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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-25

In London the schools are 50 crowded that sixty pupils per teacher is the aver age.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-25
Impaired Digestion

May not be all that is meant by dgspepssa now, but it will be if neglected. r.
 The uneasiness after eating. fits Of neEv- ous headache, soufness of the stomach, and disagreeable belchlng may not be very bad now but they will be if the stomach ia suffered to grow weaker.
 Dyspepsia Is such miserable disease that the tendency to it should be given early attention. This Is completely over come by
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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-02-26
LET US HAV GOOD MEN.

In course of a very able editorial,
discussing the duty and response
bility that will devolve upon the
voters of the state this year in the
matter of selecting public officials,
the Raleigh Reformer, among other
things says:
This is a serious and sacred res
possibility bestowed upon them
by their Government, which should
not be considered lightly. Our
Governments a Government of
equal rights, equal privileges and
equal responsibility. The burdens,
as we'll as the blessings, are to be
shared alike.
This is an underlying principle of
our Government. So, you see the
necessity of an intelligent and hon
est citizesnhip. The ballot was not
given for an individual, selfish pur-
pose, but to be used for the
general welfare of the greatest good
to the greatest number. The public
schools were established for the
purpose of preparing the youths to
WELD the ballot wisely and success
fully. Their ability to WELD this bal
lot for the great good to the major
ity is not to be measured by their
abundance of physical strength,
which enables them to carry bale
of cotton on their shoulders and to
drink whisky from the bung of a
whisky barrel, but it must lie in the
realms of their minds and hearts.
| An ignorant and vicious constituent
|cy is likely to abuse this sacred
prerogative which has been conferr-
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-02-26

ed upon them by the Government.
The ballot is the weapon with
which we fight our political battles.
The politics and religion of the He
brewS were the same. Their re-
!igion was their politics; their
church and state were the same.
Our, Government separates them,
but the voter should take with him
the Christians weapon to guide in
welding this political weapon,
which will prevent him from MAX
ing mistakes. Go to the sixth
chapter of Ephesians to learn what
the weapon is. In selecting public
officials, nothing should be consider
ed but the applicants fitness to dis
charge the function of the office to
which he aspires. Public offices
were not created.for set of ignorant
fellows, who are not able, to meet
the requirements, but swift to
draw their salaries they were not
made for the thriftless, the shiftless
and the profligate, who have no
business of their own and are hunt
ing easy jobs, for the man who
has been failure in his own busi-
ness should not be- trusted to man
age the peoples business. Neither
were they created for the unfortun-
ate, merely because he
needs the fees, for they are not
charitable institutions. So the
question to be considered is not who
needs the offices, but does the peo-
pie need to fill the office? Let
every man run for office who VENTS
to; then let every voter exercise
the same discretion and wisdom in
selecting men to fill Qua offiies that
ne would in his private business.
Then he shall have discharged
the duties of a true citizen; then he
shall have measured up to the stan
dard OF Golden Rule; for no man
will squander money in his private
business on a man simply because
he is "a good fellow, or needs the
job.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-02-26

Governor A. @. Braun, in I843 for
a summer resort. 1t is very large,
the front piazza is 80 feet long and
ID feet wide and think the keeper
said it was IA feet from floor to
ceiling and is built all around in
perfect symmetry. 1t is covered
with slate. The basement is built
up about feet high with brick and
the wooden foundation is laid on
the brick ard consists of hewn
cypress and the larger sills are
from II to II inches square, and all
in a perfect state of preservation.
The keeper told us that an archi-
tect had been there and taken
perfect measurements so as to re-
produce the house at the Worlds
Fair next year. He said to the
keeper that it could not be built at
the Worlds fair for less than fifty
thousand dollars, and said it would
have to be given up as fifty thous
and was all that was appropriated
for all purposes. The dear old
Confederates that will occupy that
old historic mansion on the seashore
will have beautiful place to while
away the few remaining days they
will have in this world. 1t seems
SO fitting and appropriate to dedi-
cate the home of our President to
the use of our old and INDECENT
soldiers, SO that when all have
lived out their allotted time to be
gathered home in Heaven, their
to shake the hands Of Davis,
Lee, Jackson, Stewart, Hill and a
host of other great leaders and all
the boys in grey. Oh! wont that
be the greatest reunion that this
world or eternity will ever have
the pleasure of seeing and to hear
old rebel yell. Oh! won't that be
grand? We then boarded our
hacks and lit out for Gulfport, at
which place we arrived just before
sunset. FROM Biloxi TO CulfpOrt IS
a beautiful drive, the distance IS
about IS miles, nearly all Of the
way is a good shell road and you
can easily drive it in two hours.
There are beautiful houses being
built all along the way. In some
places the. land is very costly, and
at Gulfport it is clean out of sight.
! was in Gulfport and Biloxi seven
years ago and at that time thought
land and lots in those places were
very high, but it is a thousand per
cent higher now than then. It a
man could look as far ahead as he
[can back, he might accomplish
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-02-26
SENATOR PRICES TRIP TOl
BILOXI.
DOBSON, MISS. Feb. 23, 100

