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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-10-03
The report Of conditions as to
Monroe county was given by the
Aberdeen correspondent, in the
following paragraph:

'.Absrdesn. Miss, Sept. 20-Ths condition Of
the cotton crop at this date u peFcepttblo Inn
provsms0t on that oe month ago, tie ooosen-
sus Of opinion placing it about per eont. or
possibly litSlo higher 0gnto. The weather
conditions have been decidedly favorable. and
instead Of no top crop being in sight, - q the
nFss Of Sepcember. new growth end blou0o have
been in evide0cs since the 1oeh Of The month.
and. with : late irost, vill nature eoosi6eseb.e
satisfactory manner, d labor slWsys S0lisbls
stimulated b. The high ruling of Quotae3ous tor
lint ard Sod. The quantity ot SD eOteuo -
Quired u llW 70 lo0O pounds - . sOOpoa1d baie.
The deposition 70 market The crop = Indicated
By rscefps. since september ~ Ahee9ooo. ed
bales, against I'D tie sems date last osasOa.
taking Into account that this soosoo = Swo
weeks earlier than last Ths pP0a1oess ar0
maskesine freely. fos tAe pgrposs q peXtng ssots
.Sis ssss.s q iies :sa "a. Z: . g. .s.:is
der OF the crop. hOwUvse, they ero IN puoit3oe -
major p0stlne VIII s mafksSsd SaSly 10 pesssot
QuOeat5oos cootinue. IT, yio)6 = . 00etog u
various estimate. Il Il 0lei0od b. so0o that
tbs crop will b short. and is = eesteialy nucA
JAY promise wouA have bssa q i1msoso
yield. Avesaging all he pssiFie lan4e given %
cotton st thrse 0uarssss Q! hels g - ees0. .
conservative est{mess as this d9s. heeo6 upue
s.ssesl i'e.isy: pses:s shs a:sl - e .os
S;oe-seoas Sak q = sesss5-sSs 80 kss
bssa - lanQe - usqa1. ae1 @ hDW Uaoeso an1
bottom lands WI 80. H. ogop w4u DRovQ
coasidseably lar9oe tAon that - lose yoaP 81
ehe sampSoe aso uniformly q 0i6dlinG Oso0o q
60etse.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-10-03

Get . free sample of Chamberlain
Stomach and Liver Tablets 1t 0holson Z
drug store. They are easier to take and
more pleasant in eject than pills. Their
use 10 not followed by constipation ~ Is
often the case with pills. Regular size,
26o Der box.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-10-03

Happiness depends very nssA o ~
ILL Of Life make bot lieels i9peeaaioo
On sAoee vhese aigesejoo = god. Yoo
en- regulate yoaR liver and k31ae9e ~
HBRDNB aSd sojoy AealoA aso booy-
assy q spirits. PEises 50 ssa1s. "a. 0ay.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-10-03
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY FAIR.

Starkville, Miss. October 7th-Sth. 1902
For this occasion the Mobile Il Ohio rail.
road company will sell roundtrip tickets to
Starkville, Oct. eth and Sth, for 90 cents
good returning Oct. 10.
j.. ID. GODFREY, JR., Agent.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-10-03

In one column the Meridian
Press deplores the action of the
people Of Corinth in lynching the
negro brute for the confessed muir
der Of Mrs. Whitfield, and in an
other column reports, with four
story heading, the case of a negro
man forcing entrance into the
room Of two young ladies of Me-
ridian. at two o'clock in the morn
ing. but who was frightened away
by their screams. Had the negroes
venture been successful, it is cur
ious to know what the Press would
have said about its own local case.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-10-03
MISSISSIPPI AND WEST ALABAMA


Columbus, MISS, Oct 18th eth, 1902
Account above occasion the Mobile d
Ohio Railroad Co. will cell round trip
tickets to Columbus, Oct. 18th TO 18th,
limited until Oct. 18th, for sos.
Il. d. GODFREY, Jr.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-10-03

Judge E. u. Sykes addressed the
people Of the first district at Amory
yesterday. on the subject of the
proposed new Jail. As the present
Jail structure has been condemned
by sixteen grand juries. and a. the
proposition that the county bor-
row its own money that 10 already
in the treasury. turning the inter-
eat into the public school disburse-
ments. affords an easy and practi-
cal means of securing nearly . suf-
6cient amount to pay for it, cost.
il seems that . canvass we're nm
necessary TO carry the election in
IT. favor next month.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-10-03


Senator Simmons of North Car
DINA reports to the Democratic
headquarters at Washington that
his State will return a solid Dem
ocratic delegation to Congress.
This is more than the committee
has been counting upon, for at
least one representative from that
State had been conceded to the
Republicans. This and similar
other gains by the Democrats will
have to be Offset by Republican
gains in the East and West, where
their party strength is already SER
iously impaired BY dissentions on
the tariff. trusts and the coal strike.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-10-03

Best line of Cigars in town.
+. D. CARTER & Co.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-10-03
For Sale or Rent.

