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The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25
BUY A SMOKING MOUNTAIN
American Syndicate Has Recently
Purchased Popocatapeti - To
Build Road to Summit

What is perhaps Dame Ma
lures biggest laboratory has been
purchased by d syndicate Of Amer
leans. 1t is located in the crater
Of the historic smoking mountain
of Mexico. the Popocatapetl of the
.Aztecs. The transaction, whether
regarded as real estate transfer
or an Industrial deal, Is interest
ine by reason OF its novelty.
Pop8cataEetI has been on the
whole rather a beneficent volcano
than otherwise. Instead of pour
ing oat lava and ashes like Nesu-
vius il has furnished for cen
fury or so d practically inexhaust-
ible supply of sulphur. The world
has long been aware of this fact
and the sulphur mine has been
worked by native labor, though on
necessarily small scale, since
heretofore it has been well-nigh
inaccessible. Tie mountain is
over 1900 feet high and for 13,
900 feet is covered with a dense
growth of forest. The crater Itself
is three miles in circumference
and 900 feet deep.
These natural obstacles in the
way of extracting and marketing
the vast sulphur deposits in the
crater are to be overcome by con
structing a railway from the vii
lage at the base of the summit.
The mountain was purchased some
years ago by a syndicate Of
wealthy Mexicans, who, however
failed to develop il, and have now
sold out to the american capital
lists. The under taking will be 4
large one, but by applying mod
ern methods the output of sulphur
can be made enormous. while the
timber which clothes the noun
tain sides has large commercial
value Certainly it will establish
a new and unique industry in Mex
leo. though thousands of the ole
; AZtecs will doubtless turn in thei
graves upon realizing such
proclamation.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25
PoPULAcE CROWD SUBURBS
Tendency to Remove from City Limits
Gains Strength-Desire for
Pure Air and Water.

OF the fifty-One and half mil
lion people living in the north and
west and the far west, twenty
four and half millions. or almost
80 per cent, are dwellers IN cities
and towns; and in he almost pure
lv agricultural south the urban
tendency grows steadily stronger,
SAYS the Saturday Evening Post.
These facts point the vast impor-
tance of municipal problems to
the American people. Most of
these problems are, perhaps unfOr-
tunately. involved in political
partisanship; but there are two
and these of the very first rank
that are SO clear that no partisan,
however bigoted, can befuddle
them; pure air and pure water.
The rural districts have by no
means solved them-bad water
/ and badly ventilated bed and sit
! ting-roOms are not unknown
among farmers. But nature helps
there: she is excluded from the
city and town. The urban dwell
ers. if they care intelligently for
their own health >and for the
health of the children, will fight
for air that is net merely breath
able, but health-giving, for water
that is not merely slightly and free
from odors and germs, but is {
strong wine of health. 1t wOul'
not be easy to degenerate a race
! that had pouring through its veins
the spirits that pure air and pur'
water put into man.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25
Change in Flour Mills.

Flour making and wheat-rais
ing go hand in hand. During the
past 90 years the milling indus
t<y has been revolutionized. The
substitution of rolls for mill
stones in grinding wheat into
-four wrought as wonderful a
change in the milling industry as
the reaper did in agriculture.
Five years before the introduc-
ton of rolls a great impetus was
given to milling in the northwest
by the discovery that, by the use
of purifier, the best -four in the
world can be ground from the de-
spised spring wheat. Since then
Minneapolis has grown to be the
greatest -four milling city in the
world. Success.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25
ley Insurance storu-

They tell this story down on
Wall street. The executive officer
of a great insurance company,
happening one day to meet II
friend in the street, found himself
violently upbraided because his
company refused to invest in the
bonds of an enterprise with
which his friend was connected.
The insurance man stood it Z
few minutes. Thcn-"Oh. we'll"
said he, carelessty, as if he were
ordering a box of new brand of
cigars. send me up million and
a half of them. Worlds Work
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25
Cross Ties Wanted.

We will pay twenty-nine cents
per tie for properly made white
oak or post oak ties, post oak
preferred, ties 6x8. Z feet long,
delivered on streets of COlum bus
at points to be designated by US,
These ties may be sawed or
hewed.
COLUMBUS CONSTRUCTION Co.
By Thos. J O'Neill.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25
Notice.

