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The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1904-06-07
Memphis, st. Louis
Chicago and Louisville.
S c II E d u L f
Effective April 3, 1904.

Effective April 3, 1904.
Ne. / leaves Jackson 5:25 a. m. !;
leaves Hattiesburg $40 a. m; arrives
GulfpoTt 1906 a. m.
No. 3 leaves Jackson 3;35 p. m.
leaves Hattiesburg 1900 p. m; arrices
Gulfport 1000 pm.
No. 8 leaves Jackson 4 30 a. m. leaues
Hattiesburg 1853 a. M; arrives Gulf
port II Is a. m.
No. 2 leaves Gulfport 1850 D. m. ar
rives Hattiesburg 1000 p. m arrives
Jackson 20 a. m.
No. 4 leaves Gulfport 100 a. M, ar
riyes Hattiesburg 1926 a. m. arrives
jackson 2:10 p. m.
No. 6 leaves Gulfport ;05 p. m. ar
riyes Hattiesburg 1920 p. m; arrives
Jackson 10 :45 p. m.
Gulsports. Mississippi's greatest deep
water ports, only II hours iron
Memphis.
AT Jackson Connections made with
Illinois Central Railroad to all territory
north, eaSt, south and west-wiah Ala
bama & Vicksburg to Texas and the
southwest.
AT Hattieshurg With New Orleans
& Northern Railroad, Mississippi Cen
tTal Railroan pearl & Lea5 River r. r.
and Mobile, jackson & Kansas City
RoilToad.
At Gulfport With Louisville &
Nashville Railroad.
5. d. BOYLSTON,
General Passenger Agent.
Guifport. Miss.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1904-06-07
An Alarm cIook for zsc-

If you want TO get up early and feel
good all day take a Little Early Riser
or two at bed time. These famous little
pills relax the perves, give quiet rest and
refreshing sleep, with a gentle move
ment OF the bowels about breakfast
time. W. H. Howell, Houston, Tex,
says ssEarly Risers are the best pills
made for constipation, sick headache,
bilioasness, etc. Sold by All Drug
pisfS.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1904-06-07
]. |. STURDlvANT,
Real E state and
Rental Agent.
Columbus, Miss.


To our patrons.
THE CITY STEAM LAUNDRY
will give away free of charge
a winchester shot gun. ssSend
your laundry to us and receive a
chance.
After ten days delay We are
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faction,
CITY STEAM LAUNDRY,
Bradford Carr, Props,
Both Phones
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1904-06-07
''iT WAS SUM MER-
TIME IN DIXIE LAND.

At present the biggest 'tSone
Hit in this country, was written
by Edwin Kendall, and is being
sung nightly i'1 the principal
L h atre and Music Halls
throughout this country. 1t is
such great chit that the pre-
dictions are fair that a million
copies of this song will be sold
during 1904.
CHORUS.
1t was summertime IN Dixie, when she whis-
pered soft and low,
That she loved me and Ia won her heart and
hand,
When l kissed the fairest fow'r ever grown in
Southern bow'r,
1t was summertime in Dixie-Dixieland
Upon receipt of % cents lii
postage stamps, a copy of this
beautiful Song will be mailed to
any address in the United States
by the Theatrical Music Supply
Co., No. 46 West 28th Street,
New York.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1904-06-07
CaIifaFnia PFune Waters

product and should be in every house
hold. They cure constipation and all
disorders of the stomach, liver and
bowels. 100 WATERS % CENTS. !.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1904-06-07
Worlds Fair St. Louis.

Tickets at low rates now on
sale. For particulars apply to
any Mobile and Ohio Railroad
agent.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1904-06-07
California Prune Waters.

Cure liver disease and all stomach
troubles; they act gently but surely,
strengthen the the bowels and stimulate
them to healthy action,
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1904-06-07
You are no Exception.