A six room cottage and 30 acres
of we'll improved land, about one
mile west of Aberdeen. For par
ticulars apply to CoBuRN & Co.
Sept. 5-4t.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-10-03

Are you in a hurry for your Gro
cerieeP Then Phone 70.
f. ID. CARTER & Co.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-10-03
September Cotton Report.

In it's Issue Of Wednesday, o.
tober l. the New Orleans Times
Democrat published it's report of
the condition and progress OF the
cotton crop for the month OF Sep
TENDER. 1t comprises reports from
LAT special correspondents cover
ing the entire cotton belt, whose
accuracy was attssted last year by
the fact that the estimate OF that
journal, based on these reports,
was wide of the final mark by only
IL per cent. or 10000 in a total
production Of 10. 55O. 900 bales. and
in that instance the estimate was
below instead of above the actual
figures.
Following is the editorial sum-
mary of the Times Democrat on
the situation for the month Of Sep
tember:
change since tho September report. some sec-
tious showing q moderate improvoment while
Others indicate like detosiosat ton. IL = prob
able that tho crop, - . whole, has gone slightly
backward.
The rscsnt heavy rains arc thought % have
done serious damage in many districts. but no
definite conclusion Is to DO formulated on this
point just nov.
bilities OF tho top crop and tho second growth,
but the outturn Of this character Of cotton will
hinge an the date Of FROST
"farmers seem 70 have marketed THAR pro-
duet freely, ~ = rule. Tho high cost of corn and
to the minimum.
These reports wers closed at noon Monday
September y. The next and final report ON tbs
quaint al tive estimate will thso b given"
The report of conditions ae to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-06

Members of the Interstate-commerce
Commission assembled in Chicago yester-
day and will begin to-day an investigation
relative to the charge by the Chicago Live
Stock Association to the effect that dis
eliminating rates against live stock are in
effect In the West. The sessions of the
commission promise to be interesting, as
the railroads are prepared to defend the ex-
listing rates, which are in violation of a rul-
ing of the commission to the effect that the
rate on the raw material shall not be great
er than that on the manufactured product
Railroads between Chicago and the Mis-
packing house products and 23lz cents on
cattle.
Chairman Knapp, Of the commission, said
into the matter with view to making a
ruling that would govern Enthusiastically in
the matter. With reference to rates in gen.
eral, Mr.. Knapp said: THE commission
has found the rate situation better in the
last few months than 1t ever has been since
the passage Of the tate-commerce act.
In my judgment the injunctions issued by
the United States courts restraining cut
rates and preferences have been effectual
and have proved splendid thing for both
the railroads and the shippers. The COM
mission would therefore like to them
made perpetual, for we are of opinion that
they have resulted In causing traffic all
over the country to be carried on the pub
lished tariffs They have made actual and
published tariffs synonymous"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-06

here to say TO you that any law demanding
marriage license is a relic Of the dark
ages.
YES"
ITO force me to publish to the world at
large my intention of making Amanda Jane
Blinkerhorn my wife is nothing short of an
act of barbarism. and don't propose to put
up with IL, sir-not for moment. sir. Even
IL my feelings cannot be respected hers
must be-"
I'm sorry replied the clerk, as he
thought of how much hard coal his fee
would purchase.
But that makes no difference TO me-"
continued Mr. White, as he got more voice
on him. II find that / cannot marry in De-
troit without submitting TO indignity and
insult. Therefore"
You won't marry at ALL
But viii, sir. am now about to pro-
coed to the home of my fancee and start
with her for Buffalo. Upon reaching that
city, where no license is required, we will
be made one. Not only that but / shall in
vest $500 in that town and become a resi-
dent Detroit not only loses that money,
but thrifty, law-abiding citizen and a
widow who can make mullins TO melt in
your mouth That's it, sir-that's it. and
now you and your old barbaric law can go
10 Texas, and | will proceed to efface the
name of Michigan from my memory and
forget that L ever dwelt within her con-
fines and had my neck under the heel Of
the despot"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-06
RAILWAY WAGE QUESTION
THE ONLY THING THAT NOW DIS
TURBS THE GENERAL SITUATION.
Earnings Of the Pennsylvania Lines
for September and Nine Months
General Railway News.

