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The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
THE BULLY WEAKENED.

"At the battle of Fredericksburg our
regiment vas on the skirmish line for
eighteen hours, and hard ut 1t all the
time. When the assault was ordered
we were directed to lie down, that the
advancing line might run over us.
Then We were to rally on the reserve,
eighty rods to the rear. To reach the
reserve we had to cross an open field
over which bullets were flying like
hail. Even in that crisis / hesitated to
run the eighty rods, fearing that after
facing the enemy for eighteen hours l
would get n bullet in my back. SO 1
side-stepped that eighty rods and was
laughed at by the boys who made q
quick run
1--WE had in our regiment one of the
old-style DULLES, who ma1ch good deal
of noise In battle. He was always
urging III boys and shouting threats
to the enemy. Most of the younger
men in the regiment thought the loud
talker was a great fighter, but at Fred
e%ricksburg he received n slight flesh
wound In the leg which took all the
conceit out of him. He blubhered like
a whipped boy under his trihing
wound, while dozens Of men with seri-
Gus wounds stood grim and silent,
fighting to the last. We never could
get our bully into another fight, and
came to the conclusion that he was
brave through ignorance. and that
when he learned from experience that
bullets would hurt he lost his %nerve."-
Correspondence Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
A RETRIEVE.

On the stage it happens that the hero
is reprieved at the eleventh hour when
on the scaffold. and there are cases re-
corded in history. Few, however, have
been SO close to death as Joe Campbell,
a negro, who had been condemned to
death for murder at Yazoo City, Mo.
The negro had the halter about his
neck. and the trap door was ready to
be sprung open. Campbell then turned
to the sheriff and confessed the name
OF his accomplice. He was instantly
reprieyed.-New York Commercial Adj
Yertiser.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
FRIGHT IN

"A most unusual thing" said the SER
geant, happened in our company In
West Virginia. There had been q Skin
Inish in the mountains across the river
from camp and our company was or
dercd up the road. 70 found signs Of
the enemy in less than a mile, and
finally heard the noise of a heavy adj
vaDcing column. The company was
posted TO command the mountain road.
and the captain with two men went
forward to r~ecornoiter. They came. at
a sharp turn of the road, not ten yards
away. face to face with the enemy's
advance guard, and the captain, who
was carrying q musket. blazed away
without an instant's hesitation and
killed the officer in command of the
enemy. Thereupon the C~onfederates
threw themselves bodily on the captain
and his two men and all were sem to
Richmond"
II suppose" said tho corporal by
preYet rlhat TIC captain was criticised
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
More Killed Than Reported.

Vienna. Josef Kraus, who was
for several years the late QIeen
Draga's valet, has returned to Pill
sen from Belgrade. He hid with
the other royal servants during the
assassiEaitous in the palace, and
thus escaped. He asserts that many
more were killed than have been
reported, aud says the assass.us
ware drunk,
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
a LIFH.

Lord Lyveden. who Is to bring over
n party of Parliamentarians this fail
and show them the United States and
Canada, is big and tall and vigorous
and only forty-fre. He has been a
soldier, n sailor, n waiter on the Bow
cry, n ships steward, an actor and q
nursery man.
Lyveden was a clcrgyman's son. AS
Percy Vernon he enlisted in the artil-
lcry, but bought himself out and Joined
Mr.. Bancroft's Haymarket company in
London for 4 time. Twenty years ago
he came to this city with SIC cash
capital and became n Bowcry waiter.
Presently he turned up in Charlotte,
n. c., without money. Like a young
fool" he says, according to NJ. A. p.
II went to the best hotel and stayed
three days. 1 had no none and was
turned ont. but rs I was leaving the
door 4 clerk pressed fifty cents into my
hand, saying, L guess you'll want a
bed tonight, old man. l lodged over
n stable and in the morning got work
driving n carriage. Eventually the
h~otel-keepcr became my partner ard
best frlend.'
In 1890 Mr.. Vernon returned to Eng
land, married and started in the nur-
sery business, originating n tomato,
but the enterprise failed and he sailed
rs third steward on IN Irish sea boat,
rs assistant steward on the unlucky
City of Paris, and as bedroom stew
ard OH the steamship Nile, sailing to
the Brazils.
In Guenos Ayres he contracted vel
low fever. and on his recovery he be-
came saloon steward In the Isle of
Man service. He served two seasons
with this company, then Joined the
Polytechnic steam yacht Ceylon as
chief steward. Afterward, employing
his w name. he became caterer on
the Hamburg-Harwich line. This posi-
ton he resigned before he succeeded to
the title.
In 1885 Lord Lyvcden was in Char
lesion. II was then the partner In a
small fishing boat he says "and as we
returned to the harbor. laden, going
over the bar We shipped an enormous
sea and the boat went to the bottom.
The three hands and myself were for
tunate enough to be rescued, but we
lost everything. To crown all. the
earthquake came On that same night
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
Changes in Army Staff.

