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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1903-01-24

kIr 6,ehing Creatore with wonder,
III Tie time the listener discerns
III fhs band is playing remarkably
sIl HAA the musicians are under abb
|aEl uls 10ntrol. Creatore is lost to the
nbfId fol the time being and is SEEM
L AeIy playing all the instruments him
t He was the nine days wonder
ere Jason in New York city, while
thS large Music Hall Of the Pitts
nre Ekposition there were more peo-
Z il outside than inside, struggling even
~ slimse in the doors. While
D S greatest interest centers in Crea-
|Iss playing Of the Italian music he
Ia31 eyerything with artistic show
- Wagner music for which ne
Many requests. His appearance
2s will surely be interesting.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1903-01-24

Several candidates for county and
beat offices have informed us that they
are ready to announce but are waiting
for gone one. to start the ball roll
ing" Don't be bashful ORC to modest,
gentlemen. 1t isn't going to cost you
one cent more to announce now, and
there is something in the old adage
about "the early bird catching the
worm" Fellows have lost votes in
the past by failure to let the people
know that they were candidates early
in the game an d the county papers
are ready and willing to place your
name before the voters-on the pay
ment of the usual fees. Gulf Coast
Progress.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1903-01-24

The usual monotony of winter
weather was broken in Meridian, when
Vardaman and Critz, both candidates
for governor, struck the town. The
political atmosphere became SO thick
that the newspapers pulled down great
chunks of it with an ordinary carving
knife. -Vicksburg American.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1903-01-24
POLITICAL CHAT.

Grenada Grenadian: The many
friends of Hon. AT. Fox, excongress-
man for the fourth district Of Missis-
sippi, are urging him to announce his
candidacy for governor this year. Mr..
Fox made an able representative in
congress and would no doubt draw q
large vote should he decide to enter
the race.
There are two Officers in the state
who will doubtless be reelected, viz:
Hon. M. McClurg, attorney general,
and Hon. Writ Adams, state revenue
agent. These gentlemen have served
their state to the best Of their ability
and the people say that they will give
the Offices back if they desire them.
Mr.. DC. Roby, candidate for rail
road commissioner, is one of the most
prominent candidates yet announced.
This gentleman is one Of the best
known men in the state and will no
doubt make good race for the office.
He has been travelling for the firm of
Sternberg and Sons, of Memphis, many
years, and there is probably not a
more popular salesman in Mississippi,
and his friends are working diligently
for his election.
Mr.. F. M. Runnels, managing editor
Of the Meridian Star, is really can
didate for secretary of state. The
Press has full authority for this
statement, and hereby endorses him as
candidate worthy of the support OF
the public. Mr.. Runnels is young
vigorous and active mana MISSISSIPPI
plan who loves his state, man Of
mental power and broad spirit-and
of deserving qualities in general. He
would fill the Office acceptably, and,
entitled to it by general service to the
state. AS journalist, he is doing
daily great seryice-a service which
entities him to the honor and emolu-
ments of the Office he seeks. = Merid-
ian Press.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15

| ln-chief and founder of the nation;
and only on rare occasions can some
conqueror, by force of popular fer
vor, supersede the statesman and
stride like a victor to the white
house. From the II examples that
remain we learn that a coming pres
ldent must be in political life, wheth-
er as an illustrious statesman. to
whom the office comes like a natural
promotion with hardly an effort, or
as suddenly risen man of fame, to
whom the popular feeling DEGREES it.
If he be neither of these, then he
must be statesman distinguished
beyond the average, or one of aver
| age yet real distinction, who in eth
er case must reach out for the COW
eted place, with general feeling of
the propriety of his having it, If
| such one, in the course of events,
has had an opportunity to success
fully turn his hand to warfare, after
the fashion of public men in this
land of citizen soldiery, his martial
popularity will count largely in his
favor. Or an average statesman will
have a useful lead if he poss esses
| those personal qualities, such as tact,
| patience and grace-the iron hand in
the velvet glove-that enable him to
manage all sorts and conditions of
| men, and so to make himself quietly
predominant. Lastly, to be modest
ly but hcnorably in politics, with at
| tractive personal qualities ard good
claims to private esteem, is to be
hopefully in waiting for the day
when party, torn by the rival con
tentions of its principal men, shall
look over into the next rank for a
i substitute candidate, and thus bring
the honor suddenly-Charles F. Ben
jamin, in ST. Nicholas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15

