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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1904-07-07
Program for Holmes County Sunday
School Convention, July I4and IS.
To Be Held at Acona.

School Convention, July l4and IS.
To Be Held at Acona.
THURSDAY.
Convention call to order 10 am.
Prayer.
Song.
Welcome address by John Bedford.
Song.
Response, by 5. NJ. Smith.
Song.
Now" by Louise Cover Went
worth.
Song.
Bene diction.
THURSDAY, 7:30 p. NJ.
Convention call to order.
Song.
Prayer.
The Organized Sunday-school, what
it is, and what it does.-R. Weblett.
Song.
The Sunday-school as a builder of
character, and its consequent moral
value. H. S. Hooker, Jr.
Song.
Benediction.
FRIDAY, 18th.
Call to order $3.50 a. m.
Song.
Prayer.
The Relation of Law to Religion. =
E. F. Noel.
Song.
Sunday Schools, their influence upon
the progress of civilization. Miss
Eunice Steadman.
Song.
Benediction.
FRIDAY, 10Th, 1880 Pm.
Call to order.
Song.
Prayer.
The Ideal Superintendent. = Parham
Williams.
Song.
The Teachers Qualification, W. H.
Smith.
Song.
Benediction.
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Mrs, Lester Barr, Hnnnrae.

The linen shower given by Mrss
Judge Niles on Thursday afternoon
of last week was the perfeot concep-
ton Of pretty compliment to Miss
Eva jackson, who is to be the bride
this week. THE beautiful home was
clabororateIy decorated with palms
and cut iowers. As tlte honoree.
entered the parlor and undera large
cornocopia ariistically decorated
and flied to ovelitowing with beau.
titul and useful gifts, her sister,
Miss Ethel Jackson, stood in the
hall and pulled the ribbons that
showered the fair brde-clect. I'M
mediateIy after tue shower the merry
crowd repaired to the beautiful
dining hall and were served with
delicious cakes and ices. II was
very dainty affair and source Of
great pleasure TO the guests as well
as to the honorce. Commercial Ap-
peal-Kosciusko Notes.
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Jackson Barr.

