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The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
THE VICTIMS OF THE PANIC.
Thirty-Eight Bodies Buried in Bir-
mingham on Sunday-COlIectiOns
Taken Up in White Churches.

Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 22.-Sunday
was a day of funerals in Birmingham,
the remains of 38 victims of the
panic of Shiloh church being inferred
in the various cemeteries for negroes
around the city. All the negro
churches were crowded, and the nat
urally excitable nature of the south
ern negro was wrought to a high
pitch by the eulogistic sermons over
the dead bodies at the various
churches.
The death list is nov known to
number 105, and 100 of these have
been identified. The police assert
that in addition at least five bodies
were taken to private hospitals. This
would swell the number to 40. At
nearly all the churches for whites
sums were raised to assist the ne
groes who are unable to give their
dead proper burial, and a fund aggre-
eating $500 has been accumulated.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
ILLINOIS AT WORLDS FAIR.
Competition, Open To the World Tor
a Design For the State
Building.

st. Louis, Sept. 21.-A meeting of
the executive committee of the Hi
nois Worlds fair commission was
held, Friday, at the Southern hotel. A
subcommittee, consisting of Chair
man John HI. Miller and c.. C. Craig,
was appointed to confer with Director
of Works Taylor relative to the site
allotment ceremonies, September 80
October 2.
This conference took place in Mr..
Taylor's office, when the visitors were
given an extended account of the
plans for the day. Afterward they
were driven through the grounds to
the site assigned to Illinois, which is
just inside the paling fence. The Hi
nois commission will spend about $780,
900 on its state building, and has at
this time a competition under way to
determine the best design for the
structure. The building will cover an
area of 5000 square feet, and a set
of rules governing the competition
has been drawn up. The designs of
five architects will be selected by a
committee, from which the commits
sion win decide upon n Each of
the five architects will receive a fee,
and the one who submits the success
full design will superintend the con-
struction of the building.
The competition for the building is
open to the world, and is under the
charge of the building committee of
the commission. The subcommittee
which called upon Director Taylor
stated that Gov. Yates had been re-
quested to respond to the presenta-
ton of the state site to the commits
sion, and had accepted. The commit
teemen requested that the allotment
to Illinois be made on'October 1.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
New Capitol Cornerstone.

There is now every probability
that the cold veterans" of Mississip-
pi will be gratifed in their desire
to have the cornerstone of the new
capitol laid on the birthday of Pres
ident Jefferson Davis.
The capitol commissioners have
never taken any action on the mat
ter, despite the strong concurrent
resolution adopted by the house and
senate at their last session, request
ing the commission to fix the date on
June 3, the anniversary of the birth
of MI. Davis.
In its session, just closed at Hat
tiesburg, the reunion meeting of the
Mississippi veterans passed a resolu-
ton %preferring a similar request,
and this resolution will doubtless be
laid before the commission when it
meets next month.
Maj. R. A. Dean and Col. W. III.
Stovall, of the capitol commission,
have expressed themselves as favor
ing the birthday of Jefferson Davis
as the date for laying the corner
stone, provided, of course, the build
ing shall be ready by that date. The
commissioners say that the good of
the State is first to be considered.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
HENDERsoN's ACTION FINAL.
Will Not Accept a denomination. But WILL
Serve Out His Present Term
as Speaker.

