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The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Another Stamp Act.

Havana. General Nunez, civil
governor Of Havana, has advised
the provincial council to end the
druggist deadlock by athorlzing the
athxlng OF tax stamps to patent
medicines when sold to the con
sumer instead OF az previously.
when the medicines were received
in stock. The provincial council
amended the medicine act accord
ing to the suggestion. The drug
gists OF Havana declare they will
not open their stores unless the tax
is entirely cancelled.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Telephone Connection Installed.

At last Longbeach Is connected
with the outside world by tele-
phone. The Cumberland Telegraph
and Telephone Company's manager
at Gulfport has seer little peace for
months because of the people at
Longbeach, who were so anxious
for telephone connection. The
wires are in at last and the instru-
meLts are being put in, and both
local and long distance privileges
will be enjoyed.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Frost Damages Apple Crop.

Lite Rock.-Specials to the Ga
zette from Western and Southwest
r Arkansas say the dangae to the
apple crop from the heavy frost of
Thursday night has been great. IL
many places cotton las been killed
and farmers are securing seed for
replantlng. The peach crop was
killed by cold weather three weeks
ago.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Baer Completes Testimony.

New York. President Baer, of
the Philadelphia and Reading rail-
road and the Temple IRON Company
has completed his testimony before
the interstate commerce commits
sion. E. b. Thomas, president Of
the Lehigh Valley railroads, sue
ceeded Mr.. Baer il the witness
chair.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Anent School Fund Appropriations.

Anent school fund appropriations,
Attorney General Williams has rem
dered an official opinion to the
board of super visors of Claiborne
county in which he held that that
board was not authorized by section
4049 of the Code, as amended by
chapter liz OF the laws OF 1896, tc
appropriate the balance of the
school fund Of any part of the gen.
era! fund, for the purpose Of erect
ing a pavilion in which to hold com.
mencement and other exercises.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Special Dedication Edition.

The Times Democrat will COM
memorate the dedication of the new
capitol building at Jackson on Wed
nesday, June g., 1903, by a special
edition, giving in full detail all OF
the attendant ceremonies, scenes
and incidents, together with graphic
illustrations of the various public
buildings and other points OF inter
est.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Plans Completed for Meridian College.

The plans and specifications for
the construction or the new Meri-
dian Female College are now com.
plete. This naEe has been adopted
for the college by the trustees in
place of the East Mississippi Female
College. The building will cost
about SIS, 900. Building work will
begin In the course of a few weeks.
1t is the intention of the trustees to
complete the college by the opening
of next school term.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Dat Crop Will Be a Failure.

A special to tie Picayune from
Carthage states that the long ana Sc
we're drouth there is broken. The
rain, comes, however, too late to
save the oat crop, which will be an
almost total failure. Yet it will
serve to make the cotton seed ger
inmate where, as in most cases, they
were planted after dry weather sci
in and there was insufficient mois.
ture in the soil to sprout them.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Exports of Gold.

New " rk.-Demand sterling adj
vanced to $4.S7.58 in the local
market a few days ago. the hi CHEST
price reached in a long while. In
exchange circles the opinion pre-
walls that the only thing that pre-
vented gold exports as u result Of
this advance was the lack of a ship
to carry the gold to France.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
TREND OF EVENTS.
AT WASHINGTON.
Transpiracies of Note, News and
Views OF National Interest.
THE NEW U. S. ARMY RIFLE.
II is Said to be a Remarkable Evolution
in Small Arms Since the Old Spring.
field Had Its Day. see Statement of
Spanish Claims Commission.

Washington.-The new United
States army rifle is a remarkable
evolution in su.all arms since the
old Springfield singie-loader had its
day. Practically twelve years ove
the period of this development, al
though the experience of the Span
ish and Philippine wars has natu-
rally made the progress more rapid
since 1898 than tefore that tine.
When the Krag was made the basis
OF the army magazine rifles there
was more or less criticism, but it
was poorly conceived. The ordi-
department has never regard
ed any model as necessarily a fnali-
ty, but has never been bent on I'M
provenents. Consequently moditi-
cations have been numerous and
steady and there is no reason WHY
with this constant application of ex-
perience and inventive genius the
United States service magazine rife
should not be equal to any in the
world.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
New Yardmaster.

Superintendent G. N. Bell, of the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley rail
road, states that Jesse F. Kyle, OF
Memphis, had been appointed yard
master of the road at Vicksburg,
vice Joe Rogers, formerly of New
Orleans, who will return to his
former occupation as a freight con-
ductor ON the lcwer end of the line.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
New Bank at Canton.

