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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-11-05

If Secretary Hay ever has occasion
to visit this country he will be given
a very cool reception
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-11-05

This is the day of the short story.
but all Arkansas editor breaks the
record by offering prizes for poetry.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-11-05

Republican Platform-A few ia
vored combines to feast on the peo-
pie.
Democratic Platform-Equal rights
to all, special privileges to none.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-11-05

Kuropatkin scores. He has a home
run to his credit.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-11-05

God put man on this earth for a
purpose. Be governed accordingly.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-11-05
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.

Roosevelt or Parker? Parker by
all means.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-11-05

Dollars do not grow
GreenviIIe. but they are pl9.'
out of the ground all a'0s'
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-11-05

The citizens Of Green
raising a bonus Of 500"
the Southern to Belaon
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-11-05

peeial sale Of ladies' walking hats.
Hafter's. See the window
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-11-05

at Hafter's. ~ kinos'
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-11-05
SATURDAY NOV. 5, 1904.
FOR CONGRESS

We are authorized to announce the
name Of
Ben G.. Humphreys
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, 1904-11-05

Boys new gloves. three clasp, at
after's.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
Business Dull But Solid.

The liabilities of failed concerns fell in June to normal flgures-fell to fig ures below those for Junes in previous years, particularly in 1902 Abnormal liquidation has in short run it's course,
 The banks, too, hold larger cash TO. serves. The national banks of the country hold one hundred and six mil lions more of money than they did one year ago, and in New York city call money is plentiful and cheap. No liquidating strain and no call for money for crop movements will over tax their resources. No gold is going to Europe, and all is quiet at home.
 The best space in the business sky is, however, the crop prospect. Every week brightens the crop outlook, alike for wheat, corn and cotton. True, great room for uncertainty remains in all three cases, for the spring wheat crop is not yet made, and the corn and cotton crops depend altogether upon the weather between this time and September. But so far as mere man can look into the future we are to have plenty of bread and plenty of cotton, which means in the south both bread and meat.
 Many mills are idle, and many men are out of employment. Business is dull and depressed. Men are cautious. All this will. however, disappear after the presidential election If the crop outturn should become what it now promises to be. Here at home we have a labor trouble to adjust but this will be arranged in season to let us get ready for the winters trade. The outlook is improving, and the de- pression cannot enduEe if the land be- come full of wheat, corn and cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
GOOD-BY KISSES
Blocked Street Car Traffic Ten Min
 utes at Busy Hour.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 Street railway traffic at the corner of Fifth and Walnut streets was blocked for 10 minutes during the o'clock rush last night while the guest of honor at so- cial function kissed her friends good by The party. which consisted of about 25 prettily dressed young ladies' came down from Clifton on the special car Santiago
 When the car reached the corner of Fountain Square and Walnut street 1t came to a stop and the members of the party began to take leave of their hos tess. Three minutes were consumed in a preliminary chatter, and then the guest of honor. petite brunette stationed herself on the car platform and proceeded to kisA each of the guests. In the meantime cars from all portions of the city were crowd ing into Walnut street. and by the time the petite brunette had kissed the last of the party the rear end of the 'block'' was out of sight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
St. Looey is TT this week.
souTHERNERs DRINK LESS.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
 Have you noticed" said the observant man about town, that the people of the south are becoming every year less adict-
 ed to the use of spirituous liouors.
 Whether this is attributable to the pro
 hibition propaganda or to the growing popularity of other beverages I am not prepared to say, but that it is a fact
 you may easily convince yourself by visiting the prominent saloons of the city during the lunch hour Where ten drinks of whiskey were sold ten years ago, today you will find but one handed over the counter. Claret, milk and beer seem to be the favorite beverages of the lunchers- The. consumption of beer ap- pears to show healthy increase, while whiskey is experiencing decline. You see men drinking beer today who sneer- ed at it ten years ago. and the switching to the nilder beverage seems to have caused a decrease in the number of drunkards. You may go a whole day and not see a man heavily intoxicated. Soda water, too, seems to be becoming a factor in diminishing the demand for not to be dispised
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
DiQqinu the Canal.