Chicago, Sept. 22.-David B. Hen
d~erson, speaker Of the national house
OF representatives, passed through
Chicago Sunday on his way to Allan
tic City, where he will join Mrs. Hen
derson. Before leaving for the east,
Speaker Henderson reiterated his de-
cision to retire from the congression-
al race in Iowa, denied any intention
of ~"abdicating" his present position
until his term of Office shall have ex-
pired, and declared himself in perfect
accord with the tariff views of Pres
ident Roosevelt, as enunciated in his
Cincinnati speech.
81 have spent 90 years of my life
fighting for protection for American
industries and American labor, and L
shall not be a party to any juggling
at this late day." the speaker said.
president Roosevelt's tariff views
set forth in his Cincinnati speech
coincide with my own. There is no
difference in u belief. His speech
was a strong one, and it has my
hearty Endorsement"
"Then the differences are confined
to your own state?" was asked.
"Yes, largely. Let the new lights
shine"
The speaker smiled broadly as he
used the phrase.
rs there any chance of your friends
prevailing on you to reconsider your
action?"
Absolutely none. I can not see
my way clear to crafty their wishes.
1t grieves me to remain firm with
them, but it is a matter of principle.
The pressure brought to bear on me
has been strong. Senator Allison and
a host of my old friends came to the
station this morning to make a final
assault on me. l had to say Mo-"
"Will you resign from congress and
give up the speakership before the
end of your term?"
81 shall not" was the prompt re-
ply. my declination of a renomina-
ton is one thing and a resignation
from congress is another thing. I
shall serve out my term in congress,
and | shall continue to fill the office
of speaker. l have had no other in
tention."
The suggestion was advanced that
"ideas" and policies" in Henderson's
home state might change after a brief
period.
"Let the new light shine" again
came the answer.
When told that Secretary Shaw and
Congressman Babcock was under
stood to be awaiting his arrival at
Chicago, with a view of adding their
efforts to those already made to in
duce him to recede from his position,
Mr.. Henderson's reply was:
Il am on my way to Atlantic City,
and shall arrive there Monday night"
When it was suggested that certain
leaders had intimated that he was
not loyal to his party by resigning, a
shade of regret passed over the speak
er's face, but he quickly said:
"The retirement Of one man or ten
men from an office can not affect the
future of the party. When one steps
aside another takes his place, and the
work goes on"
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Think Women Eat Less.

At the old-fashioned inns and res
taurants in Sweden it is customary to
charge less for women than for men on
the theory that they do not eat so
much. AT some hotels in Sweden a
man and wife are charged as one and
one-half persons if they occupy the
same room. A husband and wife may
travel as one and one-half persons by
railway, and also by the post-carriage,
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
THE STRATTON MILLIONS.
A Probability that the Will of the
Dead Man Will Be Allowed to
Stand as He Made 1t.

Colorado Springs, Col, Sept. "a
Nothing could be ascertained Sunday
relative to the probability or posi-
bility of a contest between heirs over
the Stratton will which gives $10,-
000, 900 or more for a home for the
sick. 1t is understood from a close
friend of Mr.. Stratton that the son,
/. I'll. Stratton, declared some time be-
fore his fathers death that if the will
did not give him a specified sun he
would contest it, and that the sum
left him is much less than the sum
he named. He has not announced any
intention of contesting, however, nor
has he authorized the statement that
he is likely to.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
DEATH OF AN AGED ARTIST.
j.. Charles Collins by Es-
Gaping Gas While He Slept
in His Bed.

New York. Sept. al. Charles
Collins, at one time a highly success
full artist, was found dead, Sunday,
in his room at his boarding house.
The coroner's verdict is that death
was due to the accidental opening of
a gas jet, the escaping gas killing the
artists as he slept. Mr.. Collins was
20 years of age. Two of his paintings,
Lookout" and Spring" brought him.
much fame years ago. Failure of his
eyesight had forced him to abandon
the finer work of his profession, and
his later years were passed in COM
parative poverty.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
First Constitution Manuscript.

The director Of the department Of
archives and history, while searching
among some old papers in the secre-
tary Of states office, discovered the
original manuscript Of the first con-
stitution of Mississippi, adopted by
the convention after Mississippi was
admitted into the Union. The man
uscript Of the constitution, though
written nearly a century ago, is cas-
lily legible, remarkably preserved and
. beautiful specimen Of penmanship.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
SENDING MONEY BY MAIL.

