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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-18
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DIED, on Monday Oct. IA, 1907,
the infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. /.
Howell of Cero-menegitis. The fam
lily live at Hillman, Miss. We re-
corded the birth of this child in our
last issue.
Dame Fortune has smiled upon our
good young friend, H. B. Cole He
was summoned up to Waynesboro
one day last week 10 confer with
Messrs Ballard and Mckay over the
acceptance of a position as manager
of store they will open up on Nov.
1st at Quitman, Miss. The name of
the new firm will be McKay-Ballard
Co. The concern will be incorporated,
amply capitalized and will launch in
to business with an entire new and
clean stock of goods. This is but an
other instance of the commercial
world seeking deserving young men.
Cole is a promising young man in
the mercantile walks of life, having
shown this by his service while here
with the NJ. Il. McRae e. Co. He re
mains with this house until about
the LIST We regret to lose, but glad
to see him mount the ladder of sue
cess. Every rung assembled counts.
1t has been our lot to watch the ca
reerS of good many young men,
chair Coles case is but another con-
firmation of that good reward that a.
waits the young man who follows the
paths of rectitude Observe the diff
ference between the Industrious, re-
liably, honest, and sober youngtser
start ng out to build a reputation,
and that Of the lazy, shiftless, dissi-
pated chap. One goes up the hillock
of promotion while the other slides
down the slope of disappointment
and degradation. If not that he has
to take the poor places, while the
other is invited to Ill the creamy
ones. Excuse this moralizing gentle
reader, we could not resist the OPP
pOrtunity in this connection.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-18

AS previously alluded to more than
once, the Leaf River Baptist Associ-
alton will be holding it's Annual Con
vention at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church
next Sunday, Oct. 20. Many expect
to attend from here.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-08
U7ITITTTER,S ROM4NCES.
The Quaker Poet Has a Gallant
FellOzC IN His Youth.

The present generation is accustomed to
thinking Of John GrcenIcaf Whittier, the Quaker
poet the centennial Of whose birth falls on De
cember L. as the singer with the soul OF a
gentle sweet spirited maiden, unsoed by the
rough things Of the world. that one can hardly
imagine him in any other role. One for in
stance does not think of him as a boy who
would climb a neighbor's cherry tree or tell a
lie one does not thin, Of him as trying to
play the role. so difficult for him, of dandy
and as person Of many romantic attachments.
Looking back upon his poetical career, one has
difficulty in imagining him as a saSacious poll
Ncian lobbying measures through legislatures,
plotting how to secure Il seat in Congress and
skifully making politicians do his bidding. Ana
there are many who would be surprised to learn
that he was somewhat of a humOrist.
At the head of the back stairs in the house
In East Haverh Mass, where Whittier was
born and which is the scene of 'Snowbound' is
b little doorIess clothes press. 1t was in this
press that Whittier boy tried to fee from
the vengeance of the Deity. He had told he
It had troubled hin, little until a severe thunder
shower came up. A bolt Of lightning descended
among the oaks near by. 1t was followed by an
instantaneous and deafening crash Of thunder
New-York tribune., 1907-12-08

He fed to the clothes press and. wrapping a
quilt about him, awaited annhation while he
thought upon his sin. After the storm had
passed his mother found him nearly sufocated
IN the quilt To her he confessed and OF course
was forgiven for his iniquity
once Whittier boylike. tried to annoy his
small sister by pretending to hang her cat on
the railing of the attic stairs. on another oc-
casion he was caught in a neighbors chefr!
tree He was popular lad in his neighbor-
hood. which won for him an invitation to take
all the cherries you want when Miss Chase
the maiden woman who owned it. appeared
r3uttoring dire threats, and discovered who the
roLber was.
When whittier came to manhood's estate he
vas numbered among the handsome ones. FIVE
fee; ten and one half inches in height, with an
attractively shaped face and fine eyes ne APP
ueaIed to xonankind and, indeed. was himself
Of a romantic disposition. II is said that the
reasons he never married were poor hedllh
poverty and respect for his mothers feelings
she being a strict and deyoIt Quakeress, who
could not imagine her son marrying outside
q the society" and who could not have lived
under IN. same roof with 4 daughte -in-laW OF
another faith.
one of the earliest of his romanccs was the
bovish one described in the poem Memories
In q drawer in the garden room OF the oId
toIue OF the poet the visitor may have an oppor-
tunity to see a miniature OF girl OF seventeen
painted on ivory. 1t lies where the poet used to
keep it. The picture is that Of a schoolnate
OF Whittier's named Eyelina Bray 1t is be-
Heycd that the warm attachment between them,
he being nineteen-two years older than Miss
Eray-might have been followed by a marriage
had not the families of both objected The young
woman was outside of the society" and mar
riace would have resulted III breaking up the
family circle dependent on Whittier and en-.
tircly cut the thread of affection joining his
mother and his sister TO him.
Two or three years after the budding OF this
romance he walked from Salem to Marbl,head
before breakfast a June morning to his
s.hoolmate She could not invite him into the
house 50 they walked to the old ruined fort
New-York tribune., 1907-12-08