I wish to supply number OF
the best tables in COlumbu with
their market meats. All L ask is
an opportunity to serve you and
[ can assure you that l will give,
you the very best the market at
fords. Send me a trial order.
SAM HAIRSTON,
Main Street Meat Market,
41O-tf Both Phones.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25
His Fuel.

"Do YOU burn gasoline in your
automobile ?"
81 don't know answered the
apprehensive-l oching man. "It
seems to me that what | am burn
ing is Observation-Disclosures Star.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25
Public Hauling.

I am now ready for public
hauling and drayage. Telephone
me at my residence and your
wants shall be attended to. Prices
reasonable. Citizens phone No.
276.
1-15-1m j. b. CHAPPELL.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25
Unfair Advantage.

He-You say you like manly
man. What is your idea of man.
~ man?
She-Well, for instance, one
who doesn't stay and stay just be-
cause he knows the girl isn't
strong enough to throw him out
New Yorker.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25

Jan. 6. lin.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25
Position Wanted.

A steady young man desires a
position as assistant book keeper.
Wages reasonable where the OPP
portunity of Advancement is pre-
scented. Address P. w. M.
Care This Office.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25
NEW TRAIN TO HOT SPRINGS ARK.
VIA Iron Mountain Route.
Leaves Memphis daily, 1l:l5
pm. arrive Hot Springs
8 a. m.

Solid vestibuled, electric
lighted drawing room sleepers
operated on this train.
Round trip tickets at greatly
reduced rates now on sale by
your local ticket agent.
This train arrives at Little
Rock at 6:2O a. M. making direct
connections for points on the
Little Rock & FIT. Smith and Val
ley Branch Of the I. NJ.
For sleeping car berth reser
vationS and full Information
address
H. D. WILSON.
A. Or. 2. A.
Main St. Memphis. Tenn.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25
Iron, Brass. Copper, Bones, Etc.,
Bought.

We are paying the highest
market price for old iron, brass,
copper. bones, bottles, etc. We
are located at the Bell Lumber d
Manufacturing Co., on Main ST.
Bring along your old iron, etc.
and get your money.
SHEINBLUM BROS,
ProprieIors.
Jan. 6. I'm.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-25
CITY Tax and Sidewalk Notice.

CITY Tax anu oIuBWdIK NUtIO6'
Have you paid your city tax
and for your sidewalk? If not.
this is to give notice that Feb
ruary 1st.. is the limit in which
YOU have to do so. If not paid
on or before said date damages
will occur and be charged.
Z. S. DONNELL,
Marshal and Tax Col.
January 1st, 1905.-1m.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
CLARENCE BEAUMONT, GREAT lPTTSBURG CENTER FIELDER,
WHO HAS RETIRED BECAUSE OF ILL HEALTH

ing, for it shows conclusfvely that the
athletic superiority of the country no
longer exists in and about New York
city, and thereast will have to look to
the west in the future for closer COM
petition and more defeats. The team
that the Chicago Athletic association
had on the field at Portland was one
that could certainly defeat any club
team that was sent this year from the
east Performances proved that, and
naturally the Oregonians feel quite de-
lighted over their glorious victory. In
fact, SO delighted are they that they
have asked for the national champion
ships of 1906.
"That the Pacific northwest turns
out champions and is able to keep them
from year to year is remarkable when
you consider the fact that the.- have
very few games to take part in and the
climatic conditions are such that it's q
pretty hard thing for a man to COM
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
SAM RERNARp,s IDEA.

'I have suggestion to make to all
life insurance companies" said Sam
Bernard, the laugh raiser wigmaker of
THE Rollicking Girl" at the Herald
Square theater, New York. 'Tt is to
provide theater coupons with every life
insurance policy and to make a pro-
viso that the coupons be used only for
funny shows. There should be at least
twenty theater coupons for every an
nual premium. And they should be
absolutely nontransferable.
"Tlle man who goes to a show and
laughs is taking a stronger grip on life
than the man who is bolstering him
self up with tonics and pills. He lives
longer, has a better time and is a far
better risk. Instead of giving big per-
centages to insurance canvassers and
taking chances with all grades of heart
and liver diseases-for any old sort of
an incurable is snapped up by the in
surance companies these days-it would
be better to offer these coupons to
policy holders as inducements, and it
, would prove the morality standard ap-
preciably. 1 do not mean that they
should all be coupons for The RoIlick-
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
HORSE NOTES.

