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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-05-30

The British remount station at
Port Chalmette, Louisiana, has
weighed anchor and departed, to
the regret Of many people who
were coming money in the horse
and mule trade. Vessels that here
tofore piled between New Orleans
and South Africa are observed TO be
chartered to foreign ports in Italy,
Spain, Australia, Canada, and to
Pensacola. Philadelphia, Portland
Maine and the St. Lawrence river.
The Britons noted the course of
events in the American courts and
avoided a crisis by Withdrawing
ct their own volition.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-05-30

We acknowledge receipt OF an
invitation to attend the com mence-
ment exercises of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College on June
LIST to 4th. The college under the
supervision of President j. G.
Hardy is closing one of the most
prosperous sessions in its history
and is sxerting an influence on the
and industrial develop
ment of the state that is most
gratifying. True, it represents
the expenditure of many dollars
by the state since its establish
ment. but these dollars are yield
ing an interest in an educated and
skilled citizenship that cannot
be measured by 80 trivial thing
a. cost.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-05-30

Mount Pelee is still spouting its
wrath on the doomed island Of
Martinique. The fire furies that
have been emboweled in the earth
for ages have burst their bounds
asnnder and are taking a huge
bath in the Caribbean sea.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-05-30
Convention of Travellers Pro.

TECTIvE ASSOCIATION, June 81:
MEETING SUPREME LODGE A. O.
u. w. June 1920, 1902. PORTLAND.
OREGON.
For the alb ove occasions the Mobile Il
Ohio railroad company will sell round
trip tickets from Aberdeen at f53 CO..
Tickets on sale May 26 to June inclu-
sive. Tickets will be limited % days on
going journey with final return limit 90
days from date rf sale. Liberal stop-over
privileges. For further information call
TN l.. d. GODFREY, JR., Agent.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-05-30

The supreme court sentenced
Orlander Lester. the negro MUIR
derer of the Montgomery brothers,
to hang June oath. Will Mathis
his associate, will be hanged on
the same day aud on the same gal
lows.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-05-30
Time Cards, Schedules, Etc,
Mobile s. Ohio Railroad.

Schedule effective November 18th. 1901
Train No. so leaves Aberdeen 7:30 a.m.
Train No. 81 arrives Aberdeen 600 am.
Train No. % leaves Aberdeen $40 am.
Train No. 5S arrives Aberdeen LILO am.
Train No. "a leaves Aberdeen 5:25 pm.
Train No. % arrives Aberdeen $50 pm.
No. 90 Ia known as the Aberdeen Ac-
comm odation.
No. 81 connects with No. 3, South
bound.
No. 81 connects with No. 4, North
hound. l.. ID. GODFREY, JR. Agent.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-05-30
Industrial Institute and Col
1eQe Commencement

For this occasion the Mobile d Ohio
Railroad Company will sell round trip
tickets from Aberdeen for $l.05. Tickets
will be sold May 3lst to June jrd. with
final limit return June 5th.
l.. ID GODFREY, JR., Agent
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-05-30
South ern Student Conference

Y. NJ c. A. June II -. ANNUAL
CONFERENCE WV. &. A., June IS %.
ASHVfI.LE, n. G..
Far the above occasions the Mobil i
Ohio Railroad Company will sell round
trip tickets for S15.15. Tickets on sale
June l3 and IA, with fnal limit for re
turn June p. For further Information
call on L. d. GODFREY. JR.. Agent
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-05-30

A white man named Witherup
was lynched at Paris, Missouri, a
few days ago, for the old-blooded
murder of his farming partner.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-05-30
Illinois Central Railroad
TIME TABLE


Leave Aberdeen
Mail Leave Aberdeen. 500 a. m.
Accommotion Leave Aberdeen 200 D. m.
Mail Arrives Aberdeen ~ S:45 D. IN.
Accommodation Ar. Aberdeen 1000 a. IN.
]. B. KEMP, superintendent, Durant.
p. A. DuLIN. Agent. Aberdeen. Miss
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Commencement Exercises Mis-

