigrants are males.
 As might be expected, the great est excess of men is to be found in the far west, in the great ag ricultural and mining districts. In Minnesota and Nebraska there were at least 54 men out of every 100 people for long time, from 55 to 58 in the Dakotas, and from 60 to 6S in most of the regions of the west and southwest. The ratio in Montana was once as great as s1 out of 100, and even in 1890 was 661a to 33A. A slow, steady tendency toward equality has been observable, however, except in Utah, where the excess of men kept below the national average until 1880 and then increased only slightly. The connection between this fact and po- lygamy is too obvious to need pointing out.
Woodruff County news., 1901-12-07
MAINE'S SKUNK CROP.
Cash Returns from the PeIts and the Oil of the Animals Estimated
 at $75,OOO a Year.

Now that the frost is on the stubble in the fields of Maine, the skunk hunt CTS are out for business, says the New York Sun. The skunk, although summed by society in general, is much sought for by the boys of rural Maine, because it's oil is worth about five dol lars a gallon for making into liniment and its pelt sells for from 75 cents to two dollars, according to color and thickness of the fur.
 The skunk industry is bigger thing in Maine than most people suppose, the annual cash returns being about ,000. One man in the town of Pros pect sold last year $2OO worth of belts and $60 worth of oil, and others have done as well, while the boys who earn the price of their winter clothing in this way are numbered by thousands Black skunk belts are worth about four dollars apiece.
 The purchasers have the skins tanned and dyed black, and sell them to furriers, who make them up, under various names, for the adornment and comfort of stylish women. The oil
 
 is tried out over a slow fire, and bot tied. It is limpid, semi-transparent fluid, free from odor and much used by druggists. Applied pure, it is favorite remedy for sprains, scalds and bruises, while mixed with ann monia it makes a liniment that is re- garded with confidence amounting al- most to superstition by the country people as a cure for every i'll.
 With all the killing of tens of thou sands every year, the skunk seems to increase rather than to decrease in numbers, and there are more skunks in Maine to-day than there were ten years ago, so say the hunters. Naturally an insect hunter, the skunk does not thrive well on anything else, and an attempt made some years ego by a few farmers to breed them in inclos- ures, with offal as food, was a flat fail ure. This diet made the animals fur thin and coarse, and they yielded very little oil. To be useful well as fra grant, the skunk must have wide field of activity and all his nights out.
Woodruff County news., 1901-12-07
The Language

'You Sundayed in the mountains ?" ''No, the agent routed us the other ."-Detroit Free Press.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30
YAZOO HAS ENOUGH.

j. o. Mobley, president of the Board
of Supervisors of Yazoo county, has
notified the county health officer that
the county will not hereafter aid any
one who has smallpox, either with
guards, nurses, medical attention OIL
food, and any expense incurred in
handling such cases will not be paid
by the county. An order to this eff
feet was passed by the Board of Su
pervisors at it's last meeting. They
took the smallpox situation in hand
last year and spent thousands of dol
lars in trying to stamp out the disease
and as result the treasury was al
most depleted.
Lincoln's Board of Supervisors
would be justified in drawing the line
close on this smallpox business also.
The county was fleeced last year for
considerable sum in the aggregate
by persons who were able and ought
to have paid their own expenses.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30
SALOON WRECKING IN KANSAS

SALOON WRECKING IN KANSAS.
The result of Mrs. Carrie Nations
return to Wichita, Kan, last week,
after her Incarceration for wrecking a
saloon, was an almost immediate at
tack made by herself and three other
women upon two other saloons that
readily yielded their plate glass fronts
to axes, pokers and such like womanly
weapons of attack. Policemen who at
tempted their arrest were assaulted
vigorously, and Sheriff Simmons, as
gracefully and CALAMITY as was posi-
BILE under the urgent circumstances,
yielded his ears to the gentle ~ guild
ance of Mrs. Nations soft, white hands,
after being soundly slapped in the
face. The women were arrested, but
threatened that when their truce with
the police should have expired, that
they would again begin their destruc-
tive operations. The husband of Mrs.
Nation has| learned to "view the pros
pew " Oh uuucl ChC
most trying circumstances, one of
which occurred when the policemen
were compelled to pick his wife up
bodily and place her in a cab with the
Jail as her destination.
AT this distance from the scene that
brought out 5000 people during the
excitement of the day. it looks little
singular that the officers of the law
should be so Jealous in suppressing
Mrs. Nation instead of the saloons
that are unlawful in Kansas. What
are few wrecked glass fronts, or the
damaged paraphernalia of saloon,
or the humiliation and suffering of
hese Jealous women to the broken
hearts and lives, and the damned souls
of men that the saloon creates There
is method in the madness of these wo-
men.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30

