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The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-22
LOCAL COTTON MARKET
Saturday, October 10

Saturday, October 19.
COTTON-Steady.1 II 3-16c.
Receipts of cotton today-5,763
bales.
Receipts same dag Last year,. s44
bales
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RHCEIpTs SAME DAY LAST Y

"A casks spirits turpentine-
107 barrels rOsin.
76 barrels tar.
1856 barrels crude turpentfRe-
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coast line
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
These arrivals and departures are Civ
en- as information. as wei as connec-
tions with other companies; but arrivals
and connections are not guaranteed
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STOCKS AND BONDS

Southern cotton mill stock for the
week ending Saturday furnished hN
HUGH MacRAE 81 Co, bankers. VII
mington, n. G.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-22

PeanutS-NGrth Carolina crime
$I.35: extra prime, $40; fancy, $50;
Virginia prime SIZE: fancy sl.20;
spanish $40.
REESWAX-27c.
EGGS-18@ @20
CHICKENs-ls ans, 4oc springs. Is
to soc.
PORK.--S to <0c
REFF--On GOT 2 to 3Ac
SWEET EaC,S1ATOEG -s1.O0.
N. c. BAAGN-HaYns (oldt tic:
hhoulders 12 III 13c: sides - tos Isc
SHINGLE-Per 1eOO; 6-fnch saps
$500: 5-inc:. hearts 81 so; 6-incsa saps
$500: 6-in2h hearts sS5.75-
TTMpEI
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PRODUCE SIARAET.
Corrected By
"a a.. Cooper, wholesale Grocer

t'Ot Fkt.--
GreeT ~ 10 sHC
Roastcd Lion" "a Id size .. lac
Roasted "AriOga' 100 10 size. 16c
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15

life England has taken a way to
stop this slavery by making laws
against it. Then why should the
South be cursed with it?
A cotton mill having a pay roll Of
six thousand dollars week in New
England can be run in the South for
four thousand dollars. This means
a saving of hundred thousand dol
lars a year. Thus mill having a
capital of a million dollars gets a
clear gain of ten per cent. a year.
Tie mills have company department
stores attached to them, where the
employees trade. A certain credit is
given but it is very, very rare, and
when an employee has a dollar in
cold cash coming to him, and nine
teen out Of every twenty families ne
yer see any cash, and probably never
will, the account is kept with the
head of the house and against him
are charged house rent, insurance
and fuel. three things that the man
liz " tIiJst llt VI ifCAL IAiE o4dNl
that are drawn on the house nave 10
be met, then comes the groceries,
clothing and certain odds and ends
the girls are inveigled into buying
overdrawn Sometimes the account
IS so much overdrawn that the store
keeper will only dole out corn meal
and bacon in order to prevent star
walton so that the families can keep
at work
IF the child workers Of South Caro-
lima we're rnarsfaled by bugle call and
marched through the streets, it
would be sight that would sicken
the heart. | imagine twenty thous-
and pignay bondsmen, half starved,
half naked, yellow, weary eyed, de-
forIned in body, with drawn faces
that show spirits too dead to weep.
too hopeless to laugh, too panied to
feel and who know nothing OF that
mountain nympth, Sweet Liberty.
The Bible says, "Whoso shall of
fend on of these little ones, it were
better for him that a milestone were
hanged about his neck and that hA
were drowned in the depths of the
sea The people in the olden times
were accustomed to sacrifice child
rem by putting them ii the arms OF
an iron idol which was heated red /
hot and the arms gradually drew Up
and burned the child The children /
of today are being sacrificed in the
same way only under a disguise. Are
we, the people of the United States.
going to allow this to go on: It is
our duty TO stop this deplorable evil
to save those helpless little ones.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15