S. George Levi of Philadelphia, who is
also owner of the trotter Dan T.,
2:O7H, by Crawford, has placed the
PAGER Sadie Baron, 2:0e%. in Fred
Devinneys stable at Point Breeze to
train for the free for all class wagon
races.
Dr. Wood of London, Ont, has bought
the game pacing gelding Texas Rocker.
2:13A, paying $4,000 cash. The horse
will be turned over to Dan McEwen,
who will race him in New England.
Mart Demorest has worked Director
Joe mile in ZIP with last quarter
in thirty seconds. Demorest has train
ed this fellow for three .-ears without
losing faith In him.
Billy whalebone. 2:12A, by Whale
bone, 2:18h, owned by Emory Swisher
of Campbellstown. O., has been turned
out and will not be campaigned this
year.
There is no truth in the rumor that
Searchlight. 2:03N. will be taken from
California to be placed in the stud in
Kentucky.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09

story has been interviewer that should
prove highly entertaining.
The play, which is to be produced first
at Norfolk, Va, late in September, un-
der the management of George H. Bren-
nan, will be in four acts. A feature will
be the appearance of real horses on the
stage.
The play should prove of stirring in
terest, particularly in the south, as the
scenes are laid below Mason and Dixon's
line. The theme was once of vital con-
! Germ to the south, and Mr.. Dixon is one
of the able thinkers and speakers of
that part of the country. The play has
been well described by the saying,
Uncle Toms Cabin answered at
last
Mr.. Dixon is minister. although he
has retired from the pulpit
Although Mr.. Dixon makes his home
in New York and votes there, he spends
at least six months of the year at his
beautiful estate Elmington Manor, in
Virginia. Here in a fine old colonial
mansion he lives the life of a country
gentleman and dispenses a generous
hospitality. 1t is one thing to see Mr..
Dixon in his New York study; it is
quite another to know him in the coun-
try. He was born on farm, and the
old love of the soil is still upon him.
He wears old clothes and a slouch hat,
rides over his place OF 500 acres or
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09

pete as successfully as our fasteners
do. In some western cities the COM
petitors get very little chance; in other
cities once or twice a year, and in
many cases the competitors compete
for no prizes, SO the work Of the west
ern men at this particular meeting was
simply remarkable.
"The holding of this championship
meeting in the west and the fact that
the west could produce specialists to
win in many events speak volumes for
the good work of the Amateur Athletic
union of the United States. The hold
ing of these championships in the Pa
cif1c northwest will materially help
athletics in that particular district, and
Manager Kerrigan, President Herdman.
George Willet, w. Greer Harrison, Sec
retary Hauser and Captain Rosendeld
when interviewed all thought that
the A. A. U. had done sport on the
Pacific coast a great deal of good and
that the holding of these championships
in that district would advance sport al
least ten years."
HARRY GRANT.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
VIEWED FROM MANy SIDES

man who was assassinated four years
ago; the other was Israel Zangwilrs
Mantle of Elijah I used the fiction
form to tell the truth 1 try to be an
artist. but a philosopher also. If I tell
a story. it is to reveal a truth
The reason for the seemingly strange
interest shown in .'The Clansman'' by
the people of Japan can probably be
found in the following lines from Mr..
Dixon's novel, Under their clan lead
ership the southern people had sud-
denly developed the courage of the lion,
the cunning of the fox and the death
less faith of religious enthusiastic
In this pregnant sentence lies the
affinity between the clansman of the
south and the samurai of Satsuma.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
The Cast,

The cast is one of decided merit, the
leading member of which is Edwin
Stevens, who makes the amusing role
of McGinty, the ancient mariner, pic
turesque and a thing of joy. Mr..
Stevens is versatile, no one denies, and
If by chance a doubter should arise, let
him pay 50 to the ticket seller and
watch the comedian cavort through the
play. Mr.. Stevens can sing, dance, be
humorous and be clever. He has op-
portunities for all these things in ''The
Pearl and the Pumpkin"
other members of the cast are Ger
tie Carlisle, seen as Pearl Pringle; Tay-
lor Granville as Joe Miller Miss Ethel
johnson as Sally Simkins. Miss Ida
Hawley as Polly Premier and Harry
McDonough as Ike Cannem.
More than twenty songs, all of them
good, are sprinkled throughout the play.
The music, in fact, is superior to the
book and. happily, more than atones for
a number of weak puns that have
found their way into the authors text.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09

