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The Tupelo journal., 1913-05-09
Address Of DR.. Patton.
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near the flame. Half naked,
dusky, fiend-like forms, detailed
for the purpose, would seize a
trembling Frenchman and pitch
him on the funeral pile. One by
one they were taken. while earth.
sky and forest rang with the
maddened shouts of exultant
savages. A Priest proposed to
his trembling companions that
they shorten their hour of agony
and suspense by rushing into the
fire. The French soldiers con-
scented. They chanted the MIS-
ERERE and at a given signal
rushed into the flames. Their
spirits went to God, but their
ashes were left to mingle with
the soil of Lee county. But
where were Artaguette and
Vincennes? They landed near
the mouth of Bear creek on the
banks of the Tennessee, the
predecessors of an army that
was to come up the same river
at a future day. There they
waited for news from Bien-
vile. AS they chatted, danced
and Toasted on the spoils of the
forest, the terrific war whoop
and a deadly shower of arrows
and bullets ended their revelry.
The French were again routed.
The two leaders were wounded.
captured and afterwards burned
at the stake. A few defended
the boats and floated down the
river beyond the reach of pur-
suit and found their way home.
There is a we'll authenticated
story, both melancholy and ro-
mantle, connected with the de-
feat of Artaguette. A young
warrior who fought his first bat
tie on that day, and whose Eng
lish name was the "Humming
Bird" captured a little French
girl named Nancy. The youthful
hero was proud of his prize and
had her educated according to
the most approved Indian style.
She was taught to cultivate 1ndi-
a n corn and prepare a variety
of savery dishes from that noble
cereal, to prepare venlson and
flesh of all game to suit the taste
of the ChickasaW Epicures and
to discharge all the duties of a
Chickasaw wife, who was more
Jealous for the rights of the
honored warriors and lords of
creation than for those of the
stay-at-home women. When
Nancy reached a nuptual age
and became the belle of what is
now Lee county the magnani-
nous Humming Bird offered his
hand and was accepted. Father
Stewart often saw French Nancy.
She was living as late as 1924.
But what became of her parents?
Were they slain in battle and
was there no one left to care for
the poor captured orphan? Or
did they live to mourn for Nancy
as dead, and never learn that
she was sporting with Indian
children, happy and contented
with her lot, and oblivious of
mother and country. These
events occurred in 1877.
At the time Of the French and
Indian war, the chief everts of
which are suggested by the
names of Braddock, Col. Wash
ington and Wolf, an English
agent named Mcintosh came to
this country. By his diplomacy
the Indian hatred towards the
French and his love of the Eng
lish were kept alive. Mcintosh
induced the Indians to scatter
and form settlements over the
country. After the war of the
..Ixo- -oor ouol;ctc found
The Tupelo journal., 1913-05-09

was the one brought from Twick-
enham. AS the willow is con-
nected with the history of our
County and the Revolution which
we commemorate to-day, permit
me to add a few more interest
ing facts. This tree came origi-
nally from Asia and has followed
the path of christianity and
civilization. Westward, no ! the
star of empire takes its way
It's arrival was prophetic of the
departure of the Indian and the
coming of the white man. The
ancestral trees from which ours
have sprung, grew on the path
of the great conquerers and con-
quests. There is a voiceless and
viewless harp hanging on those
gracefully bending boughs,
which sings a silent song of
Washington and the Revolution,
of Pope and poetry, of Smyrna,
where the Apostle John preach
ed, where Homer was born. per-
haps sung, where Turks,
Saracens, Crusaders, Romans,
Greeks, Persians and T~rojans
once planted their banner. There
are many subjects of interest
connected with the history of
our county which we have not
time to consider. We shall only
mention the old Natchez Trace
opened as a military road by the
United States Government in
1901. This old Trace, so long
the thoroughfare of emigrants
and armies and the scene of
many thrilling incidents, will
soon be effaced by the plough
share, and its memory perish.
We cannot speak at length of
the noble army of Chiskasaw
braves that marched from Lee
county under Colbert to the as
sistance of Jackson in the Greek
war. Fifty-six years ago. in this
month, two missionaries on
horseback, who had ridden
through a bowling wilderness
that separated this country from
South Carolina, halted for the
night at the house of James Col
berts five miles from this place.
there they spent the Sabbath.
They also got permission from
the national council to establish
a mission. One of these brethren,
Father Stewart, is with US to-
day. But all such matters we
must pass over. In 1884 a treaty
was ratified with the general
government by which the
Chickasaws agreed to sell their
lands and emigrate to a new
hume in the far West. This
was followed by the land sales,
a busy exciting tumultuous.season
for Lee county and all North
Mississippi. We need not speak
of the fraud and the greed. the
selfshness and crime, or the
energy and enterprise that
characterized that period.
But the melancholy dav of the
Indian exodus came. Places of
rendezvous were appointed in
different localities where the
people congregated. Some chief
took charge of each group, and
one solitary band after another
moved off towards the setting
sun. The mother called her
children from their loved sports
and play grounds beneath the
forest trees and informed them
they would be permitted to re
turn to those dear scenes no
more forever. She took a fare
we'll look at her own sweet
home, the trees, the garden and
the graves she loved, and turn
ed with her sad faced children
"
The Tupelo journal., 1913-05-09