Gen. Peter 0. Hains raises a big view. He is an engineer of high rep utation and a member of the canal commission. He says the commission should not resort to the contract plan, chiefly because middlemen's profits can in that way be cut out. He cites many examples. The Santee river was drained by the government, using it's own tools, at cost of 49 cents per cubic yard, whereas the lowest con. tract bid was 371a cents. He goes on to say that the contract system em- ployed by the De Lesseps company was unsatisfactory and expensive. II resulted in many appeals by con tractors against engineers to Paris and if both engineer and contractor be dishonest then indeed would the government be robbed.
 On the other hand the politicians would certainly get in their work if the work of digging the canal be done by the government directly. Every bit of patronage would be fought over, and possibly the patronage question will turn the scale in favor of General Hains' contention. There is little pat ronage under the contract system.
 General Hains says that not more than 5000 men can be placed in Cule- bra cut, or rather, that not more ma chinery than 5000 men can use can be placed there. Perhaps, he adds, 10000 more can be employed along the rest of the line, and 13,OO0 men,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
THE PATRIOTS DEATH.
'itz-Greene Halleck.

By Fftz-Greene Halleck. Come to the bridal chamber, Death,
 Come to the mother when she feels. For the first time, her first -oorn's breath;
 Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke. And crowded cities wall it's stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly form. The earthquakes shock, the ocean storm; Come when the heart beats high and
 warm
 With Nbanquet's song and dance and
 wine
 And thou art terrible; the tear. The groan. the knell the pail. the bier, And all we know. or dream, or fear
 Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword
 Has won the battle for the free. Thy voice sounds like a prophets word' And in it's hollow tones are heard
 The thanks of millions yet to be- Come when his task of fame Is wrought; Come with her laurel leaf. blood bought;
 Come in her crowning hour-and then Thy sunken eyes unearthly light To him Is welcome as the sight
 Of sky and stars to prisoned men; Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land: Thy summons welcome as the cry That told the Indian isles were nigh
 To the world-seeking Genoese. When the land wind. from woods of palm. And orange groves. and fields of balm.
 Blew OCT the Haytian seas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
How People Laugh.

Have you ever heard Private John Allen of Mississippi laugh after perpetrat- ing one of his jokes?" asked man about town. Well, don't think you have Allen merely shakes his shoulders two or three times and swallows a deep chuckle His laugh Is oftentimes more amusing than his stories, although I will grant that he can tell some good ones when he gets started
 "The man who laughs loud and long is not necessarily a jovial fellow. Often he is far from being the whole-souled per son some people would suppose. although I have known loud laughers to be the most generous fellows imaginable. The rippling laugh, whether emitted by man or woman, is always most pleasing to the ear and most infectious. You know what I mean. cannot describe 1t but you have heard such laugh and you never failed to smile in sympathy. The chuckle be- tokens good nature more often than not. and also denotes that a man is of very indoent disposition. The snicEer is al- ways contemptible, and the te he affair is disgusting to say the least. The high keyed laugh is also very displeasing to the ear, while the musical laugh Is nobler than the grandest harmony ever pro- duced, because 1t is the spontaneous out burst of happiness. It has been aptly said that he who laughs last laughs best but the man who laughs all the time is the real philosopher"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08

Casper Whitney in Outing
 IT is a strange half-floating city, this Bangkok, overrun by parish dogs and crows; oriental in spite of the improve l ments, and one of the most interesting cities in the far east. Yet sad city for the visitor with a mind apart from mar gins and money saving machinery. At ev- cry turning are evidences of decay of na- tive art, and In their stead the llideously commonplace things that bear the legend: Made in Germany"
 One would scarcely believe today; af- ter visit to Bangkok, that at one time Siamese were distinguished, even among Asiatic artisans, In silk weaving. in cera- mics, in ivory carving and in silver smith, ing. Yet the royal museum discloses treasures not found elsewhere in the world, which serve to remind how far Siam has fallen from the place she once occupied among the art producing nations of the world
 When, therefore we behold a people discouraging and losing their splendid ancient arts. and giving instead a ready
 
 out of the west we may hardly look for native industrial development The day is probably not far off when Slams indus tries will depend upon foreign guidance; and if England, not France. supplies that impetus-the world will be the gainer.
 By those people who delight in com parisons-and read travellers folders es- pecially compiled for tourist consumption Bangkok has been. variously called the Constantinople of Aisa and the Venice of the east. True, there is much perti- hence in both comparisons Certainly Bangkok is the home of the gaunt and ugly parish dog, which spends its day foraging to keep life in its mangy car cass; multiplying meanwhile with the fecundity of cats in a tropical cline, be- cause the Buddha faith forbids its kill ing.
 Nor are outcast dogs the only pests of Bangkok to grow numerous because of native religious prejudice; more noisy crows perch of an early moring on your window casing and the tree immediately beyond 1t than in the space of a day hover over the Towers of Silence at Bombay awaiting the pleasure of the vui- lures feeding on the earthly remains of one who has died in the faith of the Parsee.
 Some people fancy Bangkok city of islands: hence I suppose the comparison with Venice. Bangkok. has indeed. very large floating population. and the city is intercepted with many ''klawngs" (canals); at certain times of the year, too. perhaps half the city and surround ing country is under foot or more of tidewater. Yet the largest half of Bang kok's 100000 citizens lives on land, though the easiest means of travel throughout much of the city Is by boat. and. in fact, half of 1t Is reached in no other way. The Siamese women of the lower class daily paddles her own canoe to the mar ket; or. if of the better class. she goes in a rua cang' the common passenger boat which, together with the jinrikisha. the land passenger carrier throughout
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
SOONER AND SHARPER
Rebuked by Silent Departure of the
 Sioux Indians.