ing Girl although that would be a
mighty good show to send them to.
Laughing is the greatest life length
ener we know anything about" con-
tinued Sam. 1.-THE man who laughs sell
dom has pain or an ache. He knows
nothing about disease. Occasionally he
laughs so hard and long that he dis
locates his jaw or bursts a blood ves-
sci, but that is a rare accident. If 1t
kills him he certainly dies happy. Tie
man and woman who laugh ought to
get their insurance at a very low
rate. They pay more premiums be-
cause they last longer, and company
could afford to insure them cheap. In
stead, however, of cutting the rates,
it would be good idea, as have said,
to let the insurance agents give theater
coupons with every policy"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
z5ss1er~< L'Y11ze
A THEATRICAL MANS DEBUT AS
HIJM0RiST

Wells Hawks, the well known mem
ber of Charles Frohman's New York
managerial staff, has won new promi-
nence through the publication of a book
of "reminiscences entitled Red Wagon
Stories" The stories deal with inter-
esting phases of circus life, Mr.. Hawks
at one time having been connected with
the management of a prominent circus.
In sRed Wagon Stories Mr.. Hawks
makes his debut as hu1norist of such
caliber that George Ade. George v. Ho-
bart, Peter Finley Dunno (Mr. Dooley)
and Marshall P. Wilder consider him a
dangerous rival. However, Mr.. Ade
and Mr.. Hobart carefully avoid letting
Mr.. Hawks know of their deep chagrin
at his successful invasion of what was
formerly the particular field of them
selves and Messrs. Dunno and Wilder.
For the originator of FABLES In Slang
and the creator of Mr.. Dinkelspiel. hav-
ing entered the dramatic arena, hope
to sell Mr.. Frohman large number OF
plays during the next few. years.
Mr.. Hawks describes with pic
turesque fidelity many of the unique
types of humanity produced especially
for circus consumption. Among them
are the press agent, the CRATER, the
billposter. the candy butcher, the boss
canvasman, the bandmaster, the side
show spieler, the greaser knife throwel
and the concert manager.
In referring to the boss canvasman
Mr.. Hawks says:
You couldn't have looked into the fac.
| of that old fellow without believing every
| word he said. He was burned brown b.
every Cline, creased and scanned by every
| frost and parched and dried by ever
wind, and his hands were as knotted an(
gnar1ed as old oak tree. He never
wore a collar. On Sunday he would pu
gold button in the shirtband lean dis
consolately against the tongue of thl
pole wagon and feel uncomfortable be
cause he was dressed up.
In the opening story the author says
The press agent of the big show ha,
formerly been dramatic editor of tn
leading daily in Council Bluffs 1t wa
his star boast that he was the only criti
in the middle west that ever had tn
nerve to roast Joe Jefferson, and he sal,
he did it in the interest of art.
art" says he, must be preserved, an
| the only way to do 1t is by knockfn.' -
Mr.. Hawks is Baltimorean by earl.
habit, but a New Yorker by later in
clination. He was formerly city edito
of a Baltimore daily, and his fathe
was a well known general in the Con
federate army. Mr.. Hawks is said t
believe that having produced the secre
! tary of the navy, the manager of tn
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
The Recent Games.

'The national track and field cham
pionships that were recently held in
Portland were without doubt the most
successful that the Amateur Athletic
union has held in many years. The
performances were high class, the COM
petition was clean and interesting, and
for the first time in the history Of anna
teur sport-that is, since the. organiza-
rion of American championships. which
was in I8T6-the trophy, emblenatic of
club success, goes to other than an
eastern city The Chicago Athletic as
soeiatfon, with its splendid team, all
picked champions. won the champion
ship quito easily.
'The effect of this win is far reach
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
Western Athletics,

During recent visit to the west and
a lengthy stop at the Lewis and Clark
exposition at Portland, James E. Sulli-
van, secretary-treasurer of the Anna
teur Athletic union, had a splendid op-
portunity to observe athletic conditions.
He said to the writer:
1.-The athletic condition of the Pacific
northwest is very encouraging With
tl.e formation IF the new Pacific north
west association, amateur athletics will
surely have well merited boom, back
ed by the strong Multnomah Athletic
club of Portland. The Olympic club OF
San Francisco is again beginning to
take a strong hold in fostering track
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09