SISSIPPI 4. Il NJ. COLLEGE. A. Il NJ.
COLLEGE, MISS, June IA, 1902
For this occasion the Mobile Il Ohio
Railroad Company will sell round trip
tickets for 90c. Tickets on sale May 81
to June 1, inclusive. good returning until
June 8 l.. d. GODFREY. Agent.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-05-30

A party of New Orleans mer-
chants and business men are tour
ing Texas. cultivating trade rela-
tions.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-05-30

Things indicate that criminals
will be more securely domiciled in
this county than heretofore 1t
looks as if we shall soon have new
Jail or. to say the least of it, a build
ing that will hold prisoners.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-03
People Who Did No. XIII.

The inhabitants Of the Canary is
lands. the GuancheS. were, it is sup
posed. but the mountain shepherds o.
Il submerged world. Though so stron,
physically, the Guanchps wer" never
theless very gentle race. They rare
ly made war on one another. and whc1,
the Europeans fell into their hands
they did not kill them. but sent them
to tend sheep in the mountains. So
tame We're the birds in this happy land
that when the Spaniards first landed
they came and fed out of their hands.
TO kill an animal degraded n man.
The butcher was a repricved criminal
and outcast and lived apart. he and
his assistants being supported by the
state. No woman was allowed to ap-
proach the shambles. and in such hor-
rOr was killing held by these giants
that no man could be ennobled until
he had publicly declared that he had
not been guilty of killing any animal,
not even goat. Their standard Of
morality was high. Robbery WAS al
most unknown among them.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-03
A Japanese Supersfitfon
Photo by Burr Mcintosh. New York.

Writing eXhauStively of dragon flies
Iafcadio Hearn says III his book, ~
Japanese Miscellany" of the dragon
fly Of the dead.
"Unlike the equally weird name
"yurei-tombo, or ghost dra @On fly the
term ShrOai-tombo does not refer to
the appearance of the insect. but to
the strange belief that certain dra gon
flies are ridden by the dead, used as
winged stceds.
"From the morning of the thirteenth
to the midnight of the fifteenth day Of
the old seventh month-thc time Of the
festival of the Bon-thc dragon flies
are said to carry the hotokc- -salna. the
august spirits Of the ancestors. who
thea revisit their former homes. There
fore. during the Buddhist All Souls
children are forbidden to modest any
dra gon flies. especially dragon flies
that may happen to enter the family
dwelling
This supposed relation OF dragon
flies to the supernatural world helps 10
explain an old folk saying. still cnlTen,
IN some provinces. to the effect that th"
child who catches drago flies will
never obtain knowledge"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-03
Franks Of Nature.

occurred in Sicily on April "a, 1881. On
the morning of that day every exposed
place within an extensive district was
found covered with gray water
which. being evaporated. left deposit
nearly quarter Of an inch in thick
ness. 1t was determined that this solid
matter must have come from Mount
Etna. 1t is certain that vast quanti-
ties of solid substances are constantly
afioat in the atmosphere. The sunsets
all over the world are redder to this
day on account Of the dust from the
years ago, which has not yet entirely
settled.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-03
Maternal Love of the Whale.

No other member of the animal king
dom displays more maternal affection
than the whale. especially il its calf is
harpOoned. The harpooner never throws
his harpoon into the little one with the
the intention Of killing il, for if this is
done the mother will instantly forsake
it. If alive and struggling, however,
the dam can be easily enticed toward
the boat to meet its fate. knowing
this, the whale fishermen always strike
a calf il possible and thus often make
captures that could not be effected un-
der other circumstances.
AS soon AS the dam becomes aware
of the snaring Of her young she rushes
toward it, encourages it to swim away
and even assists it by taking it under
her fin. She seems to lose all regard
for her own safety and boldly attacks
the boat containing the whalemen or
circles about it totally regardless of
the harpoons that are hurled at her and
enter her flesh.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-03
How Frederick stopped DuelinS.


