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Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-09-18
4 Cure for snake Elite.

l. Missouri preacher has discovered
a new and eiilcaciOus cure for snake
bite. His name is Rev. \ b L'pp, OF
Inionville. and his substitute fer the
thoroughly tested product OF maze Is
a common weed. II * claimed that the
new discovery acts as an instant anti
dote TO the poisonous effects Of tie rep
tile bite, Putnam county people are
20 interested in the belief thai the
remedy Is sure, that they ave request
ed Chairman y. II. BGniu.y. Of Union
Vile, of the Missouri WCrl IS far com
mission, to place the weed on cAhibi-
ton during the fair.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-09-18
STATE ITEMS.
Great Orchard state.

Missouri Is the greatest orchard
state in the federal union II has. ac-
cording to the census, nearly q third
more trees than Michigan. which IL
second. II is the purpose Of the Mis-
sour Worlds fair commission to show
this fact to the world A thousand
barrels of apples will be secured ny the
department OF horticulture. Of which
b. ~. Bonfoey, of ~tniony'!Ie, is chair
man and l.. A. Goodman superintend-
ent. These will be placed on cold
storage for exhibit purposes Discuss
Ing the matter, Superintendent food
man said: THE first thtag TO r,mem-
Der il that the least ho' ding ri the
apples the better. From tie tree 20 the
box or barrel Is the ideal wa. OF
course this can not always be done,
for We often have TO do the best we
can. But o may he sure II DIT all
fruit should be wrapped in the orchard,
II possible, Just as you gather them.
Oftimes we have to select, after they
are gathered from the wagons a. they
are hauled into the towns or 20 the
packing sheds, but You may br sure
this is not the ideal VIZ. We shall
want from m peck TO six barrels OF a
variety. ! realize. more fully than any
Of you that this is abou, the wort year
We have ever had TO maze suc'. a Sc
lection Of winter apples as we know
we are capable of making, and. there
for. II will take the mos, extraordinary
effort to secure a creli,2blc exhibit.
We shall provide storage for n car
Of 200 barrels at Aries!ar Ice " Cold
Storage Co, st. Joseph. o:e at Amour
Packing Co. cold storage. Kansas City;
n AT Springfield Ice 4 Cold Storage
Co. Springfield, and two ~ 81 Joseph
Rcirigerating q Cold S rage Co., st.
Louis, so that we can easily ana quick
~ get them into storage.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-09-18
The presence Of war ships In Turkish

The presence OF war ships In Turkish
waters has resulted in the porte show
Ing eagerness to grant the United
Staes' demands, not only for the pro-
lection of Americans, but for the set
Element Of old questions.
An epidemic of yellow fever prevails
in Linares, Mexico. o%ne-fourth of the
population. 5000 persons, having died.
A fierce gale throughout Great Brit
ain did great damage on land, and II
was feared that many vessels had been
lost.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-09-18
Tnruet RinIr Deals Death.

Russell P~uellmann~, lo-ycar-Old son OF
Louis Pullcmann, OF Orrvilie, St. Louis
county, was shot and killed by lanes
Orr, his playmate. The boys were Drac-
tiCing target shooting near the Pueil-
mann home. Pucllmann and Orr, with
Jesse Bacon and Fritz Coleman, had
been out hunting during the afternoon,
and on their return put mp a target.
Orr had difficulty in breaking the
breach, when the weapon was dis
charged, and the contents lodged in
RussclI's LEFT side. He died - minutes
later. Justice Guckcs. of Gumbo, held
an inquest and returned a verdict OF
accidental death.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-09-18

Sheriff King of Webster county ar
rested George Musgraye al the peni"
Tertiary gates. at jefferson City. just
as ne finished serving a four-year-term
for grand larceny. King took him back
to Webster county 10 answer a charge
Of ombezzlement.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-09-18

