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The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04

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Even French Affairs.
Compulsory free elementary edu-
cation having been established IN
France in 1882, the conscripts
drafted into the army, and born
one year, or at least two, before
that date, have, without exception,
passed through the communal or
other schools which cost so many
million francs to create, and OF
which the maintenance entails such
heavy burden on the taxpayers: 1t
is undeniable, says the London
Standard, that the sacrifices have
not been entirely wasted, for a
Frenchman who cannot read and
write is becoming rarity. Cap
tains in various parts of France
have this year subjected the con-
scripts drafted into their companies
to a sort of examination, which has
demonstrated that nearly every
man was fairly proficient in read
ing, writing and arithmetic. But
beyond the three RS, the ignorance
of the great majority of the men
was astonishing. According to the
Revue Pedagogique, which gives
detailed results of the ex-officio ex-
animation, a captain of the Fifth
! army corps, of which TIN headqear-
ters are at Orleans, and of which
the population is, in the matter OF
elementary education, above the
average, discovered that two of the
A conscripts drafted into his com
pany were completely il]iterate
The others could read and write
fairly we'll, and the greater number
could solve a problem of arithmetic
correctly. Having ascertained tha
fact, the captain assembled thu
conscripts, and giving them pen ant
paper, asked the AZ to sit dow1
quietly and take all the time the,
required to write the answers to th'
three following questions: "Wha
do you know about Joan of Arc?'
"Of what does the national fete o
July ii remind you?' "What d.
YOU know about the war of 1902
When the written answers wef
handed to him the officer discov
cred that more than half of tn
conscripts knew nothing at al
about Joan of Arc, that three-quar
tiers were ignorant of the even
commemorated by the national fete
and that two-thirds had no know]
edge whatever of the Franco-Ge1
man war of 1870. Had they no
been vouched for by unimpeachabl
authority, and if the sober Jou.na
des Debats had not commented O
them, one would have been incline
to reject such assertions as incred
h1o
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Hatt;esburq Street Fight.

e. P. Mulvihill, of Lumberton,
and H. S. Morris, who travels for
wholesale whisky house, had a
difficulty on one Of the principal
streets of Hattiesburg last week, as
a result of which Mulvihill received
a pistol shot in the left groin, while
Morris was badly used up with brass
knuckles by Mulvihill. Morris
fred several shots, two Of which
struck a horse nearby. Mulvihill
was carried to the railroad hospital,
and is thought to be seriously
wounded. Morris was placed in
Jail.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Pet Stock Show Plans.

Secretary John R. Young has il"
sued call for a meeting of the Mis-
sissippi Poultry and Pet Stock A.
socfation, at Aberdeen, April IA, for
the election of officers. The date
for the third annual exposition has
already been fixed for Aberdeen,
December 14-19, 1908.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Criminals Still at LARGE.

Thus far no trace has been Sc
cured of J. E. Leland, the safe
blower; W. E. Mcdonald, the big
amist, and the other two prisoners
who escaped from the Kinds county
Jail last week. The complete dis
appearance of the four men indi-
Gates that the escape was planned
with rare skill, and that they had
able assistance in getting away from
the Jail.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Fire at HattiesburQ.

The most disastrous fire in tho
history of Hattiesburg occurred last
week in the large sawmill plant OF
the J. J. Newman Lumber Compa-
ny, which is one of the largest mills
in the South. The main sawmill,
all the dry kilns and lafge quanti-
ties of lumber were consumed.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Mississippi Pioneers.

The department of archives and
history is engaged in collecting his
torical material relative to the early
pioneers and State-makers of Mis-
sissippi Territory, and desires to
communicate with the descendants
and relatives of the following: Fer
dinand Claiborne, Richard Sparks,
Christopher Rankin, James c. Will
kins, Cowles Mead, John Joor, Jo-
siah Simpson, John Steele, Daniel
Williams, William baltimore, John
Ford, Noel Jordan, Louis Winston
and James Patton. The department
is also collecting material relative
to The Mississippi members of the
Confederate congress, and desires
communications relative to Israel
Welsh, Henry c. Chambers, J. T.
Lampkin and J. W. Clapp. Know
ledge of many of the really great
men of Mississippi rests largely on
tradition, and it is the purpose of
the historical department to rescue
from oblivion the lives of such men.
Information along the lines indi-
Gated should be sent to Dunbar Row
land, director of archives and his
tory
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Dental Examiners.