From the New York Maif.
 There is just one dignified incident of the rush for the Rosebud Indian lands at Bonesteel, s. D. It Is the silent depar ture from the place, at the command of their chief, of a thousand Sioux Indians, some of whom were there as land seek CTS and some as spectators. Old Swift Bear, the chief, with the gentlemanly instinct that is present in every Indian, saw that the very presence of his people at such a rush was in some sense con donation of the great wrong that the nation had done his people. He had but to say "Go," and every tepee was in- stantly struck and every Indian depart ed.
 This did not. however, diminish the number of savages present at the cere- mony, for every Indians place was taken by some late-arriving recruit to the throng of white grafters, gamblers, thimble rig gers, monte men, come-ons'' and their barbarous kindred. who in their hearts are worse than any rum-crazed red man ever was.
 Why should all these rushes for little allotments of Gods green earth in a sunny land, where the songs of the meadow larks are scarcely drowned by the shouts of the fakirs and ''barkers' be accompanied by such prodigious as- semblies of bad men? Perhaps it is be- cause the land rush marks the culmina- tion of more than a century of dis honor" in our treatment of the Indians. But a more definite cause may be spe- officially traced. The mobs of "sooners' are animated by greed rather than by a more questionable sort. Nine out of ten of the land rushers are hoping to get something for nothing. It Is the nearest device they can think of to a get-rich- quick scheme. The same idea presented in the form of an opportunity to get hold of sum of money by naming card in the pleasing game of monte appeals strongly to their natures.
 Bonesteel was suddenly lifted to the proud pre-eminence of the widest open town In the world by the conjunction of the sharper and the sooner. The sharper is always two steps away from us, ready to come in when he is wanted. Evidently the land rushers always want him, and want him badly. We do not wonder that even the most degraded specimen of the reservation Indian folded his wigwarm and silently stole away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
Three Minor Tickets.

The prohibitionists met in Indianap- oils and made the Rev MT. Swallow of Harrisburg, Pa, their nominee for president. He once headed an anti Quay movement in his state, and was defeated. Dereat again will not, there fore, surprise him. The prohibitionists poll about 100000 votes They do not succeed in naming in all states an electoral ticket, but doubtless one will be filed in Alabama in time to get on the official ballot.
 The populists met at Springfield, H., where they put in nomination Thomas D. Watson of Georgia for president, and Thomas H, Tribbles of Nebraska for yice-president. The time has been when a populist ticket, pure and simple, would have polled a mil lion votes, but if the Watson-Tribbles ticket is accepted by a half a million
 
 voters all will be surprised. Electoral tickets will be presented in nearly all the states, and c vote about four hun dred thousand strong is anticipated. But another national populist conven- tion will not be held. MT. Watson is a capable man. He was once mem- Der of congress, and now he practices law and writes historical books. He has long cherished political ambitions that the populists cannot command, al though when MT. Weaver of Iowa led the populists he captured twenty-two electoral votes.
 Still another ticket of the minor size is that of the socialist labor party. which met in New York and put Charles H. Corrigan of New York up as a candidate for president and Will liam w. Cox of Illinois for vice-pres- ident In 1900 the socialists boiled 127,000 votes, and their vote will prob ably go to 100000 this year.
 We have then BOG, ,O00 prohibitionists, 10000 populists, and 100000 socialists in all 100000 men--who will not ac- cept the ticket of either of the two great parties the country. These vast numbers of men who vote for men whom they know cannot be elect ed are drawn ln about equal propor- tions from the two large parties, and in that way they neutralize each other and do not change the general result. In few states, however, the minor tickets are factors, and their effects are carefully studied by managing pol iticians. The socialist vote in New York is increasing, but so Is the pro- hi5ition vote, and the one offsets the other in the final showdown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
BOotblsck on MatrImonv.