AS to the position of trustee of the
University of Mississippi; Mr.. He
bron's term expires before his next
term as Senator begins, and he will
not be an applicant for re-appoint-
nent under any condition. The pc
sition anyway is merely an honor
airy position, and for that matter the
office of State Senator and that OF
member of the board OF levee COM
missioners are also merely honorary
positions
The spirit of the law is that one
man shall not hold two Offices where
the duties of one conflict with the
other, or where to hold two offices
it would be necessary TO employ 9th
ers to perform the duties of one of
the Offices. In the case of Mr.. He
bron the two places he holds, do not
conflict. while his experience on the
levee board IS valuable 20 him as a
legislator.
As Mr. Paxton finds no fault with
NJ i1NNtoit d. 4 lCS iSldtCG, III MS dd-
dress, and seemingly bases his can
didacy in opposition to him almost
solely on the ground that Mr. He
bron holds two Offices and as the
very nature of the two positions
makes the experience Of one a help
in the performance OF the duties oi
the other. there ST sns to be no rcas-
on whatever for Withholding from
Mr. Hebron the endorsement he asks
by reelection to the Senate.
The Democrat has the highest per-
sonal regard for Mr.. A @. Paxton,
we consider him one of the strong
and capable men OF the county,
worthy of any trust. and what is
said here in defense of Mr. Hebron is
really in explanation OF the position
occupied by a tried and true official
who IS asking the people for an err
dorsement of his cause in the Senate,
a course we know to be fully worthy
the endorsement OF the voters of
county. Greenville
Democrat
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15
OVER JEALOUS

While the Bulletin is free to ad-
| nit is preference for the nomination
of Hon. Charles Scott, of Bolivar
county, without having been subsi-
died II auy way, shape manner or
form, for the governorshp, at the
same time, is willing to confess, in
all fairness and candor, it believes
Hon. Earl Brewer, wac spoke in this
city few nights ago, is going to give
him a close contest for the high
place.
But the over zealousfriends of Mr..
Scott may make mistake, which he
himself will not approve of, in as
sailing Mr.. Brewer, as has been fair
~ well demonstrated in Natchez,
if street corner political discussions
can be taken to cut any figure, which
they can undoubtedly be-
Mr. Scott has ever been strong in
Adams county, ard will unquestion
Adams county, and will un4uestion-
ably receive a sufficient number of
votes here at the August primary to
mmaterially help place hirn in the
second, if he does not carry all the
State primaries in the frst- bat ii is
possible, if some of his niofe earnest
supporters a.e not curbed i.tst bit
they will create a sympathy for n's
opcn. nts that viii cause them to
change their minis at thu critic.
moment.
Such things have harpe ned N
politics befor and may do SO
gain--Natchez Bulletin.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15
DEFENDS SEN.
ATOR HEBRON
DAILY DEMOCRAT RELIES
TO Mr.. a. G. PAXTON
SAYS HE IS JUSTIFIED
In Holding Two Offices at the Same
Time and Compares the Case With
That of the Grand Old Commoner,
]. z. George-Hebron's Ability

Mr. A. G. Paxton, candidate fol
State Senator from Washington
county, and one of the county
splendid citizens, has issued an adj
dress to the voters of the county
in which he agrees on the questions
Of public policy, in the main, with
Hon. J l. Hebron, present Senate.
and candidate for reelection, but
takes Mr. Hebron to task for holding
three Offices State Senator, member
Of the 1eyee board and trustee of the
University of Mississippi.
Mr., Hebron replied to Mr.. Pax
ton in this matter in his speech at
Leland some timc ago a synopsis Of
the reply being published in the
Democrat. and which was deemed
a satisfactory answer by Mr.. He
bron's friends. Mr.. Hebron then
stated that h only accepted the posi-
ton of levee commissioner. while a
member OF the State senate. after
careful consideration himself and af-
fer securing the opinion OF eminent
lawyers and honorable gentlemen
that there were neither legal or NOR
al reasons to prevent his doing So
There can be but one regular meet
ing OF the levee board during the
session Of the legislature of 1908,
which meeting may last two days,
this meeting will be held in Green
vile on the second Monday in Jan
nary. before the actual and real work
OF the State legislature. beyond the
election OF officers, will have been
commenced A Senator or Repre-
sentative could leave his seat for two
or three days at this pcriol without
special hurt. As matter OF fact,
slearly all the large planters who are
members of the legislature, return
home after the organization of the
legislature While the committees are
being considered by the lieutenant
governor and the speaker OF the
house, to complete their arrange
nent of private business for the year,
as there is little that can be done in
the way OF legislation for the first
ten days OF the legislative session
Then Mr.. Hebron proposes TO re-
turn to the tax payers of the ievee
district the salary. as president Of the
1eyec board. during the time he is
serving the people as Senator, al
t1ibugh the duties of the office will bs
performed without interruption and
yet without interference with his du-
ties. as Senator, thus following in the
foofsetpS OF that Grand Old Com
rnoner, sae lamcnted Senator J. z
George, who served as delegate "a
the Mississippi constitutional con-
vention Of 1900 while Senator in
Congress. returning to the State the
SATISFY OF delegate to the consfitu-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15
Excursion Fares to Mexico City,