Secretary W. r. Wright, of the
State board of dental examiners,
announces that the spring exam;na-
ton of applicants for license to prac-
tice dentistry in this State will be
held in Jackson May 26. Secretary
Wright says that the indications
point to the largest roll of appli-
cants yet examined. Correspond
ence is already heavy, and much
interest in the approaching date has
been manifested all over the State.
Last year there were thirty-tive ap-
plicants examined, but it is expect
ed that there will be over forty this
year.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Champion Soap Maker.

The Mississippi Insane Hospital
claims the honor of having the
champion single-handed soap-maker
in the United States. The indi-
vidual who possesses this proud IT,
tie is an old crazy negro named
Aaron-the remainder Of his name
is lost in antiquity-and for the
past several years he has been man
ufacturing soft soap at the rate of
twenty-four barrels per week. The
soap, being of first-class quality,
is used for all cleaning and laundry
purposes about the institution. The
output of soap from the old negro's
factory is 1900 barrels per year,
and Mr.. B. P. Bridges, the steward,
estimates that Aaron makes a clear
profit of $4,000 per annum for the
hospital. He refuses to make soap
unless furnished with a certain
brand Of concentrated lye, and il
very particular in the selection OF
his materials.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
New Corporation.

The governor has approved the
charter of incorporation of the
Doughtie- Miller Furniture Compa-
ny, domiciled in the city of Jeck-
son, with a capital stock of $780,
900. The incorporators are j. E.
Doughtie, Calvin Wells, Jr., E. H
Miller and II. J. Wells.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Sunday School Convention.

The various county Sunday
School associations in the State will
select delegates within the next two
weeks to the annual convention Of
the Mississippi Sunday School Az
sociation, to be held in Canton on
the 28th, 10Th and 30th Of April.
Each county organization will be
entitled to five delegates, and when
the selections are made the names
will be forwarded to Isaac p. Bor-
ders, the president, at Brooksylle,
Minis.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Pearl River Falling.

Pearl river has been slowly fall
ing for the past several days, and
if no more rain visits that section
for the next ten days the stream
will resume the normal stage. Thers
is still a great deal of back water
covering the fields along the course
of the stream, and farming work
in Pearl river valley will be great
" DELAYED in consequence.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
The Candidate Button.

Although the candidate lapel but
ton has been in vogue in the United
States for the past eight years or
SO, the present gubernatorial cam
paign is the first instance of the use
of lapel buttons in Mississippi, and
in several towns in the State the
members of Vardaman clubs are
wearing miniature likenesses OF
their picturesque candidate for gov
ernor. It is probable that other
candidates will be decorating their
friends with buttons before the cam
paign closes. s-.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Ready for Teachers Meeting.

The Vicksburg teachers are max
ing arrangements to receive the
State teachers convention, to be
held here the latter part of April.
Prof. G. P. Kemper has been noti-
fed that a thousand teachers will
attend.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
viii Cut Rates.

The Jackson Lighting Company
was organized last week, with capi.
tai stock of $25, 200, nearly all of
which has been paid in. The COM
pany will compete with the present
lighting company, which also holds
the street railroad franchise, and
the rates of which are so high that
they have become prohibitive. The
new company promises to reduce
lighting charges so per cent.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
New Albany's New Bank.

The Merchants and Farmers
Bank, of New Albany, opened tor !.
business last week. This b-nkai1ss
well equipped with up-to-date iixs;;r,
lures. r. n. Patterson is casheef, So
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
coplah,s Cotton Report.