near Tokshish, Pontotoc county.
He became very wealthy and
owned many negroes. He never
permitted any idleness or merri-
ment on his premises on the
Fourth of July, 1t was ever to
him the dark days of TO-" He
annually, to the close of a long
life, celebrated the birthday of
George ILL.,, with feasting and
JOY. He died in 1926, a year
made memorable by the death of
two of our most ~illustrious Presi-
dents, Adams and Jefferson. We
hope he did not die the same day
with these noble patriots and
sages. Gum would have re-
garded it as an intolerable mis-
fortune to have died on the
memorable Fourth. Some of
his descendants lived in this
county near Guntown. The
beautiful Rhoda, the belle of the
Chickasaws and the fairest rose
that bloomed in the wilderness
born to blush unseen and waste
her sweetness on the desert air."
passed the first years of her life
in Lee county. Tradition re-
ports that Rhoda Gum was a
great beauty. Young American
spectators. whose dreams by
day and night were about lands,
negroes and cotton bales. ex-
perienced a wonderful change in
the spirit of their dreams when
they saw Rhoda. On such oc-
casions they took to signing and
solitude; they would gaze at the
moon and make desperate efforts
to write poetry about the dark
eyed Indian maid.
''Whose glossy locks to shame might
bring,
The plumage of the ravens wing"
But Rhoda never fancied the
descendants of rebels. Boots,
whiskers. crayats, cigars and
other emblems of young Ameri-
can nobility were no substitute
for loyalty to the grand-child Of
the faithful Loyalist. A noble
Chickasaw, who cared nothing
for boots or broad-cloth, but
whose delight was in the chase,
the rifle and the scalping knife,
who never deceived or forsook a
friend, who never forgave an
enemy and who had no weak
scruples about taking possession
of his scalp lock, won the heart
and hand of the fair Rhoda.
The day of the exodus soon fol-
lowed her marriage. She left
her forest home in Lee and pas
sed away like the evening star
behind the Western hills.
Whether her mantle fell upon
the fair daughters of Lee is not
a question for US to discuss.
THE WEEPING WILLOW.
In the day, of Washington's
administration a ChickasaW dele
cation visited Philadelphia. They
accepted the invitation of the
President, then returning called
at Mt. Vernon as they journeyed
homeward. Washington then
gave the sprig of a weeping
willow to Malcomb Magehe, the
interpreter, a venerable Scotch
man who was brought to the
Chickasaw nation when a boy,
by Mcintosh. Magehe planted
the willow on the farm of James
Gilbert in this county. That
tree became the progenitor of all
the weeping willows in this coun-
ty.
AS the weeping willow is often
planted as an ornamental tree
by our citizens, a brief notice of
it's history may not be out OF
place. A willow was sent from
The Tupelo journal., 1913-05-09
see

This 10 a prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or cHILLS 4 FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
return. 1t acts on the liver better than
Colonel and does not grippe or sicken. Csc
The Tupelo journal., 1913-05-09

