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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-10-20

were felt from the first, Mrs. Davis
wonderful vitality. which brought her
safely through a similar attack year
ago gave hope of ultimate recovery
until Monday night. when decided
change for the worse was evident and
the attending physicians announced
that the end was near. Rev. Nathan A.
ant Episcopal church. was hurriedly
summoned to give religious comfort
to the patient In her last moments OF
consciousness. The clergyman re-
manned some time. and an hour later II
was announced that Mrs. Davis had
lapsed into a state OF coma. The period
OF Inconsistencies continued to the
end
At the bedside when death came
we're Mrs. j. Addison Hayes of New
ark. n. j.. the only surviving daughter
of Mrs Davis: Jefferson Davis Hayes,
a grandson. who is a student at Prince
ton University; Mrs. Charles +. Bate
son. a niece: DR.. and Mrs. Gustave
Webb. the latter a granddaughter and
DR.. Robert II. Wylie. who with DR..
Webb had cared for Mrs. Davis
throughout her Illness
Mrs Jefferson Davis was born at
Matches. Miss. May I. 1926. the daugh'
ter of Mr. and Mrs. William Burr
Howell She was educated at Madame
Greland's school in Philadelphia, and
by private teachers at home. and was
married February %. 1915, in Warren
county. Miss. TO Jefferson Davis.
In November of that year Davis was
elected to congress. but resigned In
1876 to so TO the Mexican war. from
which he returned severely wounded.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis lived for some
time on Mr. Davis plantation in War.
rem county. Miss. and Mrs Davis went
with her husband TO Washington when
he was elected United States senator
in lS47, and remained there while he
served as senator and secretary OF
war.
In 1861 Davis became an interna-
tional figure when he was elected pres.
ident of the Confederate states. From
then until 1865 he and Mrs. Davis
maintained the presidential mansion
in Richmond. but the capture of her
husband and the refusal of the United
States authorities TO permit her to be
with him during the first year began
the tragedy of her life. During the
second year of his Imprisonment how.
ever. she was permitted 10 remain
with him at Fortress Monroe. and after
his freedom accompanied him to Eng.
land. where they lived from 1867 TO
1870. They returned and lived in Mem
phis Tenn. for eight years. when they
finally removed to the Davis planta-
ton. at Beauvoir Station. on the Mis-.
sissippi coast. Here Mrs. Davis be-
came amenuensis for her husband
when he wrote his Decline and Fall
Of the Confederate Government" She
herself was decidedly literary In her
tastes. and after Mr. Davis death. in
1889. eked out her scanty income by
her work with the pen. Besides the nu.
merous magazine articles which she
wrote her most notable work Is JEFF
ferson Davis; a Memior by His Wife"
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-10-20
Negro Murderer Captured.

Roanoke. Va. Oct. l7.-After elud-
ing his pursuers five days. John Hardy,
the negro who killed Policeman Il. NJ.
Beard during a raid on a negro dive
last Thursday night. was captured 10
miles from Roanoke. Hardy went to
the home OF Preston Shnlings. a far.
mer. and asked TO be allowed to rest.
saying he was III. He was recognized
by Shilling. who gave him bed. Later
three farmers entered the room and
jumped on Hardy. The negro in an
attempt TO use revolver which he
had under the bed covers. discharged
the weapon. the ball passing through
his own head. infiicting dangerous
wound. Hardy is in Roanoke jail
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-10-20
TAFT PARTY IN WASHINGTON
Says II viii Take Some Time to
Straiuhten Out Affairs In Cuba.


Washington. Oct. lS.-Secretary and
Mrs. Taft, Assistant Secretary OF State
Bacon and Mrs. Bacon, General Fun
ston and others composing Secretary
Taft's party. arrived in Washington
Wednesday night from Cuba.
Secretary Taft said there was but
little to gay regarding the situation In
Cuba that already had not been told.
He said he was pleased with the con-
ditlons as he left them and felt coma
dent that Governor Magoon would
bring about satisfactory results. al
though. he remarked. II would be with
some difficulty that things could be
Strengthened out after a revolution
such as occurred on the island II will
take time. he added, but just how long
he could not say. To readJust natter
In Cuba.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-10-20
ORDER NISI.

