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Times-promoter., 1903-01-23
TO STATE p2OHIBlTlONlSTS
Call for a Meeting to Be Held at Jackson
February 18th.

The following call Tor state
meeting has been issued by proml'
nent prohihitiouists of the state:
TO the Friends of Prohibition:
A mass meeting of the prohlbl-
tiouistS of Mississippi, who tav-
or the passage of 1t law by the
next legislature to prohibit the
manufacture. sale and importa.
tiou, for beverage purposes, OF
all alcoholic liquors throughout
the state, is hereby called at the
state capito! in jackson on Tues
day, February 18th, 1903, at IL
O'Clock a. NJ, to organize for the
accomplishment Of this object.
1t is believed by the signers of
this call and thousands of others,
that the time is ripe for an ag-
gressive, decisive movement
along this line. For more than
twenty years the s0undnesS OF
the principle OF prohibition has
been embodied in the liquor laws
of the state and approved by dem
ocratic governors and Legislators,
with only certain qualifying con
dltions, snch as local option, ex-
ercised by petition or IL direct
ballot. BY this means and statu
tory prohibition IN small areas,
63 of the Is counties Of the state
stand today redeemed from the
debauching influence OF the legal
ized dram shop. 1t has been out
lawed in those counties by the
votes of the people themselves,
whose representatives have gone
to jackson and voted for its per-
petuatiOn in other counties. On
the Mobile & Ono railroad along
the eastern border of the state,
not Il licensed dram shop Is to be
fouud, from the Alabama line on
the south, to the Tennessee line
on the north. Along the entire
main line of the great Illinois
Central. from the Tennessee line
on the north, to the Louisiana
border on the south, but one licen-
sed town is traversed On the
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley branch
from jackson to It's northern ter
minus, and along the Aberdeen
branch extending easterly thro
the central portion of the state
from Durant to Aberdeen, not an
open dramshop exists; while
across the state via the Southern,
from the Alabama line far INTO
the delta, and VIA the Alaoama
Great Sonthern from the AEaUa,
ma line across the Stale to Vlcks-
burg; along the Northeastern
from the Louisiana to the Ala
oama line in southeast Misslssip
pi, and along the Gulf & Ship
Island to Harrison county, the
same condition prevails. Only
in 12 counties in the entire State
three on our gulf coast, one
in central Mississippi, and the
rest scattered through the delta
and along our Mississippi river
border-does The dram snop ex.
ist by sanction Of state law.
This has been practically the
situation for IL decade. In these
counties the traffic has become
fortified behind II perverted and
misguided local public sentiment,
backed by the money and active
sympathy of the whisky interests
beyond the state, whenever Il
mere local effort is made to dis
lodge it. In these counties the
dram shops continue as SO many
plague spots, poisoning the moral
and political atmosphere about
them and by plying their boldly
Ivertised and vicious jug
trade, spread the evil contasIon
to the dry counties beyond. In
every JOraloptlNn contest. whether
Times-promoter., 1903-01-23
E7PgD y $

The walking sick, what
a crowd Of them there are
Persons who are thin and
weak but not sick enough
to go to bed.
"Chronic cases" that S
what the doctors call them,
which in common English
means-long sickness.
To stop the continued
loss of flesh they need
SCOTS Emulsion. For the
feeling of weakness they
need SCOTS Emulsion.
It makes new flesh and
gives new life to the weak
system.
SCOTS Emulsion gets
thin and weak persons out
Of the rut. 1t makes new,
rich blood, strengthens the
nerves and gives appetite
for ordinary food.
SCOTS Emulsion can be
taken as long as sickness
lasts and do good all the
time.
There's new strength
and flesh in every dose.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
FILIPINOS.
Yale Teachers at work Among shs
Malay Have Their oTa
Troubles.

