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The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-06
WAS A MASKED AFFAIR.
II. G. ". Ball at X. of v. Hall a Com
pIetc Success.

II. G. ". Ball at X. of ". Hall a Com
pIetc Success.
The masquerade ball given by the H. G.
H.. for a poor widow and several chill
dren. took place at Knights Of Pythias
Hall last night and was a success from
every point of view.
The hall was crowded with masked per-
sons and every character from a rag
time individual to Uncle Sam was repre-
sented. There were Indians. freshmen,
Germans, bootblacks, policemen galore;
in fact every known character, and some
that are unknown, was represented. The
first prize of SO in gold was awarded to
Harry Stalburg. who appeared as an old
negro washwoman, clothes basket and all.
The second prize of s. in gold was given
TO Ivy Bluestein. made up as a Gypsy.
Refreshments We're served and an enjoy
able evening was spent by those in at
tendance. The judges were julius Stark,
Ben Waltz. VI. Brody, George Levin and
Edward Haskell.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-06

u5DF5 HanuS ShONId
be deep and long. PEARLINE
Iengthens life by removing the
evils Of the old way of washing:
cramped bending to rub. long
breathing fetid steam. weary
standing on feet. over-exertion,
exha Ustion. Doctor Common
Sense tells you this Is bad.
With PEARLINE you simply
soak. boil and rinse. Quick.
easy. sensible. heAlthfuI-
proved by millions Of users. 6SO
The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-06
DO

like Grandmother used to make will mean
more 90 the coming generation than it
have
The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-06
Marguerite Suits, Viola

Dancers: Marguerite Suits Viola
Krouskoff, Mamie StilwelL
Staff: General managers and directors,
Miss Ruth Kayton; assistant general
manageress and costumeress. Miss Ada
Enrich: properties, Miss Marie Ehrlich.
After the entertainment al the Theater
a reception was given the young ladies
by the Young Mons Hebrew Association.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-06

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starter for the chronic ailments and long OF
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Water Valley progress., 1901-02-23
Two Sides to.the Question
a great deal has been sail h

a great deal has been sail by 1{o
aapsrlllst -neTspapaEs-
country about the Fllipinos mu.
lia'ing the bodies of killed and
w9u ded American soldiers and
cemniting other atrocities, but the
iActs IS our troops have been quill.
" OF some trough work. them.
selves since ihe war tor the subj
tion Of the Philippines began. It
9 = been remarked on several 90.
aacsion that the cable reports have
gwen accounts of ratheaasinelsr
ngli'lns" in the islands, with scoes
y native killed and no mention
made OF the number Of F;lipinoo
wounded or prisoners taken All
OF these "remarklable victories, n
as Senator 1ellers tet]ps them nre:
won with oaly one d 1.-Two Auleri-'
cansoldiers being XII o. wouad~
sd. Senator Towne, his resent
speech in the Senate on the cltna.
tion in the island gave S(rone
confirmation to the suspioion kero.
at home as to the conduct ofs vi
ofthese alleged battles.
Water Valley progress., 1901-02-23
SHERIFF'S SALE
DELINQUENT LANDS

BY virtue or the power vested Sheriff aud Tax Co
faoousha County, Mississippi WILL the First Monday
1901 being the 4th day of March, 1901 proceed @
hours IN front Of the Court House door, Coeeve,
county, Mississippi the highest bidder
scrbed lands. lying in said County and State x
Water Valley progress., 1901-02-23
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

Last Monday tac Gulf u Ship
Island railroad turned over to the
1. G. at Jackson 200 cars loaded
with lulber.
Water Valley progress., 1901-02-23