Authority has teen given for the
establishment of the First National
Bank of Canton, Miss, capitalized
at $50. 900, by W. b. Wiener, James
j. McGrath, Isdor Gross, j.. B.
Chrlstman, 1. Heisdortfer and others.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
How's Thisc

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case OF Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
f.. J. CHENEY Il Co., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known r. J.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe him
perfectly honorable i'll all business transac-
tions and financially able to carry out any
obligation made by their firm. -
WEST Il TRuAx Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio.
WALDINa, KISSAr & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally act
ms directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces OF the system. Testim onials sent free.
Price, Toe. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Meridian Mentioned for Next Meeting.

After a three days session at
Vicksburg OF much interest and a
fine time, the 500 teachers, compos-
ing the State Teachers Association,
have adjourned after electing Off
GERS and recommending Meridian
as the next place to be chosen by
the committee for the spring meet
ing of 1904. The officers elected
were Paul Saunders, of the State
University, preside mt; Prof. Scott,
reelected secretary, and Joe Cook,
of Columbus, treasurer.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Brakeman Killed.

Pink Wallace. a negro brakeman
on the Gulf and Ship Island rail-
road, fell from the train while pass
ing near Brooklyn and bis body
was cut in two by the wheels. He
died soon afterward.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Reserve Agent.

The comptroller has approved tie
Mercantile National Bank, OF New
York. as the reserve agent for the
Mississippi National Bank, of Port
Gibson Miss
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

If Washington is any guide for
the balance of the country, then the
laooring men of the country have
won a signal victory as the outcome
OF the coal strike, which was set.
tied late last fall by means OF the
coal strike commission appointed By
President Roosevelt. May / is the
date on which the laboring men oil
the District of Columbia always
make their demands for shorter
hours, more pay and whatever
other concessions they deem them
selves entitled to receive at the
taIds of their employers. Usually
the contractors and employers have
resisted those demands for a longer
or shorter time, and prolonged
strikes have resulted. This year,
however, the Ease is different, and
capital seems to have learned its
lesson from tie coal strike, and ev-
cry reasonable demand labor has
made upon capital has been prOmps.
ly met and allowed.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Petition in Bankruptcy.

Charles Jordan. of Greenville,
Miss, filed a petition in voluntary
bankruptcy. The assets amount tc
$22,350, which the liabilities reach
$40, $50. The majority Of the cred
itors are, however, secured by
deeds of trust on real estate.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Socialists Disregarded.

RoEe.-The Socialist manifesto
asking the people to leave their
work was generally disregardei.
There was no disorder.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
TOPICS OF MOMENT
FROM MISSISSIPPI
News of the Day and Notes by
the Way in the Bayou State.
DEVICE TO PREVENT OVERFLOW
Letters Patent Granted to GuIfpOrt Par
ties on a Scheme Claimed to be a So
luton of the Overflow Problem.--.
Prominent Planter Murdered.

The McCaughan brothers, Will
liam and Harper, of Gulfport, have
been granted letters patent en- a de.
vice for the protection of low
riparian lands from overflow, says a
special to the PIcayune. "If our
plan had been in operation all up
and down the Mississippi river dur
ing the floods that 50 lately caused
such destr uction," said Mr.. Harper
McCaughan, there would have
been no breaking OF levees and de-
struction of property" He de-
scribed the plan as follows: Sup
pose, now, this little bayou was a
river subject to annual overflow.
The banks would be Ieveed. Now,
to protect these leyees, and make
them hold at all times we would,
when the water was low, make an
outlet channel or n side aud levee
its banks. This outlet channel ex-
tends to a low-lying basin or reser-
voir into which the surplus waters
may be received and retained, or
drained away to some other out
let. By this construction a portion
OF the water from the main stream
is led off through the outlet chan
mel, but in order to prevent the
water from the main stream enter
ing the outlet channel at all times,
a dam Is constructed across the out.
let stream near it's mouth, lower
thar the levees and just high
enough to permit overflow here
when the danger point in the alti-
tude of the main stream is reached
from Hood or other cause during
the normal flow of the river. TIE
dam is inclined on each side of it's
middle to permit a steady rise upon
the river side and an easy and
gradual flow upon the other side to
prevent violent washing and the de-
%struction of the dam. The levees
and dam may be constr in
any suitable manner and OF auy ma
%terial, and il order to protect the
entrance to the outlet channel, fen
derS are constructed at eacn corner
of the main stream and the overflow
channel. These tenders extend some
distance up and down the stream,
also some distance past the dam IN
the overflow channel. The fender
are made of piles, with heavy plank
or timber facing. These tenders
prevent the washing of the corners,
and to prevent the washing of the
dam it is provided with q none
rosive face constructed of sheet piles
driven perpendicularly across the
outlet channel. However, Doth The
facing and the tenders may be built
OF masonry or any suitable mate
rial"
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Use Aliens Foot-Ease.

