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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
OUR BEN"

You may not read long winded
speech from "our Ben" on the rate
bill. or find him trying to solve the
Panama. canal problem, but when il
comes to helping out the levee inter
ests, the suppression of blind tigers,
the curse of our State, the securing Of
appropriations for Government build
ings, the aiding of claimants in the
South for losses incurred during the
late war. you will find him Johnnie
On the Spot" delivering the goods.
How he does it ? Why, don't you
know? He stays right there at his
post from the beginning to the end OF
the session, and makes friends on both
sides. He supports measures that the
Congressman from Maine and Penn
syivania want, and when he asks for
the passage of bill they give him
their support.
Ben has made the district a good
Congressman, and no one can deny
this fact after they review his work.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
$4,000 n, 1910
MANY
DEFENDERS

The attack made by Editor Senter,
of the Columbus Commercial, upon
Governor Vardaman, anent the State
University imbroglio and Chancellor
Fulton, which resulted in the latter
rendering his resignation, has brought
many defenders to the Governors
side who have hitherto seen very
little in him or his course in his of
fetal conduct and capacity to admire,
and the effect of it will be, when the
true inwardness is known to raise
that official in the estimation of the
public general The Gulf Coast Bea-
con, journal that he'd never been an
ardent supporter of His Excellency.
That paper very truthfully and ap-
propriately says
There are two strong points in
the makeup of Governor Vardaman
that every manly man admires. The
first is that he may be depended on
to tell the truth at all times, and the
second, that he is fast to denounce
whatever is false in others, and the
refreshing manner in which he exc
cutes both these virtues makes inter
esting reading for ALL He is entirely
ignorant of the art OF mincing words
to conceal his thoughts or to give
! dual construction"
1t may be that Mr.. Senter will be
sorry that he ever spoke in such a
positive manner as he did without
having better and hrmer premises to
go upon, but at the same time it may
be considered equally certain that
Governor Vardaman has suffered
nothing whatever by reason of the
newspaper gentleman's iucubrations
The Governor evidently knew what
grounds he was proceeding upon
when he made the move that he i
charged with having made.-Natchez
Bulletin
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
Roby, of Durant, a Candidate

A press dispatch announces that
Hon. D. Roby, of Durant, is an
nounced as acandidate for Railroad
Commissioner from the Middle Dis
trict, now represented by Commits
sioner r. L. Bradley.
Mr.. Roby is one of the best known
travelling statesmen in the State, hav-
ing been knight of the grip for the
past n years. Two years ago he
gave Commissioner Bradley a very
close race for this office, and his
friends claimed that he was elected,
but the State Executive Committee
ruled otherwise, and Mr.. Roby ac-
cepted his defeat with good grace.
He is now preparing to go after it
again. and PROMISES Mr.. Bradley a
race that will be worth witnessing
Thus far no other candidates have
been announced in the District.
There are nine candidates, actual
and prospective, in the Northern Dis
triet, and the mix-up at the first pri-
mary promises to be exceedingly live
~. Commissioner Kincannon an
nounced some time since that he
would not offer for reelection.
Up to this time no candidates have
been announced in the Southern Dis
trict. It is quite likely that Commits
sioner McNair will offer for se-elec-
ton. af
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

The new Levee Board of the dis
trict will be sworn in on the 9th of
next month 1t will be composed of
three members of the present Board,
Messrs. Walker, Wade and Fitzger-
aid, and the three new appointees of
the Gov, Hon. Jno. Hebron, Jr., of
Washington, John Kirk, of Bolivar,
and DR.. Crump, of Sharkey. These
gentlemen are each eminently fitted
for the positions they are to fill, and
| the district can look for wise and
economical administration of its at
fairs from their hands.
The three members of the present
Levee Board, President ]. T. After
bury, and Commissioners Brooks and
| Bernard, whose terms Of office ex-
pire today, have each served their dis
trict faithfully and are entitled to the
warm thanks of a grateful citizenship
For four years DR.. Atterbury ha.
served the Board as its President, and
his rulings have been dictated by
honest motives and the best interests
of the district. During his presidenc,
the Board and the Government have
Iexpended in levee work nearly mil
lion dollars a year, more work thar
was ever accomplished in the same
time by any Board III any district
| Again, as a whole. the presen
Board has been one of the ablest tn.
district has ever had and their meet
ings have been characterized by TIL,
lperfect harmony existing among it.
members, and the lack of any friction
or feeling among its members
/ Judging by their proceedings thei
actions on all matters that came be
fore them were guided entirely by tn,
interests of the district, and the re
suit is they have strengthened its de
Tense and added honor 10 themselves
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