The United States government 10
port for cotton ginned in CoPiah
county has been forwarded to Wash
ington. The report gives the to-
tai number Of bales ginned in the
county at 3O,O5s, or 5000 bales less
than was marketed in the county
during the season of 1901-19O2. Or
the above cotton, Hazlehurst has
received this season by wagons A.
339 bales, or one-half of the cotton
marketed in the county. This coun-
ty, outside of Hazlehurst, has four
railroad and two river shipping
points. According to the govern
ment report, there are ninety-two
ginneries in Copiah county. q,
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Mississippi State News
Judge Truly on Whitecappino.

In his charge to the grand jury
of Amite county last week, Judge
jeff Truly discussed the Whitecsp-
ping evil from the standpoint Of
the farmers themselves. He point
ed out that the disturbance of la
Dor and labor conditions was sui
cidal to the farmers and was, BE-
sides, an unmanly exhibition of
prejudice and bitterness. Judge
Truly referred to the absurdity
OF the puerile plea that there
is any danger of the negroes
ever becoming able to dominate
or dictate State affairs, or that
he would ever compete with
the white man as land owner. The
white man, he said, controlled every
single branch of the government ;
he made and administered the laws ;
every single officer in the legislative,
executive and judicial departments
are white men, and the control of
the white man extends even to the
ballot box itself, where the negro
is not only excluded from voting as
mass, but must vote for white
man if he does vote. The judge
them puid his respects to the argu-
ment of danger of social equality,
which he said was an insult to the
women Of the State. He said the
negro does not seek social equality.
<<I have never" continued the Judge.
F'heard of case where negro tried
to force himself on a white church
or association, but I have tried and
sentenced white men who have de-
graded their social positions by at
tending negro associations. I have
never heard of a negro entering q
white gambling house to participate
in the game, but I have had to pun.
ish white men who were convicted
of gambling in negro gambling
| dens.'
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Supreme Court Decisions.

At its sitting last week the Su-
preme Court reversed the celebrated
death sentence case of Joe Watt Fu-
gftt, which has been hanging fire
in the courts for the past three
years. Fugitt is white man who
was tried and convicted of the muir
der of Ran Cunningham in Prentiss
county, and sentenced to be hanged,
despite the fact that he was defend
ed by the ablest attorneys in that
section of the State. Twenty-Five
suggestions of error were filed in
the Supreme Court appeal, and in
the opinion, read by Associate JUS
tice Price, the case was reversed on
account Of the incompetency OF
three jurors.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Will Boykin Surrenders.

w. 7. Boykin, who is wanted at
Sabel, in Clarke county, for the
murder of Marvin Long, and seri-
ously wounding Jackson Long, ia
ther of young Marvin, gave himself
up and was lodged in the county
Jail at Meridian to await the arrival
of the Clarke county authorities.
He claims he killed young Long and
stabbed the latter's father in self
defense. He says the elder Long
attacked him with a hoe and the
younger Long with a stick and he
protected himself with his knife.
The killing occurred one day last
week.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Insurance Reports.

Insurance Commissioner Cole 10
waiting for the reports from only
two insurance companies before
commencing the tabulation of the
volume of insurance business trans
acted in Mississippi last year, pre-
miums collected, losses paid, etc.
This is the first time statistics of
this nature have been collected i'm
Mississippi, and the general report
will be quite interesting.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
The G. T. s. !. Victory.

The decision of Judge Enochs on
the demurrer in the case of the Lau-
rel Cotton Mills VS.. The Gulf &
Ship Island Road was based on the
point that the contract for rebat
ing freight rate, which the railroad
company had Cancelled, was clearly
violative of the interstate commerce
laws. The railroad company also
set up in its demurrer that the con-
tract was yiolative of the Mississippi
laws for State railroad supervision,
but this issue had no vital bearing
on the decision, as the company
claims exemption from State super
vision, and the claim has heretofore
been upheld by a Supreme Court
decision. The ruling of Judge
Enochs is an effectual estoppel to
further proceedings, and is decid-
ed victory for the railroad company.
Kings. paushter.' Convention.
The annual convention of the
Mississippi branch of the Interna-
tional Order of Kings Daughters
and Sons will be held this year in
Vicksburg, commencing on the 18th
of May and continuing three days.
Mrs. Mary Thompson Howe, the
State secretary, reports that all OF
the chapters are in good condition,
and fine showing will be made.
The delegates from the local chap
| ters will be royalty entertained BY
| the ladies of the Hill City during
their: stay. Several interesting sub
jects will be discussed at the Vicks-
burg convention, and one of the
most important that will probably
be brought up is the employment
| Of child labor.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Raauxoir Collections.