y. at jackson ZuU cars 'Oaucu
with lulber.
Two negroes accused of barn
We're lynched near Ma
con ,hov other day. They were
SHOT 90 death.
Vicksburg is receiving plans
for the erection of new city hall.
The cost of the building is limit
ed to S35, 900.
Hon. John Sharp Williams, the
brainy Congressman from this
Fifth District, is mentioned at
the leader of the House.
Re- resentatives of the delta
plantations are in the hill sec.
tions securing many negro
families to go there and locate.
The entire business portion Of
the town of DIDO, located on the
line of the Gulf & Ship Island
railroad, was wiped out by fire
last Saturday.
From reports gathered from
the tax collectors from various
portions of the State it is esti-
mated that about 60 per cent of
poll tax is delinquent.
w. V. Sullivan, jr, son of Sen
ator Sullivan, has been appoint.
ed by President Mckinley, sec,
ond assistant engineer in the
revenue cutter service.
The State Grand Lodge of the
Knights of Pythias will meet at
Greenville early in May. The
people of that city are arranging
to entertain them roya.ly.
The new ten'thousand dollar
pump for the Jackson water
workshas been put in position. Il
has capacity of four million
gallons of water per day.
The Mississippi Division of the
Daughters of the Confederacs
are moving to have the corner
stone OF the new State cApito.
laid on Jefferson Davis birth
day, June 8.
The case of r. G. Musgrove
for damages against the Alabama
& Vicksburg Railroad, came uI
before the Kinds county circuit
court and the jury awarded the
damages at &15, ZOO.
The members of the Vicksbure
military park commission are re
tuuested to meet at Vicksburg
| April Is, to locatethe position Of
the Mississippi troops during
that memorable sci; 9.
The case of Writ Adams VS.
The Tombigbee Cotton Mills, al
Columbus, on account of back
taxes claimed to be due the State,
has been decided by the Supreme
Court in favor of the Mills.
1t is announced that in shor,
time three new cotton mills vii
be in operation in this State, al
rupelo, Winona and West Point.
They are now practically com
plete, machinery placed, etc.
The business men of Meridian
and West Point oppose an effori
on the part of the Mississippj
railroad commission to prevent
the consolidation of the Southern
and Mobile & Ohio railroads.
It is reported that Washington
friends of Senator Sullivan are
making an effort to secure for him
the appointment as the United
States circuit jugein the Federal
court, with headquarters at Ntw
Orleans.
Mrs. Tamplet, of Texas, claims
that she has the old battle.scared
dag which went from Mississlp.
pi to the Mexican war in 1846 Il
the head Of the regiment 81
which Jefferson Davis was the
Water Valley progress., 1901-02-23

The above described lands will for onpayment of
for III. fscti year 1900 - u ~ess "~es
j NJ. ALLEN, sheriff and Tax ooll.ctor
Water Valley progress., 1901-02-23

An Intellectual attempt wa
made to rob the Bank of Sardis
last Tuesday night. The outer
door~tyT itttrc -v-r- @4.,-,g--~-,l-,,-l.4- sea-
tanned from six to seven thous-
and doliars in cash, was blown
OIL with nitro glycerile Tho
bank funds were not reached.
he burglars departing hastily,
leaving tn ir tools behina.
Water Valley progress., 1901-02-23
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Mardi Gras was celebrated this
season at New Orleans, Mobile,
Memphis and Natchez.
A new round cotton bale has
been invented which is claimed
to be superior to any previously
invented.
Congress has voted Eve mill
ion dollars for the benefit of the
St. Louis Exposition, which VIII
take place in 1903.
Alabama has offered to give
Florida 1000, 600 for the PRIV
ilege of annexing the. western
portion of that Stale.
Ben King, a young negro was
publicly hanged by the outraged
citizens of Dyersburg, Tenn, one
day this week, for an.ass aul. on
. young lady, a Miss Arnold.
Secretary of the Navy Long
announces that the next battle.
ships to be built in the United
States will be named Connect
cut, Louisiana, Tennessee ana
Washington in the order named.
Typhoid fever Is prevailing to
an alarming extent among the
British soldiers ii South Africa.
More than nineteen thousand ca.
ses and over four thousand deaf hs
have been reported since the v ar
began.
A man believed TO be one of
the three kidnapers of young
Cudahy has been| arrested and
placed in the Omaha jail. The
boy recognizes tle man as the
person who asked him to get
into the Wagon. I,
Advic9s from the Hawaii Isl
ands Indicate that the negroes
imported there from Louisiana
and Mississippi to work on the
sugar farms arc regarded with
disfsvor by the Inhabitants and
trouble is feared.
The announcement of Con-
gressmsn Brown, Of Ohio, in the
lower House Iast week, that he
would advocate 3 resolution as =
suring the Filipinos Of their in
dependence, w1s loudly cheered d
BY both Republicans and Demo
erats.
President NcKinley has de-
clared his intention of calling an
extra session u Congress just as
soon Is the Guban constitution
reaches Waslslngton. It seems
70 be unders od that the real
Water Valley progress., 1901-02-23