''N oo"uVllul surroundings Of
the stately modern home of the
brides mother, Mrs. Lille Clover
- son, Kosciusko, Miss, on the
eye" 'ng of the Goth, Miss Eva L.
'on was united in marriage to
Mr.. L. E. Barr, of Lexington.
A large number of guests enjoyed
the famed hospitality of this model
home, where the hostess never an
pears to better advantage than in
welcoming to its portals hep honored
guests.
The decorations were handled in
mastery style and artistic festoons
of vines, ferns and palms enhanced
the interior of hall, library, dining
room and parlor. Greeneries We're
entwlned in the railing of the wind
ing stairway and at the foot were
massed ferns and palms, while near
was an enormous punchbowl of de-
llclous nectar, dispensed in a gracious
manner by the dainty maidens, Miss
Ethel jackson and Ina Applewhite.
The large chandelier was draped with
the same designs of vines and ferns
entwlned with white roses. On the
left the spacious library was adorned
IN similar style, and in it were dis
played the numerous and valuable
presents that attest the popularity
of the bridal pair,
The dining room was eIaborately
decorated in the same color scheme.
A large central table beneath the
bright light of the chandelier was
superb in the display of appropriate
fittings, while from the lights above
were suspended streamers Of white
gauze, caught here and there with
vines and clusters of white roses and
confined at each corner. Scattered
about the large room we're tete-a-tete
tables, where couples might easily be
ensnared in Cupid's net. Delicious
ices and cake were served by dainty
Hebe's, whose whitehead fitting
figures attended gracefully the appre-
ciative guests.
The parlor was a dream of beauty
in the same green and white adorn-
ment, Festoons of vines and ferns
and white roses were skillfully blended
with the tasteful fittings of the in
terror. The central feature, the large
alcove or bay, where among the white
draperies of the windows were taste
fully blended trailing vines and roses.
over the arch were festoons of the
same and in the centre beautiful
white bell, beneath which the bridal
VOWS were plighted.
Over all the witching scene shone
the bright lights and reflected back
bright smiles from the happy faces
of fair women and brave men," while
amid the screening palms in the hall
musicians discoursed sweetest music
'8- all went merry as a marriage
bell"
The groom was clad in the conven-
tional evening dress and as an en-
bodiment Of manly pride and happi-
ness, looked his best.
The bride wore an exquisite gown
of white crepe de chine, elaborately
trimmed with pearl passementerie
and ruffles of white lisse and rare
lace. Floating folds Of the white
tulle veil enveloped her fairy figure
and sprays of orange blossoms
crowned the vision Of girlish grace
and loveliness. A beautiful sunburst
of diamonds, gift Of the groom,
caught the lace at her throat, and a
shower bouquet Of bride roses and
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that | rode was safe and sure-fOoted,
and there was plenty of room for me
to hold on to the horn of my saddle,
which was tall enough to frequently
tickle my chin. The Mexican guide
fastened a pair of spurs, with rowels
bristling with spikes as long as an
average ten-penDy nail, to my feet,
and thus caparsoned we started up
the t0rtuous and dangerous mountain
sides. Now, up to this point | had
stood the trip like veteran noun
taineer. had prided myself upon
my adaptability to the various con-
ditions and situations as they had
presented themselves to me. even
hattered myself that no man could
have even supposed that was a
tenderfoot." But right here, as we
toiled up the precipices, now hanging
over yawning canyons hundreds of
feet below US; now scaling great
cliffs that seem insurmountable to an
average Rocky Mountain goat, can
dor forces me to say that my courage
fell to a low ebb; my hair frequently
stood on end; my knees smote the
sides of my pony; my eyes almost
popped out of their sockets as [
looked down the awful bluffs. |
thought of home; | could even see in
imagination the grief-stricken faces
of my wife and children when the
news should reach them of how | had
perished in the canyons. For the
moment forgot even the glittering
hopes of accumulating vast wealth
upon that mountain property, and
would have been content to toll on
in the usual channels and surrender
my priced stock in the Catalina Cop
per Company!
Finally we reached the headquar-
ters of the Guiana Copper Company,
property Immediately adjoining
ours and were met by the superin-
tendent, Mr.. George H. Mclean. a
former Mississippian, who extended
to US warm welcome. We remained
with him that night, and on the fol-
lowing morning he accompanied us
over to our property and showed us
all around. There, by previous ap'
pointment, we met several parties
who had come to meet us with a view
of taking a contract to develop our
property. The contract was let, and
going over the entire mine, we re-
turned with Mr.. Mclean and spent
two days with him. The surface out
groupings of copper on our property
were exceedingly promising and of
superior quality, assaying l8per cent.
right from the surface. The Guiana
mine, adjoining us on the south, is
owned by a company of California
capitalists. They have already spent
$25,000 in digging shafts upon this
property, and have found large bodies
of copper, large part Of which as
says as high as 60 per cent. From
one shaft dug by them, and only
about 200 yards from our land, at a
depth of 600 feet they found copper
yielding as high as go per cent, and
also $3.50 in silver and $500 in gold
to the ton. This mine has now about
100000 Of copper ore in sight. The
Imperio de Cobre mine adjoining us
on the north has spent some $4,000
upon their property, and they, too,
have found large quantities of copper
ore. The surface indications on our
mine, as Mr.. Mclean informed us,
was far superior to either of the
other two, and he did not hesitate to
assure us that in his Judgment, ours
| was the better Of the three.
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All that is needed to develop these
mines and make of them the greatest
mining centres in Sonora, is railroad
facilities for the transportation of
the ores And from those in position
to know, we were advised that plans
are already being devised to bring a