The letters sent home by the Ials
teachers in the new possessions OF the
United States are full Of interest, says
the New York Tribune. They tell more
clearly than do the usual official reports
the conditions in the islands which the
Americans have to face, and IN general
they have been sanguine OF the ultimate
success of American educational occu-
patton. A few excerpts from a letter
received by the Yale bureau of seIf-help
and by the families OF the Yale men IN
the islands, in this city, show how ths
Yale teachers are living. Says one or
the Yale men in writing home:
The first impression which | received
on reaching my district was a mighty
~unfavorable one as far as schoolteach-
ing went. All of us American college
fellows are distributed throughout the
towns, where we were all usually the
only Americans in the place. What
schools there were had natives for
"macstros,' and these (they were equal
ly divided among young men and wom-
en-, were, on the whole. ignorant, and
ullSDlG 70 SSL Jul "a IlSli us - LIZ
school where ] was placed, for instance.
I had several experiences right away
that showed me the difference between
a tagged out Spanish civilization and
what l had been accustomed to in
America. The native teachers were
hopelessly ignorant. | was going to say
illiterate. When I first talked with my
assistant-a dandy young fellow who
paid more attention to his patent
leather shoes, white cotton suit and
long finger nails than he did to his own
education-I found that he was unable
to answer ever simple questions in
arithmetic or geography. A map was
a puzzle to him. My first assistant was
just like all the rest / have known since,
and he could not point out any country
Of Europe on the map or even tell where
his own town was situated. Instead of
jumping right into the education Of the
school children l had to begin with the
teachers. and all of the fellows say that
the normal schools for teachers they
have carried on have had to come first"
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
Lntin-American Trade.

Fears that the greater republic will
wrest from them control of their own
countries is an eve present and pow
erful influence against the American.
More was done by the Spanish-Ameri-
can war to strengthen that feeling
than by all that had gone before. That
sQuall convinced Latin America that
the United States was actually brave
enough to declare war, and strong
enough to punish even Spain herself.
Arrangement was natural, for had not
all Spanish America to struggle des-
perately for many years before 1t
could break the shackles that bound it
beneath the banner of blood and gold?
Before that skirmish which freed Cuba.
Porto Rico and the Philippines prob.
ably nine-tenths of even the more in
telligent of Spanish-Americans be-
Iieved that the deliberate inquiry by
the United States into each case, be.
fore demanding r%eparation for al
legged wrong to Americans, must be
caused by timidity alone. 1t is said
that wen the best-informed classes
there find it difficult to believe that
any nation will take time to be Just
il it dares to lie dictatorial.-Cham.
bers' Journal.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
ANCIENT HAWAIIAN A
Native Woman of Mani Who Has just
Passed Away at the
Age Of 11S.

There has just died at Kamehame,
kuia, OH the island OF Maui, kaona, a
native woman at the age Of 118 years,
says a Honolulu report. Her first hus-
band fought in the battle of Ike PAM
wal O Iao," in 1890, and she herself had
some faint remembrance of the event,
She had been married several times, but
neither husband nor children survived
her. Report says that the woman re-
tanned her faculties to the last and could
see clearly without the use of glasses.
She lived most Of the time in the open
air and smoked a pipe to within a few
weeks Of her death.
There are any number of ONE in
hawaii well owe 80 years Of age. Most
OF them are natives, and, as a rule, they
retain their faculties to the end. Moth
er Gulick, who Is now the Oldest living
white woman in the island, is reported
to be seriously i'll. In six months she
will celebrate her one hundredth birth
day. Her present illness is due to an
accident which occurred a few months
ago, in which she injured her shoulder
and hip. Up to. that time she had been
taking daily trips on the cars and ran
her own sewing machine. Mother Gulick
was born in 1894 at Lebanon, Conn.
and came here more than so years ago
with the missionaries.
Mother Parker is another of the old
missionary mothers. in. the islands.
She Is 95 years of age.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
THE MEDICINE OF DIscoRD.
How a Great Statesman Fount
Solnce In the Music Of a
Hand-0rEan.

