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The Holmes County times., 1906-04-13
Smith Shot Donahue.

J. j. Smith and Mr. Donahue OF Ok
tibbeha county engaged In an altorca-
tion, which resulted in Smith shooting
Donahue. Donahue fell, and Smith
thinking he had killed him, leftat once
for Starkville and surrendered to the
sheriff. Donahue is not seriously hurt.
The Holmes County times., 1906-04-13
Nav BE Inherited.

Patience-Dia the cook give you any
notice when she was leaving?
Patrice--No, she hardly noticed US az
all! -Yonkers Statesman.
The Holmes County times., 1906-04-13
win Vote on Bond Question.

The jackson city council has made
arrangements to hold an election to de-
termine whether or not the taxpayers
of the city will authorize the municipal
authorities to issue bonds for the con-
struction of city waterworks. The
bond issue will be $25O,000, and it will
take two-thirds vote to carry the
Dronosition.
The Holmes County times., 1906-04-13
TO Relieve the Pontotoc Tie-Up.

To Relieve the Pontotoc Tie-Up.
The Stegall bill, which has for its
purpose the settlement of the contro-
versy between the railroad commission
and the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas
City railroad over the location of its
depot in the town of Pontotoc, and
which will stop the tie-up of 300 miles
of the road, passed the house by vote
of 76 to 7, and the senate ratified this
action by vote of So to3.
The Holmes County times., 1906-04-13
Murderer Captured.

Frank Walker, negro detective, ar
rested Andrew Johnson, o negro, at
Cairo, III. johnson is wanted in Will
kerson county for killing Jerry Wright.
The murder was committed FIVE years
ago, and Walker has been tracking his
man ever since.
The Holmes County times., 1906-04-13

most astonishing developments are
promised.
Nothing is talked Of In Little Already
except exposure. Prominent shame
finders have been invited there to lee
ture, and among those that have
agreed to come are Lincoln Steffens,
David Graham Phillips, Samuel Hop
Adams, Thomas w. Lawson and Ida
Tarbell. During the past month the
best six sellers in Little Already were
Enemies of the Republic" by Lincoln
Steffens, "To Ward Deluge," by David
Graham Phillips, "Is Rockefeller HUI
mani" by Ida Tarbell, Everybody's
Magazine, McClure's Magazine and
Golfers Weekly.
The trouble, as we gather from the
--latest issue of the Little Already Argus,
began about three weeks ago, when the
startling news leaped out that Ezra
Joyce, superintendent of the pumping
station, had bought barrellof gaso-
line ON the villages account, paying
cash for it, and afterwards had served
it to the village at a profit to himself
of $l.35. AS Editor Denney of the
Argus declares, in double-headed edi-
torial, ''To what a spectacle has free
government by the people been per-
verted."
A committee of inquiry has been ap-
pointed by the village board to investi-
gate the affairs of the pumping sta
ton, and it is broadly hinted that all
other human affairs in Little Already
will be subjected to the same search
light of inquiry. "The truth must be
told though the heavens fall" declares
Editor Denney-an admirable senti-
meuI pithily expressed.
The motto of the Little Already Ar
gus is: "Hew to the Line, Let the
Chips Fall Where They May" The pa
per promises to be intensely interest
ing from now on.
In the books you read nowadays you
may have observed the "u" in such
words as "humour," "labour," "misde-
meanour," etc. You see, English pub
fishers won't buy the plates of Ameri-
can books if they are defaced by
American spelling. So you will not see
"thru," and "fonetic," and similar
atrocities in our published literature.
Which is sad for the so-called re
formers" but good thing for the
kings English.
Pair ef Tongs, Perhaps.
Jim Ford-I picked up copy OF
Town Topics to-day"
Olive Herford-You did! What with?
Ffrangcon-savies, the Welsh singer,
takes issue with the critical opinion
that singers as a class are not over
burdened with brains. Curious where
the notion originated. We remember
the remark of musician of our &C
quaintance concerning song bird:
THAT fellow knows nothing of music;
he's a tenor" And many OF us recall
the bon mot describing trio as 1.-TWO
musicians and singer"
The Holmes County times., 1906-04-13
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If the Critics Wrote the Plays.

