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Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-04-17
THE NEXT BIG DANCE

And it will be big one. The conf
mittee in charge of the Eagle dance
are busy these days and will give the
public one Of the most enjoyable ev-
in Carson City.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-04-17

under fire feels that it should give the
public its side the question and show
what has been done with the assess
ment money that has been applied
to the work of drainage and repairs
and what results have ,hus far been
accomplished
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-04-17
WHEN YOU WANT LIQUORS

Remember that the finest liquors
in the land can he procured at A.
Livingstan's, the wholesale liquor
man
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-04-17

WASHINGTON
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-04-17

ANNUAL STATEMENT
OF THE RELIANCE LIFE INsUR-
ANcE COMPANY OF PlTTseURc,
PENNSYLVANIA
Capital (paii up in cash 81 900 100000
Assets 2,4i3, 1864
Liabilities exclusive Of CAPT
tai and net surplus S10,52G.59
INCOME
Premiums .......-............-....-.. s537 ,s9172
Other sources ......... 95,O2193
Total income, 1907 ......---... 632,713.65
EXPENDITURES
Paid policy holders .......... 1o4,s1O.S7
Dividends ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. None
Other Expenditures 2s6, 20S. Sc
Total expenditures 1907 !. $4O1 ,119.43
BUSINESS, 1907
RISKS written s., SU2 $1,000
Premiums thereon .-..--..... 1868 10
NEVADA BUSINESS
Number of risks written
Amount of risks written 81, 900. 90
Premiums received 81 ,9O4 9S
Losses paid .$1,1 21.24
Losses incurred ---...---..---.--.- 81 ,121 "a
Number of policies in force
! December 81 1907..-...---... II
Amount of said policies S43 800 90
H. G. SCOTT, Secretary
All
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17

A charming compliment to Mr.. and
Mrs. William Baldwin was the recep-
tion at which Miss Paslay, of the
college faculty, entertained on Satur-
day evening. The attractive home,
whose hospitality has been bright
feature of college life this winter,
was artistically decorated with car
nations, as the favored flower. intro
duced with pretty effect throughout.
In the drawing room the delicate
tones of the daybreak carnations
were conspicuous; the dining room
had the rose-colored motif empha-
sized by countless pink candles in
candelabra of unique pattern, and
single candlesticks. Here the large
table, overIaid with Mexican drawn
work, had as its centerpiece a lovely
antique Roman lamp, fashioned of
brass and quaint in design, a SOU
venir noteworthy amid many objects
d art collected by the hostess in in
teresting foreign travels. An elegant
course of ices and cakes was served
during the reception hours. Several
members of the faculty assisted in
welcoming the guests, among whom
were the officers and teachers of the
college and circle of Columbus.
friends. As graduate of the col
lege, later so ably associated with
the faculty. Mrs. Baldwin was very
generally popular, and the event most
arranged in honor of her
and Mr.. Baldwin was graceful cour-
tesy distinguished in the review of a
week wherein gaiety abounded
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17

gested and assimilated the wisdom OF
those who had gone before. That
was what made him so formidable
and so ready in debate That was
what made him feared in intellectual
combat as neither Ingalls, nor Reed
was feared.
One cannot compare Carmack and
Ben Hill. or Carmack and Judah P.
Benjamin, or Carmack and James S.
Green. He was as different from
Robt. Toombs as the rapier of Crich-
ton from the hammer of Thor With
al he had the heart of Burke to sym
pathize with suffering and to hate
cruelty everywhere. His speech in
loathing and denunciation of He'll
Rearing Jake" Smiths infamous or
der in the Philippines was as lofty a
specimen of indignant eloquence as
ever the United States Senate heard.
"Carmack was not the constitu-
tional lawyer that Bailey is, for his
genius did not trend that way, and
for the same reason he had not the
mastery of economic subjects posses
and by John Sharp Williams, but
in great constitutional debate he
would have been an enviable lieuten-
ant to Bailey, and to Williams he
could have brought aid like that
Blucher carried to Wellington In
the fundamentals he was all that
Bailey or Williams is, but he had de-
voted the study to history and to lit
erature that they had brought to de-
tail of law and economy.
Lamar had more riotous imag-
ination than Carmack; and | am
persuaded that had Carmack been as
much of a dreamer as was Lamar and
INDUCED in more introspection he
would have been a more extraordi-
nary man than he was; but Carmack
was man of action as well as a man
of thought, and as a soldier we would |
have been as superb on the field as he |
was great as law-giver in the SEN
ate. He was a born leader, and |
Isham G.. Harris was the only man /
he ever saw of whom he was content /
to be a follower The time Lamar /
to work - reading or writing. IN
Lamar was often inert;
out Carmack was a positive force
here. In open senate, when both
we're aroused to action, they were
the finer imagina-
ion-Carmack, the more caustic wit,
he more rollicking humor. In ex-
,ression the scales nearly balance be-
ween them
''If 1 were asked to cite the most
pathetic and the most Iof-
lily patriotic burst of eloquence that
,yer fell from the lips of American
,rator, | should tender Carmack' s
ribute to the South. 1t was my
lappy fortune to hear it is it fell
rom his iron lips Though then his
'olitical enemy-a goldbugI was
ransfixed with wonder that turned
o rapture, ere he finished the noble
ointment. The entire house was en-
RANGED = Republicans as much as
he Democrats-and even the stern
nd cynical Reed gaxed on the orator
nd drank in the words as one be-
yftched. / have seen the house NOV
d to more tumultous applause by
William l.. Wilson and Burke Coch-
an, but never in my time, now near
7 thirty years, has that house been l.
o profoundly impressed, SO deeply
TIRED, as when Carmack bowed and
at down that day. There were too
lany tears for riot
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17