Andrew Barnett, 81 private "atch-
man at Forest Park H'PhlanGS. died
while waiting for an ambulance to con-
vey him TO the st. Louis city hospital.
A fight in which he WIS injured re-
suited from an attempt On his part to
arrest "A man for disturbing the pace
Friends crowded about and took him
away from Barnett. There was 4 large
crowd at the Highlands, y holiday pic
mic being In progress. a General fight
followed, the police swinging their
clubs over the heads % the men who
We're struggling with Pa"nett. After
the police had beaten IT, crOwt back
from Barnett, they took barge of him
and found he was fa'ailJ hurt.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-09-18

One man was killed and another Sc
riOusly injured by the caving in Of five
feet Of earth at the intersection of
Clara and Cote Brilliante avenues, In
81. Louis. where the Laclede Gas Co.
was making an excavation. The dead
man is Harry Howard. aged 40, who
leaves a family, The injured man Is
Minis Henry.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-09-18
Narrow Escape From Death.

W. l.. MARYLAND, ID. G. Walker and
r. j. Rust and brother had o nlrorw
escape from being drowned while at
cas-, of Armstrong. The creek was
swelled by heavy rains. and the cur
rent was very fast. The vehicle was
overturned. and the occupants were
forced to swim for their lives.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-09-18
1as. County Old settlers.

A large crowd attended the annual
picnic Of the old settlers Of Cass
~ at Charlottesville. Hon James FL
lott, of Havana, waS be principal
speaker.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06

amount was raised and Maj. Mill
saps paid into the college treas ury
$50, 900 in cash. In addition he
gave $4,000 on the location fund,
the citizens of Jackson contribut-
ing $22,5OO. Afterwards he
erected the Webster Science HALF
at cash outlay of over $4,000,
and recently he bought the Jack
son college property fol $40, 900
in cash, all the buildings and ten
acres of ground being donated by
him to Millsaps College. At one
time he gave $500 to the college
library, and from time to time has
given generous sums for the
purchase of books. He has given
in cash to the institution altogeth-
er not less than $115, 900, and no
benefaction has ever accomplished
larger results. The annual attend
ance of young men has ranged
from 200 to 260 and many of the
graduates already reached con-
spicuous and Influential places in
their several callings and profess
sions.
CAS- to the name of the col
lege," the bishop concluded, that
was given by the board of trus-
tees, and, as l know, over the pro-
test of the liberal founder"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06

private schools outside of the sys-
TEN of common schools, but
whether in dealing with a school,
confessedly part of the free COM
mon school system of this State,
it can be permitted to clothe trus-
tees of one common school with
extraordinary powers, denied to
trustees of the common school
system by the general law. 1t
would be worse than idle to at
tempt to define the latter as not
infringing that uniformity of sys-
tenn, article s, section /, of the
constitution of 1869 imperatively
commanded the Legislature of the
State to establish. What is said
by learned counsel for appellant
about the first legislature which
met after the adoption of the con-
stitution of '69, approving in
the acts of 1870 incorporating.
Whitworth College, Meridian Fe-
male College, and Winona Female
College, of the selection of trus-
tees in the manner provided for
by this act of 1888, is quite beside
the mark. Those Institutions
were colleges, not parts of the
common school systems of the
State, and of course might have
been dealt with by the legislature
without regard to the inhibition
in said article s, section 1 of the
constitution of '69.
We concur entirely with the
court below in it's holding that
section 4009 of the code of '92 did
not displace the act of 1888; and
in holding that the trustee of a
public school is an officer within
the meaning of the statute pro-
viding for the remedy by quo
warranto. We say nothing as to
the ground on which the learned
circuit Judge rests his opinion in
the case, towit: That the act of
'SS vioalted the fundamental right
of the people to local home rule.
He has reached the right conclu-
sion, but we prefer to rest our
reason, for that conclusion, upon
the ground that the provisions of
the act of 1888 under the review,
plainly violate article 8, section 1
of the constitution of 1869 in
respect to the establishment of
uniform system of public schools,
and are therefore unconstitutional
and void.
The judgment in both cases is
affirmed.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06
SCOT s
L EMULSION

SCOTS Emulsion is the
means of life and of the en-.
joyment of life of thousands Of
men, women and children.
To the men SCOTS Emul-
sion gives the flesh and
strength SO necessary for the
cure of consumption and the
repairing of body losses from
any wasting disease.
For women SCOTS Emul-
sion does this and more. 1t is
a most sustaining food and
tonic for the special trials that
women have to bear.
To children SCOTS Emul-
sion gives food and strength
for growth of flesh and bone
and blood. For pale girls,
for thin and sickly boys SCOTS
Emulsion is a great help.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT g. BOVINE, Chemists,
4Oe-415 Pearl Street. New York.
SOC. and $1.OO; all druggists. -
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06
Sucking Eggs and Cigarettes.