A prominent railroad official who has
just returned from a Western trip ex-
presses the opinion that the business con-
ditions warrant the highest hope for the
continued prosperity of the railroads for
the current year. Gross earnings are
showing handsome increases, but he fears
that net earnings will not fairly reflect the
true condition in the country. He assigns
as a reason that labor is unsettled and its
demands imperative. The railroads have
been duly warned that organized labor
will demand a perpendicular advance in
wages in the near future, taking little ac-
count of the fact that in various depart
ments advances have already been made.
Neither is any account. apparently, taken
Of the fact that in hard times the railroads
paid their labor better than they really
could afford. The unions are better or
ganized, he says, better led and more
closely related and connected than ever
before. He thinks the plan is for the ma
chinists to start 1t and the other unions to
back them up. The demand will be practi-
cally for 20 per cent. increase over the
existing scale, and may be accompanied by
the threat of general strike unless the
demand is met He thinks there will be q
compromise, probably on a 10 per cent ad-
vance, but that the net earnings next year
will show very clearly the effect Of the
movement now beginning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-06
TRADE PROSPECTS GOOD
CONFIDENCE MAINTAINED BY RE-
suit OF THE ELECTION.
Local Business In Nearly All Lines
Continues to Increase-Grain Re-
ceipts Liberal.

A rainy forenoon checked trade somewhat
yesterday, but everything points TO big
November business, so favorable are con-
ditions. Election is out of the way and the
result means, ii is thought that present
prosperity is to continue. The conditions IN
some lines of trade are out of the ordinary.
That of dry goods Is one. In many ilnes Oh
desirable dry goods there is scarcity
Especially is this true with wooden gooos.
Take the one item of wooden blankets, more
of which have been sold in the last three
months than in the previous five years
says one of the oldest dry goods mer-
chants. This, he thinks, is, in measure
due to the failure of natural gas. as people
will require such articles with the loss OF
gas and coming of cold weather. but all
lines of wooden goods are difhcult TO get,
and the same is true of several other INES
with dry goods houses Wholesale grocers
are very busy as they have been for
months past, and prices OF all staple gro
ceries have ruled steady so long that the
grocers do not hesitate to stock up lper-
ely in staple groceries, such as sugars,
coffees and canned goods, but in fancy gro
ceries also they are liberal purchasers. ON
Commission row prices ruled much the
same as for some time past. Jersey SWEEP
potatoes are a little easier, while irish po-
tatoes are unchanged. Apples OF all grades
are weaker in tone. Aside from this there
is no change in domestic fruits. Fresh
eggs are very scarce and storage eggs are
being drawn heavily. Poultry Is I'M
changed, but prices rule firm. Choice but
ter is in excellent demand, dealers expect
ing further advances. Receipts OF game are
increasing and the demand Is good. Prod
uctS from the cereals have a downward
tendency and lower prices are thought 10
be probable. Canned goods continue firm.
except on apples which are easier In price.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-06
lola NOT A REALIST.


