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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30
THE LEVEE BILL

In today's issue be publish the Levee
Board bill as introduced and framed
by Senator J.L Hebron Jr. which was
unitedly supported by our senators
and representatives and passed at the
last session of the legisla ture. 1t
will be seen by reference to the bill
that it is calculated to correct the
present evils in the board and place
it upon high basis that will require
full servie of it's officers and give
more finances to the board by curtail-
ing great deal of expense now in
Cured, ana collecting Of more cotton
tax
The first section of the bill &. boil
ishes the office Of cotton tax collec-
tor, or rather. cuts out the princelv
salary of an employee whose work is
mostly done by the railroads and
banks, and this section is end orsed by
the entire district. 1t is true there
must be q cotton tax collector or col
lectors, but lie or they, by the pro-
visions of the hill. will be employed
by the board for only the length of
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

time deemed necessary and their salary
or commission is based on the tax col
lected or personal work performed.
BY this means there will be very lit
tie cotton that will escape taxation.
Again, another good feature of the
| bill is the requiring OF all officers to
personally perform the duties of their
respective Off ,es. This means better
services Oh the part of the officers and
less expense. Three meetings a year
are required and the salary of the
secretary and treasur II is cut to 81 500
a year. The fine and punishment
placed upon any person caught remov-
lng. cotton from the district before
paying the cotton tax will virtually
stop this theft and will amount to
from eight to ten Thousand dollars
more revenue in taxes to the board
each year more than it now receives
through this source.
Section 4 will suppress the travel
on the levees Or lirg them for any
purpose except for what they are in
tended, unless by consent of the
board, which means the saving of
thousands of dollars in repairs and the
danger form overflows dae to sluffing
or boils in the levees ca lsed by the
cutting of the banquets by wagon
wheels and horses feet.
The objects of the bill, the regu-
lation of the duties of the board
'ffic@s, the collection of taxes, and
he protection OF the levees, are all
worthy and have the endorsement of
he people, aud Senator Hebron, who
ramed and introduced it, and Sena-
or Stone and our worthy representa-
ives who supported il and caused its
assage, deserve their thanks.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

timore. Mr.. Ingle handles the subject
under discussion in clear, fair and
intelligent manner and a careful
reading of his article by every negro
in the South, if it's counsel should be
followed, would be of greater benefit
to the negro race than thousand
junketing tours of the Ogden party
and all the classical negro schools
that their combined wealth could
establish.
Since reconstruction days when
protected by hedge of Federal bayo-
II cts, blab-mouthed ex-slave orators
stood in the court house squares of
the South and harrangued their half
savage fellows to "stand by your
rights. You Sc as good as anybody,
an de guv'ment's behi2' you," the
negro has continued to be a fool
largely on account of lis fool friends
And it will be ever thus as long as
Ogdenites last and interfere. The ne
gro is as much part of the South
rs Its soil and climate. He is here to
stay. Let the white people teach |
rim how to work and earn an honest
living within the limits of his intel
igence and capacity and then make
lin do it.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