land as the punishment of dangerous
rogues and vagabonds," and James I,
in the exercise of his royal prerogative,
virtually converted this statute into
San act for the transportation of GRIM
inals to America" After the latter
country had won her independence
England sent her criminal classes to
Australia. But wherever these con-
Wet colonies were established there
was tendency on the part of the crimi-
nails to be assimilated by the new coun-
try and as they became established to
forsake their evil ways and become use
full citizens. Thus was lessened rather
than increased the evil which was in
herent in the transported classes and
which would seemingly have been in
tensified by the placing together of so
many of questionable moral character,
and instead of these colonies turning
out to be ''hells on-earth" they became
in time measurably respectable COM
munities.
But with Russia's criminal colony
on Saghalien island the case is differ
ent, both because of the small size of
the island and it's poor natural adj
vantages. The awful condition in this
hell on earth have remained sealed
book to the outside world for the Rus
sian government guards its secrets
with the most jealous care, but an En-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15
MOUSE KILLS SOFT MAPLE.
The Little Creature Is Causing Great
Damage to Valuable Trees
Along Mississippi.

The dying of soft maple timber on
the islands in the Mississippi in the
vicinity of Galena, says the Gazette of
that city, for the last year is explained
by Capt. George A. Schneider. Many
people are curious to know what kills
these trees, which has been closely OBJ
served by the captain. All of this
trouble originates from new kind of
timber mouse, which is much larger
than the ordinary mouse in the woods.
We term them the jumping mouse.
They can jump from four to six feet
and are very savage.
This peculiar mouse lives entirely on
the soft maple tree, the bark being
softer and sweeter- than that of other
trees. 1t first eats from the base, Their
proceeds up the tree taking the bark
off in large patches, which is as danger
Gus 10 the tree as girdling would be,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15
Baby Devoured by Bear..

From Richmond, Va, comes an ac-
count of three ferocious bears which
are roaming in the mountain region
of the Old Dominion. The animals at
tackled the children of man named
Parker and killed and ate his two-year-
old baby. Parker's three children
were playing on the edge of the wood
only a few hundred yards from the
house, when the bears suddenly made
their appearance. The animals were
very bold, and the two older children
rushed madly to the house, forgetful
of the baby. The father and mother
hurried to save the little one, but al
ready the bears had killed the child.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15

come popular heroes through famous
victories, for which reason they were
taken into politics and made presiden-
tial candidates, as being more likely
to defeat the civilian candidates of the
opposite parties.
Presidents Buchanan Garfield, Ben
jamin Harrison and Mckinley were
public men of long and prominent serv-
ice, who, without surpa ssing other men
OF their own parties, perhaps, were
plainly in the front rank. They were
finally preferred in the nominating
conventions because well and strong
ly supported by their adherents, and
because their prospects of success
favorably impressed the members of
the conventions.
Presidents Lincoln and Cleveland
were public. men WHO each made a
rapid rise to+nationaT Importance be-
cause he seemed to be the very man
to deal with questions out Of the
ordinary line. of politics, which much
engrossed the popular mind at the
time.
Now let us see what our 20 exam
pies can teach us about how to at
tain the presidency. First, we must
put aside Washington, Taylor and
Grant as exceptional instances; for
we shall hardly again have a creator
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15