The Washington Post says the
government has wisely decided
that it cannot raise soldiers and
cigarette smokers at the same
time at West Point. Biloxi
Herald.
And if every father would wise
ly decide that he cannot raise a
manly, healthy boy and a cigarette
smoker at the same time, and if a
barrel stave we're judiciously APP
piled in the seclusion of the wood
shed when the tell-tale yellow fling
er stains appear there would be
fewer moral degenerates among
the young men of Mississippi. A
cigarette smoker, like an egg
sucking dog, is an unmitigated
nuisance at every stage of the
game and should be blacklisted
in polite society. - Vicksburg
American.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06
ALIKE, BUT REPRESENTING THE TWO
EXTREMES.

Though one is a Republican and
the other a Democrat, Roosevelt
and Vardaman are very much the
same type of men. Both are fond
of posing before the multitude in
a cowboy hat or long hair; both
are dogmatic in their speech and
radical and persistent in their
opinions; both bold fighters with
the courage of their convictions;
and yet both represent the OPP
posite extremes on the negro ques-
ton. Roosevelt is bent on max
ing the negro the social and po-
litical equal of the white people;
Vardaman is on the other extreme
and wants to deny him school
privileges, treat him as an animal
without soul and remand him
back next door to the condition of
slavery. With Roosevelt elected
president for another term and
Vardaman elected Governor for
four years, poor old Mississippi
would have regular monkey-and
parrot-time of it with these two
picturesque an d self-confident
theorists clashing and trying to
enforce their own peculiar and
radical views. Fortunately, be-
fore such a calamity is upon us
and a calamity it would be-the
National Democratic party will
have chance to relegate Theodore
Roosevelt to private life, and the
conservative, sensible, right
thinking white voters of Missis-
sipri will have the opportunity
of stamping with their disapproval
Major Vardaman's proposition for
stirring up strife and turmoil
over the race question.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06

party in Mississippi headed in
some such way as we have indi-
Gated.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06

In this town nearly all of the
Fox men are enthusiastic Noel
men now and the propsects for
Noel to carry this. county seem
very fine at the present time.
Senator Noel will lead in Crystal
Springs, Hazlehurst and Wesson,
the three largest precincts of the
county, and he will hold his own
in the county. Senator Noel has
developed more strength in the
past three or four weeks than any
one of the four other candidates.
The Winona meeting started him
and he has been going ever since.
If he continues to develop as
strong support in the next three
or four weeks as he has in the
past, his nomination is almost a
certainty. -Hazlehurst Courier.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06

The Supreme Court has decided
the cases of Revenue Agent Writ
Adams against the foreign build
ing and loan companies adversely
to the revenue agent. These
were test cases to compel the loan
companies to pay taxes on their
mortgages and notes in this State.
The court held that our statute
taxing solvent credits does not APP
ply to solvent credits of non-resi-
dents, and that the statute in this
States makes notes secured by
mortgages assessable against the
owner at his domicile, and there
fore notes of non-residents are not
assessable or taxable in this State.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.
Jackson Cor. Vicksburg Herald