Washington. Secretary Root has
issued an order assigning Major
General s. B. Nj. Young as chief of
staff, with Major General Henry C.
Corbin and Brigadier General VIII
liam b. Carter as the other general
staff officers. Brlgadier General
Tasker II. Bliss is to become presi-
dent Of the war college. The order
will 20 Into effect August ID.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
JEW BATTER THANKED.
By the Gar for a Copy of His Book on
Bessarabia.

St. Petersburg The car, the
Novoe Vremya announces, has &C.
cepted a copy of a book ou B sssara-
bia, written by M. .Kroush vecn, the
editor Of the anti-Ssmitlc organ In
Kishineff, the Bessabaretz the ar
ticles In which are held to have
been largely responsible for the
massacre of Jews at Kistineff-aud
1t Is stated, has commanded that the
author be thanked in the name Of
his majesty.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
U. S. Cruiser Sliced by Sheriff.

New York.-The United States
cruiser Chattan ooga, which is near
ing completion at the Eliza bethport,
N. j., yards Of Lewis Nixon's
branch of the United States Ship
building company. is now in the
possession of the sheriff of Union
county, N. j., on a claim against
Nixon's company by tie maker OF
the boiler.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
Arrested After Twelve Years

John Wyatt, of Winnsboro. has
been arrested on a warrant from
the sheriff of Montgomery, Texas,
for the alleged murder of a mar in
May, 1888. Mr.. Wyatt has been
living at wirnsbcro for twelve
years under an assumed name. His
proper name Is Jack Byrum. Wyatt
is 10 jail awaiting tho action Of the
Texas authorities.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
Prof. Deutsch Resigns.

Cincinnati. DIR. q. E. Deutsch,
professor of Jewish history and the
philosophy of religion In the He
brew Union College OF this city. for
the past twelve years. has rendered
his resignation. He proposes to de-
vote his time to editorial and liter
airy work in New York CITY.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25

1t is said at the state department
t a all OF Minister ConQer's com
m%unications on the subject of treaty
negotiations in China have been alb
solutely accurate and supported by
proof. This statement is all that can
be extracted at the department re-
specting the ISSUE which had arisen
between Minister Conger and Rus
sian officials touching the accuracy
of his reports to bis government OF
what the Russians we're doing In
Manchuria six weeks age.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25

The war department has revoked
its order designating the fortified
tions on SuIlivar's Island, In Charl.
eston harbur, Fort Getty, having
decided to retain the name Fort
Moultrie,in honor Of Major General
William Moultrie. the Revolution
airy hero. The name, Fort Getty, In
honor Of Col. George W. Getty, has
been conferred on the deienses at
Narangansett, R /.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
Tie Society of American Authors

The Society of American Authors
is proposing to rove upon congress
at its next session in oeha!f of the
carriage of authors manuscript in
the mails at third-class rates, or two
ounce for a cent. The proposed re.
duction in this country will make
postage In the United States what it
Is in Europe, and between all coun-
tries belonging to the Universal
Postal Union. Under the Postal
Union manuscripts pass from Great
Britain or Italy or Canada to the
United States and from the United
States to any foreign country, for a
fourth the postage that Is imposed
between one postotfice ana another
in the United States.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25