for them is to employ the language Of
the Prince of Mercy and say, Father
forgive them for they know what
they do. ="
The negro is not lich in worldly
goods, he is not superior in intellect,
not skilled in the arts, nor can he be
ia centu lies if ever at all, and there
fore lie must earn his living by the
sweat of his brow. How much better
it would be for tho pooc negro if Mr..
Ogden and his co-philanthropist
would frankly tell him this and hep
him to prepare himself to accomplish
that work to his best advantage!
How much better would it be for
the negro ii Mr.. Ogden and his party
would teach him how to SOW and to
reap, to hew and to hoe, that he
might earn an honest aud comfortable
livelihood for him self and his off
spring than to excite his dangerous
imagination with glimpses of Virgil
and Homer An ignorant negro in
the cotton field is much better for the
general welfare of the country than
an educated negro in the penitentiAry.
The Times is not antagonistic to
the negro but it believes in being
honest with him; he has got his
place, let him understand that and
aelp him hold it and make the best of
t. What the negro needs is u work
ng education, i. e., to be taught the
,est methods of farming, housekeep.
ng, the heavier industrial work, etc.
lie should also be taught good NOR.
Is, but the percentage Of negroes who
old good working positions either
gricultural or industrial that COM
nit mo al crimes is compare lively ,
nall. The criminals are the loafers i
nd the negro that is melted to hate +
is white friends by the teachings Of I
Ne Ogdenites. i
Friends of the stripe of the Ogden c
,rty and the Roosevelts. with all due t
spect to the presidential office, ale
lse aud d N ,erous friends to the ne il
oes Of the South. 1t is pity t,
ut tia negro cannot be spared such S;
iendsliip IL
The Times is in receipt CT copy b
the charleston News and Courier, I'll
the 18th, inst, containing an N
lbor"te and interesting review Of le
, Ogien excursion South and their v
ssion by MI. Edward Ingle. OF Bal b
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

There is no harm in the contestants
gorking for themselves in the Times
1Orld's Fair contest. 1t shows pluck
nd determination to win and should
e encouraged instead of criticised.
ext week we will show what was
1ne in the State oil Montana in a
milsr contest by the ladies of that
rate.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

Captain W. X. Gildart, our clever
I'd effici .nt circuit clerk, has been
ppointed Captain Of ordinance the
pvernor's staff with the rank of
ajor. In Captain Gildatt the
.veFnor has brave and fearless
ic,r who won his spurs in the war
'6l, and if the rest of his staff is
Imposed of the same high type of
ississippi citizenship we can say
at IN peace or war, they will COM
and the respect and admiration of |
} nation. We salute the major
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30
MISGUIDED PHlLANTHROpISTS

The seventh annual session of tn
conference TO: education in the Soutl
was held in Birmingham, this
week.
1t would be hard to say which
doing the negro of the South the most
harm, President Roosevelt or Mr.. Og-
den and his associate sincere but fool
.sh o-workers in the scientific
study of the Soth." The former tells
the negro across the family board and
around the family fireside of the ma
tion's presidential home that he is
the equal of any man in al. The
rights and privileges of American
citizenship, social or political, and
the latter tells him ON their annual
junkets that if there is anything lack
ing in this respect that it is not Lis
Ao0Ao INV anu llldl
there is millions at hiG disposal to
supply any deficiency in the form of |
endowed colleges and classical educa-
lion.
How the picture of the African
unges of less than a century ago
lasts its shadow over this canvass Oh
Vhlch smart but unbalanced philan-
hropists are trying to pain the fig
Tres of humanity and civilization.
'he Ogdenites, though moro SINGER
nd respectable, are hardly less daugtt-
Us than the carpetbaggers of 1861.
i! that those that think we'll #
rem as men and believe in their sin-
,rity and good intentions can say
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

Ed. Shrader was cent from this
rounty to the penitentiary last Wed.
esday to commence time on his life
sntence for the killing OF Neal Con-
Ny. This should be a lesson to all
onag men, as such sentence is us
ally the finale Of life Of pistols,
5omen and cards.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

We believe that if the Railroad
mmission had looked carefully into
} matter of running the trains over
J Y. & M. Y. railroad to Wilczin-
!, they would not have forced this
I to run their Vicksburg accommo-
ion aid Percy trains to and stop at
$ station, making the trip fifteen
mites longer, causing the disgust of
Try passenger aboard, when they
re to make stop anyway at the
iotion fifteen hundred feet distant
M the station "a distance any
zen of Greenville has to walk
m the heart of the Cit to reach
trains at either depot. The road
cen very fair with the people
near this depot, for eight trains
4 stop there, more than many
Of 5000 people have. If the
iness of Wilczinsbi, or the accom-
iati0n Of its residents demanded
sr trains we would urge 1t, but
e are so few passengers on the
trains mentioned, and as they
within few hundred yards from
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