ne .ATSOHdul
lola claimed to. be a realist: according
to the canons of realism. he claimed to
write that which he saw. when he saw
Ii, and as he saw il. Yet lola did none
OF these things He got Information at
second hand, he /: crammed for certain
scenes and for particular episodes Be
ing a typical Frfnch bourgeois. born in
bourgeois envirpnment and with bour-
geois parents. he was narrow. calculat-
ing. sordid sort OF person, unventuresome
unromantic, with a disposition to hoard
money as his peasant ancestors had put
II away in grimy stockings. He was the
typical French bourgeois prudent, petty,
thrifty, and he Foon married a female
bourgeoise, after his own kind:
No lawless loves ever disturbed the
methodical heart which beat beneath lola 8
immaculate shirt front No wild desire
TO consort with lpose gentlemen or light
ladies ever made this decorous pulse beat
quicker. When he. wanted to cram" with
"reminiscences of the alcove. with gossip
from behind the scenes, with the oaths
and slang of the. low drinking dens of
Paris, he fraternizvd with retired FOUNDERS
elderly Partisan Ducks who had ranged
themselves" and TO their tall stories the
"realist'' inclined an attentive ear Thus
at SECOND hand be obtained his material
for Mana" and "f,Assommoir" Thus aid
he construct Big Gervaise and Mana out of
his inner consciousness. as the German
scientist did the camel. or, the French
artists say out of chic. Lest this be
doubted. II may be said that lola naively
admits the fact himself.
No, lola was NOS realist. The genuine
realist must describe the life he lives
This lola did not 10. AS he had crammed
for the low life Of the boulevards, outer
and inner, in "Nafa" and ''L'Assommoir. -
so he crammed for the life of the stock
broker, the RAILWAY stoker, the coal miner,
che peasant. in 'Gtrminal," in "L'Argent,"
In La Terre." 20 he crammed for the
Rome" Paris "Lourdes" With as
founding naivete, he told of having gone
for six weeks to study Rome" Study
Rome I'm six weeks, Why. the old gray
city might be studied for sixty years and
still not yield UP all her riddles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-06
General, Personal and Local Notes.

c. E. Schaff general manager of the Big
Four, was in the city yesterday.
A Griggs has been appointed superin-
tendent of the Queen & Crescent
w. c. Arp. superintendent of motive DOW
er of the Vandalia, has returned from Pitts
burg.
The Hooking Valley earned in October
SOL. 524.2S. an increase over October, 1901
of s1,0O7.31.
j. C. Moorhead. assistant general man.
ager Of the Erie. has been appointed assist
ant TO President Underwood
Samuel Rauh. president OF the Belt road
and Union Stockyards Company, has gone
to French Lick Springs for few days
stay.
George K. Rockwell. formerly district
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania, was
In the city yesterday looking after some
business matters.
V. L. Malott, receiver of the Vandalia,
has returned from New York. whittier he
went TO attend the meeting of the st. Louis
Terminal Association.
Receiver Malott, of the Vandalia. has con-
tracted for eight new engines to be deliv-
cred In December, four heavy freighters
and four switch engines.
Freight traffic has so increased with the
Nlckel-plate that IL has recalled the en-
glnes IL leased 20 other roads, more par
ticularly the Pennsylvania.
j. M. Tennis. general agent OF the Erie at
this point. yesterday moved into his new
offices IN the Claypool Hotel, which he has
fitted up very handsomely.
Z. A. Ford. general passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania, has issued q special rate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-06
Miss Busch Was Well Known.

CHICAGO, Nov. 5-Officers of the Bap-
fist Missionary Training School of this
city. refused to give credence 10 the report
from Omaha that Miss Augusta Busch, a
former student in the college, was found
dead in that city to-day under suspicious
circuinst ances. Miss Busch came to Chi
cago in 1895 and entered the training school,
where she took two years course in Bible
study. graduating from the institution in
1897 Since going TO Omaha she has been
doing good work, according to reports re-
ceived by the executives of the school here
Mrs. Mary ID. Burdet, secretary and treas
urer of the Society of Baptist Training
School. which is located at 2ill Indiana ave-
nue., said that before Miss Busch entered
her school course she lived in Oak Park
and that she was wLman thirty years old
and had the reputation OF living a moral
and religious life. She is well known TO the
citizens OF Oak Park
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-06
Indianapolis Grain Market.

Receipts of grain are more liberal than In
the early part of October, and prices are
better held than had been expected with
the increasing receipts. The secretary of
the Board of Trade yesterday reported
prices on track to be as follows:
Wheat steady; No. red. Tic track; No.
red, Tic on milling freight; No. red, Ga
69c track: wagon, zoe.
Corn weaker; new corn steady; No.
white, 471kc; No. white, 47nc; No. white,
571zc; No. 4 white, 431zG451zc; No. white
mixed, 47c; No. white mixed. 47c; No.
white mixed, 43Q45c; No. 2 yellow, 47hc;
No. 3 yellow, 47kc; No. yellow, 4Sl4q6Ac;
No. mixed, 47c; No. mixed, 47c; No
mixed, 43Q45c; ear, 45c.
Oats steady; No. 2 mixed. 291zQ30c; No.
mixed. 29Q291kc.
Hay steady; No. 1 timothy, sl1.5O@12; No
timothy, $l0Gl0.50.
The inspection of the two days were:
Wheat, 13 cars; corn, Al cars; oats, 4 cars;
hay, Is cars.
WAGON MARKET.
It was a very quiet day on the wagon
market, the rain preventing farmers com
ing in and what little stuff was offered solo
at good prices, the range being the same as
on Monday, and, as reported by the Wagon
weighmaster, is as follows:
Corn-Old, 65Q6Sc; new, 35G3sc.
Oats-30a32c.
Hay-Timothy. sl15OQl250; clover. sSalo.
Sheaf Oats-$SQ10
Straw-$5Q6.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-06
SEALED PROPOSALS.