The Aberdeen Examiner says: The
Memphis folks are inviting President
Mckinley to attend the Confederate
reunion in that city next May. What
in the world do they want with McKin-
ley on that occasion? 1t is not a reun-
ion of the "blue and the gray" but of
veterans of the Southern army, and it
is as much out of place to invite as
guests of honor distinguished men
who followed the other flag, as it was
to invite whole lot of northern and
eastern promoters to attend the late
so called Southern Industrial Conven-
ton in New Orleans. So far from add
ing to the attractions of the occasion,
it will deter many from attending.
This is not to be any "truly loyal af-
fair, but re union of ex-Confederates
who fought McKinley's folks.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30

Several of our Mississippi newspa-
per friends are Internationally violat-
ing the postoffice regulations, by cir
culating hand bills in their edition,
heading the same supplement" etc.
We had troublesome experience,
years ago, on this account, with a spe-
cial agent of the government, and the
rule that it was claimed we violated is
still in force. Paragraph 2, Section
342, Rulings: Circulars, hand bills.
show-bills, posters and other special
advertisements, cannot be admitted as
supplements. Advertising sheets, con-
sisting entirely Of advertisements, is
sued by business houses and furnished
to publishers for the purpose of be-
ing circulated with second-class publ
cations, are not regarded by the de-
partment as permissible supplements. I"
y. l.. Poper.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30
State Fire Association,

The Mississippi Fire Association was
organized at Winona. The following
directors we're elected: Phil. A. Rush
Senatobia; E. L. Ragland, Brookhaven
J. G. Purnell, Winona; J. M. Fletcher
Kosciusko; ]. M. Carpenter, Natchez
D. H. McQuiston, Aberdeen; r. M
Weaver, Corinth; N. H. Bryant, Ok
ford; j. E. Thomas, Grenada; Sol
Fried, Vicksburg, John Carraway, BIZ
loxi; c. E. Grafton, Brookhaven; Rich
ard Griffith, jackson; George A. Will
son, Lexington; Miss G. W. Troy, Tu
pelo; T. M. Mosely, West Point; H. L.
Bardwell, Meridian. Phil. A. Rush
was elected president, E. L. Ragland
secretary, and Mr.. Campbell, of Louis
vile, KY, manager. The association is
capitalized at 100000. There was a
good attendance upon the meeting, and
the best business men of the State are
deeply interested in the association
1t will be instrumental in keeping
much money in the state that now goes
out of it. The prospect is bright for
the association. The domicile is at
Senatobia, while the principal business
Office will be at Jackson, Miss.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30

Prof. Roxa Tyler, of Chicago, Vice
President Illinois Woman's Alliance
in speaking of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, says: 81 suffered with Sc
we're cold this winter which threatened
to run into pneumonia. / tried differ
ent remedies, but l seemed to grow
worse and the medicine upset my
stomach. A friend advised me to try
Chamberlain's Cough remedy and
found it was pleasant to take and it
relieved me at once. am now entirely
recovered, saved doctors bill, time
and suffering, and / will never be with.
out this splendid medicine again" For
sale by c. e. Grafton Drug Company.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30

