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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-03-14
A Magnificent Affair.

The luncheon and reception given by
Mrs. Ogden Mills at her home, 2 East
Sixty-ninth street, was most elabo-
rate and magnificent function in honor
of the prince. Sixty persons attended
the luncheon, which began at one
o'clock, and about 100 attended the re-
ception which followed. Calve, de Mar
chi and Gilbert, of the Metropolitan
Opera company, sang; Franz Wilchz.
violinist, played, and Isador Luck
stone, pianist, accompanied the sing
ers. Mrs. Mills ia BILE was in white and
gold. Prince Henry sat at her right
and Mrs, Clarence Mackey was at
the right of the prince. Among the
others at table were:
Ambassador Won Holleben Admiral Won
Tirpitz, Gen. Won Plessen, Admiral Won
Eisendecker, Admiral Won Seckendorff,
Capt. Won Muller, Count Quadt, Command
err Rebeur- schwitz, Lieut. Commander
Schmidt Won Schwind. Lieut.. Commander
Won Egidy, Count Won Seckendorff, Assist
ant Secretary of State Hill. Maj. Gen. Cor
bin, Admiral Evans, Col. Bingham, Com
nanGer Cowles, Mr.. and Mrs Bayard Cut
ting. Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Mrs. Clarence Mackey, Miss Bishop, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. D. Sloane. Mrs. Royal Phelps Car
roll Miss Babcock. Miss Iselin. Mrs Gam
brille Miss Jay, Mrs. Cooper Hewitt. Mrs.
Alfred Vanderbilt Miss Thayer, Miss Ger
ry, Miss Sands, Mrs. Parsons. Mrs. Living
ston, Mrs. Egerton Winthrop. Mrs. Corbn.
Mrs. Rhinelander, Mrs. Jennings. J. Pier
pont Morgan, Egerton Winthrop, Creigh-
ton Webb. Stephen Olin, Heber Bishop and
Edward o. Wocott.
Calve and the others who sang were
heard in the ball room of the Mills
home, where the reception was held.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-03-14
Big Fire in French Arsenal.

Paris. March 1O.-A great fire has oc-
Cured at the government arsenal at
Lorient. Documents, plans and reports
OF great importance have been de-
stroyed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-03-14
Dies of ApOplexy.

Milwaukee, March 10.-An Evening
Wisconsin special from Oconomowoc,
Wis, says: "W. w. Collins, well known
in railway circles throughout the state,
died Saturday of apoplexy, aged 50
years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-03-14

dry civil bill contain provisions of
100000 for the government exhibit at
the ST. Louis exposition, $4,000 for an
Indian exhibit and 100000 additional
for the government building.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-03-14
Stranded Schooner F1oated.

Norfolk, Va, March fO.-The schoon-
er John w. Hall, Capt. Boone, of Perth
Amory, which was stranded off New
Inlet, n. c., three days, foated Satur-
day and is being towed to this port.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-03-14
King Edward to See Loubet

Paris, March 10.-King Edward, on
his way to Nice, will stay two days in
Paris, and will have an interview with
President Loubet.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-03-14

Capt. Won Mueller, Capt. Won Rebeur-
Paschwitz and Consul general Buenz
visited Columbia university as repre-
sentatives of Prince Henry, who was
unable to make the visit in person.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-03-14

Pietermaritzburg, Natal, March TO-
The Natal legislature has adopted a
resolution in favor of compulsory mil
itary service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-03-14
Fair to Get Over a Million.

Washington, March 10.-The house
committee on industrial arts and ex-
positions Saturday authorized Chair
man Tawney to recommend to the ap-
preparation committee that the sun
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-02-22

has the interest of his town aud
county at heart will do all i'm
his power to make a local paper
a success.
At Toano there are many res-
SONS why the people should pa
tronize the News. Northern
people are coming, They read
The News before they come to
Virginia. They look for adver.
tisemeRts of the merchants. and
soon pick out those with whom
they will deal.
We look for a card In The
News fron every progressive
merchant and business man in
Toano in its next issue, No
good local citizen, who has any
thing TO sell will refuse the of
fer of The News to advertise it.
We are glad TO see that an old
friend Of ours, Mr.. Branch Mar
tin, is advertising his produce
That is the way to make busi-
ness in your home town,
Here's 10 the News-"may ii
live long and prosper"
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-02-22
A Legacy OF The Grip