Mexico. On account of the annual
meeting of the American Society Of
Civil Engineers. July 7, Ioo7.at above
named point. round trip tickets will
be sold June to II inclusive. Pas
sengers must be at the original START
ing poirt on or before midnight of
Sept. I5 Stopovers are allowed to
holders of these at points where au-
thorized stops are allowed. Diverse
routing are allowed on tickets by
paying SI.oo more than for regular
round trip rate, which is S44.5o. OIL
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15
CHILD LABOR
Subject of Patton Hebron's Gracu-
ating Essay

"A child learns to creep ere it
learns to crawl" The child Of today
learns to work ere it learns to creep.
Do you know that half the laaorers
in the South today are children from
the age of six ON up? Why this
slavery, far worse slavery than that
which brought about the Civil War,
allowed to exist? It is because One
mammon, a hungry, lean faced vii
liam is the ruler OF the world and
wealth cares not for anything ex-
cept to increase and children can be
hired for much less wages than
grown people and can do the work
just as we'll, therefore they are more
in demand If the parents are too
lazy to work Or the fathers salary
is so small that he cannot feed the
hungry mouths, then the little hands
must start to work.
The future citizenship Of this couu-
Try depends on the younger genera
tons, and what will become of our
country if the children are allowed
to work in the factories, where they
can never develop into men and wo-
men and grow up in ignorance This
Is one of the greatest evils that
threatens our republic Why is att
lowed to go on For the simple reas-
on that Capital IS King, not Cotton"
and capital is blind and deaf to all
that is not to its interest and child
on industrial stocks, and the poor
man has no show, he can not get d
start for the capitalists will not let
him therefore he goes to drinking;
stops work and sets his children to
work to support him, and they are
readily taken. The children then
must enslave in the great cotton
mills, released only by death, Tor
these young ones die after about four
years toll. Beyond that they cannot
expect to live This statement IS de-
rived from careful observation and
with physicians who plac-
tice III the neighborhood of the mills.
The children usually work from SIX
in the morning till seven at 1ight |
For folr months OF the year they go
TO work before daylight and work |
till after dark. At noon they So iae |;
on the floor and devour their din |
ner which consists mostly of corr !
bread and bacon, they eat in silence |
and then topple over in sleep on tie |,
floor. Very few wear shoes and /
When it is time for them
to go to work, the foreman goes
amongst them shaking, shouting and
sometimes kicking them, in order to
awaken them Then the long after
noon begins at a quarter to one ARD
continues till seven.
People try to teach the child far
DRY slaves, having night schools es-
ablished for them, but when the
,hildren get there they are too tired
md sleepy to do any good. The par
.nts of the children send them there !.
o learn to read. but after they work
year IN the factories, they lose the
apacity to play, and child THAT can
lot play, cannot learn. We learn in
Of Joy that play IS edaca-
ION, pleasure Is necessary to growth
q n'sssa you have robbed a--chiId...
Z is pay You havs robbed It OF It's
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15
Methodist Church Entertainment

Tn the near future an intertain-
ment will be given for the benefit
OF the Methodist church, by some
of Greenville's most talented young
musicians, none of whom are owe.
twelve years of age. The vocal
music. consisting of solos. duets ard
choruses, will be under the direction
of nez Rodwell. There will also be
some fine instrumental solos by
these young players who have been
very much complimented for their
thorough instruction in technique.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15
Excursions TO the West