Brig Gen. Webb announces that
he has collected $258 on account OF
the Confederate Beauvoir Home.
These collections were sent in as fol-
lows: Lexington camp, $3.50;
Port Gibson camp, $3.50, and W. d.
Ratliff, IS. Mr.. Webb requests
that all camps forward their contri-
buttons at once, as it is desirable to
get the home opened as soon as pos
eible.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
New Insurance Company, aI,,9,

The Merchants Union Insurance. D
Company, recently organized at Me-
ridian, has paid the State litseaffss s
for the privilege Of doing bdsn8eses
in Mississippi and establishedsH3elt Jts
as fuH-fedged and active in4srs BIZ
ance company.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-04-04
Bishop Galloway ill.

Bishop Galloway is confined . .
his bed at his home on North Con-
gress street, in Jackson With ~ -
tack of the grip. ss C
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-14

Captain Henry B. Garter, our fellow townsman and we'll known military man and member of the At Louis worlds fair commission, failed to make good" in his effort to get at the head of the state police. The office went to Thomas F. Egan of Southing- ton. As Captain Carter was the only man called before the commission, and was given encoura cement it is hard to understand why the throw down. Per haps, after alls it would have been bet ter to let the commission have acted without anyone appearing before them. In the meantime those newspaper fel- lows who were responsible for bring ing out'' Garter and getting him ap- pointed" have stopped preparations for celebrating the event, and it is pre- stunned they are now cussing the con- mission for the apparent encourage ment given to the captain.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-14
HEARD IN PAsSInes

Sir Thomas Lipton gallantly de- clares that if Shamrock LII don't win the cup, he will send over Shamrock " next year. There ought to be luck in a four-leaved ShaInrock.-Boston Pilot.
 Harmsworth, the London publisher, has bought up enough woodland in Newfoundland to supply his paper mills for twenty-five years. Thou sands of acres of timber have been de- stroyed by fire in New England during the past week. It looks as though the manufacturers of ''breakfast foods'' will run short of sawdust.-Ex- change.
 The Americans who went to the Philippines on their mission of civil izing and Christfanizing the natives do not show up well in prison statistics recently printed in the New Voice The population of Manila last year was 302, ,154, consisting of 233, 300 natives, 60, ,680 Chinese, 9,22 Americans includ- ing the garrison, and 1852 foreigners. The arrests per ], ,o00 were: Americans, PIP; natives, GO; Chinese, 38; foreign CTS, 36. From this showing it appears khat the ciVilizing American element
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-14

The meanest man in Boston, says one of the Hub papers, undoubtedly IS the coal dealer who canvassed for or ders, under an assumed name, in a different part of the city from that in which he did a real business, and pre- tended that<the had been commissioned by some philanthropic people to sell coal at very low rates while other dealers, equally mean save for the ny pocrisy, were feecing the puDtc ouf- ing the famine of last winter. Ihis man, Wales by name, has just been convicted on an indictment or 2l counts, for he never filled the orders for which he took pay in advance, and was eligible to a sentence of five years on each count. He got off with about one-tenth of his deserved punishment.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-14