III lulS pciu, ut6SlASl SAIC NAAS
Dramas In dismal way,
Fallen from its high condition
Just business proposition;
Vulgar, sordid, cheap, banal,
Anti-intellectual.
Vanished is the vital spark;
Dramas lamp is cold and dark.
How it would revive and blaze
If the critics wrote the plays
Every drama then would be
From the common failings free.
1t would be work of art,
Perfect in its every part,
1t would please and educate,
Entertain and elevate,
Influencing high and low
In an equal ratio.
There'd be one great paean of praise
If the critics wrote the plays.
None would ask: How was the play?
AS we hear 1t asked to-day
Question would be: "Did you go?
Wasn't 1t splendid show!"
Everyone would recognize
There was naught to criticise.
One opinion. Criticism
Would he an anachronism
Speed, o Time, that day of days
When the critics write the plays!
Literary shoemakers are as disin-
Clined to stick tC their respective lasts
as the proverbial maker of footwear.
Thus Morgan Robertson, who does sea
ta4es very well, prefers to write about
psychic influence and introduce beau
tiful woman in the story. Anyone
that has seen Mr.. Robertson or pic
ture Of him will readily understand
how naturally psychology and beauty
would appeal to him. Another writer
who loves to daily with the psychic is
Hamlin Garland; he dislikes to stick
to ensilo and silage, where his special
gift lies. George Barr McCutcheon has
always had craving to introduce hu-
man beings in his romances, and has
to be constantly repressed by his pub
ishers, who know how costly the ex-
pertinent is. Lloyd Osbourne is af-
flicted with the auto bug. Thomas w.
Lawson's secret ambition is to design
the covers for Everybody's Magazine.
And so it goes. The only excuse the
average author has is that he is doing
the thing for which he is best fitted.
=
Now that the holiday trade Is over.
one hopes deyoutly that "All the Fifty
Cent Poets" have returned from the
depths Of 10 cents to their half dollar
eminence.
The most overworked word in the
English language, conversationally is
the word proposition" Once you be-
gin to notice it, 1t gets on your nerves.
Some people can't talk 30 seconds with
out using 1t. A friend Of ours used 1t
20 times in the course Of two minutes
talk. 1t is maddening. Stop 1t. A little
picturesque conversation goes great
way.
RESPONSIVE READING.
She
] love Mr., swinburne.
He
His verse Is 50 warm:
She
And IL you don't read him
He
He'll do you no harm,
The Exposure Fad Of Little Already.
Tho exposure fai has hit Little Ar
cady, III, and hit 1t hard That once
idylnc community, recently made fa-
NOUS by novelist Harry Leon Wilson,
Il in The throes OF publicity, and the
The Holmes County times., 1906-04-13
Appropriation for Board Of Health.

A bill is pending in the legislature
appropriating $4,000 during 1905 and
the same amount for 1907 for the State
board of health.
The Holmes County times., 1906-04-13
RESPONSIVE READING.

She
! love Mr.. swinburne.
He
His verse Is 80 warm;
She
And If you don't read him
He
He'll do you no harm.
The Holmes County times., 1906-04-13

The Exposure Fad Of Little Already.
Tho exposure fad has hit Little Ar
cady, III, and hit 1t hard. That once
idylnc community, recently made fa-
NOUS by novelist Harry Leon Wilson,
Il in The throes OF publicity, and the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-12-28
AN UNLUcKY KING.
The Lion 10 a Low, Crafty Brute and
q Good Deal of q Coward.

The liking of beasts" declares g
writer upon lions of Africa in the
Metropolitan Magazine, is an unmiti-
gated nuisance The stock owner
loathes him for the havoc he causes
among the herds, There is no secu-
rity against him. He is always trav-
cling A pair of lions, may find a
spot where game is easily obtainable
and make a considerable stay there,
but their real home is in the whole
veldt.
II the lion slew only as much as
he could eat he would be less hate
full, but he will often kill four or five
oxen and content himself with de-
vouring only the entrails of one. :.
He is low, crafty brute, one that
takes no risks, for unlike the leopard,
he will never leap wall unless he
can see what is on the other side. A,
paper fence would keep him away
from a herd of cattle, provided they
did not break out through terror Of
Ehib growing and his smell. !.
The lions roar Is the subject Of
another fiction. Not that he Is in
capable Of making the most terrible,
awe inspiring sound emitted by any
living thing, but because when he is
roaring he is harmless. 1t is the
lion which keeps quiet that is to be
feared, for as a rule the male and
Il a.. l. L., nd ha
that makes the noise is merely driv-
ing the game down the wind to the
silent partner.
In a single respect only-on the
score of strength-does the lion de-
serve his name of "king OF beasts"
He can drag large bullock over
rough ground with the greatest ease;
he can carry a mule on his back, af-
ter hoisting It there by some strange
sideways jerk Of his head; he can
leap a five foot fence with a full
sized donkey gripped in his mouth.
Otherwise. speaking from a seven
years experience in the lion country,
I have no hesitation in describing
the king of beasts as fraud, at
least so far as his alleged nobility Is
concerned.
HIS regal attributes lose some OF
their glamour when one learns that
the so called monarch frequently
Lives for days at a time on such Pile
bfan food as field rats. and the vis-
ion of the kingly creature sitting pa
tiently on a fiat rock waiting for the
rats TO come out from underneath Is
q rather unheroic one. 9H
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-12-28
A GOOD SHEEP DOG.
What He Has to Learn and the Work
He Has to Do.