In the Orphans Court of Worcester
County. August Term, 1906. to wit
Sept. 25th. 1906.
ORDERED that the sales of tn,
leasehold estate made and reported by
William II. White and j. Edward White
administrators of Edward White, de
ceased, be ratified and confirmed unless
cause to the contrary thereof be showr
on or before the twenty-third day OF
October next. Provided copy of this
order be inserted in some newspaper
printed and published in Worcester
County once in each of three successiv,
weeks before the twentieth day OF
October next.
The report states the amount of sales
to be $4,000
ARA F. BOWEN.
WILLIAM +. BOSToN.
WILLIAM A. TAYLOR,
Test
EDWARD p. DAVIS,
Reg. of Wills for Worcester Co
True Copy, Test:
EDWARD p. DAVIS,
Reg. of Wills for Worcester Co.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-10-20
MRS. DAVIS DIES
OF PNEUMONIA
Widow of Confederate President
Passes Away in New York.
BRIEF SKETCH OF HER LIFE

New York, Oct. 17.-Mrs. Jefferson
Davis aged so years. widow OF the
president OF the Coniederacy. who had
been III for a week at the Hotel Ma
jestic. In this city. died Tuesday night
Death was due to pneumonia. induced
By a severe cold which Mrs. Davis
contracted upon her return from the
Adirondacks. where she had spent tho
summed months. Although grave fears
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-10-20
GYPSY MURDERED
Frank Smith Shot and Robbed By
Masked Men Near Norristown.

Norristown. Pa. Oct. H. 49, Frank
Smith. IS years old. member of the
Wells band OF gypsies. in camp near
here. was shot and killed by masked
robbers His body was found AT day
light lying beside fence. Early in the
morning Joseph Wells. chief of the
band was held up by the robbers. and
Smith went to his rescue. One of the
masked men shot him in the neck. and
he ran from the camp, the robbers dis
appearing at the same time. When
Smith died did not return search
was made. resulting in the finding OF
his body. His wife says he had 5000
or 5000 In his pockets. This money was
missing when the body was found.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-10-20

offer for sale my farm. known as
the Thomas p. Johnson farm, at Yves
lev station. This is a high red clay
farm. with good improvements. and
is widely known as one of the most
desirable small farms in Worcester Co
For particulars, call on. or address
the owner. w. h. BOWMAN.
Snow Hill. Route |.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-10-20

OLIVER d. COLLINS. Atty-at-Law
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-10-20
Foo,oaII PLAYER Feu Dead.

Toledo. Oct. l7.-Lewis A. Grisler,
at Paulding senior at Ohio Wesleyan
University at Delaware. and right end
on the varsity football team. fell dead
on the field after running down ilnt
Heart trouble was the cause.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-10-20
KILLED BY FELLOW OFFICER
Lieutenant Calvert Slain BY Sergeant
TAYLOR In PHILIPPINES.

Manila. Oct i7-First Lieutenant
Robert b. Calvert. OF the oath Infan-
try. u. s. A.. has ben killed by Ser
geant Taylor. of the cath Infantry. at
Albert. province OF Leyte.
Particulars OF the tragedy have not
been received.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-10-20
Irxlnn Garfield Married.

Falmouth Mass. Oct. 17.--lrvlng
McD. Garfield. son of the late Presi.
dent James A. arileld. and Miss Susan
Emmons. daughter OF Nathaniel En-.
mons OF Boston. were married In the
ST. Barna6as Memorial church.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-10-20
Good Paying Business For Sale,

Bowling Alleys and Pool Room. the
only place of the kind in the town.
Population 1000.
c. w. PURNELL,
Chincoteague Island.
Virginia.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1906-09-01
NEW CHURCH BARS DIvORCEES.
Organization Formed i'm Colorado
Adopts Strict Regulation.