The management of the Orpheum
Theater in Memphis is engaged in
a legal conflict with the police de-
partment of the Bluff City. Max Fa-
bish, manager of the Orpheum, was
recently indicted by the grand jury
for permitting Sunday performances
at his house, but the indictment was
quashed on a teehnicality and the
case against Fabish was mol pressed.
Mayor Malone last week notified Fa-
bish that if he persisted in permit
ting Sunday performances he would
enforce the State law which forbids
any laborer from plying his vocation
on the Sabbath, and have the en-
pIoyes of the house placed under ar
rest. Upon receipt of this warning
Fabish secured from Probate Judge
Galloway a writ of injunction re-
straining the municipal authorities
from interfering with Sunday per-
formances at the Orpheum. The in
junction is temporary, holding good
only until the dispute regarding the
legality of Sunday performances is
settled by the courts.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17

The Traitor.


The Columbus Theater is indeed
fortunate in securing The Traitor on
it's first tour, and from reports re-
ceived from other cities this is by
far the best play ever written by the
noted Southern writer, Thos. Dixon.
Jr. The play dwells on the closing
scenes of the famous Ku Klux Klan
during the stormy reconstruction
days, and gives a vivid portrait OF
social and political conditions in the
South at that period.
The play was dramatized from Mr..
Dixon's famous novel by the cele-
brated playwright, Charming Pollock,
the scenery, cast, etc, having been
selected by Mr.. Geo. II. Brennan,
who also produced 'The Clansman, .
and the production to be given here
is complete in every detail.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17

The Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany, which probably does more for
the people of the country it traverses
than any other line in the South, has
sent a party of specialists out in
South Mississippi for the purpose of
waging war against the boil weeviI.
The party is travelling on a special
train known as the boil Weevil Spe-
cial," and includes Prof.W. l.. Hutch
inson, director of the experiment sta
tion at the A. and M. College; Profs.
E. B. Lloyd and Archibald Smith,
members of the faculty of the same
institution; Hon. H. E. BIakeslee,
commissioner of agriculture of the
State of Mississippi; Capt. j. F. Mer-
ry, general immigration agent of the
Illinois Central; and Mr.. Clair, in
dustrial agent of the same line. The
special will go all over the territory
trayersed by the Illinois Central that
is suffering from the presence of the
boil weeyil, and the farmers will be
given practical instruction in the best
methods of getting rid of the pests.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17

Assurances have been given Presi-
dent-elect Taft that the Republican
members of the senate are in full ac-
cord with the ways and means COM
mittee of the house on the question
of tariff reform and will cooperate
with him in producing at the special
session a tariff bill that will conform
to the platform, thus redeeming the
promises made by the Republicans
prior to the election Judge Taft has
received assurances to this effect
from both Senator A1drich and Sena-
tor Hale, the new leader of the ma
jorfty in the senate.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17