What He Has to Learn and the Work
He Has to Do.
What a herd dog has first to learn
is to know every one Of 200 or 300
sheep, and to know them both by
sight and smell. This he does thor
oughly. When watterson was running
sheep on the plains he had a young
collie not yet put to the herd, but kept
about the pumping plant. As the sheep
came in by hundreds to the troughs
the dog grew so to know them that
when they had picked up stray from
another band he discovered from
afar OFF and, darting as hornet, nip
ping and yelping, parted II out from
the band. At that time no mere man
would have pretended, without the aid
of the brand, to recognize any Of the
thousands that bore 1t.
How long recollection stays by the
dog Is not certain, but at least twelve
month. as was proved to Filon Girard
after he had lost third Of his band
when the Santa Anna came roaring up
by Lone Pine with cloud OF saffron
colored dust on its wings. After the
shearing OF next year, passing close to
another band, Filon's dogs set them
selves unbidden to routing out OF 1t
and rounding with their own nearly
twenty head, which the herder. being
an honest man. freely admitted ne had
picked up on the mesa following after
Filon the spring before.
Quick to know the willful and un-
biddable members Of flock. the wise
collie is not sparing Of bites and. fol-
lowing after a stubborn stray, will Of
ten throw It and stand guard until help
arrives or the sheep shows a better
mind. But the herder who has dog
trained at the difficult work OF herding
range sheep through the chutes and
runways into boats and cars for trans
portation is the fortunate fellow.
There was Pete's dog. Bourdaloue,
that at the Stockton landing, with no
assistance, put 500 wild sheep from the
highlands on the boat in eight min
utes by running along the backs OF the
stubborn or stupid leaders that caused
the sheep to jam in the runway and by
sharp bites set them forward, himself
treading the backs of the racing flock
like the premiere equestrienne OF the
circus, which all the men Of the ship
ping cheered to see.-Mary Austin In
Harper's Magazine.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-12-28

ITALIAN BRIoANDs.-A German gen.
tleman was one evening riding along
the public highway near Imola when
his horse threw him and bolted. He
picked himself up and lighted match
to see what time 1t was, but found
that his watch had stopped. Just at
that moment two bicyclists hove In
sight, and he went forward, making
signs for them to stop. but the men ped
aled furiously out Of sight. About two
months after the gentleman was read
ing an account of travel in Italy when
he came across the following passage:
"One evening we had an adventure
with a brigand. We were bicycling
near Imola, when an individual In
long dusty cloak suddenly sprang from
the ground and with a small lighted
torch, which he fiourished with furious
gestures, demanded our watches. we
with great agility. but by the skin OF
our teeth. avoided the i'll intentioned
fellow and, shouting that we had no
watches, made off as fast as we could.
Whether followed or not we did not
wait to see."-Pall Mall Gazette.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-12-28

shoveled into bags and are wheeled
around the hillside to another mill.
where they go into cylinders and re-
volve in plumbago until they generate
heat of 100 to 200 degrees. Each
grain takes on a high polish from the
coating Of plumbago, which preserves
the powder grain and makes 1t sell
more readily. Next they go to the sep
arator, which asserts the grains into
nine different sizes. Here the powder
Is packed into metal cans, each hold
ing twenty-five pounds, and these cans
are stored in the magazine, ready for
the market.
w. H. Gaffett, superintendent Of the
plant, has been making powder all his
life.
Aren't you afraid Of it?" he was
asked
well, I'd be fool II said was
MT" he answered. But I'm a fatalist.
Every man will die the way the Lord
intended him to. That's my philosophy,
and so I go around this powder mill
with that In mind"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-12-28
A New Cure For Burns.