glShman named Charles II. Halves. at
the risk of his life, and the enduring of
extreme hardships, has penetrated
the region where 5000 murderers are
turned loose upon each other. Prac-
t1cally all the inha bitants are murder
ers. the others consisting of a mere
handful of officials and soldiers, and
few who have been banished to the
place for lesser offenses. Whenever
the officials feel it necessary for their
own safety they do not hesitate to
shoot down the convicts like dogs, but
they do not interfere with the inhab-
itants when they are merely murder
ing one ano Their.
No less than 5000 criminals arrive
every year. and practically none of
them ever leave, and were it not that
suicide, murder and disease are relent-
less in claiming victims the population
would soon grow out of all bounds
Every man. woman and child, official or
member of an officials family goes in
momentary fear of death. In spite of
the terrible punishments inflicted. Of
ficials and their families are constant.
ly murdered.
In Furnishing the prisoners the "pelt'
a whip of three heavy leather thongs
weighted at he ends with leaden balls is
used, and it is an easy matter to kill
with this weapon. A birch rod soaked
in salt is used as a milder punishment,
Two women have recently been fog
ged upon their bare backs with these
sailed birches. In Alexandrovsk prison
of
which could not hold more than so
without danger to health. While Mr..
Halves was there 1,sOO new prisoners
were brought to be packed into this
prison. In one prison 500 convicts are
kept chained. Most of them go mad
while the more fortunate die. The
worst cell is kept for convicts who in
suit officials. man can neither lie
down nor stand up in it and its smell
and filth are indescriba BILE. Those for
whom there is no room in the prison
are kept in a great stockade built of
pine saplings with sharpened tops.
Sometimes prisoners escape from here.
Ii observed they are shot down. Some
succeed in getting away and the woods
are full of escaped convicts who are
living like wild beasts, and who rob
and murder upon every opportunity.
If a convict is not sentenced for life
the expiration of his term of impris-
onment is followed by six years en-
forced residence on the island as an
''exiled settler to be followed, if the
unfortunate is still alive, by six years
as peasant in Siberia, after which
he may return to Russia. Mr. Halves
declares that nine-tenths never leave
the island.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15
WINDOW BOXES.
Dire ctfOns for Making Them In q
Way to Obtain the Best
Results.

In the cities, where a majority of the
inhabitants live in great boxes Of
brick, an important part of any plan
for backyard ornament should
be found in the provision of miniature
hanging gardens in the shape of win
dow-boxeS, says Woman's Home Com
panion.
10 secure the best results in window
gardening, care should be bestowed
on the construction of the tiny con-
servatories themselves. The best boxes
are of galvanized tin, fitted snugly into
inches in the window-sill or rested
securely upon ornamental iron brack-
cts outside the windows Convenient
dimensions for a window-box are a
height of seven inches and width an
proximately the same. 1t is impor-
portant that number of small holes
be provided in the bottom of the box,
in order to insure good drainage. AS
in the case of the backyard flower
beds, care expended upon the soil will
be we'll repaid by the results attained in
the floral harvest. Indeed, if ANYTHING.
greater care should be bestowed upon
the earthen bed in window conserva-
tory than upon the fower-plots in the
yard. The window-box should he
provided first with layer of broken
bits of crockery, this covered with
coarse sand and gravel, bits of char
coal being scattered about, then all
the remaining space filled with rich
garden loan.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15
MISPLACED SYMPATHY.
The only Way to Help q Friend in
This Instance Was to Make
q Purchase.