Notwithstanding the fact that the edelweiss makes it's home in the most inaccessible places, the reckless dar- ing of travellers to the Alps has tempted them to prey upon the flower and it is rapidly being extirpated.
 The fact that many people are killed and injured every year in their quest of the little mountain blossom has not seemed to cool the ardor of those who coveted it's possession. But it will no longer be a question of the danger, but of violation of rule which it is declared will be rigidly enforced. Thus the romantic maiden who would test the love and devotion of the man who is laying siege to her heart by insist ing that he place within her hands or tWine in her hair an edelweiss blos- som plucked by his own hands must cut it off her list and substitute some thing else
 The Swiss call this remarkable lit tie blossom their fairy-fower. Like dainty sprite clothed in snowy white 1t hides away in the cleft of the rock on the precipitous mountain side or tanti1izingly beckons from some dizzy crag, and challenges pursuit and cap- tue. It possesses such splendor and brilliant sweetness as the degenerate blossoms of the lowlands know noth- ing of. Short is it's spring, and short, too, is its participation in the fair joys of existence; and therefore it is that it adorns itself with all the beau ty to the sun while it bathes it's tiny leaves and roots in the cool snow water.
 Nature, which has piled the rocks to towering heights and in long rag ged, rugged chains of magnificent grandeur, has paused in the bigger task in hand to touch the moss-decked nook and call into being the little plant life which has come to be so dear to the native Swiss heart The Alps without the little flowers would
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-14

be robbed of much of their charm and romance. The sturdy mountain climb CT constantly looks for the cherry, smiling face of the edelWeiss and to see it holding from it's airy perch is as a tonic And there is kindly well come, too, in the flowers greeting. and to see the little blossom SD happy and bright i'll it's lonely corner, while the great crags and peaks tower above it and all around it, takes away the op- pressiveness of the rock fastnesses, and makes one feel that if the hard cold rocks can shelter and protect so frail and dainty blossom it will not be so hard and unfriendly to man. /
 But the edelweiss is not the only flower which the Swiss finds upon the mountain side and loves so we'll There are the rose. and the violet which grow at a lower altitude, and more profusely and in more accessible places. No restrictions are placed upon the gathering of these lovely flowers, but the Swiss propose in the future to protect the fairy flower of the mountain top, the edelweiss, and the tourist must henceforth be content to search out the flower with his eye, study it as nature has placed and adorned it and then leave it to glad den the vision of some other eager mountain climbers.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-14
GUARDING THE PRESIDENT.
Secret Service Men Had Their Hands Full on His Recent Tour of
 the States.

The four secret service men who formed President Roosevelt's personal guard on his recent trip through the west had a strenuous time of it on the road, says a Washington letter in the New Orleans Times-Democrat. They received no end of knocks, bruises and scratches in performing their duty of protecting the president against the crushing mobs, in keeping enthusiastic but reckless admirers at proper dis tance and knocking out obstreperous in dividuals who refused to heed warnings to keep back.
 The members of the presidents guard had no less than 30 hand-to-hand en- counters with unruly mobs, and it be- came necessary for them to deliver knockout blows to about 15 or 20 diff ferent persons. They are old hands at the business, and when the presi dents safety demanded it they thought no more of putting an aggressive and suspicious-looking character to sleep than Jeffries does of knocking out an ambitious boxer. -e."
 The men are the pick of the secret service, and each is splendid athlete and superb boxer. They always ac- company the president on trips out of Washington, and know their business thoroughly. <
 At e'any of the cities visited by the preside~t on the recent trip the local arrangements for keeping the crowd in check and providing for the comfort of the visitors was very poor. Tn cer- tain instances there were practically no regulations for maintaining order what ever When this condition was met the secret-service men had their WoFk cut out for them. It was their custom to form cordon about the president as best they could with their limited numbers, locking arms with each other when necessary.
 The sscret-service men had their faces scratched and bruised repeatedly by the flying arms of persons reaching out to shake the presidents hands. Many of those anxious to catch glimpse of the president did not understand by what authority the four men in citizens clothing acted. and invariably wanted to argue the matter The secret-service men had no time for conversation. When husky stranger resisted being kept back he is promptly t'slugged." It was vital for the guards to drop their man at single blow so that every time fist was drawn back it was aimed with purpose of putting the victim out of business. The instant the unruly one was hit the guard moved on, so that it frequently happened that people two feet distant never knew what had hap peneQ