No one can tell when the seeds
of disease are planrel in gLe la-
man system-we know when they
are there oaly when thev fracutg
Germ killers are Wrl enough.
Germ preventers better We a.-
Ter in this hne several stan 14ri
blood clean sers. hlasn1 81 Fsler-
and Spring resolNrnts. a lrss
in time. like the pruverhlAi -lteE
saves nine.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1904-06-07

Easy terms, low rates, notes
taken, positions free. Address
Room b. GRENADA BUSINESS Co.
LEGE, GRENADA, Mss,
The Western news., 1904-10-26

log: captain sober to-day" So the
Republican party comes here and de-
clares that the United States is pros
porous, as though it were an unusual
thing.
''Why, If you, on the other side.
would let us alone-would not by your
laws on the one hand help few people
at tho expense Of many others, and BY
your failure on the other hand to en-.
force the laws Of the land, designed to
give all men an even chance-and
would not divert the prosperity into
certain channels, and the money from
the prosperity into few pockets, the
country would always be prosperous
It Is only because Of that kind of work
on your side that the country is ever
In any other condition, and yet to-day
you marvel that we are prosperous
as though it was natural to expect any.
thing else from our country. l expect
1t to be always in that condition. and
it always will be If you will only give
1t fair chance, and let the country
and the people in 1t develop the re.
sources of this, the greatest land in the
world. and go along on their way in
peace, free from your miserable manip.
ulation.
"And then they announce that Presi
dent Roosevelt is so sure of reelection,
that there is no use bothering at all.
and that there is no sense in the Dem.
ocrats putting up candidate.
''Well, let me suggest to you, gentle
men on the other side, If you think that
is SO, why are you making all this fuss;
what difference does it make to you
whom we nominate, or what the plat
form is, and if you are going to beat
us anyway-why not keep quiet? You
remind me Of the boy going through
the graveyard, who whistled at the top
of his lungs all the time, not because
he wanted to whistle, but just for the
purpose Of keeping his courage up.
That is why you talk SO loud on the
other side now."
The Western news., 1904-10-26
Confessions Of q Priest.

Rev. Jno. S. Cox, of Wake, Ark,
writes, "For u years suffered from
yellow jaundice. I consulted a num-
Der of physicians and tried all sorts
of medicines, but got no orelief. Then
l began tho use Of Electric Bitters
and feel that I am now cured OF q
disease that had me in its grasp for
twelve years." If you want q reliable
medicine for liver and kidney trouble,
stomach disorder or general debility,
get Electric Bitters. It's guaranteed
BY Hamilton Drug Ce. Only 60c.
The Western news., 1904-10-26
SHYLOCk

Shylock was the man who
wanted a pound of human
flesh. There are many
Shylocks now, the GONZALES
cent, the consumptive, the
sickly child, the pale young
woman, all want human flesh
and they can get it-take
SCOTS Emulsion.
SCOTS Emulsion is flesh
and blood, bone and muscle.
Itfeeds the nerves, strengthens
the digestive organs and they
feed the whole body.
For nearly thirty years
SCOTS Emulsion has been the
great giver of human flesh.
We will send you couple Of
ounces free.
SCOTT q BOVINE. Chemists.
400-4l5 Pearl Street. New Yo9lEs
soc. and $500: all druggists.
The Western news., 1904-10-26

"These figures indicate that the cost
of living was per cent. higher in
1900 than in 1890; Al per cent more in
1902 than in 1897, and "a 4-10 per cent.
more on Oct. 1, 1903 than on July l,
1897, and about 80 per cent. greater on
the frst day of this year than on the
first day of July, 1897; 80 per cent.
increase in the cost of living and II
per cent. increase taking the figures Of
gentlemen on the other side, in wages,
yet they say every laboring man in the
country and every citizen in the land
ought to be thankful that the Repub-
lican party has done SO much for the
1aboring man.
There was one thing, Mr.. Chairman,
that l did like in the speech of the
gentleman from Illinois (Mr Boutell) j,
and that was his statement that he did
give some credit to Almighty God for
the prosperity which he claims exists
in this country. He was the first Re-
publican that ever heard on this floor
admit that. But even he did not dare
tell this house what percentage he
claimed Of the prosperity of the coun.
try was due to the Republican party,
and what percentage was due to the
goodness of the Almighty. l assume
that the percentage he was going to
credit to the Almighty was SO small
that he was ashamed to state it.
"And then the gentleman from
Illinois looked around the room and
demanded of some Democrat to contra
dict his statement that the country was
prosperous. Well, wonder, Mr.. Chair
man, what condition any man here
would expect the United States to be
in? Would not our country, under
natural conditions, be expected to be
prosperous? Why they remind me a
good deal of the log of a ship that
came into New York some time ago.
The captain one day during the voyage
was on watch, and he wrote in the log:
''Mate drunk to-day" The mate did
not like it very we'll, and the next day
when he was on watch he wrote in the
The Western news., 1904-10-26
Difference between ENGLISH
AND AMERICAN TRUSTS.