1t has been announced that M.
Kruushevan vas attacked by a
party of Jews in a street at ST.
Petersburg and was stabbed IN the
neck by a former student OF the
polytechnic schooI at Kieff. The
wound Is not believed to be mortal.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25

Greece will erect a pavilion at
the Worlds Fair, st. Louis, and
will also make exhibits In several of
the different departments. Among
the interesting things exhibited
will be reproductions of old Greek
statuarv
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25

Officials of the war department.
say that it is not true that a deficit
exists in the treasury of the Phillip
pine Islands. While it may appear
from a casual examination of the
financial statement Of the archi.
pelago that a shortage will exist,
there Is no deficit at all.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
Work is progressing rapidly al

Work is progressing rapidly at
Homer on the new ginnery being
put in by the Homer Cotton Oh!
Company. The system is the Mug.
ra1 outfit, having a capacity of sixty
bales in ten hours, is entirely indie
pendent OF the oil mill machinery
in being operated, and when CON.
nieted will be the largest and best
equipped Ooelcn gin Ia This section
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25

A response has been received at
the department of state to the note
recently addressed by Secretary
Hay to the government of Great
Britain, calling his attention once
nore to the subject Of appointing 6
JOINT commission to consider the
riparian rights of the United Sta les
and Canada respectively on the
water boundary bet ween them and
to consider measures for maintain.
ing and controlling the levels OF the
Great Lakes. The British answer
says that steps will be taken soon to
join tie United States in arranging
for the commission. No definite
date Is fixed for the first step, but
his evidence OF a revival Of British
Interest in the SUBJECT is encourag.
ing to our side.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
Austria Will Be Represented.

Vienna.-The ministry of COM
MERGE has announced that Austria
had decided to officially participate
il the st. Louis exposition.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25

Acting Secretary of the Treasury
Taylor, in reply to an inquiry from
the State department. which vas in
stituted by the Russian am bassador
has announced ttat the collection of
the countervaiIing duty on Russian
sugar importations wilt be con.
tinued after July ! next. Some
time ago the litigation caused by
the question whether Russia was, in
effect, paying an export bounty on
sugar was brought to an end by a
decision in favor of the treasury de-
p%arlEent's contention that such a
bounty existed. 1t is believed that
the Russian government has in con-
temptation some retaliatory meas
Ire as a result of this decision.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25

Two young Porto Rlcans who
graduated here from ore of the law
colleges applied for admission to
the bar CT the supreme court of the
District of Columbia, and were in
formed by the secretary OF the ex-
aiming committee that they could
take the examination subject to q
decision of the court as to the right
to practice. This qualified consent
was given for the reason that the
Legislation of the congress describes
the people of the island as "citizens
OF Porto Rico" and their rights are
uncertain. The examining commit
tee did not object to the young men
taking the examination. but as the
question OF citizenship was raised,
the applicants were informed their
Political status would have to be
passed upon by the court In general
terms, by whom admission to the
bar is determined. The applicants
declined to take examination with
the proposed qualification, de-
claring that they would lot accept
as aims shat to which they were en-
titled as a fundamental right.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25

State department advices from
Germany bring the details Of the
trial Of the winemaker, DR.. William
Schlamp o Hole, OF Nirestem on
the Rhine, on the charge Of ndulter
ating the wine made by him by the
addition OF solutions of sugar In
illegal quar- titles. and sentenced to
pay a fine Of 1900 marks. Because
OF the pure food law, which goes
into effect July /, the department
OF agriculture was anxious for the
facts, as it may be necessary for the
United States to follow the same lines
In the prosecutions under the new
law. 1t was brought out IN the
trial that Won Hofe. during the
year 1893 to 1901. had bought from
one firm alone almost sl5. 600 worth
of sugar, and also large quantities
OF rnisins. which he designated a.
grape juice" to avoid suspicion.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25