Ia often g rundown system. Weak
ness nervousness. lack OF appetite, en-.
ergy and ambition, with di,ordered
liver and kidneys often follow anattack
OF this wretched pisease. The greatest
need then Is Electric Bitters, the splen-
did tvnic, blood puriHer aud regulator
OF stomach, Liser aud Kidasy. Thoa-
sands have proved that they wonderfully
strengthen the nerves, build up the sys-
TEN, and restore to health and good
spirits after an atteck of Grip. II sut>
feriing. try them. Only SOC. Perfect
satisfaction guaranteed. by L. Henley.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-02-22

II have lately been much troubled
with dyspepsia, belchiBg aud sOuT stOna-
sch,'. writes NJ. 3. Mead. lesdisg phAr.
macis, Of Attleboro, MAss. IT could eat
hardly anything without suffering ssv-
eral hours. Ny elsrk suggested Try
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure which I did
with happy results have had no
more trouble and when one can Is t.
eating Tnines pie. cheese candy and
nuts astsr such time. their digestion
must be Pr,tty good, endorse Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure hesrti y" You don'i
have to diet. Eat all the god you
want but don't overload the stoBa h.
KOdol Dyspepsia Cure digssts your i0od.
l.. Henley.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-02-22
He Got the Bid.

Mr.. Geo. K. Hudley. of this city. got
the contract for tearing down the wall,
of The burned Tower Building" at the
Easter ssats Hospital
The contr4ct was awarded Tuesday
and Is to be completed iu sixty days.
Mr.. Hnndley came here from Oxford,
N. @ to manufacture brick for w. l.
Jones. He issn expert in bis line, and
IS genial and attractive gentleman
He was born in Virginia (,nd Is proud
OF it) but for many years was success.
fnl business man Ia Oxford. he has
some Scattering Recommendations from
bankers. merchants and others OF ,hs
town IN which he lived for years, and
these should commendIhim to ali with
whom he comes IN contact
IL IS said be will bid on all the briel
work on the hospital, and II he gets Il !,
contract every dollar that can be spept
in Williamsburg will be spent here.
That Is the kind of men We want her.
and We should ssand by them through
thick and thin.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-02-22

"In three weeks our chubby little
boy was changed by Pneamonia almost
to skeleton" wss Mrs. w. watkins
OF Pleasant City. o. "a terrihls cough
set in. that, in spite OF good doctors
treatment Tor several weeks, grew worse
every day. We then used DR.. Klax's
New Discovery for Consumption, and
our darling wAa sopn sound and well.
We are sare this grspd medicine saved
his lies Millions know its the ONLY
sure cure for Coughs, Colds and Al,
Lung diseases L. Healsy guarsntsss
sasistActioa. soc. ti-oo. Trial botslss
ffsa
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-02-22
THE GREAT ELECTRIC
RAILROAD.
Work Has Been Delayed BY
Weather This Week.

Work Has Been Delayed BY
Weather This Week.
Owing to the bad weather, snow, sleet
and cold-work on the electric railroad
has been greatly hsmpered and delayed.
AS stated last week, work began Friday.
The gentlemen in charge are waiting
for better weather, aud before the week
Is out viii again be at work. as cold,
disagreable sPeels here are only for q
abort duration.
The work On the electric road will go
on steadily. as the weather and 9th, !
conditions will allow. Hundreds OF
people will be given employment. and
all public spirited citizens " III lend the
new enterprise helping hand.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-02-22
WAS GT0N'S
BIRTHDAY.
And His Ideas On Higher Methods
of Education.