The officers and members of the
present levee board have peri ormed
we'll the duties of their respective
offices, and the peoples thnaks are
1ue them for the noble fight they
aave successfully made to protect the
district from overflow.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30
THE STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

| bLNOSNNiiS
). The State Democratic Execuutiv
: Committee has set June 25th as til
I day for the meeting of the Stat
Democratic convention at Jackson
To give the manner Of procedure TO
the selection of delegates from eacl
county, we give the following;
Tie amendment to the primary
election law adopted by the legisla
tive session, and approved on the 9th
of March by the governor, to which
the committee calls attention, is as
follows:
1.-THE State executive committee
shall consist of three members from
each congressional district to be
chosen By the del gates from the diff
ferent congressional districts, each
district acting separately, and shall
hold four years, and until their sue
cessors are chosen. A State conven.
ton shall be held by each political
party in this State in the year 1904,
and every four years thereafter, to
select State executive committee, to
appoint delegates TO the national con-
vention, and to nominate presiden-
tial electors. Each county shall be
entitled i'll the State convention to a
number of votes equal to double its
vote in the house of representatives
The delegates are to be selected by
county delegate conventions, to be
held In each county. Delegates shall
be apportioned equally among the
supervisors districts of each county.
or each precinct in the county shall
be given representation in the county
delegate convention in proportion to
'he votes cast at the preceding presi-
lential election for its party candi-
late. The county executive commit
ee shall designate a date and the
lumber of delegates TO be elected.
living at least ten days notice for I
he precinct election, Oh which date 3
he electors of such precinct shall a
,oet at 10 o. clock a. m. at the usual
citing places and by secret ballot
lect delegates to represent such vot-
,g precinct in the county convention. h
The delegate convention of each p
'unty shall choose q county execu- h
We committee, consisting of three :.
embers from each supervisors dis
let as above provided, who shall IL
I'D until the county convention con- b.
mes four years later. " il
Chairman Miller has issued the H
rmal notice of the convention: al
To the Democratic Electors of the he
State of Mississippi: 40
Notice is hereby given that at m
setting Of the State Democratic Ex
ltive Committee, held in JACKSON, -
S., Oh the 25th day of April. 1904. an
a resolution then and there duly hi
ssed, it was ordered that State tb
mocratic convention be held in the
y OF Jackson Wednesday, the 18th
, Of June, 1904, for the purpose of pa
ecti ng State executive committee res
appoint delegates to the national tai
convention. and to nom or,
tie Democratic presidential electors, t,.
to transact such other business as
? come before it, County execu- III
, committees. in selecting delegates
he county and State conventions, of
requested to observe section |, of of
act of the Legislature amending
ion B of the laws of 1902, approved '-"
ch 9, 1904. ,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

The debate between Cochran and
0alzell in the house of representatives
waxed exceedingly warm last Mo 1day
and before it was finished the Penn.
yivaniaian no doubt wished he had
iever spoken COckrane proved HIM
elf an able champion of Democracy.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

Hon Percy Bell was appointed
special chancellor by the governor to
occupy the bench at the next term of
cEancery court beginning May 10th in
this city as Chancellor Moody will not
he nreSent
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

The ladies Memorial Association of
Georgia favors the changing of Decor
tion Day from April 26th to June ,3rd,
Jefferson Davis birthday. This is q
right move.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

The county executive committee
should meet and set day for the
county convention to select delegates
to the State convention.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

jackson officers ratded the gamb-
ling dens of that city this week and
made big haul.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30
For SALE

H"lher Pigeons for breeders or as
squads Tor broilers, a Homer SQUAD
~ as 1ar superior to common sduah
as grouse to a crow.
4-16 If IN Dali,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30

az a candidate for reelection to con-
gress from the Third Congressional
District, subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30
SATUR DAY, APRIL 30. 1904
FOR CONGRESS