anu dlI6cClUHS CIldu he. his
emotions are like the hidden fires
that burn with intense heat in
the deep caverns Of the volcano,
but their existence is unknown
till the fiery torrent ascends the
sky and the devouring floods Of
lava roll over vineyards, gardens
and villages. In all that moving
host where stalwart forms sat
silent and erect, with stern
faces and fearless eyes, there
was not a true Chickasaw that
would not have considered it a
privilege to suffer death in any
form, or endure torture in any
degree, if by such suffering or
sacrifice he could have rescued
the land of his birth and his love
from the grasp of the white
man, and made it a sure posses
sion to his tribe. But he knew
resistance was folly. He bowed
to the fiat of destiny and turned
from the land dearer to his heart
than life, and sought a new home
in a country he had never seen
and could not love. They are
here no more. The grand old
forest as they left it, with it's
vernal robes of green and
autumnal vesture of crimson and
gold, will charm and fascinate
no more. The magniicen car
pet of flowers and verdure that
once covered the face of the
earth as a fitting floor, to the
leaf covered dome with many
pillars that tower above, will
be seen no more. The deer, the
elk and all the flocks that nature
fed for the benefit of her chill
dren of the forest, have fled
along with the Indian. Old
Chicaca, as the Spaniards call it,
has mouldered to dust. mot a
rose in the wilderness left on the
stalk, can tell where a garden
has BEEN" Old town creek as
it flows by the persisted city of
the dead, murmurs a deep toned
requiem and is the only enduring
monument of the Chickasaw
Babylon. The hooking bird still
fingers around the scene, and
still sings the same sweet mat
ing song that walked the Indian
mother to house hold cares, or
the dark eyed maiden to pluck
the dewy flowers, or the bold
hunter to pursue the wild deer.
We cannot speak of the days
when the whistle of the engine
did not disturb the stiffness of
our groves and when the farm
ers sought a market for the
fruits of their toll on the Ten
nessee, the Tombeckbee, or the
Mississippi.
The railroad was completed
lust in time to make Lee county
a battlefield. and the scene of
important military movements.
Beauregard halted the army of
Tennessee at this place and gave
Tupelo a name in history. Here
the weary soldiers rested from
the tolls and perils of the march
and the battle. Here many a
noble patriot found a lonely
grave, far from home and loved
ones. Here Bragg, Breckenridge,
Hardee, Price and other distin-
guished confederate heroes had
their Head Quarters. The lion
like Forrest was often here.
Here Hood halted his war worn
veterans after the i'll fated eXpe-
dition to Nashville. This county
was the scene of many raids and
bloody skirmishes. Our citizens
were arrested and carried off to
Northern prisons by the federal
cavalry that came from Corinth
lH--l.. Cxo.o1n ~occol
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the citizens, who may gather
here at the next Centennial an
niversary, will hold a bright
wreath for the brow of Lee.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-03
is IT STUPIDITY OR WORSE?