railroad into that section, and that
the surveyors woald soon begin to
lay out the right-of-way. We were
in every respect agreeably impressed
with the promises of our mine and
our faith in its ultimate success was
intensified.
After spending two or three days
most pleasantly with Mr.. Mclean and
enjoying not only his genuine hos
pitality but his sumptuous meals of
fried chicken, scrambled eggs, young
Irish potatoes and other vegetables,
to say nothing of the canned goods
with which his table was loaded we
bade him farewell on Sunday morning
at S o'clock and returned to our car
riage and on - Cananea that night,
driving over 65 miles that day.
Perhaps it is not extravagant to
say, that there is no country in the
world today that is as rich in unde
veloped mineral resources as is the
State of Sonora. Millions of dollars
of American money is pouring into
that country, and American prospect
ors and capitalists are turning to
Sonora for rich investments. The
Mexican government, realizing the
great undeveloped resources of that
State, and being unable to work the
mines and the citizens too poor to
undertake it, is offering every induce
ment to foreign capital to locate
there. Life is comparatively safe
anywhere there, and the strong arm
of the law is ever ready to reach out
its protection to any foreigner who
goes into the country. In fact, the
government and the people alike, join
in. extending welcome to capital,
for it means for the poor Mexican
regular employment and higher wages
than he can otherwise earn. Where
these enterprises are located Mexi-
cans easily secure good paying posi-
tions, while out in the interior they
find no demand for their labor, even
at starvation prices. Owing to the
long dry season and the difficulty of
irrigating, they are not able, except
on very limited scale, to engage in
agriculture. A few along the river
bottoms, grow little wheat for
their own uses, but even that crop is
uncertain, But If he should chance
to make more than he needs for his
own consumption, which is seldom
the case, he has no market for his
surplus, because he has no transpor-
tation facilities. There are no wag-
ons there. all commodities are
packed upon the backs Of little mulea,
called burros, about the size and ap-
pearance of the little jennies that
one sees in this country. Wood and
water are likewise packed upon the
backs OF these animals. | met one
train of them, consisting Of eighteen
or twenty, with wood packed upon
their backs as high as it could be
made to hold, strapped tightly by
means Of leather ropes. Each load
consisted Of about 200 pounds, and
the wood was carried some fifteen
miles and sold for fifty cents Mexi-
can money per load.
This reminds me Of an anecdote
that is told over there Of an inexperi-
enced express agent running from
Naco to Cananea. Some one had
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we procured lodging at Chinaman's,
and proceeded to stroll over the town.
DR.. Johnson had formerly lived here
two years, and he personally knew
many of the Mexicans. They all re-
ceiyed him most graciously, were
delighted to again see him, extended
to US both every kindness in their
power and plainly showed they were
pleased to see us. That night they
came to our hotel, and with guitars
and mandQlins gave us some delight
full music. Soon the music had at
tracted many women and children
about US, and the graciousness of
their manners, the softness and charm
of their language and the merry rip
pies of their laughter were attractive
and delightful. When the music was
over and the crowd had dispersed We
strolled over to the plaza, where many
people yet fingered under the shadow
of the great church dome that 'front.'
ed the plaza. This church is a large
two-story edifice, erected in 1917 by
the Catholics and still in fine state
of preservation.
To me the place of most interest
there was the boulevard, about 100
yards wide, leading from the town
down to the river. 1t was probably
half mile long, and on either side was
a row Of great overshadowing cotton
wood trees, set out about so feet
apart. Between these trees. at regu-
lar intervals of say 20 feet, were long
seats made of brick. These seats are
said to have been built there by the
Spaniards before Mexico had achieved
her independence, and it was here
that all kinds of athletic sports was
indulged in, such as racing, wrestling
and boxing, as we'll as the arena
where bullfghts were celebrat ed.
Owing to the want of humidity in
the atmosphere, these seats are re-
markably we'll preserved and seem to
be proof against the ravages of time,
Just out beyond the shade of the
cottonwood trees are rows of orange
trees, where the rich ripe fruit is
hanging in golden clusters, while all
about the trees are seen the blossoms
and the fruit in immature stages.
At Arizpe we had business with
the land office, where we had oc-
casion to look into the question of
our land titles. The office is presided
over by Judge A G. Gotta, a full
blooded Mexican, and by the way a
most elegant and cultivated gentle
man. He was exceedingly nice to
US, examined our titles for US and
advised US they were alright, and
showed us many courtesies. We were
also placed under special obligations
to Mr.. W. H. Hardy, a civil engineer,
and the only American residing there.
He acted as interpreter and gave us
many useful and valuable suggestions
The following morning we drove
out of Arizpe with degree of reluct.
ance, and turned our faces again to
the mountains and on to the Catalina
Copper Company's property, in which
we were interested and which was
our objective point. Before leaving
Arizpe we had secured a Mexican
with two native mountain ponies and
a pair of Mexican saddles; and when
within three miles of the mines we
abandoned our carriage, leaving it
and our baggage with the driver
down in the Sonora River bottom.
After eating the last crust Of bread
we had and taking drink from our
canteen, we mounted our ponies and
started. The little clay-bank pony
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Mrs. r. H. Baker, Jr., has been on
a visit to The parental home in Green
wood, returning home last Saturday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-14
HAY AT ST. LOUIS
Arrives to Visit the Exposition as the
Personal Representative of the
President-BeIsium Building Open