PROPOSALS for fuel oil burning apparatus Ma
tfonal Military Home. Grant county Indiana
rreasurer's ONCE. Oct. "a. 1902 Sealed prono-
ssIz will be received this Office until O'CLOCK
p m Nov To- 1902. for fuel oil burning apparatus
Al Marion Branch. " II D. v. 5. Specinca-
fious and blank proposals Will be furnished uDon
annlfcatfon TO this Office. The home reserves the
rfeht 10 reject any all proposals TO waive
any fnfOrmalities therein Envelopes containing
rronosels should be Endorsed Proposals. for
t,ssl OF purnlng Apparatus" and addressed 20
fhe undersiEned. Bids aggregating over s5Oo
must be accompanied by certified check nav
ahfe 10 the undersigned treasurer, for al least
Z uer cent Of the amount thereof. which check
viii be forfeited 20 the National Home for ID
v 8 In case the successful bidder refuses or
fails 20 eater inlo contract as required; other
wise to b. returned 10 the bidder. JNO O
ADAMS. Treasurer JUSTIN n CHAPMAN
Governor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-06
Annual Report of the L. q N.

The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad,
which was postponed from Oct. 1. was
held in Louisville yesterday. Aside from
receiving and approving the annual report
of President Milton H. Smith, no business
was transacted, and an adjournment was
taken until Dec. IL in that city. w. r.
Belknap, of Louisville, presided. and out
of the 100000 shares of stock 1896, 400 were
represented, principally by proxy. The re-
port of President Smith, which was read
by Secretary Ellis. showed that during the
fiscal year ending June 30. 1902, the gross
earnings of the road amounted to $50, 712 257.
while the net earnings were 50, sos, S15. The
operating expenses for the year were s20,-
902, 473. During the year the passenger
earnings amounted to s6.217,S03 and the
freight earnings were s22.772,175. The oper-
ating expenses of the passenger service
were s5,141, 7S4 and the freight service SIS
760 652. On June 30, 1902, the company was
operating 3.444.13 miles of road. while il
was interested in 1,S22 miles of road oper-
ated under separate organization, and
owned ga miles operated by other COM
panies making its total mileage 5.541.S7. No
mention is made of the transfer of the
road to the Atlantic Coast Line.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-06
PETITION OF BANKRUPT FOR HIS
DISCHARGE.

In the matter of Francis o. Winchester. bank
rupf.
No 1875. In bankruptcy.
District CT Indiana.
On tbs lst day OF November. A. ID. 1902, on
reading the petition Of the bankrupt for his dis
charge.
II Is ordered by the court that a hearing be
had upon the same. the 18th day OF NoVem-
Der A ID 1907 before said court. at Indiana po-
IFS in said district. at O'Clock in the forenoon.
and that notice thereof be published twice in
the Indianapolis Journal newspaper printed
in said district and that all known creditors and
other persons in interest may appear at the said
time and place and show cause. III any they
have why the prayer OF the said petitioner
should not be granted.
And II ~ further ordered by the court that .ie
clerk shall send by mail To all known creditors
copies OF said petition and this order addressed
10 them az their places OF residence stated.
Witness the Honorable John III. Baker. Judge
fSFAI.1 OF said court and the seal thereof, al
Indianapolis. in said district. on the
lst day OF November. a ID. 1902
NOBLE G. BUTLER Clerk
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-06
Shook the Dust from His Feet.
Detroit Free Press.

Sir" he began. as he entered the county
clerks office almost as soon as the door
was opened for business the other morning
II am in love with person of the opposite
sex"
Meaning a woman" remarked the clerk
as ne looked up.
Meaning a woman, sir, and one Of the
incest women on the face OF this terrestrial
globe. 1 not only love her. but L have asked
her 10 be mine.
And you want a license to get married
OF course? What name, please?'
''Sir, my name is Schuyler Jenkins White,
but don't desire a license. have called