English trusts are comparatively
harmless affairs, and cannot and have
not arbitrarily advanced prices except
In few instances, like that of brass
bedsteads. and then only temporarily.
The difference between a trust in
1ree-trade country and one in q high
tariff country can be illustrated by
the Borax Consolidated, an English
corporation with $16,0o0.0o0 capital.
This is world trust, and the Pacific
Coast Borax Company, of this country,
Is the greatest of the twelve companies
In the trust, and probably supplies as
much borax as all of the other COM
Danies combined. This world trust
sells refined borax to-day in this coun.
try at 7N cents and in England at 2h
cents per pound Much Of the borax
sold in England is borax from the
mines of California, and is refined at
Bayonne, N. j., and exported to Eng
land. The duty on imported borax Is
cents per pound, and was raised from
2 cents in 1897 by the Republicans.
When the duty was 2 cents, borax sold
here at cents. As matter of history
1t may be stated that had there been
no duty on borax here there would
have been no world trust. The ex-
orbitant profits of the trust here en-.
Abled 1t to sell borax at less than 2
cents per pound in Europe and to force
its competitors to sell their plants at
lew prices. But this trust is compare.
lively harmless in free-trade England,
while it is most harmful in protection.
list America.
Professor jerks. In the employ Of the
Industrial Commission. went to Europe
In 1901 and made 3oo-page report on
"Industrial Combinations" in Europe
He could enumerate but thirty.6va
trusts in England. He states that "in
England the movement toward csm
bination has not gene 20 far - IL
either Austria Or Germany" and thai
he English trusts have had little o.
~ eject In Advancing prices. the sliGAt
advance during the last tive years be
Ing "due in gooA part 70 the increas'
n the prices Of raw natsrials"
The Western news., 1904-10-26
WILL GET EVERY DEMOCRATS
VOTE.

Senator Lattimer, Of South Caro-
lima, says:
There is no possible excuse for any
Democrat in the land to withhold his
vote from Judge Parker, and there is
every reason in the world why patri.
otic Republicans should support him.
He stands for all that Jefferson, Jack
son, Lincoln and Tilden stood for
good, sound and constitutional govern.
ment"
The Western news., 1904-10-26

"Last year I had q very severe at
tack of Indigestion. I could not
sic ep at night and suffered most ex-
cruciating pains for three hours after
each meal. I was troubled this way
for about three months when l used
Chamberlsin's Stomach and Liver
Tablets, and received immediate re-
liet" says John Dixon, Tullamore,
Ontario, Canada. For sale by Ham,
ilton Drug 20.
The Western news., 1904-10-26
THE COST OF LIVING.
Wages Compared With Food and Necessities De-
termine the Measure of Prosperity.

Concerning the costs of living as ap-
Piled to the wages earned, and the ex.
travagant claims made from Re.
publican National headquarters to the
sffect that this is an era of great pros.
perity, the following excerpt from a
speech made in the hall of the House
Of Representatives in Washington by
Mr.. Allan Benny, of New Jersey. on
Jan. 20, last, sheds much light on the
subject. Mr.. Benny said:
They tell us on the other side, Mr..
Chairman, that wages have increased
II per cent. during the Republican ad-
Uinistration, and that the cost of liv.
The Western news., 1904-10-26

ing has actually gone down. Now, I
do not think there was ever q more
erroneous statement made on this floor
than that same one. The gentleman
from Illinois (Mr. BoutelD was very
careful when speaking not to give us
any figures on the cost Of living. Let
me give you some figures from Dun's
Review, which I suppose every man
here will take to have some weight at
least.
''The figures, based upon quotations
Of $50 articles with due allowance for
the relative importance of each, are as
follows:
The Western news., 1904-10-26

Edward M. Shepard, Of New York,
says: "The modern Republican idea
that the use of a protective tariff is
to keep prices high to the American
consumer in order that the profits of
other Americans engaged in gigantic
and long established industries shall
be increased, would have been as abb
horreAt to Abraham Lincoln as it is
to Judge Parker"
The Western news., 1904-10-26
Dissolution of Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that the
firm of Magni & Harvey, who have
been conducting the business of paint
ers aud paper hangers, did. on Oct. II,
dissolve partnership by mutual con.
sent, Harvey retiring from the firm,
Emil Magni will assume all obliga-
tons and collect all bills.
Emil Magni
s23t ]. A. Harvey.
The Western news., 1904-10-26