"Out west, a few years ego, while
journeying around with friend Of
mine, overheard a conversation
which goes to show that sympathy is
often misplaced" said a rowing man,
relates the New Orleans Times-Dem-
ovrat. "and the moral is not by any
means bad one. The quick way in
which the man turned on his friend.
who had offered him an abundance Of
sympathy, so far as sympathy can be
extended by mere words, was very
amusing and showed that the fellow
was quick-witted and unusually bright.
despite the fact that he had fallen into
arather rough road.
The young man had been out west
for some time. He had gone out there
with the idea that he could win for
tune, but instead of finding the way to
success smooth one, it was rather
rough and rocky, marred by thorns to
prick the feet, pitfalls and all that kind
OF thing. Put in plain, unpoetic Ian
guage he was run down at the heel and
bagging at the knee. In order to make
a living he had been forced to become
PIC AdSi ShohC OI d SIldll scale.
He was in this business vixen we
found him, and had small, movable
stand on the corner of two streets in
well-known mining town. Ny friend
recognized him at a glance, and rushed
up to greet him. The fellow seemed to
be just little embarrassed, and nv
friend thought it would be the proper
thing to offer little sympathy.
Sorry to see you situated as you
are, old fellow, and in this business
said my friend, feelingly.
CD your sympathy. Buy pie
was the quick rejoinder of the vender,
and in few moments we had left him
shrieking out his wares to the men
who passed that way.
"At least he convinced my friend that
there are moments in mans lifew hen
the mere sympathy of the mouth, no
matter how earnest or fervent the
words, cannot meet the requirements
of the case, and that the real and only
way to offer help in such instances is
to buy pie"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15

we have read, and we may in a rela tive
degree be correct. But if by system
of forced selection and segregation we
should bring together the worst of
classes, we should be reasonably JUS
titled in classifying it as the most wick
ed place on earth-a veritable hell on
earth.
The Russian secret penal settlement
on Saghalien island, a bit of land off the
far northeastern coast of Siberia. is
such a spot, for it's 5000 murderers
of all ages and both sexes give full rein
to their evil propensities and nothing
is done to restrain them. Saghalien
provides the government convenient
and effectual method of disposing of
the worst criminal class, and once
there, it is bourne from which no
doomed soul ever returns. And what
the depravity and violence of man has
not done for the place, nature has
conspired to accomplish with her COM
bination of cold and moisture. deadly
winters and billiards, with periods of
excessive heat.
Russia is not the first and only ma
ton to resort to transportation in dis
posing of it's criminal classes. Ancient
Greece gave to the world the first step
in this method of dealing with the i'm
moral, dissolute and dangerous, al
though it was not this class of offend
ers which was subjected to Danish
ment, but rather some patriot of COM
handing talents and splendid achieve
ments, such as Miltiades, Themistocles
Aristides, or some political minority,
borne down in it's death-struggle for
ascendancy by the overwhelming force
of an opposing faction. The Roman
empire. however, speedily adopted the
system to her own needs and trans
portation as punishment for crime
was inaugurated. And these practices
of the ancient law seem to have been
afterwards materialiZed and estab-
lished in most of the states of modern
Europe. The first of the European ma
tons to do this was Portugal, and
Spain adopted the system almost at the
same time, the latter, however, did not
act in so systematic manner;- having
merely extended pardon to certain
descriptions of criminals confined in
the iails of the mother country, on con-
dition of their enlisting as soldiers or
sailors, or as mental servants generally
TO be employed exclusively in the col
onies in the new world. The Portuguese,
on the other hand, appear to have been
long in the habit of sending regular
draughts of conyicts, to be employed
at hard labor, to their colonial settle
ments on the coast of Africa and in the
East Indies.
Under Queen Elizabeth Punishment
was decreed for the first time in Eng
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15
Goldfish with Vegetable.

Freshen Goldfish and cut it in chops
about three by six inches in size. Put
into hot water and set on the stove
where it will barely simmer. Boil
ing hardens the fiber of fish as it does
of meat. When the fish is perfectly
tender, drain, pour over it a butter
sauce and serve for dinner with ma shed
potatoes, beet pickles and boiled car.
rots.-Good Housekeeping.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15

thus causing the tree to die. If they
keep increasing as they have been in
the past year there will not be maple
tree standing in the next two years
that has not been partly killed by this
mouse. The enemies of the mouse. such
as the mink and skunk, are being trap
ped, the owl is shot, so the mouse has
free play.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15

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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15
savory Ham sandwich

Chop lean ham fine, and beat into
each cupful of the minced meat a ta-
blespoonful of salad oil, teaspoonful
of vinegar, saltspoonful of French
mustard, six olives chopped fine, and
a teaspoonful of minced parsley.
Work all to paste, and spread on
thin slices of white bread.-Detroit
Free Press.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15
R0aaeaaed.