A great statesman, one who had all
but touched the presidency, lay dying
within the walls of an old brick man
sion on the eastern side of the square
where had elected to sit, writes AL
fred Henry Lewis, in Everybody's
Magazine.
1t was my first afternoon in the
square when a hand-organ began to
grind forth its turgid strains before
The brick house. ! looked and listened,
expecting with each moment that
someone would issue from the house
OF doom and drive the dinmaker
away. Instead, a bright black man,
evidently a butler, came and stood on
the porch. An hour went by before
the repertory was exhausted; then
the black man gave the organ man a
dollar, and the music and the man
went quietly their ways.
81 should think it would disturb your
MASTER" l said to the black guardian
of the porch.
HE likes it," he replied. aThe or
gan comes by his orders. The doctor
says it does him more good than the
medicine"
For a week ! went and sat on my
bench and heard the organ grind.
The programme never varied; the
concert lasted the hour; then came
the dollar and the music ceased.
For q full week / attended these
concerts in the square. Then came q
day when the h~and-organ did not APP
pear. | looked at my watch; / was
surprised, the concert was ten MIN
utes overdue! What should delay
him? Surely that easy dollar has its
charms.
Then. as though In answer to ms.
question, my eye caught q black Hut
ter at the door. II was a knot Of
Grape. The ear that had listened was
dulied; the audience had departed;
Elaine. secretary Of state, was dead
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
LONESOME

] am lonesome tonight for the cleaning.
Soft falling OF valley and hil&;~.
The low of the cattle when homing,
The plant of the lone whippoorwill:
The cot in the grove by the river,
Ihe pleasures that knew no alloy.
1 am lonely tonight, and forever,
FOR scenes that l knew when u boy!
i miss the tall elms, and the Dccches
THAT spilled their cool shadows for me!
FOR the long, sandy, sllimmering reaches
That stretched far away by the sea;
t'or@the moon path that trailed its white
glory
Altar, and the shimmering dew!
L long to tell over life'S story,
And now the Old low that | knew!
i am lonesome tonight, and Pm weary;
No toll brings forgetting or peace.
And my eyes have grown dim; life Is
Greary:
No thing brings my longings surcease!
No lorc of the wisest OF saGes; .
No poetry, music. or art,
-Avails me; I turn from the pages
With the longing still fast to ny heart!
My castle in Spain Is in Spain yet.
Fate never will give 1t to me.
It's blue-eyed. fair-haired chatelaine yet
Shall never. ali, never shall be
Aught but an intangible vision!
Shall ne'er OF my life be a part!
Twas a dream-just a dream, but ely
Sian-
And sorrow abides in my heart.
j. NJ. Lewis. in Houston 1'ost.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
YOUTH AND AGE.
There Is n Material Difference Thai
Is Not Always APP
EerGMf,

Maitre Labor, the noted French advo
cate who defended the Humberts, is not
remarkable in Paris so much for the elo
Quencc as for the neatness and the polish
Of his speeches.
An American journalist heard Labor
in court one day. He says the advocates
address was full of grace, wit, tenderness
He quotes a passage relating to old age
wherein Labori, with o smile, said:
odd age-we shall nom of us quite I'M
derstand that until we nave attained to il
for no one of US, here, is old. But the
other day l visited my uncle, a very aged
MN.
"'What is it like, uncle l said, to be
old?'
And my uncle answered:
1T is like this: When Que is young
ones polite attentions to women are taken
for declarations of love; but when one Ii
old, ones declarations of love are taken
for polite attentions"
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
Artificial

A new process for making limitations
of statuary marble, onyx and other mul-
ticolored stones has been devised in Eu-
rope. About ], 900 parts of alum to from
10 to 100 parts of heavy spar (barium
sulphate) and 100 parts Of water are
mixed with the requisite pigments, and
the liquid mass is boiled down and cast
in d mold. The amount Of heavy spar
used varies with the degree OF translu-
cence disired. After being nodded and
dried. the artificial stone THIS produced
can be polished and finished as desired.
industrial journal.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
Hard To Bear.

living III EdSl mann
Street in that city, says:
with my nightly rest broken, u
ing to irregularities Of the kidneys.
suffering intensely from severe pains
in the small of my back and through
the kidneys, and annoyed by painful
passages of abnormal secretions, life.
was anything but pleasant for me.
No amount of doctoring relieved this
condition, and for the reason that
nothing seemed to give me even tenn
porary relief, l became about dis
couraged. One day / noticed in the
newspapers the case Of a man who
was afflicted as I was and was cured
by the use of Doan's Kidney Pills.
His words of praise for this remedy
were so sincere that on the strength
of his statement l went to the Hugh
Murrey Drug Co.'s store and got
box. / found that the medicine was
exactly as powerful a kidney remedy
as represented. I experienced quick
and lasting relief. Doan's Kidney
pills will prove a blessing to all suf-
ferers from kidney disorders who will
give them a fair trial." -
A FREE TRIAL Of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mr.. Walls
will be mailed to any part of the
United States on application. Adj
dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.
Y. For sale by all druggists; price
so cents per box.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
The Germ Theory.