To-day we celebrate Wash
ington's Birthday. Let our
affection for this hero of
heroes be as ardent, our tri-
butte to his memory on his
birthday as spontaneous as
it was in 1876, for instance
when the nation celebra ted
the centenary of it's indepen-
dence, and honored the part
Washington played in secur-
ing that independence, with
a gala function in PhiIadel-
phia, ofseveral months dura-
ton.
No doubt as of old many
business houses will suspend
work for the day, all over
the country institutions will
enjoy a holiday, countless
numbers of flags will be dis
played, and all the schools.
public and private will hold
patriotic exercises before
closing for the holiday.
Washington was among
the first to champion the
cause of higher education.
Quite recently public atten-
ton has been directed to the
following clause OF his last
will and testament, from
which we quote a few lines
lit has always been q.
source OF serious regret with
me to see the youth OF the
United States sent to foreign
countries for education, Of
ten before their minds were
formed, or they had imbibed
any adequate ideas OF hap
piness of their own. NV
mind has not been able to
contemplate any plan more
likely to affect the measure
than the establishment ofan
University in a central part
OF the United States to which
the youths of fortune and
talent from all parts thereof
may be sent for the compile
ton of education, and where
they may be enabled to free
themselves in a proper degree
from those local prejudices
and habitual jealousies,
which, when carried to ex-
cess, are never falling sources
OF disquietude to the public
mind, and pregnant of mis-
chieyous consequenses to
this country
Therefore let us celebrate
shis day fittingly and pay
homage to him who has
been the father of our coun-
try and the corner stone of
Our universities.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-02-22
VEGETABLE SEEDS.

Call AZ This Offee For A Package.
Hon. Harry l.. Maynard,
Congressmanfo for this District
has mt THE GAZETTE one
hundred packages of veget-
able seed, which he asks us
to distribute to those want
ing them. Any person can
get the seeds by calling at
this office, and those who
come first will get the seeds.
Better call at once and we
will take pleasure in handing
you what you want.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-02-22

Reports have been sent, out
to the daily papers. to the
effect that the Episcopal Stu
dents of William mud Mary Col
lege had started a new church. ,
Nothing could be more absurd
for anybody aware of the Can
ons of the Episcopal Church
knows that that's animposibil-
'ity. No Minister would come
here and conduct seryi-
ces when there was already an
Episcopal church, nor have the
Episcopal students at the Collie.
ge Thought of such thing.
1t is a fact that every Sunday
morning the Episcopal servise
is read in the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms
at the College. This is the
outgrowtL of the recent trouble
between the rector Of Bruton
Parish Church and the College.
The whole thing is to be de-
plored, aud all lovers of the
Episcopal Church here regret
that there has been any division
in the congregation.
But "the die is cast" The
only regret of Episcopali ms is
that anything should have
happened to impair its infiu.
ence for good in the community.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-02-22

The Peninsula News, our To-
ano contemporary, came out
In an eight page form Saturday.
1t is credit to Toano. and the
merohaats there should give it
Z sovdial support. A majority
OF people judge a town by its
paper 4 merchant that really
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-02-22

Brnton Church is TO have new fur.
mace The congregation has been com.
PEELED to worship in the ''Psrish House"
Sunday School room, and many will be
glad to &c. back in their old pewx
Richer 8 Buttinshsm. OF Newport
News have been awarded the conts,ct
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-02-22

for the new furnace They are TO hsv
il IN by March 1sts The rector. Rev
w. II, Roberts, has been given q leave
OF absence to solicitfunds Tor theturnsee,
which will cost considerable sum-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1902-12-06

and statute laws of all the states.
in the Union might be searched
in vain. But / am granting the
possibility of the state to absolve
herself from all legal obligation to
educate the negro, and simply
deny her ability to accomplish the
end of preventing such education
being given him. We had as well
attempt to stop the movement to-
wards universal evangelization.
We may differ as to the wisdom of
universal education, just as we
may differ in our judgment upon
the course pursued by the great
evangelical bodies of the world;
we may withhold our individual
moral and financial support from
both these causes, but we can no
more prevent the ultimate realiza-
ton of the one than we can stay
the progress of the other.
1t is a narrow vision which does
not see that the day has long since
passed when any class of people
in America may be prevented from
acquiring at least the rudiments
OF an education, whether they be
rich or poor, high or low black,
white, red or brown fitted or not
to receive and be benefited by it.
If we do not educate the negro
ourselves, others will do it in
spite of us, and we had much
better retain the control and direc
ton of his teaching in our own
hands, than suffer ourselves to be
supplanted by strangers, alien
and antagonistic to our ideas, and
ignorant of what is best for the
negro as we'll. With the develop
ment of Southern public school
systems, the North has more and
more ceased to interfere, until
today the common school educa-
ton of the negro is absolutely in
the hands of the Southern white
man. But with such powerful
organizations as the Southern
Education Board in existence. and
public sentiment what it is. is
there any one so dull as to doubt
that the moment Mississippi thus
boldly Disseminated between the
races abundant means would
be OFT h o m n g to render
her effort both nugatory and alb
surd! 1t would be shallow reply
to this suggestion to say that this
is all right, -inasmuch as it costs
the white man nothing, and leaves
him more to spend upon his own.
Such a view would imply but scant
appreciation of the baneful effects
of the interference between the
white man and the negro which
cursed this country after the war
Both races have suffered too much
from that devils broth of parti-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1902-12-06