In point of miles of track ard mum
Der of cars the equipment OF the Del
ia Light. Power & Manufacturing
Company, of Grecnville, VII com
pare very favorably with the stree,
car lines of any city in the South
when size of cities are considered
The management of the Il, al car
line has endeavored to giu tie pab-
lie good service for the revenue they
derive from the people, ard have i'm
proved the system at every oppor-
tunity They deserve great deal OF
commentator for their enterprise
and courtesics. The following remarks
are not intended to show or mean
that The Times knows more abou,
the business or management Of the
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

oil carrying roads under the Till
man Gillespie resolution. They had
before them for the last witness a
Mr.. James Gardner, consulting coal
expert of the Erie rairload. Mr.
Gardner has acted in the same capac-
ity TO several of the most important
railroads of the country so that his
remarks were worth listening to.
He made rather strong point for
the railroad ownership of coal lands
saying that it was imperative for the
roads to own their own coal mine,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
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The presentment of the districts
levee interests will be strongly writ
ten up in The Times Special Edition
and copy will be sent to every Sen
ator and Congressman in the United
States. This write up will be supple
mented by pictures along the levee,
We hold that when the vast interest;
and values of one county, to say moth
ing of the others of the district, ar.
shown in pictures to this great body
they will be impressed and convinced
as to the country's duty towards ths
support and maintenance of these le-
wees more than ali the speeches that
ran BE-. made in its behalf.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
25OO0 IN 1910

Editor Leveque, of the New Or
leans Harlequin is exposing recent
frauds perpetrated by the Crescent
City Council. That body, according
to the Harlequin, accepted $4,000
from the Bell telephone people for a
years exclusive privilege to operate
In New Orleans, and refused 100000
from a competitive company for the
same privilege, and Editor Leveque
is exposing the fraud with a roar
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
The Uni~ersity

Whether accomplished by the po-
litical machinstions of Gov. Varda-
man or not is immaterial, the ousting
of Chancellor Fulton from the chan
celiory if the University Of Missis-
sippi is not an unmixed calamity to
its existence nor cloud to its pros
poets. No institution in the United
States is better equipped in the es-
sentials required for a great univer-
sity and yet, none is possessed of 4
smaller degree of magnetism. Com
pared with the attendance of other
universities of the South, it has al
ways shown a iamentable smallness
in number--smaller, in fact, than that
of either UNCONVENTIONAL college of
the State, inferiorally equipped as
they are. Its prestige, its facilities,
its comprehensive courses of study,
free tuition, beauty of location, fos-
tering care of the State, painful to
admit. have failed to attract a pat
ronage commensurate with its mef-
u.s. TIL ILLS COuOtkAOIl "a 0udIkS tuNi =
| must be cause or causes, traceable
either to weakness of the faculty or
shortcomings in management, or to
both. 1t cannot be gainsald that there
are operating causes initiating
against the success of the Univ, slts
| Its future prospects to b. bright
ened and bettered demand change and
any selected successor to the ...ae-
cy who will step in time and har-
mony with the cadence of the age
and in touch with public desires will
restore lost popularity and largely
augment the number of the student
body Past politics have been produc.
tive of dissension throughout the
State to change which becomes oil
| paramount Importance and interes,
to the University itself and to the
people of the State who have beer
prone heretofore to overlook ane
condone any untowardness of man
agement pointed out in the past
/ Crystal Springs Meteor.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
GOVERNMENT
BUILDING

Greenville will now have a Govern
ment building to cost sixty thousand
dollars Where it will be located has
not yet been determined, but already
different sites are being suggested as
suitable for it. In deciding it's loca-
Ition, our citizens should set aside self
and aid in seeing it located where it
will do the most good for the entire
city.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
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Open up the Black Bayou Dis
trict with railroads and sawmills,
start large department store in
Greenville, connect Arkansas and
Mississippi by direct railroad
connection,-either by transport or
bridge,-and the city will be $4,000
things, is the question, and its UP
to the Greenville Business League
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

Col. Ham, of Coahoma county
says that his name will appear on the
ticket in opposition to Hon. B. G.
Humphreys for Congress. OF course
he has no idea of being elected
According to your statement of the
case, all Sam wants is to get his
name on the ticket. Maybe Sam is
laying the wires for a future cam
paign. It's a good idea to try, try
again. The other man may drop dead
move into another district, fall hei1
to million or strike gold mine
Natchez Democrat
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

to insure them steady supply Of
fuel at the lowest possible cost. He
said that the Erie road owned four
such companies, supplying at least
half of all the coal they used, that
the ownership of mines was perfect
ly legitimate, and justihable and he
had advised them to buy more mines
as their needs increased.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
250OO IN 1910

The new schedule between the
railroads of Arkansas and the Lyons
boat line means much tor the city
future trade 1t is the best schedule
yet put on for Greenville.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
TO SURVEY
BLACK BAYOU