cation has just been completed for the
Japanese stage. The marvellous up-to-
dateness of Japan is impressively illus
trated by this interesting item of in
formation Although arrangements have
been completed for the presentation of
this play in England and Germany in
the future. 1.-The Clansman'' will be
produced on the Tokyo stage almost
simultaneously with the American pre-
nnier at Norfolk.
YHiehi Masaoka, who translated 1.-The
CIansman" into japanese, is not only
the most distinguished of the japanese
newspaper correspondents at the peace
conference at Portsmouth, but he also
holds high rank in the literature of the
island empire. Although but twenty
five years of age, he is the author of
about forty books, including treatises
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09

drama, while the dialogue must be as
bright and witty and the musical num-
bers as pretty and catchy as in musical
comedy. In 1.-THE Belle OF Avenue A."
the newest Of these plays, in which
Ellie Fay is starring. there is strong,
consistent plot, which, even without
music, would make a pleasing even
ing's entertainment, while there are
tHirty-two solo and chorus numbers,
which is more than in the average
musical production.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
(From Our New York Dramatic Core
spondent.J

(From Our New York Dramatic Corre-
spondent.1
% HE dramatic season has opened
with the blare of trumpets
and much song. Everywhere
q the sound of rehearsing is
heard in the land, and the great multi
4ude Of stagefolk therefore rejoiceth-
At the Broadway theater '"The Pearl
and the Pumpkin" a delightful ex-
travaganza of the musical comedy
family, has opened with a measure Of
success unusual at this early part Of
the season. The music is pleasing even
to the most exacting minds, and the
mountings suggest artistic judgment
and lavish expenditure.
John w. Bratton wrote the music.
Paul West and W. w. Denslow are the
fathers of the book.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09

promoter, who at one time was man
ager of the Richmond (Va-) club.
Jack was put into the game imne-
diately by Wells. He had been pitch
ing well for small teams up to the time
of joining the Richmond club How
ever, his new honor seemed to un-
nerve him. His first games were more
disastrous than those of his protege,
Walter Clarkson, the Harvard star,
who was released by the New York
Americans and signed by the Jersey
City team of the Eastern league. Jack
lost his first five games. He asked for
another chance. He was given it and
lost five more consecutive games.
Wells thought Chesbro a punctured
balloon, but the indomitable begged
for still another trial.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
Has Spectacular Merit Too.

The spectacular side is well consid-
cred. When Messrs. Klaw & Erlanger
stage a production of this description
they aim at whatever is most effective.
regardless Of cost.
OF course the plot of the play will not
stand the acid test, for the funmaking
and the songs are the particular fea-
lures.
1.-THE Pearl and the Pumpkin will
do for New York. It is a successful
curtain raiser for a season that prom
tses much in the way of acceptable
theatric entertainment.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09

every one. a total of fourteen consecu-
tive defeats.
THAT will be about all for you,
Jack" said Wells. Pack up the lit
tie trunk and try chicken farming"
"Now look here" was Chesbro's re-
sponse. 81 lost fourteen games
straight, everybody knows-in fact, 1
haven't won single game for you.
But I tell you 1 can pitch, and if you
let me pitch one more game, just one
more, I'll prove that I know what I'm
talking about"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
A Rowing Phenomenon.

Frederick Shepheard is the latest
sensation in the rowing world. He is
twenty-four years old, a comparative
youngster, yet he has defeated in scull-
ing matches some of the best oarsmen
in American and is undoubtedly a fu-
ture champion, and not a very distant
future either.
Shepheard is a native of Port Jer-
Wis. N. Y. At the national champion
ship regatta in Baltimore he outrowed
C. S. Titus, Fred Fuessel, Williamson
and Wesley. That is an astonishing rec
ord for a then unknown, but he is no
longer an unknown.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
ELElE BAYS Play.

The distinction between comic opera
and musical comedy is already clearly
drawn. but just where the line can be
placed between the latter and what is
known as musical play is still vague
numbers are catchy and it's dialogue
bright, 1t does not matter as to plot.
Not so with a musical play. With this
class of attraction as much attention
must be paid to theme as in classic
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
ANLV SPORTS AyND The DRAMA VIEW

runs his launch in Chesapeake bay.
The .sbig house, as the servants call it
after the delightful old Virginia fash
ion. with its stately pillars. faces the
east. one may stand on the broad
porch and watch the sunlight gleam on
the ripping blue waters of the bay
Elnington Manor was originally a
crown grant, and it is in historic
country Across it Bacon drove Lord
Berkeley and his troops long before the