The Commercial Appeal recent
ly contained an editorial compli-
menting MilIsaps College of this
city and referring to it as zone
mans benefcence.'' To this a
correspondent writing from
Brookhaven took exception, and
made several erroneous statements
about the college, all tending to
detract from the meritorious
bounty of Maj. Millsaps, who con-
tributed so largely and so gener-
ously to the endowment fund, the
buildings, library and other fea-
lures of the college. Bishop Gal
loway this morning made state
ment of the facts connected with
the endowment of the college, and
correcting the error of the Com
mercial Appeals correspondent,
The letter written by the CORES
pondent was as follows:
"To the Commercial Appeal:
''In your editorial of the Dist
inst. you write: 'Millsaps Col
lege in Mississippi is the material
and eloquent expression of one
mans benefcence.'
II think you are very much mis-
taken. My understanding is that
Mr.. Millsaps made proposition
to Bishop Galloway that if some
Mississippi town would give $780,
900 and the Methodist conference
would give $4,000, he would
give $4,000 endowment, or say
the interest on $4,000 at 6 per
cent, interest, making him pay
$4,000 per year, Bishop Gallo
way was to give the college a
name.
II think that Jackson gave
$4,000 in cash and the Methodist
conference gave $4,000 in cash,
while Mr.. Millsaps gives $4,000
per year endowment or the inter
est on $4,000 at 6 per cent.
Bishop Galloway named the col
lege Millsaps. This doesn't look
like one mans benefcence. In
return besides the name of the col
lege, NJ. Millsaps holds more or
less large sums Of money for the
Methodists. Altogether itstrikes
me as a business proposition which
men of even less acumen than Mr..
Millsaps would have seriously
considered.
Very respectfully,
ZACH T. HOSKINS.
Brookhaven, April "a, '03.
To this communication Bishop
Galloway makes the following
reply:
ct is but just to a good and
great man, and to the facts of his
tory that these errors should be
corrected. Maj. Millsaps did not
make any proposition to me, but
did propose to a commission of
the Mississippi and North Missis-
sippi conferences of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, to give
$4,000 for the endowment Of a
male college, if the church in the
State would give a like sum. The
proposition was accepted, the
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06
A POLITICAL FOpECASTE.

The Leader has seen it frequent
ly reported by the supporters of
Maj. Vardaman and Mr.. Money
and by friends of Senator Nc
Laurin, who are not supporters
of these gentlemen, that Senator
McLaurin, who has no opposition,
will ia Ike no stock in either the
Senatorial or gubernatorial cam
paign this year, only so far as it
concerns his individual candidacy
for the Senate. This may be
Senator McLaurin's intention and
desire, but unless he intends to re-
tire permanently from politics
after his next term, it is difficult
for one who reads the political
signs of the times to see how he
can keep from taking more than a
passing interest in what is going
on.
Mr.. Money and his kinsman,
Maj. Vardaman, whether by pre-
concerted agreement or not, are
conducting their campaign on
pretty much the same lines and
appear to have pooled their in
terests. If both should succeed
in their aspirations this year, it
would be both logical and an hon
orable ambition for Maj. Varda-
man, four years from now, to as
pire to one of Mississippi's seats
in the United States Senate. In
this connection it is we'll to re-
member that the Hon. John
Sharpe Williams is known to have
Senatorial aspirations, and it is
the hope of him and his friends
all over the State that he will at
no distant day realize his ambition
and secure the honor for which
he is so we'll fitted. Hence, if, as
we have said, Maj. Vardaman and
Col. Money should be successful
in their candidacy this year one
of two things would almost GER
tainly follow in the campaign four
years from now. Either Mr..
Money would voluntarily retire
from the Senate and leave the way
open for Maj. Vardaman to be his
successor, or he would again be a
candidate to succeed himself and
Maj. Vardaman would become a
candidate for the seat now filled
by Senator McLaurin, with all
the prestige that a four years
State administration could give
him, backed up by all in the way
of "a Jackson ring" he would be
able by that time to form.
1t might be that if Hon. John
Sharp Williams should give aid
and sympathy to the Vardaman-
Money combination this year that
Mr.. Money would retire in Mr..
Williams favor and the two can
didates of the Money Vardaman
faction would then be Vardaman
and Williams against McLaurin
and some one else he might favor.
Hence we say that it is not easy
to see how Senator McLaurin and
his t riends, having an eye for his
interests in the future, can re-
main passive or Indifferent under
the present trend of political
affairs.
In a State where there is and
can be but one strong political
party, factional politics on pro-
nounced scale is inevitable. and
therefore there will continue to be
in the future, as in the past, two
distinct factions in the Democratic
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06