many NEGROES on the Confederate
pension roll in tnis State. NJ
distinction of i'.Gces or colar WI
made by glorious old Mlssissipp.
in her pea>ion roll. The negrocs
who served rs nurses or in Other
capacities III the Sonthefn arm '
who We're old or disabled were
treated just as the white men ano
given pensions.
The Pythian building at Jack
son, Tenn, was destroyed b,
ire Monday night and two bust
ness houses adjoining were dc
molished by falling wall. The
Pythian building included the
Second National Bank, the Amer.
icfn Express Company's Office
Rbarber shop on tho first
Ihe opera house on the
"a and the main hall cr
lod room Of the third floor.
Loss estimated at S95 10000.
Amount Of INSURANCE not given.
The statistics Of the pension
bureau at Washington disclose
4 Il
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-08-10
WOMEN LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS
An DISSIPATION for Which the 0sntlsr
Sex L. Eninently
Adapted.

Keeping lighthouse is essentially
womanly work. A well regulated
woman takes pride in bright. we'll
kept things and orderly surroundings
Her heart leaps up when she beholds
the perfection Of Heavens first law,
says Mary Nimmo Balentine. in Wom-
ans Home Companion.
The orderly woman cnn have q pro-
gramme of work for the week just
like any other housekeeper, although
keeping a lighthouse is not light
housekeeping, by any manner of
means. In some lighthouses days are
set aside for sewing. for furnishing
the lamps, for reading and writing,
some of the keepers having an extern
sive correspondence; and. II you
please. there are reception days. for
rule of the board enjoins the keep
ers to show the light and the station
to sightseers. Lighthouse life cannot
be dr'l to lover Of such responsive
friends as books and music. And so
the identity Of the tall, grim light
tower is lost in the home under the
wooing influence of the social and
domestic atmosphere of the woman
behind the lamp. Gre
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-08-10
A THOUSAND NILES AT SEA.
In Several Parts Of the Earth ships
CAA Get That Far from
LAAA.

The question has been asked. is it
possible to sail 1000 miles from land?
This can be done at several points.
BY leaving San Francisco and sailing
northwestward into the North Pacific.
+, spot is reached where there is no
land-not even an islet-for 1000 miles
any direction. So, too, sailing from
The southern point of kamtchafka.
.outheastward, ships reach point
equally distant from land of any kind.
he nearest to the north being the
Aleutian islands, and to the south the
outlying members of the Sandwich
group. In the southern Indian ocean
I is possible to sail 1000 miles out
from the southern points Of Australia
and New Zealand and still be as far
from any other land. and the same
may be done in a westerly direction
from Cape Horn. Indeed, from this
point much long>r distance may be
.eached. for the southern Pacific. be-
tween the Horn and New Zealand, COW
ers a space of 10 degrees of longitude
and 40 of latitude of absolutely I'M
broken sea. making its central point
over 1900 miles from anywhere.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-08-10
.kIoou1xcs OF TIE NEGRO.
hstabss Example Was That Psessat-
- In the Preaehi.G Of Rev.
Joha JaaHsn

Rev. John Jasper represented the
highest type of ignorant eloquence.
Frank Leylie's Popular Monthly con-
Gains an interesting account Of the fa.
nous Old preacher.
There were many other disrburses,
says the author, just Is good Us the
"Suh.do,shove" sermon. though not 70
well known. In every one he wrought
himself up into pitch that was aston.
.shing. In preaching one Sunday on
the finai triumph Of Ckrist's kingdom
be seated aloft In his imagery, The aus
dience, white and black, we're wrought
up to the highest pitch,
AN Death" he said. "whar will
Death be den? Chained-tied faa' to
de golden chariot o. de tawd. He will
be gronnin' an stumblin' an fallin'!"
And taking up one foot in his hand
with the supplehess and the activity
Of q trapeze dancer he hoped and
hobbled and sprawied and fell around
the pulpit until the congregation, run
wild with the perfection of the acting.
almost thought they were in the very
presence of the chained Death, and the
women shrieked and shouted and the
men rose in their seats md shouted like
wild.
In his speech John Jasper was de-
nunciatory and as sarcastic as q man
could be. He oasted his enemies alive.
His strong point was his ability to ridi-
cule his opponents. He could say more
in a cynical grunt or laugh or a wave
of his long arm than most men can say
in paragraph.
Jasper could argue all day. II neces-
sary, and none could beat him. He
knew nohing of ryllogism.. of their
premises and their conclusions, but he
proved what he said by stalking upon 1t
his own character.
"Ef tain SO, frien's, 60 into de high
ways an de byways an de streets an
de hedges an tell ev'ybody you meet
dat John Jasper is liar!"
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-08-10
STILL LEFT IN DOUBT.
e-.,v,.,.t,.. .f 81. Lo-,. Remain.
. Problsa Hvsn to ResiAs.ts
10 '"s 81 That City.