DOBSON, MISS. Feb. 23, 1908.
Mr.. Editor:-
If you willpermit me | will write
you a short sketch of my trip to
Biloxi, to attend the meeting of the
Grand Lodge. 1t was my intention
to 60 by the way of Brandon and
Jackson to attend the Prohibition
Conventions that were to be held in
those places on Monday and Tues
day, but was prevented from doing
so by high water. But my heart
was with them and Ifully endorse
all they did, SO I had to 60 by way
of D'Lo. On Thursday morning
in company with Rev. ]. R. John
ston, we boarded the train for
Gulfport. We soon had plenty
Masonic company, DR.. Berry, of
Brandon and Mr.. Tobe Hislip, of
Pelahatchie and others too numer-
Gus to mention. So we rolled along
at a good rate and the clans kept
increasing all along the road, and
when we arrived at Gulfport we
had quite a large crowd. Then we
changed cars for Biloxi and got
there about p. m. The Grand
Lodge was opened and at work
when we arrived at the hall.
There were about 900 in atten-
dance. 1t was as fine a body of
men as you ever saw, and seemed
intent on business, all worked in
perfect harmony and business was
in short order. We
were entertained in fine style and
the people of that fine progressive
town seemed delighted to receive,
welcome and entertain US while
there. Biloxi is one of the -prettiest
towns to be seen anywhere. 1t is
the cleanest town that ever saw
and is equally as progressive. Fish
and oysters abound in plenty and
we feasted on them to our hearts
content (or stomach content).
The lodge got through its busi-
ness Friday evening and went out
to Beauvoir (the old home of Presi-
dent Davis) to formerly receive
it from Mrs. Davis, who accompa-
MED the Lodge. LDr. Berry, ..Tob
Heslip, DR.. Baugh and procured a
two horse hack and preceded the
Lodge about one hour SO that we
could have good look at the house
and grounds befofe the large crowd
got there. The house is a magnifl-
cent structure. 1t was built by
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-02-26

something in this life. will stop
for this time or the waste basket
may get this. If this does escape
that awful receptacle | will finish
this letter next week as to what
saw at Gulfport and on my way
home.
ALEX PRICE.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-02-26

Senators from the South who are
members of the Committee on
Claims of the Senate are very much
wrought up over the contemplate
treatment they are receiving at the
hands of the Republican majority.
There are scores of meritorious
Southern war claicis pending be-
fore the Committee and the Repub-
licans steadily refuse to permit
them to be brought up for conside-
Tation, either in the Committee or
in the open Senate. AS a conse-
quence these claims will have to lie
over until the meeting of the next
Congress in December. Many of
these claims have been allowed by
the United States Court of Claims,
quite number as far back as four
years ago, and all that is required
to insure their speedy payment is
an appropriation for that purpose.
The Republicans, however, persis-
tently refuse to allow favorable
action to be taken in the premises.
Take the Cotton Claims Bill, for
instance. Every member of the
Senate Committee, Republicans
and Democrats, voted to allow the
bill to be favorably reported to the
Senate, but when it was proposed
to call the bill up for consideration
the Republican members of the
Committee who had voted to for a
favorable report in Committee vot-
ed against consideration of the mat
ter in the Senate.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-02-26