Father wonder what's the mat.
ter with Nellie this morning. She
acts like one possessed,
Mother-She probably is. Noticed
new ring on her finger when she
come Philadelphia Bull
letin.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15
would Get CareIes.

Soubrette-Your press agent is very
aattering. Why not marry him?
Leading Lady-Oh, no. Then he
might stop saying such pretty things
about me- Chicago Daily News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15


abode of the devil and his
angels and the final scene
of punishment of those who
fail to gain admittance to the portals
of the Heavenly City. Speculative the
ologians and Bible students have fig
ured out the possible location of this
region of torment and some have de-
clared their belief that it is somewhere
near the internal center of the earth.
If such should be the case it is not hard
to imagine that the places on the sur
face of the earth where sin and crime
hold high carnival and every law of
God and man is transgressed are the
yawning gateways to hell, through
which man is sucked to eternal doom.
Chicago has, or did have up to a short
time ago, section called Little He'll"
New York has it's Bowery, London it's
Chapel House district and every large
city of the world has it's slums where
the slaves of human passion herd, and
tester and rot. When we speak of "hell
on earth" we may mean the worst
place we can find in the city or town in
which we dwell, or we may have in
mind the depravity and crime which
centers in certain locality in some of
the worlds metropolises about which
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-15

Tramp-f We don't call de dog OF
I'll bite him!-Chicago Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-22
Number 46.

well on the old field. Then give the
land dressing all over in liberal
way of mixture of acid phosphate
and potash-say 1900 pounds of acid
phosphate and 400 pounds of muriate
of potash. Put this on at rate of 400
pounds per acre a week or more. be-
fore sowing the peas, and harrow it
in repeatedly, with the cutaway,
chopping the soil as fine as possible,
for next to humus the fning of the
soil is the important point in retain
ing moisture. Once get a good
growth of the peas and you have that
land where you want it, and its after
improvement is easy. It will pay for
while to use the whole growth to
turn under after all growth is com
pleted and the peas are dead, and
then to SOW a winter cover of rye
or crimson clover on the land.
The very first crop thereafter wiz
show the effects not only of the nj
trogen the peas have gotten into the
soil, but the mechanical texture of
the soil will be improved and its
misunderstanding capacity at once
improved. Them if you return the
peas there every third year you will
soon find that there is no longer the
difference between the worn-out land
and the improved, and being a good
clay loan, it will hold plant food,
and having moisture, it will deliver
it to the plants. In short, use the
cheaper forms of commercial ferti-
lzers to enable the plants to get the
most costly nitrogen, and then when
it's capacity is improved, use the
1egume crops for forage and get
more humus-making material in the
manure from feeding them to
cattle.
Stop dribbling a little complete
fertilizer in the hill or furrow and
give the same value, in a larger
amount, of the cheaper foods in
phosphoric acid and potash to the
crops that feed the land and feed the
stock at the same time, and let them
do the rest. W. F. MASSEY.
Wake Co., n. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-22
Wake Co., N. G.

If we were asked about what to
plant next year, would give it as our
opinion that every farmer should be
sure and raise enough corn and meat
to supply the farm and make all the
cotton possible, as the price of cot
ton is likely to be on paying basis
for at least year to come; in fact,
with the labor conditions that now
confront us, we don't see how the
South is to increase the cotton crop
to meet the increasing demand
for cotton goods.-Roanoke-Cho
Times.