Blind chance, which has so fire.
quently given the clew to men OF
science, recently led to the discovery
In the Paris Charity hospital OF new
cure for burns. This remedy, 1t Is
claimed, will cause burns to cease
from being painful as soon as II Is
applied and will cause injured flesh to
heal with marvellous rapidity.
DR.. Thierry, one Of the surgeons In
attendance at the hospital, was in the
habit Of using picric acid as an anti
septic and his hands were, therefore,
impregnated with the solution. One
day in lighting a cigarette portion
of the burning match fell on his hand,
but instead Of feeling 1t he did not no.
tice the slightest pain. A short time
afterward, while in the act OF sealing
a valuable letter, portion or the
burning wax stuck to his finger, and,
though it cauterized the skin, 1t was
no more painful to him than II 1t had
fallen on an armored glove vi steel.
This curious lack Of feeling set the
doctors wit to work, and he soon ar
rived at the conclusion that the acid
had, to use his own words, acted upon
the tissues and frightened them. He
then began series Of experiments in
treating burns with a saturated solu-
ton Of picrlc acid. In every case ne
treated all pain was instantly SUP
pressed. He says in his report mat
after having bathed the wound IN a
solution Of this acid blisters did not
form, and a cure was effected after
four or five days. Among the chance
discoveries Of late years this new use
for picric acid will probably prove to
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-12-28
To be Continued.

A.. 1t never hurts the value of gold to
call II brass.
"a, Confront your troubles like man,
and they will run from you like man
who owes his tailor.
70 Two thirds Of the gold now In use
in the world was discovered during
the last fifty years.
Ia The man who gives happiness to
another cannot be altogether miserable
himself.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-12-28

~ Faith, Mrs. O'Hara, how dye
till them twins apart?" Jaw, t IL
aisy-I sticks my finger in Dennis's
mouth, an II he bites know It's
Moike. Harvard Lampoon.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-12-28

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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-12-28

YE People who blow their own horns
seldom furnish good music FOR other
folks. Il
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
HORTICULTURISTS MEET.
Large Number Listen to Interesting
 Paper by H. Cliff.

Large Number Listen to Interesting
 Paper by H. Cliff.
 A meeting of the New Haven Horti- cultural society was held in their hall in the Courier building, 400 State street, last night, with the largest at tendance this year The chief feature of the evening was two papers read, one by Mir. Henry Cliff, gardener to MT. 0. G. Jennings, of Fairfield, Conn.,, on Carnation Culture, which was very much enjoyed. He also exhibited about seventy-five new seeding carna- tions, which were very fine indeed, all his own raising. He was awarded cer- tlficates of merit for the paper on Cut Flowers. He started with giving some early history of the retail florist stores, ating back seventy-five years, tracing the growth of the trade 10 the present day. The society adjourned to a smoker, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all As usual, MT. Ralph Booth, the clever comedian and comic singer and face contortionist, kept the members in constant laughter. The smoker broke up with all singing Auld Lang Syne, all stating that it was the pleasantest evening ever spent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21

cers, ceased firing before a command could be given. Several men were taken out, their wounds dressed by the surgeons and sent to their homes, thus advertising throughout the archipelago that those who surrender will be well treated and not all killed, as they would have been if the Moros had been successful. Before this fight began and after it was believed, that negotiations had failed, four days were occupied sending prominent chieftains to the fort to induce women and children to come out. One chief, Maharajah Jagi, reported that he had taken out eighty himself
 Tt is not inconceivable that this pol- icy of humanity carried out in every case in the past two years and half should now have been changed, espe- cially as General Wood was there in person and no one would take more trouble to avoid unnecessary bloodshed than he. Mount Dajo is about midway in the Island of Sulu and is over two thousand feet high. Upon the top is the crater of volcano long extinct The mountain is five or six miles around the base, covered with trees in most parts, and has on its sides many landslides. As the corey of rock, after the soil has gotten resting place on it's sides and unusual rainfalls the Wa- ter is 0oaked up, the soil becomes very heavy, and as the rock Is so steep the earth falls, breaking down trees below like an avalanche of snow. It is very steep and difficult to climb under most favorable circumstances, and to climb 1 it successfully under fire is undoubtedly a most gallant feat of arms, and unless | great skill had been used many more | lives would have been lost among the | troops. The Moros themselves consider 1 the top of that mountain impregnable, 1 as they have food and can raise more, and an abundant supply of water is re- ported in the crater. which makes an ideal stronghold. As that mountain and crater cannot be destroyed it will always be a menace to peace and order in Jolo unless the Moros for some su- perstitious reason shall avoid it here> l after"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
BORROWED WEDDING PRESENTS.

A young couple residing in North St. Louis were married recently. When the guests arrived there was display of wedding gifts enough to make any bride envious. Conspicious among the offerings were silver service and a set of Haviland chana. These bore the cards of two of the brides sisters. The groom was not very well &C., quainted with his new relatives but smiled approval of their gifts and de- cided that they must be both wealthy and liberal.
 A night or two ago the newly mar ried pair had some company and the husband suggested that they get out their silver and Haviland for the oc- casion. His wife blushed and stam mered. Finally she blurted out.
 We have no silver and china. The girls only loaned those to make 2 show and to make the others mad They took them home next day. Louis Globe Democrat.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
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