Senators and representatives are
daily being opportuned by parents
to get their sons out of the army
and navy. Many young men join
the army and navy under the i'm
preston that they are going off to a
picnic, but after tasting of the
drudgery and hardships of the ser
vice they come to the conclusion
that all is not gold that glitters and
they begin to write letters to loved
ones at home begging them to write
senators and representatives from
their states to have them discharg-
ed. Of course, the senators and
representatives make every effort
to have their wishes complied with,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-02-26

WASHINGTON.LETTER
Mr.. Fox's Candidacy Endorsed by Mississ-
ippians at the Capital

but it is seldom they succeed.
Ilhe army and navy need men and
the officials are 10th to let them 90
when once they are in the service.
AS rule, soldiers and sailors are
compelled to serve out their en-
listments. Your correspondent
would J respectfully advise our
young men to give the enlisting
officers of the army and navy a
wide berth.
Mississippians residing in Wash
ington are jubilant over the candi-
dacy for Governor of Congressman
Fuller Fox. Mr.. Fox is very popu-
lar with Mississippians here, and
could they have the say he would
be unanimously chosen as the next
Chief Executive of the grandest
and greatest state in the union.
Fuller Fox is recognized as one of
the ablest men Mississippi has sent
to the rover house of Congress in
many years. His great speech in
defense of the Constitution of Mis-
sissippi, delivered at the last ses-
sion of Congress, is considered one
of the most profound and able legal
arguments that ever fell from the
lips of mortal man. 1t is consider
ed gem in legal lore by all South
ern lawyers, and the man who has
failed to read it has, indeed, missed
a rare treat.
Another Mississippian who has
won great distinction in his Con-
gressional career is Ezekiel S.
Gambler, Jr., representative from
the First Mississippi District.
Zeke Gambler never lets an oppor-
tunity pass to help his constituents.
When the Agricultural Appropria-
ton Bill was under consideration
in the house recently the alert con-
gressman from the first district had
an amendment tackled on the bill
for extra money for the propagation
Ct rare and valuable seeds to be
distributed among the farmers of
the country. Zeke contends that
the farmers are as much entitled to
recognition as the bankers, lawyers
and manufacturers, and he propos-
es to see that they get it.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-02-26
Brandon Bank.
Legitimate, Safe, Conservative Business.

MoslerS burglar proof door, triple tme-ock safe Cashe
bonded by Guaranty Company. Absolutely Safe.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-22
LOCAL NEWS.

Miss Francis Be1knap left yes
terday for a weeks visit with Miss
Ivy Burton of Independence.
Among those returning yester.
day from Newport were, Mrs
Elizabeth Gerhard, Mrs. Thomp-
son. Mrs. Sheasgreen, Miss Ade-
1aide Grehoz and Tom Nolan.
Charles Chipman arrived Thurs
day from Northern California
where he is with Mr.. Seeker en-
gagged in construction work for the
Southern Pacific. Mr.. Chapman
will remain few days for visit
with his family.
For the first time ia several years
NJ. S. Neugass, formerly well
known business man of Corvallis
has been on the streets, shaking
hands with old friends. He arriv-
ed Thursday to be at the Jacobs
home on the occasion of the .fftieth
anniversary Of the marriage of Mr..
and Mrs. M, Jacobs. Mr.. Neu-
gass is now identified with a large
manufacturing concern In San
Francisco, and is prosperous.
OF course all sportsmen know
that the open season for China
spheasants does not begin until Oct
ober 1st, in spite of the inadvertent
statement in Wednesdays TIMES
that September 18th was the date.
If the TIMES got in two weeks early
in the statement, it is, according to
all accounts, still far short behind
the time when China shooting act
ua1ly begins. The record is that
sale of shotgun shells is better now
than later on.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-22
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed bids will be received at the
Office of Chas. H. Burggraf architect
Albany Oregon, BY the board of regents
of the State Agri cultural College of the
State of Oregon, until p. IN August
24th 1903, for the erection OF an addition
to the boiler house of the heating plant
of the State Agricultural College at Cor
Wallis Oregon. a bond, equal to the
amount of rs per cent OF the contract will
be required. Plans may be seen at the
Office of Thomas Crawford, Clerk or at
the architects office. The board reserves
the right to reject any or all bids.
Chas H Burggraf
Architect.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-22
THE RABER DREnGE.
II Costs Thirty Six Thousand-Eastern
Men in the Enterprise.