(Algernon Lee in the June Metropol-
itan.l
# the mayors, police chiefs, sheFiffs,
and magistrates of numerous indus
trail centers, east and west, north and
south, had deliberately planned to
goad the laborers and factory opera
tiyes into riot and violence to make
them lose faith in the peaceful meth
DDS and accept the anarchist doctrine
Of despair, they would have acted ex-
act1y as they have acted during the
last few months. Perhapswe should
be charitable and attribute their con
duct to Dogberry stupidity rather than
to Machiavellian craft Either way
the effect is the same.
The old saying that 1T takes two to
make a fight is not more than half
true Sometimes it takes two to keep
the peace. A long course of insult and
outrage will exasperate the most pa
/ tent Of men With few exceptions the
working people have the best viii Ia
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solid organization, which last year
numbered 335, 561 members, with
funds amounting to 9780,000, i. e. At
per member, that strike was avoid
ed.
Austria
The first congress of the restaurant
workers has taken place In Vienna.
The union rose in membership from
|, 1874 to 1884; the funds from s136
to E4S0. The fortnightly journal
will shortly include Polish supple
ment. It was decided to vigorously
strive for the introduction of a law
controlling the conditions of hotel
and restaurant employees. The bad
effects of the war are making them
selves more and more felt. AS a con-
sequence IL boot factories in which
5000 workers we're employed, were
closed down in Skutch, with the re-
suit that the men have been thrown
out of employment The murderer OF
| the social democrat, NJ. p. Schumele,
who is a member of the Christian So
cial party, has been condemned TO
death. 1t is now reported that the
murdered mans family will intercede
in his behalf The murderer's name
lis Kunschak. - The congress of the
Chemical workers was attended by
il19 delegates. The chief questions
discussed were those dealing with or
ganization. and the precautionary
measures TO be taken for the protec-
ton of the workers; there is still
much to be desired In this direction
at present. 81 delegates attended the
tcongress of the carpenters. This
Iunion has increased its membership
Iron 6.969 to 3,f13 in the last two
wears. aod the total funds to $3.50
iThe congress decided in favor OF an
i analpau1ation with the Masons' unioE
and VIM enter into negotiations to TIM
Pend. a friendlv settlement has beer
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+ rs; pitmen working not more than
TO- feet deep 10; from 10 to 20 feet
deep 11-2 per day. For Australia
these conditions are nothing less than
brilliant. The eight nour day demon
stration in Sydney last year, which,
by the way, is always accompanied by.
a lottery, resulted in "a BALANCE in
favor of the trade union house OF
$4,000. - The Federation of Boot
| adm Shoe Manufacturers decided to
raise their retail prices by $40 per
cent, chiefly on account OF the great
| leather export. In 1910 Australia ex-
ported COW and horse hides to the val
uei of E456,000 in 1912, 6 ,007, 900.
The imported boots on the other hand,
hose in value from e382, 900 to 95S6,-
600, in the years 1911 and 1912 re-
speetively. The minimum wage for
shoe operatives in England is 27-, in
New South Wales, however, "a.
New Zealand
The contemplated anna gamation of
both the trade union centres in New
Zealand has prompter the employers
organization to make an urgent appeal
to all employers to join the organiza-
ton and to contribute to the defence
Fund"
argentina
The Union of Tenant Farmers, with
fits membership OF nearly 10000, has
been, on strike since the beginning of
April because the land owners would
not meet their demands They de-
mand leases of at least five years du-
ration, and to be freed from the OBJ
| litigation of purchasing only certain
makes of threshing machines, or to
isell their products to certain mer-
chants. The government has tried to
intervene, but up to the present has
met with no success. In the mean
time the work is at standstill.
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arrived in respect to the tariff move
ment in the Austrian building indus
try, which has lasted six months, and
in which 100000 workers we're involv-
I'd. The new contracts cover a, period
Of three years, and provide for sub
| stantial increase in wages. The nine
hour day wat attained in Vienna, and
in the other parts of the land a short
sning of the working time and other
improvements were affected. - Mar
tial law as we'll as the prohibition
placed on several organizations have
now given way to normal conditions
70 Bosnia.
Hungary
The Hungarian Tailors' Union was
involved in A wages movements in
"a towns during the last year in which
1897 male and 654 female workers
were involved. Three lock-outs, in
volVing 1,130 workers must be includ-
ed in the number of wages move
nents OF those taking part, 1916 re.
ceived an aggregate daily increase in
wages of 8124-15, and a reduction Of
the working time aggregating 1857
hours daily.
ROWnaGniG-
A law which has recently come into
force in Rumania provides for COM
9ulsory state sickness, accident, old
age and invalid insurance. This in
surance scheme is drawn up on the
lines Of the scheme already in force
in Germany, but all costs of manage
nent will be betrayed by the state
All contributions for sick insurance
to be paid by the workers, those for &C.
;idents by the employer, whilst the
cost of old age and invalid insurance
ire to be borne by the workers, the
tate and the employers in equal pro-
portions.
AustroIG-
The postoffice and telegraph en-
o1oyes have demanded a six hour day
or those employed in the general
postof1ce, and six and one-hah hours
or those employed elsewhere. - A
government commission declared that
the coal owners combinations had
caused a rise in the price of coal Of
On an average, A. to 20 per ton in
short time. ~ It was decided at the
conference Of the Agricultural and
Foresters Unions which together have
IA membership Of 1000, to amalgamate
with each other. The conference was
held at Sydney.
New South Wales.
The wages and labor conditions Of
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LABOR NOTES
CONTINUED FROM sRD PAGE.