Colorado Springs, August 20. = No
divorcee will be admitted to membership
in the Faith Benevolent Association, a
religious organization which was formed
here today. A. j. Smith, an Evangel-
ist, and Rev. Robert Bailey, until re-
Gently pastor of the Hillsdale, Mich,
Baptist Church, are the founders OF the
organization, which was started with a
membership of twenty. A fund for the
poor in the church and community will
be started by contributions. In time an
orphanage will be established here If
the church is successful. No special
creed is announced beyond the provi-
sion excluding Divorces. The church
will be sustained by 10 per cent. OF all
earnings of it's members. Smith was
until a year ago a Colorado Springs
architect. He gave up his profession to
preach and has been engaged since in
mission work in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1906-09-01
CHANDLER MAY BE OUSTED.
Backer of Tillman In Roosevelt Con.
troversy Likely to Lose Post.

Washington, Aug. 28.-Rumors that
the Spanish Claims Commission, of
which former Senator William E.
Chandler, of New Hampshire, is chair
man, is to be abolished, once more are
in circulation, and the feeling is strong
that September will see Mr.. Chandler
out of job. AT the time of the Roose-
velt-Tillman episode over the rate bill
last spring, in which Mr.. Chandler
backed up Tillmann, reports were rife
that he would be decapitated. Then
friends of the administration limited
that it would not be long anyway before
his position itself would be wiped out,
so that no haste was necessary.
Heretofore, when the life of the som-
mittee has been extended beyond a
given date, usually at the request OF
Chairman Chandler, months notice
has been given. Nothing has been
heard here of such notice to meet the
time Of expiration September l.
Mr.. Chandler is now in New Hamp-
shire,
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1906-09-01
FEATURES OF BRYAN'S SPEECH.

to strengthen his conviction on the sub
iect. He saw danger in Capitalization,
however, and for this reason advocated
Federal ownership of trunk lines and
State ownership of local lines.
The speaker scored the Republican
Congress for not passing the legislation
urged by President Roosevelt, giving
publicity to campaign contributions, but
gave the President praise for what he
termed his adoption of Democratic ideas.
Mr.. Bryan said he hoped the income tax
might be some day imposed through an
amendment to the Constitution. He re-
ferred briefly to the recent insurance
investigation, and said, smilingly, he
believed the disclosures made would re-
suit in difficulty in securing large cam
paign contributions in future.
OF the financial question Mr.. Bryan
said the unexpected and unprecedented
discovery of gold had brought victory
to both the advocates of the gold stand
ard and the advocates of bimetallism.
"The Republicans have gained so
much pleasure and some partisan ad-
vantage" he said, "from the dissension
in our ranks on the money question that
they ought not to begrudge ns the pleas
ure we find in the fact that conditions
have removed the discord and dissen-
sion."
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1906-09-01
RUNNING FOR OFFICE.

Mississippi has good many ambitious
sons who are seeking favors at the hands
of the vox populi. It's very pertinent
time, now that the political battle will
soon actively open to remind our friends
who would be candidates to count the
cost before wading in. An expense ac-
count, printed by an exchange, Of a
Democrat of Texas, who ran for Office,
furnishes Us the facts and figures that
we will now hand to The fellows who
want office.
Lost months and % days canvassing
1900 hours thinking about the election
acres of cotton; 25 acres of corn; a
whole sweet potato crop; a. sheep; q
shoats and one beef to barbecue; two
front teeth and considerable amount
of hair in personal skirmish; gave 81
plugs of tobacco; Sunday School
books; pair suspenders; pair stock
ings; calico dresses; dolls; Is baby
rattlers.
Told 2,287 lies; shook hands p, ,497
times; talked enough to have made in
print 100 volumes the size of patent Of
flee reports; kissed 1876 babies; kindled
IA kitchen fires; cut cords of wood
picked 743 pounds of cotton; helped to
pull wagon loads of corn; dug IL
bushels of potatoes; toUed IS buckets OF
water; put up stoves; was dog bit
times; watch broken by baby, cost S.
to have it repaired.
Loaned out 8 barrels of flour; 20 bush
els of meal; $50 pounds of bacon; Il
pounds of butter; $50 dozen eggs;
umbrellas; t3 lead pencils; 1 Bible die
tionary; 1 moving blade; 2 hoes;
overcoat; 2 boxes paper collars, none Of
which bave been returned,
Called my opponent perambula ting
liar-doctor's bill, $1,000; had 5 argu-
ments with my wife-result: l flower
vase broken; one crock handle broken;
one dish of hash knocked off the table;
one shirt bosom ruined; one handful o
whiskers pulled out; 10 cents worth o.
sticking plaster bought. - Exchange.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1906-09-01
The Liberty White Railroad.