At the recent national convention
II police chiefs one of the New York
police captains called Chief of Police
Kelly, of St. Louis, aside and requested
point Of information OF national inn
portance, says the New York Times.
"Chief, will you tell me how the
citizens OF your city pronounce Its
name7 Do they say Saint Louis-giv-
ing the sound Of the final $. or do they
say Saint Levi, which believe il the
French way OF pronouncing
you've got me,r replied the chief.
sour people are divided on that point.
The plain. breezy westerner avoids
the French pronunciation. by the
dropping Of the Anal istfer. and the 80
called cultured adhere 70 It with per-
sistent tenacity. can best answer
the question BY story they tell out
Of my town.. A New Yorker came west
on visit TO the metropolis Of Missouri.
who used the French pronunciation
when talking to friend and old resi-
dent of the city. The wes.crncr called
the eastcrper aside and told him that
the people OF the town didn't say
Saint Levi The visitor thanked him
and decided to follow the custom of
the town and do az the Romans did.
Shortly afterward he met another
friend and he used the name of the
city as he WIS told by his other NC
guaintanee. lie was Immediately cor
rcctcd. and Informed that the real poo
pie OF st. louis avoided the Anglicized
pronunciation. but said Saint Levi
Again the New Yorker thanked his
friend t4itor, and later returned to
New York On his arrival home he
met another old acquaintance. who in
qu:red where he had been and what
city in the west he had visited. The
traveller hesitated for . moment and
then answered: -Ill b hanged II I
know how" t,.,-..tala ..t-
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-08-10
BEYOND THE SPAN OF LIFE.
Cslnraes Assi soaeti.ssa sshtenseA t.
Ceptpsiss Of sDDsassA.

To be sentenced to imprisonmentfo for
the term of ones natural life is hard
enough, but to be consigned to dun
geon cell for a couple OF thousand
years is'indeed narrowing. Yet for
eign Judges not infreqnent.y impose
sentepces of several centuries without
1t being considered anything re mark
able. Not long ago an Italian adven-
turer was convicted of 81 distinct for
geries. He was sentenced in each case.
with the result that he will be free in
the year 20s9.- t7i7-l. a-. ~
A couple of years ago q young man
was arrested in Vienna who, upon his
own showing, should have been SEN
fenced TO $500 years imprisonment.
A total of 400 charges was brought
against him. and he was convicted and
sentenced IN all of them. hut the
judge Wiz nmereiful man. and in pass
ing sents p+ he threw CT 1000 years
in constA1aA tt6n of the mans youth.
A little time ago, in the great Calabri-
on brigandage trial in Naples. the pub
lie prsssENtgr demanded sentence
upon PAS &6dSSSt, and although the
average sef y disposed was little
over I'VE \ Ssagsregate Of the
sentences bfxd 10 1 .soo years. inn
pHtsonmeAf t. 49, = ~ ~ tF.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-08-10
w.r,A's s,sa.st Ba.. Horn.

Pennsylvania possesses the biggest
bass horn in the world. 1t Is in the
town of Williamsport. Frank Byers,
of that town, is the only man who
can blow 1t. The horn is over six
feet tall and its great bell is more
than three feet in width Not one
musician in . hundred can produce
any tone upon II. much less extract
music from its cavernons depths. BY
ers was formerly o tailor. With the
great horn he can executs the most
difficult composition with all the fa-
cility of . man playing cornet.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-08-10
eT5AxBoAr IN THE WOODS.
ISa.sas Mans story of a Capital. whs
Cat Through the Timber DaPs
ing = June Rise.