sent Downey some money. Althoupb "
was not poor-only eccentric-he ksD' "ae7
money. His wife accidentally discova-ls lhs
Whittier had sent money and retu~raa uia'
him. 70
After the death of her husband The
sionally wrote to each other, and in ,So-
was persuaded to attend the reunion, - se
schoolmates- At the reunion she gave n Ms
miniature. which had been PAINTED rno-. Ue
fifty years before. Her appearance =, @a
gathering has been described bv The au., '~
America" Dr. S F. Smith. who also .,..N,
'She looked. oh, so distineue in bIacL ,iI,. -0el
a white muslin veil reaching over the eilro. wa
and down below the shoulders" he u,ro,o Ae4a
wife Just as if she were a Ronisb NJ, MS
who had stepped out Of an old church ,-:-4- 1-'a
TO hold an hours communion with EARN -
In one of his poems, "A Sea Dream - W..
referred TO the parting at Marblehead
The waves are glad in breeze and spn.
The rocks are fTinged with foam
j walk once more a haunted shore
A stranger, Vet at home
land Of dreams l roam.
Is this the wind. the soft sea wind
That stirred thy locks of brown?
Are these the rocks whose rnOSseS I'M
The trail of thy light gown
Where boy and 5irl sat down?
I see the gray forts broken wall
The boats that rock below,
New-York tribune., 1907-12-08

Whittier knew what il was 20 receive the
"Tnitten' also In his twentics he was trying a
little to play a role which his Iirth and
character did not 1T him 70 nj na:uraIk
There are a great many pretty girls al the
Athenaeum. and 1 like To sit there and remark
upon the different figures that go fitting ty ne
like aerial creatures just scooIlHs Gown to cur
dull earth. to take a view OF the beautiful crea-
tions of the painters genius" he wrote tron
Boston in his early twerties. I love Ia watch
their airy motions notice the dark Jr..liaacy Of
their fine eyes. and observe the delicate fus,
stealing over their cheeks: but. trust ne. ny
heart is untouched ] always did love 4
pretty girl. Heaven grant there is DC harm
in it,
Il have become a notable fellow IN galaHty
Of late. I mean OId-fasEloueG GlLantry, hoV
ever" he wrote in another letter. Il have
given my whiskers Il more ft~oeious aPpearance
and take the liberty Of frightening into gJol
nature those who Will not be complaeent q
their own accord
This is the kindly hearted Quaker youth
whc a couple Of years later. when about 70
leave Hartford. where he had been editing
newspaper. wrote to Miss CorueHa. daughte'
of Judge Russ asking for AT appointment at
which he could offer her 4 name which. il tas
ambition which now urges onward shall con
tinue in vigorous exercise shall yet be widsF
known and Well The "imratiently' aWalte-
reply was evidently a negative one His Ve"'
on marriage as presented in Maud Mule
may have grown out of the results Of his carr
romarceS-
1t is probable that the lobbying which Be
did at Boston in 1881 in securing the pas
sage of an important measure was net uT
kind OF lobbying regarding which Testimony
occasionally appears in these days The eaus
Of anti-slavery was not so popular as 70
overwhelmed with supplies Of cash On mO''
Continued on ffth pasr-
New-York tribune., 1907-12-08