present in ST. Louis. the guest OF
relatives.
DR.. and Mrs. John r. Richards
of New York. are cordially greeted
upon their home coming for the
Christmas tide. Others expected for
the holidays and their glad reunion
are Mrs. Frederick NJ Standifer OF
Greenwood, who will be with Capt.
and Mrs. John Nelson; Mr.. Charles
G. McGehee or New York. and Mr..
Eugene Baugh of Laurel.
The president of the Silver Link
Circle Of Kings Daughters calls a
meeting of that organization for Fri
day afternoon at three o'clock. A
for the distribution of Christmas bas-
kets will be discussed and outlined.
The Rev. ]. ]. Hill goes to Macon
today for the Shelton-Davis wedding.
at which he will be the officiating
clergyman Mr.. and Mrs. William s.
Turner and little Miss Ruth Hairston
will also attend the ceremony, which
takes place this evening.
Mrs. z. P. Landrum arrived Satur-
day evening from Hot Springs. Ark.
where she has spent six weeks, and
has been much benefited by the
change.
Mrs. Heiss of GuIfport, who as
Miss Estelle Buchanan is pleasantly
recalled here, is the guest Of Miss
Alyda Carr.
Mrs. Fuller Fox OF West Point is
a visitor in the city for the card par
ty to be given this afternoon by Mrs.
Claude H. Ayres.
Mrs. Edward Moore, ,Jr., leaves soon
for CORTLAND, Ala. to be with her
parents, DIR. and Mrs. Hill, for the
Christmas season.
Mrs. Walter Weaver has returned
from a brief visit to Mr. and Mrs
Eugene LeVert Brown in Birming-
ham.
Miss Alice Moore returned Sunday
after a delightful stay with Miss Ma
bel Wheatley in Greenville.
Mrs A J. Halbert of Crawford
IS the guest of Mrs Lide-
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17
EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO.

At meeting of the trustees of the
of the negro in rural districts recently
held in Washington, President-elect
Taft, Andrew Carnegie ana other no.
tables We're present. 1t seems to be
the impression among many Northern
people that the negroes of the South
have no educational advantages, but
this idea is erroneous, their oppor-
tunities, so far as the common schools
are concerned: being practically CO
equal with those of the white chill
dren. Public schools for negroes are
maintained in the rural districts as
we'll as in the towns and cities, and
each Southern State expends many
thousands of dollars annually in the
support and maintenance of these
schools.
In addition to the common schools
there are scattered throughout the
South numerous colleges for negroes,
and the expenses at these colleges,
many of which are State institutions,
are comparatively small. The educa-
tion of the negro is, indeed, a scien-
tif1s rather than financial problem,
a problem requiring brains as we'll
as money in it's solution. The lack
of education among negroes is not |
due to monetary causes, but rather
TO mental deficiencies which make it
practically impossible for him to ac-
quire knowledge to any extended !
degree.
The best explanation of the pecu- |
liar conditions which prevent the ne
gro from acquiring more than rudi-
Ynentary education was given in an
article which appeared in the Satur-
day Evening Post about a year ago.
This article was written by Harris
Dickson, and was based on an inter
view with Hon. James K. Vardaman,
in which the eminent Mississippian
went fully into the matter, and PROV
ed conclusively that a campaign for
higher education among the negroes
nothing but foolish waste of
money He showed that the sutures
of the skull close at a much earlier
age among negroes than among mem
bers of the Caucasian race, and for
this reason it is impossible for the
blacks to absorb knowledge. The
of the Sutures practically de-
stroys the powers of assimilation, and
what the negro reads today is for
gotten tomorrow.
There are of course exceptions to
all rules, and some few negroes have
prominence as lawyers, as
doctors and in other honorable pro-
fessions, but in nine cases out of ten
the colored man who attains this
has white blood in his
veins. The mental limitations of the :
blooded negro unfit him for the high
er duties of life, and any attempt at
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17

Experts Endorse New Cooking Fat.
''Marica Harland" Mrs. Janet NJ
Hill, and Mrs Sarah Tyson EOrer. are
three cooking authorities whose names
are familiar to almost every house
wife. Each has her own distinctive
methods OF work. but il is in 'erestiug
to note that on the all-importaEat Cues-
tion of a cooking fat. they are uuGn-
imous in recommending COTTOLEsNE. Z
Marion Harland" says Of COTTO-
LENE: ''It has given complete salts
faction" Mrs Hill says: Very salts
factory; glad to recommend it Mrs.
Rorer says "a much more healthful
product than lard
With such authority behind IL. every
housekeeper win be safe in giving
COTTOLENE at least a trial II Is a
vegetable oil shortening. pu-er and
more wholesome than lard-and IL IS
cheaper. toos one-third less being re-
Quired.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17
Marrying Mary.