yond the shadow of doubt, 81.
would presently blossom into
lect colored academies, y with !,
occasional white teacher impori,i
they would become the meccas !,
the rural population, and be pac.
where lessons of estrangement a1
suspicion would most naturally N
taught and learned; they wouN
stand as perpetual reminders toth
negro, young and old, that he NUT
look henceforth for such assistauos
beyond the circle of those who had
SO long proclaimed themselves hi
friends, that he must seek frOn
others that which in all humilN
and without question he lad
grown accustomed to receiving Il
the hands, and under the dire
ton, of the white folks at home:
they would, in short, become Il
time everlasting monuments 10 ths
folly which had eventuatedin their
erection.
To discuss briefly what con.
ceive to be the injustice Of such
scheme: 1t can find its only iusI-
ifcation in the fallacy that the he.
gro is not, to any considerableez
tent, taxpayer, that he gets
much more out of the treasury
than he puts into it. 1t is inpOss,
sible to apportion the states bensI
fits in accurate proportion to con-
tributions to the states support
nor could we fairly estimate tho
negro's share of the burdens Of
taxation, even by a separate assess
ment. In the form Of direct taxes
it may not be large, but no fail
minded man can deny that ind.
rectly the negro pays as greata
tax as any agricultural class j.
America. If we can accept the
teachings of both the great polti.
cal parties, whoever is producerol
wealth, either for himself or Others
is a taxpayer and contributor d
the burdens of government d
the negro in Mississippi is not 4
wealth producer, then who is?
But of all places in Mississippi
Washington county and the Delta
should be the last to lend a willing
ear to such an appeal. hes
above all other sections, are tho
fortunes of black and white indis'
solubly associated, and here itls
possible, by means Of the cotton
tax, to approximate the negros
share in public burdens. The cot.
ton tax does not go to the stat,
It is true, but it helps to make pos
sible the payment of taxes that DO
and directly creates the values upon
which other taxes are laid. Their
were raised in this district lasi
year 1856, 274 bales Of cotton, which
Continued on 9Th page.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1902-12-06

complish. Stated in it's simplest
terms. he would have the state di-
vorce itself from participation in
the education Of the negro, further
than the taxes paid by the negro
himself would defray the cost of
his schools.
Viewed from the standpoint of
enlightened selfshness, l believe
such a policy to be unwise; placed
upon the lowest plane of civic hon
esty, l believe it to be unjust.
The various eras in the history
of states are each marked by GER
tain well defined movements and
ideas. In the closing years of the
18th century the idea of free gov
eminent in which the people
governed should have participat-
ing voice became in America and
in some European states a dominat-
ing force, and efforts at realizing an
Independent national life eventual
ed in the first stages Of the French
Revolution and the war of Ameri-
can independence. Closely related
to such movements for the free
dom of the state were those for
greater personal liberty, and there
followed in natural order those agi-
tations for universal individual
freedom which have played SO
large part in the history of the
world. Practical opposition to
modern slavery had its actual be-
ginnings in the agitations of a
handful of philanthropists and
doctrinaires in Great Britain and
France, and was but another form
of expressing the same public senti-
ment which ultimately abolished
Imprisonment for debt, and ameli-
GRATED the condition of the Eng
lish poor, whose lot was far more
intolerable than was ever thatoJ the
American slave. This sentiment
became the dominating impulse of
its time, and negro slavery went
down before it. 1t had early spread
to America and within single
generation after it had peacefully
emancipated the negro in the Brit
ish West Indies, it secured his free
dom here through the bloodiest
war of modern times. The genius
of the age was simply opposed to
human slavery, and it had to go.
We would have abolished it our
selves, if let alone, just as we
have seen it, within the last quar-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1902-12-06