The United States government
has adopted an attitude similar TO
that OF England toward the new
Servian dynasty. II will be In no
haste to recognize the government
created by assassination In the ab-
senoe Of some exhibition Of q dispo-
sition to punish the guilty. There
fore, Mr.. Jackson, who, besides be-
ing minister to Greece, is also
United States minister to Servia,
will not present his credentials to
the government OF King Peter at
present. In fact, these credentials
have not been prepared. lie had
credentials to King Alexander
which he never presented and he
was actually on his way from Ath-
ems at Belgrade at the tine Of the
assassination of the hing to when
he was about to present bis papers.
1t happens that the trade between
the United States and Servia Is
trifling and the inter ests OF the two
countries touch at few points, go
that there Ia really little emoarrass-
ment likely to follow the failure &c
establish diplomatic relations.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-25
TREND OF EVENTS
AT WASHINGTON.
Terse Topics of Interest to the
Great American Citizenry.
RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE NEXT
Posta! Investigation Will be Extended TO
This Department and Pressed With
Vigor.--.Uncle Sam Will Pursue Course
Adopted by England in Servian Matter

Washir Every branch OF
the p~ostoi1lce department is to be
Investigated and all the large post
Offices OF the country. In addition
to transportation, the bureau OF the
second assistant postmaster-general
upon which the compensation OF the
railroad and steamship companies
computed; the letting of contracts
for mail equipment, including mail
bags, locks, ETC., aud condamning
acd repairing OF all mail bags. and
the letting of the star route con-
tracts. The star route a~pproprla-
ton made by congress each year is
in excess o, 81, 900. 900. 1t has been
asserted fer twenty years that there
is Corruption in the rail way mail
service and that the railroads and
certain members of congress divide
the profits. Several congressional
in vestigations have not proved this,
although the men making the
charges have always said those in
control of the railroads and steam @.
ship companies and the tene-
ficiaries In congress have been pow
crful enough to secure white washes.
1t has been charged OF the floor OF
congress that there have been gross
frauds 10 the weig hing Of the mails.
Mr.. Bristow says be will go into
these charges thoroughly.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-04-03
Rate of | Cent a Mile

A. J.. McDOUGALL,
Division Passenger Agent, New Orleans.
T.. WHARTON.
Division Passenger Agent. Louisville.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-04-03

1t is hoped the press of the state
will take up the discussion of state
reformatory for the boys and youth
who are now throwing their lives
away smoking cigarettes and being
out late at night. The legislature
should take up this matter and estab-
lish reformatory for the accommoda-
tion and detention of the hundreds of
boys in the state who are becoming as
bad as disgraceful and who will,
many of them, be in the penitentiary
before they are twenty-one years of
age. The thing is growing worse
every day and it has arrived at that
stage of the game when the legisla-
ture should inquire into it and pass
laws that will tend to put check on
it. The best remedy is a state refor-
matory, and it should be large and
strong one.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-04-03

1t appears at this time that there
is to be but one candidate in Perry
county for representative and so far
only one announced for senator from
the four counties composing the sena-
torial district. 1t seems to be certain,
however, that there will be other can
didates for the latter office and that
one or two will announce soon. AS
to the office of representative it is a
little doubtful that any other candi-
date than Mr. Stevens will come out,
though the present incumbent is to be
heard from Mr. Setvens is a good
man and will be hard to beat But
still the present incumbent has been
there so long that he has pretty
strong pull with the people, and
1hile the Progress has nc information
that he will come out the probability
is that he will run again and that
he will out within the next week or
two.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-04-03
MIGHTY FILTHY WATER,