The first musical comedy of the
season will be Marrying Mary" with
Miss Florence Gear as Mary Mont
gomery, the much married young
lady. Marrying Mary is one of the
best musical comedies ever written.
having a plot besides numerous pret-
ty songs. and the company support
ing Miss Gear is composed of COM
petent artists and a large beauty
chorus.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17
Nov-s rHE TIME TO BUY-


We have the following ozexiagz
this morning for the bargain hantsr
in realty:
A i've room cottage On n lot IS ~
les feet. within tw0 blocks of the
Gumer Hotel A great bargain -
offered here. Price s-1ao-09-
We have n desirable nve room
house on South Fourth street II
good neighborhood. convenient 20 the
NJ & o. depot and the on znls- aa4
the manufacturing plants OF that 49,
ton Price ss250-Oo-
A fve-roon house on TAho's HiU.
with a large outlying lot This prop
erty can BE bought cheap. as the owa-
er is anxious 20 sell. havinE moved
away from Columbus Price upoa
application
We have n desirable building las
in North Columbus. So feet frost
BY ls5 feet in depth corner. AID
With a dne southern exposure Ca
be bought for sI050-00. Aad wil
make reasonable terms Tie verx
lot for the man looking for nne site
10 build on Only four blocks %
Franklin Academy
The handsome A. T. Saith ho=a
on South Fourth street. two stores
and all convenisnees- House Is 1ew
with every modern comfort and & &
In a fine neEghoorhoOd- Ths o~zs-.
having moved 20 Mo1tgoUs-y. I'll
sacrifice for = quick sale
A desirable c tage IN North Co
Iumbus. IN = gooo neigh5orhO0d. aad
can ba bought cheap IL hGs s2x
rooms. and can be bought cheap.
Beautiful home an North CoiE@-
bus: contains SIX lots and has ever
improvement: surrounded By Args
trees. bsautiful shade. etc A Bar
gain In = valuable piece cf property
We have a desirable cottage o.
North Seventh street. close % Eraak-
lin Academy and the car H1e. w6lc1
we viii saerfacs- There Is n thoa-
sand dollar mortgage On tie sane.
and IL can be continued IS long as
the purchaser likes at eight Der cent
hundred dollars gets this
property
a valuable piece o. property. cloSs
to the Barrow Memorial School.
contains q good house. and the iot IS
hns. II IS a harg1in. as g
has 10 be sold a gOod invesr=szt-
Two cottages in \ fns nsishhoE-
Lo,z g. -.-@s-s- - -. Ne,-~Mr r~-
S25O0-00 if taken a. o2ca- Thsy
rent for sz7.50 a month. aad the ten
ants are good pay. and have ocSu-
pied the same for years Thts prop
erty nets about twelve per cent o.
the investment: Il Is no r-o1oie. All
L is dirt cheap
The J. B Oakley cottage. vtthi1
one block OF the car lins aad three
blocks OF Franklin Academy. IS o@er-
"a at a bargain. Good nelEhho--
rood. corner lot. beautiful shade. ete-
A great bargain offered if sold az
once-
We have. In addition 20 tAs above.
quite a number OF valuable buil1ias
OTIS ranging IN value from s30e 70
5000. and we VII be glad 20 quote
-ou the entire list. provided you are
n the market for 4 lot
We can arrange time aad terms
lpon any OF the above property 22a
make the terms especially easy AT
iberaL Now Is the time 20 purchase
see us-write or inquire for full
,articuiars-
SfAER REALTY COMPANY.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17
Savoyards Tribute to Carmack