sanism, revenge and quixotic phil
anthropy for the white man to thus
deliberately invite another period
of interference in our domestic
affairs. Yet such is the plain En-
glish of this proposition. The
public school education of the
negro is meagre enough, in all
conscience, and why not, in the
name of reason and prudence, let
us retain its control where it is,
absolutely within our own
hands! Every dollar expended
upon it is disbursed under the
supervision Of white officials.
Every county has white superin-
tendent of education, who exer-
cises practically unlimited control
over his negro teachers, every one
OF whom knows that only at the
cost Of his position could he at
tempt the incubation of vicious
ideas, or indulge in mischief
breeding utterances.
The discontinuance of state aid.
and the consequent loss of state
control, means the maintenance by
negro churches and lodges, with
assured outside aid, of independent
private schools in the larger towns
OF the state and in the centers Of
heaviest negro population, = the
teachers in which would be re-
sponsible to no state or county
official for their conduct. ANY
planter who has attempted to keen
desirable labor on a place afford.
ing no school facilities to his
hands, can confirm the statement
that the location Of such private
schools would tend to attract ne.
groes from the country, adding
to an already too great urban drift
OF negro population. This would
mean that every Delta planter
would be compelled. either alone
or in conjunction with his neigh.
bors-to maintain negro school
as a matter of self protection,
But even If not single such ur-
ban school were established #
would not be long before some
planter would hit on the scheme
OF putting a school on his place as
an extra lnducement to labor. and
the rest OF us would promptly fol.
low suit. | have never heard Of q
planter who was specially noted
Tor his desire to spread the gosneI
among his negroes, but a Delta
plantation, or plantation com.
munlty, which has failed to do.
nate a lot and few dollars 10.
wards a negro church would ba
something Of a curiosity. "
All of us have common sense
enough to know that such inde.
pendent private schools as +
speak of would be established bo
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1902-12-06

ter century, crumble to its fall in
Brazil and the American depend
encies of Spain.
In thus referring to these great
historical movements, I am not
laboring under the impression
that ! am imparting information,
nor do | imagine that I have dis
covered something new. I advert
to them because they were the
forerunners of another which has
followed in logical sequence, and
which today dominates the nation
al spirit of the words enlightened
states, the cause of popular edu-
cation.
In considering the radical de-
parture proposed by Mr.. Varda-
man, it is we'll to pause before we
take the initial step, and reflect
upon the nature of the undertake
ing to which we are thus asked to
commit ourselves.
History serves its most useful
function when it enables us to
measure living impulses, and it
teaches us no lesson with greater
force than the folly of wilfully
putting ourselves out of harmoni-
GUS touch with the spirit of the
age in which we live. I would re-
call these one time dominating
movements only that they may
lend what emphasis they may, to
the suggestion that to attempt to
go counter to the trend of modern
ideas as to universal education
would be but an effort at stem
ming a tide as resistless as those
great currents of popular thought
proved themselves to be.
He is a shallow observer who
in this step sees no more than the
question of negro education,
when the real issue is whether or
not Mississippi is prepared to take
a backward step, to line up as a re-
actionary-to array herself against
the spirit of the times. To so de-
clare herself would not only be un-
wise, but vain as well, for she
would essay a task beyond the
power of any one state to accom-
plish. 1t is foreign to my pur-
pose to attempt a homily upon
the constitutional difficulties in
volved, though moments refec-
ton destroys any seeming parallel
between the undertaking before the
constitutional convention of 1890
and that now proposed. In his
efforts at purging the states cleo
torate of venal incompetency, Gen
eral George lost no opportunity of
declaring his surest reliance to be
upon established precedent. These
ne found ready to his hand, in
the constitutions of Northern
states, while for one precedent
for this other action the organic