We are authorized to announce the
name OF
Ben G.. HumhprsVS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23

there should appear among the imped- mcnta wagon loaded with coops of game cocks of the Caldwell strain, crow ing vigorously. Ills company was then titled Blue Hens Chickens" and march ed to the north with the Delaware regi- ment under Colonel Haslet.
 At the battle of Long Island Haslets men were tG'igAded with Smallwood's Maryland reglm, mt and four Pennsyl- vana, under Brlgadier General William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, and with Haslet and Smallwood sitting on a court martial against their will. Brave Nor decai Gist, with his sword In his fist" and Thomas McDonough held the British while the army escaped-both the Mary land "macaroni' and the Delaware game game cocks going through the fight under their majors and cutting their way out with fearful loss. Long Island fully established for all time the fame of the Blue Hens Chickens as game fighters, and of Caldwells company as typical Delaware soldiers The doughty captain relieved the tedium of camp life with cooking mains, and his progeny of the blue hen pervaded Washington's army with shrlll clarion calls of challenge and victory. At White Plains Haslet's regiment again distinguished itself. and at Princeton 1t was completely decimated
  It was succeeded in the army by the equally brave Hall which went through the southern campaign side by side with the Maryland line, and with the latter shared the laurels of Camden, Guilford, Eutaw, Nlnety-six and Yorktown From losses in battle the Blue Hens Chick ens' were finally reduced to a single company under the command of the sem for captain. Robert Kirkwwod, and Greens reports of the southern cam paign give honorable mention in every engagement to "Kirkwoods Della wares" At the Cowpens, Captain Kirkwood re- pulsed Tarletons cavalry, and made. with the Marylanders. the famous bay onet charge ordered by Colonel John Eager Howard Captain Kirkwood, the grandfather of the late Robert Wildwood Martin, constructor of the Gunpowder Works which supply the city of Baltimore. and grandfather of the late General R. H. K. Whitney, U. S. A. of Baltimore. was killed at St Clair's defeat a captain in the regular army, after having passed through thirty-two battles during the Revolution without disabling wound.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23
A LoNG-FoRGoTTEN CITY.
Grenada Occupies Site of Ancient
 City of Tanagra In Greece.

From the Chicago News
 Grenada $ the name of the modern city in Boeotla, Greece, which occupies the site of the ancient city of Tanagra. The old town was a rich and luxurious place, greatly removed for the cock fights that were given there. It had the honor of being the birthplace Of Corinna, the great poetess of the fifth century before Christ and perpetuated her memory by a ma jestic tomb on which she was represent ed five times crowned, in remembrance of the five victories which she had gain ed in the lyrical contests with Pindar. Despite this comparative celebrity 1t ap- peared destined to the eternal sleep of forgetfulness, when, after more than twenty-two centuries of silence, chance drew to it the attention of archaeologsts
 In 1870 the inhabitants of the neighbor- ing villages, while digging In their fields exposed to view some tombs which the French have assigned to the nineteenth century before the Christian era The dis covery of these first sepulchers was the cause of excavations. during which a quantity ol other tombs were discovered all situated along the roads which led from the walls of Tanagra in the direc- dion of Thebes, Chalcis, Harnia and Plataea.
 Among this mass of tombs belongs to several centuries. the most interest at taches to those of the fourth century be- fore the Christian era, on account of their contents. It was in these particu larly that the statuettes known today under the name of "Tanagra figurines" were for the most part discovered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23
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 For Second Nearest Correct Hs- timate-One Mason x Hamlin grand piano. special ebonzed case; value. si2oo.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23

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 For Ten Next Nearest Estsmstes Ten Grand Rapids baltbsaring sectional bookcases; solid mahogany, with leadsd glass; three book sections: value. $50 each.
 For Ten Next Nearest Estimate sets: American Silver company: val Sso each.
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 For Ten Next Nearest Estimates Ten Grand Repids hslibesring sectional value. s27 50 each.
 For Ten Next Nearest Estimates Ten Kalamazoo steel ranges; T shelf and reservoir; value, S2T 50 each.
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