Edward a. Shepard. says: "The
policy stand pat means that, under
Republican auspices, no committee
shall investigate, nor House Of Con.
gress consider. the working Of the
tariff. On this subject there must be
mute obedience IS before = deity. II
the manufacture Of steel and iron b
No longer an 'iafant industry to be
cherished. but . practical monop.
oily within the American republic,
cut Of whose prsAts tho vaa&est
fortunes In the world have been
built u0-ii It sslls It's products
- foreigners mere cheaply than "a
Anericals-HsvestAeleGs, tAaeo nssl
b aileAee." ''7'1,
The Western news., 1904-10-26

Senator Joseph w. Bailey says:
"My argument Is that when the coun.
try is most prosperous in a material
way, it has greatest need to call the
Democratic party into its service in
order that it may be reminded Of its
duties outside OF dollars and cents"
The Western news., 1904-10-26

Would not interest you If you were
looking for q guaranteed salve for
sores, burns or piles. Otto Dodd, Of
Ponder, No., writes: II suffered
for q year With an ugly sore, but .
box OF Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured
NO." It's the best salve on earth. Is
at Hamilton Drug. Co.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-03-24

be exterminated; It will probably con.
tinue to spread, and II is altogether
likely that it will invade the other
cotton-growlng States.
The work on remedies, however is
still going on; the search for parasites
in tropical countries still continues.
Congress will probably appropriate ut
this session a large sum OF money to
help in the work. SO that, although
the OUTLOOK is rather I'D il is by no
r.eans hopeless. and the prospect that
the United States will lose her su-
premacy in cotton production on nc.
count Of the weevi is, In my mind, not
greatly to be feared.-Houths Com.
panion.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-03-24

to use both hands in stretching and
hammering instead of being obliged
to employ one in holding the lacks in
place as he makes futile attempts to
strike them on the head.
Any one VINO has gone through the
experience Of hanging small pictures
In high out-of-the-way places will also
appreciate the new hammering tool.
The mechanism is not complicated
AS the illustration shows, 1t consists
OF a hammer, whose jointed handle
is so arranged that long row of tacks
is fitted into channel, which dis.
charges them one at time in position
under the head Of the hammer. The
hammer is magnetlzed so that the
Jacks are automatically held in place
until a sharp crack sends its point into
the carpeted floor or other material.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-03-24

glnned at a place called Alice. From
Alice northward and eastward cotton
culture is continuous and the weeyil
spread at the rate Of about seventy
Ave miles a year from 1894 until the
present time. 1t has now reached Drac-
tically to the northern border of Texas,
and is on the east within a few miles
of Louisiana.
During all this time the United
States Department of Agriculture and
the State Agricultural College of Texas
have been studying the insect and try
ing to find some means of fighting 1t
successfully. Eight Or nine years ago
IT coulG have been stopped and. all
this damage prevented by abandoning
the culture Ct cotton in a rather UNI
productive section. Or. IL the planters
could have been induced to cut down
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-03-24

ed, we have, nevertheless, through our
intimate knowledge Of the life history
OF the weevil, found way to grow cot
ton in paying quantities In spite Of
the destructive creature.
In the spring the weevlls are few in
number; the great majority Of them
have been killed by the long winter.
Comparatively few come out Of hlber-
mating quarters in the spring TO lay
the eggs for the coming genera alton. A
single female will have millions Of de-
scendants by autumn, but these mil
lions are gradually developed
1t was the old custom TO pick cotton
in Texas until past Christmas, and in
late autumn the weevils are at their
height in point Of numbers. II plant.
ers use Northern cottonseed, the plants
from which develop much more rapid
ly than from Texas Seed If they plant
their rows little further apart than
has been the custom, if they cultivate
the crop and force it TO early maturity,
they will be able to raise a good guam
tity Of cotton before the weevils have
become so numerous as to destroy the
great majority Of the bOlls.
In this way, on experimental plots
aggregating seven or eight hundred
acres, in different parts of Texas, the
experts Of the Division Of Entomology,
OF the United States Department of
Agriculture, have been able to raise
and pick, before the middle Of October,
from two-thirds Of a bale to bale an
acre, whereas from crops not thus
planted and treated, only bale from
eight TO twelve acres has been secured.
Then, after this amount Of cotton
has been picked, the cotton stalks are
cut down or plowed up, left to lie for
a while until dry, and are then burned
Very many weevils are destroyed in
this way. The few that escape have q
much longer period TO wait before the
crop comes up, and many die. The
number which will be found on hand
to attack the cotton on these fields
next year will be vry small The re-
suit is that more cotton can be raised
year after year.
Thus cotton can be raised in spite
of the weevll. But the weevil will not
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-03-24