st. Louis, May 14.-Secretary of
State Hay, who arrived last night,
formally began visit to the Louisiana
purchase exposition, as the represent
tative of President Roosevelt, by be-
ing escorted to the administration
building by President Francis. TIL,
first feature Of today's program was
the opening of the Belgium national
pavilion. The pavilion is the most
unique on the grounds, Il curious fea-
ture being that it is entirely without
windows. Sections of stained glass
that constitute portions of walls permit
light to enter the building. The build
ing is modelled after the rules of Bel
gium architecture that excluded VIM
dows because taxes We're levied in ac-
cordance with the number of windows
in a building. The German section
of the palace of agriculture was also
formally opened today. A feature IT
the afternoon was the beginning of the
Olympic games in the stadium.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-14
CONFERENCE NEWS
Methodist Assembly Determines Status
and Relationship Of Superannuated
Bishops to the Church - Other Leg.
istafion

Los Angeles, May 1.-THE Metho-
dist general conference can now
be said to be fairly launched upon the
work of legislating in the interests OF
the church at large. Two matters of
much importance affecting the WORK
Were disposed of at yesterdays sessio:-
episcopacy committee in fixing the
status and relationship of superannu-
ated bishops to the church. and tna
other a rule reported by the board of
church extension and adopted by the
conference, depriving certain congre-
cations owning churches costing more
than $4,000 the right to apply to that
board for fiscal assistance. These two
matters, together with the completion
of the rules of order, exhausted the
entire session.
The special order of the day was the
report OF Missionary Bishop Frank W
Warn, of India. but on the report OF
DIR. Buckley. chairman of the commit.
tee on episcopacy. the rules were sus
pended in order to permit considera-
ton of the two matters above men,
toned, and Bishop Warns report was
made the special order for O'CLOCK,
today. DR.. Buckley's report on super
ANIMATED bishops occasioned the most
animated and interesting discussion
thus far developed in the general con-
ference. II brought TO the floor sonc
dominant figures of the conferences and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-14
Inventor of Wireless Telegra-
ply Enabled to Keep In Con-
stant Touch With Shore
BOTH SHORES AT SAME TINE
Arrives in New York After Voyage
on the campania During Which Hs
Maintained Communication With
Land Without Interruption 70
Publish Daily at Sea.


New York, May 14.Among the pass
sengers on the steamship Campania.
which arrived today. was William Mar.
conf ,Marconi says he succeeded In
maintaining constant communication
with shore stations during the voyage.
The success of these tests. he says. in-.
sures the publication of daily newspa-
pers at sea A new set of instruments.
especially prepared for use during the
voyage, enabled the operators to CONS
municate with the eastern shore for q
distance Of seventeen hundred miles
Before the signals with the eastern
shore failed, the station at Glace Bay.
on the western shore, had been picked
up and communication continued un-
interrupted. sss
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said in an interview that Russia prae-
tically is sure to be beaten by the Jap
anese in the present struggle. He Is
equally sure that Russia viii not be
able to recover her lost prestige. He
said the sentiments he expressed We're
the sentiments of officers of the En-
glish army and navy who know well
how helpless Russia is. He said that
Russia has been living for a long time
OH her past, that the money supposed
to he spent on munitions of war and
fighting ships was squandered or
stolen. He declared that Japan. who
is up to the most modern military tac-
ties will defeat Russia, both on land
and on the sea, as easily as she did
China.
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the delegates were entertained by the
reasoning and eloquent expressions
of some of the best orators.
The paragraph fixing the status ot
the superannuated bishops. which was
finally adopted. read as follows:
"A superannuated superintendent 's
relieved from the obligation to travel
thru the country at large and may
choose the place of his residence. he
shall not be assigned to the presidency
of annual conferences or make al''
pointments, but IL requested by DISH :
op presiding he may take the chalr
temporarily in general or annuai
conference: and, at the request OF the
bishop presiding in the annual con
ference. he may ordain candidates pre-
yiously elected to orders
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-14
CURIOUS, cuLLlNGS.