Prof. 7. L. Trawick, for the
past twelve years principal of
the high school at Crystal
Springs, has been reelected to the
same position. Prof. Trawick is
one Of the best school men in the
State and he has succeeded in
making his school one Of the most
thorough and efficient in the
South. The trustees reelected
the entire faculty without as
much as a dissenting vote. 1t
looks as if our Crystal Springs
friends know and appreciate a
good thing'' when they see it,
Hazlehurst Courier.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06

Among the many good things
the Forest Register has said re-
Gently is the following: Any
subscriber to local paper who
will watch the advertisements and
take advantage of inducements
offered will save many times the
subscription price in the course of
a YEAR Democrat Star.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06
ADDRESS TO A SKELETON.

The MSS. of this poem, which ap-
peared during the first quarter of the
last century, was said to have been
found in the Museum of the Royal
College of Surgeons in London, near a
perfect human skeleton and to have
been sent by the curator to the morn
ing Chronicle for publication. 1t ex-
cited SO much attention that every eff
fort was made to discover it's author
and a responsible party went so far as
to offer reward of fifty guineas for
Information that would discover its
origin. The author preserved his in
cognito, and, we believe, has never
been discovered
Behold this ruin! Twas skull
Once of ethereal spirit full.
This narrow cell was Lies retreat,
This pace was Thoughts mysterious seat
What beauteouS visions filled this spot,
What dreams of pleasure long forgot?
Nor hope nor JOY. nor love- nor fear,
Have eft one trace of record here.
Beneath this Wondering canopy
Once shone the bright and busy eye,
But start no tat the dismal void
If social love that eye employed
If with no lawleSS fire it cleaned,
But through the dewS of kindness beamed,
That eye shall be forever bright
When stars and sun are sunk in night.
Within this hollow cavern hung
The ready swift and tuneful tongue;
If FalSehood'S honey it diSdaned,
And when it could not praise was chained;
If bold in Virtues cause it spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke;
The silent tongue W. Il plead for thee
When Time unveils Eternity!
Say, did these fingers delve the mine?
Or with the enyied rubieS shine?
To hew the rock or wear gem
Can little now avail to them.
But if the page Of Truth they so ght,
Or comfort to the mOurner brought,
These hands a richer need shall claim
Than all that wait on Wealth and Fame.
AvailS in weather bare or Shod,
These feet the paths of duty trOd?
If from the bowers of Ease they fed,
To seek Affections humble shed;
IfGrandeur'S guilty bride they Spurned,
And home to virtues cot returned.
These feet with angel wings stall vie,
And tread the palace of the sky!
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06

Hon. E. f. Noel spoke Wed
nesday to one of the largest
crowds ever assembled in our
court room, in the interest of his
candidacy for Governor. Mr..
Noel was at his best and his happy
sallies at the other candidates we're
well received. His speech was
listened to with a great deal of in
terets by everyone present and he
was frequently applauded. If
there ever has been any doubt
concerning the political strength
of this distinguished Mississippian
in this county it was effectually
remanded by his speech Wednes-
day. His high character and abil-
ity make him a man much admir-
ed and wanted in the office of our
Governor by our people. Sun
flower Tocsin.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06
Lonaino and the Indianola Affair.

The last issue of the Yazoo Sen
tinel demanded that Gov. Longino
express his opinion of Roosevelt's
action in closing the Indianola
postoffice. When asked for his
opinion of the matter by a Mem
phis News correspondent, Gov.
Longino readily replied as fol-
lows: 1T had never occurred to
me that the people of Mississippi
cared what | thought about the
Indianola matter, as it was not a
State question. 1t is almost need
less to say that my views are the
same as those entertained by any
other Southern gentleman. The
closing of the postoAice was a
high-handed proceeding, and was
not warranted OF justified by cir
cumstances. -