did you ever notice?" asked I'M
observing man, according to the Chi
cago Tribune, that when an unusual
crent occurs anywhere there is al
ways somebody who is reminded of
an event which otershndows the news
OF the day? met Kansas man to-
day, who, after he had talked about
the great calamity in Texas. told me
that it was nearly ms bnd AS one Of
~. lime rises of the Missouri river
"Then he went oil to tell me some
Of the experiences which Kansas and
Missouri farmers had in consequence
of great overhows that often changed
the boundary lines of counties. and
town by reason OF the shift of the
channel of the river found itself in
Missouri. Bat his cnpshcaf story was
that of an old steambontman who,
during one of the rises of which he
spoke, cut across field in Kansas
with his boat, hoping thereby te
make time. The water wns high and
swift in the forests, and the steam
boatnan took the wheel and s;eercd
his craft right through the woods
and across fields. He concluded tc
tie up to one of the big trees during
the night and resume his voyage on
the following morning. But 10!
when the morning cnme the waters
had abated considerably. so that the
steamer was stuck in the mud. The
waters continued to nbate. and by
the second night there wasn't enough
to drink. The river gradually re-
sumed its old channel, according to
the Kansas man, and the boat was
finally left there, right in the woods.
The boat was dismantled Of most Of
its furnishings, but there were the
outlines of boat just the same. A
farmer lived in the craft one winter,
and in the following spring the boat
became the abode of crows and other
things. The moss gathered about
the hull, the smokestacks rusted
away, and Mt last there was crash
in the stiffness of the forest. and the
only dry land steamboat in Kansas,
or anywhere, fell to pieces"
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-08-10
TIE DREYFus CASE IN TATTOO
scenes In the Celebrated
Trial.

A French eoachmna in Paris Is q
walking illustration Of raffaire Drey-
fus. Some time ago he was in ore of
the punishment companies in Africa,
says the New York Commercial Adj
vertiser. and an artistic comrade
killed time by tattooihg him all over
his body and legs with no less than
100 illustrations of prominent scenes
in the cnse. including portraits of
the leading pcrsonages connected
with and various allegorical and en-
blcmntic devices us we'll. Black. blue.
red ard green colors have been en-
ployed. and the work has been exc
cuted with much skill. One of the
surgeons OF his regiment offered him
400 francs for his skin. explaining
that he could remove the surface
without pain or risk, and that n
speedy recovery would follow. The
soldier. however. preferred to keep
his aide ana the sketches tattooed or
it. Ind therefore declined the offer.
So. at least. he asers, and the won
dcrful success of the performance.
which took about I'd months in the
execution. is calculated to confirm
the itcn that the proposal may really
have been made. What may be styled
the two "pieces lie resistance" are to
be found on the back; and on the por-
ton of the body on the other side.
which afforded the most space for
the flights of the artists genius. On
the former the terrible ceremony of
degradation 1T the Ecolc MiiItairc is
graphically depicted. Three months
were devoted to 1t, and it is sur
mounted by q number of nlleSorical
designs. with hosts Of figures person.
ating goLdesses, AMONG whom may
be seen one representing France,
pointing ont to the Inflated captain
the distant lie du Diable. The other
ambitious production gives the spec
tnclc of the court-martial by which
Dreyfus was condemned. Above it,
on the left brenst. dagger picrces
heart, from which blood is flowing,
and on the other side is behc!d
serpent in the act of s.rangling n
man. The arms are chiefly dedicated
to counterfeit prcscntments of the
generals whose names were so much
before the public-Mercier. Billet.
Zurlinden. De BoisdefYre, Gonsc. and
so on--and also to portrait of the
late President Felix Faure. Irnnmer-
able flags and other patriotic cs,-
blems -arnish the things and legs. and
there nre other sketches a. well.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-08-10
DEBT AND WEALTH.
Figures .. the Former Are More
Easily Obtainable Than On
the Latter.

Increase in the national debts and
the wealth of the world are keeping
pace with each other, and each is ia
creasing enormously, according to the
recent figures given out by the bureau
of statistics Of the United States treas
ury. During the last 100 years the ma
tions of the earth hive increased their
debts tenfold, and the wealth of the
peoples of the nations has advanced to
the same extent, says the New York
Herald
AT the beginning Of the nineteenth
century the aggregated debts of the
world were about $500. 900. 900, to
which cipher must be. added to get
the debts of to-day. These figures are
more easily obtained than are those on
wealth. for little Is known of property
statistics in most OF the countries. and
still. less was known a hundred years
,eo. In $500 the wealth of the United
States. United Kingdom. France and
Spain was Estimated at $50. ga GAO 000.
while Muihall now PAGES their n ealth
at about S1o5. 900. 00o. 900. With these
increases In debts and wealth, popu,a-
ton has increased $50 per cent. and
gold and silver. which form the basis
Of the none y with which pa yme nts nre
made. have increased 800 per cent.
The bureau of statiatics charges
these debts principally to wars. stand
ing armies and works Of public utility.
OF the latter, canals. harbors, river i'm
provements and railways are the prin-
ripal. OF the railways. which cost
$4,000. DOC. 900. about one-third are
owned by national governments.