When Frederick the Great ascende(
the PruSSian throne. fatal duels among
officers We're Of daily occurrence. He
resolved to put an end to the practice
and he did-fOr Il time: as long as h"
reigned. in fact. Tie issued an edic;
that any officer fighting duel and
surviving would be shot or hanged
Two officers appealed to him to b"
allowed to try to s'ay each other
Granted on two conditions, that he Ghe
king) should chose the ground and be
present at The encounter. Accepted.
Frederick chose the ground. attended
the meet and took his seat behind
the fine new gbbet he had erected in
honor Of the occasion. The coulhatants
approached his majesty saw the gib
bet, became puzzled and embarrassed.
'What may this mean. your gracious
ma jesty? they venturcd to ask.
''It means this" was the s,,ave reply
chat the man who survives will be
hanged as high as Iaman on that glib
bet"
There was no duel.-i'all Mall Ga
Zette.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-03
STILL GOING ON.

That special sale at the Racket
Here are some of our prices:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-03
Fair Bargain.

Uncle Benjamin-What yoh glib me
fOah nah hoss?
Rastus-Ah'll glib yoh load OBJ hay;
dat's fair bargain.
Uncle Benjamn-Yoh glib me load
oh hay? An what d'yoh expect Ahll
do wild the hay an no boss to eat it?
Rastus-Ah'll len yoh the boss till
he's got it eat up.-New York Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-03
Golden Kitchen Pots,

In the royal kitchen at st. Petersburg
not only are the walls and ceilings Of
black marble covered with valuable or,
naments. but many Of the kitchen pots
and pans, which originally belonged to
the Empress Catherine. are of solid
gold.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-03
HGI. Accent.

French Professor-Ah. yes, mademo-
selle. you spick re French wizout re
least accent.
Miss Breezy-Real kind of you to say
so, but do l really?
ooh, yes. Zat ees. wizout re least
French accent
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-03
Something Like One.

"Did you notice how she jabbered
away when she sat there between those
two men?" Goodness. yes! It made
me think Of tongue sandwich.-Phila-
delphIa Bulletin.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-03

Brine springs flow under the town Of
Norwich, England. They have been
there for centuries and were used for
the production Of salt long before the
Christian era.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-03
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Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-03

them is communicative to reporters, where
In they differ from MIR. whitney and most
high-grade turfmen.
There are only a few Of the racing ce-
lebrities certain to be on view at Saratoga
tomorrow, and there is hardly room on this
newspaper page to pay a compliment to
each OF them. But surely no mention OF
Saratoga's opening would be complete that
did not include Thomas Hitchcock, IT., and
John Sanford of Amsterdam, jolly, good-na-
tured and popular. and prone to be photo
graphed with his hands on the ribbons. Mr..
Sanford Is one of the best liked of all the
eastern turfmen, nor is his fame confined
to racing circles, for was he not elected to
the house Of representatives a few years
ago from his upstate district? And was
he not then the youngest congressman who
ever served? Sanford. like most of them,
has a nerve Of steel when II comes to lose.
and so has Thomas Hitchcock. jr.
The biggest event" at Saratoga this year
will be the Saratoga special, a sweepstakes,
with entrance fee OF 81. 900 and a forfeiture
of half that sum. This race will be worth
more to the winner than either the subur-
ban or the Brooklyn Handicap. the amount
being 1922 00. Besides a gold cup worth
1880 will be put up. The stakes OF this
race are gradually to be increased Till they
count up TO $4,000.
One OF the things about which there will
be some grumbling at Saratoga will be ths
price OF grandstand seats-$3-just a d. liar
more than at other tracks. This will be Off
set. however, by the general admission be.
Ing put at so cents. rs cents less than gen
eral admission to most tracks.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-03