The man who visits Meridian had
better carry jug of drinking water
with him. If what is stated and
sworn to by witnesses in that city
about the stream that supplies the
city with water a decent man would
not wash his feet in the water. The
Progress is 10th to believe that this
state of affairs exists, but we know
some of the witnesses personally and
know that they are reliable. Mayor
Rivers gives out this interview to
the Press and signs his name to it,
and since then if the people of that
city have been drinking the water or
using it in any manner they must have
copper-lined stomachs:
Mr.. J. NJ. T. Hamilton testified he
had seen dead horse, dead mule and
dead hog in decomposed state in the
water shed, also grave yard at one
point along the shed in which bodies
had recently been buried. He also
testified that county convicts were
camped on the stream for weeks at a
time and about one hundred ard fifty
persons livd alog the stream and filth
from their closets and stables washed
into it, which furnishes the main sup
ply. On rebuttal Mr.. Hamilton
stated that the bones of the dead ami
mails, as we'll as the bones of the dead
bodies, could be found now.
Mr.. S. S. Coleman stated that the
convicts camped on the stream; he
saw them washing their persons and
clothing on and in the stream.
" Mr.. Duck Dean, who lives in the
neighborhood through which the
stream flows. states that he saw dead
hogs and dogs decomposed in the
water supply and a lot of boys used
the stream as wash-hole every sum-
mer. He also stated that the convicts
camped ON the stream and used it for
bathing their persons and washing
their clothes.
''Mr. John Lewis and his engineer
stated that the water corroded and
damaged his boiler
DR.. Jones, professor of chemistry
at the University of Mississippi, con-
dennis the water as wholly unfit for use
and puts in peril the lives of citizens
who use it.
A lumber of others also have
testified that the water is unfit for
use.''
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-04-03
Illinois Central Railroad.

Great preparations are being made for the
entertainment at New Orleans of Veterans
and their friends on the occasion of the
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-04-03

1t is very likely that Mrs. Maybrick
will return to the United States after
July of next year as her time will
have expired then according to the
English laws. She was to serve life
term or twenty-one years, as the case
is in England, with ten years off for
good behavior, and as she has been a
good prisoner the gates of the prison
will stand ajar next year when she
will walk out and once more be free
woman. Very likely she will return
to America and go on the stage and
tell the people of this country all
about prison life in England. She
can also tell her audience if woman
wants to keep out of prison after COM
uniting murder she had better re-
main in this country, for the English
government makes no distinction be-
tween male and female convict, a
person in high or low station. There
was never a greater effort made in
the history of this country to have a
woman pardoned, but all to no avail,
and doubtless years ago Mrs. May
brick became reconciled to her fate.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-04-03
MRS. VANDERBILT HAS
"GONE INTO TRADE

New York, April 2.-Mrs. Jacob III.
Vanderbilt will today open shop on
Fifth avenue for the sale of novel
ties. Mrs. Vanderbilt was married
in 1885 to Jacob H. Vanderbilt, Jr.,
a cousin several times removed of
William X. Vanderbilt. In 1898 she
obtained divorce. Speaking of her
new venture, Mrs. Vanderbilt says:
81 don't know what will be
thought of starting in business, but
other women are making a good
success IN similar Undertakings and
why shouldn't To-
One of Mrs. Vanderbilts ideas is
tea room, in which she will brew and
pour special brand of Ceylon tea
for customers. She will also sell
cigars and cigarettes suitable for
serving at dinner parties.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-04-03

The indications point to the fact
that Mr.. Vardaman must be very
strong man or the field would not be
pitted against him. 1t is seldom
that any of the papers ever consider
that Mr.. Noel is in the race, and yet
there are hundreds of people who be-
lieve he would make the most accept
able governor, the most painstaking,
the most active and the most careful
of the four. We are told by men
who were with him in the senate that
he was the hardest worker in that
body and was patriotic in it,
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-04-03

Houston, Texas, it is reported, is to
have a paper mill, to manufacture pa
per out of rice straw and pine shaw
ings, with sufficient capacity to sup
ply the United States. The south
needs paper mill very much, for the
newspapers certainly pay an enor-
MUGS price for the news they use.
This would not be such hardship on
the papers if they could command the
cash in advance for their papers. but
this rule has never been established
in the south among the country week
lies and there seems to be no way to
establish it.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-04-03

ferior goods that they cannot be sold
at any price. Atany rate hundreds and
hundreds of dollars are sent away for
these articles and they are brought
to this section by the carload lots. All
the little towns which are building
up rapidly have to send at distance
for their brick and shingles and by
this means thousands Of dollars go out
that should remain here. The demand
for this building material has in
creased at such an enoromus rate that
if there were dozen brick kilns and
q dozen shingle factories the demand
at present could not be supplied.