mills have been obliged to stop. thou
sands OF operatives have been dis
charged, and the wages Of thousands
more have been reduced.
THE COST OF THE WEEvIL.
Eighty per cent. of the cotton crop
OF the world is raised by America, and
or the cotton raised In the United
States Texas produces nearly one
fourth, All the richest cotton counties
OF Texas have been invaded by the
weeva, and the loss in cotton de-
stroy1d by its depredatlons in the past
summer has surely been as great as
$l5,O00,OOO.
Spurred on by the high price of cot
Ton and by the prospective danger Of
great lessening of the American
crop foreign nations are making every
effort to raise their own cotton. The
English colonies are particularly ac-
i've and the German colonies, as well.
Russia. is also making every effort to
push the growing Of cotton within her
territory. Other nations are doing the
same' The trade balance Of the entire
world may soon be affected IL efficient
remedies for the pest are not discov-
cred and used.
The weevil itself is an insignificant
creature, little gray snout BEETLE
about quarter Of an inch long, but 1t
breeds very rapidly, multlplies enor-
mously in the course of summer, and
works during the critical period Of its
IRE absolutely protected from any APP
phcation which could be made to the
cotton plant.
Slowed away In old cornstalks, in
faumps OF grass, under the bark Of
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-03-24

- mn uuNe Deen ngntlng in1urls
INII r lIII GUS insects ever since there
IlllI llls we're any farmers and fruit
@Z@4 growers.
1t would seem MS If, after these many
years Of experience, they would have
learned good remedies for every insect
pest. ......
They have learned many, and the
scientific men who are constantly
working on this very important prob
lem have found excellent economic
means to destroy the great majority
Of injurious insects. But every few
years there appears some new insect
pest, which is so strong and prolific.
or which lives in such a peculiar way,
that ii is able to do enormous damage.
to destroy millions Of dollars worth of
crops, and sometimes to alarm more
than a single country and affect the
relations of many civilized nations.
A few years ago the San jose scale,
minute creature which Injuries fruit
trees, spread all over the United States
and occasioned the passage of edicts
and laws In many foreign countries by
which American fruits ana fruit trees
were practically barred from interna-
tional commerce.
And now another OF these great in
sect scourges is affecting the cotton
crop Of Texas, and threatens to spread
all through the cotton States. 1t is
partly due to the great damage which
this insect has done that the price Of
cotton last year went up to almost I'M
precedented figures, so that cotton
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-03-24
Monument to a pueI.

Many as are the places in England
which have been the scenes Of duels,
only one is marked, This is part Of
all that now remains of Cawnton
Heath, in Norfolk. on which stands a
small pillar to Sir Henry Hobart, Bart.
who was killed on the spot in a duel
with swords.-Car.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-03-24


the square to TWEEN ISvoLUcRE
dron. Tho AND BOIL.
grub changes to a pupa within the
bud, and the full grown weevil
energies soon after
When such of the flowers as escape
this first attack mature, and the cot
ton boil forms, it is also pierced by the
weevirs beak, an egg is laid, and an
other grub begins TO feed on the inte-
rior Of the boil, destroying all the form
ing cotton lint, reaching full growth
and changing to pupa and emerging
as a weevil. In this way the insects
increase i'm geometrlcal ratio until, by
late summer, they occur in countless
millions; often hardly boil natures.
AN INVADER FROM MEXICO.
A bale of cotton contains from 450
to 500 pounds, and in former days 10
raise a bale or a bale and a half of
cotton TO the acre in the best parts Of
Texas was almost a rule. Where the
weevil las made its appearance how
ever, it is often difficult to raise a bale
Of cotton on ten or even fifteen acres
of land
The weevil came to TEXAS from Mex
leo, where, in certain places, it had
absolutely stopped the culture Of cot
ton. 1t crossed the Rio Grande at
Brownsville, and was carried north
across a great extent Of grazing coun-
try in cotton which '"as taken TO be
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-03-24
MAGAZINE
TACKHAMMER
AMachine That Operates on the Mage.
zinc Gun Principle.

Patterned after the magazine gun is
the newly invented tackhammer that
has recently been patented at Wash
ington. The head of the house who
returns from his Office after a hard
days work and is assigned the delicate
task Of putting down the parlor car
pet will unquestionably relish the pos
session of one Of these latest improved
hammers. Besides not having to both
err himself with box Of lacks, he will
have the added comfort of being able