!
Men in the Enterprise.
The mining operations in which
N. T.. Raber is now engaged are OF
very extensive character. He IS
associated with a joint stock COM
pany of Eastern capitalists. The
latter has placed $4,000 IN cash at
the disposal of Mr.. Raber for the
purposes of the enterprise.
The plant comprises a barge. 100
feet by 40, and fitted with two, huge
boilers and four engines, an i'm
mense pump, ladder and buckets
for dipping up gold bearing sand
and gravel from the bed ofthe rly-
er in which the operations are to be
conducted, together with big
array of mining machinery of COM
prehensive and intricate character,
In some particulars it is 10 be the
largest gold mining dredge ever
operated There is in addition a
small steamer, a big coal barge and
other appliances. The cost Of the
plant alone is $36, 900. The orders
for the machinery have been placed
in Eastern factories. and portion
of it is to arrive shortly at Glenn s
Ferry, Idaho, which is the head
quarters of the company. Other OF
the machinery will require three
and four months.to construct from
the time the order for it was given,
which was two to four weeks ago.
The capacity of the plant is by
far the greatest of any thing of the
kind that ever operated on the
Snake river deposits. 1t is believ-
ed that 5000 cubic yards of gold
bearing sand and gravel will be
worked by it in a single day of II
hours. The dredge should prove a
profitable enterprise on sand bear
ing II cents of gold per cubic yard,
but it is said that much of it runs
rs cents per yard and even up to a
dollar or more.
The planss of the Raber Com
pany are far more comprehensive
and exhaustive than that OF any OF
the dredge companies that have op-
Grated on the Snake, some of which
are said to have done a profitable
business. After a twenty five
years study of gold mining in its
various phases, few men are more
conversant than is Mr.. Rab-
er with its processes and
problems, and there is every reason
to expect that the newly launched
enterprise may prove remunerative.
The barge for the new dredge is
now at G1enn's Ferry, where Mr..
Raber expects to be ecalled at any
time to superintend the placing Of
the machinery. Three or four
months time will e1apse
before active operations in dredg-
ing will begin.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-22
: MUCH TESTIMONY TAKEN.
In the Land Contest Cases Hearing
Still in Progsess.

The hearing Of the timber land
contests mentioned in Wednesday's
Times had not been concluded late
yesterday afternoon. The cases on
trial before County Clerk Moses are
two In number, two other cases re-
lating to the same section of land
having been heard in Oregon City.
The case of w. B, Mace versus c,
L. Spaulding occupied three days,
and the taking of testimony did not
end until Wednesday evening.
The testimony is vo1uminous, occu
pying I23 pages of type written
i matter.
Much ofthe evidence relates to
when those who filed the home
steads originally went onto the.
property, and how often they have
Eslnce been about the premises.
Evidence has been abduced by the
contestants to show that some of
the claimants did not go on the
LANDS until four months after their
filings had been made. The defen-
Idants have offered testimony in re-
butta1 of this.
One feature of the testimony was
the statements made by defendants
to the effect that all of the original
homesteaders had been on the lands
throughout the month of March
1901 among them G. w. Spau1dingi
of Portland. The contestants, in
rebuttal produced. the books and
aMdavits of a firm in Portland set
sing forth that during the month
in question, Mr. Spauding had been
constantly employed in their estab-
lishment as an engineer and that
he had received pay for 81 days
service rendered during the, said
month.
The attorneys for the contestants
are G. L. Davis and William Gallo.
way, formerly of the Oregon City
land Office. The attorney for the
defendants is Burt Leuter of Port
land.
It was the case of Morse Burnap
of Philomath versus Miss Spaulding
that has been in progress since
| Thursday morning.
See next issue for date of DIR. Lowe
the opticiops next visit.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-22
To Ice Buyers.