WASHINGTON, June z5.-Thc
Agricultural Department notified Re-
preventative Humphrey today that =
survey would be made of Black Ba-
you, Washington county Miss, to
ascertain the feasibility and cost Of
draining territory which embraces
about 100000 acres of land. The last
legislature authorized Washington
county to organize drainage districts.
the many who believe in the making
OF survey of the Black Bayou Dis
trlct, to ascertain whether or not the
necessary drainage was possible for
the opening OF these lands.
For some time there have been ef-
forts made by prominent citizen OF
this city to get the Agricultural De-
partment of the Government to make
the survey, and the Government n
nal1y agreed to make the survey if
the district would stand 1.-The cost,
which it refused to do at the June
meeting of our county Board of SUI
pervIsors.. Such a turn down would
have sealed the districts fate with
most men, but such has not been
the case with this gentleman, and
he has pressed his demands on the
Department that much stronger, and
as the result, the Government will
make the survey, as stated above.
Such men are public benefactors and
we are glad to know that Greenville
possesses one as a citizen.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
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The chief of police and his force
and the deputy sheriffs are at outs at
Gulfport and bloodshed has been mar
rowly averted. The resignation OF the
present chief of police is the third to
resign this year.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
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Another murder in New York 10
furnishing the yellow Journals OF the
country with large 6fack face head
lines. <-.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

True to It's Name

Our mail order house can supply
anything
But / sent you an order for wife
and you turned II down.
Well, il IS no female order house. =
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

Let everybody talk Greenville and
work for Greenvilie and they
have city-Greenville-that all
can feel proud OF.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

Main street is getting ready to re-
ceive the Government representatives
when they come to selct site for
sbe new Covenant building.
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Let the cotton men OF the city
make Greenville the cotton market
of the Delta Prices and tar and
honest treatment will do it.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
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The GLORIOUS Fourth will as
usual, be fittingly celebrated in
Greenville by the post office en-
ployees taking rest, ....t,s
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
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Senator BAILEY roasts Hearst and
his Cosmopolitan magazine in the
Senate.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

John Sharp Williams denies that
he has been offered chair in the
University of Virginia Maybe they
are holding it until after the election
for sconsolation price larksdalc
Register.
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The independent order of fathers
should all be found working fof
Greenville this fall
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Greenville should have large
trade with the people across the river
Let's go after it.
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GreenvilIe. the city with forty miles
of granolithic sidewalks, is the won
der of the State.
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The new Levee Board will take
hold Of the affairs of the district
July 9th.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

When man gets stuck on him
self may he be said to have have
made bad bargain
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
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Let's boost and make Greenvllle
the "Spotless Town Of the Delta.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

The Rate Bill is still In confer
ence. 1t is expected to get out early
next week, and it is said that all the
amendments have been agreed on
save only that regarding the pipe
lines. 1t has been wished to declare
the pipe lines common carriers with
a view to putting them under the con
troll of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. But they have fought
this desperately as it would bring
them within the prohibition against
owning the commodity they carried
What the outcome will be, it is inn
possible TO say, but no one IS likely
to know before the end of the week
as it is intended to hold the bill Of
from a vote as long as possible to
prevent the ffods of oratory that il
would awaken as soon as it gotback
to open session.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

Now is the time to prepare tor
a great fall and winter business.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

Be good, but do not be good
thing e
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30

Late this week the Interstate Com
merce Commission held whit probably
will be its last hearing of the season.
on the investigation Of the coal and
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2y00o IN 1870
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$500 m 1910
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2JOOO IN 1910
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-30
OUR STREET
CAR SYSTEM

$4,000 IN ls1o
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THE NEW AND
THE OLD

assoc IN 1910
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
PLANT KNEW IT'S FRIEND.
Travellers Story of Sensitive Plant of
Cey1on.

'Uncanny," said glc,e trotter, sis
the splendid and fourishing sensitive
plant of Ceylon. This plant causes you
to wonder if plants, like us, can't feel
pain, and think and grieve.
I'VE were seated, in white linen
clothes, under the palms of our hosts
garden beyond Colombo. We had just
breakfasted, and the native servants
were handing about coffee and liqueurs.
"'What plant is that?' i asked.
ga mimosa, or sensitive plant my
host answered. and added, turning to
his little daughter.
eco, dear, and kiss the mimosa.'
1.-THE child obeyed. Then she came
back to us gleefully. The plant had
not shrunk from her fresh young touch.
Not leaf quivered.
"'Now you go and kiss it, said our
host to me.
81 advanced. I put out my hand. And
my hand no sooner touched the mimosa
than it shivered, and the leaves wilted
as though frost bitten.
""rne plant knows my daughter our
host explained, but you are a stranger
to it. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
NIGHT FLIGHT OF BIRDS.
Favorite Time for Migration Up the Mis-
sissippi River.