near by and sat the rocks overlooking 'he
harbor With one exception, or which Nhlt-
tier was unaware. they did not meet again untli
fifty years later, when age had sllNeFed thelr
hair number OF years after the Marblehead
meeting when Whittier was editing The Penn
sylyania Freeman" and Miss Bray was engaged
with Catherine Beccher in educational work,
they CHANGED 10 sit side by side in a Philadel-
phia church He did not recognize the woman
New-York tribune., 1907-12-08

sitting at his side and she was too shy 10
speak She aftcrward married an English
evangelist named DOWney, who met his death
from wounds received in facing mob in New
York. He making q crusade against Ro-
manism
Whittier learning in a curious way that Miss
Bray was the wife OF the evangelist, VINO mad
sent him one of his tracts. and thinking that
perhaps his former sweetheart was in poverty,
New-York tribune., 1907-12-08

And. out at sea, the passing sails
We saw so long ago
Rose red in mornings glow.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-08

Continued on hfth page
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-08
TWO-CENT FARE PROPOSITION AND ANTI-PAss

The railways of the state have no in
terest for or against abolition of passes.
They have no complaint whichever way
the question is decided.
They object to two-cent fare rate
and to the fixing Of any rate lower than
that now charged by them, because there
& is not more than reasonable profit re-
allied under present rates.
Because two or two and half cent
per mile maximum rate would be con-
hscatory if observed by the railway COM
panies. If such a law were accepted BY
railway companies it would mean cur
tailment of facilities, inefficient and un-
satisfactory service, cessation Of railway
building and retrogression instead Of
further settlement and development Of
the country. #s.s.
Such rate would cause depression
and loss to the railroads, and as neces-
sary corollary every other business and
person in the state would suffer CORES
pondingly. II
Ihe prosperity of the railway means
the prosperity of every line Of business.
q Vice versa, and prosperity will be an
/ unknown quantity everywhere. n
No money can be made at two or
even two and half cent passenger rate
on local business in North Dakota A
law fixing such a rate would not be en-
forced. .@ 3S
II it were not contested, however, the
only alternative weuld be the taking out
Of the service Of a portion of the passen-i
ger trains now operated on main lines,
and all branch passenger trains and run
ming Of mixed trains The public would
have to be satisfied with this, as there
is no power on earth that will compel a
railway company ever to do business at
a loss.
It is an absolute certainty that no more
roads in the state would be built, as the
investment Of money, if obtainable, in.
such projects would be foolhardy and
Out u Lie QuCStiOit.5S AS d consequence
these laws that people seem to be cla-;
moring for would act as boomerang
against the people themselves. The det-
riment and loss would fall upon the peo-
pie equally, if not to a greater extent,
than upon the railroad IF the country is
not developed values fall If railway
property depreciates all other property
will surely be lessened in value. Then
why pass hostile legislation simply to-
4 aVenge some real or fancied wrong
when a much greater wrong and damage
will result by such action?
The popular hue and cry for reform
do not call for senseless and useless
laws do not demand measures that spell
disaster and chaos to all business and
vested rights. Let fairness and good
Judgment obtain and all things will come
out satisfactorily In the end.
According to reliable statistics the
local passenger business in North Da-
kota, according to present rates, no more
3 than pays the expenses and taxes and
fixed charges, to say nothing Of interest
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-08