1t does not follow that because two
or more articles for the same use are
sold to the public at the same price
they are both Of equal value; one may
have decided advantages over the 9th
er, making it much cheaper.
Notwithstanding the rates to the
public for the various kinds of money
orders are the same the Express Mon
ey Order, by reason of its greater ad-
vantages, is cheaper and those familiar
with the Express Money Order system
use it in preference.
Postoffice Orders require written ap-
pilcation giving amount of order, name
and location Of payee, and name Of
purchaser. Some people do not write
legibly, hence orders are not always
correctly drawn by postmaster, caus-
ing delay in payment and annoyance
to payee. They are not payable upon
presentation unless postmaster has
received advice Of issue. Such advices
are often delayed, may have been sent
to wrong p~ostoffce, put into wrong
mail or not forwarded promptly, thus
causing inconvenience to payee, loss of
time and possible loss in other ways.
They are payable only at the partic-
ular office upon which drawn; there
fore the system is not convenient to
payees and is too limited in it's availa-
bility. They must not bear more than
one Endorsement; hence impracticable
for use as exchange beyond a single
Endorsement. If not presented within
one year they are invalid, and to OBJ
tain a duplicate, application must be
made to Department at Washington.
Express Money Orders require no
written application and cases where
incorrectly drawn and payment de-
layed are practically unknown. They
are payable Immediately upon pre-
s%entation, no advice to wait for. They
are payable everywhere, at any Office,
whether in one city or another makes
no difference. Merchants know this,
therefore do not hesitate to cash them
for anyone they know. The butcher,
banker, grocer, druggist, baker, any
express company, in fact, anyone will
gladly give their full face value be-
cause they are practically better than
gold, for, If lost, money will be re-
funded. They may pass through any
number of hands and still be nego-
table. With an Express Order the
holder can pay his rent, the landlord
his grocery bill, the grocer his taxes,
and so on may a single order be used
to pay a dozen bills without affecting
It's validity. They are better than cur
rency, because safer to use, and are
cheaper because unlimited for use as
exchange. They are always good, as
there is no limit as to time of pay
ment. They are free from red a D re-
strictions, and, without question, are
the cheapest and most convenient
method of renting money by mail.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Old d Homo.

The executive committee Of the
Old Ladies' Home Association, re-
Gently organized for INDECENT and
homeless women in Mississippi, has
announced itself in readiness to con-
slider offers of site donations, and it
is likely that there will be a sharp
competition between the leading
towns of the State to secure the
home. Fairly good progress is be-
ing made in collecting funds.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
New .Bank. right t.,

The People'seBa refs Summer
has been organized 1.-The following Of
ficers being elestsak IL D. Jen-
nings, It. G. JameskiR. T. Wade,
Smith Murphey and R. Fl. Hit. 2.
D. Jennings was elected president,
Smith Murphey vice-president and
T.. G. Buford cashier. The capital
stock is $4,000, and $4,000 paid
in. The bank will commence BUSH
ness at once.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
To Protect Deer.

The board Of supervisors Of Adj
ans county has adopted a resolution
for the protection Of deer in that
county, which makes it a misde-
meanor for any person to hunt, trap
or kill any deer, buck, doe or fawn,
in the county for the next three
years. The punishment is fixed at
$25 and Imprisonment in the county
jail for thirty days and is manda-
tory upon the justice Of the peace
who tries the case.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
State University.

The University Of Mississippi be-
gan its %ffty-third year with appro-
pirate exercises. The first day was
indicative of a most prosperous year.
More students are on hand than for
merly, and dormitory rooms have
been engaged. Additional rooms are
being fitted to accommodate other
students expected, and the enroll
ment will show over 800 when COM
pleted.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Killed by Burglars.

Goldfield, Col, Sept. 22.-Gus Hale,
a night Waterman, was shot and
killed in a battle with burglars in
Stoves drug store early Sunday
morning. Two shots pierced his
heart, another entered the mouth and
The burglars escaped.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
A. and M. College.

The Agricultural and Mechanical
College opened last week with the
largest attendance for the first day
in its history. While the total enroll
ment for last year was 604, the indi-
cations are that this number will be
exceeded. President Hardy has es-
tablished a practical working boys
course, by which poor boys can earn
money and become regular students
afterwards.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Anxiou. to Be Annexed.

New York, Sept. 21.-More than l.
600 of the leading residents of these
islands, including merchants, plant
ers and householders, have petitioned
the Danish mystery to expedite the
transfer of the islands to the United
States, cables the Herald correspond
emit at ST. Thomas, D. w. I.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Word Painting in Missouri.