They who slew him builded fate
fuller than they knew, for they COM
pleted Tennessee's immortal trio of
demigods in valhaIla-Andrew jack
son, Nathan Bedford Forest and Ed
ward Ward Carmack. The legisla-
ture of Tennessee, soon to sit in in
quest on the affairs Of that noble old
commonwealth, owes it to the good
men and women of that State and to
the entire South to take measures to
have carved out of purest Carrara
statute of Carmack to place in the
hall of the old house of representa-
tives at Washington to serve for ex-
erations may strive to emulate his
nobility of character and rival his.
splendor of genius.
mo more gifted pen ever reinforc-
ed that noble profession. Our coun-
try has produced but two perfect
newspaper men-Chas. A. Dana and
Joseph B. McCulloch-possibly Hen
ry J. Raymond might be added to the
list. These were as great as writer's
as they were as gatherers of news.
Carmack was not a news man, but
as commentator on events and on
men, as the advocate of living prin-
ciples, American journalism has rare
ly known his equal, and never known
RsSc nrn nf So
thors was Edgar Allan Poe, and with
the exception of Poe, the first man of
letters of our hemisphere, I do not
believe Edward Ward Carmack ever
had an equal in America in the mas
terry of the expression of the English
tongue. He was a dull man who
would not forego a nights sleep to
hear Carmack recite "Annabel Lee"
But before Carmack laid hand on
Poe he had drank copiously at that
richest fount of our speech, the Eng |
lish Bible. Except Benjamin f. But
Ter, recall no man in our public life |
who quoted SO frequently and so apt |
" from Sacred Writ as he. He rev.
eled in the Psalms, and in the pulpit ,
he would have been another Simp- /
son, perhaps another Campbell. In /
the editorial chair he was far more /
than a gifted writer. He was stu
lent and thinker. But he was
more, infinitely more than that, than
.hese, than all-he believed some
hing, and, like another Luther, he
would go to Worms though it were
% his death, and so he did, and so
he was a martyr to duty and country.
Though an editor were Hazlett,
Macaulay and Hume comb bined, and
lad no belief except as the wind list
,th, he would be a Sampson without H
lis locks-one Greedy, or one Car
mack, worth ten thousand like him
70 convince others, one must him
elf be convinced, to move others one
must himself be moved. 1t was his
haracter and ~his beliefs that made !
handed the love of millions, and, pity |
lis tbs true, that brought him to an s
grave.
In the national councils CaTmack [
ook the place left vacant by the {
ransfer of Lamar to the cabinet and {
he bench. Though SO prodigally en- '
owed by nature, Carmack trod no {
oyaI road to civic eminence. The
ich soil of his mind was ceaselessly I
ultiyated. He burned the midnight |
il in communings with the mighty S
linds that had left their impress on S
ne world, and while others slept he $
elved in the lore of past ages, di- I
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17
Posted.

Notice is hereby given to the pub-s
lie that the property known as the
Arnold Place, 21S acres surrounding
Friendship cemetery and adjoining
the property OF Mr.. E. p. Laws. Is
private property and has been post
ed. All trespassing, hunting and
fishing upon the same Is positively
forbidden under penalty of proseeu-s
foa. 11-17-1m
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17

A prohibition election was held in
Lynchburg, Va, last week, and the
city went dry by decisive majority.
1t behooyes the citizens of Lynch
burg to keep sober, for the clump of
hills which form the composite are
climb without endangering his life.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17
Notice to Subscribers.

Subscribers to The Dispatch who
receive their papers either by carrier
or through the mails will confer a
favor on the management il they
viii file written complaints of any
failure of the paper to reach them
promptly and regularly.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17

The Dispatch covers Northeast Mis-
stssippi and Northwest Alabama, the
territory tributary to Columbus, like
the dew.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17
Chat of People and Events

Columbus friends of the Rev. and
Mrs. William States Jacobs of Hous-
ton, Texas, will learn with sincere re-
gret of the serious illness Of their
attractive young son, States Jr., who
has typhoid fever. News received
yesterday tells of his more favorable
condition, and that he viii soon be
convalescent is wish shared by a
host of Columbians. DR.. and Mrs.
Jacobs and their son expected to sail
the first of January for a trip around
the world, a pleasure it is hoped they
will be able to enjoy without post
ponement.
The marriage of Miss Bessie Nu-
gent of Jackson to DR.. A. w. Stands
was an occasion of interest to many
Columbians who know and admire
Miss Nugent. Miss Fannie Dunn of
Birmingham. frequent visitor here,
was in the bridal party. DR.. Stands
is a son of the Hon G. D. Shands, at
one time lieutenant. governor of the
State, now dean of the law depart
ment of Tulane University.
Mrs. E. G. McCabe, formerly of
this city, was last week unanimously
elected president of the Atlanta chap
ter of the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, and her election was accom-
panied by beautiful mention of her
and the qualifications that will make
her term of Office memorable in the
chapters history. Mrs. McCabe is at
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17

Weekly: Mailed every Thursday.
CIrcu1ates in Northeast Mississippi
and Northwest Alabama.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17

higher education among the blacks
is wanton waste of time and money.
The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17
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The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-17

Home of Publication:
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