on the investment. The freight business
must pay the profits obtained.
Take, for instance, in 1904 the figures
show that the average cost Of carrying
each local passenger in North Dakota
per mile was 2.6O8 cents while the rev.
enue received was but 2.137 cents, max
ing a loss of All per mile for each pas
senger. Say for prior and subsequent
years the figures run substantially the
same, sometimes the cost running a
trif1e under the revenue, sometimes over
and as a whole the credit about offset
ting the debit Under present conditions,
considering the character of our popula-
ton, the nature Of our industries, the
occasions and incentive for travel, it is
certain that for long time to come
there will be no material changes There
fore, what justification can there be for.
attempting to adopt and enforce a law
which violates every instinct Of fair deal
ing, and every correct business principle.
Sometimes advocates of cheap passenger
rates say that if a certain class Of people,
as for instance the travelling man, can
be carried for two cents per mile, why
cannot all, and at profit?
The answer is that the business OBJ
tanned from this specific class is a side
issue. It entails upon the railroads no
additional expense to handle The roads
would have TO have the same facilities
for travel, would run the same number
Of trains, use the same amount of equip
ment without the patronage of the trav-
cling man that they do with it.
Therefore by making special rates to
this class they induce more travel and
increase the number and thereby a,
greater amount Of this Incidental bust
ness is obtained and more pro6ts made.
The employer, when he can do so
oheaply, sends, more men out on the
road and keeps them constantly there,
and while drumming up business for.
the house at the same time adding rev
enue, which under different conditions
as torates would not Be created, to the
treasury of the carrier. "a
This is simply a special advertisement
to get extraordinary business, with prac-
tically no additional expense, such as we
find adopted in all characters of mercan-
tile business. I'll.
Again rates in eastern states are cited
as an argument why cheap rates should
obtain generally in North Dakota Sta
tistics show that notWiths standing density
Of population and many Causes conduc-
i've to travel in the older states. which
do not exist in North Dakota, the pas
senger business is nowhere paying
proposition whether at rates voluntarily
fixed BY the transportation company or
at rates fixed by law. That after de-
fraying expenses of maintenance and OPP
Grafton and a fair proposition of a cost
OF construction and equipment, and pay
ment of fixed charges, taxes and interest
on the investment, the margin of profit
IN fact, in most cases in6nitesinlal. Itis
IN fact in most cases in6nitisinaal. 1t is
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-08

The Railroad View These Propositions Substance The Railways Before Legislative Committee
IWled Rate Would and Radd the
hdISS Not Objected to mpGGdR
REGARDING RECIPROCAL DEMURRAGE


transfer Of freight atjunctions with con-
Meeting lines.
No railroad company can get any BEN
eft from the prompt unloading and
handling Of cars without at the same
time bene6tting shippers and consignes {;
hence the claim of the carriers that
existing rules are non-discrimiilating
reasonable, and in the highest sense re-
ciprocal.
Demurrage is collected from a ship
per on account OF his converting to IN
dividual use facilities furnished by the
railway company for the benefit of ship
pers as a whole. Reciprocal demurrage8
as planned is a penalty to BE paid by a
carrier, not for something it receives or
tnduly retains, but for failure to supply
that which it does not and canrTot pos
sess; and from the possession of which
it is to considerable extent debarred
by the failure Of its patrons as a whole
to realize and fulfil their obligations to
other shippers and to the railway COM
pany. .555.
# the carriers are to be so penalTzed,
actual reciprocity would require shippers
to furnish loading at all times for all
cars available.
No body of men, either commercial
or railroad, could meet the requirements
of such a rule. It would be confscatory
IN its character, and rebound to the Diet
rfrnent Of the very interests which con-
ceived il, and would result in confusion
and failure. The precedents already es-
tabiished where such rules have been
attempted are proof Of the unconstitu-
tionaIity and impra cticability Of such a
rule Il. Isl
The shipper does not utilize the facil-
tiles which the carrier furnishes to The
possible extent of such facilities. Al car
will faye 4 capacity of 100000 pounds,
yet the shipper will load into ii $4,000
pounds of freight, utilizing one-half Of
the facility offered In this way fully
one-third of the carrying capacity Of the
cars today is lost, not through the fault
OF the carrier, but BY reason Of the de-
rr1ands of the shipper. A carload Of
rcflandise averages from 10000 to &
10000 pounds, while the capacity Of the the
car may be 10000 pounds, thus about
oneeseventh Of the efficiency Of the ca
pacity offered is wasted because the
shipper packs his goods in the same
manner as was the custom fifty years
ago.
Compare the progress made in trafls-
portatlon during the past fifty years
with similar progress made in any other
line OF industry, and the result would
show that transportation has made n,ore
progress in FIVE years than any other iii
dustry IN century Trade is as old
as the world, while the common carrier
industry IS not century old. What
manufacturing establishment TO-DAY can
show as good a record of performance
|. 1T fulfilling its orders or producing an
equivalent performance as the most dila-
tory Of the common carriers, and yet
the shortcomings Of the whole commer-
g cal activity is placed upon the common
carrier, who is made responsible for the
lmprovidence Of him who put off until
tomorrow what should have been done
today.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-08