An editor of a Southern Missouri a
per speaks thus feelingly in a recent
obituary notice: "Just about daylight
the Pale Horse came to him with the
saddle and bride on his back and he
straddled it and rode home.-Indianap-
oils Journal.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Cracker Packers, STRIFE Ended,

Chicago, Sept. 21.-The Bremner
bakery, a plant controlled by the Ma
tional Biscuit CO., has come to terms
with its striking employees and the
strike Of the 200 cracker packers
came to an end
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Danish Islands Sale Assured.

Copenhagen, Sept. 21.-The results
of the elections of members to the
lardsthing (the upper house of the
~rigsdag), as officially given out. as
sure the ultimate sale Of the Danish
West Indies to the United States.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
MiIIers want Eight-Hour Day.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Sept. 22.-The
-four milIers voted, Sunday, to give
the mills until Thursday to grant an
eight-hour day, and to strike if the
demand is not complied with.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Hanged at LnkeviIle, Ark.

Lakeville, Ark, Sept. Pierre Car
ter, colored, was hanged in the jail
yard here, Friday. The testimony up
on which he was convicted was pure
ly circumStantiaI.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Mai. Powell Critically III.

Washington, Sept. 21.-Information
has been received here that Maj. j.
w. Powell, director of the bureau of
ethnology, of the Smithsonian insti-
tuition, is critically i'll at his summer
home in Haven, Me.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
storlx visited Frank GouId's Yacht

New York, Sept. 21.-A daughter has
been born to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank j.
Gould on board the steam yacht Hell
enita, off Oyster Bay. Mrs. Gould was
Miss Helen Kelly, granddaughter Of
Banker Eugene nelly.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Mississippi State News
Increase In Realty Values.

The assessment rolls now being
received at the auditors Office will
make a most remarkable showing
from the present indications, and
will fully sustain the claims mode
that Mississippi has made wonderful.
industrial progress during the pas
year. Out of eighteen rolls received
up to date the net increase in valua.
ton of the States realty is oyel
$6,00O,OO0. In actual figures the
increase is $6,159,161. This is The
net increase from the eighteen coun.
ties which have made reports. In
cluded in these eighteen counties are
several that showed a decrease in val
uation. Taking these figures as 6
basis, the auditor assumes that Tho
net increase in the valuation of real.
ty for the State will be about $15,.
-
100000, and may reach $18,o0O,O 900
Natchez Wants That Bridge.
The city of Natchez is after the
bridge which President George
Gould of the Missouri Pacific pro-
poses to build across the Mississippi
river. Natchez has come out in op.
position to Memphis and is a riva.
with Memphis for the bridge
Natchez asserts that If the Goulds
are In earnest about bridging thu
Mississippi river, Natchez is unques.
tionably the place of all places to 10
cate it. Natchez points out that the
Fort Scott road, which belongs tt
the Missouri Pacific system, is al
ready at Natchez, and that at abou-
ten or twelve miles west of the city
the Texas & Pacific would be tapped
and at Clayton, a little farther west
the Missouri Pacific itself would bt
tapped. 1t is suggested as a still
further inducement that there ar,
also lines under construction which
would come to the bridge at Natchez
and that the tolls on these lines
would be a source of profit to thu
owners.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Frost Facts.

NJ. A. Jones, a farmer residing a
few miles from Aberdeen, has a tab
ulated statement Of dates of "frst'
and killing frosts" covering the
past twenty-eight years, without
missing a date. 1t shows hat the
earliest "frst frost" was that of Sep
tember IA, 1902, and the latest were
those of November 4, 1881 and 1900.
The earliest "killing FROST was on
October s, 1889, and the last. was
November 20, 1881. These dates
were scored in the timbered region
of Monroe county and are interest
ing, inasmuch as the appearance of
frost figures materially in the sea-
sons yield of cotton.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Weather and Crops.