M@T rs predicted that a larger num-
IH Der of those Croesuses who live
A chiefly to promote high-class rae
hQS0SpI ing in the United States will be
- present at the opening of the new
Saratoga race track tomorrow than have
ever before been in evidence on the open
ing day of a race meeting. For the be-
ginning of the Saratoga season this year
is really the formal launching of a new
dispensation in American turf matters. the
aim of the Saratoga association, as voiced
oft and again by it's president, William G.
Whitney. being to place horse racing in
this country on a higher level than ever
before. To this end Mr.. Whitney and his
associates have taken an immense amount
of personal pains, beside laying out a
sum of money closely approximatiRg $780,
900. In rejuvenating the track and all that
appertains thereto. They have Iisked
heavily on the willingness and ability of
their fellow citizens to support a great
race track hundreds of miles distant from
any of the great centers OF population, and
failure, should IL come, will not be due
to the absence Of any Of the promoters
the send-of, If they can possibly be
present. Thus tomorrow will be a great
day for the visitor to Saratoga not already
acquainted with the personal peeuliarities
Of the various kings of the turf.
james r. Keene, tall, spare, wearing a
shining silk hat, and Immediately but
quietly clad, will be one Of the most in
teresting figures In sight. He is not an
officer of the association. but he is intensely
interested in its success, and has promised
to be on hand. His picturesque prominence
in the public prints for a score of years
or more make him the observed of many
observers wherever his presence is known
and he will be pointed out and gossiped
over by thousands before the day is over.
James II. Keene's Eye.
Among the jockeys and the trainers, the
stable boys, the bOokmen and all the other
raeetrack professionals Mr. Keene stands
very near to the top OF the list. This is
largely because of his eye. 1t is keen, alert
racing on either side of the water who goes
into the sport in a more buslnessllke man
ner than he. Before every race in which
he is interested he spends as long a time
In the paddock as he can, paying strict at
tention to his own horses. He watches the
saddling as intently as IL millions depended
upon the operation. Nothing escapes him.
and his silent scrutiny-he never speaks un-
less something goes w~rong-keeps his en-
ployes keyed up to the keenest tension.
II by any chance he detects anything
amiss there is something doing at once.
heene never speaks to the jockey, or the
stable boy, or the groom who may be at
iault' though. 1t is to the trainer only that
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-03
Too Busy

Chicago Tribune: Cant sell you a
clock?" asked the man at the kitchen door.
NO. you can't" replied the woman of
the house. red and fustered. "Hain't got
time to wind It,"
But this is an eight day clock. You
don't have to wind II oftener than once a
week"
"Hain't got any time to wind eight day
clocks. We had one in the house twelve
years. l wound 1t regular every Monday
morning. 1t always took me a minute 10
wind both sides OF IL. One day / got to
countin' how much time I'd spent on Il.
There's hfty-two weeks In a year. Twelve
lines hfty-twO is 624. Six hundred and
twenty-four minutes is ten hours and
twenty-four minutes. In them twelve
years I'd put In a whole workin' day and
more. too. windin that drafted clock. I
put 1t up in the garrett and hain't touched
1t since. Don't need a clock. anyway. We
can 90 by the whistles. I've got a bilin' on
the stove, and I've throwed away two
minutes talkin' to you. Good mornin'."
And she shut the door in his face.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-03

