The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1904-02-04

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was we'll presented and the ma.
jority of the large audience
present were pleased. Manager
Locke's next attraction will be
Ben Hur
The steamer Vienna will make
her return trip to this city this
week, arriving either tomorrow
or Tuesday. She will bring a
cargo OF cotton and cottonseed
meal.
Cotton continued it's upward
fight throughout yesterday, sell
ing in the city for nearly sixteen
cents. Reports from over the
South show that many are hold
ing their cotton for twenty cents
a pound.
Miss Matte Grace entertained
d number of her friends Friday
at birthday party. A large
number of her friends were
present whoenjoyed the occasion,
wishing her many happy returns
of the day.
Mr.. Jim Barksdale, son of Mr.
w. E. Barksdale of the New Hope
neighborhood, was painfully
wounded Friday by the acct
dental discharge of a pistol. Mr..
Barksdale was hunting. and
while endeavoring to get within
range of a rabbit, accidentally
discharged his revolver, the load
entering his leg. We are glad to
report his wound not serious.
We call attention to the adver-
tisement of Mrs. A. M. Jobe
which appears in another part
of this paper. Mrs. Jobe, after
having been in business in this
city for over thirty years, during
which time she has won the con-
tidence and esteem of the whole
community, is about to sell out
her handsome stock of jewelry
and retire to private life. Mrs.
JObe has been a successful bust
ness woman and has many
friends who regret to know that
she intends discOntinuing bust
ness.
Are we on the threshold of a
war which will involve not only
Russia and Japan but the whole
world-a war beside which the
barbarities of the past are slight
in comparison? Alexander am
bition was to conquer the world
as he then knew it; NapoleOn'S
mind held fixed plan equally
vast, and today those who un-
derstand Russia's policy see in it
far more than contest over
strip of Chinese territory. No
subject can have greater i'm
portance, and the analysis of the
situation by John Brisbane Wal
ker in the February Cosmopoli-
tan astounQs the reader with the !
monsttous results predicted.
An industry that is a paying
one and one which would bring
large revenue to the South is the
paper mill. Not being able TO
offer the necessary inducements
heretofore the manufacture of
paper in the South has not
reached the Importance that the
industry has attained in the
North. There is no reason why
the South should not build up
industries of this kind, of as
much importance and even
greater than those of the North.
There is a plant that is grown
extensively in Japan called mitsu
mata from which the finest pa
per Of the world is made. Be
sides using this plant for the
manufacture of paper the Japan
csc manufacture the product in
to kind of cloth which is water
proof and we'll nigh indistructa-
bic. The climate of this section
is admirable for the growth of
this plant and as it thrives best
when given a red, sandy soil,
could be made to reclaim much
of the land that is now practi-
cally useless. Mr.. Forrest NJ
Runnels is in correspondence
with the Secretary of Agriculture
who promises to secure speci-
mems of the plant for expert
mental purposes, and a test will
be made as to the adaptability of
this climate for it's growth.
River Survey.