The discovery of the germ theory is per.
haps the most important in the history
of medicine, the discovery OF the stomach
of course excepted.
Exhaustive experiments on guinea pigs
have made it clear that mankind cannot
be we'll without seruns. E.,
But such is the character Of serurs that
nobody will take them unless he is
frightened.
And the germ theory has thrown more
scares into more people than all other
theories put together. -
Thus it is not easy to see how we should
manage to have any health to speak of,
without the germ theory.-Puck.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
why Not:

aid he IRE ne an r sGs0qec OF aT + n Dig 1ahas'I hssd
shall | put it?' .-s
Put it with the real estate transfers."
said the city editor, as he wrote: Con
tinusd on the forty-iirst page" in the mid
die of "a four-line paragraph.-Youth's
Companion.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
sold by Quart.

esayy. Parker, why didn't You move
out in Mossviile?? Y
Too much malaria.
did q have substantial proof!'
SHOULD say Iassea the grocer
the price of some white peas outside
In q hamper, and he said they were
euinine pills.-Ghicago Datiy News.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-13
TIMELY STATE TOPICS.
What Vermont Editors Find to Discuss After
the Referendum Vote.

Curious, isn't it, after all the talk
and work, that the majority for the
change from prohibition to license
should be about the same as 30 years
ago when the change was made to pro-
hibition. Springfield Reporter.
Reports come in from several towns
that the vote on the referendum Feb
ruary 3 was the "smallest ever known. "
What in the world will bring out a
towns full vote if this question of IL
cense fails to do it? Would these people
awake if an invading army were shell
ing their mountain homes? It's doubt
full. Rutland News.
1t is possible to have two more oppor-
tunities to vote on the license ques-
ton this season. Section 2 of the ref
erendum act provides that the warrant
of every town meeting to be held on
the first Tuesday of March, 1903, shall
contain an article providing for vote
on the question, "Shall licenses be
granted for the sale of Intoxicating Ii
quors in this town, section provides
that the selectmen of town voting in
favor of license "shall upon the APP
plication of six voters call special
town meeting to determine the kind of
license to be issued in said town."
whether for the sale of all kinds of in
toxicating liquors or for the sale of beer
and matted liquors only. Huntington
Free Press.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-13

The senate leaders at Washington
are said to have told the president just
how far, and no farther, they will go
in trust legislation and even the
threat of an extra session of congress
will not alter their decision. Such
legislation will touch upon discrimi-
nation between shippers in freight
charges; expedition of trials of suits
against trusts in Federal courts, and
publicity for the transactions of cor
porations engaged in foreign or inter-
state commerce. But the tariff will
not be meddled with; extortionate
prices charged to the mass of consum-
ers will not be considered and the
ox-Littlefield remedy-the exclu-
sion from interstate and foreign COM
merce of the products of any corpora
ton that is shown to have made diff
ferent prices in different localities for
the purpose of destroying competitors
will not be applied.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-13
WORK FOR LOCAL OPTION LEAGUE.
Hon. P. w. Clement Advises As to Admins
tration Of New Law and Selection of Com
missioners