'Dey tell me dat nIgeer Jackson has done gone and killed hisself erbout CT
 oman unused the bootblack while ba mt on the polish. '-Ftr de life CT me never could see why CT man wants ter let CT
 oman make erS fool outen him dat way Now dis nigger Fse tenng yer about went home one day ruther early an foun, luther buck nigger makin' love ter his wife Fust thing he did wuz ter turn eroun' an declare dat he wuz goin' right straight ter kill hisself. an amt seen I'm since.
 Now Ise been studyin' de wimmen folks fur CT long time an I'se done cum ter de conclusion dat dey aint no use ter worry when yer gal doan,t act right. De wimmen is always up ter somethin' an when dey gives yer de high ball de bes' thing yer kin do Is ter git nuther an git her quick. De quicker yer gifts her de better impression yer maKes on de las one and de more poplar yer is 'mong de yuthers dat's been CT watehin' yer all dc time
 T tell yer boss, dis shore Is CT fast age. Hundred years ago de people wuz walkin; terday dey Is runnin, an hun dred years fum now I guess dey will be hyinl Well, It's de same way wid de gals. Dey jest natehully aint got time ter love one man all de time an I doan't blame em fur changin' eroun' once en erwhile."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
MODEST CIRCUMSTANCES.

By Julius Chambers.
 Mir. Cleveland is in very moderate cir cumstances The expenses of the Prince ton home are carefully kept within bounds. The expensive summer home at Buzards Bay has been exchanged for one of much less size I have heard rumors that MT. Cleveland seriously contem- plated returning to New York and resum- ing the practice of law. but friend of the former chief magistrate. who visits him frequently. declares the rumor wholly unfounded. He says MT. Cleveland man. aged to save nearly $10o,ooo from his eight years salary when in the White House, that he made some money in his land purchase at Red Top, and that these sums are so invested as to produce about s1o,0o0 per year. This modest sum entirely sats- fies the wants of the family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
PEAT FOR FUEL.

From the New York Tribune.
 Peat briquettes. all heat except a pinch of ashes, can now be made by improved processes for s1.21 ton. The peat sup ply increases approximately with the dis tance from the equator. In cold and wet countries, the climate does not well do the drying, and methods have conse- quently to be resorted to. So prepared, there is peat enough distributed here and there in the world to conduct a substan- tial civilization on. for an indefinite suc- cecslon of centuries. Alaska has plenty of it, and so has Siberia, with ample deposits in other far northern countries Sweden already uses two million tons of the briquettes yearly, and within fifty miles of Chicago are deposits of the material sufficient to supply the city with fuel for a period to come perhaps as long as it may. have any use for fires or domestic hearths to light them on. One-seventh of the area of Ireland consists of peat bogs heretofore not to be profitably worked, but by the new process made as valuable as coal mines
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
Making Time at the Fair.

A great many papers have asserted that no one can see the St. Louis fair in less than two weeks. but got a very good idea of the big show and covered practi- cally everything to be seen in five hours of one day." said & gentleman who has recently returned from St. Louis. "of course I had to go rather hurriedy but I saw a great many sights and am satis- fled that I visited all that l cared about seeing. I will give you the itinerary of my journey through the fair grounds.
 Passing through the administration en- trance entered the transportation build ing walked through that, went through the varied industries building, the elec- tricity building, education and economy. manufactures, liberal arts, mines and metallurgy. government and Missouri buildings. Three of these I inspected thor oughly but the others I walked through rapidly.
 After leaving the government build ing I took the intramural railway which took me around the grounds to the Philip pine exhibit, a distance equal to nearly two-thirds of the circumference of the grounds. Here saw the Igorrotes and the Moros and also the midgits. In ad- dtion I visited all the buildings of this exhibit, which is one of the most inter esting at the fair.
 From the Philippine exhibit I went to the life saving station. not far distant, and then to the Brazil building, one of the handsomest structures in the grounds. The forestry and game building next claimed my attention and after seeing that I made bee line for the Pike I walked down this thoroughfare and took q trip to Paris in Over and Under the Sea- By this time was rather tired, so I passed out of the grounds through the Pike entrance.
 T went in at Il o'clock in the morning and came out at 5 o'clock in the after noon. I call that making very good time while sightseeing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
MurderIna the Kings EnqIIsh.

Have you ever noticed how many pub lie speakers murder the kings English?' asked a man about town "It would seem that speakers are the people above all others who should be careful about grammar and rhetoric but some of the worst blunders of this kind I ever heard were made by men who were accustomed to addressing large audiences nearly every night. I have often wondered why it is that such men do not notice how other people use words and correct their most glarlng faults but they never do. They will go on making the same old mistakes year after year and seldom change after they once get in rut.
 When one comes to think about 1t, English is the worst abused language in the world and It Is not surprising that it Is already become sadly complicated"