1t is tho only cure for Swollen, SmartinS,
Tired, Aching, Hot. Sweating Feet, Corns and
B%unions. Ask for Aliens Foot-Ease, powder
to be shaken into the shoes. Cures while yo1
walk. At oil Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c.
Don't accept n substitute. Sample sent
FREE. Address, Allen s. Olmsted, Leroy, NY.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
Means Much to Colorado.

Peter English, manager OF the
Boulder, Col, Gas company, has dis
covered a process for extracting an
excellent quality Of gas from Ignite
coal, which abounds in Colorado. This
will pen q market for a large product
that In now practically va1ueless
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07
HIstnrx Repsats Itself.

There is a reminder of the late DIR.
Burchard's famous rum, Romanism
and rebellion" ALTERATION in a remark
made by Rev. Mr.. Tunnel OF WASH
irgton. In discussing the negro prob
lem he said II must be approached
with soap, soup and salvation"
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION and all stom ach
flls positively cured by TABER's PEPsIN
COMPOUND. 10c. size mailed free to any ad-
dress. Write DR.. Taber Mfg. Co., Peoria, Ill.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

The fellow who thinks he can tatter all
women fatters himself.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

A tailor in the island of Lewis saw
his wife and a number Of other women
disappear up the chimney Of a farm
house, and from their excursion they
returned with q great catch Of fish.
The tailor proposed that he should
accompany the party the next time
they went fishing, and the women con
sented. To the number Of eighteen
the witches went to sea on a line Of
worsted thread, the tailor's wife be-
ing left ashore to hold the ball or end
Of the line in her hand. The tailor
persuaded her to go with the rest and
leave him in charge of the line. She
went. and the tailor paid out more
line till he thought the witches far
enough out at sea. He then cut the
thread and allowed the whole lot to
drown.-Chicago News.
TITS permanently cured. No Its or nervo1s-
ness after first days use OF D.. kline's Gr,.:
NerveRestorer. S2trial bottleand treatisefre
DR. IL - ErrNn Al CQf A~.l - DL4I. n.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

When fortune knocks at the door some
people don't answer for fear it might be
a collector.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

At any rate the married woman's life
IS not m~iss-spent.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

You can do your dyeing in half an
hour with PUTNAM FADELEss DYES.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

Inc quarrclsome man Won't admit that
he is in the wrong until the other fellow
aDolooizes. "
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

lido not believe Piso's Cure for Consump.
tionhas an equal for coughs and colds-JoHS
F.BoYER, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. Is. 1900.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

The lives of some people seem to indi.
cate a regret that there are Only ten com.
mandments to break.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

John S. Reynaud, Esq, acting
auditor of customs ut New Orleans,
has figured out the total of customs
receipts for the month CT April at
that port, and found that they were
$1,3l1, 589. 06, beating the record OF
any previous April and being in
excess of receipts fer any pre- vious
months in the past, except August,
1892, which showed 1851, 467. 83.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

A special from Solingen, Rhenish
Prussia, says United States Consul
Landger Was fined 30 marks by the
Judge OF q local court for d~isorderly
conduct in the court room where he
was present as a witness. Mr..
Landger protested that he was a
United States official and could not
be fined in that manner, and the
Judge sentenced him to three days'
Imprisonment for d%isorderly be-
havior. The consul left the court
room without being arrested.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

Secretary Shaw has returned from
Iowa, where he went to join the
president or a short tour through
the State. While no official state
ment on the subject is given out, it
is stated On good authority that the
published reports that Assistant
United States Treasurer Williams.
at Chicago, and William Penn
Nixon, collector of that port, will be
relieved from their duties, is IN
true, and that they will retain their
present Offices. No selection has yet
been made of a successor to former
Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury
Allies.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

The man who makes a fool of himself
only saves someone else the trouble.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

Postmaster General Payne has an
nounced that the postottite depart
mens has decided to put into effect
a two-cent postal rate between the
United States and the port of
Shanghai, the open door of China.
This has its object the furthering of
commercial relations between this
country and the Flowery Kingdom.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

Edwin w. Kramer, of Louisiana,
has been appointed to a position as
clerk in the coast and geodetic sur
vey at a salary of 1920 per year, as
a result of a civil service examlna-
ton.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

Harry M. Clabaugh, for several
years associate justice of the SUI
preme court of the District OF Co.
lumtia, has taken the cath of Office
as CHEF justice of that court, sue
ceeding E. F. Bingham, who has
been chief justice for sixteen wears.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