In its review of the weather and
crop conditions for the past week
the bulletin of the weather bureau,
Mississippi section, says:
"The mean daily temperature av-
eraged from 6 to 8 degrees below
normal. The first of the week vas
warm and pleasant; a moderate to
heavy rainfall occurred over the
eastern half Of the State on the 18th
and 18th, which was followed by
clear and much cooler weather with
light frosts at several places.
"There has been no improvement
in the condition of cotton. The sta
pie is opening very fast and on hill
lands and in many localities on bot
tom lands the crop is practically
made and picking is well advanced,
especially over the central and east
ern portions OF the State, where a
very light yield is indicated. The
cool weather of the latter part of the
week was quite favorable for picking,
but retarded the development of the
bolls; the rain on the 18th also dam
aged the quality of open cotton.
Rust and shedding are still prevalent
in a number of counties, and COM
plants Of boil worms are diminish
ing.
"Corn is being gathered. Cane,
rice, peas and potatoes r generally
doing well. Sorghum is making a
good yield. Pastures r improv-
ing"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-07
WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION.

The game of politics is never out until
the returns are all in.-Buell Hampton.
1 think it takes half the sting out OF
trouble when you can lay the blame of it
on some one else.-Fuel of Fire.
After his first avowals to me he became
moody, and / concluded his mind was gay
and his soul ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS People.
She knew only one form of discomfort
this was to hear another woman praised.
Worlds People.
1t always annoys a man to find a woman
unembarrasced in a situation that he him
self is unable to carry off with ease.-Our
Lady of the Beeches.
know you men too well to believe in
your platonic friendships. woman may
successfully maintain such a feeling-a
man, never.-Buell Hampton.
If one thinks about it-but one mustn't
1t seems a strange thing that mothers, as a
race. are ominously silent about the joys of
existence-Tales of Temperament.
The woman who can hear the sound of
pain in her lovers voice unmoved has yet
to be born; but the women who can hear
that sound without showing that they are
moved are by name Legion.-Fuel of Fire.
1t is interesting fact that 'the AL
mighty seems to like widows better than
wives The wives mentioned in the Script
ures, from Eve down to Sapphira, are, with
are always jealous, or deceitful, sus-
spicious, or mercenery, or unfaithful or
intriguing. But the widows are invariably
kind and lovely.-Tales of Temperament.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-07

While few well-informed people will go to
the extreme of Evangelist McNutt by de-
claring that the mass of people are made
TO feel that they are not wanted in the best
houses of worship. it is fair to assume that
those who locate the churches which en-
ploy the most popular and able preachers
have not in mind the injunction to go forth
and preach the gospel except so far as it
can be done by missionaries. The churches
in which the best preaching may be heard
are not located in parts of cities in which
what are called the poorer people live. This
circumstance very naturally gives the i'm
preston that those who control such
churches and pay for the service want it
for themselves. Whether or not this i'm
preston is warranted can be left to church
people to decide.
In this respect the Protestant church peo-
pie may learn one OF several useful lessons
of the Roman Catholic Chur III, which
of the leaders, they are most needed, and
sends its ablest men more frequently than
otherwise into the parishes in which the
poorer and more ignorant people live, or
where there is an opportunity to make the
church more potential. The public school
authorities proceed upon the same princi-
ple-that every portion of a city should
have as well equipped school buildings as
every other portion, and that if any advan-
tage is to be gained the more energetic
teachers are sent to localities where the
children have had the smallest advantages
In the way of home instruction. This is as
it should be, and when the Protestant
churches follow such examples they will
not move "up town" as cities grow, be-
cause uptown has the people who are best
able to maintain the best churches. If the
best of Professionalism in cities, with its in
fiuence and means, has the right idea of
the purposes of Christianity it will unite
to plant well-equipped places of worship
in localities where there are no strong
churches and where an able preachers
voice is rarely if ever heard.
1t is the complaint of church leaders that
the mass of people do not attend church,
and because they do not they criticise the
people, the Sunday newspaper and the Sun
day excursions for what they regard as a
falling away from Christian beliefs and in
fiuences. How far have they made a ra-
tional and unselfish effort to resist this
tendency? They have planted few mis-
sions in the outskirts, rather dismal places,
| and put into them preachers who are
pious men but who have not the intellectual
capacity to draw and interest. Would not
it be much more effective in city like In
| dianapolis for all the well-to-do Protestant
churches to seek out locality in which
| there is no church, build one more like a
| hall than the usual church, have the best
| preachers in the city of all denominations
take turns in preaching therein, adding
| good music and free seats? The wonder is
| that such line of action is not adopted.