Construction of the Liberty White
Railroad eastward from McComb City
has been practically completed to
Holmesville, a town about twelve miles
distant, and the line will be opened for
traffic early in September. The citizens
of the Holmesville neigh borhood are
planning an old-fashioned barbecue to
celebrate the event.
The Liberty White is heading for
Columbia, the county seat Of Marion
county, and it is generally believed that
the Illinois Central is backing the con-
struction work. 1t is known, at least,
that the shipments of steel rails has
been billed from the Eastern factories
to the Illinois Central, and the officials
of the Liberty line are very un-
communicative on the subject.
The New Orleans 8; Great Northern
road, otherwise known as the Goodyear
line, has taken no steps toward the ex-
tension of the FernWoOd &c Gulf road
eastward from the present terminus at
Tylertown, although it Is vested with
the chartered right to do SO. 1t is prob
ably the intention of the company to
undertake this work after the construc-
ton of the main line between Sidell,
La, and Jackson is completed.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1906-09-01
PeddIers Now Have Hard Row O
Stumps to Travel.

The war declared by delta planters on
peddlers, picture statesmen, patent medi-
cine vendors, etc., is having the desired
effect. Reports from that section state
that there has been a decided thinning
out of the peddling fraternity since the
planters commenced posting their lands,
and are evidently convinced that the
campaign against itinerant quackery is
an earnest one.
The crusade furnishes another evi-
dence of the fact that the southern white
man is the negro's best friend, and will
invariably give material aid and assist
ance to members of the race when
needed. The average delta negro SIM
ply cannot resist the temptation to buy
a so cent clock for four dollars when he
is given the chance to pay for it on the
installment plan, and as consumer OF
fake patent medicines he is a premier
performer, regardless of the state of his
physical being.
incidentally, the war on the peddlers
will drive from the State the most noto-
rious class of privilege tax dodgers, in
dividuals with whom it is hard for the
officers to get into contact, chiefly be-
cause of the fact that they ply their
vocation almost exclusively among the
negro settlements.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1906-09-01

New York, August 30.-Tonight's re-
ception to Williams J. Bryan, which was
given under the auspices OF the Com
mercial Travellers Antitrust League.
proved really to be the sounding OF the
Democratic campaign call. Mr.. Bryan's
speech was a clear-cut outline of his
ideas as to what the Democratic policy
should be. The election of United
States Senators by the people; regula-
ton of trusts by the Government; a UNI
yersal eight-hour day; settlement OF all
universal disputes by arbitration rather
than by force, and revision of the tarlft
were some of his points. Mr.. Bryan de-
clared however, that he was merely ex-
pressing his own opinion and not at
tempting to forecast the policy of his
Party.
Mr.. BRYAN declared that the trusts
were the great issue IF the day. He
favored the closest supervision OF the
organization of corporations, and de-
clared that no man should be director
of two or more corporations which deal
with each other or engage in the same
line of business. He called for the en-
forcement of the criminal clause of the
Sherman Antitrust Law. He went into
the qaestion of Government ownership
of railroads, and declared that what he
had seen in other countries had served
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1906-09-01
u. s. CLERKS WORRY
OVER NEW SPELLING.
FEAR THEY MUST GO TO SCHOOL
AGAIN AND GAIN RECORDS
AS DUNCES.-CONGRESS WILL
NO DOUBT ABOLISH THE IDI-
OTTO EDICT.