The Canton Times, edited by DIR. b.
F. Passmore, who has had extensive
pratical experience as farmer, has
the following editorial on the crop Of
1901:
ut will cost more to raise this
years crop than the people Of the
State have realized since the civil war.
Stock will be poor and every mouth
full of feed for horses and people win
have to be bought by many. Many
will start In with heavy debts from
this season, aud must practice the
most rigid economy to succeed.
Some have done well--better than
usual, but there seems to attach to
certain circumscribed localities pc
culiar fatality in certain bad years
that we cannot account for, and there
are many of that kind Of localities
this year. Mississippi Is the worst
situated state in the cotton belt In the
hill region. Marvelously fine crops
for the season are being made Ia por-
tions of the delta, many averaging
bale or more to the acre. Corn this
year will be good price, and we will
propose the following ration and mkt
ure both for economy and to prevent
the feed from being used except for
horse feed: One quart ground grits,
Que quart cotton seed meal and
two quarts of wheat bran at a feed.
Mix in bulk SO that it will repre-
sent the above amount to each gal
lon of feed, which would be one bush
ell of grits, one bushel Of cotton seed
meal and two bushels of wheat bran
six and one half bushels should feed
mule one month. We have known
corn to sell for $3.50 per bushel in this
country before there was any railroad
to bring it here from the north. The
fellow who had it in bad years got his
own price for it, and the fellow who
paid that price for it tried ever after
wards to raise it. The above mixture,
we believe, will prove a better feed at
all times than corn alone. The fatten-
ing properties of the cotton seed meal
will make up for the small quantity
of corn, and the mixture will not pail
on the appetite of the horse as soon as
corn alone. OF course we mean the
horse must have full feed of good,
sweet hay; this he should have access
to at all times"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30
Rright's Disease Cured.

! suffered from kidney trouble, which
finally became so aggravating that |
was obliged to give up my position
which was paying me 800 per month,
and came to the city for treatment,
but after several months was worse
instead of better. l was advised of
Smiths Sure Kidney Cure and I bought
a bottle, and am now so we'll that /
shall return to take better position,
My cure Iregard as almost miraculous.
My wife was also suffering, and she
has been taking your medicine for a
short time, and is so much improved
that she already regards cure for her
as certain. ]. H. WRIGHT,
Clarksdale, Miss
Price 80 cents. For sale by G. f.
Grafton Drug Co.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30

The Plaindealer took 6-foot rattle.
snake skin as part payment OH a sub,
scription. Other journals have taken
wood, turnips, pumpkins, potatoes
carrots, hay, corn, meat, shucks, prom
ises, etc, but we claim to be the only
paper that took a rattlesnake on sub
scription. During the holidays some
scoundrel stole the rattles off our skin
and We want to state right here that
we want our rattles back, and we
want 'em bad. What can we do with a
skin without rattles? Bring them rat,
ties back. -Boonrille Pldindedler.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30
LIZ

The following remarkable compila-
ton is contribution to the San Fran
cisco Times from the pen of Mrs. II. A.
Deming. The reader will notice that
each line is quotation from some Of
the standard authors OF England and
America. This is the result OF a years
laborious search among the leading
poets Of the past and present time:
Why all this toll for triumphs Of an hourg
Young.
LIES short summer, man flower.
Dr. johnson.
by turns we catch the vital breath and die
Pope.
The cradle and the tomb, alas, so nigh.
Prior.
To be is better far than not to he.
sewell.
Though all mans life may seem tragedy;
spenser.
But light cares speak when mighty griefs are
dumb, Daniel.
The bottom Is but shallow whence they come.
Raleigh.
Your fate is but the common fate of all;
Longfellow.
Unmingled joys here to no man befall.
Southwell.
Nature to each aliots his proper sphere;
Congreve.
Fortune makes folly her peculiar care.
Churchill.
Custom does often reason override,
Rochester.
And throw cruel sunshine on fool.
Armstrong.
Live well; how long or short, permit to Heaven;
Milton.
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
Bailey.
Sin maybe ciasped so close we cannot see its
face, Trench.
Vile Intercourse where virtue has no place.
Somervlle.
Then keep each passion down, however dear;
Thompson.
Thou pendulum betwixt smile and tear.
Byron.
Her sensual snares let faithless Pleasure lay.
Smolett.
With craft and SKILL to ruin and betray.
Crabbe.
Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to RISE
Massinger.
We masters grow of all that we despise.
Cowley.
Then, renounce that impous self-esteem;
Beattie.
Riches have wings and grandeur Is dream.
Cowper.
Think not ambition wise because it's brave.
Davenant.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Gray.
What is ambition?-'tis a glorious cheat!
Willis.
Only destructive to the brave and great.
Addison.
What's all the gaudy glitter Of a crown?
Dryden.
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down.
Quarles.
How long we live, not years, but actions tell;
Watkins.
That man lives twice who lives the first life
well. Herrick.
Make then while yet we may, your God your
friend, Mason.
Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend.
Hill.
The trust that's given guard, and to yourself be
just; Dana.
For, live we how we can, yet die we must.
Shakespeare.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30

Perhaps the greatness of this coun-
try is best expressed by the showing
that we have as many pupils in our
public schools as Germany, France
and Italy combined; three times the
enrolment of England and Ireland
and five times that of Russia.
We opine that American intelligence
will outweigh foreign numbers, as re-
lates to the influence and uplift of hu-
manity generally. Standing armies
can destroy while the trained intellect
can create. Brute force is being rele-
gated to the rear and the immortal
mind of man is in the ascendaney this
Goth century.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30
Danger signal.