In letter addressed to Frank w.
Agan of Ludlow, candidate for lieu
tenant governor on the local option
ticket last September, Hon. P. W.
! Clement expresses the following opin-
ions as to the duties of the Local OPP
ton league in connection with the APP
! plication of the new law:
1.-THE work of the Local Option
league is not done. The administra-
ton of the law should be in the hands
of its friends and everywhere where Ii
cense is adopted as the regulation,
great care should be taken in select
ing the commissioners. They should
be conservative, we'll balanced men of
the highest standing, men who will
study the law and undertake its admin
istration according to its spirit and
having in mind the interest of the
communities in which they live. Where
there is such a choice, licenses should
be put into the hands of the most re-
sponsible and respectable applicants.
Then, too, the commissioners should
watch the operation of the law and see
that it is properly enforced / am sure
that no Vermont community wants to
create such dens of vice as have exist
ed in Vermont under prohibition, and
with the sentiment of communities set
right and supporting the license COM
missioners, they will have no trouble
in the discharge of their duties. In
such a way the law will receive the
support, not only of conservative citi-
zens who now believe in it, but of the
great mass of honest prohibitionists who
are really anxious for the welfare of
their towns and the state. There will
always be left to oppose the law the
crank prohibitionists who, in one way
or another, get their living out of pro-
hibition and the worst class of rum
sellers, who have been able to carry on
their illegal traffic under the old law.
But the opposition of such men will |
avail nothing and license will grow as
it becomes better known. y *The |
Local Option league is not only respon-
sible for the passage of the law, but t
also for its operation and for the re-
suit. l, for one. do not seek to avoid
that responsibility. l am willing to
take my share of it, | believe thor
oughly in the law as measure of good
government and do not doubt that the
future will vindicate my position. +"
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-13
CONSTIPATION CURED.
A Barrytown, N. ", Mans Expert
ence with CaI.cura Solvent.
Dr.. David kennedys New Medicine Cured
Him Promptly.

Constipation leads to worse. Often it is
the cause of appendicitis. Always it leads
to dangerous chrome disease. 1t should
not be neglected, nor should it be temper
arily relieved with drastic purgatives. Here
is a case in point:
Mr.. c. S. Osterhoudt, of Barrytown,
N. Y, was distressed with indigestion,
chronic constipation and kidney trouble
for four years. He tried many medicines
without relief. He heard of Cal-cura
Solvent, DIR. Kennedy's new medicine,
used it and began to improve rapidly.
All of his old complaints have disappeared
and he owes everything to Cal-cura Sol
vent.
Write to the Cal-cura Company, Kenne-
dy Row, Rondout, n, Y, for a free sample
bottle.
Remember: Only one DIR. David Ken
nedy ever lived in Rondout, City of Kings
ton, N. y, and be sure you get his ne,o and
latest medicine, which is sold only in 81 90
bottles.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-13
THE COST TO YOU
the same as other teas The quality and value infinitely
superior. Then they're pure.
"SAIAD

During the convention of the Ma
tional educational association at Bos-
ton next summer the headquarters Of
the American Institute of Instruction
will be in the library building Of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
nearly opposite Hotel Brunswick. and
Vermont teachers are invited to make
that place their headquarters during
the convention. W. E. Ranger, state
superintendent of education, will be
the Vermont director.
Albini Ginnette, Montreal woman,
arraigned in Burlington Monday for in
toxication, claimed that she was en-
gagged, through an employment agency
by Fanny Borette, to do housework;
but that she and l6 years old girl
who came with her were detained by
Mrs. Borette and nearly starved to
death because they refused to comply
with her immoral demands. She
claimed to be faint after her escape
and not drunk Her story will be in
vestigated,
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-13
Enough Topics for Editorials.

Query what will state papers dis
cuss after the referendum vote?-Ver-
gennes Vermonter.
Let us suggest few topics: How to
establish fair system of representa-
ton in the state legislature; how to
induce capitalists outside of the state
to come here and develop Vermont s
natural resources Just as the Westing
house Co. is developing copper mining
at Copperfield; the advantages accru
ing from more electric railroads in the
state and how to encourage their es-
Establishment Well, that will do for the
present. Other questions will arise in
the future and there may be some new
alignment of political forces at the next
state election that will stir up discus
sion. White River Junction Land
mark
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-13

Between her local option millionaire
with his tributes of summer hotels and
city visitors and her anti-saloon mil
lionaire who will rebuild villages for
her favor, Vermont may well be par
doned if she holds her head a little
higher and grows more ambitious and
confident of her charms. She is only
a country girl, to be sure, and she has
never had any good clothes; but she's
all right She'll wear velvet and dia-
monds yet if she is as sensible as she
is fair and good.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-13

We notice that the burthen of the
present plea of the license newspapers
Isl LET US all pitch in and help en-
force the law" We did not notice that
they made any such grand stand for the
law that has been on the statute books.
Rutland News
They did, time and again. but it was
no USE Public sentiment will not sup
port the enforcement of an arbitrary
and unjust law. The present law,
aimed at the abuse and not at the use
of liquor, will be an altogether differ
ent proposition.