One Virgile Marry of Paris attacked
stranger with knife because he
considered it ian unfriendly act for a
man with such face to go about the
streets"
August f. Reinhold of San Francis
co died recently. His widow has had
his bones cleaned and articulated and
will keep them in her private apart
ments. where she and her infant son
can see them constantly.
Even the device of leaving a safe un-
locked with card inviting burglars to
open 1t is no longer n protection. A
man tried at Minersville. Pa, and
the burglars played him the trick OF
locking it so he could not open it him.
self.
The sultan of Anjouan. in the Como
ro islands, has just sent a selection Of
elegantly dressed dolls to European
museum of toys. They have no heads,
the representation of the human face
being forbidden by the Mussulman re-
iigion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-14
ILLINOIS FIGHT
Is PROLONGED
First Session of the Third Day
of the Convention Was
Without Result
LITTLE CHANGE IN BALLOTS
Yates Maintained a Lead From the
start Until Recess Was Taken, but
Appeared TO Be Losing Some Of His
Strength IL Lowden Made Slight
Gains at the Outset.

Springfield. May 14.-Despite Chair
man Cannon's strict orders TO prohibit
none but delegates and alternates Oh
the convention floor, the crowd gath
cred an hour before the meeting of the
republican state convention, broke over
the barrier of sergeant arms and
policemen and the hall was soon pack
ed with surging mob, shouting for
the rival candidates. They carried tin
horns, whistles and sirens with which
to keep up enthusiasm for their dele
gates.
The Deneen people who had been
wanting In banners the previous day,
came in with hundred small stand
ards bearing the name of their can
didate.
1t was 10: SO when Chairman Cannon
called the convention to order with >
new gavel made from the old flag pole,
raised in 1860 at Palmyra, Ill.,, on re-
ceipt of the news of Lincolns nomlna-
ton. Cannon asked the friends of the
candidates to refrain from demonstra-
tons.
mo one can reap any advantage
from these demonstrations he said.
THANK God, it has been demonstrated
in the two days meeting that this
convention Is composed of 1900 men
who are not affected by banners and
huzzahs.'
The sixteenth ballot began at II
o'clock. There was great cheering
80 q
when DeKaib brokes from Yates and
voted for Lowden.
Sixteenth t-tOfficial)-Y
AZ: Lowden. 42s; Deneen, 3s1; Ham
lin. 10: Warner. IS; Sherman. 81
Pierce. 81
on the seventeenth ballot Pierce re-
gained l3 votes from Bureau.
Seventeenth ballot-Yates. 4s5: Low
den. 4o7. Deneen, s79. Hamlln, lOs
Warner. 3s; Sherman 81: Pierce 81
Eighteenth ballot--Yates, 4S3; Low
den, 412. Deneep. 379; Hamlin, 1lS:
Warner. So: Sherman so: Pierce. %.
Nineteenth ballot--Yates. 4a1; Low
den. 4o5; Deneen. 376; Hamlin. 11s;
Warner. 81; Sherman, so; Pierce. 81.
Recess Taken.
The convention recessed until 5
O'clock.
The convention reconvened at 8
o'clock. The twentieth ballot resulted:
Yates. 4ss: Lowdeu, 403: Deneen, 4s3;
Hamlin, Ill: Warner. 45; Sherman,
81: Pierce, 21.
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BASE: HITS.

While the Cleyelands, under Napo-
hon Lajoie. are unable to show their
fielding ability 8s vet, owing to their
bad arms, they are hitting the ball
hard.
Pitcher Grant Thatcher of the SUI
perbas is nursing sore thumb as the
result Of too much bowling during the
winter.
'No chance for another conflict In
baseball" says Jim Hart. THE Leagues
can settle any complex question which
may arise
Outfelder Spike" Shannon. the new
Cardinal. is college chap and an all
round athlete. EIe gained quite rep
utation as football player.
Barney DreyfussI announces THAT in
recognition Of Levers past services
he will receive full seasons pay even
il he is unable to- pitch game this
year.
Manager Griffith of the New York
Americans says that Elberfeld's leg is
now all right and he is At as fiddle;
also that Fuitz has recovered his 1902
form and will be revelation to the
fans this year.
Addie Joss and Roger Bresnahan
wanted to buy the Toledo franchise
and offered Strobel $4,000 for it. He
wanted $4,000. and the difference kept
the players in the American league
Rossman. the outfielder obtained by
Cleveland from the Connecticut league.
has peculiar way of batting and re-
minds one of Scbring of the Plttsburg
team. He stabs at the ball instead Of
wildly swinging at It,