Washington, Aug. 25.-Every public
official in Washington is wondering how
he or she is going to be affected by the
"spelling reform" which has met with
the approval of President Roosevelt.
An old gray haired clerk voiced the
sentiment of his colleagues when he re-
marked today:
T suppose will have to go to school
again. Learned to spell in the old way,
and it will take mighty hard work for
me to turn over a new leaf-and in a
new spelling book, too"
AS soon as they shall have formally
received the Presidents edict, all the
departments here will be obliged to
adopt his fiat photography, or at least
the hundred words selected out of the
suggestions of Carnegie and the spelling
reform board.
Nobody knows, of course, what view
Congress will take of the changes. A
vast deal of literature is sent direct from
committees to the pull ic printer, and 4,
no doubt, the public inter will apply
the Presidents spelling until stopped
by some of the older generation IN the
house or senate.
The order of President Roosevelt di-
recting that phonetic spelling should be
used in all official communications ought
to have been pleasing to Artemus Ward,
Thackeray's Mr.. Yellowplush and Josh
Billings, who are among the first advo-
Gates of orthographical reform.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1906-09-01
SAGE AS A DEAD BEAT.

Bv exercising the gift of telepathy, IN
the use of euphemisms, some OF the New
York editors have sought to construc
new, a sort of sublimated, Russell Sage.
THIS is very we'll in an obituary way.
But Uncle Russell will liYe in the men,
ory or plain people through such char
acter illustrations as the following, from
the New York Press:
To save time the Western Union Tele-
graph Company serves free lunch to
it's operators, and Mr.. Sage appeared
every day at a certain hour. He was
a large holder of Western Union stock
4 seat was kept for him at certain
table up to the last day he came down
town. He never paid fare on the ele-
waited railroad, because he was direc-
tor, and the ticket-takers had instruc-
tions to let him go by without paying
He invariably helped himself to news
papers from the stand at Fiftieth street
in the morning when on his way down
town, and did the same at Rector street
when he was going home in the after
noon. He took his newspaper for a
generation in the same way, of the same
men, and they have never dared say a
word about it. He always compelled
the bootblacks on the elevated station to
shine his shoes for nothing. At first
years ago, they used to demonstrate
He would climb into one of the chairs
and wait until they served him. If they
demanded pay, he would threaten te
have them put off the platform.
Vicksburg Herald.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1906-09-01
ROYALINE
CoughCure

~ N M\&&sM-

Hon. ]. S. Settoon, general merchant,
Springfield, La, and present State Sen
ator, says: "For several years have
used Royaline Cough Cure in my family
for coughs and colds. 1t works like a
charm. In fact, it is the best have
ever tried"
Hon. T. J. Butler, Ponchatoula, La,
former State Land Commissioner, says :
SIT gives me pleasure to recommend
koyaline Cough Cure as the best have
ever used"
Mr.. Geo. Hall, Watson, La, says:
"I have been using Royaline Cough
Cure in my family for eleven years and
consider it the best of all"
Mr.. E. T. Melancon, Smoke Bend,
says: 'I have been handling Royaline
Cough Cure for the past year. 1t out
sells anything of the kind in my store.
/ can sell three bottles Of it to one OF
any other kind
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1906-09-01
AN OLD LADY'S FIRST RIDE ON
A TRAIN.

Mrs. Winnie Gibson, of Pike Co., Is
entitled to the distinction of having
lived within three miles of the railroad
station for more than half a century
without having enjoyed the novelty of
ride on railroad train.
Mrs. Gibson has reached the ripe old
age of eighty-one years, all OF which
has been spent on a little Pike county
farm about 7 miles southeast of Mag
nolia. From the front doorway of her
humble home she witnessed for fifty
years the daily passage of the splen-
didly equipped limited trains of the Illi-
nois Central between Chicago and New
Orleans, the local passengers, and the
innumerable freight trains, without
once being seized with desire to ex-
perience the sensation of travel behind
the iron horse.
A few days since Mrs. Gibson took a
notion to visit some relatives at Nc
Comb City, and thus was broken her
eighty-one year period OF simple life
She was not at all flustered over the
occasion, however, but drove to Magno-
liza and boarded the local train without
evincing any extraordinary excitement,
taking her seat in the coach with as
much calmness and complacency as
though she were taking her seat in a
church pew. Mrs. Gibson explained to
her relatives that she cherishes no
grievance against railroads, and her
fifty-year wait for ride was simply be-
cause Of the fact that she didn't care to
gO anywhere.