this racing magnate addresses himself, and,
no matter how severe may be the opinion
or criticism he has to express, his voeab-
ulary, though %forceful, is always well in
hand, and there are few, indeed, who have
ever heard him swear.
When the race is ready to be run Mr..
Keene HES himself to the most available
location for the watching Of the contest. At
S~heepshead Bay this is the upper veranda
of the clubhouse, and upon it he stands,
with set face, strong glasses glued to his
eyes from the beginning to the end of tho
race and immovable as a statue. He risks
heavily at times, Of course, but is rarely or
never seen in the betting ring, employing
a commissioner a big and burly Briton,
to place his bets. Sometimes this man is
kept exceedingly busy running back and
forth between the ring and wherever Ke- ne
may happen to be. The commissioner often
takes his part in the betting far more seri-
ously than Keene does himself. The master
never turns a hair, no matter whether he
wins or loses, receiving congratulations and
condolences alike with stoicism, but his
commissioner frequently becomes quite
wrought up over an unexpected loss.
Nerve of BettOrs.
The underlings of the racetrack are as
much enamored OF Keene because he's a
coed loser as they are because of his eagle
eye, but nerve in losing racing bets is an
attribute possessed by nearly all the mil
lionaire turfmen. You'd have hard work to
tell from his face whether Whitney, or John
Sanford, or Clarence Mackay, or August
Belmont, or any of the rest Ct them were to
the coed or the bad, but this isn't surpris-
ing. seeing that the largest sum they are
likely to win or to lose is not sufficient to
change their bank accounts perceptibly. It's
the man who risks all he has on a race that
has need of nerve when he bets.
"Keene has this sort Of nerve In quanti-
ties, even II he doesn't have to exercise II
when betting on a race" says a man who
has known him in his lushest as we'll as in
his most stringent periods.
There was one day, long ago." says this
man, when Jim Keene had to borrow the
railroad fare from Cedarhurst on Long
Island to New York before he could get to
town to try and make a raise. Well, on
that day he appeared the same cool, shrewd,
neryy chap that he seems today; just as
neat in his dress, though his clothes weren't
so new, and quite as aloOf from the common
herd. Nobody on earth would have thought
him short Ct cash. Another thing: James r..
Keene is well fixed nOw-I wish l had half
his money-and might we'll afford a spacious
country house and a palatial city residence,
but he has neither. When he is in New
York he puts up at the Waldorf Astoria,
and when he is at Cedarhurst he lives in
the same wooden cottage-I don't believe It
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-03

There is a rumor that he has done very
well at his wagerings this year SO far, and
his advice is just so much the more valu-
able to his friends who may ask him TO
place their bets.
Young Wilson, by the by, Is almost as
handsome for a young man as his father
is for an old one, and that is saying a
good deal, since next to the late Coils p.
Huntington, r. T. Wilson the elder is one
of the best looking men of years that ever
stepped foot in New York. More than
that, he has aristocratic bearing and man
ners, too, and the young man shares both
these characteristics, as BELTS enc whose
sisters are married to a British ambas-
sador, a Goelet and a Vanderbilt. II is
not certain whether any of the sisters
will be present on Saratoga's opening day
or not, but probably one or more of them
will be, and IL so, both their celebrity and
their striking personal appearance will
make them the focus of as many eyes as
any of the turf celebrities. The oldest Of
the Wilson sisters, wife of Ambassador
Herbert, who will come to America with
her husband soon, is quite as handsome
as her sisters, Mrs. Ogden Goelet and Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, but not SO striking
in appearance, for they are both blonde,
while her hair Is a quiet shade of brown.
Young Wilson is one of the best losers in
the country.
Power I'm the Club.
Nearly all the turf celebrities who will
be prominent at Saratoga represent wads,
and heaps, and piles and chunks of money,
but none of the others will represent nearly
as much, both directly and indirectly. as
the quiet-lcoking, middle-sized, middle
tinted, middle-aged man whom some of his
intimates term "Augie.' This is Augustus
Belmont, the present head Of the banking
house of Belmont, and personal representa-
tive in America Of the multi-millioned
Rothschilds. Mr.. Belmont's name is not
listed among the officers OF the Saratoga
association, but he's a power in the or
ganization, and he fills the place for SO
many years held by his father as the main
stay OF American high-class racing.
1t goes without saying that he knows the
ways of the turf thoroughly, and II may
be added that he is a better horseman per-
sonaliy than most millionaire patrons Of
the tracks. Both his brothers-Perry, who
married Mrs. Sloane, and who was once.
but is not now, a power In politics, and
oliver II. p, who married Mrs. William
X. VandeTbilt-are likely to be on the
grounds tomorrow. Perry is a director
Of the association. Both he and oliver p
H. dabble somewhat in racing. but not at
ali in the degree that their brother August
does. August is the most popular Of the
three among their associates. None Of