rule Many consignees order freight in
large amounts, expecting to sell it before
it arrives, in which effort they are fire.
quently unsuccessful in whole or in
part Some consignees with ample facili-
ties delay cars badly by neglect and poor
business methods. s s$s
These classes Of consigHees made nee
essary the present denurrage rules.
They all know that carriers would
greatly prefer the cars to the demurrage
charges, but unfortunately their prefer
ence is the same regardless Of the in
sterest of the carriers and TO the detri-
ment Of all other shippers.
The legislation proposed includes a
provision for penalizing the carriers for
failure to furnish cars as called for,
within a specified time. Legislation to
fine corporation for emitting to do
that which the self interest Of the coz
poration makes imperative, is as unique
as it is unjust, and could not obtain an
audience except under the extraordinary
political, commercial and industrial corr
ditions now prevailing.
The remarkable efforts Of the builders
of locomotives and cars necessary TO
fill the unending stream Of orders placed
with them the last FIVE years disprove
any allegation Of. failure on the part Of
carriers to reasonably anticipate their
equipment needs and the larger average
service obtained from each car and To-
connective from yearto year bears witness
to competent and progressive manage
merit Still, it is proposed to fine these
corporations for failure to do that which
It is beyond the ingenuity Of man to
accomplish
! The present is an era of great specula-
tiofl, but no known form of speculation
offers the certain profit which the pro.
posed legislation would pour into tie
golfers OF that class of shippers who
have facilities for loading from 20 to
100 or more cars per day Other forms
| Of speculation require some Investment,
but this requires only such superficial
knowledge Of the car situation as every
shipper has in times of shortage, and the
placing Of an order with every road
available for the maximum number OF
cars the shipper can load, with the abb
solute assurance that furnishing over
ten per cent Of the orders is a physical
imposslbIity, and the penalties for fail
ure to furnish the other ninety per cent
will be handsome "rake-off. What
limit IS there to the operations of line.
elevator company with from 90 to so
houses, each with loading capacity OF
ten or more cars per day; Of milling
company loading SO to $50 cars per day !;
or coal company from whose docks
100 cars per day can be shipped; Or of
any other large shipper Note that the
small shipper can get no benefit what
ever from this scheme, but the working
out of it would doubtless deprive him Of
q portion Of his fair quota Of the cars
available. r ,s 58
he free interchange Of cars with
other lines has brought distant markets
to our manufacturers and other shippers.
Penalties for failure to furnish cars win
force each carrier to keep its own equip
ment on its own rails. and require the
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27

brought together and employed in the most effective
for supposing could not be made available for agri
culture did not the good results flowing from sma!
holdings, on the whole, counterDaiancs them.
Hence we see small plantations becoming
gradually more unusual and the mass of the
whites more scattered and discouraged. In his
journeys the author frequently meets instances
Of slaves well cared for. especially those en-
ployed about the house, and acutcly observes
that in New England the people one meets
about the railway station, the hotel and in the
life Of the street are distinctly inferior TO those
who have steady employment on the farm, but
in the South the exact reverse is true. and he
would say that the majority of the negroes al
the North live more comfortably than the ma
jority OF whites at the South. OF course, II
would be impossible to treat Of such subject
without advcrting to its moral aspects, but the
author is not fired with ambition to remedy the
evils Of the South at blow With fanatical
Abollionists he has little accord as with the
conceit, avarice and folly Of wealthy slave
owners Slavery breeds unfathful. mere
tricious. ineXact and non-persisteut habits Of
working. It is as harmful to the morale Of the
owner as il is opposed 10 the welfare of The
owned. With increased demand for cotton
more slaves must be produced, and that is pos
sible only by the revival Of the slave trade al
ready openly advocated BY some radicals. But
the achievements Of Germans in Texas demon
strate that cotton culture can be successfully
conducted by whites. How or where the evil
shall be removed cannot be foreseen. but a
peaceful transition IS still possible The greater
wealth and comfort and general prosperity OF
the North must appeal to the Southerner who
can without prejudice recognize the source ol
many Of the Ills lhat afIlict his country. Sucn
is the theme maintained by an abundance Of ar
gument and enlvened by anecdote and com
mont suggested by an unusual experience