Remember that your kidneys act as
the cesspool of the human body, into
which all the impurities of the system
are continually dumped for purifica-
ton, and when the kidneys fail to prop
erly perform their functions, it is a
signal of further complications. The
liver becomes clogged, the blood is
filed with uric acid poison, the heart
becomes involved, and unless the prop
err remedy is applied, your case will
soon be beyond the reach of human
skill. Smiths Sure Kidney Cure will
cure you in less time and at less ex-
pense than any other medicine in the
world, and it is guaranteed. Price 80
cents per bottle. For sale by G. e.
Grafton Drug Co.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30

Speaking of the passenger trains on
the |. c., the McComb City Times OBJ
serves that it is generally supposed
that trains No. 8. and have faster
running time schedules than any 9TH
er runs on the road, which superstition
Is based on the fact that these trains
are given the full right of way and
naturally land you at your destination
much quicker than the local passen-
ger trains. As figures will show, trains
No. %, "A, 25 and % run much faster
between stations than either of the
cannon balls run, but are naturally
knocked out BY making every stop and
BY extra large baggage transfers.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30

Farmers Steal 1000 Bushels of
Corn Fromthe I. c.


Drove to the Scene Of the Gailmsn wreck,
IntImsdsted the Guards and
Loaded Up Their
Wagons.
Supt. o. M. Dunn, Of the Illinois
Central, who was In the city last night
on official business, brings the first
news of one of the most daring and
sensational highway robberies ever
committed in the history of American
railroading.
To the average man the story ap.
pears almost incredible, and conserva.
tive persons will doubtless think that
1t is exaggerated, but every word is
vouched for by the railroad officials
and other persons who have been to
the scene and witnessed what oc.
Cured.
Last Tuesday night a southbound
freight train was wrecked in deep
cut near Gallman, in the county of
Copiah, and seventeen cars were piled
up Unfortunately on top of each
other. Six or eight Of these cars we're
filled with shelled corn, loose and in
sacks, and the awful force of the de-
railment smashed open several of the
cars and scattered their contents on
the ground.
In order to save this corn about one
thousand empty cotton seed sacks
were sent from the on mills in this
city and when the wreck was cleared
away the laborers we're placed at
work putting the loose corn in the
sacks. Thursday afternoon the guard
which had been placed at the scene of
the wreck by the company was intimi-
dated by large force of farmers who
came from many miles around in wag-
ons of all kinds and descriptions and
within the course of few hours near
ly two thousand bushels of corn had
been carried away without leave or
askance.
No violence of any kind was shown
to the guards, but the men we're given
to plainly understand that no inter
ference would be brooked and they
could do nothing but stand idly by
and see the grain hauled away.
1t is stated that one wagon was on
the scene with eight oxen attached.
The robbers did not seem to be in any
particular hurry with their work, but
went about it as leisurely as though
the property was theirs by right of
purchase. One of them irreverently
remarked that the Lord had caused
the wreck for the especial benefit of
the farmers of that section as the corn
crop was complete failure last year
and it was necessary to have it to keep
their stock from starving to death.
The railroad officials, it is learned
automatically, will submit the matter
to the grand jury of Copiah county
which meets at Hazlehurst in April,
and their attorneys have been notified
of the Clarion Ledqer.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30
Among the many talented member

Among the many talented members
of E. J. Carpenters "Quo Vadis" Com
pany, none attract more attention than
a beautiful young girl, named Mill
cent Evans. She is the daughter of a
we'll known clergyman in large
western city. Her undeniable talent
commands the interest of the audience
from her first appearance, and her
career will be followed closely by all
who witness her charming portrayal
of "Eunice" at Heuck's Opera House,
Wednesday, Feb. 9th.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-30

An express package containing 49,,
80 remained unidentified in the Jack
son office for more than two weeks
1t was finally discovered that the sher.
if of Lee county was entitled to credit
for the amount for back taxes collect
ed. 1t has been turned into the treas.
ury. 1t was shipped by the Bank OF
Commerce, Memphis.