This is the time when the birds pass
in the night. They are passing this
year, 1t is said, in greater numbers than
Tor years. Bound for the waters and
woods and the greening fields of the
north, they are hurrying over st. Louis
every night, myriad, many, wonderful in
habit. unerring in instinct.
Northern Missouri and the states of
the upper Mississippi valley have from
5 oO to 80 different birds; from 200 to
20 OF these migrate north between the
hrst OF April and the middle of May
just now this migration is at its height
The geese and ducks have gone on in
advance and, after many rebuffs, have
driven winter neadlong over the Cana
dian border. The song birds and all the
other little feathered creatures which
troop along after these holder and
stronger migrants are bringing up the
main bird body and the chirruping rear.
The robins and bluebirds led this song
full procession.
The night is the birds favorite time
for travelling. AT night hawks and other
BIRDS OF prey are asleep, and the song
ster may venture out of the sheltering
copse and cruise the high seas of the sky
without fear. If you will step outside
tonight and listen you may hear them
passing.
Their plaintive little cries are calls of
encouragement to one another. If the
winds are bufeting them about their
shrill notes betray their distress, and
you may be sure they will not long
wear themselves out trying to oppose a
contrary wind. Some place near they
will drop into clump of trees or a
thicket. there to lie to until the condi-
tons shall be more favorable.
Most OF the birds go in hocks. The
blackbirds are famous for the innumer-
able host which they assemble in migra-
ton. 1t is not uncommon to see flock
of them which cannot number less than
ten or even twenty thousand birds. I'm
like most of the small birds, too, the
blackbirds do a great deal of travelling
during the day.
Some Of the night flyers are great
travellers. Even blackbirds, which do
too much dipping and talking to get any
where much. can make 200 miles in a
night. The swift-winged jacksnipe can
do twice as much when he gets a stiff
south breeze at his back. The ducks
can do such wonderful feats of flying in
night that ornithologists are timid
about publishing the results of their OBJ
servations. 1t is apparently true that
some of these flyers make as much as
1900 miles without stopping, and that
ducks like the canvasback and the pin
tail cover five, six or eight hundred miles
between dusk and dawn.
The larger and swifter birds usually
fly higher than the little songsters. On
foggy nights they are all pretty much
at sea. Oftentimes flock of birds,
cropping along, will get tangled in a tree
top or clump of trees. Even ducks do
this, and the squawking they set up on
such occasions infests the night with the
clamor of commission and terrorist.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
HIS HANDS.

Terror that stalketh in the night
tfelghting the SOUS Of men with fright,
Mocking mans puny walls with might;
PitilesS, heartless aimiess rush
Out of the lulling, dreamleSs hush.
Flaming with fear in the dawning's blush
Hovel and palace, hut and hall,
Pillar and portal, gate and wall
Flung III q mad wreck, one and all!
Aye then we sigh Of the Christening rod
That has made the land as Il shattered
clOd-
We nlurmur: 1T came from the hand OF
God
Listen. From homeland and overseas
A wonderful song is upon the breeze
The chant of the swelling sympathies.
listen, and LOOK; from the chest, and bin.
Come the. gold and stores that We're held
within
And the folk of the world are today akin!
Ah gentle mercy encompasseth
The peoples who harken with quickcaught
breath
The saddening tale of the city's death.
Look, For these, in the alien lands,
In the hidden hills, on the spray-sWept
sands
These hands of help-they are Gods own
wilbur D. Nesbit in Harpers Weekly.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29

get your flower back again. after all.''
Good might, Sarah" said she. I'D
pray again tonight, if was you, just as
you did before
Yes" replied Sarah, meekly. I mean
to-
The moment she rose next morning she
glanced out of the window. Did her weak
eyes deceive her? Was it really the
geranium she saw below?
The Lord be praised!" said she, hug
eing it close; 'aEd the Lord be praised
that | didn't fall so low as to have sus-
picions of my old friend, Liza"
And Eliza Hubbard meanwhile, her face
red with shame, clasped her hands to-
gether and offered her prayer.
I'm going round to Sarah's now at
once said she; land while I'm about it
III take this other white geranium to her
as well The pink one will look uncom-
mon nice between them two" brooklyn
Citizen.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
Some One Found the Whisky.

that belonged to L. Fitzgerald. Fitzger-
aid is very anxious to know who has it
and to secure replevin for the goods.
The earthquake did not affect Fitzger-
aid seriously, nor did the stirring events
of April 10. But when the morning of
April 10 rolled around End the rim of
the fire line began to verge along south
of Valencia street Fitzgerald hied to his
place of business and dug a hole in the
back yard wherein he thoughtfully en-
balmed two barrels of his choicest stock.
When the ashes had cooled sufficiently
to permit of resurrection Fitzgerald dug
zealously for his barrels, but they were
not there.-San Francisco Chronicle.