persons, very surprising result for
a calling whose trade union work ex-
tending over many years, has spre-
vously been without any visible sue
cess. In addition to the increase in
wages. collective agreements we're
concluded for ATT persons. The
funds Of the union amount to s10,-
300, = The tariff agreement is an in
stitution of which the wood workers
avail themselves to the utmost.
GERMANY Kto j. .r-Td9m psar
The Workers Gymnastic Federation
IN reviewing its 20 years Of existence,
reports that it now numbers 100000
members and possesses a newspaper
Mhlch is published twice monthly.
This journal, which is called the
Workers Gymnastic News" and
which includes special illustrated
supplements for women gymnasts and
PHYSICAL culture. printed on art paper,
now has $4,000 regular subscribers.
! MS federation will, in the near fu-
t,ine publish a special journal for
Inc Young" which will also be gen
eral sports paper. The federation has
me house of its own in Leipzig,
Mhlch cost 100000. The develop
ment Of the union is especially graf
Hylng taking into account that the
asntl-labor organizations in conjunct
tlon with the official authorities have
at all times exerted every possible ef
,ort to break up the home of the
W Workers Gymnastic Union. The
result OF the great movement in the
building industry. which has now end
ca peacefully, is reviewed in the
building workers journal. 1.-THE
foundation Stone" (Grundstein). Tht
following are a few particulars take1
nom the same: 1858 workers re
FelVe an increase of 3 pfennigs PEI
hour; 55,442 an increase of 4 pigs.
-9'99l, 6 pigs; 1925, 5 pigs; 24,6S4
pigs; 1O9S3, s pigs; 1850. 9 pigs.
1862 10 pigs. and 1910, IL pigs. pc
nour The average increase for tn.
.'S'o44 fellow workers throughou
me country amounts to 5.11 pfennig
yer hour 6 pigs. equal Id Will,
eLoVo workers will benefit By short
sning OF the working hours. TIL
1M.olng EOrkers have to thank thet
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the world to refrain from violence. In
telligent self-interest as well as good
feeling dictate self-control. But there
are limits to their endurance.
If worse trouble comes the respon-
sibility will not be on the men who
have been bounded and dubbed into
madness, but on the "goood citizens"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-03

the cement workers have been fixed
anew by the wages board for the next
three years. The working time is Sc
and 48. hours per week according to
the group to which the member be-
longs. Laborers receive minimum
wage Of so, stone breakers g.. Youths
under 16 receive As per day; 1917
years 5-6; 1918 years 6-6; 1919 years
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-03

, who have permitted greedy EMPLOYERS
and political plug-uglies to violate all
law and decency.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-03

When your patrotlze an advertiser
do you ever mention that You aav az
ad in the Majority
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-03

Have yeu bought stock In the Ma.
joritT YETI
Putnam patriot., 1913-10-17
The returns by counties from 107 nut of 16S Towns show the following:
Robbers Drop S16,oo0.

Stonington.-Carl A. Koelb, cashier of the American Velvet Company, was held up at the point of a gun and robbed of $16,00e by two masked men, as he was driving with the money from the First National Bank to the mill. The money was found in a stone wall, a short distance from where the holdup occurred.
 The hold-up occurred on Bay View avenue and was particularly bol9 he cause there are occupied homes along the street.
 Koelb in attempting 10 hold the valise was dragged from his seat and only released his hold when a bullet glanced over the hack Of his head. Koelb as well as passengers from a trolley car pursued the robbers, but could not oyertake them.
 It is supposed the robbers dropped the money when pursuit became too hot.
Putnam patriot., 1913-10-17
RICE WINNER BY
 BIC PLURALITY
Election Results In Return of
 Same City Officers
DEMOCRATS WIN ALDERMAN
Carry Board by fl to fo-No License Swamped--Teaehers Bill Carried Nearly 2o.ooo Citizens voted in
 Biennial Contest

New Haven.-Nearly 10000 citizens went to the polls at the biennial mayoralty election and chose Frank J. Rice republican, to be their Mayor again. Mayor Rice has served the city two successive terms as its chief executive He defeated John ]. Lane. democrat by an actual plurality of l. POI votes, almost 1000 less than his plurality two years ago, when he de- feated former Mayor James B. Mar. tin by over 2. .000 votes.
 All the present city office holders were returned with the exception of City Sheriff Kollerston, who was de- feated by ninety votes. Eliminating the Mayor it was democratic victory for the political complexion of the board of aldermen is democratic by .one yote-11 to 10.
 For the first time in many years, the city voted on the license ques- tion and hot battle was waged, but the wet forces won out by big ma jority, 11.573 to 4,3S1.
 The Haekett teachers" tenure of flee bill, over which there has been heated discussion passed by a vote of 7-251 to 3.469. The board of educa- tion's bill on the same subject was re- jected 7.252 to 2,926.
 There was intense interest in the election all day The polls closed at 5 o'clock aRd by six the result was known i'll an unofficial way.
 The socialists had an entire ticket in the field, and their candidate for Mayor received 1,123 votes. The socialist democrat party's choice for Mayor, Charles B. Welles, got II votes. The progressive vote was 900 and some democrats maintain that they helped swing the election for the party endorsed Mayor Rice. Control Ter Mullen, Treasurer Fresinus. Tax Collector Hackett and Town Clerk Whitaker