Capt. John f. Moulin has been
appointed assistant United States
local inspector of boilers at New Or
leans in place of Capt. John Parks,
who has been promoted to the posi-
tioE of local Inspector. Captain
Moulin. for some time, was chief
engineer of the steamship Break
water. plying between New Orleans
and the islands in the Caribbean
Sea
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

Extracts from the report OF Father
E. ]. Vattmann, chaplain of the
Twenty-ninth United States lnfan-
try, 10 the Catholic bishops as
seRbled in annual convection here
last week on the status of the
Catholic church in the Philippines,
has been made public. Father Watt
mann, with the knowledge and con-
sent of the wa- department., and un-
der direction of the church authori-
ties, recently made a careful inves-
tigation of Catholic interests in the
archipelago. He is unsparing in
his praise of Governor Taft and
other members CT the Philippine
commission for their honesty and
impartlallty in religious affairs.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

The Spanish treaty claims COM
mission, of which William E.Candler
IS the head, has placed on file a
statement OF principles which will
govern its decisions upon claims OF
American citizens against Spain,
which have been assumed by the
United States. 1t appears from the
statement issued that the commits
sion was seriously divided in opin-
Tor, so much so that it Is not easy to
determine exactly how each mem
Der stands upon the various points
decided. In a general way, how
ever, the division seems to have
been along party lines. The Repub-
Iican commissioners -Messrs Chand-
Ter, Dickrnan and Wood-favor a
policy which would keep the
amount of allowed claims within
narrow limits, while the Democratic
commissioners essrs. Maury and
Cham bers-fa 7or a more liberal
policy.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

Mr.. Forbes, of the agricultural
experiment station at Tucson, Ariz.,
calls the Colorado rIver the Ameri-
can Nile, because of its possibilities
as a source of irrigation for the
alluvial lands around it. Nearly
500, 600 acres OF these bottom lands
have been surveyed. The Colorado
resembles the Nile, not only IN be-
ing subject to an annual summer
rise sufficient to overflow the ada
cent lands, but in carrying to them
an abundance of fertilizing sits.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-07

The case of the United States,
which is to be laid before the Alas
kan boundary committee, has been
completed and delivered at the
British embassy here. At the same
time the British case was turned
over in London to the American
embassy. The United States case
makes "a volume of no less than $50
pages. The next step will be the
preparation of counter cases, and
these must be delivered, one in
Washington and one in London, July
3 next. All this is preparatory to
the meeting Of the joint commission,
which will take place in London On
september 3.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-12-12
PORTUGUESE ON THE EVE
OF A CABINET CRISIS
King on Return From Villa Expected to
Decide or a New Prime
Minister.

LISBON. Dec. 12-The ministerial
crisis which has been latent for some
months past, may be expected 20 mani
fest itself openly on the Kings return
from Villa Vicosa, at the end Of the
month.
1t is en- open secret that grave dissen-
tions exist in the cabinet. and the prime
minister, Senior Hintze Riberio. has had
extreme difficulty in keeping the min
istry together. notwithstanding the num-
erous demonstrations which King Car
los. who plays TO perfection the part
OF q constitutional monarch, has freely
granted him.
On the other land. the state Of health
Of Senior Lucia ne &c Castro, chief Of the
progressistas, or liberal party. and his
advanced age make 1t impossible for
him to entertain the idea Of putting
himself aga1n at the head of a minis
try. a tlslz which will therefore I'm all
probability fall 10 Senior Vega Beirao
or HIS infinitely more popular, although
considerably younger, colleague. Senior
Jose Maria dAIpoiu, a most able states
man.
Reference has also been made to the
possibility of a cabinet composed OF ele-
ments drawn from neither OF the two
parties. and therefore untrammeled by
the party ties which constitute the basis
of Portuguese politics.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-12-12
NEGRO TEACHER ODIOUS
TO BAY STATE PARENTS
Race War in Massachusetts, Threatened
Owes Order That Whites Must Be
Pupils of Black.

WINSTED, Conn, Dec. 12-Because
the school committee in the Plain dis
trict in Sheffield village, In Massachu-
setts, has engaged Cora Fowler, negro.
20 teach that school. just opened and
has ordered "all children of school age,
below the fifth grade residing on the
Plain. and In New Guinea to attend the
Plain school," a race war has broken
out there.
White people refuse to send their chill
dren TO the new school, the member
ship of which is composed entirely OF
negro children. George Cook. a wealthy
citizen. residing in the Plain district,
says: II cannot object to my children
attending school with children OF Afri-
can descent. but l do object to their
being instructed by n negro. If the COM
mittee will procure a white teacher for
the school / will send my children
there"