Baptist Young Peoples Union
Spokane, Washington. July ~:
Twenty-third International Chris
tan Endeavor Convention, Seattle
Wash. July 10 to Is:
Grand Lodge Independent Order
OF Good Templars, Seattle, Wash,
July 10 to ~
On account of the above occasions
tickets vii be sold June 70 to July
II.Ioo7. inclusive, also July IL for
such trains that will deliver passen-
gers at New Orleans. Chicago on
same date. Final limit Sept. IS prior
to midnight OF which passengers
must reach original starting point.
Stonovers allowed at all points west
of Chicago, st. Louis and New Or
leans upon depositing ticket imn1c-
dlatelv upon arrival at desired point.
For rate and other information, call
- aail e =
IL r n r.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15
Is Making Friends and Votes

Hon J. NJ. Cashin has been NOV
ing around among the voters this
week for their suffrage. He is said
to have made a splendid talk at Bel
zoni last Tuesday night.
Mr.. Cashin IS frank and open to
the people on his position and his
stand for prohibition, even with the
odds against him. is drawing to him
many supporters.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15
The Simmons Theatoriun

The Simmons theatorium will put
on the best show next week that has
ever been seen in this city for the
money No management OF any city
has ever tried harder to get for their
audiences better pictures than Mr..
Simmons. and the public should show
their appreciation by patronizng the
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15
Respite for Mrs. Birdsong

Governor vardanaan granted re-
spite to Mrs. Angie Birdsong for
thirty days, in order that she could
secure and present petition for her
pardon, which, it is said, he will grant
when presented.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15

The boys who went to Wayside for
the races last Saturday report good
time. >They are trying to arrange a
race meeting in this city for the
Fourth of July.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15

Mr. Hugh Armstrong and little sor
will leave tomorrow for New Castle
Ind, to spend few weeks with his
daughter and relatives.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15

Are you dull and stupid? Do you
miss the snap, vim and energy that
was once yours You need few
doses of that great system regulator,
prick.y Ash Bisters- For revivi1sg
strength and energy, increasing the
4 remedy 81 the highest order.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15

If warm weather makes you feel
weary you may be sure your system
needs cleansing. Use Prick Ash Bit
ters before the hot weather arrives:
it will. put the stomach, liver and bow
eIs.: z, order: and heIp.y YOU through;
the heated term.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15

Insure your health in Prickly Ash
Bitters- It regulates the system, pro
notes good appetite sound sleep and
cheerful spirits.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15

Mr. Morris Hartman, of New
York, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Leop
Wachsman
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15

Mr.. Loop Wachsman was home OF
a visit to his parents on Thursday.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15
FOR SALE

MIXED PEAS
CLAY PEAS
WHTPPORWILL PEAS
Write rs for prices delivered.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15

LOST-One sterling silver jeweled
bracelet. Suitable reward to find
er if returned to Sam Blum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-26

they have ever entered into an agree
ment or combination with each other
for the purpose of fixing rates for fire
insurance on property insured by them
in Kansas.
Denial is also made that the COM
panies have entered into an agreement
to write insurance at rates fixed by Mr..
Eldridge or determined by him. They
deny that they have acted in co-opera-
ton with each other or by any other
means OF methods effected or estab-
lished, or contributed to the establish
ment of any trust or combination in
the restraint of the fire insurance bus
mess in Kansas.
1t is further set up in the answers
that all matters charged in the action
have been adjudicated because of the
results of the action of a similar ma
ture which was brought against the in
surance companies in the district court
on March 20, 1901, and which was tried
in April, 1903, with the result of a judg-
ment in favor of the companies. This
Judgment, the answer states, was un-
appealed and is binding and effectual
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-26

cape. 1t was after closing time when
with drawn revolvers forced As
Murphy and Bookkeeper John Young
locked. The bulk of the money had
safe and the time lock set, but $4,000
counter. This the robbers shoveled
into bag and took with them to
the Hotel Henion where they had
previously engaged room. They
had arranged the money in rolls so that
it could be easily carried and were just
about to leave the hotel when officers
learned of their presence and at
tempted to break in the door.
Before they succeeded, however,
the robbers jumped from the window
on to an adjoining roof, taking only
the 500 in gold and leaving $1,000 in
silver in the room. 1t was dark when
the men escaped from the hotel and
all trace of them was lost. posse
was orga nized and went in pursuit.
Before the highwaymen left the
bank building they called up the tele-
phone operator and requested her to
send some one to the bank to release
the three bank officials imprisoned in
the vault Charles Parker. collector
of the bank was the only person who
knew the combination to the vault
and after short search he was found
and hurried to the assistance of the
imprisoned men. When Parker open
ed the vault door the men were al
most suffocated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-26
GOT The WRONG MAN.
Auto Thief Apparently Makes Good
His Escape.