Orders for 10 cents worth of ice or
less, must reach the factory before nine
O'Clock, so as to go out by the first deliv-
cry, or they will not be filled. Orders
for more than 10 cents worth will be fill
ed at later hours. All orders that reach
the factory before nine o'clock will be
filled promptly, as usual.
Corvallis Ice Works.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-22

Do you intend to keep students? A
committee from the Y. M C. A.. at the
College will canvass the city on or about
Sept Is TO secure a complete list of
those who wish to board or room stud.
ents, also accommodation terms,
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-22
Trespass Notice.

Notice is hereby given that no hunt
ting or other trespassing is allowed on
our premises. Any person or persons
violating the provisions ,of this notice
will be prosecuted.
w. S. Locke.
A. R. Locke
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-22
For Sale,

AT bargain; 200 feet Of picket fence.
Apply to Mrs. Sarah E. Moore, corner
Third & Jackson.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-22
For rSale,,

Good young team of mares; weight
about 2,5oo. Inquire at this office.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-22

See next issue for date of DIR. Lowe
the opticions next visit.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-22

year has been given up entirely to
pasture, and as such, is most pro-
life. On other plsts about the house
a second crop, now three feet high
Is ready to cut. The first crop from
the same ground was four TO four and
halffeet high. Major Bruce says
the roots pene trate< the ground to a
depth of 10 feet or more. He has no
doubt that alfalfa can be- grown in al
most any ground where there is not
clay soil for the roots to penetrate
What the plant would do in such
ground. he does not pretend to say.
On the Bruce farm the roots go to a
layer Of gravel where there is abund-
ant water.
The races between Reliance and
Shamrock which began with the fuke
Thursday means the 18th challenge
from British yachtsmen since the
schooner America captured the cup
off the Isle Of Wight in 1851. Thres
races out of the five will decide the
winner Each race is to be started
at Sandy HOOK lightship. The course
will be either over a triangle each
eide Of which Is 10 miles in lepgth, or
beat TO the Windward of Is miles
and return. depending upon the di-
rection of the wind. The time limit
for each race 5A hours. Each boat
measures 90 feet on the water line.
Shamrock III is sailed by Captain
Robert Wringe and Captain Charles
Barr is the sailing master OF the Re
lance. Eleven o'clock In the morn
Ing Is the time for the start In each
race,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-06-10
ECHOES FROM THE FLOOD.
Misce eIlaneous Items Of Interest Clean
ed From Various Sources.

Appalling as was the disaster to Cliff
ton and Pacolet, 1t was not suf1c1ent
to deter the work Of thieves. Below
Pacolet people gathered cloth and
goods in wagons. Some were working
to recover the stuff for the owners;
others appropriated all they could lay
hands on to their own use.
It Is reported that Lockhart mill mas
been damaged and that a small ware.
house there has been washed away. II
has not been practicable to conf1rm the
report; but it probably has some foun-
dation.
It Is reported at Jonesville that some
women and children who floated away
from Pacolet on pieces Of wreckage
were rescued; at Lockhart shoals, alive
and we'll.
The stage Of the Congaree river at
Columbia Monday morning at O'Clock
was 273 feet-12a feet above what is
considered as the danger line.
The daily papers were not the least
remiss in their efforts to get corre-
spondents to the Pacolet flood. On
the first news Of the disaster, many OF
them in various parts Of the country,
dispatched correspondents to the scene; |;
but because Of the wrecked railroad
bridges only a few were able to get
there. Louis Kohn and Zack MCGEE, of
the News and Courier, Randolph w.
Smith, Of the State, I. E. Avery, Of the
Charlotte Observer, and A. B. Will
liams, Of the Richmond News, were
among the few lucky ones to reach
their destination without delay and all
Of them sent some splendid accounts
to their respective papers. Several OF
the correspondents were unable to get
further than Columbia. BY this time,
however, most of them have gotten on
the ground and they can be depended
upon to give the outside world full
and accurate description Of all that has
occurred or that may occur.