| No trace of the man who stole the
automobile from the Kansas Auto &
Supply company's garage on Quincy
| street during Saturday night and
started for Kansas City with it, has
been found although Sheriff Wilker-
son and his deputies are bending every
energy to locate him.
Mr.. Wilkerson, who started with a
rig yesterday morning to track the
automobile on the road to Kansas
City, ran across the machine stuck in
the mud near Big Springs, which is
about twelve miles east of the city.
The thief had got off the main road
to Kansas City near this point and
run into mud hole on his way back
to the main road, from which it was
impossible to extricate the auto. the
machine was tOwed into town with a
team of horses yesterday afternoon.
1t developed yesterday that a mis-
take had been made in swearing out a
complaint charging Glen Ferguson
with the theft of the machine. Fer
guson was picked UP by the sheriff
yesterday afternoon and was kept in
Jail until about 10 o'clock last night.
But there was absolutely no evidence
to connect him with the theft, so ne
was allowed to go and a warrant was
issued for the arrest of man who has
garages in the city under the names
of Meyers and Mitchell. There is lit
tie doubt in the minds of the officers
and the Kansas Auto concerns people
Meyers, before starting with the
machine for Kansas City about mid
night on Saturday, picked UP three
colored men in front of the Central
National bank on an invitation for
them to take a ride with him.
Two of these were Ed Edmunds and
Leon Simms. When he got out in the
country he told them that he was
bound for Kansas City and wanted
them to go along with him. They
protested at first but finally decided
to go on. They did go as far as the
machine was able and arrived at the
breaking down point at o'clock on
Sunday morning. Meyers left them,
saying that he was going to house
to telephone back to town for hack
to come out after them. He went and
never came back. The negroes built
a fire and sat around for number
of hours waiting his return. When
they began to get hungry they decided
to hike out for home and had to walk
all the way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-26
]. G. HASKELL DEAD.
Former State Architect Passes Away
at His Home in Lawrence.

Lawrence, Kan. Nov. 26-Captain John
G. Haskell died Monday after an illness
of a month at his home near this city at
the age of IS years.
Captain Haskell was a stalwart figure,
a man of commanding presence, strong IN
body and mind and he made a big i'm
press upon the history of Kansas terri
tory and later upon the Kansas state. He
came to Kansas in 1857. Capt Haskell oc-
cupied many positions of trust and re-
sponsibility. He was state architect for
several terms and designed some of the
most important state edifices. Among the
monuments to his skill are the state cap
ttol, the University at Lawrence, the STATE
insane aSylumS, and WaShburn college at
Topeka, the National bank in Lawrence
and many others.
John G. Haskell was born in Milton,
Chittenden county, Vermont, February O.,
1892. He was a brother of D. c. Has
kell, member of congress from the Second
prominent business men and pioneers of
Kansas.
In 1855 he entered an architects office in
Boston. Here his genius found full oppor-
tunity for development and in nine months
he was offered partnership which he ac-
cepted.
In 1857 his father, then in Kansas. died,
leaving the request that he come to Kan
sas and look after the interests of the
family.
The family affairs adjusted he followed
his profession with varying success until
the war broke out in 1861
Upon the organization of the Third
Kansas volunteers, he was mustered in as
its quartermaster July "a, 1861 For meri-
torious service at Little Rock he was COM
missioned major and quartermaster by the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-26
INSURANCE ANSWERS.
Fifty-eight Companies Make Replies
in District Court.

Answers to the action brought in the
district court by Fred s. Jackson, the
attorney general of the state, in which
he charges all of the fire insurance
companies doing business in the state
with being in a trust for the purpose
of charging the same rates for writing
insurance and which rates are alleged
to be determined by the rating bureau
run in this city by Charles E. Eldridge,
were filed with the clerk of the district
court today by fifty-eight of the COM
panies which are parties to the action.
answers have already been filed by the
five other companies involved in the
suit All of the sixty-three are identi-
cal.
In the answer the companies admit
that they are foreign corporations DO
ing business in Kansas but deny that